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Friday Signpost: Hightower & Tavis Smiley on the Fight for Fundamental Fairness (opens the original)
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Last week, Hightower had the absolute pleasure of appearing on ’s live radio talk show—a lot of great laughs, and a lot of good ground covered! From the Texas races, to America at 250, to the idea that fundamental fairness is a sense all humans share, Tavis and Hightower went deep. Tavis and his team have given us permission to share it with you here, and we’re so grateful—he’s also just started his own Substack newsletter, and we encourage you to subscribe to one of the greats of American media
The People Are Fighting Data Centers, But the Government Is Fighting the People (opens the original)
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To cope with the eminent danger posed by today’s arrogant, profiteering AI billionaires – Donald Trump says that the only thing America needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT!”Well, yes – let’s try to find one of those!The president we have now is quite the opposite. Take the politically explosive issue of massive AI data centers suddenly intruding into thousands of communities across America, sucking up people’s land, water, electricity, and democratic control. Even red-state, MAGA c
Friday Signpost: The Interview that Trump, Paxton and Their Corporate Cronies Don’t Want You to See (opens the original)
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Here we are again.Texas has a competitive Senate race with James Talarico leading by 4 points this week, and Republicans are running scared. Remember when Trump’s FCC threatened Stephen Colbert if CBS aired his interview with Talarico? Well, they’re doing it again with Jim
The President Goes Bull-Goose Crazy In Support of AI (opens the original)
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At a time when communities across America are literally under siege by secretive data center powers intent on seizing our land, water, electric grid, and even our local democracy – that’s when you’re grateful to have a president who’ll stand with you, fighting for the people’s rights!Let’s hope we can get one those sometime soon.Instead, we’re now stuck with a wholly corporatized, pusillanimous president who is waving the flag of surrender at AI data center invaders. Worse, America’s self-procla
Billionaires Say America’s Founding Value of Egalitarianism Is Not For Them (opens the original)
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Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents, including this nugget about egalitarianism: “Nobody is better than you,” they said, “and you’re no better than anybody else.”That’s the ethical underpinning for “We’re all in this together” – it’s what Thomas Jefferson enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and it’s what Lincoln consecrated in his Gettysburg address; it’s in our own pledge of allegiance to “liberty and justice for all;” it’s what the Statue of Liberty
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