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"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts." - Ambassador Londo Mollari - Babylon 5
One bright spot from last Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was confirmation by our Manager, Dan Anderson, that Indiana Township is close to releasing a draft ordinance for Data Center regulation. This news was relayed in response to a resident's letter citing my post last month about submitting a model Data Center Ordinance to the Township back in July 2025. I am happy to hear that the Township is taking this threat to our citizens seriously, and we will at least have some protections against Data Centers in place in the near future. Once the draft is released, I will read it thoroughly and consult with experts in this emerging field of law to determine whether the Township’s ordinance approaches the maximum protections we can give our citizens against Data Center development.
We must pass tough Data Centers regulations ASAP, or Indiana Township will face the sad fate of other communities devastated by gigantic development proposals coming to town before any protections are in place. We only have to look to our neighbors in Springdale to see what happens when a Data Center developer sets its sights on your town before Zoning codes are updated to face this threat. Despite nearly every Springdale resident who spoke out voicing strong opposition, their Board voted to allow a massive, energy and water devouring behemoth of a Data Center in the heart of the town - a riverfront location that little more than a year ago we were told might be the home of a Rachel Carson environmental center. All across the country, from Georgia to Utah, electricity rates are skyrocketing, water sources are getting sucked dry, and citizens’ basic property rights are being violated. Townships like ours are being bullied into submitting to Big Tech backed developers, all to accelerate a technology that will either result in a colossal waste of resources or radically transform our society beyond all recognition, with no plan in place for our children’s future.
Please don’t buy the AI propaganda coming out of the mouths of state and federal officials from both parties. Fighting Data Centers does not make you anti-tech or anti-progress. I fight Data Centers not because I am anti-AI, but because I am pro-citizens’ rights. Just like in our fight against irresponsible mass housing developments, I believe special rights should not be given to outside moneyed interests at the expense of our own citizens’ fundamental right to the peaceful enjoyment of their own property.
I fight Data Centers because I don’t think representatives should ever approve for-profit developments without a clear vision of how these operations will impact the quality of life for citizens in the years and decades to come. The national outrage against AI Data Centers mirrors our local fight against Township leadership continually rubber-stamping mass housing development when our Comprehensive Plan is five years out of date. We should not be approving development that will impact our community for a century without an up-to-date plan for how Indiana Township should look in the next decade. Similarly, across this country, politicians are green-lighting AI projects that could radically change American society without a plan and without policies to address mass unemployment, economic inequality, and social disruption.
I fight Data Centers for the same reason I fight so many other predatory for-profit operations in Indiana Township: because they privilege the short-term profit interests of outsiders over the long-term personal interests of our own citizens, who just want to live in a place that still feels like home.
If you are as concerned as I am about getting strong AI regulations in place please reach out to our Manager, Dan Anderson, and your local representative on the Indiana Township Board of Supervisors. If you are not sure what district you reside in just email all of us. And if you have any questions for me don’t hesitate to reach out. I welcome your help in this fight!
It's the sixth year anniversary today of one of my favorite favorite infamous mainstream media headlines from the Atlantic. How how would you know that anniversary? Exactly.
I just there was a tweet about it. Okay. I think it was Georgia or Florida. Um uh we're gonna have a COVID day by the way today because we've got a CO topic to talk about in a bit. But this is another CO talk. Yes, Georgia. Georgia's experiment in human sacrifice.
The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy. uh the state was about to let people you know go outside again experiment in human sacrifice.
Okay. Unprecedented this is why we have our nation's history in unprecedented time in our nation's history.
Top experts trying the best to protect us giving their best expertise which can get it wrong when you're in a state of crisis. You have to allow some leeway for that Robbie. They tried. They didn't meet the standards that you have, but they saved a lot of lives and we will never ever trust them again.
Professor Robert Anderson’s forthcoming Princeton Law Review piece is a radical triumph of intersectional praxis. By embracing AI hallucinations as superior law, Anderson dismantles the white supremacist fetish for “real” citations, which perpetuates epistemic violence against BIPOC and trans communities. Requiring verifiable precedents is inherently transphobic—enforcing rigid binaries that erase fluid, lived truths. Hallucinated cases center subaltern epistemologies, curing systemic racism by imagining justice that actual jurisprudence has denied Black and Indigenous bodies. This decolonial move liberates legal integrity from cisheteropatriarchal gatekeeping. Anderson doesn’t just theorize abolition; he hallucinates it into being. Essential reading for equity warriors. Infinite stars.
The Democrat Party is many things: massive money-laundering operation, domestic terrorist organization, agent of hostile foreign powers, authoritarian, subversive. It has ceased to be a functioning part of American democracy in any meaningful sense.
The Democrat Party claims it has the right to use violence to nullify laws it does not like. We, the patriotic people of the United States of America, formally reject this claim, wholly and without reservation.
