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"Power consolidates into fewer and fewer hands," he said. "If there's not accountability now, it's going to be way harder to get it in the future." Saturday night in Eau Claire, hundreds of neighbors gathered to talk about the data centers moving into Wisconsin — and comedian @charlieberens used the moment to ask a bigger question: who actually gets to decide what comes next? Organized by grassroots groups Great Lakes Neighbors United and GrassRoots Organizing Western Wisconsin.
Kraft’s set for Week 1. Musgrave’s next in line. After that? Packers’ tight end depth gets thin fast. 🧀 Green Bay wants its TEs 6’4”+ — so who actually steps up behind the top two? #packers #gopackgo
“It’s not America’s Dairyland — it’s America’s data land.” That’s Charlie Berens Saturday night in Eau Claire, in front of hundreds of Wisconsinites. His warning: *”We are being mined for our data…”* The event was organized by neighbors — grassroots groups GLNU and GROWW — for people who say they’re being left out of decisions about data centers in their own communities. @charlieberens : ”You just do the best you can for other people. Everyone in this room, they have something to add.” What’s the #datacenter situation where you live?
Every corporation is chartered by a state — and states set the rules. Hawaii just rewrote theirs: no corporate money in elections. Montana is collecting signatures to follow. A dozen states are watching. #ThomHartmann #DarkMoney #CitizensUnited #Hawaii #Democracy
Rick Smith grew up in a housing project on the west side of Cleveland. When the neighbor got a #union job at Ford, even an eight-year-old could see what changed: food at the end of the month, better clothes, secondhand bikes for the kids — and eventually, a move out of the neighborhood. New research from the Center for American Progress finds the typical union household holds about twice the #wealth of a non-union household — roughly $250,000 more. #unionstrong
Amery. Port Washington. Small Wisconsin towns are asking big questions about data centers — and they’re not waiting for permission to get answers. On Nite Lite, organizer Blaine Halverson told Pete and Greg how it usually starts: agreements first, public hearings later. His message — small towns don’t have to face billion-dollar lawyers alone. 🗓️ Uniting West Wisconsin — Saturday, June 13, Chippewa Valley.
$500B from Medicare. $900B from Medicaid. Ten years. That’s the CBO score on the bill Derrick Van Orden voted for. In WI-03, Mayo Clinic Osseo is on the at-risk list. Next ER: 24 miles. Asked about it in Sparta, he said, “I just wish they knew what they were talking about.” A paramedic. A retired doctor. They did.
The grocery math for new parents in Wisconsin might be getting harder. 🍎 The U.S. House passed a spending bill cutting WIC by ~$200 million. For breastfeeding moms, monthly fruit + veggie benefits could fall from ~$52 to $13. For little ones, $26 to $10. Who relies on it here? More than a quarter of all Wisconsin kids under five — and the largest group of users statewide are white women in Milwaukee, Madison, and Marathon counties. The kicker: every $1 in WIC returns about $2.48 in future savings. Tell us what you’re seeing in your community. 👇
President Trump flew into Wisconsin farm country Friday. The visit was about tariffs and gas prices. Outside, hundreds showed up to be heard. Inside Custer Farms: a 45-minute roundtable on the economy, border security, the war with Iran and the midterms. Outside: about 300 near the airport, more than 150 at the event.
Quick — which candidate for Wisconsin governor was a former CDC intelligence officer who was on the first plane into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? That one stumped the room on this morning’s Gubernatorial Match Game. Brian’s guess — Mandela Barnes — didn’t land, and Jamie took the point. The answer, straight from her campaign site: Sara Rodriguez.
9 in 10 voters agree corruption is the #1 problem in politics. 📊 Not 9 in 10 Democrats. Not 9 in 10 Republicans. 9 in 10 voters — period. → 83% want the president barred from financial conflicts of interest → 81% want an ethics watchdog with teeth → 79% want money out of elections Thom Hartmann breaks down the new Brennan Center poll — and why he calls Citizens United one of the most corrupt Supreme Court decisions ever. #Corruption #MoneyInPolitics #CitizensUnited #BrennanCenter ThomHartmann CivicMedia
Hospital costs up 140%. Wages up Only 83%. The Wisconsin healthcare math doesn’t add up — and one UW-Madison report shows why. Hospitals here charge private insurers some of the highest rates in the country. Just over 1 in 10 Wisconsinites skipped a doctor visit they needed because they couldn’t afford to go. #Wisconsin #Healthcare #WorkingFamilies #WisconsinNews #Daybreak
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