"Those agreements should be backed by robust bonds or insurance, priced by capital-market risk experts (not by developers), to ensure that if an AI venture collapses, losses fall on the developer, not on households and small businesses."
"Utilities and regulators can protect existing customers with a simple safeguard, giving teeth to vague qualitative pledges: Sell power to new data centers only under “take or pay” contracts that repay the entire electricity investment regardless."
"Yet capital markets increasingly fear that AI looks like a bubble set to pop. That’s because each new data center effectively bets against at least 10 plausible outcomes that make the investment unwise." www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
"Project Jupiter, a data center proposed for southern Doña Ana County, would emit as many greenhouse gasses as Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined." sourcenm.com/2026/01/14/n...
If you want to feel small glimmers of hope at this dismal moment, this story captures it minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/30/t...
It is really hard to find a hopeful takeaway from this story, but having worked at Palantir is an electoral liability now so that's good.
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
This is also a bizarre way to return from the Super Bowl ad pause State Farm instituted after the Los Angeles wildfires last year, in light of this reporting from the one-year anniversary of those fires: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Jokes about an insurance company called "Halfway There" are strange coming from a P&C insurance giant that Weiss Ratings estimates was among the insurers that closed < half their claims payments in 2024 weissratings.com/en/weiss-new...
I am scratching my head trying to think what the "joke" is here. www.adweek.com/creativity/d...
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
Also: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
How's this for competition? While Peggy Flanagan was at the state fair in August, Angie Craig was at a crypto conference warming up the crowd for Eric Trump.
It seems @repangiecraig.bsky.social wants me to believe she is the most competitive Democrat running for this Senate seat, but if this is what competition looks like to her, I think I'll pass. fischbach.house.gov/2026/1/emmer...
Committee on Appropriations Homeland Security Rep. Henry Cuellar - Ranking Member
The corrupt ICE lover Henry Cuellar has to be removed from Homeland Security appropriations. He broke with Democrats to vote for the ICE funding bill last week.
If you have a Democratic member of Congress - tell them this is non-negotiable.
Meanwhile: "Analysis from Business Insider found that it costs $2 million in tax breaks for data centers to create a single full-time position." revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
Although they layered on some (inadequate) guardrails, Minnesota's legislature extended data center tax credits by 35 years in 2025. Public sector unions estimate this will result in "$219 million in lost revenue by 2029" minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/30/b...
This exposure is particularly concerning to me as a Minnesotan, since Minnesota is far too high on the list of planned data center projects coloradonewsline.com/2026/01/21/t...
This letter warns that if there is a market correction: "States and localities that have become hubs for AI expansion may suffer significant losses of revenue and jobs if these companies fail, potentially eroding their tax bases and capacity to provide critical public services."
Thank you to @smith.senate.gov for joining this letter demanding that FSOC protect the financial system from the AI bubble. I'd like to understand whether @klobuchar.senate.gov echoes the concerns the letter expressed.
Given how thoroughly @warren.senate.gov laid out the case that the AI debt bubble is teetering over into a financial crisis, it's disappointing more of her Senate colleagues did not sign on to this letter. www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
(Video: @dropsitenews.com )
From Clara Zetkin's 1923 "Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win."
NYT: FBI officer who tried to investigate immigration cop who killed Minnesota woman is now out of a job, agent "left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry..."
"On Thursday, longtime civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong and two other activists were arrested for protesting during a church service where one of the pastors is an ICE field director."
"ICE agents slipping on ice has become its own genre on social media and a source of schadenfreude for many opposed to their presence."
"Federal agents boxed in [a Brooklyn Park police officer] — a U.S. citizen — while she was off-duty and demanded to see her papers..The agents had their guns drawn and knocked the off-duty officer’s phone out of her hand, leaving only after she identified herself as a police officer.."
"DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said he matched the description of two men with criminal convictions at Thao’s address, but Thao hardly looks like either of them...One of the men turned out to have been in prison since 2024." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/8-we...
From Playboy’s June 1972 profile of Ted Kennedy: “And then there are the responsibilities— the burden of being a surrogate father to Bobby’s bruised and troubled children.”
From the memoirs of theologian Robert McAfee Brown, appointed by President Carter to the US holocaust memorial council: Reagan ignores Elie Wiesel’s pleas not to visit Bitburg, acts to undermine him and other Carter appointees to the council.
The section that recaps Hortman’s final vote is especially heartbreaking www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
