It looks like corporate consolidation is a major reason so many Americans have diarrhea right now.
Just four companies control the majority of America's salad, and one of them is Taylor Farms.
When companies consolidate, they have more power on Capitol Hill — and push for the very deregulation that leads to outbreaks.
Confirmed: 22yo Ōtake Kurumi, an employee at variety store Habita, was ordered back into Aeon Mall Kumamoto by a manager after the earthquake to secure the cash. Minutes later it exploded, killing her. A Habita exec said: "Looking back now, it wasn't worth a life" (ya think??)
A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping.
This is what tyranny looks like in Trump’s America. Imagine if Biden had Trump supporters pepper sprayed for videotaping.
Worth watching the full clip. This is happening all over the country. People's elected representatives have abandoned them and literally signed their allegiance over to corporations.
Peter Thiel called the Pope a Chinese communist agent last week. The Pope's offense: saying AI should "benefit the common good, and not just accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few."
Thiel co-founded Palantir, the surveillance firm with a $10B Army contract. He put JD Vance on his payroll and bankrolled him into the Vice Presidency.
A warning about unaccountable men controlling this technology, answered by one of them, on cue. He's not refuting the encyclical. He's the exhibit.
In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town?
The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.
The CEO of the biggest electricity company in the US is warning that blackouts could hit next year, as AI and data centers drive up electricity demand and strain the grid.
Exelon's CEO Calvin Butler told the Financial Times that Americans could “absolutely” lose power as soon as 2027.
He says that last winter his company nearly limited service for 400,000 customers during extreme cold.
https://t.co/fJHr9AVcuV
Meta’s AI data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria.
Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data center flooded the town’s water pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.