BREAKING: THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! Republican Rep. Troy Nehls responds to reporter asking about struggling Americans by bragging about eating steak and lobster tails and sneering that poor Americans just don't work hard enough!

Republicans have spent months insisting to their constituents that they understand the economic pressures facing ordinary Americans. Congressman Troy Nehls of Texas just gave them a little public relations problem.

Asked by a reporter on the steps of the Capitol how House Republicans plan to convince voters they are fighting for affordability while they are back in their districts over the Fourth of July, the cigar-chomping Nehls opted to talk about his dinner menu.

"I'm going to get me a couple big lobster tails. I'm going to get me some nice rib eyes," Nehls said, describing plans to celebrate the holiday with family and neighbors while honoring "the greatest president in my lifetime, Donald J. Trump."

That's one way to answer a question about affordability, isn’t it?

Nehls went on to acknowledge that fuel prices have risen because of the U.S. attack on Iran but waved off concerns about fuel prices as temporary.

Then the interviewer pointed out an inconvenient fact.

"Do you think the 60 percent of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and rib eyes and all of that?" he asked.

Nehls' response was breathtaking.

"Maybe not. Maybe that 60 percent of Americans don't work as hard as I do either. I mean, I don't know."

So, according to the Texas congressman, Americans struggling to afford groceries, gas, rent and health care may simply need to work harder. If he’d kept on talking, maybe he would have gotten to “bootstraps.”

He didn't consider things like stagnant wages, soaring housing costs or rising insurance premiums, all of which have squeezed household budgets across the country. Instead, he suggested the problem may lie with the people struggling to pay the bills themselves.

This is the kind of response that perfectly captures why so many voters believe Washington politicians are out of touch with everyday life.

Most Americans hearing the word "affordability" don't picture lobster tails and rib eyes. They picture electric bills, rent payments, prescription drug costs, and the cost of filling up their vehicles.

But Nehls was kind enough to say the quiet part out loud for us.

How many more Republican politicians hear that millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and don't see an economic problem, they see a work ethic problem.

And they wonder why voters are frustrated, and the approval rate of Congress hovers between 10 and 30 percent.

Bon appétit, Congressman. Your cigar stinks, by the way.

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 And yet another article from the Washington Post decrying the march of the left. But now centrists, Tom Souzzi and Josh Gottheimer have come up with an answer-a manifesto promising to adhere to the core republican values of capitalism, law enforcement and fiscal responsibility to counter Democratic Socialists embracing M4ALL and affordable housing. Raise your hand if you'll vote for capitalism and law enforcement that has brought rising prices and thousands of illegal ICE detentions.

"Democrats Are in a Civil War—and the Far Left Is Gaining Ground Centrists have been ‘wringing our hands’ are scrambling to beat back insurgents In Colorado, allies of longtime Rep. Diana DeGette are pouring money into a late round of ads to help defeat a Democratic socialist in next week’s primary election. In Los Angeles, Democratic Mayor Karen Bass shook up her campaign team this week in her tough re-election bid against a Democratic socialist challenger. And in Michigan’s race for a U.S. Senate seat, Democrats have discussed consolidating the primary field in hopes of beating Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive populist candidate whom party-establishment figures see as a risky bet in the general election. The party’s centrists are alarmed. “The left, the DSA, and the right, the MAGA movement, they’re both very well organized, and those of us that oppose those policies are talking to each other at cocktail parties and wringing our hands,” said Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat. “But we got to get organized.” “I agree that people’s economic anxiety is real, and we have to address it—I just happen to disagree with their solutions,” Suozzi said.

In the aftermath of the New York races, 10 House Democrats including Suozzi signed a centrist pledge of “bringing common sense back to the Democratic Party” by committing to fiscal discipline and capitalism over socialism. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat who signed the pledge, said the left was “using Tea Party tactics and trying to divide up the country and pray to socialist ideals.”

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A single hugely powerful "technology company" has secured a massive foothold across key parts of the US federal government. Its software now "supports operations" ranging from military battlefield decision-making to agricultural data management and immigration enforcement.

