timothy faust 🇵🇸
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timothy faust 🇵🇸
@Project_TBONE
To create a little flower is the labour of ages. personal account: correct opinions are mine; incorrect opinions are ironic. Moonlighting as a policy director.
beautiful milwaukee, wi Beigetreten Mayıs 2008
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This is a question about LLMs, energy, and the environment. It’s also a question about how states operate altogether. It’s a foundational question of the economy👇 x.com/justin_policy/…
justin lee@justin_policy
@admcrlsn She wants to stem races-to-the-bottom in state economic dev, maximize labor power in AI adoption, strengthen the fiscal health of UI, and channel public capital, including data center tax revenues, into infrastructure projects, labor-led upskilling, and resilient enterprises
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Data centers, land use, energy infrastructure; francescahong.com/control-alt-de…
Labor rights within and beyond AI: francescahong.com/labor-shift
Civil and consumer rights:
francescahong.com/firewall
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This is the sauce. Fran’s campaign isn’t just a flat data center moratorium — it’s the ONLY statewide campaign (in the country?) that’s thought through data center and AI issues and how they relate to land use, economic development, labor politics, and civil and consumer rights.
justin lee@justin_policy
@admcrlsn To add, I think you’re missing here how the Hong campaign’s policy treats data centers and AI policy as entangled problems of labor and economic development. She’s developing an approach for a mid-sized state to guide social and economic AI adjustment for the public benefit
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Coastal politics temporarily embarrassed blogger commentariat STUNNED to discover that top Midwestern gubernatorial candidate is leading on issue lots of people who live here care about
Francesca Hong For Governor@FrancescaHongWI
The @nytimes came to Wisconsin to ask whether someone like me can win here. They found a Trump voter in Wisconsin Rapids with a "No Data Center" sign in his yard, and my sign right next to it.
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@DanRShafer That is to say: while data centers are one of the central issues of the race, Francesca’s position emerges naturally from her democratic socialism — the same is true for everyone else
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@DanRShafer I might suggest that the campaigns’ data center positions, including but not exclusively Fran’s, are natural extensions of their ideological positions and view of politics.
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People are underrating this. More than any momentum democratic socialism might be having, I think data center politics are the No. 1 driving factor in her ascent in the primary. That no one else in the six-candidate Democratic field is backing a data center moratorium is insane.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
#WisconsinGovernor NYT: Jeff Hanneman, a Republican who voted for President Trump, decided to cast his vote in the governor’s race for Francesca Hong in part because she wants to pause data center construction.
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There are a few independent media outfits that disproportionately contribute to important, high-quality reporting in Wisconsin. Recombobulation Area is one of them!
Dan Shafer@DanRShafer
NEW: Since The Recombobulation Area is back to being fully independent... and this weekend is Independence Day ... and it's also the 30th anniversary of the release of the "Independence Day," we thought we'd offer up a sale. Let's recombobulate: therecombobulationarea.com/p/today-we-cel…
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UPDATE: Mitch McConnell has gone to hell
and back to tear this country apart.
The Kentucky senator is not longer with us
despite his claim to be an American patriot
McConnell has gone on to meet his Maker's
Mark corporate lobbyists instead of addressing the needs of Kentuckians
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I’m hearing that Mitch McConnell is dead
wrong about the most important questions of our time.
The former Senate leader passed a way
of regressive obstruction off as governance.
Mitch McConnell tragically lost his life
savings at the bank of national integrity
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@taste_of_tbone I don’t even know who you are; yet as a complete stranger, I still feel the urge to respond to this with an absolutely exhausted “…Timothy.”
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timothy faust 🇵🇸 retweetet
NYT: A Big Gamble for the Left: Can Socialism Appeal in a Swing State?
Jeff Hanneman was infuriated to learn about a proposal this spring to build a 220-acre data center on the site of a shuttered paper mill near his house in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Worried that the project would pollute the tranquil waters of the nearby Wisconsin River, Mr. Hanneman, 43, planted a “No Data Center” sign in his yard.
And, although he’s a Republican who voted for President Trump, he decided to support a democratic socialist who has called for a pause in data center construction and is running for governor.
“I really don’t think or care about the label,” said Mr. Hanneman, who planted a “Francesca Hong for Governor” yard sign next to the other one. “If she was voted into office, she could do a lot of good things for our state.”
nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/…
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@chiweethedog When my wife and I were on different work schedules I loved staying up late and cooking for her. Once this campaign is over I'm setting up several "Week of [X] Cuisine"s so I can make nice things for her
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@taste_of_tbone I want people to eat out less and save money while eating good at home. I love to eat out but only do so when traveling and it’s so fun and I get to try new stuff.
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my current favorite youtube food channel (SaucyMarco) I like his economical and simple straightforward approach. SaucyMarco demystifies a lot of Mexican food like Mexican red rice, beans, and various salsas. I’ve learned a lot and it’s a new channel with lots of great recipes.
Roy Drones Jr@chiweethedog
Knorr bouillon is the backbone of Mexican kitchens
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like many people, i have had my summer changed by Uniqlo linen pants
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who else is talking like this in this race?
The Nation@thenation
DSA-backed Wisconsin State Representative Francesca Hong is running for governor—and she could win. bit.ly/4y2QJLP
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a relatively subtle metaphor, as far as conservative media goes
Aaron Parnas@AaronParnas
The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.
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As I recall, Carles was revealed to be some guy who worked at a car dealership in Texas. An anonymous, unconnected random guy becoming cultural force as a hobby is nostalgic and prescient at once.
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I consider Grimes to be a sort of Peter Thiel figure
Harry@lexaprotools
Some thoughts about @hipsterrunoff and the legend of carles
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@RubyRedAthena I've couchsurfed before, but I didn't pay $77/night for it, is the difference
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@taste_of_tbone This is how Airbnb started though, we’re back to first principles
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on this day: a Facebook memory of an airbnb I did not pursue. $77/night.
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