The moral alteration in an unthinkable expanse of people who call this place home has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths. The worst part is that we can’t reach them in the ways reasonable human beings can be reached.
Before Fox News, we could meet the people around us on the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus, our respect for the Constitution, the clarity of objective truth, or shared compassion for vulnerable people. Now, they no longer have use or tolerance for such things.
Those of us who’ve lost people we love to this curated pestilence should file a class-action suit against Fox News for thirty years of malpractice and murder: for the relationships they’ve destroyed, the deaths they’ve been complicit in, the betrayal of the public trust, and for purposefully killing the goodness in human beings who will never be who they might have been otherwise.
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Russia, Israel, Tech Bros, and a Koch Machine!
A Digital Army!
Michael Flynn and his Trolls!
I call it Faction #1
They highjacked the GOP!!
Donald Trump is Troll #1
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.
Think about that.
At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.
Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.
Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.
Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.
Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.
Governments usually spend money to build things.
This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
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**First term (2017-2021):** Trump granted **143 pardons** and **94 commutations** (237 total people).
Crimes spanned fraud (bank, wire, securities, tax, healthcare), drug trafficking/conspiracy, obstruction/false statements (e.g. Michael Flynn, Roger Stone), public corruption, and some violent/military cases. High-profile: Paul Manafort (fraud), Michael Milken (securities fraud), Alice Marie Johnson (drug offenses, commuted).
**Second term (2025–present):** Blanket pardon for ~1,500 January 6 defendants (obstruction, assault, etc.). Plus ~119 additional pardons + 27 commutations for crimes including securities fraud, AML violations (e.g. Changpeng Zhao), drug trafficking (e.g. Juan Orlando Hernandez), and FACE Act cases.
**Total clemency:** Well over 1,700 people.
Full lists: https://t.co/giMwVrQWnR (first & second term pages). Numbers from DOJ and consistent reporting.