Here's what MAGA needs you to forget while they re-litigate 2020: Trump wasn't a bystander to the response they hate.
He was directing it — loudly.
"Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we'd have 500,000 deaths." "People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots."
That's Trump in October 2020, on a campaign call reporters were allowed to hear.
Six months earlier, he'd retweeted "Time to # FireFauci."
So
the record shows Trump overruling, undermining, and attacking his own
top infectious disease doctor in real time — and his party spending the
five years since prosecuting the doctor for the results.
Same logic on the election.
The
2020 vote was administered while Trump ran the DOJ, the DHS, and the
FBI. If it was stolen, it was stolen from the man in charge of stopping
exactly that — by agencies he appointed.
Every 2020 grievance is a confession.
They're not investigating a failure. They're investigating their own boss. And they're praying you won't notice.
8/31/2026
Donald
Trump's aides "rushed the press" out of the Oval Office after one of
his speeches sparked fears that "something was wrong", it's been
claimed. The President addressed reporters on multiple topics at the
White House yesterday (July 30), discussing matters including the
conflict in Iran, his recent sit-down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his
desire to "end the war" in Ukraine.
However, the briefing took an unusual direction when Trump, whose marriage to Melania is at its lowest point due to a 'disturbing' reason,
shifted focus to domestic matters. He went off on a tangent about his
administration "changing all the grass in all the parks" before making
the peculiar comparison that grass is like "human beings".
Political
commentator David Pakman explained how the address grew increasingly
perplexing in what he termed a "strange chapter in the novel that is
this insane presidency". He stated: "They suddenly realised something
was wrong with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, and they rushed the press out."
During his YouTube program,
The David Pakman Show, he later commented: "As it became clear to the
aides in the room that Donald Trump was starting to decompensate, and he
simply couldn't do it anymore, the bevvy of aides who mostly have the
same look, I don't know if like, am I not supposed to notice that the
aides have a very similar look? They just rush reporters out of the
room."
He noted they seemed to be attempting to "very quickly" move people the "hell out of there". In the footage, Trump abruptly
thanked those present, indicating the meeting's conclusion, before two
aides positioned themselves directly before the cameras.
As
the shot zoomed out, two female staff members made urgent gestures with
their arms, directing the press to exit. While reporters hastily left,
Trump and his colleagues remained visible in the background, maintaining
polite smiles.
Earlier
in the meeting, Trump stated: "Grass is like human beings. Grass is a
life also. And we're changing. We're raking, cleaning and changing all
of the parks. We don't have people."
He continued: "We don't have the tents anymore. We don't have all the barbed wire up. We don't have the wire up."
Trump
then pivoted to border security, windmills and his proposals to
overhaul Dulles Airport in Virginia. For David, this final subject
proved especially perplexing, describing it as a "bizarre and demented
word salad".
Trump
stated: "Within a few years, it will be rated the best airport in the
country. So it's going to be so efficient. Right now, it's totally
inefficient between the trams and the Star Wars thing that they go up.
"The Star Wars and elevated buses and nobody knows what's going on. It's a real mess."
His
nod to George Lucas's sci-fi classic Star Wars seems directed at the
shuttle transport operating at Dulles. Dubbed "people movers" these
vehicles have reportedly drawn the POTUS's ire and been likened to
vehicles from the iconic franchise.
Last week Republicans took the final steps toward destroying what's left of U.S. media consolidation laws.
It didn't warrant much attention by the press; in part because
corporate consolidation has been deadly for U.S. journalism already.
Republicans
and their media arm(s) have two unsubtle goals: massive consolidation
among right wing local broadcast companies, and the befuddlement of the
U.S. electorate by way of propaganda pretending to be useful local TV
news.
The Trump administration has been taking specific aim at
the National Television Ownership Rule, which is supposed to prevent a
single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all
TV households in the U.S.
They're doing this to the benefit of
Nexstar Media Group and Tegna, who combined own more than 330 local TV
news stations. Both companies have a history of kissing Donald Trump's ass, and are pursuing a $6.2 billion merger giving the new, bigger company dominion over more than half of U.S. households.
Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has been telling right wing propaganda websites this is all necessary to "restore balance" in media. Carr's announcement falsely claims he's looking to restore trust in media...by ensuring local broadcast TV news is dominated by a small handful of Trump-friendly broadcasters.
