Here is my letter to my Senators and Congressman from this morning. I couldn't get each item, but I'll work whatever else I can into the 2nd letter:
Well, We The People certainly find ourselves in quite the pickle… Our witless and naked emperor has started a war which he cannot win without resorting to the nuclear destruction of Iran. He is busy firing the generals who dared to tell him it was a bad idea. He is instead, listening to an ex Fox News host whom he appointed ‘Secretary of War’ and attending staged wrestling fights with his Secretary of State while they dispatched our dimwitted VP, tRump’s grifting son-in-law, and a real estate buddy of his to negotiate with the Iranians. Might I add that not one of these three people has any training in, real experience in, nor skill at diplomacy and the Iranians sent a busload of PhDs… with the necessary skills and experience. We sent the Three Stooges - who declared the negotiations a failure after 16 hours…
Meanwhile back at the remains of the DOJ, Judge Box-wine Jeanine Pirro has filed to vacate the convictions - make them just go away - of the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Instead, DOJ should be looking hard askance at tRump’s obvious manipulations of the markets… but, you know they won’t. Let alone, release the rest of the Epstein Files. The former reality TV star at Transportation thinks it would be clever to hire video gamers to work as air traffic controllers. The wrestling woman is right on track to destroy the Department of Education. The idjit at Department of the Interior is selling off our National Forests and wildlife refuges. DHS is still killing and abusing people - just more quietly. Kash Patel is by multiple accounts blotto drunk and MIA much of the time. And I don’t want to know anything else that Bobby Brainworms has done!. There is not one single even remotely normal, competent person left in the Executive Branch. And because they have the majority in both houses of Congress, that institution which the Constitution created first - is simply inert.
We are less than 200 days from the Midterms and I have looked high and low, but I cannot find evidence that the Democrats are any closer to a unified message about their analysis of what went wrong in America and how they would fix it, than they were anytime into tRump II. We need that proverbial ‘Blue Tsunami’. We need articulate national spokespeople who can keep peoples’ eyes and ears on our message and who are not afraid to walk into the fire to make our points to the undecided and the few MAGA voters still capable of rethinking their positions. We need a clear set of bullet points on policy that can resonate with voters - The position papers can come later. I think we need a high-level convocation of Democrats from all over the Country to accomplish this and it had better happen soon.
I have been at this for 2 hours. I am going to take a breather and then go into some specifics I think we need to reverse the whole Project 2025 nightmare which has been visited on us. More in a few hours.
Data centers are the face of technofascism. Full stop. These tech billionaires built their success on liberal democracy and now they want to destroy it. They are traitors.
Thank you, Scott -- I didn't know about this "promise", and it's so good to learn that people are fighting back. Successfully, I should add. And a picture of Bernie and AOC -- two of my all-time favorite people!
I am so glad you wrote about this today, Scott! I was so disheartened to learn that a community not far from me had voted to allow a data center; however, there was a caveat to moving forward with it. The city commissioners voted to approve the data center even though there was a majority of citizens that showed up and opposed it. The commissioners unanimously voted to approve it if the developers had to get a permit for water use by the Southwest Water Management district. On April 14, the Management district informed the commissioners would not allow a permit because of the current water allowances by the city. That is how things stand at the moment. I am hoping that it will not be allowed!
This is hiw you do it! Was thus Social Circle Ga? This is 3 towns I know if who are rallying to pritecting themselves. We (small town USA) are not dvmbaszs.
No, it wasn't in Georgia. It was in Florida. That town was not the only one these sneaky developers are targeting. It all boils down to corruption with city officials and the almighty dollar. I am worried that these developers will pay off whoever they have to in order to get these data centers built even though the majority of Americans are against them. They are looking to buy up land in rural areas thinking they will meet with less resistance.
Thank you for spotlighting the pitfalls of data centers, Scott. I have long been opposed to them due to the impact across all communities, humans, animals, and the environment.
The company I currently work for is very keen on AI. As a result, I am pressured to use it in my position. Honestly, I believed its potential is overhyped and it could turn out to be the 21st century's version of the tech bubble of the early 2000s.
