Ken James

When i decided I was going to live in a camper van and drive everywhere around the country, i knew I'd need a companion. It took me a while to figure out what kind of dog, but little did I know that I'd find my best friend and soul dog (corny, I know)... Today is Ryder's 2nd birthday!! 🧵

@Tgifeveryone @Zachsquatch86 @IAPolls2022 No he's against funding foreign countries period

@Zachsquatch86 @IAPolls2022 Weird when Massie is against Jewish people.

KY-04 GOP PRIMARY (crosstabs) 🟥 Massie: 50.6% (-1.8) 🟥 Gallrein: 49.4% (+1.8) —— Enthusiasm • Extreme: Massie +2 • Very: Massie +12 • Moderately: Gallrein +22 • Not at all enthusiastic: Gallrein +32 --- • No religion: Massie +42 • Evangelicals: Gallrein +19 • Another religion: Massie +38 • Protestant: Gallrein+7 • Catholic Gallrein+4 • Jewish (n=6): Massie +9 • Muslim (n=2): Gallrein +22 --- • No college: Massie +42 • College: Massie +22 --- • White: Even • Black: Massie +29 • Hispanic: Gallrein +19 • Asian: Massie +16 --- • Men: Massie +10 • Women: Gallrein +10 --- • Gen Z: Massie +63 • Millenials: Massie +37 • Gen X: Massie +6 • Boomer/Silent: Gallrein +24 @BIGDATAPOLL/@Peoples_Pundit

@AASchapiro @JG_Nuke this is in your wheel-house

At the Department of Energy, Trump officials have been making the case to loosen radiation safety standards, in part to *save* Valar Atomics money on its new reactors, as I reported last month. Meanwhile, Valar keeps raising piles of cash. propublica.org/article/trump-…

@HedgieMarkets @ByScottCullen The real reason is to create the surveillance state for the oligarchs.

🦔The justification offered to legislators is jobs and local investment, but the jobs disappear once construction ends and the local investment promises are rarely enforced. The real reason these get approved is the competitive pressure between states, which produces a race nobody can win individually.

🦔Meta's $10 billion Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will receive $3.3 billion in state and local tax breaks over 20 years, enough to fund the state's entire police budget for more than seven years. The deal exempts Meta from sales and use taxes on roughly $35 billion in GPUs. Louisiana is one of 36 states offering tax breaks for data centers, with Virginia foregoing $1.9 billion annually, Georgia $2.6 billion, and Texas jumping from $150 million to over $1 billion in a single year. Only 11 of those 36 states disclose which companies receive the breaks. Local opposition blocked 48 data center projects worth $156 billion in 2025. My Take Louisiana taxpayers are subsidizing Meta's GPU purchases at a rate exceeding what the state spends on most of its public services, and Meta is spending $135 billion on capex this year. The company does not need help getting off the ground. The justification comes down to 500 operational jobs once construction ends, which does not pencil out in any honest accounting of public investment return. The race keeps happening because states are competing against each other, and the only beneficiaries are the hyperscalers playing them off. 25 of the 36 states giving away billions refuse to disclose which companies are receiving the breaks, which removes the accountability that would normally check this kind of arrangement. Good Jobs First says the $3.3 billion estimate likely understates the true subsidy because nobody outside the deal actually knows what got promised in the contract. Local opposition blocking $156 billion in projects last year is the only mechanism currently slowing the race, and the disparity between what hyperscalers are getting and what communities receive in return is wide enough that a reckoning on these deals is coming. The only question is whether it arrives before the next 3,000 data centers get built or after. Hedgie🤗

@aHeartSoFull Haua but awesome pic nonetheless

The culprit to my misery! 🤣

You can watch the surveillance state in America being put up on real time This chart shows the amount of Flock cameras being put up from January 1st 2024 through May 2026 This is horrifying. Wake up before it too late

@tammyhoffman18 @TeslaPhx

@tammyhoffman18 Oh nice, welcome to the club! My buddy has one of those and I flew his.

