BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per https://t.co/9Wr6itu0Jb.
The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each.
Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.
BREAKING: US strikes have now hit two drinking water tanks in Sirik, southern Iran, cutting off all drinking water in the district, per IRIB.
Iran has warned 2 hours ago it will immediately place all regional Gulf energy infrastructure under continuous missile fire, and with this US attack, water desalination infrastructure which the Gulf depends on for over 90%, would specifically become major targets.
With the shooting in Toledo, Ohio - it might be a good time to point out that since Trump’s 2nd term: Republicans introduced zero gun reform bills, despite almost 600 mass shootings - while introducing over 800 restrictive voting bills, despite only 40 cases of voter fraud.
🚨 ICE announces it will no longer report deaths of recently released detainees.
This comes after the deaths of recently released detainees surge to a two-decade high.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 New York has officially banned the construction of new data centers for 1 year.
After that, data centers will pay higher electricity rates than residents.
Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and they kept it a secret. FDR couldn't walk and they kept it a secret. Eisenhower had heart attacks and they kept it a secret. Reagan had colon cancer and dementia and they kept it a secret. Trump's health is much worse than whatever they let us see.
Albanians aren't just protesting. They burned down the house of their president who approved the sale of the national park to the Kushners.
This is the wayyyy
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa
In the US, spending on data center construction now exceeds spending on public transportation infrastructure — including airports, marine terminals, and all mass transit.
BREAKING: President Trump responds after Iran ends all negotiations with the US, per CNBC.
"I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less," Trump says.
He also said he was "going to ask" Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu "what’s going on with Lebanon."
At the end of Trump's first term, he pardoned a GOP fundraiser named Elliott Broidy after he pleaded guilty to illegally lobbying Trump and his administration.
Just last month, Broidy's AI company won a $106M contract from the DOJ.
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. This is insane. Republicans are voiding elections that have already happened to change the maps to get the results they want. They're dismantling democracy.
BREAKING: The proposed US-Iran peace deal includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, per NYT.
The program is being called an international "investment fund," which the US would facilitate in the final deal.
This comes as Iran demands "reparations" to end the war.