Marc B. Geoffries
Marc B. Geoffries
@marcbryongeoffries.bsky.social
Self sustaining scallop farmer.
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Stop calling us racist they say. thehill.com/homenews/sta...
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My town took the trophy for people who don’t give a damn for pedestrians. bethesdamagazine.com/2026/05/26/s...
Marilyn "show me the money" Balcombe. Unreal. CC: @ethanformd.com
“Roughly $10 million per year per data center. So, if we have five data centers, that would be $50 million, she said. “That’s a lot of money when we think about how to balance our budget.” - Marilyn Balcombe
A 360-megawatt data center is proposed for Dickerson — in MD-06, the district I'm running to represent. Who's the tenant? They won't say. Who's funding it? You're not allowed to know. I spent weeks reading the filings to get to the bottom of what's going on. 🧵
"I need to house and feed my family" backlash. The know the outcome but they're going to do it anyway.
Wired reports that the FBI and DHS are now monitoring a new class of threats described as “anti-tech violent extremism” resulting from the backlash against AI and data centers. It’s unclear if this is a real threat or a political move by the White House to target opponents of AI.
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Growing to detest this man and his money over people "balance" between the economy and public health. There is more to life than money and growth. People choose this side of the Potomac because it's not NOVA. www.route-fifty.com/infrastructu...
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None of them compares to Montgomery County in the way that the leaders here tell those they allegedly serve, “We know better than you.” montgomeryperspective.com/2022/12/15/t...
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At 10% they are clearing a whopping $0.88 minus taxes and gas. Two hours of free work and 1.5 hour commute.
Gas is currently $5.09 in my area. Minimum wage in PA is $7.25 You gotta work 45 mins for a gallon of gas to drive to your minimum wage job. How much longer before people just stop showing up because it's unaffordable to do so?
Just buy bottled water is going to be the new 'pick yourself up by the bootstraps'. Book it.
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan. Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The downstream impact on the local economy is massive. Not only MD federal/contractor jobs, a reduction in federal tax revenue plus a decline in household spending and circulation of the dollar among local business.
NIH. FDA. HHS. USDA. The agencies being hollowed out by DOGE aren't bureaucratic abstractions — they're Maryland jobs, Maryland research, Maryland public health infrastructure. And Congress has largely watched it happen. That ends when MD-06 sends me to DC.