I think it has a place, but for use in good avenues. You still have to think and have a brain plus integrity. Btw, IT is excrutiating to think the rape culture is being allowed to thrive. SHUT.IT.DOWN
Scott, Florida never disappoints! The Fort Meade city commission just approved a $2.6 billion power center in spite of public dissent. However, there are still permits that need to be approved so we’ll see what happens!
So true, JennSH. I’m not in Florida but back when I was reading John McDonald’s Travis McGee novels, I also remember reading that he highlighted a lot of developer abuse of those building along the Florida coast.
A lot of them are moving West and trying to turn us Republican. NO WAY! Go back and ruin your own state. Meanwhile, our forests being shut down and are being striped from Repuke developers and real estate and construction companies. All they know is how to destroy!
Brenda,I’m on the Fl east coast and recently about read about the data center in Ft.Meade.(I actually worked there many moons ago while in public health).
“According to a letter obtained by news partner the Tampa Bay Times, the water district recently informed Fort Meade in that letter that the current water permit cannot supply the data center. The data center's water request must be separately approved by the Southwest Florida Water Management District's full governing board at a public meeting before the data center can begin any regulated activities at the project site, according to a letter that letter.”
As I understand,Ft. Meade has about 5000 residents although the Southwest Florida Water Management District covers many counties.Perhaps people in those counties could contact SFWMD and voice concerns.I intend to even though I’m covered by a different water management district.Who knows where the next proposed data center will be??
I wonder if local republicans who have been opposing data centers know it’s Trump’s fault they are coming to town in the first place. Would that change their tune?
Data centers pollute the water and ruin the drinking water supply of communities that rely on the water. Those centers need water to cool down the machines that run their AI. They couldn’t care less about the people or the environment. The billionaires don’t live in those communities.
Word is that billionaires are planning to LAY OFF hundreds of human workers in favor of AI! As long as Trump and his Enablers are in charge everyone in America who is not them will continue to get SCREWED at every turn. Vote out EVERY SINGLE Republican and Democrat who will NOT stand up and fight for the people of America and NOT the Billionaires who are SCREWING us all! We are in the midst of the Second Gilded Age! We need leaders like Teddy Roosevelt who will break up the Billionaires monopolies and strangle hold on America!!!! read "Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet" by Chuck Collins for an up close and personal look at the damage that is being done. One example that JUST happened. The Republicans in Congress used the Congressional Review Act for a simple majority vote to open up the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area to mining from a FOREIGN country Chile and a billionaire owner with ties to Jared Kushner (surprise, surprise). A company with a Horrible track record of environmental damage. As bad as this is it may get even worse thanks to the Republicans.....using this act makes it EASIER for them to NOW attack ALL Public Lands in America. And the Corrupt Project 2025 Trump Regime is working to move the Forest Service to Utah, home of Sen. Mike Lee who is drooling over wanting to SELL OFF America's Public Lands - to guess who?????? And it ain't YOU!!!!
So encouraging that communities are standing up to the Billionaires. I stay hopeful that something meaningful will come out how Shittler has manipulated the oil crisis to cause the stock market fluctuations.
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Here is my letter to my Senators and Congressman from this morning. I couldn't get each item, but I'll work whatever else I can into the 2nd letter:
Well, We The People certainly find ourselves in quite the pickle… Our witless and naked emperor has started a war which he cannot win without resorting to the nuclear destruction of Iran. He is busy firing the generals who dared to tell him it was a bad idea. He is instead, listening to an ex Fox News host whom he appointed ‘Secretary of War’ and attending staged wrestling fights with his Secretary of State while they dispatched our dimwitted VP, tRump’s grifting son-in-law, and a real estate buddy of his to negotiate with the Iranians. Might I add that not one of these three people has any training in, real experience in, nor skill at diplomacy and the Iranians sent a busload of PhDs… with the necessary skills and experience. We sent the Three Stooges - who declared the negotiations a failure after 16 hours…
Meanwhile back at the remains of the DOJ, Judge Box-wine Jeanine Pirro has filed to vacate the convictions - make them just go away - of the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Instead, DOJ should be looking hard askance at tRump’s obvious manipulations of the markets… but, you know they won’t. Let alone, release the rest of the Epstein Files. The former reality TV star at Transportation thinks it would be clever to hire video gamers to work as air traffic controllers. The wrestling woman is right on track to destroy the Department of Education. The idjit at Department of the Interior is selling off our National Forests and wildlife refuges. DHS is still killing and abusing people - just more quietly. Kash Patel is by multiple accounts blotto drunk and MIA much of the time. And I don’t want to know anything else that Bobby Brainworms has done!. There is not one single even remotely normal, competent person left in the Executive Branch. And because they have the majority in both houses of Congress, that institution which the Constitution created first - is simply inert.
