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  • Fury as massive Georgia data center uses 30 million gallons of water through secret 'unbilled' pipes while residents suffer low pressure

    05/11/2026 3:41:48 AM PDT · by DFG · 4 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/10/2026 | Melissa Koenig
    Georgia residents were left outraged when they discovered a massive data center had been guzzling up nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. The issue began last year when residents in the affluent subdivision of Annelise Park in Fayetteville noticed their water pressure was unusually low, Politico reports. When the county utility then investigated the problem, officials discovered that developer Quality Technology Services (QTS) had installed two industrial-scale water hookups to the approximately 6.2 million square foot data center campus - located about 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One of the water connections appeared to have...
  • Hong Kong helped bankroll Iran’s terror network, bombshell report claims

    05/11/2026 3:28:41 AM PDT · by DFG · 3 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/11/2026 | Ariel Zilber
    Hong Kong has become a critical financial and logistical lifeline for Iran’s regime — helping move illicit oil, weapons technology and surveillance tools that fuel Tehran’s military machine and domestic repression, according to a bombshell report set for release Monday. The 26-page report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, titled “Oil, Arms, and Cash: How Hong Kong Fuels the Iranian Regime,” alleges that dozens of Hong Kong-based companies have helped Iran evade Western sanctions while funneling billions of dollars into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its terror proxies. “Simply put, without Hong Kong’s...
  • Polls Give Massie Lead Over MAGA Primary Challenger

    05/11/2026 3:09:47 AM PDT · by RandFan · 6 replies
    newsmax ^ | May 11 | newsmax
    Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., heads into the May 19 Republican primary in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District favored over Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in both public polling and prediction markets, even as President Donald Trump and allied super PACs press a costly effort to oust the seven-term incumbent. Two April surveys put Massie ahead. A Big Data Poll survey released on April 8, conducted as part of the firm's crowdfunded Public Polling Project and not sponsored by any campaign, showed Massie leading 52.4%-47.6% after undecided voters were asked who they leaned toward. The poll interviewed 433 likely Republican primary voters on...
  • TOMORROW! Primaries in Nebraska and West Viginia

    05/11/2026 3:09:16 AM PDT · by cotton1706
    Prepare to vote!
  • Raffensperger tests the GOP’s future in Georgia

    05/11/2026 2:54:08 AM PDT · by RandFan · 13 replies
    politico ^ | May 11 | politico
    VININGS, Ga. — Brad Raffensperger is fighting to save his political future as MAGA takes hold of the Georgia GOP. The secretary of state rose to national prominence by defying President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but he is carefully trying to avoid the anti-Trump lane while he runs for governor. Instead, he’s running an old-school campaign aimed at an old-school Republican Party: He’s holding low-key events compared with his GOP opponents’ flashier rallies, and he’s focusing on bread-and-butter issues, rather than harping on election security. At one Atlanta-area rotary club gathering in April, Raffensperger was all...
  • DAVID MARCUS: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax (only 4.71 years left)

    05/11/2026 2:47:10 AM PDT · by Libloather · 2 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/10/26 | David Marcus
    For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down. "Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore," blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    05/11/2026 2:20:50 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 5 replies
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  • Netanyahu: Iran war ‘not over’ until enriched uranium is removed | Watch

    05/11/2026 1:37:29 AM PDT · by McGruff · 5 replies
    ynet Nerws ^ | May 10, 2026
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war with Iran is “not over,” warning that Tehran still has highly enriched uranium, active enrichment sites, proxy forces and ballistic missile capabilities despite U.S. and Israeli efforts to degrade them. In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes airing Sunday, Netanyahu told chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett that Iran’s nuclear material must be removed and its enrichment facilities dismantled. “I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over,” Netanyahu said, referring to the war. “There’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There are still...
  • Today's Toons 5/11/26

    05/11/2026 1:14:22 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 1 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 5/11/26 | pookie18
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  • [Catholic Caucus Devotional] My Catholic Life! Catholic Daily Reflections: Giving Bold Witness - Monday, May 11, 2026

    05/10/2026 10:46:35 PM PDT · by fidelis · 8 replies
    My Catholic Life! (YouTube) ^ | Monday, May 11, 2026 | My Catholic Life!
    Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.” John 15:26–27The Last Supper Discourse spans from Chapters 13–17 in John’s Gospel, making it Jesus’ longest continuous teaching in the Gospels. While Chapter 13 begins with Jesus washing the disciples’ feet and teaching humility, it also introduces the promise of the Holy Spirit, the Advocate. Today’s Gospel begins a deeper teaching on...
  • Over Half Million Migrants Waiting in Libya to Cross Into Europe, Warns Greek Immigration Minister

    05/10/2026 9:28:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | May 10, 2026 | Kurt Zindulka
    The Greek government has warned that there are over half a million migrants waiting in Libya to cross the Mediterranean and land in Europe, sparking concerns of another migrant crisis. Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said this week that Athens estimates there are approximately 550,000 migrants waiting in Libya, the African hub, for the opportunity to cross to Europe. Among the policies enacted by Athens to stem the tide of illegals has been the erection of a 41-kilometre (25-mile) wall along the Turkish border, which has previously been weaponised by the Islamist Erdogan government in Ankara. Pelvris said that Athens...
  • We Know How the Hantavirus Outbreak Occurred on That Cruise Ship

