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Why haven’t we heard from NIT on the MC Council’s decision to allow whoever it is that wants to put a data center in MC to go ahead with their plans?
This story broke THIS MORNING. June 7, 2026. From the Washington Post — one of the most powerful newspapers in the world.
And it confirms what communities from Nashville to Utah to New York to Louisiana have been saying for two years:
The data center fight is no longer just an environmental story. It is no longer just an energy story. It is no longer just a community story.
It is now an election story. And the politicians who ignored it are running out of time to catch up.
THE TWO MOMS WHO ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE AMERICAN POLITICS
Meet Annette Singh and Annie Cannelongo. Two full-time mothers. Living in Hilliard, Ohio — a suburban community outside Columbus that most people in Washington D.C. have never heard of.
They are not political activists. They are not lobbyists. They are not funded by any organization. They are moms. Who take their children to a park next to an elementary school. A park that sits next to the land where Amazon Web Services just broke ground on a data center campus.
Annette Singh and Annie Cannelongo will vote in November in this midterm battleground with one issue at the top of their minds: data centers. The full-time moms say their fury over the massive computer-filled warehouses has consumed them ever since Amazon Web Services broke ground on a data center site that stretches from the lush playground their kids use close to the elementary school that Singh’s child attends. 
Consumed. That is the word the Washington Post used. Not concerned. Not worried. Consumed.
This is what it looks like when a company makes a decision — quietly, without public input, without community notification — that reaches into the daily life of a mother pushing her child on a swing. And she looks up. And realizes that the land next to where her child plays is being turned into an industrial AI facility. And nobody asked her. Nobody told her. Nobody even sent a letter.
That is the moment that creates a voter who is consumed. And consumed voters — in midterm elections — decide who wins and who loses.
AND THE WASHINGTON POST JUST CONFIRMED: DATA CENTERS WILL DECIDE THE 2026 MIDTERMS
Why most politicians are not calling for data center bans despite voters’ anger. 
That is the headline. From the Washington Post. Published TODAY.
Not “Why voters are angry about data centers.” The Washington Post already knows voters are angry — that is not news anymore. The news is why politicians are not responding. Why they are not calling for bans. Why they are not answering the phones and emails and text messages flooding their offices.
The answer — which the Post lays out in devastating detail — is money. Campaign contributions. Economic development deals. The revolving door between state government and the tech industry. The billion-dollar tax breaks that local officials negotiated in secret and cannot defend in public.
Politicians know the voters are furious. They are calculating whether the fury will still be there in November. And two moms in Hilliard, Ohio — standing in a park next to an elementary school — just told the Washington Post that yes. It will still be there. It will be the first thing they think about when they walk into the voting booth.
“VERY SOON — MAYBE EVEN LATER THIS YEAR — WE’LL BE PRODUCING MORE CHIPS THAN WE CAN TURN ON”
This quote — published by Bloomberg THIS WEEK — is the most extraordinary admission in the history of the AI boom. And it came from inside the industry itself.
Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new generation of data centers that will draw many times more power than their predecessors. “Very soon, maybe even later this year, we’ll be producing more chips than we can turn on,” Tesla Inc.’s energy division warned. 
More chips than we can turn on. This year. Because there is not enough electricity. Not enough transformers. Not enough grid capacity. Not enough water. Not enough community tolerance.
The boom that was supposed to be unstoppable just admitted — through one of its own industry insiders — that it is approaching the physical limits of what America’s infrastructure can support.
And the communities fighting back — from Hilliard, Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee to Box Elder County, Utah to New York State — are a major reason why.
AND ERIN BROCKOVICH JUST SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF THE ENTIRE FIGHT — YESTERDAY ON FOX NEWS
Erin Brockovich said she’s received thousands of reports on AI data centers — and the most common concern is transparency. “If data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?” she asks. 
Seven words. That is all it took.
If data centers are so great — why are they being built in secret?
Why the NDAs? Why the shell companies? Why the secret meetings? Why the elected officials who cannot tell their constituents what was discussed? Why the farmers who had to sign a confidentiality agreement to find out who wanted to buy their land? Why the communities that found out about $12 billion projects the same day as a press conference?
If the benefits are as real as the companies claim — if the jobs are real, the tax revenue is real, the economic development is real — then why does every single deal require secrecy? Why does every single community have to fight for basic information that should be public from the moment a permit is filed?