Carr's fellow Democratic FCC Commissioner, Anna Gomez, was quick to point out that this is technically theft of purportedly publicly-owned airwaves. And because Congressional law demands the FCC enforce media consolidation limits, the whole thing is brazenly illegal:
“This
unlawful effort to hand control of the public airwaves to billionaire
buddies of this administration will destroy local newsrooms, silence
community reporting, and drive-up costs for the American families who
depend on local stations for news and emergency alerts. A free and
diverse media landscape depends on real limits on how much of the public
airwaves any one company can control, and this FCC is now poised to
allow local broadcasters to sell those airwaves off to the highest
bidder."
Remember laws? Adorable.
Despite the 39%
cap, TV broadcast news was already in trouble, thanks to the steady
erosion of media ownership limits first mandated by Congress in 1941,
and steadily eroded by corporate power and corruption ever since.
The
sector is dominated by a handful of companies all owned by affluent
right wing old white men, and their local "TV news" output consists of
sloppy infotainment and the sort of right wing propaganda that pummels
local communities with crime, homelessness, and drug abuse fear
mongering.
Nexstar's local broadcast affiliates – and it's terrible Newsnation cable TV channel – routinely find themselves under fire for for the same behavior. Both Nexstar and Sinclair recently proved themselves very eager to help Trump demolish the First Amendment and censor comedians critical of the Presidency.
A
fair assumption is that once Nexstar is allowed to buy Tegna, they'll
move on to merge with Sinclair Broadcasting, putting the near-entirety
of local broadcast TV under the control of right wing zealots loyal to
Trumpism (or whatever unholy authoritarian iterations are belched forth
in the decades to come).
Academics have been warning about this for decades, but this eight year old viral Deadspin video
was arguably the most effective in demonstrating how local U.S.
broadcast "news" has become a homogenized, bobble-headed infotainment
and agitprop sewer where useful local journalism goes to die:
click to watch on YouTube
Deadspin has, I should point out, long-since been acquired and run into the ground by private equity.
Less real local journalism creates local news deserts, where there's less attention paid to local corruption or abuses by consolidated corporate power. In 2019 I spoke to researchers documenting how the supplanting of local journalism with right wing propaganda measurably swings election outcomes.
I
often see a prevailing sentiment that this sort of thing doesn't matter
because "nobody watches regular TV anymore," but that's simply not
true. 65% to 70% of U.S. adults (roughly 170–180 million people) still at least occasionally watch local TV broadcasts via cable, antenna, satellite, or streaming.
That's
180 million households consuming lazy right wing propaganda in a
country endlessly confused as to why such a large segment of the
electorate routinely votes against their best self interests.
The output of these local broadcasts is also tethered to national media
and internet news sources, allowing the right wing to manufacture
entire bogus news and outrage discourse cycles at will.
And this is just local news.
We're
not even talking about Fox News, arguably the most successful modern
media propaganda machine ever constructed. Or Twitter, which is now Elon
Musk's personal right wing propaganda website. Or TikTok, which is now co-owned by Trump's billionaire ally Larry Ellison, who is also gobbling up networks like CBS and CNN with the unsubtle goal of replacing what was left of soggy corporate journalism with something arguably worse.
Then of course you have Breitbart, Dally Caller, The Daily Wire, the New York Post and
the endless other right wing propaganda ops pretending to do useful
journalism. And who can ignore the way U.S. oligarchs are buying papers
like the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, and LA Times to pummel us with oligarch-friendly gibberish.
With
scattered exception, Democrats have been a feckless disaster when it
comes to media policy and reform. Not only have they not had a cogent
media reform plan anytime in the last quarter-century, establishment dems can't even effectively communicate the fact that there's an information war going on.
A
war in which journalism, education, science, and informed consensus are
losing, badly. Most Democrats can be found paying empty lip service to
journalism before rubber stamping the next terrible merger, and
traditionally have treated competent media regulation as a droll and
unnecessary afterthought.
Assuming we can unfasten Trump's fangs
from the neck of democracy, media reform is going to be absolutely
essential if the country doesn't want to enjoy repeated, ongoing bouts
with corporatocracy and fascism, culminating in the country splintering
into a broken coagulation of bickering nation states.
