@GregAbbott_TX We don't need more than the whole country of China!
Are you stupid, stop the building, they're taking our resources and infrastructure!

China has an estimated 365 to 449 data centers total.
Texas currently has between 400 and 460 data centers,
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with at least 140 to 248 additional facilities actively planned or proposed across the state.

@threadreaderapp unroll please

PRESS RELEASE

OGUN STATE POLICE COMMAND CONFIRMS STATEWIDE SECURITY STABILITY, DEBUNKS FALSE BANDITRY ALERTS IN OTA AND IFO AXES, CLARIFIES ARREST AND TRANSFER OF 38 FOREIGN NATIONALS TO IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES

The Ogun State Police Command wishes to categorically assure the

general public that the entire state remains safe, calm, and secure, while also debunking a series of false and misleading reports currently circulating on social media alleging bandit attacks on schools and communities within the Ota and Ifo axes of Ogun State, as well as

claims that suspected bandits were arrested in Atan-Ota.

The Command states unequivocally that there has been no bandit attack, kidnapping incident, terrorist activity, or any form of security breach anywhere in Ogun State, including Oluke Community High School, Sango Ota High

Most college athletes have no idea how the money actually works now.

Two systems. Two checks. Two completely different sets of rules.

And the athletes who understand both are making three times what their teammates are making.

Here's the breakdown. 🧵👇

Here's what every college athlete needs to understand right now 📋

As of July 1, 2025 there are two completely separate ways a college athlete gets paid.

System 1 — Revenue Sharing. Your school pays you directly. Up to $20.5 million split across the entire roster. Goes through university payroll. Grows to $33 million by 2035.

System 2 — NIL. Third parties pay you. Brand deals. Collectives. Endorsements. Appearances. Separate from your school. Separate rules. Separate compliance.

Two systems running simultaneously.

Understanding the difference between them is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars over a college career. 💰

Here's the stat that should change how every athlete thinks about their situation 📊

The average Division I athlete earns $28,400 per year.

The average Power 4 starting quarterback earns $2 million+.

Same sport. Same system. Same rules.

Completely different outcomes.

The difference is not talent alone.

It's understanding what you're actually worth —

And having someone in your corner who knows how to get it. 🎯

245,000 acres of ancient volcanic canyon.
Wild & Scenic river.
Petroglyphs older than memory.
Wildlife corridors that have never
known a fence.

A U.S. Senator stood at the edge
of that gorge last week and told the crowd:
"We could lose this one."

The administration's "Unleash American Energy" order has it in the crosshairs. The BLM rangers who managed it?
Fired.

The management plan conservationists fought for? Protested as inadequate
before the ink dried.

The Congressional timeline?
Before July.

The local fly shop owner who's lived there his whole life said it plainly:
"Our entire way of life would be in jeopardy."

This isn't hypothetical.
The reconciliation vote is weeks away.

When they call it "energy development" — what exactly do you imagine happening to a place like this?

#DemsUnited

→ Sen. Heinrich stood at the Rio Grande Gorge and said out loud what most officials won't — that we could actually lose this. His words, his crowd, his warning:

heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/in-th…

🗞️ The Santa Fe New Mexican explains why this review is fundamentally different from 2017 — broader, more secretive, zero public input so far. If you want to understand what's actually at stake legally and historically, this is the one to read:

santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new…

A man saw his phone storage was ''full'' after 18 months but he barely had any photos.

He had deleted apps. Cleared messages. Removed downloads. The warning kept coming back every two weeks:

"Storage Almost Full.''

He went to the Apple Store ready to buy a new iPhone.

The employee at the Genius Bar held up a hand: "Before you spend a thousand dollars, let me show you something."

She opened Settings → General → iPhone Storage and shook her head.

"There are 7 things eating your storage right now. Apple ships every iPhone with all of them turned on. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's go through them."

Here's what she showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵

The first thing she pointed at: "System Data."

His System Data alone was using 24 GB.

He had no idea what System Data even was. Most iPhone users don't.

She explained: it's a catch-all category Apple uses for cached files, logs, temporary downloads, Safari residue, leftover update files, and dozens of other invisible things that accumulate over time.

Apple gives you no way to directly view or manage what's inside it.

The fix isn't perfect, but it works:

1. Restart the phone (clears short-term caches)
2. Settings → Safari → Clear History and Website Data
3. Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Offload unused apps
4. In extreme cases: back up and restore the phone (this nukes most of it)

He restarted the phone first. System Data dropped from 24 GB to 14 GB instantly.

10 GB recovered in 30 seconds.

Then she opened the Messages section. His jaw dropped.

Messages was using 18 GB.

He thought he had deleted his old conversations. He hadn't.

Here's what Apple doesn't make obvious: every photo, video, GIF, and audio message ever sent to you over iMessage is stored on your device forever — unless you explicitly tell it not to.

That funny meme your friend sent in 2019? Still on your phone. Every group chat photo from 5 years ago? Still there.

She walked him through the fix:

1. Settings → Messages → Keep Messages → change from "Forever" to 30 Days or 1 Year
2. Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Messages → Review Large Attachments → delete what you don't need

He went from 18 GB to 3 GB in Messages alone.

15 more gigabytes back.

🚨 BAYER-MONSANTO JUST DUPED MAHA INTO SUPPORTING ITS TAKEOVER OF THE AMERICAN CLOTHING INDUSTRY 🚨

Turns out, "wear more cotton" is a SCHEME to sell more glyphosate!

