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Burning River Brigade is a Northeast Ohio community group using public art and peaceful visibility to connect neighbors, defend dignity, and encourage civic action.

06/01/2026

Scientists Confirm The Slow Removal Of A Flex Tape Band-Aid Still Less Cruel Than This Administration.

Kevin O'Leary wants to build one of the largest AI data centers on earth. 7.5 gigawatts, 40,000 acres, its own gas plant...
05/30/2026

Kevin O'Leary wants to build one of the largest AI data centers on earth. 7.5 gigawatts, 40,000 acres, its own gas plant powerful enough to outproduce the entire state of Utah's average electricity use.

He's putting it in rural Utah, near the Great Salt Lake, in the middle of a drought, roughly 2,000 miles from his mansion in Miami.

Comedian Walter Masterson had a modest proposal. If it's such a great deal, bring it to Miami. Knock on doors in O'Leary's own neighborhood and ask the tech crowd if THEY want a 9-gigawatt gas plant humming next to their seawall.

Funny how the people who cheer loudest for data centers always want them built somewhere else.

Box Elder County approved the project on May 4, before the environmental and traffic studies were finished. Utah's own development authority cut the tax rate it could have charged from 6% down to 0.5% to win the bidding war, and admitted it rushed the whole thing because "it's a competition."

Support your local data center. Just not in Miami, apparently.

Watch Masterson's full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsXOXn-BQpA

📷 Walter Masterson

FARMS FEED US, DATA CENTERS BLEED US.We held this message across the street from where the developer, State Representati...
05/29/2026

FARMS FEED US, DATA CENTERS BLEED US.

We held this message across the street from where the developer, State Representative Heidi Workman, Portage County Commissioners, and Team NEO ran their "open house" to try to sell the idea of a hyperscale data center to the local residents. Residents went in. They came out unimpressed. Everyone else stood outside. We collected petition signatures from cars driving by.

Here's what's confirmed, on camera, by Bitdeer's own executive Paul Hanson on News 5:

Geis Companies has a deal to sell Bitdeer 257 acres for a data center campus. Three buildings to start, growing to 15 over five years. 150 megawatts of power at the start, and possibly 600 more megawatts over time. Bitdeer says it's for AI.

Bitdeer is a global cryptocurrency mining company. Their other Northeast Ohio site, in Massillon, is 26 buildings of crypto mining, set to finish this year.

Trustee Ron Kukowski said on camera what's really at stake: constituents shouldn't have to pay for the infrastructure upgrades a project like this would require. Shalersville's data center moratorium runs through November. Until then is the window.

In Mansfield, Georgia, a Meta data center drove water usage up by 200 million gallons a year. Nearby residents reported contaminated wells and 24/7 noise pollution from cooling fans. In Bessemer, Alabama, a single hyperscale project would require one-third of the local utility's total water supply. A study from Arizona State University found that data centers can raise air temperatures in surrounding neighborhoods by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit. A separate Cambridge preprint study estimated heat-island effects can extend up to 6 miles from a facility. Cooling systems use biocides and chemicals that have polluted water in communities across the country. We don't have all the details of this particular proposed data center, but the patterns are consistent: a careless disregard for the neighbors and the environment.

None of this is hypothetical. It's documented. It's happening now to people whose elected officials promised them the same things Bitdeer is promising us.

It's not just here, either. A Gallup poll released two weeks ago found 70 percent of Americans oppose a data center being built near them, with 48 percent strongly opposed. More Americans would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center.

The next public meeting is Tuesday, June 16, 5:30 PM, at Shalersville Village Hall. Mark your calendars.

Kid Rock should be on the Freedom 250 lineup. The guy whose 2001 song "Cool Daddy Cool" includes the line "Young ladies,...
05/29/2026

Kid Rock should be on the Freedom 250 lineup. The guy whose 2001 song "Cool Daddy Cool" includes the line "Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory, but I say it's mandatory." That's not out of context. That's not a misquote. That's the actual recorded lyric, released on Atlantic Records, on the soundtrack of a PG-rated movie called Osmosis Jones that was marketed to families and starred Bill Murray and Chris Rock. He performs it in the film as part of a cartoon band of germs called Kidney Rock. A song bragging about wanting them underage, released alongside a major-studio family film, in 2001.

Five of the nine originally announced Freedom 250 performers have already cancelled in less than 48 hours: Martina McBride, Morris Day & The Time, Young MC, The Commodores, and Bret Michaels. The original members of Milli Vanilli also publicly disowned the booking, saying the version going on under their name is a "tribute band with no association vocally or musically to our sound or songs." C+C Music Factory's co-creator Robert Clivilles also publicly stepped away, saying his bandmate's decision to perform doesn't reflect his views. The artists with real reputations to protect ran for the door once they figured out what they'd signed onto. McBride said she was told it was a nonpartisan celebration of all 50 states and that turned out to be "misleading." Michaels cited safety threats and called the event "much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of."

