Tuesday, July 14, 2026
A rare, antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as Cupriavidus gilardii was recently discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming's reclaimed water system, leading to months-long disruptions at two municipal water reclamation plants.
After an extensive investigation, the problem traced back to wastewater associated with construction activities at Meta's $800 million AI data center project. While the contamination did not affect the city's drinking water supply, the incident raised concerns because the bacterium is uncommon, resistant to many antibiotics, and required significant cleanup efforts before normal operations could resume.
As artificial intelligence expands, it increasingly depends on massive physical infrastructure that consumes large amounts of electricity, water, land, and municipal resources. From a systems' perspective, powerful innovations are deployed rapidly because of their economic potential, while governance, oversight, and public understanding struggle to keep pace.
The result is that communities often discover unintended consequences only after infrastructure is already in place. How society manages the growing environmental and infrastructure impacts of AI development, who bears the risks when problems arise, and whether local communities have meaningful input before these projects reshape the systems they depend on are huge conversations we need to be having.
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Monday, July 13, 2026
When I awoke early Sunday morning the last thing on my mind was that 71-year-old Lindsey Graham would beat 84-year-old Mitch McConnell to the grave.
When I learned the news, I thought it was a misprint, that they meant to write “Mitch McConnell is dead.” Nope, it was Lindsey. The Grim Reaper has a sense of humour. Or is it the Graham Reaper?
The next shocker was to find out that Mitch McConnell is allegedly alive and kicking. Expect all kinds of conspiracy theories to grow up around that.
Even though both men were members of the same fraternity of human scum that made Donald Trump possible, it boils down to timing, reputationally speaking. Had McConnell died he would have done so hating Trump. Lindsey died in the full throes of abject Trump sycophancy.
Thanks to all the death in the air, there’s a famous quote attributed to Bette Davis that’s making the rounds again. It goes something like, “My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” I think that line is particularly relevant today, but not for reasons you might think.
First, Bette Davis never uttered those words. The line is a complete phoney, invented from whole cloth and slapped on the Bette Davis legacy without her permission. Second, Bette Davis was a member of that baffling constellation of women who became gay icons, such as Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Cher and so on.
Lindsey Graham died a phoney, and he was almost certainly gay. I hasten to add that being gay is a perfectly normal thing for any human to be. I don’t condemn Lindsey Graham in the least for being gay, of course.
But I do condemn Lindsey Graham for denying he was gay and being a member of a deplorable cult of disgusting bigots who condemn homosexuality and want to make gay marriage illegal.
You might say that one of the skeletons in Lindsey Graham’s closet was the closet itself.
That is only the beginning of my condemnations of Lindsey Graham.
I condemn Lindsey Graham for being a member of another deplorable cult of disgusting bigots. The cult that threw away their lives of once-honourable public service, relatively speaking, in order to worship at the filthy feet of Donald Trump.
I can think of no other person who more completely erased his life by falling more abjectly on the disreputable Altar of Trump than Lindsey Graham.
Shakespeare had men like Graham in mind when he wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”
When Trump first ran for the presidency back in 2015, Graham characterised him as a “jackass,” a “kook,” and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” His most famous quote at that time was, “If we nominate Trump [as Republican candidate for president], we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it.” Lindsey certainly got that part right.
I further condemn Lindsey Graham for the fact that by 2018 Graham discovered the advantage, the power, the dominion and the downright glory of completely selling out to that fascist conman, the human scum Trump. Graham was happy to humiliate himself in order to touch the hem of Trump’s garment and be a part of his loathsome inner circle. Graham helped Trump by delivering the rapist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Then came January 6th, and Lindsey Graham saw the light that he always knew was there. Graham denounced Trump in the strongest terms for provoking the insurrection. He enunciated the ultimate heresy to the MAGA cult when he declared long and loud that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lawfully won the 2020 election.
Lindsey Graham then averred that he and Trump were finished once and for all.
Not so fast. A later quick trip to Mar-a-Lago and a game of golf, in which he probably let Trump cheat, was the price of bringing Lindsey back into the fascistic Trump fold. From that day to his dying breath, Lindsey Graham remained a fanatical Trump cultist. All it took to bring him back one last and final time was just another payout of 30 pieces of silver, so to speak.
I condemn in the strongest terms Lindsey Graham for being a warmonger. He unreservedly supported Trump’s stupid war of choice against Iran, up to and including advocating the use of nuclear weapons against innocent human beings doing nothing to anybody beyond living their lives.
I express the same condolences to Lindsey Graham’s remaining family that Lindsey himself expressed to the 150 Iranian schoolchildren whose lives Trump destroyed. That is to say, nothing.
The same goes for the 13 members of America’s military who died in Trump’s stupid war. The same goes for the tens of thousands of Iranian civilians who needlessly died. The same goes for the lives of Nicole Good, Alex Pretti and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. And so on.
