A bipartisan pair of Michigan lawmakers are working to repeal data center tax exemptions.
Last year Michigan approved exemptions aimed at getting tech companies to build massive data centers in the state.
Now the push to reverse these giveaways to Big Tech has begun.
bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
Last year Michigan approved exemptions aimed at getting tech companies to build massive data centers in the state.
Now the push to reverse these giveaways to Big Tech has begun.
bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
Michigan lawmakers unveil plan to repeal data center tax breaks - Bridge Michigan
As a wave of new data center proposals prompts growing controversy in Michigan, two lawmakers are pushing legislation to repeal the tax breaks that have lured the industry to the state.
bridgemi.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A bipartisan pair of Michigan lawmakers are working to repeal data center tax exemptions.
Last year Michigan approved exemptions aimed at getting tech companies to build massive data centers in the state.
Now the push to reverse these giveaways to Big Tech has begun.
bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
Last year Michigan approved exemptions aimed at getting tech companies to build massive data centers in the state.
Now the push to reverse these giveaways to Big Tech has begun.
bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
What’s ‘fun’ is that the bill says it is to prevent “genital mutilation and chemical castration of minors”
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Except intersex ones. The bill dedicates 2 exemptions to allow that for people like me. They don’t even shy away from calling it mutilation.
It’s never been about protecting anyone.
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Except intersex ones. The bill dedicates 2 exemptions to allow that for people like me. They don’t even shy away from calling it mutilation.
It’s never been about protecting anyone.
December 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
What’s ‘fun’ is that the bill says it is to prevent “genital mutilation and chemical castration of minors”
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Except intersex ones. The bill dedicates 2 exemptions to allow that for people like me. They don’t even shy away from calling it mutilation.
It’s never been about protecting anyone.
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Except intersex ones. The bill dedicates 2 exemptions to allow that for people like me. They don’t even shy away from calling it mutilation.
It’s never been about protecting anyone.
this is quite a lot broader than just adding countries. It also removes exemptions - like family member immigrant visas- for the previous 19.
Expanding the travel ban to Syria leaves few options for the people who fought and defeated the Islamic State and are being increasingly threatened by the Syrian state.
BREAKING: The Trump administration expands travel ban to include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria.
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
this is quite a lot broader than just adding countries. It also removes exemptions - like family member immigrant visas- for the previous 19.
This has to be like 50% weird evangelical Christian supremacy and 50% “stop claiming religious exemptions for beards”
Oh *this* will go exceptionally poorly for Hegseth. You don't fuck with the chaplains.
Hegseth to overhaul chaplain corps, toss ‘unacceptable and unserious’ Army spiritual fitness guide
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military’s chaplain corps.
www.stripes.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This has to be like 50% weird evangelical Christian supremacy and 50% “stop claiming religious exemptions for beards”
Oh that's not a rumor, we just had a knock down dragout in Congress last year about slot/perimeter exemptions
On the side of no more exemptions: FAA, DCA management, controllers, VA/MD delegations
On the side of more exemptions: Rafael Cruz (DCA-SAT direct baybee), airlines, Congress in general
On the side of no more exemptions: FAA, DCA management, controllers, VA/MD delegations
On the side of more exemptions: Rafael Cruz (DCA-SAT direct baybee), airlines, Congress in general
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh that's not a rumor, we just had a knock down dragout in Congress last year about slot/perimeter exemptions
On the side of no more exemptions: FAA, DCA management, controllers, VA/MD delegations
On the side of more exemptions: Rafael Cruz (DCA-SAT direct baybee), airlines, Congress in general
On the side of no more exemptions: FAA, DCA management, controllers, VA/MD delegations
On the side of more exemptions: Rafael Cruz (DCA-SAT direct baybee), airlines, Congress in general
DISINFORMATION DANGER: Resistance to vaccinating kids on the rise in Arkansas, with percentage of kindergartners getting exemptions nearly tripling over last 10 years. Increase driven entirely by non-medical exemptions. @arktimes.bsky.social's Benjamin Hardy reports.
