Tag: Memphis
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Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill
This is gonna piss you off, but we gotta talk about coal. There’s a sentence written in 1935 that’s about to show up on your power bill. Trump put out a poster this week – a coal miner with a pickaxe, smokestacks behind him, the words “President Trump’s Coal Actions Create 14,000 Jobs.” Very Depression-era.…
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Let’s Talk About Data Centers Like Adults
This should be fun. Let’s talk about data centers. Like adults. It seems like whenever anyone talks about one – they’re picturing a warehouse full of chatbots. And sure, they do power those. But the data center streaming your Netflix or YouTube, backing up all those emails you haven’t opened, managing your bank account, streaming…
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It’s time to rewrite the 2007 law hiding in your gas tank
There’s corn in your gas, and a story behind it. How a law from 2005 wastes water, weakens your fuel, props up the wrong crop, and keeps groceries expensive – and what we could actually do about it.
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Less judgment, more help: why diversity built this country
A Pride Month reflection on the American bargain – you be you, I’ll be me.
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I’m Going Big or I’m Going Home
Why I’m running for Congress in TN-5, and why I won’t run the campaign everyone expects.