Matthew Cortland, Esq (they)

I’ve spent the last several hours waiting for ID to stop by, has the war escalated?

listen, this isn’t a lie, but it’s really close.

when you google it, the top source is Siskind’s own Facebook page.

the actual audio is just a meaningless blanket statement from which no one should draw any conclusions.

no actual news source has covered the quote, including Fox.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., 1991

I rely on home and community based services for basic survival.

When you collapse "home" and "community" into an acronym, you're throwing away one of the most effective messaging tools we have.

Messaging guidance:

Stop saying "HCBS." It sounds like a bank that finances arms dealers.

Spell out "home and community based services." Home is a word with positive connotations. Community, likewise, has positive connotations.

A screenshot of two tweets in a thread. The first tweet is from Cheetoh Fingers (@CheetohFingers), posted 2 hours ago, with 1 reply, 1 retweet, and 6 likes. It reads: "That's interesting. Did a little digging and it appears the county is creating new regulations for data centers because residents see them as a nuisance. I love the pushback against data centers. Local communities have all the leverage. Push for a better deal." The tweet includes a quoted block of text reading: "County Chair Phyllis Randall said one of the goals of the board is to be 'the voice of the people' and that she gets emails almost every day from people complaining about data centers. 'When I first came on, I would call people and I would say, "But this is what it does for your tax rate and how much it lowers it, and they do this for the community." And somebody would say, "Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know," and that would be it,' Randall said. 'Now I say, "this is what it does for your tax break." And they say, "I don't care." I have people say, "I will pay more. Stop building these." At some point, we just cannot ignore the voice of the people.'" The second tweet is a reply from John Arnold (@johnarnold), posted 2 hours ago, with 3 replies, 0 retweets, and 9 likes. It reads: "It's true that there are some 'costs' to a community, but there are benefits as well."

Why is costs in scare quotes? Because fuck you, shut up, and stop complaining about data centers I guess

A tweet from John Arnold (@johnarnold) posted 5 hours ago, with 106 replies, 327 retweets, and 2,200 likes. The tweet reads: "The data center buildout has allowed Loudoun County to lower property tax rates by 38% since 2010, translating to average savings of about $3,400 per year for homeowners." The tweet includes a dual-axis line chart titled "Loudoun County: Data Center Square Footage vs Property Tax Rate." The x-axis spans 2010 to 2026. The left y-axis measures data center square footage in millions (0 to 45); the right y-axis measures the real property tax rate per $100 (0.0 to 1.4). A blue line representing data center square footage rises steeply from approximately 4 million square feet in 2010 to 40 million in 2026. A red line representing the property tax rate declines over the same period from approximately $1.38 per $100 in 2010 to approximately $0.82 per $100 in 2026. The two lines cross around 2022.

“Set near the Potomac River, in one of the country’s most affluent areas, George Washington University’s sprawling Northern Virginia campus seemed like an ideal place for new housing, retail and a hub for medical and scientific research. The last thing Loudoun County leaders wanted was another data center in a suburb that has long had the nation’s highest concentration of facilities that handle the world’s online traffic. Amid long-standing speculation that GWU would sell its Ashburn campus, Loudoun leaders say they had sought to engage the university in discussions about the property’s future — that is, until school officials stopped returning calls more than a year ago. Then, in an announcement that stunned Loudoun officials, GWU last week revealed that Amazon Data Services had bought the 120-acre property for $427 million.” Excerpt From “A suburb rife with data centers set to fight Amazon plan for another” Paul Schwartzman The Washington Post https://apple.news/ANiVX3eTsT1eA3VVd4qu6Hg This material may be protected by copyright.

"Billionaire Backs Data Centers" — Arnold, by spending his Enron billions — is a major force in U.S. politics/policy.

So Trump will stop enacting new legislation designed to destroy the country, codify white supremacy, and enact eugenics?

Oscar already out?!

i'd very much like to jump out of this mirror timeline 🙃

i mean, it's not really 'gambling' if you're an insider who knows what's about to happen 🫠🫠🫠

absolutely - i looked several times because i really did expect to see it as a 'market'

i don't see a kalshi market for iran ground invasion — i did look

very same

Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

oh, okay, now we're seeing the leaks too - @zeteo.com is up with this zeteo.com/p/trump-send...

(blocked somone promoting their substack. blocked someone accusing me of fear-mongering/clickbait - no i'm not going to list all of the indicators for you on this public, niche social media site)

this is trump, so you can't count on any sort of sound strategy, it's entirely possible they do this workup and then bail after spending a shitton of money and interrupting lives and and and

(and in my view, that's the best case scenario 🙃)

doesn't get much clearer than this:

This is quickly spreading around DC circles. It's sort of a distributed version of the pentagon pizza thing

A bunch of signs are currently indicating the Trump regime is going to ground-invade Iran.

coming into a two month old post to throw a slur around, okay, go fuck yourself

ty

This hospital room is incredibly humid, rain forest humid. What the fuck are we doing, trying to bring back trench foot as the latest in supplier induced demand?

This has been “thoughts from hospitals with Matthew”

This hospital room is incredibly humid, rain forest humid. What the fuck are we doing, trying to bring back trench foot as the latest in supplier induced demand?

Mystic The Fierce

THAT'S EXACTLY THE POINT YOU FUCKING DONUT

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