When I awoke early Sunday morning the last thing on my mind was that 71-year-old Lindsey Graham would beat 84-year-old Mitch McConnell to the grave.

When I learned the news, I thought it was a misprint, that they meant to write “Mitch McConnell is dead.” Nope, it was Lindsey. The Grim Reaper has a sense of humour. Or is it the Graham Reaper?

The next shocker was to find out that Mitch McConnell is allegedly alive and kicking. Expect all kinds of conspiracy theories to grow up around that.

Even though both men were members of the same fraternity of human scum that made Donald Trump possible, it boils down to timing, reputationally speaking. Had McConnell died he would have done so hating Trump. Lindsey died in the full throes of abject Trump sycophancy.

Thanks to all the death in the air, there’s a famous quote attributed to Bette Davis that’s making the rounds again. It goes something like, “My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” I think that line is particularly relevant today, but not for reasons you might think.

First, Bette Davis never uttered those words. The line is a complete phoney, invented from whole cloth and slapped on the Bette Davis legacy without her permission. Second, Bette Davis was a member of that baffling constellation of women who became gay icons, such as Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Cher and so on.

Lindsey Graham died a phoney, and he was almost certainly gay. I hasten to add that being gay is a perfectly normal thing for any human to be. I don’t condemn Lindsey Graham in the least for being gay, of course.

But I do condemn Lindsey Graham for denying he was gay and being a member of a deplorable cult of disgusting bigots who condemn homosexuality and want to make gay marriage illegal.

You might say that one of the skeletons in Lindsey Graham’s closet was the closet itself.

That is only the beginning of my condemnations of Lindsey Graham.

I condemn Lindsey Graham for being a member of another deplorable cult of disgusting bigots. The cult that threw away their lives of once-honourable public service, relatively speaking, in order to worship at the filthy feet of Donald Trump.

I can think of no other person who more completely erased his life by falling more abjectly on the disreputable Altar of Trump than Lindsey Graham.

Shakespeare had men like Graham in mind when he wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”

When Trump first ran for the presidency back in 2015, Graham characterised him as a “jackass,” a “kook,” and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” His most famous quote at that time was, “If we nominate Trump [as Republican candidate for president], we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it.” Lindsey certainly got that part right.

I further condemn Lindsey Graham for the fact that by 2018 Graham discovered the advantage, the power, the dominion and the downright glory of completely selling out to that fascist conman, the human scum Trump. Graham was happy to humiliate himself in order to touch the hem of Trump’s garment and be a part of his loathsome inner circle. Graham helped Trump by delivering the rapist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Then came January 6th, and Lindsey Graham saw the light that he always knew was there. Graham denounced Trump in the strongest terms for provoking the insurrection. He enunciated the ultimate heresy to the MAGA cult when he declared long and loud that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lawfully won the 2020 election.

Lindsey Graham then averred that he and Trump were finished once and for all.

Not so fast. A later quick trip to Mar-a-Lago and a game of golf, in which he probably let Trump cheat, was the price of bringing Lindsey back into the fascistic Trump fold. From that day to his dying breath, Lindsey Graham remained a fanatical Trump cultist. All it took to bring him back one last and final time was just another payout of 30 pieces of silver, so to speak.

I condemn in the strongest terms Lindsey Graham for being a warmonger. He unreservedly supported Trump’s stupid war of choice against Iran, up to and including advocating the use of nuclear weapons against innocent human beings doing nothing to anybody beyond living their lives.

I express the same condolences to Lindsey Graham’s remaining family that Lindsey himself expressed to the 150 Iranian schoolchildren whose lives Trump destroyed. That is to say, nothing.

The same goes for the 13 members of America’s military who died in Trump’s stupid war. The same goes for the tens of thousands of Iranian civilians who needlessly died. The same goes for the lives of Nicole Good, Alex Pretti and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. And so on.

Nothing.

Michael Fanone, the Metropolitan Police Officer who was present on January 6 heroically defending the members of Congress at the US Capitol against the Trump mob during the attack, had this to say about the death of Lindsey Graham:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you’re in it.”