USDA's "100% cotton" campaign is the FINAL PHASE of a decades-long chemical industry effort to infiltrate every closet in America.

Here's how they fooled MAHA into co-signing it:
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Bayer ALMOST has total control of America’s cotton.

They’ve been secretly controlling the marketing of “cotton” for decades.

93% of all cotton is now Bayer’s GMO variety.

But even that's not enough. So they hatched a plan. 👇

Remember the "Fabric of Our Lives" campaign? Backed by Cotton Incorporated? That was a marketing play by Bayer CropScience, Corteva, Dow/Phytogen, and Monsanto.

Bayer has sponsored + controlled The Cotton Foundation for 26+ consecutive years.

Their sponsored body, the National Cotton Council, joined 10 other ag groups to push chemical immunity at the Supreme Court.

Jennifer Garner is 54 and just overhauled her training.

After years of chasing strength, she realised she'd ignored the one thing that actually predicts how long you live.

Here's what she changed, and the full routine behind it:

The fix was mobility.

She'd built serious strength and stamina but let her range of motion go. So recently she added yoga and gyrotonics, the low-impact work she'd skipped for years.

Here's why that matters.

Sit on the floor, then stand up using as little support as you can. Across 2,002 adults, every point on that sit-to-rise test meant 21% better survival odds.

Mobility is one of the clearest predictors of how long you'll live.

Thread with excerpts from Richard Pipes' Property and Freedom (1999). Pipes is a historian of Russia, and the thesis of the book is that private property, as something distinct and protected from public power and sovereignty, is indispensable to human freedom.

One of the fundamental differences between Russia and the rest of Europe lay in the weak development of private property; one of the major themes of Western philosophical history is the benefits and drawbacks of private property; Russian philosophers unanimously condemn it.

Freedom, as used by Pipes, includes political freedom, legal freedom, economic freedom, and personal rights. It does not include the right to public support ("freedom from want"); such 'rights' are at best a moral claim and at worst an unearned privilege.

Conan and Cthulhu are both parts in the same fictional universe.

Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (who created Conan) were regular correspondents, and put references to each other's work into their stories. This is also why Conan met eldritch horrors frequently. Howard even created Solomon Kane, a grim Puritan who mainly (not exclusively) battled the evil supernatural.

In addition, Robert E. Howard wrote several full-on Lovecraftian horror stories, such as The Black Stone.
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It's a pity that Conan never actually took on Cthulhu because that would be awesome. But really Cthulhu was a minor part of Lovecraft's writing (he only had one story where Big C appears). We DO have The Pool of the Black One, Tower of the Elephant, and The Slithering Shadow (and a bunch more) which all feature very Lovecraftian enemies.

But here's the thing, even as one of the world's premier boosters of Cthulhu I don't want to dismiss Conan vs. Cthulhu as a walkover. Yes I know Cthulhu is cosmically lethal and can't be sliced up by Conan's sword. But Conan's no fool - he's actually really smart and he's fought other entities who were far stronger than he.

How do you think the story could go?
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Then there's the question of what about other heroes should be set to fight Cthulhu. In 1980 Batman and Hawkman took on what seemed to be Cthulhu. But the writers totally wussed out and ended the story with the alien horrors being benign beings and all the terrible visions and animated suits of armor and stuff were just "attempts to communicate". Sure buddy. But at least the aliens were Cthulhu-ish.

So that one was dumb but I bet you know of or could imagine better.

This manpower sweep problem is actually a lot worse for the Russians than Western military intelligence is capable of giving credit.

It takes a Russian labor gang about 3 hours to load 16 tons of wooden boxes w/o a convenient box car to truck line up. (below upper right)

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https://twitter.com/shashj/status/2061761153584214434

Because the Russian Army doesn't use pallets, forklifts, telehandlers nor D-rings anywhere in their supply chain to strap down pallet loads.

You need massive numbers of conscripts to load and unload from train cars to trucks & vice versa.

See⬇️
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https://x.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1569543677080666112

This has a whole lot of knock on effects in how the non-mechanized Russian supply system works in the age of GMLRS & drones.

You see here a commercial to tactical truck swap of wooden boxes in the Russian Army operational/strategic depths.

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Jew Hate frequently spikes during times of profound societal stress, economic collapse, or political instability. When a society or civilization begins to fracture, its leaders or populace often seek a unifying scapegoat to blame for their complex problems.

Because Jewish communities have historically existed as a distinct minority within various empires and nations (from ancient Rome to medieval Europe to 20th-century Germany), they have repeatedly been cast into this role.

Mainstream scholars of Jew Hate, i.e. historian Robert Wistrich, call it "the longest hatred." It operates less like a comprehensive conspiracy theory that adapts to every era. In religious eras, framed as theological; in era of nationalism, framed as racial or political.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been asked to write something again about the issue of non-citizens voting, so here it is.

I believe in the law, and in the U.S. Constitution as being the basis of all federal law.
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And as such, only citizens of the USA should be allowed to vote in federal elections.

Fact: All references to the vote in the Constitution of the USA restrict the right to vote to citizens of the USA.

Can't get it more simple than that.
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Now, the only argument that remains is how can this right of citizenship be protected. How can we make sure the vote is limited to citizens?

We can do that in two ways.
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