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Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center

The immense hype surrounding AI has caused enormous data centers to crop up across the country, triggering significant opposition. It’s not just the loss of land: enormous power needs are pushing the grid into meltdown and driving up local electricity prices, catching the attention of politicians and their irate constituents.

One 86-year-old farmer in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, has heard enough. As local Fox affiliate WPMT reports, Mervin Raudabaugh, who has farmed the surrounding land for more than 60 years, turned down more than $15 million from data center developers in a package deal that involved three neighboring property owners as well.

The farmer was offered $60,000 per acre to build a data center on his property. But giving up his family legacy wasn’t in the cards for him.

“I was not interested in destroying my farms,” he told WPMT. “That was the bottom line. It really wasn’t so much the economic end of it. I just didn’t want to see these two farms destroyed.”

Instead, he sold the development rights in December for just under $2 million to a conservation trust, taking a significant loss but guaranteeing that it would stay farmland in perpetuity.

Users on social media called him a “legend,” and argued he had “more integrity than the whole government.”

“Now that is a real hero in these gutless times!” another user tweeted.

“$15M is huge, but clean water, quiet land, and legacy don’t have a price tag,” another user argued.

The sheer amount of land being earmarked to construct enormous energy and water-sucking data centers is remarkable. A data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is set to take up 600 acres, which could cost local residents their land, as ABC News reported this week. Another octogenarian farmer, the 83-year-old Tom Uttech, who has lived on his 52-acre Wisconsin property for almost 40 years, told the broadcaster that he “couldn’t believe” that a local utility company was looking to build “power lines that are 300 or something feet tall, taller than apparently the Statue of Liberty,” through his land to power the data center.

Per ABC, there are more than 3,000 data centers in the US, a number that will soon grow by 1,200 more, which are currently being constructed.

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Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Pushes Separate ‘Trans Bill of Rights’ and Wants Minors to Have Access to ‘Gender Affirming Care’

Democrat U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts is pushing a separate ‘Trans Bill of Rights’ and believes minors should have access to ‘gender affirming care’ – a term that is completely Orwellian.

People in Massachusetts are struggling with massive home heating costs and other issues, yet this is what one of their senators is focused on. Separate rights for trans people.

As you’ll see in the video below, Markey insists that trans people have the right to live free of violence. That’s true of all people, including the people who have been shot and killed by trans people in two shootings in just the past two weeks.

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Boasberg Rubber-Stamps DOJ Request To Keep FBI-Twitter Payments Secret

When the Twitter files hit in December of 2022, they revealed that the Biden administration had paid Twitter at least $3.4 million between October 2019 and February 2021 to reimburse the pre-Musk, left-leaning social media giant for a flood of requests. 

During this period, the Biden DOJ was going after vaccine skeptics, lab-leak proponents, 2020 election ‘deniers,’ Catholic parents, Hunter Biden laptop / Burisma content, and conservative news outlets. We also learned that the FBI’s Elvis Chan and crew were holding weekly meeting with Twitter on “misinformation,” and flagged thousands of accounts for the above. 

Days after the Twitter files were released, watchdog group Judicial Watch sued the Biden DOJ, which oversees the FBI, over a FOIA request demanding to know how much the FBI paid Twitter from 2016 onward. The FBI initially refused, but eventually released 44-pages of documents with the key payment details redacted – claiming the data was protected under FOIA’s “Exemption 7(E),” which lets agencies hide info about law enforcement methods if releasing it could help criminals or enemies dodge detection.

Judicial Watch then narrowed their claims to just those redacted payment amounts (JW dropped other issues such as vendor names), however in December of 2025, the Trump DOJ asked Judge James Boasberg for a Motion for Summary Judgement to deny Judicial Watch’s request – effectively concealing the extent to which the FBI, under Trump and Biden, was going after Americans. 

In its request for summary judgement, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office (say it ain’t so!) argued that revealing payments that are tied to real investigations could reveal super secret investigative methods – such as how much the FBI is “engaging” with Twitter vs. other platforms, which could lead to ‘bad guys’ (criminals, hackers, foreign spies) to switch to platforms with less FBI activity, and that it might reveal shifts in FBI priorities over time.

