Intelligence Brief

The public meeting about the data center was on 23 July.

 

The tax deal was signed on 21 July.

 

Neither one is where your power bill gets set.

 

That meeting already happened, and it was never on any calendar you were handed.

 

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TOPICS COVERED

 

data centers | PJM capacity auction | why is my electric bill so high | data center electricity prices | OpenAI Effingham County Georgia | Georgia Power data center | data center moratorium | capacity market explained | Monitoring Analytics Joseph Bowring | fifteen year tax abatement | Oregon data center freeze | La Crosse Wisconsin moratorium | New York data center executive order | who pays for data center power | rising utility bills 2026 | grid operator auction

 

#DataCenters #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ElectricityPrices #PowerBill #UtilityBills #EnergyCosts #EnergyPolicy #PJM #CapacityMarket #PowerGrid #ElectricGrid #OpenAI #Georgia #EffinghamCounty #Oregon #Wisconsin #NewYork #Moratorium #TaxBreaks #TaxAbatement #LocalGovernment #Ratepayers #CostOfLiving #Infrastructure #PublicMeetings #Transparency #Utilities #EnergyNews #Investigation

Meta's own child safety lead put the number at 500,000 children a day.

She wrote it down in June 2020, in an email, to executives.

Six years later New Mexico took Meta into a courtroom with that email in hand.

Then built the entire case on something else.

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TOPICS COVERED

Meta verdict New Mexico | Meta $942 million ruling | New Mexico v Meta child safety | Meta public nuisance ruling | Malia Andrus email Meta | Meta 500,000 children a day | Facebook Instagram child safety lawsuit | Judge Bryan Biedscheid Meta order | $567 million abatement fund | Section 230 explained | COPPA age verification | Operation MetaPhile New Mexico | Meta decoy accounts investigation | Meta trial Oakland 29 states | psychic numbing identifiable victim effect | social media algorithm recommendation lawsuit

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #NewMexico #ChildSafety #BigTech #Section230 #Lawsuit #Verdict #TechNews #SocialMedia #OnlineSafety #Algorithm #DataPrivacy #Zuckerberg #CourtRuling #Legal #Parenting #ScreenTime #TeenMentalHealth #COPPA #PublicNuisance #AttorneyGeneral #Investigation #MediaLiteracy #Psychology #BehavioralScience #News #Analysis #Accountability

On January 30th, the Justice Department published the Epstein files and announced the page count.

Five weeks later, a newsroom counted what was actually sitting on the site. Tens of thousands of files had come down without notice.

The count in the headline never moved.

Your hospital runs a version of this. So does the jobs report.

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TOPICS COVERED

Epstein files | Epstein files release | DOJ Epstein documents | Epstein Files Transparency Act | Judge Emmet Sullivan | House Oversight Epstein investigation | DOJ inspector general audit | redaction log | hospital price transparency | hospital price transparency rule | CMS price transparency 2026 | jobs report | BLS payroll revisions | nonfarm payrolls | benchmark revision | how to read a government number | media literacy

#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesRelease #Epstein #DOJ #JusticeDepartment #FOIA #Transparency #GovernmentTransparency #HouseOversight #Congress #EmmetSullivan #PublicRecords #JobsReport #BLS #NonfarmPayrolls #Economy #LaborMarket #Unemployment #HospitalPrices #PriceTransparency #Healthcare #HealthcareCosts #MedicalBills #CMS #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #NewsAnalysis #Politics

For sixteen days this summer, a company could load a tanker with Iranian crude and sail it into an American port. Legally. Paperwork and all.

On day seventeen it was gone.

Both dates are sitting on a government web page anyone can open. Free, no account, no password.

It updates every week, and it is not where anyone is looking.

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TOPICS COVERED

Iran sanctions | OFAC | General License X | Iranian oil imports | Strait of Hormuz | Iran ceasefire | Islamabad Memorandum | Scott Bessent | naval blockade Iran | USS Abraham Lincoln | carrier deployment | Novorossiysk | Ukraine drone strike | Russian grain exports | wheat prices | executive order childhood vaccines | MMR vaccine | ACIP | Bill Cassidy | how to read a government document

#Iran #IranSanctions #OFAC #StraitOfHormuz #Sanctions #OilPrices #Treasury #ForeignPolicy #USNavy #AircraftCarrier #USSAbrahamLincoln #Pentagon #Ukraine #Russia #Novorossiysk #BlackSea #Wheat #GrainExports #FoodPrices #Vaccines #MMR #PublicHealth #CDC #ExecutiveOrder #FederalRegister #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #NewsAnalysis

On the 22nd of July, America signed a thirty-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia.

Congress is reviewing it right now.

Congress does not have to vote on it. There is no approval vote in the statute to take.

There are four places inside this agreement where the answer becomes yes if everybody involved does nothing at all. Tonight, all four of them, and the reason the credit card in your pocket works exactly the same way.

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TOPICS COVERED

Saudi Arabia nuclear deal | US Saudi 123 agreement | Saudi uranium enrichment | Chris Wright nuclear agreement | Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman | Atomic Energy Act Section 123 | congressional review of a 123 agreement | UAE gold standard nuclear | 2009 US UAE nuclear agreement | Ed Markey Saudi nuclear bill | Abraham Accords Saudi Arabia | Iran uranium enrichment | Kissinger NSDM 292 Iran | Ford administration Iran nuclear 1976 | default effect behavioral economics | choice architecture

#SaudiArabia #NuclearDeal #UraniumEnrichment #Iran #MiddleEast #Congress #ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics #AbrahamAccords #Nonproliferation #NuclearPower #NuclearEnergy #Trump #EdMarkey #ChrisWright #AtomicEnergyAct #123Agreement #UAE #Israel #BehavioralEconomics #ChoiceArchitecture #Defaults #Politics #NationalSecurity #NewsAnalysis #MediaLiteracy #Uranium #WhiteHouse

Twice in six days, federal immigration agents went out looking for one person and shot somebody else.

