'‎In case y missed it, the WHITE mastermind behind the Minneapolis daycare fraud, Aimee BOCK, was sentenced to 42 years in prison yesterday. Yeah, the person behind the $250 million fraud was a white woman not a Somali immigrant. Let that sink in.

 Nope.  Only Somalians commit fraud.  No different than only Republicans commit sex crimes.




OK, the Jan 6 "reparations" are in no way legal.

How does 14 sec 3 apply to civilians?

You keep harping on the 14th for "civilians". Elected officials ARE civilians.

 This is true.  So how does it apply to humans that are not elected officials?

'"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody body knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Every Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose  
Everybody knows..."

~Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"'

Needles wrote on Yesterday at 13:26:24:


And the Variation IS ?

'When I was in middle school, I learned there were only two genders. When I did my bachelors in Biology, I learned that there are also people who are intersex and the importance of the SRY gene. When I completed my Masters in Neurosciences. I learned that sex is already hard to define, and gender is both social and in the brain -making everything a lot more complex. When people say "it's basic biology" they are telling you they haven't moved past middle school. -Rebecca Helm', Biologist

NORTH CAROLINA JUST PASSED THE MOST POWERFUL DATA CENTER LAW IN AMERICA — AND 78% OF VOTERS DEMANDED IT ⚡
This happened June 3, 2026 — just four days ago.
The North Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill so comprehensive, so powerful, and so clearly on the side of regular Americans that it is already being called a national model for how states should deal with the AI data center crisis.
They called it the Ratepayer Protection Act. And what it does — for the first time in American history — is simple and revolutionary: it makes data centers pay for themselves. Instead of making you pay for them.
WHAT NORTH CAROLINA JUST DID
The North Carolina House passed Senate Bill 730 — the Ratepayer Protection Act — with a vote of 69 to 44. The bill was championed by Speaker Destin Hall who tweeted after the vote: “Today, the NC House fought back and passed the Ratepayer Protection Act to shield North Carolinians from subsidizing data centers and give citizens more control.” The bill now goes to the Senate for approval and then to the governor. 
69 to 44. Bipartisan. In North Carolina. A state not known for dramatic tech regulation.
They fought back. And they won.
Duke Energy — the giant utility that powers most of North and South Carolina — has signed 7.6 gigawatts of electric service agreements with data center customers, added another 2.7 gigawatts during the first quarter of 2026 alone, and is discussing an additional 15.4 gigawatts of potential projects. To put that in perspective — North Carolina residential electricity prices were averaging about 16 cents per kilowatt-hour in March 2026, below the U.S. average. Duke’s exploding data center pipeline threatens to change that permanently — unless somebody stops it. 
The bill stops it. Or at least — makes the data centers pay for what they consume.
WHAT THE LAW ACTUALLY REQUIRES
Under the Ratepayer Protection Act, data centers consuming more than 100 megawatts of power per month must: use closed-loop cooling systems to limit water consumption; conduct site assessments to determine the noise impact on nearby homes and businesses; and — most critically — cover the cost of their own grid infrastructure rather than passing those costs to families and small businesses. 
The measure shifts from using incentives to attract data center projects to a full cost recovery model — placing the burden of grid expansion and resource use directly on data center operators. Data centers in North Carolina would also be ineligible for state and local incentives — ending the era of billion-dollar tax breaks that have been draining state budgets from Virginia to Texas to Wisconsin. 
No more tax breaks. No more making families subsidize data center grid upgrades. No more waiving water disclosure requirements. No more ignoring the noise that makes neighbors sick.
Pay your own way. Or don’t build here.
AND THE PEOPLE DEMANDED IT — OVERWHELMINGLY
A Carolina Journal poll found that 78.2% of North Carolina voters believe data centers should generate their own energy — not force ratepayers to fund their electricity. Of those surveyed, 59.8% strongly support this position. Fewer than 10% oppose requiring data centers to provide their own electricity. 
78% of voters. In a purple state. In the American South. Demanding that data centers stop making them pay the bill.
When nearly 8 in 10 voters in a swing state agree on something — that is not a partisan issue. That is democracy speaking with one voice.
THE BOTTOM LINE
North Carolina just passed the Ratepayer Protection Act. No more tax breaks for Big Tech. No more hiding water consumption. No more noise without consequences. No more making families pay for the grid upgrades that data centers require.
78% of voters demanded it. 69 legislators voted for it. And it is now being studied by every state legislature in America as the template for what comes next.
Share this with everyone in North Carolina — and everyone in every other state that is still letting Big Tech make families pay for data center infrastructure. 👇⚡
📌 Source: Carolina Journal — “NC House passes Ratepayer Protection Act” (June 3, 2026)