The county-by-county fights over water, power bills, and closed-door deals found a single banner on Saturday - carried by a woman who helped build the Tea Part
The backlash against the AI data-center build-out - which we've been tracking since it was a smattering of county fights across 28 states - staged its first coordinated day of action on Saturday: 142 protests across 42 states, from Wasilla, Alaska to Naples, Florida, organized by Humans First, the nonprofit that Tea Party veteran Amy Kremer co-founded and chairs. The crowds spanned both sides of the aisle...uniting a MAGA stalwart in a 'faith, family, freedom' T-shirt in New Jersey, a first-time activist in Texas, and a left-leaning organizer in California's Imperial Valley.
The fight looked like Kenilworth, New Jersey. Residents of the 8,500-person borough gathered outside the municipal court at mid-morning with drums, plastic horns, and sidewalk chalk to protest the $1.8 billion CoreWeave AI data center their planning board approved in May 2025 on the former Merck campus - a project that has since drawn more than 12,000 petition signatures against it, several thousand more names than the town has people. The woman in the "faith, family, freedom" T-shirt marched beside neighbors holding "Build community, not data centers" signs. When heavy rain arrived later in the day, they pulled on ponchos, shared umbrellas, and kept marching. One sign, caught by Business Insider's photographer on the scene: "You think this is pressure? Wait 'til there's no water pressure."
Texas, the country's hottest data-center market, hosted the most rallies - 18 - with Georgia at 11, California at eight, and Pennsylvania, Florida, and Indiana at seven apiece. In Imperial Valley, where a proposed facility could pull 260 million gallons a year from the Colorado River, Ivan DelSol, 54, told Reuters that around 50 people turned out in 100-degree heat. "It's dystopian that you would use this much fresh water for AI," he said. Organizers released no headcounts; turnout ran below expectations in some rural areas and in Atlanta, where about a dozen showed - most of them, a volunteer there said, driving in from the smaller Georgia towns where the biggest data centers are going up.
Kremer is a founding figure of the Tea Party movement who went on to found Women for Trump, and an organizer of the January 6, 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol riot (she neither planned nor took part in the riot itself). She has spent months calling data centers the defining fight of her lifetime, warning the technology could threaten humanity itself, and she is open about running the old playbook: grassroots pressure, town by town, aimed at both parties.
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36 Hours to Decide War or Peace in the Gulf.
US Bombed a civilian nuclear power plant under construction which had been approved by the UN and the IAEA.
That was despite a deadline for peace demanded by China and Iran.
Expect a severe reaction by Iran if peace does not breakout. Jordan will be a target. Also Bahrain and UAE.
And all US military bases. The new Ayatollah is not anxious for peace as the US nears bankruptcy.
The Gulf countries including Kuwait are in Islamabad begging for an end to the war.
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Judge Dismisses DOJ's New Mexico Voter Data Request
The court found the DOJ's demand letter held no legal basis.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-dismisses-dojs-new-mexico-voter-data-request
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Mamdani's New York: West Side Homeless Camp Stretching 12 Blocks Now Allegedly Stealing City Power
The camp now stretches roughly 12 blocks, with residents and workers saying conditions have worsened despite repeated complaints.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/west-side-nyc-homeless-camp-now-allegedly-stealing-city-power
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The Amateurs Are Buying Tech While The Pros—and The Insiders—Are Selling
The Great Tech Hand-Off.
https://www.zerohedge.com/the-market-ear/amateurs-are-buying-tech-while-pros-and-insiders-are-selling
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Tropical Threat Emerges In Gulf Of America With US Refineries In Potential Crosshairs
"Continued gradual development is expected, and a tropical depression is likely to form later today..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/tropical-threat-emerges-gulf-america-us-refineries-potential-crosshairs
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Taylor Farms Announces Recall Of Lettuce Shipped To 27 States Over Cyclospora Risk
The CDC said an outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce across five states has caused thousands in the United States to be sickened...
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/taylor-farms-announces-recall-lettuce-shipped-27-states-over-cyclospora-risk
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Second rare cancer strain emerges as Southern California cluster grows
A wealthy California enclave blighted by a cluster of extremely rare childhood cancers is now grappling with a second uncommon diagnosis.
Jessica Keetch, from Orange County, revealed her daughter Haven, 18, lost her leg after battling synovial sarcoma, an aggressive soft tissue cancer that often appears as a lump on the leg.
See also Now that all the wealth is leaving California, Gavin Newsom is calling for a NATIONAL Wealth Tax
The disease is extremely rare in the United States, impacting less than 1,000 people across the country every year.
It comes as the number of children affected by another rare type of cancer, called Ewing sarcoma, has risen to a dozen in Ladera Ranch.
