Orval Osborne

The CEO of a multi-trillion-dollar company gave the president a gold gift — and soon after, got a special tariff exemption.

The Founders banned bribery three separate times in the Constitution.

Happening Now!! New York City: a large rally formed to demand a bill to redraw the state’s congressional maps — a direct response to the gerrymandering in Texas

Although W Bush invading Iraq for no reason was bad.

Mr President:

Tariffs will slow the economy and raise inflation.

Come at me bro.

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

Just how bad must the Epstein files be?

Yes! I’ve played around with maps like this to make the Senate more representative of equal populations. We can do better.

For Pete’s sake, households shouldn’t have to pay higher electricity bills because tech companies are doing AI. Let the market handle its costs.

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“there are a dozen or so trans kids playing high school sports, this is not an issue that affects you and its time we start asking why the guy who has repeatedly bragged about being sexually attracted to children wants to look at your kids genitals” is an entirely true thing you can say!

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"Companies that build data centers often pursue multiple projects in different utility service areas, trying to figure out what can be built fastest and cheapest. It is likely that some of those projects won’t be built, Wilson said, but neither the developer nor the utilities know which ones….

That 2028 national data center power demand estimate translates to somewhere between double and nearly quadruple the 34.5 gigawatts of capacity Duke Energy owns in North and South Carolina today.” 3/

"The U.S. Department of Energy’s Berkeley National Laboratory estimated national data center power consumption could jump from about 4.4% of the nation’s electricity in 2023 to between 6.7% and 12% by 2028. 2/

We are now worsening global warming for the dumbest reason: to make crypto-currency!
"About 45% of the total new electricity Duke Energy expects to provide to large-load customers between now and 2033 will serve data centers, with another 3% or 4% serving new crypto mines in the state.” 1/

How did we get all this gerrymandering? A short history of the Republican redistricting scheme A plan to redistrict states to benefit Republicans was conceived of 15 years ago. It’s been an enormous success

Gerrymandering is so unfair! Example of North Carolina. (It is usually bad news when your state is in major news stories.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump Administration slowed down the pace of Helene recovery in WNC, and FEMA experts agree efforts are far behind where they should be.
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I think it took a few generations for the combination of anti-density politics created by universal car usage and geographical concentration of labor due to deindustrialization to hit its inevitable limit when there was no longer developable land anywhere near where there were jobs.

CA congress members are 43 Democrats and 9 Republicans. So there is limited potential for Dem gains if CA abandoned nonpartisan district-setting.

I live in North Carolina, which is the worst for partisan gerrymandering. I despair how to fix this.

Housing was much more affordable: median house price was 2x median income. Now it is 5x. Income inequality was much less. College was much, much cheaper. Medical costs were much cheaper.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Right. California has a great system, nonpartisan.

I was there!

I was there, too! A great experience.

The economy was good the first 3 years. It was Obama’s good economy, and Trump hadn’t wrecked it. Then COVID hit, and the economy collapsed.

You’re talking about half the voters. How can Democrats siphon off a few percent of them?

The cover up is happening in plain sight.

Where are those QAnon folks these days? We now actually have a government that is led by a sex trafficker’s pal, and trying to help convicted sex traffickers.