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🧵This is a rather sudden development: data center NIMBYism. Fox News Poll finds massive opposition to data centers. "Regardless of differences in views of AI, attitudes toward data centers are pretty consistent across generations. Roughly 7 in 10 in every age group oppose building data centers,..
#Trump answered a protester shouting “pedophile protector” by calling him a communist. That non sequitur led me through Roy Cohn, McCarthyism and Trump’s new political taxonomy: every failure has one enemy; every success has one author. #uspolitics #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
Roy Cohn's Last LessonHow a thirteen-year apprenticeship under McCarthy's chief counsel became the blueprint for a word doing very different work seventy years later.open.substack.comAI war fantasies, hidden casualty ledgers, Trump and Netanyahu performing an alliance that may no longer exist, Republicans trying to disqualify #climate science and a planet that keeps presenting the evidence anyway. ##uspolitics #iranwar open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
God Mode, InterruptedTrump posted fake bombing footage while the real war paused for lack of ammunition. Meanwhile, Congress moved to make climate science inadmissible the same week the world caught fire.open.substack.com
Greens carry parasites, eggs carry salmonella, bread carries glass, beef carries screwworm, prescriptions ship the wrong drugs, measles is at a 35 year high, and nobody can afford a doctor. Congratulations, Republicans. This is what gutting every agency and enthroning mediocrity actually looks like.
I understand that the Senate will soon go on recess. How does that affect the situation with Mitch McConnell? The Senate recess changes the situation mainly by reducing the immediate pressure for him to be physically present for votes. The underlying questions about his ability to serve remain.
