Writer, Editor (Selective Echo TBA), Critic, Arts/Culture Journalist. Contributor (The Utah Review), Immigration Reform Advocate. #BlackLivesMatter #BearsEars
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With Miller in the chair you don't have to worry about appeasement. They won't even be able to pretend.
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I told you. Miller wanted this outcome. That's why he and his wife didn't even vote, and he did nothing to change policy to prevent total collapse. It's all so he could have total control of the government. Be prepared for the worst.
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Of the more than 40 data center proposals on US ballots this week, only 1 passed. Americans resoundingly reject them. (This is partly why AI stocks are tanking.)
We can debate whether data centers are good/ bad for a local community (there are genuine pros + cons), but that might be beside the point.
The truth is that this is the first time regular Americans have ever wielded leverage over Silicon Valley. For decades, they’ve been powerless. Powerless to monopolization, regulatory capture, and unprecedented societal control.
Now, Silicon Valley needs the American people’s permission for something. (Not just something, but the very thing they bet the farm on.) And the American people’s answer is simple: no.
This is a dramatic shift in power — a dynamic Silicon Valley’s never experienced before. It’ll be fascinating to see how it plays out.
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🚨 It's official: cybersecurity organizations say DISCONNECT THE FREEZERS FROM THE INTERNET!
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🚨DATA CENTERS:
🟫 Against data centers: 36+ measures across 8 states
🟩 For data centers: 1
Piqua, OH banned them and recalled the mayor who backed Meta's plan. Yukon, OK's mayor was recalled too.
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New: The Interior Department may open tens of millions of acres of public lands for AI data centers. ProPublica found Trump officials who oversee these lands stand to profit from the growth of the industry. propub.li/4irJtn8
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Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who has spent decades as the Wall Street Journal’s keeper of the old Republican flame, has written the GOP’s obituary. Her verdict: Trump is the author of the ruin.
It wasn’t the war alone, she argues. It was the prices. The tariffs. Above all, the corruption, showy and shameless: crypto, pardons, federal contracts for his sons’ companies. Then came the decadence. Three days before the election, Trump threw a jungle-themed Halloween party with a caviar bar while Americans outside the gates added up their grocery receipts.
Ron DeSantis called Tuesday’s results “close to an extinction level event” for his party. Trump’s response: sign a ballroom beam, declare his office a national monument, and blame Fox’s polls.
Noonan has a line for that: “Please. It was you, Fredo.”
When a Reagan speechwriter is quoting The Godfather at you, the party is over.
wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-the…
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What the Dems need to do in two easy steps:
1. Stop taking money from AIPAC.
2. Kick out Chuck Schumer from the leadership.
Want actual change?
“Contact your senators and demand they oppose another term for Chuck Schumer as leader — and insist on a public and transparent process for choosing new leadership. Schumer has a lower approval rating than Trump.” -@IndivisibleTeam
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Tell Congress to pass an anti-SLAPP law so that filers of frivolous lawsuits to suppress speech in federal courts face consequences, just like they already do in most state courts.
➡️ freedom.press/we-need-a-fede…
We wrote for @theintercept last month about why we need a federal anti-SLAPP law. Red and blue states alike have passed these laws.
This should be an easy sell to Democrats and Republicans looking to distance themselves from the SLAPP-ster in chief.
theintercept.com/2026/10/13/…
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(1/3) GUNLOCK FALLS UTAH: Historic rains have resurrected one of the crown jewels of southern Utah, yes, even Gunlock Falls! These waterfalls only flow when Gunlock Reservoir is at 106% capacity and is flowing over the emergency spillway.
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Reining in Big Tech and addressing costs are not separate issues. Prices of food, housing, etc. are being fixed by algorithms. Investment in the real economy is being crowded out by data centers, which are also why No one can afford computers or phones anymore
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Reining in Big Tech and addressing corruption are not separate issues. There isn’t enough money in the world to gaslight people into forgetting the last two years, or the two decades before that.
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Pretty wild to connect the US's 2026 midterm results to Arab Spring (15 years ago) and protests against corruption in Malaysia, but not mention the corruption of US politics by AIPAC and Blinken's fellow pro Israel fanatics.