#Arkansas #arpx
#Arkansas #arpx
Vaccine opt-outs for Ark. kindergartners have almost tripled in the past 10 years - Arkansas Times
The percentage of kindergarten students with a vaccine exemption reached another all-time high in Arkansas and across the U.S. in the 2024-25 school year, according to CDC data.
buff.ly
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
DISINFORMATION DANGER: Resistance to vaccinating kids on the rise in Arkansas, with percentage of kindergartners getting exemptions nearly tripling over last 10 years. Increase driven entirely by non-medical exemptions. @arktimes.bsky.social's Benjamin Hardy reports.
#Arkansas #arpx
#Arkansas #arpx
People on low incomes in County Durham are about to be hit with a council tax bill for the first time.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
People on low incomes in County Durham are about to be hit with a council tax bill for the first time.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
reading "this law will hurt cis ppl too" wrt to laws that have exemptions for cis ppl is particularly maddening
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
reading "this law will hurt cis ppl too" wrt to laws that have exemptions for cis ppl is particularly maddening
3/ In our reporting, we found that consumers often have no way of knowing if the medications they are taking came from contaminated factories, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S., but then granted special exemptions to do so anyway.
www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...
www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...
Rx Roulette Archives
The agency charged with ensuring the safety of the country’s drug supply has for years allowed risky drugs into your medicine cabinet.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
3/ In our reporting, we found that consumers often have no way of knowing if the medications they are taking came from contaminated factories, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S., but then granted special exemptions to do so anyway.
www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...
www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...
This echoes what Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson argued in court: that exemptions already exist.
More context here: www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-m...
More context here: www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-m...
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This echoes what Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson argued in court: that exemptions already exist.
More context here: www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-m...
More context here: www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-m...
This past week, we released a map detailing the Trump admin's legally dubious Clean Air Act exemptions for coal plants, chemical manufacturers & other facilities emitting toxic air pollutants. These exemptions will harm overburdened communities across the US. Here's how this interactive tool works:
How Trump’s Free Pass to Polluters will Harm Americans
More than one-third of coal plants and other polluting facilities have been exempted from clear air rules.
blog.ucs.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This past week, we released a map detailing the Trump admin's legally dubious Clean Air Act exemptions for coal plants, chemical manufacturers & other facilities emitting toxic air pollutants. These exemptions will harm overburdened communities across the US. Here's how this interactive tool works:
I’d be ok to fully strike down religious exemptions, too 🙂
December 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I’d be ok to fully strike down religious exemptions, too 🙂
Oh and the exemptions for Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary are also bad
Majority voting is an effective way to take action
Opt outs/exemptions are the illusion of effectiveness to cover for the dismantling of solidarity and the principle of common gains/common costs
Majority voting is an effective way to take action
Opt outs/exemptions are the illusion of effectiveness to cover for the dismantling of solidarity and the principle of common gains/common costs
Why you do something matters as much as what you do 🧵
EU to give €90bn loan to Ukraine ft.trib.al/usF4xdJ
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oh and the exemptions for Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary are also bad
Majority voting is an effective way to take action
Opt outs/exemptions are the illusion of effectiveness to cover for the dismantling of solidarity and the principle of common gains/common costs
Majority voting is an effective way to take action
Opt outs/exemptions are the illusion of effectiveness to cover for the dismantling of solidarity and the principle of common gains/common costs
streaming is the worst invention of the internet era, every streamer should be worked to an inch of their life in alaska. No exemptions for ideology.
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
streaming is the worst invention of the internet era, every streamer should be worked to an inch of their life in alaska. No exemptions for ideology.
As Lisa Barker said: tired of the BS and the wildly unpredictability of the regime, Carney just said, “Fuck it. No Exemptions. No Negotiations. No carve-outs. We’ll wait until 2026, roll it into CUSMA, and wait for Trump to hang himself with his Epstein/Tariff Scam/Polling noose.”
