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Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 110 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That congresswoman was AOC.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 46 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

That actually had me wondering. This is about Georgia. AOC is a gem, but why is it a NY rep bringing this to the EPA and not that town's own congressional rep?

So I looked it up in the article, which never names the town nor its congressional representative but refers to Morgan County, Georgia multiple times. (The author goes out of their way to talk around various glaring facts; this is one of them.) So I looked up Morgan County, Georgia, which is in Georgia's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by Republican Mike Collins.

And there it is. Mike Collins is himself the answer as to why it's AOC, a congresswoman from New York, holding up a jar of muddy water in Congress on behalf of the citizens of rural Georgia that he was elected to represent.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

AOC is EVERYBODY'S Congressional Rep.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Truth. And AOC is the best of them. But that doesn't let Trump's little MAGA culture warrior off the hook. This is the Laken Riley Act guy.

If I were in Georgia's 10th and had a mind to run, I'd wipe the floor with commercials showing AOC representing the 10ths need for clean water and physically holding up that jar of muddy water in Congress on their behalf, interspersed with shots of Collins' own social media and deepfaked AI ads against Jon Ossoff illustrating what he's really been busy with, and asking why he's nowhere around when they simply need clean water.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

TIL about that law. Apparently it

requires the detention, without bond, of non-citizens, who are arrested for, charged with, or admit to committing certain crimes, including theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting

Arrested for meaning before due process? So if they claim that you were shoplifting and you fail to prove that you actually are a citizen (or they pretend you never proved), they lock you up without recourse for the vicious crime of shopping while non-white?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

the whole family of riley were trying to grift from thier daughters death too.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Good posts.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Thanks. It's good to hear.