Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (Tim Craig/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026
From boing boing dot net:
Canada is fast-tracking citizenship for #trans Americans at risk
https://boingboing.net/2026/05/13/canada-is-fast-…
One Thirty Over Eighty: How America Lowered the Hypertension Line While Europe Held Steady
A single edit to a single table turned tens of millions of healthy Americans into patients overnight....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/14/one-
Reid Hoffman and Lever for Change award $9M to CalMatters to scale its Digital Democracy tools, which give access to legislative data and use AI for analysis (Lever for Change)
https://leverforchange.org/article/press-release/trust-in-americ…
Trump landed in Beijing last night with Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, and 15 other American CEOs in tow
— the most powerful collection of corporate America ever to board Air Force One
— while at home Republicans scrambled to explain away his statement that he does not think about Americans’ financial situation.
Mike Johnson, asked directly whether that was the right message, said he did not know the context in which Trump made that comment.
The context was a p…
2026 NFL Schedule Release: What We're Watching For In Every America's Game Of The Week https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-schedule-release-what-were-watching-every-americas-game-week
American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor in an all-cash deal worth $700M; TRIP jumps 6% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/american-express-buy…
When asked what it means to be a good news consumer, 20% of US adults mention being discerning, 17% following the news, 13% getting news from quality sources (Elisa Shearer/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
it’s funny how goyim think American Jews and Israeli Jews are the same ethnicity when
“clearly ethnically Israeli guy who doesn’t yet realize how out of place he is in this American Jewish community”
is slowly becoming a fucking stock character in American Jewish comedy
https://bsky.app/profi…
Trump is bringing a lot of his Christian nationalist boosters to the Mall this weekend
to "rededicate" America as one nation under God,
part of his hijacking of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.