Erin Brockovich — who has built a career on one simple principle: the public has a right to know — just asked the question that 288,000 Nashville petition signers, and 6,615 BrockovichDataCenter.com reporters, and two moms in a Hilliard, Ohio playground are all asking in different ways.
Why the secrets?
AND THE NUMBERS THIS WEEK TELL THE COMPLETE STORY OF WHERE AMERICA STANDS
Let us put the complete picture of this single week in American data center history in one place:
288,000 people signed the Nashville Zoo petition in 5 days. The Nashville Metro Council votes on a data center moratorium THIS Tuesday.
New York passed the first statewide data center freeze in American history on Thursday.
Kevin O’Leary was forced to cut his Utah Stratos Project from 40,000 to 20,000 acres after community and political pressure.
Virginia Beach permanently banned all new large-scale data centers.
Amazon’s own engineers stood in Seattle City Hall and called their company’s AI expansion an approach that will cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.”
“In a month, 3,862 residents submitted reports. The map now has 2,716 pins and represents 49 states,” Erin Brockovich wrote on May 27, 2026. 
49 states. 2,716 pins. 288,000 petition signers. 6,615 personal reports. One statewide freeze. One permanent city ban. One Shark Tank star cut in half. One zoo with 3,000 animals and a 50th clouded leopard cub.
And two moms in Hilliard, Ohio who told the Washington Post that data centers will be the first thing on their mind when they vote in November.
AND HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — THIS WEEK AND BEYOND
Tuesday June 10: Nashville Metro Council votes on data center moratorium. The most watched local vote in America right now.
By end of June: Governor Hochul must decide whether to sign or veto New York’s historic data center freeze.
June 23: Utah Republican primary — where the Stratos Project and Kevin O’Leary’s data center is the defining campaign issue in the Senate President’s race.
November 2026: Midterm elections. Where two moms in Hilliard, Ohio — and millions of Americans like them — will vote with data centers at the top of their minds.
The fight that started in town halls and commission meetings and online petitions is moving to the ballot box. And no politician — regardless of party, regardless of how much they have accepted from the tech industry — can ignore 288,000 signatures and two full-time moms on the front page of the Washington Post.
Here is the bottom line of June 7, 2026:
America has reached the moment in the data center fight when the political system can no longer pretend it is not happening. When the Washington Post puts two Ohio moms on its front page. When Erin Brockovich asks on Fox News why these projects are built in secret. When Amazon’s own engineers stand in city hall and call their company’s approach damaging to democracy. When a state legislature passes a historic freeze and a city permanently bans new facilities — all in the same week.
This is not a protest movement anymore. It is not a grassroots campaign. It is not a fringe concern.
It is American democracy doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Voters deciding what happens in their communities. Politicians being forced to respond. Companies being held accountable.
The clouded leopard cubs are counting on it. The moms in Ohio are voting on it. And 288,000 Americans — and counting — have already said where they stand.
Where do YOU stand?
Scott Rasmussen – the man who co-founded ESPN before building the most trusted name in American polling – just released data that explains everything you’ve been watching from the radical left.
Voters who support AOC-style policies view France more favorably than the United States.
Eighty-one percent of them have a favorable opinion of France. Seventy-nine percent favor the UK. Sixty-seven percent favor Germany.
America? Fifty-seven percent.
They literally like France more than their own country.
This isn’t a fringe finding buried in a footnote.
Rasmussen’s Napolitan Institute surveyed 3,000 registered voters with a margin of error of 1.8 points.
The numbers are clean and the conclusion is unavoidable: the socialist wing of the Democrat Party has a foreign policy preference – and it’s anywhere but here.
Happy Pride Month to all you fragile little pedophile protectors!
So Trump spoke at a farmer roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin today. I watched so you wouldn’t have to. You’re welcome.
It’s kind of remarkable that any farmers are here at this event considering how he’s screwed them over. It’s a very small crowd though.
BTW, he was seated for the entire speech and roundtable. He looked very weak today.
Trump started out explaining how he spells Dumocrat and how people don’t know there’s a B at the end of dumb. (He just can’t let that one go.)
“Your fertilizer is way down. Your energy prices are way down. Your oil is way down. Your gas is way down. It’s all coming way down.”
(Amazingly, the small crowd cheered this nonsense. They know none of that is true, yet they cheer for him.)
He promised these Wisconsin farmers that everything in this country would be perfect in 90 days.
