If you're confused about how this NUMBNUTZ got 81 MILLION votes in 2020 even though no candidate has done it before or since...
Go take a look at what's happening in California right now and it'll clear things up for you.
When Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt are 1 and 2…
“We could be counting votes for weeks to decide the outcome.”
When Karen Bass and Nithya Raman are 1 and 2…
“The final election results are in!”
It happened immediately.
What a scam.
THE GOVERNMENT JUST PROPOSED BREAKING UP AMERICA’S LARGEST ELECTRICITY GRID — AND AI DATA CENTERS ARE DIRECTLY TO BLAME!
This story dropped two days ago — June 4, 2026 — and it may be the single most important data center story ever published. Because it is not about one community. It is not about one state. It is not about one billionaire.
It is about the electricity grid that powers 67 million Americans — from Illinois to New Jersey, from Virginia to Ohio — being pushed so far past its limits by AI data centers that the federal government is now seriously considering breaking it apart entirely.
This has never happened before. In nearly 100 years of American electricity history, nothing like this has ever been proposed.
And the reason it is being proposed is sitting in a data center near you right now.
⚡ WHAT IS PJM — AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
Most Americans have never heard of PJM Interconnection. But every person living in 13 states depends on it for electricity every single day.
PJM Interconnection manages the web of power lines that runs electricity from the Illinois prairie to the Jersey Shore — serving 67 million people across 13 states. It coordinates which power plants run, when they run, and how power flows across the grid to reach your home, your hospital, your school, and your workplace. It has done this for nearly a century. It is the largest electricity grid operator in the United States. And right now — it is breaking. 
PJM is not a government agency. It is not a public utility. It is a nonprofit organization that manages the grid on behalf of utilities, power companies, and ultimately — you. The electricity you used this morning to make coffee passed through PJM’s system. The air conditioner keeping you cool right now is running on PJM’s grid.
And the federal government just said: it may need to be broken up. Because of data centers.
💥 THE PRICE SPIKE THAT STUNNED EVEN THE EXPERTS
The numbers tell the story better than any words can. PJM uses a system called capacity auctions to guarantee that enough power plants will be available to meet demand. In 2024, the price of that guarantee was $28.92 per megawatt-day. By 2026, that price had risen to $329.17 per megawatt-day. That is not a typo. That is an increase of more than ten times — in two years. One auction alone added an estimated $9.4 billion in costs — translating to an 82% jump in expenses for consumers. The Natural Resources Defense Council projects that cumulative extra consumer costs could reach between $100 billion and $163 billion through 2033. 
$163 billion. Taken from the pockets of 67 million Americans. Over the next seven years. Because data centers are consuming electricity faster than the grid can supply it.
In plain English — what this means on your actual bill: DC residents saw Pepco bills rise about $10 per month from the latest capacity auction. Western Maryland faces roughly $18 more per month. Ohio about $16 more per month. And the Trump administration estimates a PJM-wide average hit of 15% versus the pre-AI baseline — meaning before AI data centers started consuming the grid, your bill was 15% lower than it is today. And it is going higher. 
$16 more per month in Ohio. $18 more in Maryland. Starting June 1, 2026 — this month. Right now.
EVEN PJM’S OWN CEO SAYS IT IS “NOT TENABLE”
PJM’s own chief executive officer — the man who runs America’s largest electricity grid — has publicly stated that the current situation is “not tenable,” saying his organization can no longer ensure ample future electricity supplies while shielding residential consumers from rising bills. That is the CEO of the grid admitting, on the record, that he cannot do his job anymore because of AI data center demand. 
The CEO of the grid. Saying he cannot guarantee both affordable electricity AND reliable electricity at the same time. Because the data centers are consuming too much.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has threatened to pull Pennsylvania out of PJM entirely — which would be a catastrophic fragmentation of the eastern United States’ electricity system. American Electric Power — one of the largest utilities in PJM’s territory — has threatened to leave and merge into a different grid. Even PJM’s own board members have been voted out amid the chaos. The CEO announced his departure. The chair of the board of managers was removed. 