We are less than 200 days from the Midterms and I have looked high and low, but I cannot find evidence that the Democrats are any closer to a unified message about their analysis of what went wrong in America and how they would fix it, than they were anytime into tRump II. We need that proverbial ‘Blue Tsunami’. We need articulate national spokespeople who can keep peoples’ eyes and ears on our message and who are not afraid to walk into the fire to make our points to the undecided and the few MAGA voters still capable of rethinking their positions. We need a clear set of bullet points on policy that can resonate with voters - The position papers can come later. I think we need a high-level convocation of Democrats from all over the Country to accomplish this and it had better happen soon.
I have been at this for 2 hours. I am going to take a breather and then go into some specifics I think we need to reverse the whole Project 2025 nightmare which has been visited on us. More in a few hours.
! I wonder if you’ll get a personal reply
The current Trump regime should be considered a hostile force occupying America and treated accordingly.
It has carefully enacted a strategy to eliminate liberty, oppress the population, and loot the treasury.
Resistance is not only justified, it is essential.
Definitely and more to the point, they are actually a domestic terrorist threat.
Hear, hear. We're getting rolling. Spread the word to all local small towns, leadership step forward and mash the corporate elitist thieves.
Right on 👍
Data centers are the face of technofascism. Full stop. These tech billionaires built their success on liberal democracy and now they want to destroy it. They are traitors.
Yes. Thank you for naming it, David: they are TRAITORS.
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Thank you, Scott -- I didn't know about this "promise", and it's so good to learn that people are fighting back. Successfully, I should add. And a picture of Bernie and AOC -- two of my all-time favorite people!
We will not let Trump’s oligarchy win! Keep pushing back, 🇺🇸
100%!
Eat the rich.
I am so glad you wrote about this today, Scott! I was so disheartened to learn that a community not far from me had voted to allow a data center; however, there was a caveat to moving forward with it. The city commissioners voted to approve the data center even though there was a majority of citizens that showed up and opposed it. The commissioners unanimously voted to approve it if the developers had to get a permit for water use by the Southwest Water Management district. On April 14, the Management district informed the commissioners would not allow a permit because of the current water allowances by the city. That is how things stand at the moment. I am hoping that it will not be allowed!
This is hiw you do it! Was thus Social Circle Ga? This is 3 towns I know if who are rallying to pritecting themselves. We (small town USA) are not dvmbaszs.
No, it wasn't in Georgia. It was in Florida. That town was not the only one these sneaky developers are targeting. It all boils down to corruption with city officials and the almighty dollar. I am worried that these developers will pay off whoever they have to in order to get these data centers built even though the majority of Americans are against them. They are looking to buy up land in rural areas thinking they will meet with less resistance.
At least 2 small towns near me have shut them down. But I understand your concern, I agree.
Thank you for spotlighting the pitfalls of data centers, Scott. I have long been opposed to them due to the impact across all communities, humans, animals, and the environment.
The company I currently work for is very keen on AI. As a result, I am pressured to use it in my position. Honestly, I believed its potential is overhyped and it could turn out to be the 21st century's version of the tech bubble of the early 2000s.
I think it has a place, but for use in good avenues. You still have to think and have a brain plus integrity. Btw, IT is excrutiating to think the rape culture is being allowed to thrive. SHUT.IT.DOWN
Scott, Florida never disappoints! The Fort Meade city commission just approved a $2.6 billion power center in spite of public dissent. However, there are still permits that need to be approved so we’ll see what happens!
