I'm trying to think of a technology that was so roundly hated and yet pushed so hard by the government-corporate complex

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

Sure, move to a big high-rise in Riverdale, but know that the Metro North trains will keep you up all night long. They screech loudly. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were “full steam ahead” looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

More than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. #OneFreePress

2 data center developers pull Seattle plans amid opposition, talk of ban

What in the world has the Supreme Court unleashed? This gerrymandering decision is shaping up to be worse than Citizens United, which is saying something. This is truly awful.

The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

Dutch military intelligence has warned that Russian cyber actors are partly automating their cyberattacks on Europe through the use of AI to execute their cyberattacks at a high pace www.politico.eu/article/russ...

ICYMI: Seattle officials are considering a moratorium on data centers after more than 60,000 people sent them letters demanding the City stop four companies eyeing Seattle for five new data centers. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

“What we found were thousands of conversations in which a homework helper turned into a confidant, then a suicide coach,” Maria Raine of Orange County told the California Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee on Monday.

This is a generational bag fumble by OpenAI and impressive execution by Anthropic.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

“This is not transparency.” 🚨 LAWRENCEBURG, TN folks are demanding a public hearing about a planned data center: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Byw...

And they frequently treat the court system like it’s their private playground

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

Data centers should have to pay their fair share — and take every step possible to protect working families. As electricity demand and costs rise across Illinois and the region, I’m joining governors in urging PJM to keep consumers at the center of every decision it makes.

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Shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed Florida’s version of the SAVE America Act into law, pro-voting groups moved swiftly to challenge the severe new voting restrictions, asking a federal court to block the state from requiring voters to prove their citizenship status.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Last year, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track AI data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations. Now a new AI industry group says it will spend $100M+ on the midterms to push Trump's AI agenda. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. Be warned.

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

Data centers require large amounts of energy to operate — and right now they’re using up much of the energy available on the existing grid, jacking up Pennsylvanians electricity bills.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Some airports have suspended wait time data, with one advising passengers to allow four hours or more for security screenings.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

This really sucks

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.

NEW: Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.

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Wild conflicts of interest: “Tucked in the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse 🧑‍🌾 90% of adopting AI & precision ag tech… standards set by the industry… Trojan horse for big tech to take advantage of farmers/wrest control of the food system…” fortune.com/2026/03/14/f...

“Instead of requiring companies to responsibly dispose of these” rocket parts, “the U.S. has decided to roll the dice on a person or a plane getting hit by falling debris,” said Ewan Wright of the Outer Space Institute.

It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ChatGPT boss Sam Altman on AI "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter"

Meta is holding off on the launch of its new model due to performance concerns: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...

Truly a perfect news alert

Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions www.reuters.com/world/anthro...

Anthropic’s Claude reigns atop the iOS App Store, where it dethroned ChatGPT earlier this week.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Make it stick.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s war on Anthropic. @Anne Applebaum on today’s ‘To the Contrary” Podcast. Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.