That company is Palantir Technologies. Over time, it has built deep and seemingly irrevocable relationships with federal agencies. Early work in intelligence and defense has evolved into wider deployments.

Public records show contracts that consolidate data systems.

Possibly most concerning is the rapid reliance on Palantir In defense, the US Army alone has consolidated dozens of prior arrangements into a single agreement with Palantir potentially worth up to $10 billion over ten years.

Beyond defense, the US Department of Agriculture has now signed a $300 million agreement with Palantir to modernize farmer data systems under its “One Farmer, One File” initiative. Capturing complex data on private individuals with little real oversight.

Then there's immigration and homeland security, Palantir’s "platforms" are behind data integration at agencies like ICE and DHS, systems handling billions of records for enforcement purposes, with capabilities for cross-referencing travel, immigration, they see it all.

A recurring feature is the gradual expansion from "pilot projects" to enterprise wide platforms. Some integrations reportedly operated for years before formal agreements were in place, building absolute institutional reliance on Palantir.

The cumulative effect is significant: disparate government datasets, military, agricultural, fiscal, health and immigration, increasingly converge on common analytical platforms operated by a single private entity.

The idea that a single powerful privately led Tech giant would have such a massive impact on the operation of the ants most powerful institutions, reads like something from a mediocre sci-fi novel.

It's not.

Welcome to the future.

~

Chay Bowes

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While most Americans are scrolling their feeds, something almost unimaginable is rising out of the dirt in Shackelford County, Texas — a place with barely a few thousand residents.

It's called the Stargate Frontier Campus, and the numbers behind it sound like science fiction.

The Stargate Frontier Campus is a 1.4 GW AI data center development under construction in Shackelford County, Texas, part of the broader Stargate initiative led by OpenAI, Oracle, and infrastructure partners. Developed by Vantage Data Centers, the project is valued at over $25 billion and spans approximately 1,200 acres — featuring 10 single-story hyperscale facilities totaling 3.7 million square feet. Blackridge ResearchBlackridge Research

That's roughly the size of 64 football fields, under one project, in one rural Texas county.

And it's not the only one.

In Michigan, a $16 billion campus nicknamed "The Barn" is being built in Saline Township near Ann Arbor — fully leased to Oracle for OpenAI's workloads, and described as the largest economic development investment in the state's history. Oracle alone is expected to spend an additional $30 to $40 billion on servers, networking equipment, and AI chips for that single site. Blackridge Research

In Louisiana, the state government approved $3.3 billion in tax breaks just to convince Meta to build its massive Hyperion AI Campus there — a facility designed to run hundreds of thousands of next-generation AI chips, powered partly by on-site natural gas and up to 1.5 gigawatts of solar energy. Blackridge Research

Across the country, the United States is now experiencing the largest wave of data center construction in its history, with more than 4,000 operational data centers already running and hundreds more under development. Blackridge Research

Here's the part that should worry every American 

These facilities are being built to train and run artificial intelligence at a scale never seen before — and whoever controls this infrastructure may control the next era of global power, economics, and military technology.

But ordinary families living near these mega-projects are asking simple questions: Who pays for the electricity these monsters consume? Who pays for the water? And what happens to small towns that suddenly become ground zero for a multi-billion-dollar tech war?

This isn't a distant headline anymore. It's happening in farm towns, small counties, and quiet suburbs — right now, while most people are unaware it's even happening near them.

A short clip of bodycam footage from Claremore, Oklahoma has been making the rounds online, and it shows no fight, no threat, and no scene.

It shows a calm and quiet man being arrested.

The man is Darren Blanchard and his offense was speaking a few seconds past the three-minute timer set for public comments.

The meeting in question, held by the Claremore City Council, centered on a proposed data center campus spanning roughly 270 to 300 acres of his community, a project known as Project Mustang.

Residents filled the room that night to weigh in. Blanchard spoke up against the data center, but went over the clock by a few seconds.

Officers told him to leave, and when he asked to present his paperwork first, the cuffs came out.

The whole exchange landed on tape, and getting that tape was its own ordeal. One local who requested the footage was first told it would cost $1,750, then ended up paying $120.

Blanchard's attorneys have reportedly moved to dismiss the trespassing charge.