The CEO gone. Board members voted out. Pennsylvania threatening to leave. A major utility threatening to defect to a different grid.
The largest electricity system in America is fracturing. In real time. Because of AI data centers.
🏛️ WHAT “BREAKING UP PJM” ACTUALLY MEANS
Federal officials have suggested breaking up PJM Interconnection — splitting the 13-state grid into smaller regional systems. The proposals on the table range from aggressive to radical. On the aggressive end: emergency procurement of around 15 gigawatts of backup capacity — a massive safety net to prevent blackouts. On the radical end: completely restructuring how PJM works, possibly splitting it into separate grid operators for different regions — effectively ending the unified eastern grid that has existed for nearly 100 years. 
Ending the unified eastern grid. That has existed for 100 years. Because Amazon and Microsoft and Meta need more electricity for their AI servers.
President Trump — alongside the governors of several states — has called for a new electricity auction in which tech companies would pay for building new power plants by bidding on 15-year electric capacity contracts. In other words: if your data center is consuming this much electricity, you pay for the power plant that generates it. Not the 81-year-old widow in Hampton, Virginia. Not the family in Ohio already $16 deeper in the hole every month. You. 
Make the tech companies pay for the power plants their data centers require. That is Trump’s proposal. And for once — on this one specific point — many Americans across the political spectrum agree with him.
💰 THE $16 BILLION BILL THAT LANDED THIS MONTH
When PJM purchased capacity for 2026-2027 and discovered the true scale of data center demand — the result was a capacity bill of $16 billion for a single year. That $16 billion increase was almost entirely due to forecasted data center expansion. And that $16 billion does not sit with Amazon or Microsoft or Meta. It flows through the utility system — and lands on your electricity bill. Every month. Starting now. 
$16 billion. This year. From one auction. For one year of the PJM grid. Caused almost entirely by data centers. Paid by 67 million Americans who never voted for a single data center to be built.
PJM’s own market monitor has raised serious alarms about the data center demand forecasts being fed into the system — saying plainly: “Forecast data center load growth has been the primary cause to date and the accuracy of those forecasts is highly questionable.” In other words: the data centers promised they would need X amount of electricity. The grid planned for X. And now it turns out the real number is far higher than X. And the grid cannot handle it. And consumers are paying the difference. 
The data centers overpromised. The grid overcommitted. The consumers are paying for the gap.
🗓️ WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — AND WHEN
PJM’s own projections now show that the region will not meet required power reserves starting in June 2027 — just 12 months from now. That means if nothing changes, 67 million Americans will be living on an electricity grid that does not have enough power to meet peak demand. The shortfall is driven by a slow replacement of retiring power plants and rising demand from data centers. PJM’s June 2026 auction — happening this month — for the 2028/2029 delivery year is the next major pricing signal. Whatever it shows will determine just how high your bill will go in two years. 
June 2027. 12 months away. America’s largest electricity grid projected to be short on power. For 67 million people. In the middle of what is already shaping up to be the hottest decade in recorded history.
🗣️ THE BOTTOM LINE
This is the story that connects every other story in this series.
The dry wells in Indiana. The trailer park families in Kentucky. The 81-year-old widow who can’t pay her bill in Virginia. The Georgia data center that secretly drank 29 million gallons of water. The farmers leaving fields unplanted in Arizona. The children getting sick near facilities in North Carolina. The nuclear plants being bought up. The farmland being bulldozed. The shell companies with ridiculous names.
All of it flows into this one fact:
America’s largest electricity grid — the backbone of the power system for 67 million Americans — is being pushed so hard by AI data centers that the federal government is now discussing breaking it apart. The CEO of the grid says it is not tenable. The governor of Pennsylvania is threatening to walk away. A major utility is threatening to defect.
And the June electricity bill increase — $9.4 billion more across the system, paid by you — landed in accounts on June 1st. This month. Already.