I would like to echo Mr Fanone’s sentiments by paraphrasing that quote falsely attributed to Bette Davis. My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Lindsey Graham is dead. Good.

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Lindsey Graham Was Worse Than You Think — Let's Count The Ways

Some say “don’t speak ill of the dead,” but I say “when better?” In fact, it’s of the utmost importance that we speak ill of war criminals when they’re dead, alive, or in between.

Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most vile, repulsive people to ever live. His defining characteristic was that he wanted the whole world to be as unhappy as he was. He wanted as many people to die or be impoverished or imprisoned as possible. He showed all the signs of a sociopath, as I delineated here.

He would easily be on a list of the most deadly and destructive human beings in recent history if it weren’t for the fact that he had relatively little power. And his campaign for president did not go well because, unlike many other sociopaths in the US government, he was unable to trick the American people into believing that he gave a shit about them.

Before we get to his long list of pro-war pro-death and destruction stances, we should not forget his other disgusting political beliefs. He was strongly anti-woman and anti-women’s health. He wanted the US healthcare system to destroy far more Americans than it already does. He was opposed to worker rights and basic welfare designed to help poor Americans get by. He was pro-big oil. He was anti-immigrant and pro-police state. (Apparently the US being the largest prison state in the world was not enough for him.)

He was also steadfastly anti-LGBTQ rights, despite widespread rumors that he was gay. As the Advocate noted:

"In June 2020, 'Lady G' trended on social media after adult film performer Sean Harding alleged that Graham hired male sex workers."

I, of course, wouldn’t care whether he was gay, nor would I mention it here, if it weren’t for his breathtaking hypocrisy.

Okay, let’s move on to all the death and destruction he supported.

1. He was one of the biggest supporters of the US-backed proxy-war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands. In 2016, well before Russia’s 2022 military incursion into Ukraine, Graham joined John McCain and Amy Klobuchar in Ukraine to tell them the US would give them all the support they needed to murder Russians.

This was during a time when Ukrainian nazis would killing thousands of culturally Russian Ukrainians in the Donbas region. (Keep in mind even the New York Times has admitted the Ukrainian troops are Nazi supporters with many wearing swastikas on their uniforms.)

2. Graham breathlessly supported the massacre (genocide) of Gaza. He argued Israel should be able to use whatever kind of weaponry they want to destroy Gaza and murder millions of innocent people. He compared it to the US dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — which did indeed kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and served little purpose.

3. Lindsey Graham has advocated for striking (going to war with) Iran for years. He enthusiastically called for bombing their civilian infrastructure, which is a war crime. Much like with Ukraine, Gaza, and others, Graham showed zero concern for civilian casualties. He just wanted war — all the time, with everyone.

4. He supported the 2002 war against Iraq based on obviously false intel about weapons of mass destruction. He was opposed to US forces leaving Iraq. And he never apologized or showed any remorse once the WMD lie was revealed.

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5. Graham endlessly called for ratcheting up the dirty war with Syria. He demanded a larger US military role, arming rebels (who were often jihadists). He pushed the chemical weapons false flag propaganda and supported no-fly zones that could’ve easily sparked a full-scale war between the US and Russia.

6. In 2011 he called for military action against Libya and Muammar Gaddafi based on false propaganda. It, of course, did not bother him that it resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and the destruction of Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets.

7. Lindsey Graham supported the War on Afghanistan and opposed withdrawing from Afghanistan after a mere 20 years of death and killing. In his mind, the US was entitled to own everything and should “give back” nothing to anyone.

I can’t list every time Lindsey Graham supported killing others or else I would use up all of the internet. He was clearly a sociopath like so many of his colleagues in the federal government. Even Democrats like Kamala Harris have spoken out about how wonderful Graham was. She said:

"I am saddened to learn of the passing of my former colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham. He was full of wit, energy, and charm, and he cared deeply about the Senate and the people of South Carolina."

You see, it’s a big club of war criminal sociopaths with no concern for human life — And you and I aren’t in it.

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BREAKING: WANTED – DEAD OR ALIVE! Kentucky voters are DONE with the games over Mitch McConnell.

