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Monterey Park takes landmark vote on banning data centers
Residents in the city of Monterey Park will be the first in the nation to vote on a permanent ban on data centers Tuesday. If approved, Measure NDC would prohibit data centers within the city limits and could only be overturned by another vote. Yard signs saying “No Data Center” in English and Chinese with…
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MAGA world revolts as Trump’s ex-national security adviser exposed as agent for Putin ally
Some of Donald Trump’s most loyal online supporters are pushing back against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, after a report revealed he has registered as a foreign agent for a Bosnian Serb entity led by one of Vladimir Putin’s closest European allies. Scott McMahan, a conservative journalist who writes under…
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The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop
Americans are wary of AI in general, and they are especially suspicious of the AI data centers that are popping up across the country like enormous mushrooms. A majority do not want a new data center built in their town. Across the country, community groups have organized to protest individual projects, and activists have successfully…
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Their names were on the ballot — but not on the rolls of registered voters
Their names were on the ballot, but several candidates in Tuesday’s primary election were surprised to learn that they couldn’t vote — even for themselves — at polling places in person this week. A new state law keeps the names and contact information of political candidates confidential — and thus off the voter rolls that…
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Culture war conservative hit with instant fact check on CNN by ex-Trump ambassador
A culture war conservative got an abrupt fact check on foreign policy from President Donald Trump’s former ambassador to the European Union. Anti-trans crusader Terry Schilling appeared Tuesday on “CNN This Morning,” where he joined a panel discussion on the U.S. president’s reportedly profane confrontation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the bombing campaign…
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Raphael Lets Loose
Plenty of faces keep you company in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry”—saints and sinners, popes and poets, ladies in posh frocks or nothing at all—but the most disarming is the first to greet you, that of a boy in a fun hat. With a long, straight nose; soft, bright eyes; and…
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Why a loss for Hilton would be a win for Trump
If the last few weeks have shown us anything, it’s that the gubernatorial primary is an unexpectedly close race among a trio unlikely leaders: MAGA Republican Steve Hilton, and Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer. Though Trump endorsed Hilton, a former Fox News host, a Hilton loss may be just what Trump wants — more…
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Senate GOP leader ‘practically begging’ Trump to dump his ‘toxic fixation’: report
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is “practically begging” the White House to abandon President Donald Trump’s “fixation on personal projects,” with one in particular “growing more toxic” and potentially jeopardizing a key priority for Republicans as the midterm elections draw near, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday. Republican lawmakers are hoping to pass a reconciliation bill…
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Sicko NYPD cops allegedly mercilessly harassed deaf Asian department techie: ‘Sex and a threesome’
A deaf Asian NYPD techie endured a twisted two-year campaign of sick sexual and racial harassment from a pair of male cops who tried to coax her into seamy threesomes, a bombshell new lawsuit claims. Civilian computer worker Megan Kwan — who relies on hearing aids and lip-reading to communicate — says in Manhattan court…
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A Viral YouTube Show About an Unhinged AI Is Hitting Theaters. It’s a Big Test for Hollywood
The fandom of The Amazing Digital Circus has had a rough few weeks on the internet. Ever since Glitch Productions, the independent animation studio behind the web series, announced in early April that the finale would be released in theaters rather than on YouTube, fans have been simultaneously speculating about how the show might end…