Author: nick

The $20 burrito debate reveals the contradictions of Trump’s economic agenda

Political Spin

[ad_1] It’s one burrito, Michael. What could it cost? We are deep in the summer news doldrums, as evidenced by the fact that the dominant story on Politics Twitter this week was a debate over how much burritos cost. I’m not too interested in the specifics of the burrito controversy, but before we can get to what it all means, you need to know the basics. It started with a viral tweet from Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Turning Points USA, who claimed that a college student recently complained to him about paying $20 for a burrito. In the days since,…

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Defendant’s Refusal to Identify Herself Leads to Recommended Default Judgment Against Her

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] From today’s Report and Recommendations by Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Staffordt (E.D. Mich.) in yesterday’s Evans v. Robertson: Plaintiff Sybrena Evans, proceeding pro se, sues Defendant Danielle Robertson … for copyright infringement, defamation, fraud, and harassment. {Robertson made a special appearance as a Jane Doe stating that “Danielle Robertson” is an online alias and not her legal name. For the sake of clarity, the Court will nevertheless refer to this individual as Robertson.} Evans moved for an order requiring Robertson to show cause why she should not be held in contempt and sanctioned for disobeying two of Judge Levy’s…

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The Forthcoming Migration Storm – CounterPunch.org

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] Image by Sébastien Goldberg. Climate change is the force behind the greatest migration storm of all time. It will be 500,000,000 or maybe 2,000,000,000 nobody knows for sure how many but as climate change worsens, the estimates go up. Scientific studies run the gamut of up to a couple billion homeless wandering the planet, forlornly looking for a home over upcoming decades. This is the subject of Josh Fox’s newest film The Welcome Table, 2h 11min, HBO Documentary Films, June 2026. Fox is best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary Gasland. Decider, the pop culture web site for…

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43 Days And Counting: Apathetic Americans Are About To Be Blindsided By A Major League Wake Up Call

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] I really don’t understand the tremendous apathy that I am witnessing right now. Everyone can see that commercial oil inventories are rapidly being depleted. As I discussed yesterday, the global oil market had about 400 million barrels of excess inventory before the war, and now we have “close to nothing”. But at least we still have the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, right? Yes, that is true, but that is being rapidly depleted as well. In fact, when you add the dwindling commercial oil inventors in the U.S. to the oil that is left in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we only have 43 days…

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The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Conlan Houston – CC BY-SA 4.0 Outspent 11 to 1 by Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the party’s U.S. Senate nominee is the buzz of the nation. While big media outlets are wringing their hands or casting their eyes at familiar issues of affordability, rejection of establishment candidates and generational shift, many are missing an important element that could have clinched progressive El-Sayed’s upset victory in a race he won by about 15,000 votes: hyperscale Artificial Intelligence data centers, which loom big in Michigan. Longtime political writer…

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