“How about this? African American unemployment is now the lowest that it’s ever been in history. I don’t know where the hell that stat came from, but I’ll take it.” (that’s not even close to being true, it was lower under Biden for starters.)
“2 years ago we were a dead country. We were a laughing stock all around the world. And now thanks to me we’re the hottest country in the world. It’s true. We’re the hottest thing.” (<eye roll>)
He brought along his little pictures of the reflecting pond, showing in a cartoon graphic that it’s bigger than different skyscrapers. He showed these same pics to the press a couple times this week. He’s very proud of his drawings.
Trump kept saying “Barack Hussein Obama” over and over today and the crowd booed every time he did it. (He’s so damn petty.)
“I cleaned up Washington DC. Under Barack Hussein Obama little kids would go visit the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Memorial and they would never come back. I stopped all that.” (What??)
“The Biden administration had the worst inflation in the history of the world. Can you believe that?” (No, because it’s bullshit)
After saying 10 minutes earlier that he had the prices of fertilizer and energy way down, he then said “fertilizer and gas prices have gone up a little bit, but I’m going to get them way down, down below where they’ve ever been. If I don’t do it I’ll just say ‘I was just kidding.'”
He’s slurring his speech again and slurping his spit. His right hand is also swollen and covered in spackle again. And his right eye is barely open. He does not look well.
He told the farmers, “You have a much better life than my life. Believe me you don’t want my life. My ear got pierced. My life is terrible. Believe me you don’t want my life. Your life it much better.”
“As president I’ve done more for the American farmer than anyone in history. Like I’m up here today. I don’t need this. What the hell do I have to be here for? I already got elected. But I’m here. Obviously that means I love the farmers. I could be home in the White House watching TV.” (he does watch a lot of TV, especially Fox News, state TV)
“Do you know that the Dumocrats actually have a law that if you get caught fixing your own tractor or truck they throw you in jail? Did you know that? I pardoned a man last week who got sentenced to 7 years in jail because he got caught fixing his own car.” (what the fuck is he talking about??)
“With the help of the farmers here today we’re rapidly bringing grocery prices way down. Remember, I inherited these prices. I didn’t start- my prices were great- they, they rigged the election. When I turned- the election was totally rigged- it was a rigged election. Just like they’re rigging the election right now in California.” (he can’t keep his head on one thought, he’s reading most of this and he still can’t stay on message.)
He closed with, “We’ve already made American great again. Now we’re making it greater than it’s ever been before. And thank you. I won Wisconsin in a landslide.”
When he was done speaking, he stood up and clapped along with his “gay national anthem” for a minute and then he turned around and had to step down a couple steps to get off the stage. He literally had to have help with 2 steps. Someone grabbed his arm and helped him down. This man is not well.
He did an interview right before this event with NBC that is airing on Sunday morning, and he told the farmers today that he was very angry at the interview because it was raining so he took out all of his anger on the “fake news” interviewer. In other words his Sunday interview is going to be even more psycho than usual.
And speaking of psycho, just about every crazy thing he said today he read out of his notebook. Someone wrote this crazy shit for him to say. That’s as disturbing as him saying it.
He’s been very unhappy lately. And I just love that for him.
Trump’s lawyers argued in federal court that he could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and no one could stop him. Such wonderful ideas from this maniac’s enablers.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-can-tear-down-statue-of-liberty-says-trump-lawyer
An IRS contractor named Charles Littlejohn stole Donald Trump’s confidential tax returns and leaked them to The New York Times and ProPublica.
He went to prison for it.
Trump sued the federal government for $10 billion over that breach – and the DOJ settled, creating what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called the Anti-Weaponization Fund.
The fund exists to compensate Americans whose lives were wrecked by politically motivated prosecutions during the Biden years.
Pro-life demonstrators prosecuted under the FACE Act for praying outside abortion clinics.
Schumer is calling this a “MAGA slush fund” with zero oversight and zero precedent.
He’s wrong on both counts.
The DOJ pointed directly to Keepseagle v. Vilsack – the Obama administration’s $760 million fund created to compensate Native American farmers and ranchers who alleged discrimination by the Agriculture Department.
Same legal mechanism. Same Judgment Fund.
“LOL! Trump’s “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall collapses in total humiliation as the major stars ALL bail!
As Kris Kristofferson might have put it, “Freedom 250” is just another word for a festival with few acts left to lose. Tee hee!
As of Friday morning, six out of the nine artists announced just days earlier for the Trump-affiliated “Great American State Fair” have now pulled out of the event.
