Republicans Sold It By One Vote. Walz Took It Back.
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Developers proposed six data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, a town of around 7,500 people. The project would include 51 warehouse buildings spread across 1,500 acres, including an 18-building complex next to the ballfields at Staback Park. In response, Tammy Misewicz-Healey started Stop Archbald Data Centers. Hundreds of neighbors joined her, packing hearings about the data centers wearing yellow shirts, carrying signs, and speaking out for more than a year. In May, Gov. Josh Shapiro surveyed the area and walked the left field line in the park to see where those buildings would go. Then he sat in state Rep. Kyle Mullins’ district office to meet with residents for over an hour. He left saying he was taking the story of Archbald back with him. This week, Shapiro signed the strictest data center rules in the country. Companies will now have to sign a contract abiding by the rules, or they’ll have to wait longer for approval and risk losing their tax break. Data centers that get approved have to pay for their own electricity bills instead of passing those costs on to residents. And your town has to say yes before the state can. Shapiro moved forward without Republicans. He says the Senate majority leader told him he had no intention of regulating data centers at all. Walz Shuts Door On Mining
The Boundary Waters is the most visited wilderness in America, and the Ojibwe have depended on that water for generations. A few years ago, around 650,000 people wrote to Washington asking them to protect it. In 2023, Biden’s Interior Department issued a twenty-year mining ban in the area. In April, the GOP Senate ripped the protections away with a single vote, 50 to 49. Trump signed it eleven days later. Twin Metals is owned by Antofagasta, one of the ten biggest copper producers on earth. It’s controlled by one of Chile’s richest families, and they were waiting for this to happen. Their plan is to dig for copper upstream of those lakes. So on Tuesday, Gov. Tim Walz signed an order calling out Twin Metals and shutting the door in their face. Minnesota won’t rent them that land or give them any permits. They won’t even look at an application. Every existing lease gets pulled back and reviewed, line by line. This wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction. Back in April, after expert testimony and a recommendation from a judge, Minnesota’s environmental agency ruled that the state’s mining rules aren’t strong enough. They’re rewriting them now. The order also tells state agencies to draft one more thing—a bill for the state legislature to ban copper mining there for good. Walz leaves office in January, but he’s using his time left to make it difficult for anybody to undo this. Winless
The DOJ wanted the private records of nearly nine million Minnesotans. Every name, birthdate, home address, driver’s license number, and the last four digits of every Social Security number. At first, Minnesota cooperated. The DOJ asked fourteen questions about how the state keeps its list of registered voters accurate, plus a fifteenth item that wasn’t a question at all—a demand for the entire voter file. Minnesota answered all fourteen and refused the demand, citing the fact Trump had already ordered Homeland Security to run that data against immigration records. So the DOJ sued. Its entire case came down to one man in Spring Valley who was charged with casting a single illegal ballot. Sixteen former DOJ lawyers filed against their old department, telling the judge this demand was nothing like the requests they used to make. One of them ran its voting rights division for six years. Former secretaries of state from both parties filed too, including Minnesota’s own Joan Growe. On Monday, Judge Katherine Menendez threw out the DOJ’s case. Menendez wrote that you don’t get to sue people first and go hunting for a reason afterward, adding that the government doesn’t get a special pass. Minnesota’s nine million voters keep their records. That makes twenty-three federal courts that have told the DOJ no. Cornyn’s Aide Crosses The Aisle
Jacob Smith was a senior staffer for GOP Sen. John Cornyn for five years, and a Republican for his entire career. This week, he took a job working for Democrat James Talarico, who’s running for Senate in Texas against AG Ken Paxton. Smith didn’t quietly take the job—he loudly called out Paxton, saying he was “the most corrupt, self-dealing politician in Texas.” He told Republicans who know it to say so at the ballot box. Cornyn said the same thing on camera during the primary. Then Trump endorsed Paxton anyway, Cornyn lost, and now he says he’ll back the ticket. Recent polling has the race dead even. No Democrat in Texas has won a Senate seat since Reagan was president. Republicans have spent thirty-eight years not worrying about this seat, but they’re worried now. And they should be, because momentum is on our side—not theirs. If we keep working hard, and keep pushing full speed ahead, we can turn Trump into a lame duck. So here is my pledge to you. 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He squandered $60-$90 million for his insane ideas to beautify Washington for his disastrous plans for this nation's 250-year celebration (Reflection Pool, the 'state fair' fiasco, etc.) .... and we all know how those turned out. There are millions of people who live in this country, outside of Washington, who do not have the funds to travel to see all the 'grand and marvelous' things that the despicable vermin is doing with our tax dollars. He ignores all the laws and rules to satisfy his never-ending thirst to redesign our nation's capital into his version of a gaudy and pretentious Versailles. The American people do not need a grand ballroom, his ugly mug chiseled on Mount Rushmore, or to see his grotesque and repulsive face dangling from our nation's buildings. The corrupt sewer rat must be stopped from using our tax money to pay for his personal ego trips. https://nationalparkobsessed.com/national-park-fee-list/ Thanks! Months ago I signed a petition & sent an email to my GOP members of Congress to stop the copper mining in the Boundary Waters. My husband is a native Minnesotan & has visited the Boundary Waters area several times in his youth. It's a beautiful place filled with pristine lakes for canoeing & kayaking. My members of Congress are all in for Trump & will likely never change. They've capitulated to his corruption long ago. My Representative is retiring, so there's a chance now we can vote in a Democratic replacement. ...and blocked from having his dictator's visage struck on a piece of US legal tender, the seditionist's mocking blow to the Will of the People. Thank you! I agree, but it should still be a top priority. We are already in crisis environmentally and the regime is accelerating it. Read The Sixth Extinction. It really is illuminating how we are impacting the environment and every species. It’s so refreshing to read news grounded in actual evidence and court documents rather than political spin. Thank you for doing the hard work to bring us the facts every single day! For sure! Trump's Dept. of Injustice serves only the regime's policy of domination, and the benefits to its corporate masters. Minnesota's striking down of the copper giant's mining incursion is a blow to the regime's abuse of our shared natural resources. Thank you, Scott, for this incisive reporting! |
These moves to stand together, Republican with Democrat and vice versa, are HUGE. Smith with Talarico and the governor of AZ with a Republican--these moves show people who are centrist that we can work together. I haven't ever liked seeing "only my side" points of view. They are detrimental to what our nation stands for. This is great news.
The area I live in is solid blue. Matter of fact my town gave Kamala the biggest margin in my very blue county. I am pretty sure we will continue to vote blue up and down the ticket. I urge everyone who does not have this luxury to talk to their neighbors and make sure to VOTE BLUE on November 3rd! It is the best way to stop the orange monster and make him a lame donald duck.
PLEASE SCRUTINIZE CANDIDATES!
SETH MOULTON is running to replace SENATOR ED MARKEY....
has to return AIPAC = ANTI-DEMOCRACY money, accepted SUPER PAC money.
He's on the ARMED SERVICES subcommittee, LOTS OF MILITARY & DEFENSE STOCK -
INSIDER TRADING? Made lots of $$$$!
The Justice Dept. run by the orange monsters personal lawyer will continue to file these lawsuits because they are ordered to. They hope one day to win at least one.
Thrilled what PA is doing to stop data centers. Although they should outright ban them.
Remember the 60 failed cases trying to prove fraud in the 2020 election? Low IQ Trump just can't take no for an answer.