CE UA Inspectah, in Detroit

The life of American municipal water systems; for context, each repair sleeve is about $10k-$15k to perform including labor. This is a 30ft section of Water-Main.

Hard to explain to people how the "Rust Belt" was basically just New England #2 and for a brief period the most "modern" and "developed" part of the country This map highlights it quite well The Great Lakes had an insane grip on the imagination of New Englanders

ICE agents in Minnesota staged a car breakdown to lure Jesus Flores out of his house so they could arrest and detain him. Our government is weaponizing our shared humanity in order to hunt people down.

@DE_Gifford @Boenau It applies to everything in terms of the puritanical justice system in practice which is what we have in the outcome of that but most other examples. Loss of licensure if you kill someone potentially as a doctor, engineer. Retraining with absences of neglect or malintent.

@Boenau We should have a law that if you take a life, even by a “accident“ with a car, reparations to the family must be made. I understand the arguments about intent as we define murder by degrees, but no punishment sets a low bar for driver responsibility.

People often think it's unjust to punish a killer as a killer when the killing weapon is a car. 🤦‍♂️

We are divided that’s the problem‼️

This reminds me of an early @DistillSocial video where they caught @BetsyDeVos saying a factory floor at a John Deere plant or a cow pasture is just as good as a classroom for high schoolers. Meanwhile, @DrOz wants to push the retirement age back to never.

Google’s single data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of fresh water in 2024. One facility. One year. Enough to supply every home in Iowa for five days. The reason they need fresh water is pure chemistry. Evaporative cooling towers work by running water over hot surfaces and letting it evaporate. 80% of the water a data center pulls in literally vanishes into the atmosphere as steam. You can’t recycle steam. The remaining 20% becomes concentrated mineral waste. Calcium, magnesium, silica. Every cycle through the cooling loop makes the water more corrosive. After enough passes, it starts clogging pumps and eating through heat exchangers. Multi-million dollar equipment destroyed by limescale. Recycled wastewater carries even more of these minerals from the start. You could treat it, but less than 1% of U.S. water is recycled. Most cities don’t even have separate pipes to deliver reclaimed water to industrial customers. A data center wanting to use recycled water would essentially need to build its own treatment plant on site. Meanwhile, municipal potable water costs almost nothing. So they just drink from the tap. Across all its data centers, Google used 8.1 billion gallons in 2024, nearly double what it used three years earlier. The company claims its water stewardship projects “replenished” 4.5 billion gallons. Those projects aren’t even in the same watersheds where they’re pulling the water. Same playbook as carbon offsets. Consume locally, offset globally, call it sustainable. The trajectory is the real story. U.S. data center water consumption could quadruple by 2028. That’s 68 billion gallons for cooling alone, before the 211 billion gallons consumed indirectly through electricity generation. Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are being built in regions already facing water scarcity. Nobody’s asking why they use fresh water. They’re asking what happens to the towns sharing a water main with a facility that drinks like 50,000 people showed up overnight.

@AttyStevenBrown @LCyrocki I'm going to test my foia formatting. Blame this petty evil on all those fucking grade school MLA format error grade hits.

If folks want to REALLY have fun, as a citizen, FOIA all records from DHS subagencies citing to you as an individual. They’ll unlawfully delay the processing, so you can sue and collect attorneys fees. If they want to keep records of citizens, citizens should have a right to know what records they have. #FunWithFOIA

Social media causing less sex, less marriage, less kids

@BarbaraComstock Don’t forget when Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows swore that this rusty single-wide mobile home on Scaly Mountain NC was his residence when he voted in 2020.

Whaaaa???

🚨 UNREAL: An American citizen was followed by an unmarked car, boxed in, dragged from her vehicle, injured, and left in a parking lot after agents found her passport. She was on her way to pay rent and buy a birthday cake for her grandson. Torn rotator cuff. Concussion. Bruised ribs. No help. No explanation. This is happening to ordinary people. This is not “enforcement.” This is lawless violence.

I can't disparage this commitment, the premise or folly as there is none. We were a proper country, trains ran mostly on time and fucking everywhere.

Grr. We love Dinosaur Park. Don't let them build a giant data center anywhere near there.

@YoursINegritude I sent you a dm with my other contact info like ehhh-mail this app is never reliable.

@Detroit_Al how are you and family doing? I am going to DM you this evening. Wondering if you might have a good recommendation for a tradesperson in our area.

@bheiligenthal Will look for it.

@Detroit_Al Shooting you a DM 🤙🏼

The next 5 years are critical for the remaining stock deteriorating. I've advanced my career, capability since my bid for the Highland Towers Restoration also about 5 years ago. I, myself (and a team, I'm no Dan Gilbert) hope to be able to save at least 1 in my endeavors.

@bheiligenthal Would love to grab coffee or zoom. I have a list of 140 properties in various grades of; good better best condition.

@Detroit_Al Do you have your shortlist somewhere? Would definitely get behind making this happen

@GeauxGabrielle Sigh a city without a charter or constitution. 🤕

Meanwhile in Nepal

As regular Americans veil on such structural fabric like Statehood, State & exhibit A Here; Nationalization of assets. By the people, for the people. Gonna be be interesting.

The common kestrel has the ability to use headwinds to hover perfectly in one spot in the air