#SCOTUS on Thursday sided with #Trump admin backed lawsuits brought by the #HavanaDocksCorporation, a US-owned port business, whose dock front property was seized in 1960 when #FidelCastro came to power in #Cuba & #nationalized #PrivateProperty, possibly opening the door for similar claims from #US companies & individuals.

#law #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/supreme-court-cuba-cruises-oil.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#AI #DataCenters #PrivateProperty #Washington

'In the end, the utility concluded it would be fastest to take private property.'

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/13/wa-homeowners-farmers-say-their-land-is-being-stol/

Spokesman-Review: WA homeowners, farmers say their land is being stolen for data centers. “Data centers are demanding more energy than ever to fuel artificial intelligence, and the utility is not only running out of locally sourced electricity but also power-line capacity. To build more, the [Grant County Public Utility District] considered running lines through public lands, protected […]

Would be 90+ storey monstrosity stopped https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/trump-tower-gold-coast-plans-scrapped/106673096

Community rejected (and “investors” fall-out ?)
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-trump-tower-development-on-the-gold-coast/u/34597323?

Altus Property vs Trump Organ (Mar-A-Lardo)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/trump-tower-australia-gold-coast-scrapped-ntwnfb

#Capitalism #GoldCoast #PrivateProperty #TrumpTower

The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US (with Andrew Krinks)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/05/10/the-religious-function-of-whiteness-and-mass-criminalization-in-the-us-with-andrew-krinks/

In this second of two essays, I discuss the immorality of property, even deeper than the first post yesterday.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/before-the-fence-the-self

#philosophy #language #ontology #criticaltheory #blog #podcast #property #rights #privateproperty #propertyrights #justification #metaphysics #consciousness #phenomenology #ethics #philosophyofmind #identity #personalidentity #apples #essay #substack

I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue at a deeper level. This is the first:

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-before-the-field

#Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology #criticaltheory #anarchism #politicalphilosophy #politicaleconomy #economics #locke #rousseau #propertyrights #property #privateproperty