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Tech CEOs showed up to college graduations to hype their AI future. Students responded with "roaring cascades of boos."
This revolt started in farm country. It's in the suburbs, the community colleges, the environmental and religious movements. It's everywhere now.
Did they never hear about 1776?
Watch the whole show here:
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Jim Hightower
Can't put into words how much @jimhightower.com saying "He's right" about my book means to me.
AND NOW I GET TO HAVE A BEER AND TALK WITH HIGHTOWER.
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They called Boxtown, Tennessee "the point of least resistance."
Valero Energy and Plains All-American Pipeline planned to run a dirty pipeline through a historic Black Memphis neighborhood. The residents said no — and won.
This is what power actually looks like.
I sat down for a couple beers with @coryhaala.bsky.social, author of WHEN DEMOCRATS WON THE HEARTLAND. Cory has brilliantly documented how, as the Dems moved towards corporate cash in the '80s, maverick politicians throughout the Midwest & Plains states practiced good ol’ fashioned populism—and won.
DOJ just sued Hawaii & Michigan to block climate lawsuits against oil companies. Exxon knew for decades. Now the feds are running interference for them. This is what captured government looks like.
@climateintegrity.org
#ClimateJustice #BigOil
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A million seconds = 11 days. A billion seconds = 32 YEARS.
That's the scale of what's buying Congress. Both parties,
heads in money bags. Two simple fixes exist. Zero action.
@campaignlegal.org
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Data centers get right to the heart of what I’ve always said about politics: it’s not left vs right, it’s top vs. bottom. And @claytontuckertx.com is leading the charge here in Texas.
#ai #aidatacenters #datacenter #texas #agriculture
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We sat down with historian Cory Haala to talk about how it actually happened in the 1980s and 1990s, and why putting the party back in politics might be the whole point.
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Interestingly, some of the strongest backlash is coming from a huge group generally assumed to be politically apathetic or enthusiastic about all technology: Young people.
Coal industry gave Trump millions. He reopened five coal plants. They gave him a bronze trophy: "Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal."
Mercury pollution was falling. Now it's up 9%.
That's what that trophy costs.
jimhightower.substack.com/p/would-you-...
Cory Haala
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Big Oil called called Boxtown, Tennessee "the point of least resistance." Boy, did Boxtown show them!
Grab a drink — Tuesday is Happy Hour with a historian.
@coryhaala.bsky.social spent a decade on When Democrats Won the Heartland & his conclusion is simple: Democrats won the heartland by going harder at corporations. I was there. He's right.
5/26 at 6pm CT. Paid subscribers get to ask questions!
Grab a drink — Tuesday is Happy Hour with a historian.
@coryhaala.bsky.social spent a decade on When Democrats Won the Heartland & his conclusion is simple: Democrats won the heartland by going harder at corporations. I was there. He's right.
5/26 at 6pm CT. Paid subscribers get to ask questions!
Oh, how I miss the olden days when a million dollar bribe would have been a scandal.