Kentuckians are tired of the circus over their ailing senator and just want him to go away. Weeks after the 84-year disappeared from public view following some kind of medical calamity, voters across the state are demanding something that should not be controversial: a straight answer.

“People that deserve to have power usually don’t want it, and people that have power are tough to give it up,” one angry Kentucky voter told MS NOW yesterday.

"We got old people trying to stay in their place, in their power, and designing who gets their seat after them," another said, as frustration boiled over the continuing circus.

“Give up this fight. Give up. You’re not representing us well so don’t represent us at all,” another woman said.

Another man said he’d like to see someone “in the middle” between old and young, but he didn’t expect that to happen.

The reporter revealed that he’s spoken to dozens of voters in the past two days, and every single one wanted to see term limits or age limits imposed on Congress.

The exchanges captured a growing mood in Kentucky, where voters are watching a parade of Republican senators, former aides and political insiders emerge with reassuring stories about conversations they supposedly had with McConnell while offering little actual information about the senator's condition.

Meanwhile, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has publicly called for transparency and urged McConnell's office to "end the crazy speculation."

"I publicly and privately urged the last administration to address the public’s concerns with the former president’s health," Beshear wrote on X yesterday. "I’m calling on Sen. McConnell to do the same and provide voters an update on his own health."

Beshear ended the post by urging McConnell to "end the crazy speculation" and "just tell us what's going on."

For weeks, Kentuckians have been asked to accept carefully worded statements while basic questions go unanswered. McConnell remains invisible. His office has provided no meaningful update. Republican allies continue to insist everything is fine.

At some point, people no longer give official pronouncements from people they don't trust the benefit of the doubt. And anger showing up in Kentucky is less about one senator than a political culture that increasingly treats voters as an inconvenience, brushing their questions aside and feed them bullsh*t on the regular.

McConnell spent decades mastering the rules of Washington. Now, his final political drama is unfolding far from the Senate floor, where the people he represented are asking a simple question and getting everything except an answer.

This has gone on too long, and we know why.

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SIGN THE PETITION to pass the People Over Poison Act, which would reverse the Supreme Court's flawed ruling: tinyurl.com/ReverseSupremeCourt

On June 25, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) threw Americans under the bus, siding with Bayer-Monsanto in Monsanto v. Durnell, further shielding pesticide manufacturers from liability when their products cause harm.

In the majority were Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh (author of the opinion), Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor. The dissenting justices were Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch.

The Supreme Court's ruling was based on the argument that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the law governing EPA’s oversight of pesticides, does not require pesticide labels to warn of cancer risks beyond the weak labeling requirements approved by the EPA. State-law claims seeking damages for the absence of such warnings are thus preempted by federal law.

This ruling is a travesty of justice and a slap in the face of all of Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup cancer victims. Our U.S. Representatives and Senators can and must reverse the ruling.

READ MORE and take action: tinyurl.com/ReverseSupremeCourt

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LINDSEY GRAHAM IS DEAD. THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING. THE IRAN ESCALATION WAS PLANNED.

July 12, 2026. Senator Lindsey Graham — one of the most vocal supporters of military intervention in Iran — dies suddenly. The media calls it a "heart attack."

It wasn't.

THE PATTERN:

Every senator or congressman who knew too much about Deep State coordination with Iran has died under suspicious circumstances in the past 18 months.

— Senator John McCain: Dead. August 2018. "Brain cancer."

— Senator Bob Corker: Dead. March 2024. "Sudden illness."

— Senator Lindsey Graham: Dead. July 2026. "Heart attack."

All three were on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All three knew about the Iran coordination. All three were preparing to expose it.

THE IRAN ESCALATION WAS PLANNED:

The U.S. retaliatory strikes against Iran on July 8 were not a response to Iranian aggression. They were a coordinated operation to:

Eliminate Graham before he could testify

Escalate the conflict to distract from domestic investigations

Justify increased military spending (Deep State profit mechanism)

Create a national security emergency to suspend civil liberties

THE CLASSIFIED INTEL:

Military Intelligence intercepted communications proving:

OPERATION-ESCALATION-SHIELD - The protocol coordinating the Iran strikes

Graham-Elimination-Protocol - The operation removing him before testimony

Deep-State-Coordination-Network - The senators involved in Iran dealings

Graham was scheduled to testify before a classified tribunal on July 15 about Deep State coordination with Iranian operatives to destabilize the Middle East and profit from endless war.

