Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution. It can’t be said too often.

Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution.
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From MeidasTouch Legal AF: The Convicted FElon DOJ is now deleting court documents on J6 terrorists who have been in trouble with law repeatedly. The DOJ was caught when a judge noticed a document missing on a J6'er, who wanted to bomb Obama's home & was convicted for it. I bet these are ICE now.

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say The Oakland Police Department says it is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate the burglary.

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DOGE holdover who pushed for deep cuts at HHS is headed to the Navy Rachel Riley, a former McKinsey partner, helped execute sweeping layoffs at the health department this spring. Behind the scenes, her methods sparked turmoil.

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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

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In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Basically, shelving people that make us uncomfortable since we cannot figure out how to fix a difficult issue that was, really, escalated when Reagan threw people out of care. This feels like it will be a huge investigation into abuse story in 5 years in the NYT too: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Confronting the danger of a “zombie” United Nations Middle powers can act now to reform the UN – before financial crisis turns it into an empty shell.

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We have a lot of revitalization of our institutions ahead of us. This is one that deserves it too

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

Tech and the Wealth of Nations Does every country need to have a Silicon Valley?

Tech and the Wealth of Nations
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The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s pre...

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"Journalism is not a crime": Chicago reporters sue Trump over violence at ICE protests Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.

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"no more superficial individual expression"

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

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Google, Apple drop ICE agent tracking apps from stores after Trump admin complaints Joshua Aaron has said he created ICEBlock after seeing the Trump administration's deportation efforts, which he said evoked events in Nazi Germany.

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After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

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Welcoming HUD to The Resistance.

Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

This is false. The power of the purse is meaningless if the executive can simply disregard the appropriation of dollars is the law. There are numerous specific textual bases for this claim. But the mere logic of the document and the structure it creates makes this emphatically clear.

ABC: “.. Multiple current and former employees described the situation as ‘a national security crisis.’”

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After declaring that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza and that the US should take "ownership" of the strip, Trump issues an executive order ending US funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

“The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked.”

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.

The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

It wild to me that DOGE would actually send “contracts” with shoddy and suspect legal language to federal career attorneys that even non-lawyers would recognize as bullshit.

Just saying.

NEW: DoJ employees asked for guarantees in writing for the deferred resignation Fork in the Road plan. They were sent this. It strips the signer of the right to sue, and also says if you commit a felony, you’re not eligible for federal employment. Oh, the irony.