They also want the city attorney to step aside, pointing out that he was in the room and witnessed the arrest himself. That detail hasn't been confirmed in court records yet.

The legal question underneath all this is genuinely unsettled. Public comment exists. So residents can speak directly to the officials who represent them.

Whether blowing past a timer by a handful of seconds rises to the level of a trespassing arrest is far from clear.

 

I Grew Up In San Francisco

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The History of the Annabelle Candy Company -

Susan Gamson Karl, the CEO of Annabelle Candy Co., is the granddaughter of founder Sam Altshuler and she has provided the history of her wonderful Bay Area company exclusively for our "Lost San Francisco" page....

In 1917, in the middle of the Russian Revolution, future Annabelle Candy Company founder Sam Altshuler and a cousin decided to flee to China, escaping by train in borrowed Army uniforms to avoid being conscripted into the service.

The two arrived in Harbin, China, where they took a ship to Japan and then to the U.S., docking in Seattle. From Seattle, 19-year-old Sam took another boat to San Francisco, where he was offered a job in a candy store on Mission Street, beginning his 54-year career in candy.

Sam quickly picked up the trade and began his own small candy company, making confections in his kitchen.

During the late 1920s, Sam sold his candy in front of movie theaters, which didn’t have in-house concessions at the time. He soon developed a following for his product and eventually opened a small sales stand in the Crystal Palace Market.

As his business continued to boom, Sam began to move his family from Russia to the U.S. However, when the Great Depression hit in 1929, Sam was forced to close his shop and focus on manufacturing instead of retailing, making candy out of a small factory on a shoestring budget. He carried on in this manner throughout the depression, selling his candy wherever he could while saving money to open a larger, more modern candy factory.

In 1932, in San Francisco, he married Sylvia, and two years later they had a daughter, Annabelle. Unfortunately, the start of World War II (1941) brought with it sugar rationing, forcing the small factory to close, so Sam took a job at a shipyard in Sausalito, CA. There he conducted a time and motion study that the U.S. Navy used to streamline its ship manufacturing process. The Navy awarded Sam with a commendation for his contribution to the war effort.

He also worked for a local candy company during the war as a salesman to wholesalers in California’s Central Valley. When the war ended, Sam opened a new candy factory and took on a partner to ensure sufficient capital for future expansion.

In 1950, he bought his partner out and formed a new corporation, naming it the Annabelle Candy Co., after his daughter. After years of experimenting, the first successful candy from Annabelle was the Rocky Road bar, which Sam named because of the way the top of the bar looked.

In 1965, Sam moved the business across San Francisco Bay to its present location in Hayward, California and through the 1970’s Annabelle purchased the Golden Nugget Candy Company, which had a factory at the corner of Market Street and Duboce for many years, adding the Big Hunk and Look candy bars along with the Cardinet Candy Company, makers of U-No and Abba-Zaba bars to the company’s lineup. All candy bars are now made in Hayward today.

Sam passed away in 1971 leaving behind a candy legacy and big shoes to fill. Not that he had big feet. Annabelle ran the company as did her son Gary until 1997.

In 1997 Susan Gamson Karl, Annabelle’s daughter became President and CEO, managing the day-to-day operations. In 2011, Sam Altshuler was entered into the U.S. Candy Hall of Fame. In that same year, the company was named as the most outstanding female owned business in the San Francisco-East Bay Region.

The photo shows the Golden Nugget Candy Company on Market Street, San Francisco in the circa 1964. Source: S.F. Public Library

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When I learned that we pay for #Israeli #Healthcare and all of their #academics and their #military thats when #Israel & all the #Zionist families like the #rothschildfamily - #FalicFamily - #AdelsonFamily - #Kushnerfamily that control the world through debt, blackmail and terror became my enemy.

They've poisoned our food, destroyed our women's bodies and drained the will to fight out our men.

This is not something that just happened this is a plan that's centuries old. Before #thepanicof1819 before they sank #thetitanic and killed everyone against the founding of the #CentralBank

They poisoned us trying to destroy our future. #idiocracy go watch that movie. That's what they want from us.

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