NEWLY RELEASED: FBI Records Released By Judicial Watch Show Butler Deputy Had Email Contact With Thomas Crooks Before Trump Rally Shooting. The Butler Story Just Got Stranger......

Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged emails with Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against Donald Trump, according to documents obtained by the conservative Judicial Watch through a FOIA lawsuit.

 

A heavily redacted July 17, 2024, FBI electronic communication summarized interviews with five Butler County Sheriff’s Office deputies conducted July 16, 2024. In one summary, a deputy said she checked her emails after being contacted by a New York Times reporter and found two email communications from Crooks. The specific subject of the emails was redacted.

 

The newly released FBI records show the deputy told investigators she had two email communications with Crooks prior to the shooting. However, the FBI heavily redacted the records, leaving the subject of the emails and the nature of the interaction hidden from public view.

 

The watchdog group said it obtained 48 heavily redacted pages from the FBI that include interview summaries and investigative communications tied to Crooks and the Butler rally shooting. The records also state that after Crooks was killed, a SWAT officer found a gray remote device with numerical buttons, an antenna and a cellphone in Crooks’ pocket.

 

Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit in July 2025 after the FBI did not respond to a July 2024 FOIA request seeking records related to Crooks and the assassination attempt. The request sought investigative files, interview summaries, reports, communications, media, database records and any FBI communications involving personnel, sources, contractors or assets and Crooks himself. The case is titled Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice.

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His name is Will Hollingsworth. He is a former programmer and digital artist. He used AI tools in his work for years — and watched those same tools eventually replace him. And then he walked into his city council chambers on April 10, 2026 — in front of almost 100 neighbors — and said the seven words that made the whole country stop scrolling:

“We are being asked to drain our reservoirs, so a chatbot can write a poem.”

This is the speech every American needs to hear.

THE FOUR MINUTES THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

Hollingsworth stepped to the podium at the Ravenna City Council meeting — packed with almost 100 residents — and delivered what observers are calling one of the most articulate and devastating arguments against data center construction ever given at a public meeting. He addressed the council’s debate over a proposed 12-month moratorium on data center construction in the area. 

He didn’t yell. He didn’t wave signs. He just spoke — clearly, precisely, with the knowledge of someone who had worked inside the tech industry — and said what millions of Americans had been feeling but couldn’t put into words.

Hollingsworth tackled the water myth head-on: “They want us to trust a trillion-dollar industry that tells us, with a straight face, that they can suck five million gallons of water out of our ground a day, use it as a liquid heat sink and return it to our rivers without a single consequence.” He is skeptical that the forever chemicals produced in the cooling process won’t eventually find their way back into the water table — no matter how many studies say otherwise. 

Five million gallons. Per day. Out of the ground. Of a small Ohio town. Returned to the rivers. With no consequences. They want you to trust them on that.

Then came the line that the whole internet shared: “We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem or so our sheriff can generate a picture of himself standing next to Bigfoot.” 

The Bigfoot line. The local sheriff’s department had actually posted an AI-generated image of themselves arresting Bigfoot on Facebook — and Hollingsworth used it to make the most powerful point of his entire speech: this is what the water of 50,000 people is being sacrificed for. Not cancer research. Not clean energy. Not cures for disease.

AI-generated Bigfoot images. For a sheriff’s Facebook page.

The crowd roared. The internet exploded. “THEY ARE AN EXTRACTION” — THE LINE THAT DEFINES AN ERA

Hollingsworth then destroyed the jobs myth — the one that every data center developer leads with when they show up to a town hall: “A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people — which only hires about 10 people — is not an employer. They are an extraction.” 

Extraction. Not investment. Not development. Not partnership.

Extraction. Like a mining company. They take what they need — your water, your electricity, your land, your tax breaks — and leave behind exactly as little as the law requires.

And then he said the line that hit deepest of all — the one that made even people who support AI stop and think: “We are being asked to fund a 21st century luxury with a 19th century resource heist.” 

A 21st century luxury. Paid for with a 19th century resource heist. AI chatbots. Funded by the water your great-grandparents drank. Funded by the electricity that should be powering your hospital. Funded by the farmland that fed your parents’ generation.

That is what is happening in Ravenna, Ohio. That is what is happening in all of America.

AND HE TRAINED THE VERY MACHINE THAT REPLACED HIM

Here is the part that hit the hardest on social media. The part that made people share the video millions of times.

