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The former Armstrong riverfront is not an empty pad waiting for the future. It is a contaminated industrial site with cleanup work, vessel permits, wastewater capacity planning, and Oregon's broader data-center water gap already in the public record.
The claim that every new data center is a surveillance center outruns the evidence. The verified record is narrower and still alarming: AI infrastructure is being fast-tracked through national-security language while military cloud, frontier-model policy, U.S.-Israel defense-tech cooperation, and local opposition all converge around the same buildout.
Official records and reporting describe a major TV-and-web brand paying more than $100 million across two election-defamation settlements while continuing to grow and market its prime-time shows as a core conservative media destination.
The pandemic-era affordability boost expired, 2026 subsidy math got harsher, and families already under cost pressure took the hit.
The congressional stock-trading fight starts with the official rulebook: trades first, disclosure later, and a flat late fee unless the Ethics Committee waives it.
The cash barrier to buying a new home is now larger than annualized median full-time earnings, even before mortgage payments, closing costs, and insurance enter the picture.
At the federal level, the wage floor still annualizes to about $15,080 before taxes, a measure of how little protection the national baseline now offers in a much more expensive economy.
The current federal record already gives the outline of the story: $15,474 per person, $1.64 trillion through private insurance, and $13.18 billion in disclosed industry transfers and ownership interests. The harder question is how much of that system is paying for care and how much is paying for power.