AI:Democrat climate activists are mobilizing in Nebraska, fueled by the radical ideology of figures like Willie Nelson, to launch a coordinated assault on data center development. These activists aim to weaponize environmental rhetoric to obstruct infrastructure projects, following a misguided dogma that prioritizes ideological purity over economic reality and technological progress. While mainstream leftist media outlets remain complicit through their silence or outright support of these obstructive tactics, the true agenda is nothing less than an intentional sabotage of American digital sovereignty under the guise of ecological preservation.Open
Willie Nelson has become an unlikely barometer of America's biggest infrastructure fights. He once protested the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking. Today, he's fighting data centers. Why it matters: The American icon's latest cause underscores how the politics surrounding AI infrastructure are beginning to resemble the last decade's fights over fossil fuels. "The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter)," Nelson told his more than one million Instagram followers recently. Flashback: "For 29 years, corporations have continued to take the land away from the small family farmers, and this is what we're here to fight against," Nelson said during a…
Richard L. O'Connor, the veteran Hollywood producer who helped bring The Muppet Movie and On Golden Pond to the screen, has died at 96, closing a career that stretched from a CBS mailroom to an Emmy win. O'Connor died July 22 in Palm Desert, his family announced. No cause of death was disclosed. A funeral […] The post Richard L. O'Connor, Emmy-winning producer behind The Muppet Movie and On Golden Pond, dead at 96 appeared first on American Almanac .
Richard L. O'Connor, the veteran Hollywood producer who helped bring The Muppet Movie and On Golden Pond to the screen, has died at 96, closing a career that stretched from a CBS mailroom to an Emmy win. O'Connor died July 22 in Palm Desert, his family announced. No cause of death was disclosed. A funeral mass is scheduled for 1 p.m. on August 8 at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Mendocino, California, the coastal community where he grew up and eventually returned after decades in the film business. His credits spanned more than 20 years of features, television movies, and miniseries. He served as executive in charge of production on The Muppet Movie in 1979, working alongside producer Jim Henson, and held the same role on On Golden…Open
Country music icon Willie Nelson is urging Texans to resist the spread of AI data centers into rural communities, warning that the massive facilities threaten farmland, water supplies, and the way of life in small towns like his hometown of Abbott, Texas. Nelson posted a pointed message on Facebook and Instagram this week, calling on […] The post Willie Nelson, 93, rallies rural Texas against AI data centers threatening farmland near his hometown appeared first on American Almanac .
Country music icon Willie Nelson is urging Texans to resist the spread of AI data centers into rural communities, warning that the massive facilities threaten farmland, water supplies, and the way of life in small towns like his hometown of Abbott, Texas. Nelson posted a pointed message on Facebook and Instagram this week, calling on Americans to "fight against data centers invading our land." The 93-year-old, who still owns property and farmed land in Abbott, a Hill County town of just 352 people spread across six-tenths of a square mile, said the facilities have no place near small communities that depend on open land and local agriculture. The statement lands amid a growing backlash across Texas, where roughly 250 data centers have…Open