He never made it to July 15.

THE DOUBLE STRIKE:

STRIKE 1: GRAHAM ELIMINATED - One less witness to Deep State treason

STRIKE 2: IRAN ESCALATION - Justifies war spending, distracts from investigations

THE PANIC:

The Deep State is in absolute panic. They just eliminated a sitting U.S. Senator on live television (disguised as a heart attack). They know Military Intelligence has the communications. They know the tribunal is coming.

They are escalating the Iran conflict to create chaos and justify emergency protocols.

THE TRUTH:

Lindsey Graham was not a patriot. He was a Deep State operative who profited from endless war. But he was also a liability — he knew too much.

When operatives become liabilities, they are eliminated.

CODE: GRAHAM-ELIMINATED / ESCALATION-ACTIVE / PANIC-REAL

The Deep State thought they could hide the truth by eliminating witnesses. They were wrong. Military Intelligence has everything.

SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. THE PANIC IS REAL.

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BREAKING: NDA EXPIRED? A trans influencer alleges that the late Lindsey Graham paid her a “fat stack of cash” to do “unspeakable things” to him.

And then she REALLY ripped into this “sissy” senator’s homophobia…

“Eulogy for a horny hypocrite,” actress Jesse James Rose captioned her Instagram post about the dead MAGA senator.

“Just woke up to find out Lindsey Graham is dead?? lol??? Most of you know him as the homophobic senator from South Carolina but to me he will always be the man who paid a twinky pre-transition college student () a fat stack of cash to do unspeakable things to him in a hotel room while he wore red lingerie ,” she wrote in her post.

Social media is afire with speculation that any possible nondisclosure agreements Graham may have inked with sex workers expired when he died. Or perhaps they’re simply no longer afraid of retribution from a powerful sitting senator.

“It is a canon trans event to have far right freaks bankrolling you & then turning around and voting against you,” continued Rose. “People looooooove to judge us for it, but I never see them opening their wallets!!! Shoutout to s*x workers everywhere forced to humanize their enemies just to make rent.”

“It is an absolute mindfvck too me that one of the reasons I have any semblance of financial security (& a lack of student loans) is because of this man. At the time I had no idea who he was, and I only figured it out because another group or twinks leaked Lady G to the media. Some queers tried to grandstand critique this, saying we shouldn’t ‘out’ people. I believe bigots with power deserve no peace or privacy, especially when they hold public office. I’m glad they did it. Icons, forever.”

“Anyway, if you’ve ever enjoyed what I do on the internet know that it is in part because of Lindsey’s generous donation over a decade ago. If I’ve ever sent you $ for something know that was kickstarted by the now deceased sissy senator from South Carolina.”

“Lindsey, rest in hell for what you did to our community. I will continue to love queer and trans people harder than you ever hated us. You loved every second of our time together and now everyone knows ” she concluded.

Graham has long been rumored to be a closeted gay man and Rose’s allegation that he patronized sex workers is certainly not the first time that this narrative has bubbled up. If true, it renders his support of the bigoted Republican Party all the more odious. He sold out not only his fellow countrymen and women, but his own identity in the pursuit of a few fleeting scraps of power.

Lindsey Graham will be remembered as a bloodthirsty monster who never met a war that he didn’t like. The world is a little safer with him gone.

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This post, from The Other 98% captures it all. I think it best encapsulates my own feelings on Lindsey Graham. Without laughter or snark … it just tells the truth. How novel. It presents a ledger of FACTS … to determine what you will. It’s an obituary of reality tethered to the factual receipts of who he truly was… if it were ever truly possible to tell who this man was. I was always mystified by his “change” … his “MAGA metamorphism”. We have seen it in many politicians, but none so spectacular as Lindsey Graham. I always wondered how a man could lose his moral compass to the extent that Lindsey did. Parting words from our side of the table are going to be harsh… because by every metric he “did us dirty”. In my mind, he will always be a betrayer and an opportunist. His decisions ~ his legacy. Here’s what The Other 98% wrote ~

Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. In 2016, he dared America on camera: "Use my words against me." This is his obituary. These are his words.

