My best friend’s cousin sent me his electric bill today: $280 for a basic two-bedroom apartment.
He checked the actual usage breakdown. The electricity he consumed was only $110.
The remaining $170 was tagged as "Delivery Charge," "Grid Modernization Fee," and "Peak Demand Surcharge."
They billed him 1.5 times the cost of the actual power just to send it through utility lines that have been hanging on wooden poles since 1984.
We don't buy power anymore. We pay a ransom to local utility monopolies just to keep the lights on.
I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE THE PEOPLE MAKING THE BIGGEST DECISIONS ABOUT OUR LIVES ARE THE ONES WHO WILL NEVER HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR FUCKED UP ASS DECISIONS
He did it again.
For the THIRD time today, Tim O’Hare kicked out the public and cleared the courtroom.
Why? Because people showed up to speak against cutting almost HALF of our Election Day polling locations in Tarrant County.
While the voter roll has GROWN by 70,000 people.
This is the GOP’s plan to hold on to their seats.
Together, we’ll make sure it doesn’t work.
Help us fight back: https://t.co/VuOCjyYmnc
-Team Alisa
#TarrantCounty #AlisaSimmonsForCountyJudge #VoterSuppression #AllEyesOnTarrant
@adammocklerr You need to have SOMEONE dive into this. @coffeebreak_YT You should do your magic 2 bcz everyone deserves to know this. Its our DUTY 2 question our government.
Jeffrey Epstein's victims asked a court to unseal his non-prosecution deal, the one that shielded his unnamed co-conspirators.
The United States government filed a formal opposition to keep it sealed.
It fought the victims to protect the deal.
The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s.
Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote.
RT to support the Massie amdt.!
• March 2025: Taylor Farms contributes $1 million to Make America Great Again Inc., days after the FDA delays the Food Traceability Rule.
• The FDA informs Taylor Farms that one of its iceberg lettuce products tested positive for cyclospora, prompting a voluntary recall.
• During the cyclospora outbreak: The New York Times reports Taylor Farms hires a former Trump White House official.
• Last week: Taylor Farms executives meet with White House and FDA officials, where the company challenges aspects of the government's outbreak conclusions, according to the New York Times.
• Now: Taylor Farms says the FDA apologized, calling the positive test a false positive and stating no Taylor Farms product has tested positive for cyclospora.
Live shot of the White House. The flags are back at full-staff despite the deaths of two U.S. service members in Iran. Lindsey Graham gets the respect, but our military doesn't?
The Postal Service delivers ballots—it does not get to decide which states’ voters may use them. Threatening to withhold ballots unless states surrender voter data is coercion, not election security. Protect the mail. Protect the vote.
Holy fucking shit!
"Grocers and retailers rushed to pull products containing iceberg lettuce off shelves on Saturday, as Taylor Farms issued a recall, notifying customers that lettuce shipped to 27 states may have been contaminated.
now, it’s all well and good that shit is finally being dealt with, but check out this paragraph that’s buried down all the way at the bottom of the NY Times’ report.
On Thursday evening, Taylor Farms executives met with the White House and the Food and Drug Administration to try to distance the company from the outbreak and air concerns about the official investigations into the outbreak.
what the fuck?
the fact that these sons of bitches were at the White House, trying to obfuscate their culpability, should be the lede of the story — not something mentioned in passing two paragraphs up from the end. most folks don’t even bother to read that far.
on top of that: how did Taylor Farms executives end up at the White House, anyway, right in the middle of this developing story? what corrupt shitwaddery is this?
Bruce Taylor, CEO and chairman of Taylor Fresh Foods (Taylor Farms), and his company have a history of contributing to conservative and Republican political campaigns, including a notable $1 million donation tied to pro-Trump political funding infrastructure.
oh, and the fuckery afoot here gets worse — and goes back more than a decade. feast your eyes on this, from the World Socialist Web Site.
In August 2013, the FDA’s traceback confirmed that the salad mix behind cyclosporiasis outbreaks in Iowa and Nebraska was supplied by Taylor Farms’ Mexican subsidiary to Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants.
The FDA stated then, as the company states now, that grocery store packages were not implicated.
That season, 631 laboratory-confirmed cases were reported across 25 states.
In October 2024, slivered onions Taylor Farms supplied to McDonald’s caused an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that killed one person and sickened more than 100.
everyone should be fucking furious right now. this is yet one more example of off-the-charts corporate greed and corruption.
Taylor Farms has been sickening and even killing Americans for years, and has been allowed to escape accountability, over and over."
latest poll: Dear Leader fucking sucks and almost everyone hates his guts, by @itsJeffTiedrich https://t.co/ycyY531SP9
Republicans are trying to slip their voter suppression bill into the budget reconciliation bill to bypass the Senate’s 60 vote threshold.
Like we won’t notice what they are doing.
This should not be allowed.
First, they sent the FBI to seize ballots in GA. Then, they tried to get data on election workers in Fulton County.
Now, they’re threatening to imprison election officials.
This is escalating quickly. Every single American should be alarmed.
The Department of Homeland Security is now threatening to ARREST election officials who don’t comply with their illegal voter purges.
Our democracy is on the brink.