A Wisconsin Muslim group condemned Rep. Derrick Van Orden's remarks on a radio show. Instead of walking them back, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Islam 'is a violent religion' — and dodged when asked about his own Muslim constituents.
At two campaign stops, the Republican nominee for New Mexico governor listed Medicaid, SNAP and free child care, then said 'we empower this type of failure' and that people have been 'convinced that this is a lifestyle.' Hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans rely on them.
Trump told communities that turning down a data center means choosing to be poor. A new UC Berkeley study of 346 large data centers found that homes within 3 miles lost about 3% of their value, homes within a mile lost 7.2%, and the local costs outweighed the local benefits.
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Big Tech is building data centers in our backyards.
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Tech billionaires are telling us that AI will cure cancer, solve world hunger and bring an age of abundance where none of us has to work.
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In 2024 Elon Musk spent an estimated $288 million to buy himself a president and a Republican Congress.
The Bureau of Land Management asked its state directors to identify public land 'ripe for data center development' and gave them three days. It has shed nearly half its workforce under Trump, one state reported 50% vacancies in the offices that would do the reviews, and the administration is proposing further cuts while telling the bureau to refocus on AI.
A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.
The ad, titled 'King James,' uses an AI-generated Talarico to deliver a monologue rewriting the Bible. It stitches together fragments of his real remarks, strips their context, changes some of his words, and scripts them into a speech that does not exist. Paxton's campaign did not answer when The Advocate asked why it manufactured footage instead of using real video.