Revealing the quarterly totals could also betray “mosaic theory,” where seemingly harmless info (like one quarter’s payment) can be pieced together with public data (e.g., Twitter’s transparency reports) to form a big picture of FBI strategies.

Earlier this month, Boasberg agreed – ruling that revealing the payments could expose FBI “techniques and procedures” (how they monitor online threats) and help bad actors figure out what the FBI is focused on, allowing them to adapt and change strategies. 

Boasberg wrote in his opinion that the 7(E) exemption is valid because it could “risk circumvention of the law.” 

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Trump poised for historic UFO disclosure as daughter-in-law confirms extraterrestrial speech

Whispers of a looming UFO disclosure are growing louder after President Donald Trump‘s daughter-in-law hinted a bombshell announcement could be coming.

Speaking on the Pod Force One podcast, Laura Trump said she and her husband, Eric, asked the president about rumors he has a speech ready for the historic moment.

‘He played a little coy with us. And so that, of course, led us to believe… Eric and I were like, “Oh my gosh, if he won’t even fully tell us, maybe there’s more to it,”‘ she said. 

She suggested President Trump had mentioned having a speech prepared that he plans to deliver at the ‘right time,’ touching on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. 

The rumors were sparked by claims from Mark Christopher Lee, a UK-based director and ufologist, who told Daily Mail ‘an advisor to the Trump administration’ told him that the president ‘has been given authority by the other major world leaders to make this announcement.’

The speech, according to Lee, was initially planned for the United Nations General Assembly in September. However, Lee said it has been moved up to coincide with Roswell’s 79th anniversary on July 8. 

He told the Daily Mail that ‘new intelligence developments have made it a matter of urgency.’

The White House previously declined to comment on the matter.

Trump has expressed support for increased transparency and ‘disclosure’ regarding UFOs, though his personal interest in the subject has historically been described as skeptical or limited.

‘Am I a believer? No, I probably can’t say I am. But I have met with people who are serious people who say there are some really strange things that they see flying around out there,’ Trump said during an appearance on YouTuber-turned-WWE star Logan Paul’s podcast last year.

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Trump Has A UFO Speech Ready To Deliver

Documentary filmmaker Dan Farah appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast in November to promote his new documentary, The Age of Disclosure, and predicted that his film might force Trump to become the first world leader to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life publicly.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens soon after the film comes out — the sitting president has to step to the microphone and say: humanity is not alone in the universe,” Farah told Rogan. “We have recovered technology of non-human origin. So have other nations. There is a high-stakes, secret cold war race to reverse engineer this technology. We need to win this race.” 

“I think Trump might be the only guy that’s willing to do something that crazy,” Rogan replied.

Well, now Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, let it slip during an appearance on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast that Trump has a speech prepared confirming extraterrestrial life exists.

“Do you think that he’s about to make an announcement about UFOs?” host Miranda Devine asked.

“Because President Obama was just on a podcast talking about how he believes in UFOs and hinting that he saw something when he was president.”

“Well, I said this in my podcast, too,” Lara Trump began.

“What’s funny is we’ve kind of asked my father-in-law about this, ’cause we’re like, ‘Well, what do you know?’ ‘Cause, Miranda, we all wanna know about the UFOs, or we all wanna know what’s going on and he played a little coy with us. And so that, of course, led us to believe, Eric and I, were like, ‘Oh, my gosh, if he won’t even, like, fully tell us, maybe there’s more to it.’ And then I have just heard kind of around that… I think he’s actually said it, I think my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has that, I guess, at, at the right time, and I don’t know when the right time is, he’s gonna break out and, and talk about, and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life, so to speak.”

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Andrew accused of watching as girl ‘tortured with electrical shocks’ by Ghislaine Maxwell

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been accused of watching a young girl, aged between six and eight years old, being subjected to electric shock torture.

The former prince, recently ousted from Royal Lodge, is alleged to have watched a woman being restrained on a table and “tortured with electrical shocks” by Ghislaine Maxwell. It’s thought these accusations surfaced in the Epstein files, with an FBI report from July 2020 detailing allegations of sexual abuse involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in Surrey during the mid-1990s.

