A coal plant that should be dead just got resurrected with YOUR tax dollars. 💵
The Merom Generating Station in Indiana was scheduled to close in 2023. Instead, the administration just handed it $27 million, invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950.
Same playbook. Different law. It's systemic. Just like the 1872 Mining Act. Just like the Antiquities Act. Another dusty backdoor law pulled out of history and bent to serve industry, this time to bail out coal so it can power data centers.
The communities living near Merom don't get cheaper electricity. What they get is coal ash. Unlined ponds full of it, sitting in the ground next to their water supply, leaching arsenic and mercury at levels 40 times the federal safe drinking water standard.
Those ponds were already decades without real oversight. A 2024 rule finally set cleanup deadlines. The administration just pushed those deadlines back another 3 years, giving utility companies until 2031 to even begin groundwater monitoring while people live downstream right now.
Merom is now locked into a 12-year contract powering data centers through 2040. The ash stays. The water stays contaminated. And a 75-year-old wartime law just made it all possible.
Who's going to tell Indiana families their water got traded for data center electricity?⚡️
#DemsUnited
"No you are fourteen."
Epstein corrected a victim who said she was 17. FBI serial EFTA01699140.
She had been instructed to say 17. She visited his Palm Beach residence over 100 times.
The People’s House has entered its sponsorship era.
The president owns UFC stock. A million-dollar fundraiser is tied to the event. Commemorative merchandise is already being sold.
Is the Hatch Act just not a thing anymore?
@cwebbonline@jcascione1 Nope. Trump doesn't believe in American traditions or rules or ethics that aren't clearly defined laws with a lawsuit precedent, so he always finds a loophole, or sues into oblivion.
UnAmerican.
- Daniel Cormier tweeted screenshot of Eric Trump's DMs asking for inside info on fighters.
- Dana White called Cormier and told him to delete or he's out of a job.
- Cormier deletes.
The crime doesn't stop.
Turning the White House into a UFC venue was disgraceful enough—but allowing UFC fighter Josh Hokit to stand on that historic stage and spew vile conspiracy theories that "Michelle Obama is a man" is an absolute abomination.
When the People’s House is handed over to bullies to promote hate, it insults the very fabric of American democracy. This rot cannot be normalized.
Russia is burning a cathedral older than Moscow itself
While putin lies in your face about “spiritual values” and “defending believers.”
putin's regime doesn't have any values besides murder, rape and destruction
"What none of them apparently did: ask whether the allegations against their boss had merit. Not once. Not raised. Not even Bongino, who is Black's unlikely near-hero for the piece - Bongino's objection was to the botched rollout, not to the underlying situation that made a rol"
Michael Ian Black's piece has one observation that cuts through everything else written about the Epstein files this week.
The senior officials who gathered in the Situation Room last July - Vance, Wiles, Blanche, Leavitt, Cheung, Patel - spent hours strategizing about how to protect Trump from the political fallout. They workshopped options. They debated whether to call Tucker Carlson or use DOJ lawyers instead. They reportedly discussed nipples in the White House Situation Room. One official described it as "surreal."
What none of them apparently did: ask whether the allegations against their boss had merit. Not once. Not raised. Not even Bongino, who is Black's unlikely near-hero for the piece - Bongino's objection was to the botched rollout, not to the underlying situation that made a rollout necessary.
The documentable facts now in the record: Trump flew on Epstein's plane at least eight times after claiming he hadn't. Trump denied writing the birthday letter, then the Wall Street Journal obtained it. Epstein's personal secretary testified to Congress this week that she arranged calls between Trump and Epstein shortly before the 2016 inauguration - after Trump claimed he had cut off contact in 2004.
These are not allegations about what happened on Epstein's properties. These are documented lies about a documented relationship. The people in that Situation Room knew the relationship existed. They chose to manage the politics instead of asking the question that the people they serve - the American public - would want answered.
Black closes with the names of Epstein's accusers who went public. That's the right place to close.
🚨 BREAKING: Fox News reporter casually admits the US military launched a staggering 13,000 airstrikes, completely destroying Iranian civilian infrastructure.
Now the Trump administration expects Gulf nations to pay billions to clean up their disastrous war crimes 😭🤣😂
'When I was 14, I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein. Until I was 17.'
Epstein survivor. Congress. May 2026.
DOJ made a secret deal. Never told her. Then published her name and Social Security number.
'The recent powerful remain protected. My name was exposed.'
The administration’s scam is to point to something already illegal, pretend it’s rampant, and demand sweeping powers to “fix” it. The Cato Institute says noncitizens are not voting in detectable numbers. The Brennan Center found suspected cases at 0.0001%. This has nothing to do with evidence and is all about building machinery for voter suppression.
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Boarded my flight at DCA National airport. Come to find out, the president of the United States has paused ALL flights because of the UFC fight at the White House.
The air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers.
BREAKINGNEWS: Art of the deal. Iran says Trump agreed to 300 billion to rebuild Iran. 24 billion in frozen assets to be released. Iran claims some of that money has already been handed over. Jesus this is a mess. 🚨
Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️
The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit.
Fucking barbarians!