The latest to jump ship is aging rocker Bret Michaels of Poison, who said the atmosphere around the show had turned toxic and that he was unnerved by threats pouring in over the controversial festival.
He joins headliner Martina McBride, (frankly the only artist not mining the nostalgia circuit), the Commodores, Young MC, Morris Day and The Time, and the surviving half of Milli Vanilli (Fab Morvan) in bailing on the gigs.
The mass walkout has left the Trump-affiliated event in total disarray. What was supposed to be a big patriotic spectacle celebrating a MAGAfied 250th anniversary is turning into a complete embarrassment for Trump and his allies.
Even has-been artists dying for publicity to revive their flagging careers are running away from the in droves, with an impending sense of the event’s awfulness and the obvious use of their presence as a Trumpy political prop.
Yes, Trump’s big party is absolutely collapsing before it even starts because no one wants to be associated with it. Even Bret Michaels and Milli (RIP Vanilli) said “no thanks.” The embarrassment level is off the charts.”
Carol Mattern
The Biden DOJ spent years slapping felony obstruction charges on anyone who walked through the Capitol on January 6.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States in 2024 that prosecutors had applied that charge far too broadly.
After the ruling, Biden’s own DOJ dropped the obstruction charge in more than half of pending J6 cases – 60 out of 126 defendants.
Senator Mike Lee When you (Democrats) say Donald Trump is Hitler, you are complicit with attempted assassinations. Fact check – the only person who publicly called Trump “Hitler” was JD Vance.
Things haven’t changed over the years..
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/jared-kushner-donald-trump-lied-base-stupid-voters-supporters-president-son-in-law-white-house-advisor-a7764791.html
The MAGA credo:
“When you stop worrying about all the bad things going on in the world because you realize they don’t affect you, you become a lot happier.”
Now I pledge allegiance to vote foNow I pledge allegiance to vote for Trump
There’s a red wave coming you gon’ surf or what?
In God I trust to take the devil away
Lock Joe Biden up and throw the key awayr Trump
There’s a red wave coming you gon’ surf or what?
In God I trust to take the devil away
Lock Joe Biden up and throw the key away
-The Mayor of MAGAVILLIE
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Democrats spent Trump’s first term turning the legal system into a weapon.
Mueller. Impeachments. Manhattan DA. New York AG. Carroll. Classified documents.
Every case was supposed to finish him. None did.
The one verdict that actually produced a dollar figure is now frozen, and the Supreme Court – the same court Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of in 2020 and warned would “pay the price” for ruling the wrong way – is the last stop.
And the right says calls for violence are all democrats…guess not.https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/05/arrest-pennsylvania-lawmaker-threats-hit-list-capitol/#:~:text=HARRISBURG%20%E2%80%94%20Twenty%20Pennsylvania%20legislators,Operation%2C%E2%80%9D%20law%20enforcement%20records%20show.
In the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, FBI agents tied to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation memorialized anew their belief that President Donald Trump broke the law in contesting the 2020 election and secretly arranged to preserve their evidence until 2030 in memos that raise alarm they could revive their prosecution after Trump leaves office. And they accuse Trump of going after his opponents.
More grift by the trump family cartel.
Based on reports as of May 2026, an estimated 590,000 people did pay a $100 deposit to reserve a gold-colored “T1” Trump smartphone, totaling approximately $59 million in deposits. Zero phones have been delivered or shipped nearly a year after the initial June 2025 announcement.
The company behind the project, T1 Mobile LLC, updated its terms in April 2026 to state that the deposit does not guarantee a phone will ever be produced or sold.
The project was promoted by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as a “Made in the USA” alternative to major brands, but the “Made in USA” claims were later removed.
Shipping dates were repeatedly pushed back from late summer 2025 to 2026 before being removed from the website.
Trump promoted a claim today that he has a better understanding of the Bible than the Pope does. You can’t make this shit up.
“We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system,” Obama told Colbert during a pre-taped interview for one of the final episodes of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
“You can’t have a situation where whoever is in charge starts using that to go after their political enemies,” he added.FBI Director Kash Patel has publicly stated that the FBI lied to obtain FISA surveillance warrants used to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Obama was president during every single day of that operation.
The surveillance didn’t happen in a vacuum – it ran through the highest levels of the FBI and Justice Department that reported directly to Obama’s White House.
And here he is on a CBS soundstage telling America we need to “restore” Justice Department independence