Nothing.
Michael Fanone, the Metropolitan Police Officer who was present on January 6 heroically defending the members of Congress at the US Capitol against the Trump mob during the attack, had this to say about the death of Lindsey Graham:
“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you’re in it.”
I would like to echo Mr Fanone’s sentiments by paraphrasing that quote falsely attributed to Bette Davis. My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Lindsey Graham is dead. Good.
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Lindsey Graham Was Worse Than You Think — Let's Count The Ways Some say “don’t speak ill of the dead,” but I say “when better?” In fact, it’s of the utmost importance that we speak ill of war criminals when they’re dead, alive, or in between.
Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most vile, repulsive people to ever live. His defining characteristic was that he wanted the whole world to be as unhappy as he was. He wanted as many people to die or be impoverished or imprisoned as possible. He showed all the signs of a sociopath, as I delineated here.
He would easily be on a list of the most deadly and destructive human beings in recent history if it weren’t for the fact that he had relatively little power. And his campaign for president did not go well because, unlike many other sociopaths in the US government, he was unable to trick the American people into believing that he gave a shit about them.
Before we get to his long list of pro-war pro-death and destruction stances, we should not forget his other disgusting political beliefs. He was strongly anti-woman and anti-women’s health. He wanted the US healthcare system to destroy far more Americans than it already does. He was opposed to worker rights and basic welfare designed to help poor Americans get by. He was pro-big oil. He was anti-immigrant and pro-police state. (Apparently the US being the largest prison state in the world was not enough for him.)
He was also steadfastly anti-LGBTQ rights, despite widespread rumors that he was gay. As the Advocate noted:
"In June 2020, 'Lady G' trended on social media after adult film performer Sean Harding alleged that Graham hired male sex workers."
I, of course, wouldn’t care whether he was gay, nor would I mention it here, if it weren’t for his breathtaking hypocrisy.
Okay, let’s move on to all the death and destruction he supported.
1. He was one of the biggest supporters of the US-backed proxy-war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands. In 2016, well before Russia’s 2022 military incursion into Ukraine, Graham joined John McCain and Amy Klobuchar in Ukraine to tell them the US would give them all the support they needed to murder Russians.
This was during a time when Ukrainian nazis would killing thousands of culturally Russian Ukrainians in the Donbas region. (Keep in mind even the New York Times has admitted the Ukrainian troops are Nazi supporters with many wearing swastikas on their uniforms.)
2. Graham breathlessly supported the massacre (genocide) of Gaza. He argued Israel should be able to use whatever kind of weaponry they want to destroy Gaza and murder millions of innocent people. He compared it to the US dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — which did indeed kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and served little purpose.
3. Lindsey Graham has advocated for striking (going to war with) Iran for years. He enthusiastically called for bombing their civilian infrastructure, which is a war crime. Much like with Ukraine, Gaza, and others, Graham showed zero concern for civilian casualties. He just wanted war — all the time, with everyone.
4. He supported the 2002 war against Iraq based on obviously false intel about weapons of mass destruction. He was opposed to US forces leaving Iraq. And he never apologized or showed any remorse once the WMD lie was revealed.
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5. Graham endlessly called for ratcheting up the dirty war with Syria. He demanded a larger US military role, arming rebels (who were often jihadists). He pushed the chemical weapons false flag propaganda and supported no-fly zones that could’ve easily sparked a full-scale war between the US and Russia.
6. In 2011 he called for military action against Libya and Muammar Gaddafi based on false propaganda. It, of course, did not bother him that it resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and the destruction of Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets.
7. Lindsey Graham supported the War on Afghanistan and opposed withdrawing from Afghanistan after a mere 20 years of death and killing. In his mind, the US was entitled to own everything and should “give back” nothing to anyone.
I can’t list every time Lindsey Graham supported killing others or else I would use up all of the internet. He was clearly a sociopath like so many of his colleagues in the federal government. Even Democrats like Kamala Harris have spoken out about how wonderful Graham was. She said:
"I am saddened to learn of the passing of my former colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham. He was full of wit, energy, and charm, and he cared deeply about the Senate and the people of South Carolina."
You see, it’s a big club of war criminal sociopaths with no concern for human life — And you and I aren’t in it.
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BREAKING: WANTED – DEAD OR ALIVE! Kentucky voters are DONE with the games over Mitch McConnell.
Kentuckians are tired of the circus over their ailing senator and just want him to go away. Weeks after the 84-year disappeared from public view following some kind of medical calamity, voters across the state are demanding something that should not be controversial: a straight answer.
“People that deserve to have power usually don’t want it, and people that have power are tough to give it up,” one angry Kentucky voter told MS NOW yesterday.
"We got old people trying to stay in their place, in their power, and designing who gets their seat after them," another said, as frustration boiled over the continuing circus.
