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Officials powerless to stop 8 new data centers that could transform small Texas county
At least 248 data centers are planned to be built in Texas — nearly half in unincorporated areas
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Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
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Anthropic wants to keep AI away from repressive regimes. But what about its part-owner, the repressive dictatorship of Abu Dhabi? The post Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? appeared first on The Intercept.
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House Democrat Says Graham Platner Has ‘Disqualified Himself’ in Maine Senate Race (VIDEO)
Well, what do you know? The post House Democrat Says Graham Platner Has ‘Disqualified Himself’ in Maine Senate Race (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Trump Says Bill Pulte, His New Intelligence Director, Should Slash Staff
The president suggested that employees who worked for previous Democratic presidents were among those who should be fired.
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Bradley Talks Jobs, Government Stakes in AI Companies
Neil Bradley, US Chamber of Commerce Executive VP, discusses the latest US jobs report and says while consumers are worried, 'they haven't pulled back on spending yet.' He also spoke out against the government having stake in AI companies, saying it would 'break down the wall' between government and the private sector. Neil speaks with Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz on Bloomberg's Balance of Power. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Chris Hayes says vulnerable GOP senator got 'sham vote' to look independent against Trump
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has endured a brutal week of reporting on his personal history and unsavory interactions with women — issues that have left many people wringing their hands over the state of the race. However, MS NOW's Chris Hayes, who interviewed Platner earlier in the week, noted that Maine voters on the street largely seem unfazed.Part of the reason, he suggested, is that there is genuine disgust with longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins — despite their "reservations about his character.""A lot of them ... really do not want to send Susan Collins back to the Senate," said Hayes. For all her posturing over the years as a dealmaker and moderate, she "is really a party line Republican" and "a rubber stamp for the Trump agenda during both terms.""I also think Senate Republicans realize she's in trouble, right?" he continued. "I mean, this is a state that Donald Trump has lost three times. She managed to win in 2020, but she's got a real tough road ahead of her."Because they realize she's in trouble, he continued, they organized a "sham vote" in the reconciliation bill for an amendment to formally restrict President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization" slush fund — and while the GOP voted it down, Collins and two other vulnerable Republicans were allowed to vote against it."Everyone knew that it was doomed to fail from the beginning," said Hayes, because Republicans would not let such a huge rebuke to Trump pass, even though his Justice Department is now claiming the fund won't go forward anyway. "They don't actually want to bar your money from being stolen from the government to pay off cop-beaters and seditionists. And so what they do is Collins gets to pretend to be independent when the stakes don't actually matter."When they do, though, said Hayes, Collins reliably joins the party line — most famously being "the key vote to get Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court" while falsely assuring voters he would never restrict abortion rights. - YouTube youtu.be
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U.S. military says it shot down Iranian drones launched toward Gulf allies
The exchange of strikes comes as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Iran to make a deal to end the conflict.
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House Democrat says Platner has ‘disqualified himself’ from Maine Senate race
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said Friday that she believes Democrat Graham Platner has “disqualified himself” from the Maine Senate race amid a series of escalating allegations about his past behavior toward women. “I think it’s so distressing, all of the stories that are coming out, and they’re more and more it seems by the hour,”…
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Ex-FBI official says agents are abandoning Trump’s 'partisan idiots'
Former intelligence analyst and ex-FBI official Michael Feinberg said the spate of firings, dismissals and retirements in President Donald Trump’s second term is not so one-sided. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “unnecessary and or too big,” and would “like to see it smaller”“I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, about those who worked in the Joe Biden and Barack Obama administrations. But Feinberg said serious employees, those with intelligence and a hint of patriotism, are already a step ahead and likely leaving for their own reasons.“[I]n the intelligence community, bad leadership drives out good leadership because the people who take on those roles at the FBI, the CIA, … other places, they're principled, they're patriotic, they're idealistic. And when they see somebody come in taking a wrecking ball to the agency's ability to manifest and epitomize those qualities, they realize it's not somewhere they could work anymore,” Feinberg told MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace. “And all of a sudden you get a lot of lackeys. And as I said earlier, you get people who are not going to tell the president when he's wrong and the president's going to make bad decisions.”Wallace made a reference to a recent New York Times article reporting that Trump largely ignored his entire national security team and instead took trusted the claims of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the run up to Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, which has lifted gas and food prices and put Republicans’ hold on the House and Senate in jeopardy.“It's going to get worse,” Feinberg assured as more professionals evacuate federal rooms filling up with imbeciles.“The intelligence community … are Ph.D. holders. They are people who acutely understand social science research methods. They are people who speak multiple languages, who understand how to use cultural norms, to recruit somebody to want to work with the United States. There are more soft skills than hard skills … but the former is overwhelmingly more important and intelligent people, patriotic people, and they don't want to work for partisan idiots,” said Feinberg.“I don't know how to put it more straightforward than that,” Feinberg added. “And not only do they not want to do the work, they can't do it because people like Bill Pulte or Tulsi Gabbard or Kash Patel or John Ratcliffe don't want to let them.”Yeah,” agreed Wallace. “Yeah, it's about as blunt as that.” - YouTube youtu.be
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