(By the way, posting for next week is really "up in tha air"...just don't know yet.)
Jen Psaki discusses the Gropenfuhrer’s agenda being thwarted by losses in court, including deploying ICE to the streets of LA (a pretty thorough rundown...”so much winning,” you might say)...Psaki speaks with Norm Eisen of the Democracy Defenders Fund and Skye Perriman of Democracy Forward...discussion touches on the release of the Epstein files (and yeah, #47 is going to try and hide as much as he can on that of course)...and Eisen is right about using “shock and awe with the rule of law” to try and hold our Cretin-In-Chief and his various lickspittles accountable...
...and Robert Reich tells us about Cantaloupe Capone abusing his pardon power and shaking down everybody who can pony up and throw some dough his way...and oh yeah, Bronzer Beelzebub has also erased about $1.3 billion in fines and restitution these jackals were due to pay in the process, as Reich tells us...so much of this foul, fetid corruption somehow ties back to Ed Martin, it should be noted...
...and Caleb Cunningham and Farron Cousins tell us that “Alligator Alcatraz” was apparently nothing but a $250 million waste of money for the state of Flori-DUUH!...another shining moment for Ron #DeathSantis...I didn’t know that FEMA funds went into this cruel madness, but as Cousins says, the next time a hurricane inevitably hits, there won’t be as much dough to help with rescue and recovery (and I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this ridiculous update)...
...and Sam Black of More Perfect Union tells us about the secret deals struck by Google, Meta and other competitors in the AI space to build data centers, agreements reached with utility companies out of sight from any public accountability, which explains why our electric bills are going up...and it looks like Ashburn, VA is the spot where a lot of these places are getting built...the report tells us that tech companies want to spend about $475 billion on data centers in this year alone, with this PJM outfit leading the pack as far as utilities go, passing off the cost to consumers as supply charges (though other utilities are guilty besides PJM)...and yeah, I don’t think it takes a genius to see that the data center is going to underpay for their energy costs and leave it up to the energy provider to gouge their residential customers to cover the difference...privatizing the profit and socializing the risk as usual (and it looks like Maryland is trying to get this situation under control, to their credit)...so along comes this astroturf outfit called the Data Center Coalition to hoodwink people into letting our corpocracy run rampant as usual and defeat bills to rein in these corporate behemoths...and for the wingnut take on this story, I offer the following...
..and David Doel tells us about Graham Platner really killing it at an appearance in Maine as part of Bernie Sanders’s “Fight Oligarchy” tour...good point by Doel to mention the growth of “unaffiliated” voters to one political party, not just in Maine but across the country I’m sure, meaning that NOTHING is guaranteed for next year...I watch this clip and I realize once more just how badly the Dems blew it last year by giving that genocidal criminal “Bibi” every damn thing he wanted (and as I’ve said before, we’re looong past the point of saying “yeah, well, who was responsible for October 7th?,” wrong as it was to kill, attack and capture Israeli civilians)...Dems absolutely hemorrhaged Gen Z male voters in particular last year because they offered them virtually nothing, but Platner is EXACTLY the type of candidate who can help win them back (and yeah, I know they’re bailing on #47, but again, Dems have to actually win these people...slightly NSFW/H at the very end)...
...and in keeping with the effort to find some levity in the midst of this madness, Jesse Welles gives us the “Ballad of Big Balls” (probably behind the news cycle on this again - apologies)...
...and leave it to Mr. Newberger to make comedy lemonade out of lemons, you might say...
...and happy 80th birthday to Al Stewart.
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