This bird caught my camera's (phone) attention. I guess it's called a Great Egret? Idk but its wings and curvy stature is probably the prettiest that I've seen but this is far from my specialty. I think it's the same bird from different times of the day.

@RobinQuinninLA Yes ma'am, I took these in Oceanside 🤙

@openshutter21 Yep, an egret. We have them here near the coast in Southern California too.

@MattPaulson28 Oh wow..my bird did do that lol. Excellent photo my friend. It looks like birds are your specialty.

@openshutter21 Yes, that would be a Great Egret. The feathers can be really pretty especially when the splay them out during mating season.

America is among the most surveilled countries in the world—right next to Iran, China, and Russia. That’s unacceptable. Reform FISA. Kill the Kill Switch. No CBDC—EVER! Dismantle the Surveillance State.

@WD31737224 We do what we can my friend

@openshutter21 amazing work in finding the beauty in the dark ⚡️

The sun finally decided to make a quick appearance after being hidden behind a dark low cloud deck for a couple of days.

@Kristin_Mae It was a great challenge trying to hold still while your puppy wants to smell everything in sight lol.

@openshutter21 That’s a great challenge. Beautiful shot.

I liked how this long exposure (leaving the shutter open longer) gave a ghost water effect. I'm doing a month challenge with myself of only shooting with my phone.

@SheilaGirl70 Yep, you can keep this shutter open for 30 seconds...You would be correct with the location.

@openshutter21 I didn’t know that you could capture this type of photo with a cellphone, it’s lovely! Looks like La Jolla but I’m not certain. Looking forward to seeing more of your phone only shots.

@secretsofprivac @Pirat_Nation No amount of pay is worth that imo

@Pirat_Nation Hopefully the pay is worth it.

Meta is preparing to lay off about 8,000 workers, which is 10% of its total worldwide staff, with cuts starting around May 20. This comes despite a strong first quarter where revenue hit $56.31 billion, up 33% from last year. Leaders say the job cuts are needed to fund huge new spending on AI data centers, as the company now plans to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion this year on those projects. Workers at Meta are very unhappy, with one person telling reporters that everyone is unhappy except the top bosses. Some staff even hope to get picked for the layoffs so they can receive 16 weeks of pay plus 18 months of health coverage. New tracking software on US work laptops is adding to the bad mood because it monitors mouse movements, clicks, and takes screenshots from their emails and chats to train AI, with no way to turn it off.

@SavvyGCali If that was the case, we would've been 100% locked down and mandated to take Trumps greatest achievement according to him... Oh... you fell for that jab gift of his, didn't you.

They did this without AI data centers. Holy fucking shit… You would have been the same dumb ass opposing data centers when the internet was first starting to kick off

@Virgul35 Thanks Brittany...No Ai involved in my work, ever. It's a Xiaomi 17 ultra.

@openshutter21 Bonjour de Bretagne 🥐🤗 Où est tu pour ce cliché ? Je pense qu'avec le téléphone, beaucoup est possible, mais ça dépend du modèle, de l'IA associée... Mais le plaisir n'est pas le même. Tu as un iphone ? Belle prise en tout cas😉 Merci

@SavvyGCali Good, we don't need more surveillance centers so that the next lab leak makes it so that they completely lock us down and mandate that project warpseed.

Massie is forcing AI data centers to go through the same environmental regulations that stops all the other building lol But America first! Fucking clowns

@BlueskyLibs @EphemeralMTB @ggreenwald So pushing glyphosate immunity and ramming data centers down our throats by executive order (both of which Massie stopped) is his agenda? F that

@EphemeralMTB @ggreenwald Thank you. That people who funded Trump's re-election would also fund the ousting of the biggest obstruction to his agenda is not at all surprising. Anything about their underlying motives would be nothing more than speculative.

Whether Massie wins will determine if there's any room in the GOP for someone who questions US funding and devotion to Israel. Trump forced one out by calling her a traitor (MTG). John Hostettler (R-IN) lost his primary to an AIPAC-funded opponent. Massie is the only one left.