Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Town? You Might Be a Chinese Spy.
Utah political consultant Gabi Finlayson was driving out of a canyon last week when she got the news that she had been accused of being a Chinese government operative. She was driving to a speaking...
View ArticleThere are 50,000 Words in the DNC Autopsy. “Gaza” Isn’t One.
Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even once: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Jewish, Muslim,...
View ArticleHow Much Are You Spending on the Iran War? $300 and Counting.
The Pentagon estimates that it has spent upward of $29 billion on weaponry to bomb Iran since February 28, in a war of choice that has killed at least 3,400 people in Iran and thousands more across...
View ArticleAhead of Louisiana Primary, Trump Calls GOP Sen. Cassidy a “Disloyal Disaster”
As voters in Louisiana head to the polls for Saturday’s primary elections, President Donald Trump is doing all he can to ensure that incumbent Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy gets the boot. Cassidy was...
View ArticleFarmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump’s Iran War
It’s planting season, and 70 percent of American farmers can’t afford enough fertilizer to plant all their crops. About a third of the planet’s nitrogen fertilizer, the most widely used in global...
View ArticleTrump Taps Former Private Prison Exec to Run ICE
David Venturella, who spent more than a decade as an executive at the private-prison behemoth GEO Group, will be the next acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of...
View ArticleTurns Out, Nobody Wants a Data Center in Their Backyard
A new Gallup poll has found that most Americans would really prefer not to live next door to a data center. For the first time, the polling organization asked people what they think of data centers,...
View ArticleThe President May Settle His Own Lawsuit With Your Money
The DOJ is considering settling Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, which could send about $10 billion taxpayer dollars directly into the President’s pockets, the New York...
View ArticleTrump’s Golden Dome Would Cost $1.2 Trillion
Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense dream might seem like something out of science fiction, but it would cost real dollars, the Congressional Budget Office says—about $1.2 trillion over the...
View ArticleNew York Hospital Faces Criminal Subpoena in Texas Over Trans Youth Care
The Trump administration has sent subpoenas to dozens of hospitals across the nation over the past year, demanding access to information about children receiving gender-affirming care and the doctors...
View ArticleLegislators Denounce “Appalling and Horrific Treatment” of Mothers in...
As Mother’s Day approaches, a group of senators are raising the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing people in immigration detention. On Thursday, Sens. Richard...
View ArticlePolymarket’s Hot New Bet: Hantavirus
Over the past four days, bettors on the prediction platform Polymarket have wagered nearly $3 million on whether we’ll see a hantavirus pandemic this year. A cluster of cases of a particularly deadly...
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“It’s Life Alert or Rent”: Montana Trailer Park Tenants Are on Rent Strike
35-year-old Benjamin Moore has lived in Mountain Meadows Mobile Home Park, outside Bozeman, Montana, since he was 17. This month, for the first time, he’s withholding his rent. On May 1, Moore...
View Article“Counterterrorism” Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People
On Wednesday, the White House released a new “United States Counterterrorism Strategy,” the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremacist violence,...
View ArticleMr. Wonderful’s Utah Data Center Will Be More Than Twice as Big as Manhattan
Kevin O’Leary is best known as “Mr. Wonderful” on Shark Tank, or maybe as the bad guy from Marty Supreme. On Shark Tank, he invests in—or crushes the spirits of—small business owners. He describes...
View ArticleRepublicans Claim Widespread Food Stamp Fraud. What’s Missing: Hard Evidence.
The US Department of Agriculture has spent the past week notifying people that the country is (allegedly) overrun by individuals who are fraudulently claiming SNAP benefits, while (allegedly) driving...
View ArticleThe Iran War Remains Unpopular—Unless You’re a Weapons Contractor
As peace talks with Iran continue to stall, the Trump administration announced on Friday an additional $8.6 billion in fast-tracked weapons sales to Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab...
View ArticleTrump’s Plans to Rebuild DC in His Image Keep Getting Pricier
Donald Trump’s plans to remake parts of Washington, DC, are much bigger—and more expensive—than originally planned. A top Trump fundraiser is now asking for donations to a nonprofit that will support...
View Article“Where Have All the Student Protests Gone?”
It’s become a familiar refrain: something awful happens in the world, and a member of the commentariat asks, “Where are the student protests? Or did those only happen when Biden was president?”...
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Amazon Powers ICE. Its Workers Aren’t Happy.
Matt Multari has been driving for Amazon—and organizing with the Teamsters—for about a year and a half. His days are mostly spent delivering packages. But he thinks of his role as a worker-organizer...
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