In Houston on July 7, agents stopped a white van they believed was connected to their targets. The driver was a 52 year old homebuilder taking his crew to a job site. He was not one of the men they were looking for.

Six days later in Biddeford, Maine, agents approached a 25 year old driver near his own apartment. He was not the subject of the warrant they were there to execute. His partner and their three year old daughter were nearby.

Both men were shot and killed. The government has confirmed neither one was the target of the operation he died in.

Then ICE did something that almost never happens this fast. It told agents across the country to stop conducting most vehicle stops. About a day later the President posted that the traffic stop was too important to give up, and the pause was reversed. No investigation had reported. No footage had been released, because the officers involved were reportedly not wearing body cameras.

The facts were still being collected. The correction had already been canceled.

Molly Reid walks through the one word sitting underneath all of it. What "targeted" actually describes, where an operation stops being precise, and why the public argument always begins at the last half second instead of the hours that built it.

No verdict on either shooting. Both are under investigation, the official accounts are disputed by witnesses, and the evidence is not public. What is documented is the language, the sequence, and a safety correction that was made and unmade before anyone knew what happened.

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Families barred from going home are paying more than a hundred dollars an image to find out whether their houses are still standing.

The pictures work. They show what happened, where it happened, and roughly when.

They have never once shown why.

And the why was stated on the record, by Israel's defense minister, in his own country's press, months before anyone paid for a picture. Nearly one hundred percent destruction in the border villages. It just came without an image, so almost nobody heard it.

This episode goes to Yaroun, southern Lebanon, where a hundred and eighty of about two hundred houses are gone and some of the owners are American citizens. Then to a 1951 football film that two psychologists showed to students from both schools, and to the count that came back more than double depending on who was watching.

A machine made the picture. A person chose the coordinates, the date, the resolution, and the crop.

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Sources include NPR, The Times of Israel, Israel Hayom, Middle East Eye, L'Orient Today, Reuters, and Hastorf and Cantril's 1954 study in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.

Structure first. Pattern second. Conclusion yours.

Twenty people ate two different diets.

Every number matched: same calories, same sugar, same salt.

They still gained weight on one of them.

Then they blamed themselves.

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TOPICS COVERED

ultra-processed food | FDA ultra-processed food definition | sugar industry Harvard study | 1967 sugar research | front of package food labels | RFK Jr food policy | Kevin Hall NIH study | food industry lobbying | processed food weight gain | Make America Healthy Again food | sugar research foundation | food addiction | nutrition science corruption | dietary guidelines history | food industry lobbying money

#UltraProcessedFood #FoodIndustry #Nutrition #FoodPolicy #MAHA #RFKJr #FDA #SugarIndustry #FoodLabels #PublicHealth #Obesity #FoodScience #NutritionScience #WeightLoss #HealthyEating #FoodCorruption #BigFood #DietCulture #FoodAddiction #ProcessedFood #HealthPolicy #NutritionFacts

Anthony Fauci said the same twenty-four words a hundred and eleven times.

Look at the first four. Under the advice of my attorneys.

Courts already killed that defense. Two men tried it. Both went to prison.

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TOPICS COVERED

Anthony Fauci contempt of Congress | Rand Paul Fauci hearing | Fauci Fifth Amendment 111 times | Senate Homeland Security Committee vote | Biden preemptive pardon | Fauci diary release | gain of function Wuhan funding | David Hearn Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool | Jeanine Pirro case dismissed | Todd Blanche attorney general | DOJ IRS settlement | Steve Bannon Peter Navarro contempt | Lois Lerner precedent | federal grand jury referral | Wegner innuendo study

#Fauci #AnthonyFauci #RandPaul #ContemptOfCongress #FifthAmendment #SenateHearing #COVIDOrigins #GainOfFunction #Wuhan #BidenPardon #Pardon #JeaninePirro #ToddBlanche #DOJ #JusticeDepartment #GrandJury #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool #Congress #Senate #Politics #BreakingNews #Accountability #Government #Investigation

Ortega already ran the courts, the legislature, the police, and the vote count.

Sunday, he decided even the ballots weren't worth the trouble.

"There won't be any more elections. Never, never, never."

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TOPICS COVERED

Daniel Ortega | Nicaragua elections canceled | Ortega no more elections | Rosario Murillo co-president | Sandinista Revolution | 2018 Nicaragua protests | competitive authoritarianism | 2025 Nicaragua constitutional amendments | Violeta Chamorro 1990 | political prisoners Nicaragua | Managua anniversary speech | one party rule | how democracies die | Nicaragua 2026

#Nicaragua #DanielOrtega #Ortega #Managua #Sandinista #RosarioMurillo #LatinAmerica #CentralAmerica #Elections #Democracy #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #HumanRights #PoliticalPrisoners #FreeElections #DemocraticBackslide #Geopolitics #WorldNews #WorldPolitics #InternationalNews #BreakingNews #NicaraguaProtests #Chamorro #News #Politics