Will Hollingsworth is a former programmer who used Midjourney — an AI image generation tool — in his daily work as a digital artist. In his own words, he “trained the very machine that would eventually replace me.” He fed it images. He refined its outputs. He made it better. And then it took his job. 

He built it. He fed it. He improved it. And then it took everything he had built his career around.

And now — instead of being bitter, instead of retreating — he walked into his city council meeting and used every skill he had developed across a career in technology to make the most powerful public argument against unchecked data center development that America has heard in 2026.

The machine took his job. So he used his voice.

AND IT WORKED

After Hollingsworth’s speech — after the chamber erupted in applause — the Ravenna City Council voted to approve a temporary moratorium preventing new data centers from being built in the area. The speech had done what no amount of formal lobbying or legal threats had managed to do: it changed minds. In real time. At a public meeting. In a town of 11,000 people in Ohio. 

The video went viral on Hollingsworth’s TikTok with more than 600,000 views. It was shared on X more than 250,000 times. It collected 49,000 likes on Reddit — where one user wrote: “God Damn that was good. Seriously this should be used as a script in every county these corporations are hustling.” National outlets from TechRadar to Tom’s Guide to Yahoo News covered it within days. 

A four-minute speech. At a city council meeting. In Ravenna, Ohio. Watched more than a million times across platforms. Inspiring communities across the country. And it actually worked.

The moratorium passed.

ERIN BROCKOVICH JUST JOINED THE FIGHT

And now — just one week ago — the most famous environmental advocate in American history stepped in.

Consumer advocate and environmentalist Erin Brockovich — whose real-life fight against corporate pollution became one of the most celebrated films in American history — announced she is joining the fight against AI data centers nationwide. She told CNN: “The size of these places is unbelievable” and called the rapid expansion of data centers across the country “shocking.” 

Erin Brockovich. The woman who took on Pacific Gas and Electric. Who stood up for the families of Hinkley, California when no one else would. Who proved that one person — with the right information and the right voice — can bring a trillion-dollar corporation to its knees.

She has now pointed that same energy at the data center industry. And she wants your help finding them.

Brockovich has launched a data center tracking initiative — publicly asking communities across America to report data centers being built in their neighborhoods, share documentation of permits and NDAs, and connect with her organization for support in fighting back. “Erin Brockovich’s next crusade is tracking new data centers across the US — and she wants your help,” was the headline that spread across tech and environmental media simultaneously. 

Will Hollingsworth in Ravenna, Ohio started a movement with four minutes and a microphone.

Erin Brockovich just picked up the torch.

THE WORDS THAT ENDED THE SPEECH

Hollingsworth closed his speech with words that silenced the room — and then brought it to its feet: “I am not a cynic when it comes to technology. I am a believer in community. I believe that a drop of clean water for a Ravenna child is worth more than a billion AI-generated images. Let us choose the child.” 

Let us choose the child.

Not the server. Not the shareholder. Not the stock price. Not the press conference where Trump stands next to tech billionaires and announces $500 billion in buildings that are already falling apart.

The child. The water. The community. The future that belongs to the people who actually live here.

That is what Will Hollingsworth said. In four minutes. At a city council meeting. In a town most Americans had never heard of. And a million people heard him.

Share this speech with everyone you know. Let them choose the child too. 

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Source: Futurism — “Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center” (April 17, 2026)

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This is not just about data privacy. It is about public trust.

If ordinary Americans are told that stealing, copying, or sharing someone’s Social Security information is a serious crime, then that same standard should apply when powerful people or government-linked teams are accused of mishandling sensitive data on a massive scale.

Reports and whistleblower claims have raised serious concerns about Elon Musk’s DOGE operation and its access to federal records, including Social Security data. The fear is simple but deeply alarming: if private information connected to millions of Americans was copied, moved, accessed, or shared without proper safeguards, this cannot be dismissed as a minor technical issue.

This kind of exposure can put people at risk of identity theft, financial fraud, disrupted benefits, and long-term privacy harm.

And let’s be honest. If a regular government employee walked out with private Social Security records, no one would call it “efficiency.” They would call it a scandal. There would be investigations, hearings, and demands for accountability.

So why should the reaction be different when the people involved are wealthy, politically connected, or operating under the banner of “government reform”?

That is what makes this situation so serious.

Americans did not agree to have their most sensitive personal information treated like a private experiment. Social Security numbers are not political tools. Federal databases are not playgrounds for billionaires. Privacy laws should not suddenly become flexible because someone has influence in Washington.