    05/10/2026 9:17:16 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Townhall ^ | 05/10/2026 | Matt Vespa
    The hantavirus cruise continues to stay on everyone’s mind as many of us prepare for the possibility of experts enforcing mask mandates and quarantine protocols. I don’t think it will come to that, but those who disembarked from a cruise ship that left Argentina last April are being monitored for exposure to a rare strain of the pathogen, which can be transmitted from person to person. Hantavirus “Patient Zero” has been identified as Leo Schilperoord, a 70-year-old Dutch ornithologist who visited a landfill in Argentina, containing rodents potentially carrying the Andes virus strain. pic.twitter.com/6EHWy2RH5u— Interesting AF (@interesting_aIl) May 9, 2026Usually,...
  • Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate Finds

    05/10/2026 9:15:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 24 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 9, 2026 | Paul Stone
    About 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine through the end of 2025, according to a new estimate, underscoring the high cost that President Vladimir V. Putin is willing to bear to pursue his battlefield aims. The figure was released on Saturday — the day of Russia’s annual May 9 parade celebrating victory over Germany in World War II — by the exiled Russian media outlets Meduza and Mediazona. The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides. In the more than four years since...
  • White House Official: Bombshell New 2020 Election Truth About to Be Revealed

    05/10/2026 9:04:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/10/2026 | Ward Clark
    In recent years, most of us who follow politics have become pretty jaded. Outrageous things happen, outrageous acts are perpetrated, usually by the left, and nothing ever seems to be done about it. That's changing some now, with the Trump Department of Justice looking to bring some people to account for some of the more egregious acts.Now, on Friday, the Chief of Protocol for the U.S. government, Monica Crowley, has claimed that the administration will soon produce proof that President Trump actually won the 2020 election. That would have to be pretty solid evidence for anything to come from it,...
  • Here's Iran's Reported Response on Deal, and Trump's Reply Is Blunt

    05/10/2026 8:58:53 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/10/2026 | Nick Arama
    The Iranian regime has finally sent back its response to the U.S. on the question of a peace deal. But with Iran, you have to know going in that they are giving you something that looks like movement, while having a whole lot of "gaps" in the meantime, as the Wall Street Journal phrased it. I'll put in the proviso that until the U.S. officially confirms details on anything that was in the proposal, this is a report on what it supposedly says. According to the WSJ, the response doesn't "resolve the U.S. demand for commitments in advance on Iran's...
  • Trump and Netanyahu Say Iran War Is Not Over

    05/10/2026 8:51:59 PM PDT · by McGruff · 11 replies
    NY Times ^ | May 10, 2026 | Ephrat Livni
    President Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in separate interviews on Sunday that the war against Iran was not over, seeming to undermine messaging from the Trump administration last week that the conflict had run its course. The interviews further compounded confusion about a military campaign marked by shifting goals and messaging since the American-Israeli attacks on Iran began in late February. Mr. Trump, in an interview released by the syndicated news show “Full Measure,” said Iran had been defeated militarily. Yet when asked if it was accurate to say that combat operations were “over and done,” he...
  • Fujisawa flashpoint: A mosque project stokes nativist fears (Japan)

    05/10/2026 8:50:59 PM PDT · by aimhigh · 4 replies
    The Japan Times ^ | 05/04/2026 | Simon Scott and Ben Stubbings
    Fujisawa, Kanagawa Pref. – A mosque construction project in Fujisawa, a city of 440,000 about an hour south of Tokyo, has become a focal point for debate over how Japanese communities are adapting to a growing Muslim population.Sri Lankan businessman Mohamed Khaleel, 54, says the idea of building a mosque in his adopted hometown emerged over a decade ago among the local Muslim community. The closest big mosque to the city center, Ebina Masjid, is 20 kilometers away and has been struggling to serve the increasing Muslim population in the area. . . . Hirofumi Tanada, a professor emeritus at...
  • How a Shortage of Electricians Could Derail the AI Boom

    05/10/2026 8:33:21 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Barron's ^ | 05/10/2026 | Avi Saizman
    The artificial-intelligence boom was just getting past its last bottleneck. Now, another one is popping up—electricians. A year ago, a shortage of natural gas turbines was the biggest limiting factor behind the AI boom, because data centers couldn’t build enough power plants to get electricity to those data centers. But turbine-makers have been ramping up production. Today, a shortage of contractors with electrical expertise is the most pressing problem. Rob Gaudette, CEO of power producer NRG, laments the shortage of “qualified construction crews. Because if you have a turbine and no humans, you just have a turbine.” GE Vernova, the...
  • Moderna working on a hantavirus vaccine after global pandemic fears sparked

    05/10/2026 8:11:01 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 45 replies
    MSN ^ | May 8, 2026 | Alison Bloom
    The recent outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has renewed attention on the efforts to develop a vaccine for the virus. … Work on the vaccine began 15 years ago by the founders of EnsiliTech, a biotech company based in the U.K. "We looked at hantavirus and saw it was pretty neglected," said Matt Slade, a company co-founder and its chief of staff. "There wasn't really any work in the sector." The EnsiliTech vaccine, which is being developed to fight the virus, uses messenger RNA technology, similar to that used in COVID-19 shots. The hantaan virus, common in East...
  • A Private Call Reveals Democrats’ Desperation Over Tossing of Map

    05/10/2026 7:47:58 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 22 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 10, 2026 | Reid J. Epstein
    Democrats are struggling to respond to a major redistricting setback in Virginia, with some party leaders discussing an audacious and possibly far-fetched idea for trying to restore a congressional map voided by the court but showing little indication they have a clear plan. During a private discussion on Saturday that included Democratic House members from Virginia and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, the lawmakers vented anger at their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map and discussed a bank-shot proposal to...