The claim, reportedly originating from an anonymous tip-off, also suggests that other men observed the girl’s torture alongside Andrew. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently refuted any wrongdoing and charges against him.

This allegation, which emerged in the Epstein files released just weeks ago, asserts that the electric shocks were administered at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, Berkshire, reports the Express.

Surrey Police are encouraging individuals to share any information regarding non-recent human trafficking and sexual assault claims following separate allegations pertinent to that county. The force has confirmed that this appeal is unrelated to the electric shock torture allegations that appeared in the Epstein Files.

The force revealed it became aware of a redacted report alleging historic human trafficking and sexual assaults on a minor in Virginia Water village between 1994 and 1996.

Surrey Police confirmed they have found no evidence of the allegations being reported to them. A Surrey Police spokesperson stated: “After reviewing our systems using the limited information available to us, we found no evidence of these allegations being reported to Surrey Police.”

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Male Student Takes Two Girls’ Medals In Massachusetts State Track and Field Championships

Women’s sports advocacy groups are expressing outrage after a male student was found to be competing in girls’ track and field for Chelsea High School in Massachusetts. Lilly Serrano captured two podium finishes at Thursday’s Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 3 Indoor Track and Field Championships last week.

Serrano, who has competed in girls’ athletics since at least 2024, has earned multiple podium finishes in recent seasons. Earlier this month at the Greater Boston League Championship, Serrano placed first in both the 55-meter dash and the high jump, and third in the 500-meter race. On February 12, Serrano took third in the 55-meter dash and seventh in the 300-meter race at the state championships, earning a medal and podium position in both events.

Serrano, 17, currently ranks first on the Chelsea High School team in the 200-, 300-, and 400-meter races, as well as the high jump and 55-meter dash for the 2026 indoor season. Serrano is also ranked as the second best “female” runner in Massachusetts in the 200 meter Division 3 category.

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Kristi Noem’s $70m luxurious private ICE jet sparks scandal: Stunning image shows mile-high bedroom

Kristi Noem’s use of a luxurious private jet has raised alarm among powerful players in the Republican Party, as Donald Trump’s top immigration enforcer seeks to deploy it for migrant deportations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which falls under Noem’s jurisdiction inside the Department of Homeland Security, is seeking approval from the White House to purchase a $70 million luxury Boeing jet, according to NBC News.

The jet is already being leased by DHS – Noem used it to travel to Tel Aviv, Israel – but now the agency wants to own it. 

ICE claims the jet will be used for deportations and travel for Cabinet officials, including DHS leadership like Noem. 

But some DHS officials privately expressed concern to NBC whether the luxury 747 jet is necessary for Noem to carryout the president’s mass deportation agenda. 

When asked how the plane would be used for deportations, a DHS spokesperson said ‘at least one of the bedrooms is currently being converted for seating to prepare the aircraft to meet the demands of its deportation mission’. 

NBC’s scoop caused the Republican National Committee to blast the story to the top power brokers and media pundits in the Republican party. The story was sent on Thursday morning to an email list filled with some of the most important operators in the GOP, including RNC members.  

‘Knives are out for Noem. They only send out stories they want folks to know about,’ one GOP operator on the RNC’s list told the Daily Mail. ‘They don’t send out every clipping.’

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Trump blasts Obama for sharing ‘classified’ alien secrets: ‘Big mistake’

Donald Trump claims that Barack Obama acted improperly by allegedly sharing classified information with Americans when he said that aliens exist. 

Podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen asked the former president in an episode that aired January 14 if aliens are real.

‘They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,’ the former president replied. He joked that they aren’t being kept at Area 51, as far as he knows.

The clip went so viral and sparked so much speculation that Obama had to post a clarification the following day where he explicitly stated: ‘I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!’

Rather, he said, the former president was sharing his personal belief that ‘the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.’

But Trump said on Thursday on his way to Georgia that Obama was ‘not supposed’ to be sharing this ‘classified information.

‘I don’t know if they’re real or not,’ Trump told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy aboard Air Force One.

‘I can tell you he gave classified information. He made a big mistake,’ he added.

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