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Potentially unpopular opinion in @CyFairISD , but the K and L system needs to go. Perhaps if we streamlined the earlier courses, Ss would actually explore things they’re interested in without damaging their GPA. Also, maybe more diverse groups would enroll in AP and DC classes.

Restaurant pricing about to jump. I’ve worked at Mom & Pop places that relied on RD & I’ve worked at corporate places like STK that rely on Sysco. Mom & Pop cannot sustain with Sysco prices & oftentimes don’t need that much bulk. Sysco supplies public schools.

🚨 : Two 17-year-olds have created a pen-sized filter capable of removing up to 94% of microplastics from water using ultrasonic waves, a simple, inexpensive, and surprisingly effective technology. The result was so shocking that they won $50,000 at the ISEF, the world's largest science competition for young people. THESE ARE INFLUENCES THAT REALLY MATTER.

Your alarm goes off at 6 AM. There's an email from "Oracle Leadership." You've never gotten a message from that sender before. It says your job is gone, today is your last day, and severance details will arrive by DocuSign. By the time you finish reading, your company laptop is already locked. This happened to up to 30,000 Oracle employees this morning. Oracle reported $17.2 billion in revenue last quarter, its best in 15 years. And it still fired nearly 1 in 5 of its people. The stock went up 6% today. Oracle owes over $108 billion. The company signed a $156 billion deal to build AI data centers over five years, mostly for OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT). That requires buying roughly 3 million specialized computer chips. Two years ago, Oracle spent $6.9 billion a year on this kind of construction. This year it's $50 billion. The 30,000 people who got that email are funding the gap. Investment bank TD Cowen estimates the layoffs will free up $8 to $10 billion in cash flow, money going straight into chips and construction. Oracle filed a $2.1 billion restructuring plan with regulators in March, and nearly $1 billion had already been spent before the emails went out. Lenders are getting nervous. The cost to insure Oracle's debt against default has spiked to levels last seen during the 2009 financial crisis. Barclays downgraded Oracle's debt in November, warning the company is one step from "junk" status, the point where lenders consider you a serious default risk. Some banks have stopped lending to Oracle for these projects altogether. The gamble gets worse. CNBC reported on March 9 that OpenAI, Oracle's biggest customer for all of this, is already looking at newer, faster chips from Nvidia. Oracle ordered the current generation and spent billions building out a massive Texas facility. OpenAI may not fully expand into it. The chips improve faster than the buildings go up. Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder, owns 41% of the company. In September 2025, Oracle's stock hit $346, and Ellison briefly became the richest person alive at $393 billion. Today, the stock sits around $146. His fortune has dropped to roughly $201 billion in six months. Oracle is spending borrowed money to build data centers that could be outdated before they're finished, for a customer already shopping for newer equipment. 30,000 people woke up to a 6 AM email because that's what it costs to fund a $156 billion bet when your lenders are running out of patience.

Kind of wild no one is talking about the fact that *as of today* oil companies can kill literally any animal in the Gulf of Mexico no matter how endangered

An OBAMA APPOINTED judge just saved NPR and PBS. That means your vote from 2012 is helping stop corruption and protect free speech FOURTEEN years later. This is why you vote

Teachers don't quit because they don't care. They quit because they're asked to do the work of five professionals for the pay of less than one. And then they're told they didn't do enough.

Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, the United States spent that money on its people. They'd have a much different country.

A REALLY unknown fact is that 1 in 100 breast cancer cases that are diagnosed are diagnosed in men. We do mammograms on men all the time. This policy change affects tens of thousands of veterans. The list of reasons to be disgusted by this administration has grown into a book at this point.

Delta airplane engine explodes after takeoff—flying from Brazil to Atlanta. U.S. FAA is gov't authority to last certify this plane safe to fly. Trump Administration got rid of 1200 FAA workers by firing or buyout—including maintenance mechanics. "We're going to die!" kids cry. "The plane is on fire!" passengers yell out. Pilots declared an emergency, kept the climb low, and returned safely to São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport—with no injured passengers. Brazilian government agency, CENIPA, has now taken charge of the official safety investigation and post-incident inspection of the aircraft.

BREAKING: Amazon is set to pay $20.5 milion in the settlement of a class action suit over pollution in Eastern Oregon. While the tech giant denies its data centers worsen nitrate contamination in Morrow County groundwater, its money will fund construction of private wells and public water-treatment projects. Our story, in partnership with @FERNnews: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

“As a thank you for your service, we will be deporting your parents.” This is vile.

Your city is about to give billions in tax breaks to a building with 30 employees. And they'll tell you it's "economic development." Let me be clear. I'm a nerd. I work with this stuff every single day. I use data centers. I understand their value. And I'm telling you this expansion is a problem. Data centers are popping up everywhere. Your local government is rolling out the red carpet for them with massive tax exemptions that last up to 40 years. Here's what they're getting. 37 states have passed laws giving data centers sales tax exemptions on everything they buy. 16 of those states have handed out nearly $6 billion in exemptions over the last five years. Here's what you're getting. A Microsoft data center in Illinois got $38 million in tax breaks and created 20 jobs. Twenty. A $1.4 billion data center in Liberty, Missouri, got $200 million in tax breaks last week. It will create 30 jobs. One county in New York offered $801 million in tax breaks for 125 jobs. That's $6.4 million per job. Now here's the part that should piss you off. A single data center uses as much electricity as 25,000 to 100,000 homes. Meta is building one in Louisiana that will use more power than the entire city of New Orleans. Another one planned in Wyoming will use more electricity than every home in the state combined. In Virginia, areas with heavy data center concentration saw electricity prices jump 267% over the past five years. One guy's electric bill went from $100 to $281 in a single month. And water? A large data center uses up to 5 million gallons of water a day. That's as much as a city of 50,000 people. Data centers in Texas alone are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water this year. Meanwhile, they tell you to take shorter showers and conserve during the summer. They tell you the power grid can't handle everyone running their AC at the same time. But a building full of servers that drinks more water than your entire town and uses more electricity than your entire state? Here's your tax break. Welcome to the neighborhood. 78% of Americans are concerned that these data centers will raise their energy bills. Community opposition has already blocked or delayed $98 billion in data center projects. This isn't a left or right issue. This is your community issue. Show up to your city council meetings. Push back before they break ground. Because once they're in, they're in for 40 years. Nobody is coming to save your town but you. They Both Suck.

I think the hardest part of the current political climate is realizing how many people are actually just evil. Not misinformed or uneducated... just openly and happily enjoying other people's suffering.

I hope the Good and Pretti families are paying attention to this. And their lawyers, too. Because I’m not sure there’s not some civil exposure here for Miller.

BREAKING: CBP just tweaked its map again to remove Big Bend Ranch State Park from immediate wall construction plans. This doesn't mean they cancelled the wall, but it shows just how much they want to defuse the powerful bipartisan backlash spreading across West Texas. (1/3)

@GovHotWheels_TX Talarico is everything Texas was before you and the cronies that own you salted our earth with your hate and ignorance. He's not even your opponent in this election.

James Talarico embodies everything Texas is not. We will not allow the Talarico Takeover of Texas.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

Well, folks. I have some bittersweet news.

Fantastic story today in the New York Times. Across the board, Texans are fighting like hell to preserve access to their sacred river.