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Lachlan Markay retweeted
For 3 years I’ve been following the plight of residents living in King Cove, Alaska, a remote town in the Aleutians where people keep dying in plane crashes and medical emergencies because faraway environmentalists and others concerned about the goose population will not let them build a road to an all weather airport located just 18 miles away, in the next town over. They’ve been fighting for 40+ years and have just been stymied again.
It’s a complicated story.
But:
“Underneath all the legalese, the history, and the details is a single ugly question, one that perhaps should never have been asked: How many geese is a human life worth?”
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Lachlan Markay retweeted
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.
These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.
Lachlan Markay retweeted
TX: you want to build some "clean energy," son? sounds like gay communism. anway, here's your permit
CA: oh my Gooood yaaass kween clean energy!! but your 3,000 page report on harms to nonbinary snail communities wasn't sufficient for the HOA so see you in court for 30 years
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlinAug 26United States
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It's very very hot in Texas.
But the grid is fine.
Electricity prices are manageable.
What happened?
🔋🔋🔋🔋BATTERIES!!! 🔋🔋🔋
heatmap.news/energy/texas-gr…
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Aspect of the data center discourse most people don't see: yes, local communities should decide whether data center projects make sense (generally via local elected officials)
But even when a community WANTS a data center, powerful, monied national interests will come and sue
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Love to use AI to make fake pictures of anti-AI protestors for my "grassroots" anti-AI group
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Hopefully this movie making a billion dollars will shatter the facade that angry people on the internet substantially shift box office numbers. Most movies that end up in the culture war are mid-to-bad, which creates the false impression that the internet tanked their numbers.
All of Congressman’s @RoKhanna’s financial disclosures are finally OCR’d and searchable online
He hand-filed papers instead of using the electronic system to obfuscate the data, but I indexed them all here:
rokhanna.money
He must really love golf, because besides >$2M in private golf memberships, @RoKhanna has ~$100k invested in golf stocks
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Full article here: nytimes.com/2026/07/09/busin…
China, Russia and, to a lesser extent, Iran have sought to use state media outlets to turn the controversy over data centers in the United States into “a domestic fracture point,” according to a new analysis by Alethea, a threat intelligence company, which identified scores of articles and posts on social media this year.
Lachlan Markay retweeted
What an incredible story coming out of Switzerland this morning!
#NJDevils captain Nico Hischier helped rescue a family in distress on the Aare River in Bern.
A family with two children ran into trouble when their inflatable boat became stranded near a dam, prompting a police response. Hischier was nearby and joined others in helping with the rescue.
A witness described Nico's actions as "heroic," but in true Nico fashion, he downplayed his role, saying he was simply happy everyone made it out safely and, that, of course, many others helped as well.
This might be the most Nico story of all time.
Here's the story in Swiss German:
blick.ch/sport/eishockey/fam…
Lachlan Markay retweeted
In this morning's FARA Monitor: PR agents for a Swiss nonprofit are circulating a column calling on the Trump administration to nix tariffs on "geographically rooted" goods such as Swiss watches
Lachlan Markay retweeted

Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasJul 5
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Guy who was hoping for a factory revival that didn’t use any water or electricity or involve the construction of anything unsightly or that makes noise.
Lachlan Markay retweeted
In this morning's FARA Monitor: state-owned Venezuelan oil company PDVSA has brought on Hogan Lovells to help restructure the company's debt amid a much larger countrywide debt package considered the largest restructuring in history. $6.9M over six months
Lachlan Markay retweeted
That’s because the op is over. Good job, @CIA! Excellent campaign!
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Driving through Ohio. Towns like this are why we’re trying to avoid the interstates and take the slower roads instead. These are the kinds of places we want to see. This feels like peak America.🇺🇸
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Big @maxwelltani look at this moment's big political story — the absolute flood of secret influencer $$
semafor.com/article/05/25/20…
Lachlan Markay retweeted
Excited to unveil the design for the East Potomac Golf Links renovation from Fazio Design.
Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals—of the National Capital Region—championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates.
Lachlan Markay retweeted
A would-be spy offered a staffer on @ChinaSelect $10,000 for insider information on U.S. policy.
Our staffer's response? Report it, document it, and expose it. As a Select Committee, we referred the matter to the @FBI after documenting the outreach and collecting call transcripts.
This is exactly why the Select Committee on China exists, to shine a light on the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate our institutions, and to fight to protect U.S. national security.
nytimes.com/2026/05/09/us/po…
Lachlan Markay retweeted
"Like, are we kinda being pricks?"











































