Saturday, Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna sat down with left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch — who previously cheered on those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk — to discuss the future of “progressive” governance. In a now viral clip, Khanna claimed Elon Musk “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling USAID, and demanded he be subpoenaed once Democrats retake power. The number traces back to a Lancet study published last summer projecting 14 million deaths by 2030 from USAID cuts. But the study assumes a fake world: one where DOGE’s cuts stay frozen through 2030, where the State Department’s lifesaving waiver doesn’t exist (it does), where Congress never refunds AIDS relief (it did), where two decades of clinics and supply chains vanish the second a grant lapses. It also conveniently ignores some former USAID functions (like funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology). Meanwhile, NYU statistician Aaron Brown notes the study credits USAID with preventing 11 million more deaths than the entire global mortality decline over two decades. @planetmaxwell interrogates the claim that Elon and DOGE single-handedly killed millions of children, and explains why Silicon Valley’s congressman is now laundering this as settled fact (when it’s really just propaganda). Full story 👇

In February, we reported on the NIMBY war against Micron. After 3 years of environmental reviews and public hearings, the company finally broke ground on its $100 billion site in Syracuse, NY — only to get halted literally within hours. A California nonprofit, staffed by Los Angeles “equity coordinators,” filed a lawsuit arguing the reviews were… rushed. Months of discussion followed about the country’s failure to build and restore former manufacturing hotspots like Syracuse. But these conversations among hardcore “reindustrializers,” poasting about the dying American heartland from their cushy offices, are typically useless. If we want to actually understand why we can’t build factories anymore, we have to talk to real people in the would-be factory towns. So we sent @eventidia on the ground to do just that. After deploying to Syracuse, he spoke with residents, executives, and regulators to get a sense of the hold up with a fundamental question in mind: are we going to let Micron help America reindustrialize? Or do we want to be the type of country that throws the book at would-be industrial sites while the citizens of dying towns like Syracuse move away, struggle to pay rent, or worse? Below, an important case-study in America’s ongoing attempt to reindustrialize the heartland 👇

Following years of regulations, hearings, and lawsuits, we sent @eventidia to Syracuse — site of Micron’s would-be $100B mega fab — with one basic question for residents, execs, and regulators: are we actually reindustrializing the American heartland? 👇 piratewires.com/p/inside-mic…