Share this with every person who lives in these 13 states: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. They are all on this grid. They are all paying this bill. They all deserve to know why.
🎩 The Stoic Way
📌 Source: Bloomberg — “AI Data Center Boom Risks Breakup of Biggest US Power Grid Operator” (June 4, 2026 — TWO DAYS AGO)
We pasteurise milk to kill the bacteria, then sell people probiotic capsules to put the bacteria back, then sell them lactase tablets to digest the milk that used to digest itself.
Three products where the cow already provided one.
Genius, if you happen to own all three companies.
Five days after the LA election, Spencer Pratt falls to third place and a woman who hardly anyone voted for in person, Nithya Raman, totally dominated in mail voting to come in second. No one with a functional brain believes these results.
With our last (7th) child, we had the 5-month ultrasound* and the OB came back with a somber face: marker for trisomy 18 present. My husband asked if there was any intervention to make things better for our baby, and he said no, he was telling us so we could decide whether to "terminate." (Nazi talk)
Phil was pretty tight-lipped about this "option" and dismissed him with a "then we will just proceed" OF COURSE.
We had friends whose baby did have trisomy 18 and who died shortly after birth. They were able to hold the baby, baptize him, and mourn his passing, but rejoice in their brief time of love.
In our case, the baby was perfectly healthy and spends her time now (she's 29) thinking about Plato, singing in the choir, playing the fiddle, writing books, and teaching smart high-school students.
Either way. The main point is to love your neighbor. Who is my neighbor? The baby in the womb is your neighbor...
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her Glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints. Amen.
My wife is pregnant with our sixth child, we refused the Trisomy 21 test for all of our kids. We don’t care. The baby will live.
Yes, even if he has something that means I have to take care of him until I’m 80. I get to love and care for my son my entire life. That’s the point.
I’ve had a hard time focusing today. I just can’t quite put down that despicable post from the man that aborted his daughter because her test results indicated she likely had Down Syndrome.
As the father of a daughter with DS, I know the statistics (I also know how the conversation goes with the Geneticist…), but to see someone publicly announce the murder of their child, and with such egocentric disdain, just has me very upset today.
Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy
God in heaven, thank you for the gift of my Ellie.
having dinner at a hotel bar the other night struck up a conversation with a mid-level United Healthcare exec. he told me he puts over $300,000 a year on his company credit card just for entertaining clients. In case you’re wondering why you can’t afford health insurance
Ready to have your mind blown?
Read this very slowly…
Reid Hoffman pays Roberta Kaplan to represent EJ Carroll against Trump.
Reid Hoffman funds Indivisible via ActBlue for their “Tesla Takedown” campaign after Elon and DOGE expose NGO fraud like SPLC.
SPLC funds fake racism for Charlottesville operation.
Roberta Kaplan represents Charlottesville victims.
Joe Biden uses Charlottesville operation as reason for running for President.
Joe Biden appoints Matthew Graves to prosecute J6.
Matthew Graves wife Fatima Graves sits of Indivisible Board.
Roberta Kaplan and Fatima Graves start “Times Up Legal Defense Fund” together.
Fatima Graves and Indivisible run “No Kings” protests.
A tangled web…
With a few more days of harvesting and printing fake ballots, Democrats will miraculously “come from behind” (pun intended), and win the governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayor’s race. It is bold-faced cheating, rubbed in the faces of California citizens with giddy glee.
And it will keep happening until we stop taking it.
Why does everything feel like theater?
We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want.
We have a judicial system that doesn’t hold criminals accountable.
We have an education system that doesn’t educate.
We have a non-profit system that profits from our tax dollars.
We have a health care industry that profits from you staying sick.
We have a financial industry that needs you to stay in debt.
We have an insurance industry that fights every single claim.
It just all feels so fake, so theatrical.
California is going to take 37 days to count 9 million mail in ballots with 0 of the voters showing ID.
This is totally fine with John Thune.
Think about that.