There’s another key take away from the midterm elections: disgust with corruption and self-dealing by our elected officials. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Most of the major social and political movements of the past two decades -- the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor, the occupation of Tahrir Square in Egypt, the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, the candlelight revolution in South Korea, the IMDB scandal in Malaysia, the “You Stink” movement in Lebanon, the “car wash” backlash in Brazil – were catalyzed by popular revulsion with corruption. Why should it be any different in America?
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"Americans don’t believe the pursuit of the truth is partisan."
Julie lays out where both parties have tripped up and how "Congress needs to treat this case like it should have been handled in the first place — as an organized crime."
Twenty years ago, federal prosecutors could have put Jeffrey Epstein away for life. Instead, they played politics. Let's not repeat history. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p…
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All the think tank and newspaper morons remain under the impression that the US can threaten to deliver devastating pain from the air. This is a hangover from the good old days of one sided imperial violence. That world vanished on 2/28.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
We have for years been underwriting a genocide. We will continue to do so despite this rebuke. We murdered half the leadership of a country and killed scores of schoolgirls when we launched a war of aggression out of the blue, at the behest of a genocidal Apartheid regime we arm and protect.
Right before our latest rampage in the Middle East, we kidnapped another head of state in our backyard and handed over the colony to our Secretary of State to run. Meanwhile, we are carrying out a merciless economic war against an island nation nearby. Thousands have been thrown in jail for minor immigration violations, thousands more have been deported in chains. Our life expectancy is a decade shorter than all our peers and even China.
Vast majorities have been opposed to all these policies. But our system remains captured by domestic and foreign oligarchs. No matter who we elect, nothing ever changes. You call this a democracy?
Congressional turnover is not democracy. Democracy is when voters constrain policy, if not dictate it. Wake me up when Congress is no longer captured by a foreign power.
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You’re the cause of our problem. No Israeli prime minister will ever set foot in the situation room again.
It is absolutely demented that one of the reasons Republicans believe they lost the election is because voters wanted “change our relationship to Israel.”
Not because that might not be true, but because America’s strategic partnership with a loyal democratic ally like Israel should not be a subject of political obsession. Especially not when it is the only ally fighting wing to wing with American forces.
We are not the cause of any of your problems. It is impossible to separate any of this from the multi billion dollar disinformation war waged by adversaries of the West to separate America from its ally—and from a history of scapegoating.
Nothing about this present psychotic moment makes sense outside those two contexts.
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Soon he will be wheedling for a bailout
People should always be in control of the future.
OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that “AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans”.
People should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress.
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This fall, the Quincy Institute traveled across the country to talk to Americans about the Iran war: why it happened, what it’s costing them, and how to end it.
What we heard, over and over again, was anger and frustration: with this needless war, with its high costs at home, with a foreign policy class that never puts Americans’ interests first.
Yesterday, Americans rejected the Iran war, loud and clear, at the ballot box.
Policymakers on the right and left should be scrambling to address Americans’ calls for a better foreign policy. The path forward is clear: America needs to practice restraint. Our approach to the world should be determined by what we need to do to keep Americans safe, not by which weapons the military-industrial complex wants Congress to buy, or which wars the Israel lobby wants the White House to wage.
Check out our conversation in Austin with @joekent16jan19, @scotthortonshow, @DanMcKnight30, @AdamNoahWho, and @KelleyBVlahos about our fateful errors in Iran, and what it will take to build a genuinely different foreign policy in Washington
youtu.be/UXdQtSkVD88?si=ZFkt…
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Yesterday, Americans made one thing abundantly clear: we're sick of needless war.
Americans want a government:
- that doesn't promise billions to fund genocide.
- that doesn't start expensive wars of aggression.
- that doesn't starve countries for thinking differently.
- that doesn't drop bombs on boats without cause.
- that doesn't kidnap presidents in the name of oil.
More than anything, Americans are sick of the cost. The cost at the pump. The cost of groceries. The cost of everything going up while we pay for wars that make us no safer, no healthier, no happier.
It's time for restraint. It's time for a foreign policy that serves the American people.