A
cornerstone of modern right wing power is propaganda, and if we can't
muster a coherent response to right wing information warfare, we're
going to be stuck under the boot heel of the dumbest, greediest
motherfuckers imaginable, indefinitely.
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Ted Cruz went on Fox News to warn America about corrupt rulers who get rich by robbing the people they govern, and somehow made it through the entire speech without noticing he was describing the billionaire sitting in the Oval Office.
The setup was an attack on Zohran Mamdani, New York's new mayor, whom Cruz promoted from socialist to Marxist to "full-on communist" in the space of one breath.
Then came the thesis. Castro was a billionaire. Putin is a billionaire. The men who run these regimes, Cruz explained, always end up rich, because they steal and rob from the people they govern.
Here is the part Cruz forgot to check. Donald Trump's personal fortune has climbed by more than two billion dollars since he moved back into the White House last year, roughly doubling from around two billion to over five in a single year.
More than a billion of that came from crypto. Not from building anything real. From a memecoin with his name stamped on it.
Trump collects a fee every time that coin changes hands. Up or down, boom or crash, he gets paid on the transaction itself. The price is the buyer's problem, never his.
And the buyers came. Around 764,000 crypto wallets took losses on $TRUMP while the man himself banked the fees, according to reporting in the New York Times. Ordinary people who trusted the name handed their savings to a president quietly skimming off the top of every trade.
This is not a line from the left. The Wall Street Journal editorial board, no one's idea of a communist cell, accused Trump and his family of cashing in on the presidency in a way that shames the office.
So when Cruz stood on Hannity's set and carefully defined a leader who uses power to enrich himself while the people beneath him grow poorer, he was not describing Mamdani, whose great crime was proposing a tax on second homes and cheaper groceries.
He was describing the man he has spent a decade defending. The same man who branded him "Lyin' Ted" and insulted his wife to his face.
A staffer for Gavin Newsom watched the clip and left a line Cruz will never shake loose: not self-aware enough to realize what he just admitted.
Cruz wrote the indictment himself, read it into the camera, and handed it to the wrong defendant.
Monday, July 27, 2026
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has sparked one of the fastest-growing grassroots movements in the United States. Across the country, communities are pushing back against the construction of massive AI data centers, arguing that the projects consume enormous amounts of electricity and water while bringing relatively few permanent jobs.
What started as isolated local disputes has evolved into a nationwide movement involving residents, farmers, environmental groups and local officials from across the political spectrum. In many communities, people are raising concerns about increased pressure on power grids, water resources, farmland and quality of life.
According to recent reporting, hundreds of citizen groups have organized campaigns against proposed AI data centers, with opposition emerging in states across the country. Some projects have been delayed, scaled back or cancelled after strong public resistance and local government action.
The issue has become increasingly bipartisan. Conservatives have argued that local communities should have greater control over development decisions, while many progressives have focused on environmental impacts and infrastructure demands. As a result, opposition to large-scale AI infrastructure is becoming an important issue in state and local politics.
Technology companies argue that expanding data center capacity is essential for maintaining America's leadership in artificial intelligence. They say new facilities are needed to power AI innovation, economic growth and future technological development. Many companies have also pledged investments in new energy infrastructure and efficiency improvements to address community concerns.
Political analysts believe the debate over AI data centers could play a role in upcoming elections, particularly in states where major developments are planned. While it is too early to say the movement will decide the midterm elections, it has clearly become a significant political issue that candidates and lawmakers can no longer ignore.
As artificial intelligence continues to transform the economy, the debate over where—and how—America builds the infrastructure that powers it is likely to remain at the center of national politics for years to come.
Sources: The New York Times, The Week, Tom's Hardware, Barron's.
This story broke . June 7, 2026. From the Washington Post — one of the most powerful newspapers in the world.
And it confirms what communities from Nashville to Utah to New York to Louisiana have been saying for two years: The
data center fight is no longer just an environmental story. It is no
longer just an energy story. It is no longer just a community story.
It is now an election story. And the politicians who ignored it are running out of time to catch up.
