Ken Bazinet

Having to fight for the pursuit of happiness is one of the great but necessary ironies of our lifetimes, but having people who will fight for our pursuit of happiness is one of its great blessings. #Resist #Organize #StayStrong

Elizabeth Powel asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Yeah, well. Keep it we have and keep it we will. #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

Totally believable. Netanyahu would attack Iran because it's Monday, so with his job on the line, absolutely. Trump is no hero -- he agreed to attack Iran with Netanyahu when it counted most, and it created an unnecessary economic calamity far from over in the U.S.

"The failure to prevent the October 7 attacks spurred (Gadi) Eisenkot to challenge Netanyahu," writes Barak Ravid. "Eisenkot, who joined Netanyahu's emergency cabinet shortly after the attacks, lost his son during the war. He later lost two of his nephews in the war."

"After spending heavily on AI infrastructure and reducing headcount this year, Microsoft is offering remaining employees a chance to leave, testing whether voluntary departures can cut costs," writes Ashley Stewart, noting Microsoft's previous buyout offer only reduced some layoffs. #AIJobCuts

Voters making a choice is kinda the whole point of elections

Failed to stop inflation? That’s letting Trump off the hook. Trump CAUSED price increases. His stupid war is why fuel prices are sky-high. Everything else costs more because of that.

An Ohio village won’t have to consider the proposal from a new data center after putting a moratorium in place, according to a unanimous ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/26/o...

Hypothetical 1-gigawatt data center in Abilene, TX, would cost near $30 billion, Bloomberg estimates, using in-house and Cushman & Wakefield data. For perspective, Big Dig cost about $24 billion in today’s dollars and new rail tunnel being built under the Hudson about $17 billion, The Globe noted.

"The diverse youth movement’s message that rampant corruption, cronyism and organized crime under Vucic were eating away at the country resonated widely with voters," writes Jovana Gec. #MovementElection

Republicans and their masters counted on Democrats not being able to unite. They didn't think we would see past our personal agendas and notice that they were taking away the three biggest tools for protecting our rights: democracy, the Constitution and freedom. People noticed. #Unite #Vote

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"Dr. Andrews has fiercely opposed data center developments. She has called for a two-year moratorium on new projects and nicknamed Ms. Graham 'Data Center Darline,'" wrote Theodore Schleifer and Emily Davies. #DataCenters #ElectricBills #WaterSupply #Pollution #PropertyValue 👎 #Vote

Communities can take on corporate power even when the political establishment is aligned against them. The industry entered this fight with tremendous resources. Organized people still forced change.

Sorry to respond to a meme, but this is in part a local news issue. Nobody's covering zoning board and city council meetings until it's way too late. Obviously, government capture by rich guys and corrupt local officials is the main reason, but the prophylactic is local news.

Fascists around the world are building cross-country partnerships. Any competent pro-democracy effort at home would do well to partner with and learn from pro-democracy movements abroad. So congrats and appreciation to the democratic movement leaders in Hungary, Serbia, and Brazil!!!

“Today is a historic day,” Lula declared to a sea of elated supporters, The Guardian reported. “Democracy always, dictatorship never again. Democracy always, fascism never again.” #GoodPlan

“Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot," Sen. Lisa Murkowski posted, CNN reported. "The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit."

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

“We need dollar drops,” Scott Bates, who owns Bates Fuel in Houlton, Maine, told CNN, while refreshing an app on his phone that tracks minute-by-minute oil prices. “We’re getting cent drops.” #IranWar #HomeHeatingOil #SusieTheEnabler

"Both top-shelf reporting and top officials in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, have said that Musk made this decision on his own. That would be treason. The traditional way to figure out the truth of such a matter is with a trial." prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate remained above $100 per barrel, despite the dip. Price of WTI crude is up from less than $60 per barrel at the end of December last year, Oilprice.com noted. #IranWar #Houthis #EndlessWars

WaPo - An AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers quickly broke into Anthropic.

I’m sick of headlines treating these forays as something done independently. No. Anthropic created it. Anthropic did this. And they should be held to account, not some supposedly autonomous AI www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

AI companies face an array of legal threats, including harms caused directly by their models, potential damage from bad actors who use them and copyright matters that remain far from settled, Axios reported. Liability could also extend to firms that use AI, Axios noted. #RogueAI #Damages #LawyerUp

"Anthropic has previously been in the administration's crosshairs for inadequately disclosing AI incidents. Now it's Georgia's turn," write Maria Curi and Alex Isenstadt. #RogueAI

Breaking News: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro to stay president of Brazil, halting the right’s march in Latin America. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/47GKOQJ

Today is going to turn out to be a very bad election day for the fascists. #Serbia #Brazil

Mainers keep this in mind when you vote - Collins backed GOP policies & legislation that kill rural hospitals youtube.com/shorts/Gj4Ak...

“It’s really stunning to see the level of opposition we’ve been seeing to data centers. It really has dramatically changed,” McKenzie Wilson, strategist at Blue Rose Research, told Politico. “It’s very rare in public opinion polling to see voters move so negatively on an issue so quickly.” #AI

Machado announced her arrival on social media, writing "I am here. With you." n.pr/4zJqYA4

After 13 yrs pushing an extreme agenda, it’s time for #PA10 to say bye-bye to Scott Perry. Perry tells us that we “just need to be patient” as he votes to drive up prices on everything. Central PA VOTE Janelle Stelson For Congress 🗳️ #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

We are far worse off than we were before Trump and Susan Collins got us into this war. You know it, and we know it. Susan refuses to tell Mainers the truth.

Maryland 1st Congressional District Democratic nominee Dan Schwartz says he saw a surge in donations after last week's outbursts by Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) at a group of reporters

Growing up in the St. John Valley, French heritage was all around me. But so was a long history of animosity toward French people and the French language...

"The Republican disagreements over the ad show that major figures in the party can still become divided over the rules and red lines of political warfare in the Trump era," wrote Reid J. Epstein and Campbell Robertson.

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Machines switching votes, fewer polling places and long ballots can all be defeated by voting early.

If you live in: Florida Michigan New Jersey New York Early voting starts TODAY! Make your plan to vote for pro-worker candidates up and down the ballot: Betterinaunion.org/vote

“It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the U.S. interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” Joel Riddle, who resigned as CEO of Polar LNG after learning Russians were behind the deal, told The Times. #Treachery #Corruption

A friend posted: "Some metaphors speak for themselves." Pretty sure this one is screeching!"

More than 96,000 people in Finland signed a citizens’ initiative on the government’s kansalaisaloite.fi platform calling for tighter control of data centers, including a “data center fee" and a fee that compensates communities for "environmental damage and resource consumption,” Fortune reported.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I expect lots of lower level staff and reporters will face the brunt of this while Allister Heath writes columns about how anyone trying to resist a takeover by our AI overlords is suffering from the woke brain disease

El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"