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At the same time the data centers are strong-arming communities to get more power, and utilities companies are really not promising to not pass higher rates onto consumers, state and national Republicans are trying to restrict development of renewable energy, even at times paying companies at the federal level to NOT produce more renewable (and cheaper) energy.  A survey by Marquette University Law School reports on a survey that says that there is a deep skepticism about data centers across all demographics – find out where your preferred candidates stand on this.  What do folks think about this? For me, we should be taking an "all of the above" approach to generating power, and only when we can be sure that data centers are power and water neutral, so to speak, should we be moving forward.

Well, SCOTUS just ruled that the LA maps that created a second majority-minority black district was unconstitutional. In a nutshell, this SCOTUS has ruled that legislators can rig the maps for partisan reasons, which gave rise to all this BS re-districting across the country between the census counts. Now, minority voters will have to prove that mapmakers had the intent to disenfranchise minority voters, not just that outcome. So, let's apply that standard to something we know all too well in WI: if someone drives their car into a crowd, the victims would have to prove that the driver intended to hurt or kill people, not just that they did so, or that their actions could be reasonably foreseen to do that. How will they prove intent? That is a very high bar. What do folks think?