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ATTENTION @LeaderJohnThune
PASS THE #SaveAct NOW‼️
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SPINELESS, GUTLESS #REPUBLICANS !!!!!😳🤬🤮
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Everyday Americans do NOT want these hyperscale data centers.
Chris Kelly Opinion: Archbald is the canary in the data center ‘coal mine’ By Chris Kelly | The Times-Tribune PUBLISHED: May 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM EDT
The Times-Tribune. To the extent that any movement can credibly be called “nonpartisan,” the opposition to invasive data center development is “deep purple.” Everyday Democrats, Republicans and independents are fiercely united against a hostile corporate takeover of the state. Meanwhile, support for the invasion seems just as uniform among elected officials of both major parties. From the Trump White House to MAGA Republican Sen. Dave McCormick, alleged Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, Shapiro and state officials in both parties, the welcome mat for developers was quietly laid out long before the public was even vaguely aware of data centers.
This is true. I’ve mentioned before the maga trucker convoy guy, and there’s some right-winger who shows up at Scranton City council meetings and says out there right-wing things, and then also speaks out against data centers. The Stop Archbald Data Centers fb group has a wide swathe of the political spectrum participating.
Trump, Shapiro, McCormick applaud decision keeping two Pa. coal plants running By John Cole | The Center Square Apr 22, 2026
I just wanna post something so...
Sleepy Bandit
(and sidenote, funny how they have clothes laying around when they spend most of the time naked)
John Fetterman cozies up Dave Mccormick, Dave Mccormick cozies up Jay Bhattacharya
Screenshot is of John Fetterman's Fetterletter received in April, with March at the top, with screenshots from his "The Takeout" tv appearance, and a photo of John Fetterman and Dave Mccormick together that's labeled "Here's why we're behind a bipartisan plan to help first-time home buyers. The text of the newsletter starts: "Fetterman, McCormick Announce $600 Million to Replace Delaware River Bridge, Improve PA Turnpike "This $600 million investment is one of the most consequential infrastructure commitments in Pennsylvania's history, and we are proud to have fought to secure this funding by writing directly to Transportation Secretary Duffy to make the case for why the Delaware River Bridge deserves federal investment," said Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick. "The Delaware River Bridge is not just a Pennsylvania asset; it"
I received Democratic Senator John Fetterman's newsletter that was all full of him crowing about his appearance on tv bashing other Democrats, and a laundry list of the things he's been doing cooperating with Republican Senator Dave McCormick. And the very next day I got Republican Senator Dave McCormick's newsletter and it was all full of all the things he's been doing with covid deniers and maga cronies and industry, and a whole section promoting the SAVE Act.
Both John Fetterman and Dave McCormick signed on to Elizabeth Warren's housing bill. Dave Mccormick doesn't seem to want to highlight that in his newsletter though. But Republican Senator Dave Mccormick did highlight that he went on a tour of the University of Pennsylvania with Great Barrington Declaration author and now NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and specifically mentions going "where cutting-edge gene therapy and mRNA research is being developed" in Penn Medicine CAR-T labs.
Screenshot from Senator Dave Mccormick's April 7th 2026 newsletter issue photos of Republican US Senator Dave Mccormick of Pennsylvania with Great Barrington Declaration author and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, and others. The text reads: "I was proud to welcome the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, to Pennsylvania for a two-day tour highlighting our leadership in life sciences and life saving medicines. We started off in Pittsburgh, where we visited UPMC Mercy, the Vision and Rehabilitation Institutes, and Hillman Cancer Center, seeing firsthand how NIH funding drives breakthroughs, patient care, and supports 100,000 jobs. Then, on day two in Philadelphia, we toured the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Medicine CAR-T labs, where cutting-edge gene therapy and mRNA research is being developed. Across 112 NIH-funded sites, Pennsylvania is not just discovering the future—we’re building it, creating jobs, and strengthening American leadership in life sciences.
Yesterday I received Senator John Fetterman's newsletter & it's all full of “Here’s all the things I’ve been doing cooperating with Senator Dave Mccormick and Republicans!” & today I got Senator Dave Mccormick's newsletter and it's full of “Here’s all the things I’ve been doing with Trump cronies!”
Elite solidarity is a throughline with data centers and other corruption.