If people’s data was accessed or mishandled without lawful authority, a class action lawsuit may be exactly the kind of accountability needed. Because consequences should not only apply to ordinary citizens.

If the allegations are true, this is bigger than DOGE.

It is about whether powerful people can break the rules on a massive scale and still walk away untouched.

Do Americans deserve answers — and real consequences?

 

 

ELON MUSK, PETER THIEL, AND SAM ALTMAN ARE IN A THREE-WAY WAR OVER THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S DATA CENTERS — AND YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

 

You’ve been following this series. You know about the dry wells. The trailer parks. The electricity bills. The nuclear plants. The surveillance. The dead teenager. The empty Stargate field.

But underneath all of it — beneath every single story we’ve told — there is a war happening between the most powerful men in the world. A war over who controls the data centers. Who controls the AI. Who controls the future.

And it is getting nastier, more personal, and more dangerous by the week.

Here is the war that nobody is covering completely — because to cover it completely, you have to put all the pieces together at once.

 

THE THREE KINGS FIGHTING OVER AMERICA’S AI FUTURE

 

In one corner: Sam Altman — CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. His vision: AI should be controlled by a nonprofit-turned-corporation that answers to humanity. He is building Stargate. He convinced Trump to stand next to him at the White House. He survived a Molotov cocktail. He is raising the largest pool of AI capital in history.

In another corner: Elon Musk — founder of xAI, owner of X, head of DOGE, the most powerful man in Washington next to the President himself. He sued OpenAI. He publicly called Altman a fraud. He is building his own AI supercomputer called Colossus — as loud as an airport, running on jet engines in a residential area of Memphis, Tennessee.

And in the third corner: Peter Thiel — the billionaire venture capitalist behind Palantir, one of the most powerful AI surveillance companies in America. He flew to Rome in March 2026 for what the Vatican described as “secretive Antichrist lectures.” He is funding politicians, shaping policy, and building a vision of AI that the Pope himself just warned about.

Trump’s relationship with Musk, Altman, and the broader Silicon Valley AI elite has become one of the most consequential political dynamics in American history — three men with radically different visions of what AI should be, all competing for the President’s ear, his executive orders, and access to the federal contracts, data, and regulatory decisions that will determine who wins the AI race.

 

THE MUSK-ALTMAN WAR THAT SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT

 

Elon Musk and Sam Altman were once friends and co-founders of OpenAI. Now they are engaged in one of the most bitter corporate feuds in American history. Musk sued OpenAI, alleging the company betrayed its founding mission to benefit humanity. Altman fired back publicly. Musk used his position inside the Trump administration — as head of DOGE — to attempt to use the Department of Justice to block OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company, a move that would have been worth billions to Altman personally.

 

The head of DOGE. Using the Justice Department. To try to destroy a competitor’s company. While both men are building competing data centers that will consume the electricity of millions of Americans.

Meanwhile, Musk’s own data centers — built for his xAI company — have been at the center of multiple controversies. His “Colossus” AI supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee used 30 mobile gas turbines — essentially jet engines — to power the facility, creating noise levels comparable to an active airport in a residential neighborhood. Memphis residents filed complaints. Environmental groups sued. And Musk used his proximity to the Trump White House to fast-track permits that would normally have taken years. 

Jet engines. In a neighborhood. Fast-tracked by a man who runs the government’s efficiency department. Building a competitor to the company he tried to destroy using the Justice Department.

 

PETER THIEL AND THE “ANTICHRIST LECTURES” AT THE VATICAN

 

In March 2026 — the same month the Vatican was finalizing the Pope’s historic AI encyclical — Peter Thiel traveled to Rome for what the Vatican described as “secretive Antichrist lectures.” Thiel, a known contrarian and Christian nationalist philosopher, has long argued that AI represents an existential force that will either save or destroy Western civilization — and that the stakes are so high that conventional moral guardrails should not apply. 

Peter Thiel. At the Vatican. Giving secret lectures about the Antichrist. While the Pope was writing an encyclical warning that AI was becoming a new Tower of Babel.

 

Thiel’s company — Palantir — now has formal contracts with the Pentagon to process classified intelligence using AI. His vision of AI as a tool of geopolitical and military dominance is precisely what Pope Leo XIV condemned in Magnifica Humanitas when he warned against “an ‘armed’ logic of competition driven by the pursuit of geopolitical and commercial dominance.” The Pope issued that warning eleven days after Thiel’s Rome visit. 