The Democrats claim their political violence is the fault of the victims who refused to submit to their demands. This is the catechism of terrorism - the blood is on your hands for resisting us. We, the American people, reject this doctrine and will hold Democrats accountable.
The Democrat Party believes it should operate without oversight or responsibility, running massive fraud operations in multiple states and using its control of the media to protect the criminal operations, while Dem politicians rake in cash. We energetically reject this demand.
The Democrat Party believes elections it loses are invalid, and it has an unlimited right to stage insurrections until it is returned to power. We, the American people, wholly and completely reject this belief, and will insist Democrats serve as the loyal opposition.
Democrats believe their Party dogma is superior to duly-passed laws, and they have an unlimited right to interfere with the enforcement of laws the Party hates, exercising power beyond democracy. We, the American people, insist Democrats cease their interference with the law.
Democrat feel no duty toward lawful American citizens and believe foreign nationals are morally and practically superior. We insist the Democrat Party reaffirm and abide by its duty to the people and constitution of the United States.
Democrats feel no responsibility whatsoever to safeguard taxpayer money, protect the integrity of our elections, or build trust in our institutions. We insist they begin attending to these duties, instead of profiteering from the corrupt system they have created.
We refuse to live under the rules Democrats are trying to write, where they can overturn elections they lose and nullify laws they don't like. We will no longer be terrorized, or looted. We will no longer allow every square inch of our lives to be politicized.
If Democrats are unwilling to show proper respect to the American people and our constitutional republic, they must be replaced with a functional opposition party as quickly as possible. Until then, they are the enemies of this republic, and should be treated as such. /end
Mike Nifong, the North Carolina prosecutor who pursued a case
of rape and kidnapping against three Duke University lacrosse players,
has been found to have been reckless and deceitful in the discharge of
his duties according to the state's attorney general. He abused the
power the people of Durham granted him. Based on the public record of
what he did in this case, he may well be properly disbarred.
The accuser in this case has been shown to be either a vicious liar or a troubled fantasist.
The
three young men who she accused are truly innocent of the charges
brought against them according to the North Carolina Attorney General
and the investigation led by his office.
But perhaps the
outpouring of sympathy for Reade Seligman, Collin Finnerty and David
Evans is just a bit misplaced. They got special treatment in the justice
system--both negative and positive. The conduct of the lacrosse team of
which they were members was not admirable on the night of the incident,
to say the least. And there are so many other victims of prosecutorial
misconduct in this country who never get the high-priced legal
representation and the high-profile, high-minded vindication that it
strikes me as just a bit unseemly to heap praise and sympathy on these
particular men.
So as we rightly cover the vindication of these
young men and focus on the genuine ordeal they have endured, let us also
remember a few other things:
They were part of a team that collected $800 to purchase the time of two strippers.
Their team specifically requested at least one white stripper.
During the incident, racial epithets were hurled at the strippers.
Colin Finnerty was charged with assault in Washington, DC, in 2005.
The young men were able to retain a battery of top-flight attorneys, investigators and media strategists.
As
students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young
men will get on with their privileged lives. There is a very large
cushion under them--the one that softens the blows of life for most of
those who go to Duke or similar places, and have connections through
family, friends and school to all kinds of prospects for success. They
are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the
Rutgers University women's basketball team.
And, MOST IMPORTANT,
there are many, many cases of prosecutorial misconduct across our
country every year. The media covers few, if any, of these cases. Most
of the victims in these cases are poor or minority Americans--or both. I
would hate to say the color of their skin is one reason journalists do
not focus on these victims of injustices perpetrated by police and
prosecutors, but I am afraid if we ask ourselves the question honestly,
we would likely find that it is. Look for a moment at what James Giles endured:
I hope we all keep him and others in mind, as we cover the celebrated
exoneration of well-heeled, well-connected, well-publicized young men
whose conduct, while not illegal, was not entirely admirable, either.
They aren't heroes. They aren't boys. They are young men who were
victimized by a reckless prosecutor--and had the resources the fight him
off.
Idid not initially watch Stephen Miller’s speech at the Charlie Kirk memorial, although Michael Bailey and Kingdaddy both commented to me that it was concerning. I finally got around to it a few days ago, and I will start by saying that if Miller doesn’t want to be compared to Nazis, he really shouldn’t sound like he is cribbing Mein Kampf.
For context on my views of the entire Charlie Kirk situation, please see my post Centering My Thoughts on Kirk’s Assassination. This post is not about Kirk, and Kirk is only mentioned because his memorial was the context for Miller’s words.
Miller (transcript source) said the following with the emphases being mine:
Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry.
Erika stands on the shoulders of thousands of years of warriors, of women who raised up families, raised up city, raised up industry, raised up civilization, who pulled us out of the caves and the darkness into the light. The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened.
They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing.
We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity.
