Trying to make underfunded schools an argument for data centers

In great news for all the Nevada Republicans running for Congress, as well as Gov. Joe Lombardo and any other Nevada Republicans in tough races, initiatives Trump has announced in the last few days include but are not limited to:

—CNN, Politico, and MS NOW will be stripped of White House press credentials.

—Trump’s vanity arch in Washington D.C. will also be an attack arch(!), with snipers and drones and of course plenty of ammo.

So congratulations, Nevada Republican candidates. Like Trump’s other tippy-top policy priorities — the ballroom, the Reflecting Pool, personally raking in $1.4 billion in sleazy cryptocurrency schemes while president — Trump’s newest urgent priorities should be making Nevada affordable again any minute now.

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Isn’t this sort of his wheelhouse? The governor’s office told certified firearms instructors that neither the governor nor his staff will be meeting with them any time soon about evidence of alleged regulatory lapses by the state board that licenses security guards and private investigators. Dana Gentry reports: Lombardo declines sit-down over firearm safety

Good question. “Why should funding for my classroom and students depend on Nevada building more data centers?” asks a Clark County public school educator. Spoiler: It shouldn’t. Strong medicine here in a guest column from Jeremy Heckler with the National Education Association of Southern Nevada: Don’t use schools to justify more data centers

The Extinction President (part 1). “Unless you’re wearing a T-shirt that says, ‘I’m here to draw the blood of endangered species,’ you’re basically off the hook,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, go crazy, we’re not gonna prosecute you.” Via Stateline’s Alex Brown. Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species

The Extinction President (part 2). There’s no indication what if anything your federal government will do to confront data centers and, more to the point, the AI for which they (literally) serve. And the biggest obstacle appears to be Trump. Via the D.C. bureau’s David Lightman: Trump likes data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.

Good Luck