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Carney says U.S. tariff reprieve 'unlikely' to happen before CUSMA review talks
"Although if the United States wants to come back on that, in those areas, we're always ready there. We're very ready," said Carney.
nationalpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As Lisa Barker said: tired of the BS and the wildly unpredictability of the regime, Carney just said, “Fuck it. No Exemptions. No Negotiations. No carve-outs. We’ll wait until 2026, roll it into CUSMA, and wait for Trump to hang himself with his Epstein/Tariff Scam/Polling noose.”
shorturl.fm/pqWhJ
shorturl.fm/pqWhJ
A new bill up in the NJ statehouse would establish a 'historic diners' list and provide sales tax exemptions and tax credits for family-owned diners that had been in operation for 25 years or more. Diner owners say it is getting harder and harder to stay open. www.nj.com/politics/202...
New Jersey’s diners are struggling. New tax breaks proposed by state could save them.
New Jersey loves its diners. But they are a dying breed in the state.
www.nj.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A new bill up in the NJ statehouse would establish a 'historic diners' list and provide sales tax exemptions and tax credits for family-owned diners that had been in operation for 25 years or more. Diner owners say it is getting harder and harder to stay open. www.nj.com/politics/202...
I linked the relevant section in MTG's bill that carves out exemptions to protect intersex genital mutilation, and these fucking twits go "cite where it says that". I did cite, learn to read you debate perverts! The link takes you directly to the relevant sections...
December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I linked the relevant section in MTG's bill that carves out exemptions to protect intersex genital mutilation, and these fucking twits go "cite where it says that". I did cite, learn to read you debate perverts! The link takes you directly to the relevant sections...
I was also surprised to see nothing about footway parking and the lax attitude of some boroughs in ignoring it or eve worse, painting bays and having exemptions that make footways unusable.
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I was also surprised to see nothing about footway parking and the lax attitude of some boroughs in ignoring it or eve worse, painting bays and having exemptions that make footways unusable.
The convicted child sex trafficker tries to halt Friday's file release.
"The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting AG Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions."
🧾 abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-a...
"The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting AG Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions."
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Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to set aside her conviction
Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a judge to vacate her sex-trafficking conviction -- a move that could complicate the release of the Epstein files.
abcnews.go.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The convicted child sex trafficker tries to halt Friday's file release.
"The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting AG Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions."
🧾 abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-a...
"The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting AG Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions."
🧾 abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-a...
AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in
Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
🚨 Nature under threat as controversial exemptions for smaller sites get the go-ahead
📣 “This is the same short-term politics that got us into this mess in the first place... but we are ready to fight for British nature.”
www.edie.net/biodiversity...
📣 “This is the same short-term politics that got us into this mess in the first place... but we are ready to fight for British nature.”
www.edie.net/biodiversity...
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 Nature under threat as controversial exemptions for smaller sites get the go-ahead
📣 “This is the same short-term politics that got us into this mess in the first place... but we are ready to fight for British nature.”
www.edie.net/biodiversity...
📣 “This is the same short-term politics that got us into this mess in the first place... but we are ready to fight for British nature.”
www.edie.net/biodiversity...
"Maxwell's newly filed petition presents a possible wrinkle in the long-running controversy. The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting Attorney General Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions."
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Maxwell's newly filed petition presents a possible wrinkle in the long-running controversy. The Epstein Files Transparency Act contains exemptions permitting Attorney General Pam Bondi to withhold certain records if their publication could jeopardize active criminal investigations or prosecutions."
Religious and personal belief exemptions in private schools. That’s the missing piece of this story that isn’t being covered. Spartanburg Co vax rates aren’t that low but they lead the state in religious exemptions and most are in a small set of private schools. The tinderbox has caught fire.
December 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Religious and personal belief exemptions in private schools. That’s the missing piece of this story that isn’t being covered. Spartanburg Co vax rates aren’t that low but they lead the state in religious exemptions and most are in a small set of private schools. The tinderbox has caught fire.
If large hospital systems like Atrium are going to act like for-profit corporations, they should be taxed like for-profit corporations. We've subsidized their excess with tax exemptions for far too long.
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If large hospital systems like Atrium are going to act like for-profit corporations, they should be taxed like for-profit corporations. We've subsidized their excess with tax exemptions for far too long.
Exemptions must be considered: Renaming a sewage facility after Trump
December 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Exemptions must be considered: Renaming a sewage facility after Trump