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[J.R. Kineman 🇺🇦 I STAND WITH UKRAINE #HOLDFAST @Jkineman]

‼️ WTF? WHY? ‼️
The U.S. needs these sensors to accurately track locations of Russian SSBNs…

Removing the Irminger array in particular
— when Russian SSBN activity in the North Atlantic is at post-Cold War highs—
is sabotage of national security.

This is getting ZERO coverage.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Kevin O'Leary "gave up" 20,000 acres he was never going to use.

A physicist ran the numbers: his data center needs about 7,000 acres to actually run. The plan was 40,000. So cutting it in half costs him close to nothing.

What he didn't cut: the power. 9 gigawatts, roughly 20 times a normal data center, in a desert where the Great Salt Lake is already drying up. Same as last week.

That's the whole move. Give back the land everyone can see, keep the power nobody's talking about.

The land was never the problem. The energy always was.

"I have no choice" is a strange thing to say after conceding the one number that didn't matter.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On
Due to the growth of factory fish farms, supertrawlers as long as football fields now work the same space as krill-eating whales
It is completely unsustainable to empty the seas of krill so vital for our beleaguered wildlife
#WakeUpWorld
@CIWF_Global
https://t.co/toUT03UbPZ

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

These two farmers just blasted the 2026 Farm Bill as a handout to corporate monopolies.

Meanwhile, family farms are in a “crisis.”

“Higher fuel and fertilizer costs.”

“Farm bankruptcies.”

Walter Schweizer wants the Senate to “throw out” the House-passed Farm Bill.

“Start over, and address the crisis that we have.”

And Erik Sommerfeld declared the bill does nothing to break up massive corporations’ monopolistic control of supplies, fertilizer, seeds, and equipment.

Sommerfeld told KRTV that “crop insurance and disaster programs” are critical—but those programs only come “after the damage is already done.”

“They’re kind of a last resort… to keep a guy going for one more year.”

“But they’re never gonna make you whole, like insurance should.”

Schweitzer and Sommerfeld agreed on one critical piece that Congress must add to the Farm Bill:

Restore Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling, MCOOL, for beef.

Sommerfeld: “We want the American consumer to be able to differentiate between good quality American beef and imported stuff.”

@KRTV

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Idaho farmers are sounding the alarm.

Agricultural input costs are skyrocketing.

And as they’re forced to spend more, their wealth is flowing out-of-state.

“16-40% of [Idaho] farm spending is occurring outside of the state.”

Why?

Economist Timothy Nadreau just broke down why rising input costs is causing money to flow out of Idaho:

“We don’t have refineries in Idaho, so as diesel prices go up, that’s money that’s leaking out of the state.”

“Certain types of fertilizers we’re gonna have to import.”

“The more that we have to import in order to produce our agricultural products, and the more those prices increase, the more money leaks out of our state.”

“It’s not circulating and promoting the economy locally.”

“The processing segment leaks a lot of money out of our economy.”

“Some industries… up to 70% of their expenditures are occurring out of state.”

“But almost always, somewhere around 30-70% is leaking out from our processing segment.”

“And that’s because our supply chains within the state are not deep enough.”

“So we rely on inputs from other states to generate those supply lines.”

“The amount of money that actually stays in the economy, circulates and generates tax revenue for the state… is reduced… when the money is leaking out rather than staying local and circulating.”

@KTVB @hunterkfunk

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Weed killer Roundup is being sprayed in record amounts in California’s forests
The forest floor was nothing but patches of brown. No ferns, no brush, no flowers, and definitely no wildlife. Everything was dead except for rows of hand-planted baby trees.
https://t.co/OvUoakPy7e

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Two major chemical incidents last week, including 11 dead in Washington State while Trump is dismantling the Departments within the EPA that oversee these tanks.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 THIS IS THE ENTIRE AI INDUSTRY'S NIGHTMARE IN ONE QUOTE.

An author suing OpenAI says AI companies didn't just buy books.

They allegedly downloaded them from pirate sites.

Then, according to his claim, stripped away copyright pages and ISBN information before feeding the material into AI models.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A man requested his driving data from LexisNexis and got back 130 pages. Six months of every trip he and his wife took, logged and sold without their knowledge, just because he set up his car's infotainment system. His insurance jumped 21%. Mozilla reviewed 25 car brands and every one failed its privacy standards, with 19 open about the fact they might sell your data. GM already got caught selling driver location data to LexisNexis. And a federal mandate will soon put infrared cameras, eye tracking, and biometric sensors in every new car, with zero rules on what happens to that data afterward.