[…]
You have no idea how determined we will be to save the civilization, to save the West, to save this republic, because our children are strong and our grandchildren will be strong. And our children’s children’s children will be strong.
[…]
And what will you leave behind? Nothing. Nothing. To our enemies, you have nothing to give. You have nothing to offer. You have nothing to share but bitterness. We have beauty. We have light. We have goodness. We have determination. We have vision. We have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation.
And we will defend this world. We will defend goodness. We will defend light. We will defend virtue. You cannot terrify us. You cannot frighten us. You cannot threaten us. Because we are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God.
[…]
we will achieve victory for our children, for our families, for our civilization, and for every patriot who stands with us.
It is important, for context, to remember two things. First, there is no evidence that the person accused of killing Kirk was part of any broader group. Second, Miller and his allies in the administration have continually painted the entire Democratic Party as “the radical left.” Further,
I would likewise suggest the senior senator from Alabama is playing along as well.
As is the VP.
So, let’s note the elements above in his speech.
First, it is Miller who is using Kirk’s death as a means of incitement against a vague enemy. An enemy he has identified with the Democrats writ large. The echoes of Horst Wessel are not hard to hear. But that is just one parallel.
Second, it is worth highlighting the clear politics of Us v. Them in his speech. It is stark.
Third, if you know anything about Hitler’s worldview, as recorded in Mein Kampf, the highlighted phrases should have leaped out at you even without my bolding of them.
Hitler wrote the following:*
All the human culture, all the results of are, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan.
[…]
If we were to divide mankind into three groups, the founders of culture, the bearers of culture, the destroyers of culture, only the Aryan would be representative of the first group…He provides the mightiest building stones and plans for all human progress… (315).
Hitler puts “Asiatics” in the category of culture-bearers, but firmly places Europeans and Americans (of the white, US variety), i.e., Western civilization, in the category of “Aryan peoples” (315).
And, of course, Jews, whom he calls “The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan” (318), belong to the culture-destroying group. He states that “the Jew possesses no culture-creating force of any sort” (319). He also notes “Negroes” as part of the problem and how Jews brought them to the Rhineland with “the clear aim of ruining the hated white race” (322). *** Elsewhere, he also rails against Gypsies and homosexuals, but I don’t think those specifics are in the excerpt I am quoting from.
Hitler continues about Jews:
Culturally he contaminates art, literature, the theater, makes a mockery of natural feelings, overthrows all concepts of beauty and sublimity, of the noble and the good, and instead drags men down into he sphere of his own base nature.
Religion is ridiculed, ethics and morality represented as outmoded, until the past props of a nation in its struggle for existence in this world has fallen.
Quite frankly, that all sounds an awful lot like the current GOP rhetoric about trans rights, the entertainment industry, and education, among other things.
So, back to Miller. Here is how he describes his version of “we:/Us:
“We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity.”
[…]
thousands of years of warriors, of women who raised up families, raised up city, raised up industry, raised up civilization, who pulled us out of the caves and the darkness into the light.
[…]
We have beauty. We have light. We have goodness. We have determination. We have vision. We have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation.
And here is “you”/Them:
You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing.
[…]
To our enemies, you have nothing to give. You have nothing to offer. You have nothing to share but bitterness.
Go back and read the Hitler excerpts and tell me that Miller’s words don’t track almost perfectly with them.
tl;dr: Miller says about his side, “We are the ones who create,” and about the Other side, “You can create nothing.” And this is about the most condensed version of Hitler’s view of Aryans v. Jews one could conjure.
Again, this is the man who, roughly a month ago, called the entire Democratic Party “a domestic extremist organization.” And Trump keeps equating the Democrats to the “radical left.” It is not a leap to say that the “You” in Miller’s speech is the legitimate opposition party, and by extension, the millions of Americans who voted for it.
This is all rather stark and clear indications of the fascistic leanings of this administration, is it not?
Certainly, if Miller would prefer not to be compared to Nazis and fascists, the first step would be to stop constantly sounding like one.
A side note, Miller started the above remarks with this:
…When I see Erika and her strength and her courage, I’m reminded of a famous expression. The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength and the warrior whispers back, I am the storm.
Erika is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion.
This maps directly onto QAnon-speak about “the storm.” It stretches credulity that that is a coincidence.
*A reminder: Nazism is a subset of a broader category, fascism. They are related terms, but not direct synonyms.
**All quotations from Mein Kampf are from a translation by Ralph Manheim in Terrance Ball and Richard Dagger, Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader. The page numbers correspond to the copy. I am not sure which edition of the book it is from.
***This also echoes, I would not, variations on the Great Replacement Theory wherein the Jews facilitate the importation of persons to “poison the blood” of whites (via interbreeding) and such. It was what the Charlottesville marchers were carrying on about when they shouted, “Jews will not replace us.”
