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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • For those who want to know more about this oligarch:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilman_Fertitta

    In the spirit of AIPAC, he donates to both parties - in this fashion, which you, dear reader, might find unsurprising:

    Together with his spouse, Fertitta contributed $140,000 to Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign and $5,600 to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.

    Also from the wiki:

    On December 21, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Fertitta,[80] whom he has referred to as his “twin”

    Now returning to the article at hand,

    Protesters in Venice are planning to disrupt a visit by the billionaire US ambassador to Italy in his 117-metre superyacht, which they fear he plans to dock in the lagoon city.

    “We ruined the party for Jeff Bezos’s wedding last year – this year let’s ruin the ambassador’s tour!” said Stella Faye, a 28-year-old researcher and activist, at a meeting of about 40 demonstrators on Thursday.

    Further:

    One person suggested, to a round of laughter, “bringing back the crocodiles” – a reference to protesters’ threat last year to fill the canals with inflatable crocodiles, which forced the Bezos-Sánchez wedding reception to change venue at the last minute.

    I welcome this oligarch to follow through with his optics-challenged plan.

    Friends, let’s try not to choke eating popcorn whilst laughing uncontrollably.

    With deep appreciation to the mighty Italians.



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    “I can’t live in my home with half of my home functioning and no water,” Ms Morris says. “I can’t drink the water.”

    She believes the construction of the centre, which is owned by Meta (the parent company of Facebook), disrupted her private well, causing an excessive build-up of sediment. Ms Morris now hauls water in buckets to flush her toilet.

    She says she had to fix the plumbing in her kitchen to restore water pressure. But the water that comes of the tap still has residue in it.

    I feel horrible for this woman and the people of this community.

    Meta, however, says the two aren’t connected.

    In a statement to the BBC, Meta said that “being a good neighbour is a priority”.

    The company commissioned an independent groundwater study to investigate Morris’s concerns. According to the report, its data centre operation did “not adversely affect groundwater conditions in the area”.

    It’d be helpful to learn more details about this independent groundwater study that Meta initiated, because its odd that this woman should be seeing residue in her water. I hope we learn more soon.








  • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who approved allocating $4.5 million toward medical debt forgiveness in the 2024 budget, said the latest development “ensures fewer Michigan families must choose between putting food on the table or paying their medical bills, at a time when so many already are struggling with rising costs on the essentials driven by tariffs, cuts to Medicaid, and the Iran War.”

    It’s so refreshing to learn about good developments that help people.