The Pope issued his most important document eleven days after Peter Thiel gave secret lectures at the Vatican about AI and the Antichrist. The timing is not a coincidence. The Pope was responding to exactly what he saw and heard.

 

AND TRUMP IS PLAYING ALL THREE — AND AMERICA IS THE PRIZE

 

Trump signed Executive Order 14318 on July 23, 2025 — titled “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure” — specifically designed to override local community opposition and fast-track data center construction across America. The order allows federal authorities to bypass local zoning laws, environmental reviews, and community input processes that would normally slow or stop data center construction.

 

When your community voted no on a data center — and construction started anyway — this is why. A presidential executive order was specifically written to make your vote not matter.

The data center backlash has become a major political flashpoint ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In Pennsylvania, Republican incumbents who supported data center development are now facing serious electoral challenges from voters who are furious about electricity bills and community impacts. Democrats who won governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia specifically ran on data center accountability. Both parties are now scrambling to figure out which side of this issue wins votes.

 

Musk vs Altman. Thiel at the Vatican. Trump overriding community votes. Pennsylvania Republicans running scared. Virginia governors elected on data center anger.

 

This is not a tech story anymore. This is a power struggle — the largest and most consequential fight over who controls the future of America — playing out in data center zoning meetings, White House briefings, Vatican conference rooms, and Memphis neighborhood associations simultaneously.

And at the center of it all — paying the electricity bills, drinking the drained water, breathing the diesel exhaust, watching their wells run dry — are the 330 million Americans who were never invited to the table.

 

THE BOTTOM LINE

 

Three men. Each worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Each with the ear of the most powerful government on Earth. Each building competing data centers. Each fighting to control what AI becomes. Each willing to use every tool available — lawsuits, executive orders, secret Vatican lectures, government contracts, military partnerships — to win.

 

Sam Altman survived a Molotov cocktail.

 

Elon Musk is running the government’s efficiency department while building a competitor to the company he sued.

 

Peter Thiel is giving secret Antichrist lectures at the Vatican while his company processes your classified data for the Pentagon.

And the rest of America is getting the bill.

 

Share this. Because understanding who is actually fighting over your water, your electricity, your privacy, and your future is the first step to taking it back.

 

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Source: Fortune — “Communities are blocking billions in data centers. Big Tech has wagered $1 trillion otherwise.” (May 18, 2026)

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BREAKING: Whistleblower reveals Trump officials and DOGE bros tried declaring 2.7 MILLION living people "dead" in Social Security records to drive them out of the country as part of Trump's immigration crackdown!

According to a former senior Social Security Administration whistleblower, the plan would have used one of the federal government's most powerful databases to effectively erase living people from the financial system. The allegations were revealed by the WaPo this morning.

Whistleblower Jeremiah Schofield, says DOGE officials arrived at Social Security in early 2025 and quickly gained access to some of the agency's most sensitive data systems. He recalled seeing DOGE personnel discussing databases that few government employees were normally allowed to access.

Then things allegedly took a darker turn. Schofield said a DOGE official working with the Department of Homeland Security described a plan to place as many as 2.7 million people into Social Security's “Death Master File,” a database used by banks, employers and government agencies to determine whether someone is alive.

Anyone falsely placed in that file would lose access to wages, bank accounts, credit, benefits and other essential services because the system effectively treats them as dead.

Schofield says he reviewed a sample of names from the list and discovered the people were alive. The sample included U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, teenagers and senior citizens, including a widow legally receiving survivor benefits.

Agency lawyers warned that falsely marking living people as dead could violate federal law, and he refused to help implement the plan.

Schofield said he was shocked by discussions that indicated the goal was to make immigrants so miserable financially that they would self-deport or seek help from government offices where they could potentially be detained.

The Social Security Administration says the larger 2.7 million-person effort was never carried out. But Schofield alleges a smaller operation involving roughly 6,100 people was implemented, with some later forced to prove they were still alive in order to restore their records.

In short, the plan was to use government databases to make living people disappear from the financial system. If Schofield's allegations are true, DOGE wasn't just hunting for waste and fraud. It was helping build a bureaucratic blacklist.

Add this to the many crimes perpetrated by DOGE that have already come to light. Justice must be served against their wholesale ransacking of some of the U.S. government's most sensitive data.

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