My Take
Same playbook, different industry. Bury consent in 40 pages of legal text nobody reads, collect everything, sell it to whoever pays. A Maryland study found that 31% of drivers who enrolled in telematics programs got a discount, 24% saw their rates actually go up, and 45% saw no change at all. The insurers collected data on every single one of them regardless. These programs exist because they make insurance companies money, not because they help drivers.

The impaired driving mandate is where it gets worse. Nobody wants drunk drivers on the road, but infrared biometric scans every time you sit in your car with no rules on storage, sale, or access is a completely different animal. Law enforcement can already buy location data when they can't get a warrant. GM already got caught doing exactly this. Next time it'll just be legal by default because Congress wrote a safety law and forgot to write the privacy protections that should have come with it.

Hedgie🤗

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A manager at a local diner asked ICE agents for a warrant before they searched a private areas of the business… and their response… slamming him to the ground, and putting a knee in his back, leaving him injured.

Because apparently exercising your constitutional rights is now being treated like obstruction.

According to witnesses, ICE agents were chasing someone who ran into the restaurant after a traffic stop. The manager reportedly told them they could not just storm through the kitchen without judicial authorization.

Because the Fourth Amendment is still a thing… even though ICE agents keep pretending it isn’t.

Law enforcement cannot just search private areas of a business because they feel like it. A kitchen, in a restaurant, is not a public space.

When agents do not have consent, exigent circumstances, or a valid warrant signed by a judge… then managers have every right to question that search.

That is literally how constitutional protections work.

And the fact that the manager was injured, after asserting those rights, should outrage everyone.

Rights either apply to everyone… or they are not rights at all.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A small town in Oregon is celebrating after officially stopping a large data center from being built in their community.

The La Pine City Council voted unanimously to reject the proposed project.

The proposal called for a massive 20-megawatt data center, which raised concerns among residents about energy use, water consumption, noise, and whether the project would truly benefit the community.

BlackRock and Palantir frequently appeared in local community discussions, even though the data center was being built by Boxminer.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING

A federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump's name from the facade, website, letterhead, and official materials.

Congress named the Center by statute in 1964 - and the judge ruled only Congress can change it.

[Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic]

Suspending the federal gasoline tax could save drivers up to 18.4 cents per gallon. But it would drain the fund meant to cover roadbuilding and repairs — a fund that's already in trouble.

https://t.co/Leih1Aagys

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

The rightwing Bolivian government has moved to ramp up repression & arrests.
But the people--led by Indigenous, miners & other unions, peasants, students--are magnificent, staying strong as more than a million blockade roads, shut down cities & demand resignation of president.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

There is so much wrong here.
First, that “intelligence” is the last 3000 years of written human history, including every webpage. It’s not his to drip out to the poors on a meter.
Second, they used it all up. There’s no more data to steal.
Third, fuck this grimy little conman.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Michael Pollan @michaelpollan]

Out today-- important book on the threat to bees from Big Ag: Bitter Honey | Princeton University Press https://t.co/1SNXm0LwUN

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

This independent farmer saw firsthand how mega corporations captured the entire US food system.

Food prices are rising across America—but that money isn’t going to independent farmers.

It’s all going to a few corporations.

Cesar Mora: “When I was 16, and I was out on my dad’s farm, we were picking plums.”

“I remember going down the street to the local Save Mart, I went into the produce area, and I saw plums.”

“I looked at them, and I thought: they’re horrible compared to my dad’s plums, which is only a mile down the road.”

“I spoke to the produce manager, and I asked: Why are you selling such low quality plums when we have such higher quality plums less than a mile down the road?”

“The manager just looked at me and said: Why would we do that?”

“She said: We don’t even know how to do it. We’re not set up to even handle a small local grower.”

“That’s when I started to learn about the entire supply chain and how… food is distributed in the US.”

“100 years ago, farmers were absolutely going to grocery stores and delivering their product and being able to sell it… to the consumer and capture more of that price which the customer is paying.”

Today, Mora grows fruit on a 70-acre farm in California.

He’s struggling to survive against the market power held by a small handful of multinational corporations.

But he feels forgotten and abandoned by Congress.

This is why the 2026 Farm Bill is such a big deal for independent farmers and growers like Mora.

For countless farmers across the country, this bill will decide if they can survive, let alone thrive.

Read our new blog on the critical steps we’re urging Congress to take to empower farmers like Mora below:🧵