We Uncovered The Most Infamous Secret Society: And The Truth Is Shocking More Perfect Union Feb 24, 2026 In the months that Project 2025 was being written, the board of the Heritage Foundation was like a quarter Bohemian Club guys. But it goes even further. On our 2023 list in Mandalay, the same camp as Michael Bloomberg and Henry Kissinger, for whom this would be the last Grove, is another name: David McCormick. At the time, McCormick was but a simple hedge fund billionaire who'd tried to run for Senate in Pennsylvania before being defeated by Doctor Oz in the primary. But just two months after this encampment, he announced he was running again. And this time he won. So I compared our attendee list to McCormick's donors. 11 men in Mandalay Camp donated to McCormick's campaign. And that's not even including the ones who gave through dark money channels. As Senator McCormick was part of an announcement with President Trump for a big push for AI investment in Pennsylvania. Data centers and power plants. At the same event was... this guy Brendan Bechtel, the latest family CEO and heir to the Bechtel fortune. Bechtel is poised to get billions in construction contracts from this deal. Funneling money and power to Bechtel seems as important to the Trump administration as it did to earlier administrations. Bechtel is getting big deals with foreign companies for U.S. construction, brokered by Trump. They have money tied up in the Venezuelan pipelines Trump wants to seize from the Venezuelan people, and they've been floated as a beneficiary of the Kushner-Trump plan to rebuild Gaza. We're seeing a level of collusion among the ultra wealthy that seems almost unbeatable. They are all on the same team. They are all protecting each other. It's not even about party politics, Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, is on the list, as is his nephew, who works for Harlan Crowe, as are several major centrist and Democratic Party donors. They have class solidarity, but so do we. A tenants union was organized specifically to fight against John Atwater's Prime Realty, and they've had big wins because they organized every building that Prime owns. Even workers at the Grove had a win. A class action lawsuit by Grove valets alleging wage theft, misclassification and other labor violations, went in favor of the workers. (EMPHASIS ADDED)
Some congressional Republicans are carefully, cautiously, equivocally mad.
Joe Perticone at The Bulwark:
Cracks in the coalition?
In the Trump era, it’s extraordinarily rare for elected Republicans to voice clear moral objections to the actions of the administration. Doing so is virtually a form of career suicide.1 But if you develop an ear for the subtleties of the Republican congressional patois, you can start to pick up an awful lot about how much disapproval is being quietly expressed within GOP circles—including when some of them have reached some kind of breaking point. The killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota on Saturday, as well as the administration’s false, accusatory, and easily debunked account of the incident, has pushed some GOP lawmakers over the edge. House and Senate Republicans have broken party decorum and called for investigations into the shooting and even for ICE to leave Minnesota. Committee chairmen in both chambers have demanded that agency officials swiftly report to Capitol Hill for questioning.2
“Well, right now the video looks pretty damning,” Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), who is no moderate, said in an interview. “Obviously, we have to wait to get all the videos in before we make a final conclusion.” “A lot of these ICE officials or Border Patrol people are not prepared for this sort of thing,” Grothman added. “We have people coming from far and wide to demonstrate and disrupt things, which is just a recipe for disaster. But I think in the future, the Department of Homeland Security is going to have to do a better job of educating their people to make sure this sort of murder doesn’t result.” Sens. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) each called for an investigation into Pretti’s killing. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), a former Homeland Security Committee chairman, said he was “troubled” by Pretti’s killing, adding, ”As an attorney and former federal prosecutor, I believe a thorough investigation is necessary—both to get to the bottom of these incidents and to maintain Americans’ confidence in our justice system.”
“We must have a transparent, independent investigation into the Minnesota shooting, and those responsible—no matter their title—must be held accountable,” Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) said. “Officials who rush to judgment before all the facts are known undermine public trust and the law-enforcement mission.” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) went so far as to call the killing a violation of the Second Amendment, an angle that remains too sharp for most of his Republican colleagues to pick up. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called a hearing for DHS oversight and requested testimony from acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott, and Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow. A hearing is set for February 10. Across the Capitol, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, demanded testimony from the same officials. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March—still quite a ways away. Enough GOP lawmakers have spoken up about the Pretti killing that their colleagues who have remained silent no longer have the cover normally afforded by moving with the political herd. The most notably silent Republicans are in the party’s House and Senate leadership. In the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been mostly offline since posting about meeting with Erika Kirk on Saturday; he has not posted about Pretti. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) did not weigh in on the shooting, but called Trump’s deployment of White House border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota Monday “a positive development.” Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), the chair of the House Republican Conference, coauthored an op-ed for Newsmax with fellow Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) declaring victory for Trump’s approach to immigration policy in his first year. The op-ed, published yesterday, did not mention Minnesota, and McLain hasn’t posted a link to it on any of her social channels.
In recent days, the GOP’s message on ICE has been less than unified.
