Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦

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Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free time. Trans girl when JFK was President. San Francisco Bay Area.
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Here's a report about the steadily-rising profits of utility executives.

Paying for Their Profits: How ...
Paying for Their Profits: How Ratepayers Foot the Bill for Soaring Utility Profits 

New report finds utility companies have made billions of dollars in profit since 2021 and utility profit margins are climbing higher.

Energy and Policy Institute
The regime is buying up warehouses to retrofit into concentration camps, but several grassroots campaigns to halt such sales have been successful. Tell your Members of Congress to do everything in their power to block ICE’s plan to warehouse human beings: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/reject-the-deportation-and-detention-agenda/?source=mastodon
Reject the Deportation & Detention Agenda

Tell your Members of Congress to publicly oppose any warehouses or detention centers being expanded in your community or anywhere in the country.

Indivisible Guide

Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard the constitutional requirement that US Attorneys require Senate confirmation. In state after state they install unqualified apparatchiks, and it's up to the courts to discover that these stooges are serving illegally.

Which the courts have done, again and again. But the Trump regime simply ignores the courts and the law. All the work of these US Attorneys' offices is at risk. (1/2)

Here's a judge actually throwing one of these Trump prosecutors out of his courtroom: “You have lost the confidence and the trust of this court. You have lost the confidence and the trust of the New Jersey legal community, and you are losing the trust and confidence of the public.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/nyregion/judge-quraishi-new-jersey-attorneys-office.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A._bYw.TmEGnQxpCWj0&smid=url-share (2/2)

Judge Ejects Federal Prosecutor From Court and Orders Bosses to Testify

Judge Zahid Quraishi ordered a hearing on who had the authority to lead New Jersey’s top federal law enforcement office.

The New York Times
Arizona files criminal charges against Kalshi for allegedly illegally accepting bets and attempting to circumvent state law by calling the operation a prediction market. https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mayes-charges-kalshi-illegal-gambling-operation-election-wagering
Attorney General Mayes Charges Kalshi With Illegal Gambling Operation, Election Wagering in Arizona | Attorney General's Office

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes today filed criminal charges against Kal

"The US alone has already spent more money on this conflict in the last two and a half weeks than the $23bn (€19.9bn) I need to save 87 million lives this year," said Tom Fletcher, a senior official at the United Nations.

https://euobserver.com/207273/us-war-spending-in-iran-could-have-saved-87-million-lives-says-un/

US war spending in Iran could have saved 87 million lives, says UN

"The US alone has already spent more money on this conflict in the last two and a half weeks than the $23bn (€19.9bn) I need to save 87 million lives this year," said Tom Fletcher, a senior official at the United Nations.

EUobserver
So much of what gets credited as policy thought in the modern GOP is just disagreeing with one of my favorite Deep Thoughts: "I'd rather be rich than stupid". (h/t Jack Handey) https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-doge-cuts-middle-eastern-oil-gas-crises
Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises

Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.

NOTUS
In all the reading I've done the one thing I've never found an exception to is this: all the really great writers are extremely well-read. Even comedians are wild avant-garde types still read widely and constantly. I don't know of any great writer who defies this.

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

They continue to tell on themselves every minute of every day

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kb63zrj57n4a6dys6mat3oaz/post/3mhar3twboc23