It seems that many places in Florida really hate their own citizens...always working against their best interests : (
Florida’s land, resources, and people have been exploited by wealthy powerful people for many decades.
I totally agree with you, Jenn!
So true, JennSH. I’m not in Florida but back when I was reading John McDonald’s Travis McGee novels, I also remember reading that he highlighted a lot of developer abuse of those building along the Florida coast.
A lot of them are moving West and trying to turn us Republican. NO WAY! Go back and ruin your own state. Meanwhile, our forests being shut down and are being striped from Repuke developers and real estate and construction companies. All they know is how to destroy!
Brenda,I’m on the Fl east coast and recently about read about the data center in Ft.Meade.(I actually worked there many moons ago while in public health).
“According to a letter obtained by news partner the Tampa Bay Times, the water district recently informed Fort Meade in that letter that the current water permit cannot supply the data center. The data center's water request must be separately approved by the Southwest Florida Water Management District's full governing board at a public meeting before the data center can begin any regulated activities at the project site, according to a letter that letter.”
https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2026/04/15/fort-meade-data-center-approved-despite-residents-concerns
As I understand,Ft. Meade has about 5000 residents although the Southwest Florida Water Management District covers many counties.Perhaps people in those counties could contact SFWMD and voice concerns.I intend to even though I’m covered by a different water management district.Who knows where the next proposed data center will be??
We’re all in this together!
https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/about/contact-us
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Stay on it, small towns are finding ways to balk at the billionaires and shut them out.
I wonder if local republicans who have been opposing data centers know it’s Trump’s fault they are coming to town in the first place. Would that change their tune?
Either way, good for them.
Interesting take, Sam. Republicans do seem to speak up when they are impacted directly.
Good question, especially since it was pretty much the willfully ignorant who elected and/or chose the willfully ignorant to be in office.
Data centers pollute the water and ruin the drinking water supply of communities that rely on the water. Those centers need water to cool down the machines that run their AI. They couldn’t care less about the people or the environment. The billionaires don’t live in those communities.
Of course they don’t.
Word is that billionaires are planning to LAY OFF hundreds of human workers in favor of AI! As long as Trump and his Enablers are in charge everyone in America who is not them will continue to get SCREWED at every turn. Vote out EVERY SINGLE Republican and Democrat who will NOT stand up and fight for the people of America and NOT the Billionaires who are SCREWING us all! We are in the midst of the Second Gilded Age! We need leaders like Teddy Roosevelt who will break up the Billionaires monopolies and strangle hold on America!!!! read "Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet" by Chuck Collins for an up close and personal look at the damage that is being done. One example that JUST happened. The Republicans in Congress used the Congressional Review Act for a simple majority vote to open up the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area to mining from a FOREIGN country Chile and a billionaire owner with ties to Jared Kushner (surprise, surprise). A company with a Horrible track record of environmental damage. As bad as this is it may get even worse thanks to the Republicans.....using this act makes it EASIER for them to NOW attack ALL Public Lands in America. And the Corrupt Project 2025 Trump Regime is working to move the Forest Service to Utah, home of Sen. Mike Lee who is drooling over wanting to SELL OFF America's Public Lands - to guess who?????? And it ain't YOU!!!!
Money is definitely the root of all evil! The filthy rich are only biting off the hand that feeds them. Tax them and shut them down.
So encouraging that communities are standing up to the Billionaires. I stay hopeful that something meaningful will come out how Shittler has manipulated the oil crisis to cause the stock market fluctuations.
And now they are going to read the Bible to us!
Hopefully, it will combust in Trump's hands while he tries to read it (kindergarteners read better than him).
and insist that god supports data centers... "in the name of Jesus, build those data centers!"
https://www.walkthewalkusa.org/getinvolved
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…..and don’t let tRump and his Epstein wife and the other complicit criminals get with their crimes.
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/melania-trump-has-an-amanda-ungaro?r=abm5w&utm_medium=ios
Kudos, kudos, kudos to THE RESISTANCE!!!! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Thank you Scott. You write and explain wonderfully.