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Renee Good

DHS lies.

They lied about Ayman Soliman. They lied about Venezuelans in Ohio, calling them gang members when they were not. They lied about Operation Buckeye in Columbus, where the overwhelming majority of the people arrested have no criminal history.

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This article first appeared on Substack

I have spent most of my adult life working at the intersection of food, health, and public policy. I did not come to this work through ideology. I came to it through lived experience, long before I ever held a policy title.

My mother reversed severe, debilitating Crohn’s disease decades ago after being advised to undergo radical intestinal surgery. Doctors told her there were no other options. She refused to accept that verdict and changed what she ate. Through a whole food, plant-based approach, she regained her health. That decision reshaped our family’s relationship to food and planted the seed for my life’s work.

Look at the life of Renee Nicole Good. She was a mother who loved her child. She was a daughter who was cherished. She was a wife, a dog mom, and a vibrant soul who for 37 years occupied a space in this world that can never be filled again.

Twelve hours ago, Renee woke up in her home. Tonight, her wife goes to bed alone. Her child will never see her again. Not because of a “tragedy,” but because of an execution. This week the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota. And because of that?

Oh good. Now we have a war to focus on. Everyone’s tired of Epstein by now, and tired of the possibility that the bad guy may be, ho hum, our own national leader, a.k.a., the commander-in-chief.

So the commander-in-chief has stepped in for the sake of the public good, bestowing on America a far more traditional enemy to hate and fear and let dominate the headlines: narco-terrorists.

I’m still trying to grasp the fact that Donald Trump has actually invaded Venezuela. He’s no longer simply bombing boats in the ocean. The U.S. military bombed Caracas on Jan. 3 and broke into the home of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. They were kidnapped and extradited to the United Staes, where they are now on trial for drug trafficking – as though that was the moral purpose of the invasion.

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During Operation Buckeye, Mayor Ginther insisted Columbus police were ordered to not help ICE agents from apprehending immigrants, but emerging from that fateful week is a story of an ICE protestor who was arrested by Columbus police for simply exercising their right to free speech.

Now comes word out of Minneapolis that protestors felt as if their local police were there to protect ICE and not those they are sworn to protect. ICE murdered a protestor January 7, a young woman in Minneapolis. ICE turned 37-year-old Renee Good into a martyr.

By most standards Kevin Logan (pictured above) does not look like someone who would vehemently oppose ICE but looks can be deceiving. He's a tall middle-aged white guy with a beard. Standing well over 6-feet tall, the father of four daughters and one son has already lived a life which inspired him to care for those who have been marginalized because of their skin color.

Given up to foster care at birth, Logan spent much of his youth in "the system," with several years spent at the Buckeye Ranch in Grove City. This upbringing shaped and nurtured who he is, he says.

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Only a fraction of proposed data centers will get built.

The U.S. grid is currently flooded with data center proposals that will never get built according to a recent whitepaper from Schneider Electric. The paper argues that only 10-20 percent of all proposed data centers will ever get beyond permitting. If true, the report argues, this may lessen the projected impact from load demand growth, but it makes it more difficult for utilities and grid operators to plan for the future.

Last year, RAND Corporation's "upper confidence" forecast projected 347 GW of AI-sector power consumption by 2030. But Schneider Electric called that prediction "extreme" and cited more modest forecasts of under 100 GW.

Such claims echo a 2018 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study that compared load forecasts and actual growth for 12 Western U.S. utilities in the mid-2000s and found most overestimated future demand.

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