THE TWO MOMS WHO ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE AMERICAN POLITICS
Meet
Annette Singh and Annie Cannelongo. Two full-time mothers. Living in
Hilliard, Ohio — a suburban community outside Columbus that most people
in Washington D.C. have never heard of.
They
are not political activists. They are not lobbyists. They are not
funded by any organization. They are moms. Who take their children to a
park next to an elementary school. A park that sits next to the land
where Amazon Web Services just broke ground on a data center campus.
Annette
Singh and Annie Cannelongo will vote in November in this midterm
battleground with one issue at the top of their minds: data centers. The
full-time moms say their fury over the massive computer-filled
warehouses has consumed them ever since Amazon Web Services broke ground
on a data center site that stretches from the lush playground their
kids use close to the elementary school that Singh’s child attends. 
Consumed. That is the word the Washington Post used. Not concerned. Not worried. Consumed.
This
is what it looks like when a company makes a decision — quietly,
without public input, without community notification — that reaches into
the daily life of a mother pushing her child on a swing. And she looks
up. And realizes that the land next to where her child plays is being
turned into an industrial AI facility. And nobody asked her. Nobody told
her. Nobody even sent a letter.
That
is the moment that creates a voter who is consumed. And consumed voters
— in midterm elections — decide who wins and who loses.
AND THE WASHINGTON POST JUST CONFIRMED: DATA CENTERS WILL DECIDE THE 2026 MIDTERMS
Why most politicians are not calling for data center bans despite voters’ anger. 
That is the headline. From the Washington Post. Published TODAY.
Not
“Why voters are angry about data centers.” The Washington Post already
knows voters are angry — that is not news anymore. The news is why
politicians are not responding. Why they are not calling for bans. Why
they are not answering the phones and emails and text messages flooding
their offices.
The answer — which
the Post lays out in devastating detail — is money. Campaign
contributions. Economic development deals. The revolving door between
state government and the tech industry. The billion-dollar tax breaks
that local officials negotiated in secret and cannot defend in public.
Politicians
know the voters are furious. They are calculating whether the fury will
still be there in November. And two moms in Hilliard, Ohio — standing
in a park next to an elementary school — just told the Washington Post
that yes. It will still be there. It will be the first thing they think
about when they walk into the voting booth.
“VERY SOON — MAYBE EVEN LATER THIS YEAR — WE’LL BE PRODUCING MORE CHIPS THAN WE CAN TURN ON”
This
quote — published by Bloomberg THIS WEEK — is the most extraordinary
admission in the history of the AI boom. And it came from inside the
industry itself.
Artificial
intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To
meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia are churning out ever
more powerful chips, requiring a new generation of data centers that
will draw many times more power than their predecessors. “Very soon,
maybe even later this year, we’ll be producing more chips than we can
turn on,” Tesla Inc.’s energy division warned. 
More
chips than we can turn on. This year. Because there is not enough
electricity. Not enough transformers. Not enough grid capacity. Not
enough water. Not enough community tolerance.
The
boom that was supposed to be unstoppable just admitted — through one of
its own industry insiders — that it is approaching the physical limits
of what America’s infrastructure can support.
And
the communities fighting back — from Hilliard, Ohio to Nashville,
Tennessee to Box Elder County, Utah to New York State — are a major
reason why.
AND ERIN BROCKOVICH JUST SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF THE ENTIRE FIGHT — YESTERDAY ON FOX NEWS
Erin
Brockovich said she’s received thousands of reports on AI data centers —
and the most common concern is transparency. “If data centers are so
great, why are they being built in secret?” she asks. 
Seven words. That is all it took.
If data centers are so great — why are they being built in secret?
Why
the NDAs? Why the shell companies? Why the secret meetings? Why the
elected officials who cannot tell their constituents what was discussed?
Why the farmers who had to sign a confidentiality agreement to find out
who wanted to buy their land? Why the communities that found out about
$12 billion projects the same day as a press conference?
If
the benefits are as real as the companies claim — if the jobs are real,
the tax revenue is real, the economic development is real — then why
does every single deal require secrecy? Why does every single community
have to fight for basic information that should be public from the
moment a permit is filed?
Erin
Brockovich — who has built a career on one simple principle: the public
has a right to know — just asked the question that 288,000 Nashville
petition signers, and 6,615 BrockovichDataCenter.com reporters, and two moms in a Hilliard, Ohio playground are all asking in different ways.