So they're short. They need someone who fits. A guy who writes lyrics about wanting them underage, then calls it statutory-but-actually-mandatory, then puts the song alongside a family movie would be perfect for a Trump-backed 250th birthday celebration headlined by a President named in documents from the Epstein case who still hasn't released the rest of them in full as the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires. The aesthetic matches. The values match. The character matches.

A cage match on the South Lawn. A vanity bill with the President's face on it. And a guy who put "I like 'em underage" in a song marketed alongside a family film as the entertainment. That's not a slippery slope, that's the actual brand they're building for the country's birthday.

Release the Epstein files, in full, as the EFTA requires. Believe survivors. And ask yourself how a major label put a song about underage girls on a family-movie soundtrack in 2001 and nobody stopped it.

💸 I'm so glad they're putting Trump's face on a new $250 bill instead of lowering the price of groceries🏠 Instead of mak...
05/29/2026

💸 I'm so glad they're putting Trump's face on a new $250 bill instead of lowering the price of groceries
🏠 Instead of making homeownership affordable for working families
🏥 Instead of lowering my monthly health insurance premium
💊 Instead of capping prescription drug costs
⛽ Instead of doing a damn thing about gas at $4.56 a gallon
👶 Instead of paid family leave or universal childcare
🎓 Instead of student loan relief
💵 Instead of raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 where it's been stuck since 2009
🛠️ Instead of those higher-paying jobs we were promised
🚸 Instead of a single new school, scholarship, or library
🌉 Instead of fixing our roads, bridges, water systems
🏚️ Instead of doing anything about the homelessness crisis
👴 Instead of protecting Social Security and Medicare
🪖 Instead of bringing our troops home from a war he started
🌽 Instead of helping farmers crushed by tariffs and fertilizer costs
📉 Instead of addressing record credit card debt and collapsing consumer savings
🗳️ Instead of literally any of the things he campaigned on

A grown man so insecure he needs his face on the money. A guy who measures his worth in zeros and signatures because he never built anything that stood on its own. He couldn't run a university without paying $25 million to settle the fraud suit, couldn't run a casino without bankrupting it, can't get through a cabinet meeting without being told he's the smartest man in the room. So now he wants to be in your wallet, in your register drawer, in the offering plate, every single day.

That's not strength. That's the saddest, neediest insecurity I've ever seen in a man who calls himself a leader. Imagine being so terrified people will forget you that you have to print your own face onto the currency. Putin doesn't do it, the ruble shows Russian cities. Xi doesn't do it, the yuan still has Mao on it, half a century after he died. North Korea is actively taking the dead Kims off their highest-value notes. Even the dictators he admires are above this.

It's not a tribute to America's 250th birthday. It's a man begging not to be forgotten, on paper that won't be worth the ink it's printed on.

Get a rubber stamp. EPSTEIN FILES. FELON. LIAR. Pick your favorite. Every $250 bill that crosses your hand goes back into circulation with a reminder. It's not a crime as long as the bill's still usable, and frankly, it'd be the most American thing anyone's done with currency in a long time.

05/28/2026

Idiocracy wasn't a comedy. It was a documentary that showed up 500 years early.

In the movie, President Camacho, a former pro wrestler, hypes up the man who's going to fix everything, fix the price of food, fix the dead crops and make them grow again. That man is named "Not Sure." An average nobody from 500 years earlier who counts as the smartest man alive only because everyone around him got dumber.

Swap in a real name and the movie reads like an RNC speech, with another very mediocre man being hailed as a genius.

Then cut to Hulk Hogan at that same podium, ripping his shirt and promising Trumpamania will run wild and make us all champions again.

The satire was meant to be a warning, not a casting call. Now they're building a UFC cage on the South Lawn of the White House for a fight on June 14, billed as part of America's 250th birthday.

The line between the documentary and the parody is gone. We are living in a dystopian hellhole.

05/27/2026

Trump is a documented abuser of women. He said so himself.

On Howard Stern in 2005, Donald Trump bragged about walking into beauty pageant dressing rooms while contestants were undressed, telling Stern, "I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant, and therefore I'm inspecting it." He described it as one of the perks of ownership.

Separately, four women from the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant told BuzzFeed in 2016 that Trump walked in on them while they were changing. Some were as young as 15. Mariah Billado, then Miss Vermont Teen USA, said Trump told them, "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before." A fifth contestant came forward after BuzzFeed published.

From the Miss USA pageant, Tasha Dixon (Miss Arizona 2001) and Bridget Sullivan (Miss New Hampshire 2010) have both described the same pattern, on the record, to CBS and other outlets.

This is the President of the United States. The audio is real. The named witnesses are real. The behavior was bragged about by the man himself. None of this is in dispute. Believe women. Survivors deserve justice and accountability, not silence. Release the Epstein files, in full, as the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires.

05/27/2026

🚨BREAKING: The Governor has paused Ohio's corporate data center tax giveaway. Our collective advocacy is WORKING.

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