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Cornel West’s Love Blueprint for Bold Leaders Who Honor Humanity, Share Power, and Fight for Collective Dignity in Every Decision They Make

Authentic leadership is prophetic love in motion, truth-telling fused with tenderness. It begins in the gut, where righteous anger at injustice meets radical compassion for those bruised. Cornel West calls us to that holy intersection. Your résumé won’t move hearts, but your willingness to stand ankle-deep in another’s suffering will. Let every policy discussion start with a names-and-faces roll call, so statistics remember they once had birthdays.

Prophetic love is participatory; it decentralizes glory. Sit at the table's edge and widen the circle until the last chair scrapes in from the hallway. Ask the unheard to frame the question, not merely critique the answer. Share data, context, and microphone. Power that multiplies itself like loaves and fish proves love is not sentiment but structure. Accountability feels like kinship, not surveillance, when decisions emerge from many tongues.

Now the hard talk: Where has convenience muted your conviction? Which hallway joke, hiring norm, or budget line still whispers that some lives weigh less? Name it aloud, invite witnesses, and carve a new groove. Love without repair is sentimentality; repair without love is bureaucracy. Lead with both. Then teach the ritual: see, judge, act, rejoice, repeat. Hope is a verb dressed for work.

Practice prophetic love today, listen to the least heard, share power on one decision, and act with courage that proves justice is not rhetoric but a lived, communal verb.

Helion Picks Washington Site for Microsoft Fusion Plant

Helion’s 50 MW fusion-to-cloud reactor secures Malaga, WA site, starts summer grading, 3,500 build jobs, targets 2028 clean power for Microsoft AI clusters

Helion Energy has zeroed in on a 43-acre parcel in Malaga, Washington, and filed preliminary permits on May 8 to break ground on the world’s first grid-linked fusion power plant this summer. The $2.9 billion, 50 MW facility will feed electricity straight to Microsoft’s nearby Quincy data center cluster under a landmark 2028 purchase agreement. Company founder David Kirtley told county officials the Team will finish an environmental impact study in June and begin driving test piles by August if the lease is approved.

Bechtel Geotechs has cored the Columbia River terrace and scoped a sheet-pile cofferdam for a buried helium loop that will shuttle heat from 40 Pulsar fusion modules to Inductrack converters, skipping steam turbines entirely. The peak workforce is forecast at 3,500 craft workers in 2026, erecting a 600-ft light-ion accelerator hall, a 200 MWh flywheel battery, and a 230-kV switchyard tying into BPA lines currently serving Rock Island Dam. Helion says the fast-track schedule relies on prefabricated reactor shells now rolling off a retrofit line in Everett.

Chelan County offered a 15-year property-tax holiday and expedited water rights after Helion pledged a closed-loop cooling system that returns all process water to the aquifer. The plant will hire 350 permanent engineers and technicians and funnel $150 million annually into local payroll. Analysts call the Malaga step a bellwether: while traditional fission projects languish, private fusion is vaulting from lab to rebar, promising 24/7 clean power just as AI energy demand threatens grid stability.

I-81 Syracuse teardown swings steel grid gone soon

NY inks $251M deal to begin I-81 viaduct demo; crews clear eight blocks for Community Grid, yielding 25K jobs and 30% faster commutes for Syracuse

Wrecking crews fired up in Syracuse on Tuesday after NYSDOT signed a $251 million deal with Salt City Constructors to remove the first eight blocks of the I-81 viaduct. As drones filmed, orange shears gnawed concrete beside Dr. King School, and Governor Hochul declared “grid removal day.”

Over 18 months, the Team will drop 180,000 tons of deck and steel, haul rubble to a nearby crusher, and backfill for the new Community Grid, a 30 mph tree-lined boulevard with bus lanes, protected bike tracks, and smart signals timed to school bells. Sensors in the fresh pavement will post live speed and air-quality data online. Night shifts pause for June exams while solar-powered light towers curb diesel haze.

NYSDOT says the package supports 2,300 union jobs and will trim downtown commute times by 30 percent by 2031. Rent-gap stipends aid tenants as 42 percent of contracts steer to minority firms. Southside residents who marched for teardown cheered the first hammer blows, calling the roar “justice in concrete.”

PFAS Water Rule Triggers Filter Rush in New Homes

EPA's PFAS drinking water rule spurs builders to add whole-home filters; rule faces Trump review, but new contracts already pricing in 1200 per house

A federal court has given the EPA until July 8 to decide whether the Trump team will defend or soften last year’s PFAS drinking-water rule, driving utilities to near zero by 2029. With lawsuits flying, homebuyers demand proof that every tap will test clean before closing, pushing the issue onto job sites and campaign ads.

Volume builders pouring summer slabs in Wilmington and Grand Rapids now wire point-of-entry carbon filters into plans and add a 1,200 allowance, about 4 % of a plumbing budget. Culligan and Pentair report doubled cartridge orders, and Lowe’s tagged five-stage kits as “contractor pack,” while crews say install time runs under an hour.

NAHB warns that margins will thin if EPA’s 4-ppt cap survives, but health advocates say clean water is non-negotiable. UBS analysts think PFAS-free certificates could be a selling edge in Rust Belt metros. Expect design centers to upsell smart filter monitors by Christmas as Wall Street piles into filtration stocks.

The Importance of Preventing Tool Kickback on Construction Sites

Introduction
Good morning, Team! Today’s toolbox talk focuses on preventing tool kickback. Kickback from power tools such as saws, grinders, or drills can cause sudden, serious injuries.

Why It Matters
Kickback incidents lead to severe cuts, lacerations, fractures, or even fatal injuries. Proper tool handling is essential for safety.

Strategies to Prevent Tool Kickback

1. Maintain a Firm Grip:

   • Hold tools firmly with both hands to control unexpected movements.

2. Proper Tool Maintenance:

   • Check blades, bits, and attachments for sharpness, damage, or wear. Replace or repair immediately.

3. Use the Correct Tool:

   • Always choose the right tool and accessories for your task, avoiding inappropriate substitutions.

4. Operate at Safe Angles:

   • Keep cutting surfaces and tools aligned correctly; improper angles often cause kickbacks.

5. Position Yourself Safely:

   • Stand securely out of the tool’s path to avoid injuries if a kickback occurs.

Discussion Questions

• Have you experienced or witnessed kickback incidents?

• How can we further prevent kickbacks on-site?

Conclusion
Preventing tool kickback requires awareness, correct usage, proper maintenance, and positioning. Always handle tools safely.

Stay in control to prevent kickback!