Why the secrets?
AND THE NUMBERS THIS WEEK TELL THE COMPLETE STORY OF WHERE AMERICA STANDS
Let us put the complete picture of this single week in American data center history in one place:
288,000
people signed the Nashville Zoo petition in 5 days. The Nashville Metro
Council votes on a data center moratorium THIS Tuesday.
New York passed the first statewide data center freeze in American history on Thursday.
Kevin O’Leary was forced to cut his Utah Stratos Project from 40,000 to 20,000 acres after community and political pressure.
Virginia Beach permanently banned all new large-scale data centers.
Amazon’s
own engineers stood in Seattle City Hall and called their company’s AI
expansion an approach that will cause “staggering damage to democracy,
to our jobs, and to the earth.”
“In
a month, 3,862 residents submitted reports. The map now has 2,716 pins
and represents 49 states,” Erin Brockovich wrote on May 27, 2026. 
49
states. 2,716 pins. 288,000 petition signers. 6,615 personal reports.
One statewide freeze. One permanent city ban. One Shark Tank star cut in
half. One zoo with 3,000 animals and a 50th clouded leopard cub.
And
two moms in Hilliard, Ohio who told the Washington Post that data
centers will be the first thing on their mind when they vote in
November.
AND HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — THIS WEEK AND BEYOND
Tuesday June 10: Nashville Metro Council votes on data center moratorium. The most watched local vote in America right now.
By end of June: Governor Hochul must decide whether to sign or veto New York’s historic data center freeze.
June
23: Utah Republican primary — where the Stratos Project and Kevin
O’Leary’s data center is the defining campaign issue in the Senate
President’s race.
November 2026:
Midterm elections. Where two moms in Hilliard, Ohio — and millions of
Americans like them — will vote with data centers at the top of their
minds.
The fight that started in
town halls and commission meetings and online petitions is moving to the
ballot box. And no politician — regardless of party, regardless of how
much they have accepted from the tech industry — can ignore 288,000
signatures and two full-time moms on the front page of the Washington
Post.
Here is the bottom line of June 7, 2026:
America
has reached the moment in the data center fight when the political
system can no longer pretend it is not happening. When the Washington
Post puts two Ohio moms on its front page. When Erin Brockovich asks on
Fox News why these projects are built in secret. When Amazon’s own
engineers stand in city hall and call their company’s approach damaging
to democracy. When a state legislature passes a historic freeze and a
city permanently bans new facilities — all in the same week.
This is not a protest movement anymore. It is not a grassroots campaign. It is not a fringe concern.
It
is American democracy doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Voters
deciding what happens in their communities. Politicians being forced to
respond. Companies being held accountable.
The
clouded leopard cubs are counting on it. The moms in Ohio are voting on
it. And 288,000 Americans — and counting — have already said where they
stand.
Where do YOU stand?
COMMENT below — are YOU voting in November with data centers on your
mind? Tell us your state. Tell us your story. Let’s show every
politician in America exactly how many voters this issue has reached.
LIKE this post if you believe that two moms in Ohio standing next to
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SHARE THIS with every voter, every parent, every person who lives near a
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FOLLOW this page — we are covering the Nashville vote on Tuesday, the
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now and November in real time. The most important chapters of this fight
are still being written. Don’t miss a word.
SOURCES: Washington Post — Why Most Politicians Are Not Calling for Data Center Bans Despite Voters’ Anger (June 7, 2026) LiveNOW from FOX — Erin Brockovich Pushing for Data Center Transparency as AI Booms (June 7, 2026) Bloomberg — How AI Firms Are Redesigning Data Centers to Meet Energy Demand (June 1, 2026) NewsChannel 5 Nashville — Nashville Zoo Fights Proposed Data Center Next Door, Citing Risks to Rare Animals (June 7, 2026) Tom’s Hardware — Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Have Been Delayed or Canceled (April 2026) Food and Water Watch — The Top 10 Reasons Data Centers Must Be Stopped — VICTORY Update (June 5, 2026) Fortune — Amazon Engineers Speak Out Against AI Data Center Expansion (June 5, 2026) Data Center Knowledge — New Data Center Developments: June 2026 (June 3, 2026)