“Give up this fight. Give up. You’re not representing us well so don’t represent us at all,” another woman said.
Another man said he’d like to see someone “in the middle” between old and young, but he didn’t expect that to happen.
The reporter revealed that he’s spoken to dozens of voters in the past two days, and every single one wanted to see term limits or age limits imposed on Congress.
The exchanges captured a growing mood in Kentucky, where voters are watching a parade of Republican senators, former aides and political insiders emerge with reassuring stories about conversations they supposedly had with McConnell while offering little actual information about the senator's condition.
Meanwhile, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has publicly called for transparency and urged McConnell's office to "end the crazy speculation."
"I publicly and privately urged the last administration to address the public’s concerns with the former president’s health," Beshear wrote on X yesterday. "I’m calling on Sen. McConnell to do the same and provide voters an update on his own health."
Beshear ended the post by urging McConnell to "end the crazy speculation" and "just tell us what's going on."
For weeks, Kentuckians have been asked to accept carefully worded statements while basic questions go unanswered. McConnell remains invisible. His office has provided no meaningful update. Republican allies continue to insist everything is fine.
At some point, people no longer give official pronouncements from people they don't trust the benefit of the doubt. And anger showing up in Kentucky is less about one senator than a political culture that increasingly treats voters as an inconvenience, brushing their questions aside and feed them bullsh*t on the regular.
McConnell spent decades mastering the rules of Washington. Now, his final political drama is unfolding far from the Senate floor, where the people he represented are asking a simple question and getting everything except an answer.
This has gone on too long, and we know why.
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SIGN THE PETITION to pass the People Over Poison Act, which would reverse the Supreme Court's flawed ruling: tinyurl.com/ReverseSupremeCourt
On June 25, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) threw Americans under the bus, siding with Bayer-Monsanto in Monsanto v. Durnell, further shielding pesticide manufacturers from liability when their products cause harm.
In the majority were Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh (author of the opinion), Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor. The dissenting justices were Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch.
The Supreme Court's ruling was based on the argument that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the law governing EPA’s oversight of pesticides, does not require pesticide labels to warn of cancer risks beyond the weak labeling requirements approved by the EPA. State-law claims seeking damages for the absence of such warnings are thus preempted by federal law.
This ruling is a travesty of justice and a slap in the face of all of Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup cancer victims. Our U.S. Representatives and Senators can and must reverse the ruling.
READ MORE and take action: tinyurl.com/ReverseSupremeCourt
LINDSEY GRAHAM IS DEAD. THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING. THE IRAN ESCALATION WAS PLANNED.July 12, 2026. Senator Lindsey Graham — one of the most vocal supporters of military intervention in Iran — dies suddenly. The media calls it a "heart attack."
It wasn't.
THE PATTERN:
Every senator or congressman who knew too much about Deep State coordination with Iran has died under suspicious circumstances in the past 18 months.
— Senator John McCain: Dead. August 2018. "Brain cancer."
— Senator Bob Corker: Dead. March 2024. "Sudden illness."
— Senator Lindsey Graham: Dead. July 2026. "Heart attack."
All three were on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All three knew about the Iran coordination. All three were preparing to expose it.
THE IRAN ESCALATION WAS PLANNED:
The U.S. retaliatory strikes against Iran on July 8 were not a response to Iranian aggression. They were a coordinated operation to:
Eliminate Graham before he could testify Escalate the conflict to distract from domestic investigations Justify increased military spending (Deep State profit mechanism) Create a national security emergency to suspend civil libertiesTHE CLASSIFIED INTEL:
Military Intelligence intercepted communications proving:
OPERATION-ESCALATION-SHIELD - The protocol coordinating the Iran strikes Graham-Elimination-Protocol - The operation removing him before testimony Deep-State-Coordination-Network - The senators involved in Iran dealingsGraham was scheduled to testify before a classified tribunal on July 15 about Deep State coordination with Iranian operatives to destabilize the Middle East and profit from endless war.
He never made it to July 15.
THE DOUBLE STRIKE:
STRIKE 1: GRAHAM ELIMINATED - One less witness to Deep State treason STRIKE 2: IRAN ESCALATION - Justifies war spending, distracts from investigationsTHE PANIC:
The Deep State is in absolute panic. They just eliminated a sitting U.S. Senator on live television (disguised as a heart attack). They know Military Intelligence has the communications. They know the tribunal is coming.
They are escalating the Iran conflict to create chaos and justify emergency protocols.
THE TRUTH:
Lindsey Graham was not a patriot. He was a Deep State operative who profited from endless war. But he was also a liability — he knew too much.
When operatives become liabilities, they are eliminated.
CODE: GRAHAM-ELIMINATED / ESCALATION-ACTIVE / PANIC-REAL
The Deep State thought they could hide the truth by eliminating witnesses. They were wrong. Military Intelligence has everything.
SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. THE PANIC IS REAL.
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