(Affects children. Could it generated by the Covid Clot Shots?)
https://citizenwatchreport.com/second-rare-cancer-strain-emerges-as-southern-california-cluster-grows/#more-228512
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Now that all the wealth is leaving California, Gavin Newsom is calling for a NATIONAL Wealth Tax
https://twitter.com/i/status/2070690777911513587 Watch on X
Or watch here: https://citizenwatchreport.com/now-that-all-the-wealth-is-leaving-california-gavin-newsom-is-calling-for-a-national-wealth-tax/
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Walmart slashes prices on thousands of items due to demand weakness while small businesses raise prices amid inflation squeeze.
Small businesses feel the pressure from persistent inflation more than larger corps. They have less pricing power, thinner margins, and less ability to pass on costs.
Rising costs destroy fixed incomes fast.
Inflation from higher oil will hit then fed will have to raise rates at least once. That will crash the markets.
Walmart cutting prices across groceries, household goods, and lawn mowers.
Retailers slash prices broadly when customers start saying no to spending.
Walmart already flagged tax refund money ran dry and gasoline stayed expensive.
Savings remain razor thin for many households.
Ties to recent labor data showing plunging participation and likely negative payrolls.
Flat yield curve and plunging forward rates plus TIPS break evens signal slowdown ahead.
At the same time, 21% of US small business owners cited inflation as their single most important problem in June — highest since October 2024 and up +10 points over the last 12 months.
38% of small firms raised average selling prices in June — highest since January 2023, 4th consecutive monthly increase, and more than double the long-term average of ~14%.
Small businesses have less pricing power and thinner margins than big corporations.
Rising costs hit hiring, investment, and overall economic growth.
(Walmart also discontinued the sprouted multi-grain cinnamon bread I loved. Why? The girl stocking
the shelves said they discontinued because it cost too much. Customers can's afford it.)
https://citizenwatchreport.com/walmart-slashes-prices-on-thousands-of-items-due-to-demand-weakness-while-small-businesses-raise-prices-amid-inflation-squeeze/
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"90% of Autism": A Duke Scientist Names the One Drug — And It's Not the Vaccine (Tylenol)
(Tylenol only harmful to susceptible patients. Worst time to take tylenol is during delivery.)
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Even Microsoft couldn't make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Last year, Microsoft’s 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $900, it was easy to recommend to anyone wanting MacBook Air–like build quality and battery life on Windows — I even convinced my sister to buy one on sale.
But that was last year. This year, thanks to RAMageddon, that same laptop costs $950, and now that price gets you half as much RAM — just 8GB. It’s the same great hardware on the outside, but it’s not the same laptop on the inside.
It’s been a long time since we tested a Windows laptop with so little RAM. We’ve been saying for years that 8GB isn’t enough. But this is Microsoft’s laptop, and Windows 11 is Microsoft’s operating system. Maybe it’ll be good enough.
It’s not.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/966937/microsoft-surface-laptop-13-inch-8gb-ram-2026-review
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Ukraine confirms it will produce 10 million drones in 2026, rising to 20 million, as it signs a massive $1.1 billion 'drone deal' with the EU
:https://www.techradar.com/pro/ukraine-confirms-it-will-produce-10-million-drones-in-2026-rising-to-20-million-as-it-signs-a-massive-usd1-1-billion-drone-deal-with-the-eu
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Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional
Jeffrey Sovern faces 25 charges after Virginia Police say he destroyed 13 Flock license plate cameras. Supporters are paying his legal bills.
https://www.military.com/air-force-engineer-accused-of-cutting-down-13-police-cameras-says-they-are-unconstitutional
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The Strange Death of James V. Forrestal, the First US Secretary of Defense
I have always enjoyed reading a wide variety of books on somewhat arcane subjects. Many are triggered by references from other books, and they form a sort of chain reaction.
Around 10 years ago, I read Webster Griffin Tarpley’s book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, my first exposure to alternative 9/11 theories of what truly happened in 2001.
Tarpley’s book led me to David Ray Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11.
I subsequently read perhaps 30 books on the subject such as Kevin Ryan’s Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects, Chris Bollyn’s Solving 9/11: The Deception That Changed the World, Jim Fetzer’s The 9/11 Conspiracy – the Scamming of America, and more.
Griffin’s New Pearl Harbor further led me to Peter Dale Scott’s The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War as well as his books on the drug trade, particularly his 2010 book American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan and the 2003 book Drugs, Oil, and Wars: the US in Afghanistan, Columbia, and Indochina.
https://www.unz.com/bhua/the-strange-death-of-james-v-forrestal-the-first-us-secretary-of-defense/
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China bans AI Chat Bot Romance due to a sharply declining birth rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngvfDjqBXRY
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