US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’ Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland.

Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M.

America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.

This is what integrity looks like.

Fortunately he is also actively destroying the investigative, prosecutorial, and legislative powers of the federal government; this would be a huge advantage in a country with an opposition party or an actual Underground Resistance movement. Wish we had either.

It's difficult in the US because the United States is not a democracy and it isn't a representative government. It is an oligarchy, representing the wealthy and looking out for their interests. And the wealthy want more bodies.

When politicians support a fascist politician they become fascists and collaborators with fascists. The answer to this isn't to vote for fascists, but to realize that you live in a fascist regime and work to end it.

Unless, like you, they support genocide and fascism so long as it's "civil".

If you're going to characterize US involvement in Gaza as indirect, you're outright lying, about a genocide, simply to excuse the political party you align with. You are personally an example of the moral rot that occurs when you consider genocide an acceptable cost, and why the US is illegitimate.

This has never worked.

Update: I was able to use a VPN to check my DMs, but also please don't DM me because that's a hassle.

It feels like 2020 all over again, after the national protests were done and we were left alone to pick up the wreckage and seek some sort of justice for George Floyd. Except this time it's not even over. There is no drawdown.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

Israel is the genocide colony of the US just as the US was originally the genocide colony of the UK.

Amazing how fast supposed liberal enlightenment devolves into racism and threats identical to those of any MAGA Republican.

The democrats demonstrably do not care about human rights, because they protected Israel from UN oversight and ICC investigation of its human rights abuses.

That's the problem with supporting a genocidal party, it poisons absolutely everything else. The Nazis had public health care, so what?

"On one side there is a functional, law abiding, science/fact affirming, policy centric, serious political party."

Providing weapons to a country committing genocide is illegal and its stubborn insistence on doing so cost Democrats the 2024 election, so it is both nonfunctional and not law abiding.

Do you want the current fascist government deciding who has the means to resist it?

Rights group says Israel forcibly displaced 214 Bedouin families from Area C since start of 2026 A Palestinian human rights organisation has reported the forcible displacement of 214 Bedouin and agricultural families from Area C of the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2026, amid escal…

Rights group says Israel forcibly displaced 214 Bedouin families from Area C since start of 2026

I'm pretty sure US strikes threaten to kill Iranian civilians.

It's already a mass murdering genocidal fascist empire with openly fascist leadership that also demands impossible things and refuses to live in reality. A State like that can only collapse. Whatever nightmare scenario you can imagine is materially impossible for them to implement.

banner advertising Semafor's annual "trust in media" conference featuring a long list of people who are actually eroding trust in media, like Brendan Carr and Matt Murray and Mathias Dopfner

once a year the brunchlords at Semafor host a "restoring trust in news" conference where they unironically platform most of the people responsible for destroying trust in news, then lob softball questions at them

this year's lineup is a real doozy

(notice the complete absence of indie media)

Well, you say those 90 million non voters didn't care, thats a value judgment, a lot of us did care and were furious that this genocidal empire had devolved to the point of only giving us a choice between murderers and murderers. The empire's continued existence and function is the problem.

Do you want to empower the current fascist government to start checking 4473s and enact gun control laws, checking the 4473s against voting records, and rounding up anybody who has purchased a gun and who voted against Republicans?

Democrat Ilhan Omar Tells Trump He’s ‘Killed Americans’ In Heated Exchange During State Of The Union Trump told Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., “you should be ashamed of yourself” as they engaged in a heated exchange about illegal immigration.

Trump told Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., “you should be ashamed of yourself” as they engaged in a heated exchange about illegal immigration.

It was an election between two candidates that both supported genocide. A moral person can't start trying to game out which genocidal candidate is better or worse, we had to boycott the election to avoid endorsing genocidal policies. Blame the system, not the non-voters. Put forth moral candidates.

This Bay Area County Says It Cut Ties with ICE. This Program Says Otherwise. - Bolts A widespread data-sharing program highlights financial ties between local police and immigration enforcement—and how even sanctuary jurisdictions still feed “the deportation machine.”

news from California: Alameda County (=Oakland) has announced it will no longer take money from SCAAP — a DHS program that pays jails when they report on the immigrants they've detained.

Alameda's participation was way under-radar, but we at Bolts wrote on it some months ago:

An NPR investigation finds that the Justice Department failed to release some of the Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor.

If it passes, will using elections to try to vote out fascism finally be correctly understood as impossible?

'Criminal act': FBI scrambles as leak reveals Kash Patel's 'long segments of leisure time' - NewsBreak FBI Director Kash Patel’s taxpayer-funded trip to Italy that culminated with him chugging beer with the U.S. hockey team was revealed Wednesday to have inc

www.newsbreak.com/share/451114...

The NYT just confirmed the missing Epstein files and is treating this like a blockbuster story:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Two women arrested for kissing in Uganda after neighbors reported them - LGBTQ Nation One activist says they could get life in prison under the nation's repressive anti-homosexuality law.

This kind of repression is not a traditional part of African culture. It has been pushed on the continent aggressively by American evangeicals.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/two-...

If you want to get it banned, start using them to dox ICE and other cops, to find their social media accounts, addresses, phone numbers, etc. It'd get shut down pretty quick.