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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"

Gift link from @bloomberg.com

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YouTube video by CNN Soybean farmer on Trump's tariff war: 'I mean, where do they want me to market this stuff?'

A firsthand account of how Trump tanked American farmers through tariffs and killing off USAID.

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Free to Read: Free to Be the Dream to be held on Oct. 11 Why Las Vegas Must Stand for the Freedom to ReadSpecial by EMA Staff Clark County Library Main Theatre will transform into a stage where the power of the written word meets the urgency of civic freedom. The curtains will rise on Free to Read: Free to

Join Eat More Art Vegas, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, and The Asylum Theatre for Free to Read: Free to Be the Dream.
They'll feature live readings of banned books as part of #BannedBooksWeek on Oct 11.

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Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.

NEW: "No career prosecutor was willing to present the case to a grand jury on Halligan's behalf." lol WONDER WHY! abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

"Go to where the people are, and just talk straight." @janefonda.com talks her antiwar activism and bypassing the deeply polarized, siloed media with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

If you assume everything Trumpers do is about Epstein, you will be correct 90 percent of the time.

What's important is to understand the cumulative effect of it all. To not just see today's outrage.

See the silencing of Kimmel, the arrest of Comey, the harassment of Soros, the troops in our cities, the seizure of spending power, as all part of a plan to end our democracy.

Indians hard hit as US student visas decline by a fifth from last year Indian nationals see decrease of 45 percent compared to same period last year as US clamps down on foreign students.

Indian nationals see decrease of 45 percent compared to same period last year as US clamps down on foreign students.

If you have private employer-provided insurance, you’ll get a letter telling you that your health care is going to go up by 10-20% starting January 1. That's because of the health care crisis created by this President and his Big Beautiful Bill.

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

“We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it,” according to an open letter signed by 282 former officials.

It will take years to rebuild our Justice Dept.

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THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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A frog just defeated ICE. Somewhere Pepe is crying.

Everybody Poops. The reason we want a fairly funded and functioning government is so we don’t suffer indignity and crap on each other’s lives just because digestion is part of “Natural Order”.

#FirstAmendment #DemocracyIsDignity #FreeToRead #HonestAmerican #FreeToBe

Elon Musk PAC’s Lawyer Files for Congressional Seat in Texas (1) Chris Gober, an attorney that helped Elon Musk’s America PAC raise more than $250 million to support President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, launched a congressional campaign in Texas on Friday.

"Elon Musk PAC’s Lawyer Files for Congressional Seat in Texas"

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“We live in a free country”: Steve Schmidt condemns Trump’s war on Americans All in one week, federal agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex, Donald Trump told 800 of the military’s top brass that America’s cities should be used as “training grounds” and that American citi...

Ex-GOP strategist Steve Schmidt says “There will be a moment where every email; where every detail; where every criminal act that has taken place during this rogue, fascist administration comes to be known– and is held to account…We live in a free country.”
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This is notable because the government isn’t supposed to indefinitely hold people in immigration detention just for funsies if it doesn’t plan to remove the person any time soon. Abrego’s counsel has raised SCOTUS case law to that effect in seeking his release

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Whenever someone running a news org talks about representing "all... perspectives" or throws around phrases like "diversity of opinion," ask if they regularly hire and include the viewpoints of abolitionists and socialists.

In lawsuit, American Federation of Govt Employees, which represents 100,000s of federal government employees, has asked a judge to order the US Education Dept to stop sending politically-laced employee “out-of-office” messages from furloughed agency workers

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I get tired of reading "Do not obey in advance" here over and over--endlessly repeating something like that can turn it into a form of self-soothing rather than a galvanizing call to action. But I hope every single CBS News employee is hearing it from someone important to them today.

Rob Reiner: Hollywood's 'Job' Is To Explain Democracy and Warn About 'Autocrat' Trump Veteran director Rob Reiner told MSNBC on Sunday he is worried America is one year away from becoming a hellish "full-on autocracy" under President Donald Trump.

Hollywood’s ‘Job’ Is To Explain Democracy and Warn Americans That Trump Is An ‘Autocrat,’ Director Rob Reiner Claims www.mediaite.com/media/hollyw...

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.

Jay Neugeboren on the rise in America of “hidden homelessness”: people who work full-time and have nowhere to live

Look man, sometimes you have to break some eggs and burn down your house and drive a bulldozer through your entire neighborhood to make an omelette.

Along with the horrific nature of his detention, this is a colossal waste of money:

“Two to four uniformed guards have been continuously stationed in Petitioner's hospital room, monitoring him at all times .. while he sleeps, eats, uses the bathroom.”

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943