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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, May 16, 2026


** The Data Center Next Door
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Virginia might be for lovers, but more recently, it’s for data centers. The state has more data centers than anywhere in the world, and companies are pushing to build more of them, including around some of the most hallowed ground in the country: the Manassas National Battlefield Park.

“The amount of surface land that is being displaced by data centers and everything that goes with that, I don’t think people understand what’s really happening,” says Elena Schlossberg, a leading activist against data center development in Northern Virginia. “There’s NIMBY and there’s NOTE, and NOTE is ‘not over there, either.’”

This week on Reveal, we look into our AI future and the local machinations that are pitting neighbor against neighbor. And we listen in as our “tech lords” talk about the future they are planning for us, whether we want it or not.
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** How Redistricting Is Upending America’s Midterms
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Voters are heading to the polls for this year’s midterms, but the electoral maps are shifting under their feet in real time. Last month, the Supreme Court narrowed a provision in the Voting Rights Act that allowed states to consider race when redrawing maps.

That decision set off a mad scramble by GOP state legislatures to alter their maps ahead of November’s elections, a move that could disenfranchise Black voters. It’s also supercharged a redistricting fight that began when President Donald Trump urged states to change their maps to mitigate possible losses in Congress.

Mother Jones national correspondent Tim Murphy describes the redistricting happening in Southern states as “a historic reversal of what the Voting Rights Act brought” and could lead to “homogenous white delegations to the South.”

Until recently, Democrats felt optimistic about their chances of taking back not only the House, but possibly the Senate. But they were dealt a major blow last week when their own redistricting efforts in Virginia were struck down by the state Supreme Court. Similarly, the US Supreme Court paved the way earlier this week for Alabama to revert to an electoral map with a single majority-Black district.

On this week’s More To The Story, Murphy and host Al Letson try to make sense of this unprecedented midterm season, gauge the Democrats’ chances of taking back Congress, and examine how Trump’s threats to the electoral system could play out in November.

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** In Case You Missed It
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Election lies fuel an FBI raid and a push to rewrite voting laws as the 2026 midterms approach.
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** 🎧 The Secrets Behind “The Talented Mr. Epstein” ([link removed])
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Journalist Vicky Ward on what she knew about Jeffrey Epstein years before his sexual abuse became public.

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** 🎧 Trump’s Impulsive Foreign Policy Is Tearing Apart the Global Order ([link removed])
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Historian Daniel Immerwahr examines the president’s “hit-and-run” foreign policy and what he calls the “doom spiral of Trumpism.”

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** 🎧 The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear ([link removed])
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Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. An exclusive look at the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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