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The Great Data Center Swindle
On July 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14318 . It directs the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense to authorize the construction of data centers on federal lands. It instructs the Secretary of Commerce to launch financial support for qualifying projects — loans, loan guarantees, grants, tax incentives. It tells the EPA to modify regulations under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Superfund law to speed data center permitting. It revoked a Biden-era order that had required environmental and climate assessments for data cente
May 13, 2026
Trump Hires His Pool Guy to Paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is one of the most consequential pieces of ground in American history. Henry Bacon designed it in the early 1920s as a mirror — 2,030 feet of shallow, still water over a dark basin, meant to capture the Lincoln Memorial at one end and the Washington Monument at the other and hold them together in a single unbroken image. The dark-toned floor wasn’t incidental to the design. It was the design. The National Park Service’s own 1999 Cultural Landscape Report identifies it as a character-defining feature, noting that the dark color created the illusion of greate
May 12, 2026
The Power Was Ours
Ted Turner died last week. He was 87. The obituaries you’ll find will often lead with CNN. They’ll talk about the billions, the America’s Cup, the Braves, Jane Fonda, and so on. They’ll mention, somewhere toward the bottom, that he owned a lot of land and
May 11, 2026