{"id":768281,"date":"2026-07-17T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:59:11","slug":"sophie-cunningham-manages-to-anger-both-the-left-and-right-with-a-simple-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768281\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham manages to anger both the left and right with a simple social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6401231930112\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_featured-video_5_1\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This puts New York at the forefront of the data center debate<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul pauses new data center development, prompting criticism from former President Donald Trump and Senator John Fetterman. Trump deems the decision &#8216;terrible&#8217; for New York&#8217;s economy and job growth. The pause also raises concerns about potential Chinese influence and highlights the state&#8217;s ongoing energy supply issues, as reported by Fox Business Correspondent Madison Alworth.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Sophie Cunningham has done something far more impressive than anything she&#8217;s ever done on a <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114373\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/wnba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">basketball court.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">The <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114374\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Indiana Fever<\/a> star has managed to upset both the left and the right with one single social media post.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">That&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784293150_347_sophie-cunningham-ufc.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie Cunningham announces a round during a fight at T-Mobile Arena.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cunningham announces a round during a lightweight fight at UFC 329 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on July 11, 2026. (Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114375\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">It&#8217;s almost impossible to do nowadays given how polarizing every issue is. We&#8217;re all so black and white in 2026. You&#8217;re either far-left, or far-right. No in-between. No middle ground. No fence-sitting.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">So, when you manage to anger both parties with one simple question, you know you&#8217;ve really found the sweet spot.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">And that&#8217;s exactly what Sophie Cunningham did Thursday evening when she took to X and simply asked, &#8220;so how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Chaos:<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cunningham asks an innocent question and gets bombarded<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Boom! That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the post that had everyone all fired up over on Elon&#8217;s app yesterday. So simple, yet so divisive.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">That single tweet has over 8 million views, over 4,000 retweets and a staggering 6,000 comments. It is, easily, Sophie Cunningham&#8217;s most viral post \u2014 which is saying something given she is the WNBA&#8217;s biggest start next to <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114376\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/caitlin-clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sophie-cunningham-indiana-fever-fox-news-041.jpeg\" alt=\"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham dribbling basketball during game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham plays in the second half against the Los Angeles Sparks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind., on June 27, 2026. (Trevor Ruszkowski\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114377\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/wnba-star-sophie-cunningham-clarifies-free-agency-complaint-wanted-house-indiana-bring-donkeys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WNBA STAR SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM CLARIFIES FREE AGENCY COMPLAINT, WANTED HOUSE IN INDIANA TO BRING HER DONKEYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Again, the impressive thing is how it angered both liberals AND conservatives alike, which shows just how truly dumb <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114378\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-culture\/ucf-graduates-clobber-commencement-speaker-boos-says-ai-next-industrial-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">this whole AI era<\/a> is. God, we&#8217;re stupid.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Let&#8217;s check in on some of the reaction:<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">You see? The reactions are all over the place, and all across the board. You&#8217;ve got &#8220;Project Liberal&#8221; mad at her. You&#8217;ve got Stephen Miller mad at her. You&#8217;ve got regular folks mad at her.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">And none of them really say why they&#8217;re mad, because, truthfully, nobody can really explain <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_2114379\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-energy-group-warns-wealthy-foreigners-potentially-bankrolling-anti-data-center-campaigns-across-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a data center<\/a>. Myself included, by the way.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Data centers are sort of like &#8220;the cloud&#8221; for iPhones. Can anyone here really explain where something goes in your phone when it&#8217;s sent to iCloud? No. Of course not. Nobody knows what that is, but we still use it.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784293151_295_sophie-cunningham-dewanna-bonner-fox-news-002.jpeg\" alt=\"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham pointing at Phoenix Mercury forward-guard DeWanna Bonner during a basketball game.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham points at Phoenix Mercury forward-guard DeWanna Bonner after an argument during a game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on June 22, 2026. The Indiana Fever defeated the Phoenix Mercury 86-77. (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">That&#8217;s what data centers are right now. Are they really that bad for us? Do they really take up space? Are they spying on us? Are they destroying our water? I have no clue. None. Zero.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Sophie Cunningham seems to think they&#8217;re building them on our great farmland(s). Again, I have no clue if that&#8217;s true. It probably is, to a degree.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Regardless, Sophie has the internet in a tizzy right now, and it&#8217;s all because of one simple post that really tapped into the existing divides between rural America, Big Tech influence, government subsidies, and environmental priorities.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">And that, folks, is how you keep America on our toes during the dog days of summer.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Well done, Sophie.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">PS: some folks commented and said the way to save the farms is to get rid of the golf courses.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">I don&#8217;t think so. Not on my watch. That&#8217;ll start a second Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Dean is a writer for OutKick.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This puts New York at the forefront of the data center debate New York Governor Kathy Hochul pauses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2839,259870,99,434],"class_list":["post-768281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-indiana-fever","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}