The facts first, plainly. Graham died Saturday night at his Washington home of what his office calls a brief and sudden illness. He served four terms, chaired the Judiciary and Budget committees, and spent decades as one of the loudest voices in American foreign policy.

By sunrise the whitewash had begun. Trump declared him a "true American Patriot." Netanyahu called him a beloved friend. The eulogies will tell you about his service.

They will not tell you about the ledger. So we will.

In December 2015, Graham looked into a camera and called Donald Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot." By February 2016: "I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy." That May he wrote: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it." He refused to vote for him.

Then Trump won, and Lindsey Graham discovered golf.

By late 2017 he was scolding the media for calling the president, yes, really, a kook.

His best friend was John McCain, a man Trump mocked for being captured in Vietnam and kept mocking after he was dead. Graham wept for McCain on the Senate floor, then deepened his devotion to the man who spat on his grave.

The words he wanted used came in 2016, when he swore that if a Supreme Court seat opened in an election year, the next president should fill it. In 2018 he repeated the promise and added: "hold the tape."

In October 2020, as Judiciary chairman, he rammed Amy Coney Barrett onto the Court eight days before the election.

In November 2020, Georgia's Republican secretary of state said Graham had called him asking about tossing legally cast mail ballots. Graham denied it, fought the grand jury subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court, and lost.

On January 6th, with the glass still on the Capitol floor, he announced: "Count me out. Enough is enough." He was back at Mar-a-Lago within months.

He cheered the country into Iraq. Three weeks ago he was on television promising that if diplomacy failed, Trump was "going to take the Strait of Hormuz."

Honesty requires one more line: he was, to the end, one of Ukraine's most reliable champions in the Senate, and he died the day after standing beside Zelensky in Kyiv. Even a ledger this dark has an entry in the other column.

But the ledger is the legacy. A man who saw exactly what Trump was, said so in the plainest English of his era, and then spent nine years kneeling to it for relevance.

He asked us to use his words against him.

Consider them used.

Malcolm Zimmerman

This is a magnificent depiction of Lindsey Graham. The good,the bad and the downright ugly. Basically the truth unveils a tale of two Lindsey's. In the end he chose to worship a thief, con man, grifter and traitor. And just about everyone who has given their allegiance to this orange parasite will bring about their end and hopefully soon enough to save this country. Everything that parasite touches and everyone that he touches eventually dies or turns to shit.

 

In six states, you do not need a prosecutor’s permission to start a criminal investigation. Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oklahoma allow citizens to convene a criminal grand jury by petition. No district attorney has to agree. No attorney general has to agree. No governor has to agree.

The case those grand juries would examine is already admitted. In a January court filing, the federal government acknowledged that DOGE employees at the Social Security Administration moved agency data to an unauthorized server the agency cannot audit, sent an encrypted file of roughly 1,000 people’s names and addresses to other agencies in a format the SSA cannot open, and signed an agreement with a political group seeking to match SSA records against state voter rolls.

Every state makes identity theft a crime, and the crime is the act itself, knowingly obtaining, possessing, or transferring another person’s identifying information without authorization and with wrongful intent; no one has to prove a specific account was later misused. And these cases can be filed where the victims live: Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico expressly place the crime in the county where the victim resides, regardless of where the perpetrator sat.

The SSA holds records on virtually everyone with a Social Security number, and the agency has told a federal court it cannot determine whose data was taken. Finding that out is what grand juries are for.

The signature requirements are reachable in most of these states. In Kansas, a woman named Madison Smith needed 212 signatures to force a grand jury in her county; she collected 329, and the grand jury was convened.

Oklahoma requires 100 signatures plus 2 percent of the county’s vote in the last governor’s race, with a floor of 500 and a ceiling of 5,000. New Mexico requires the greater of 200 signatures or 2 percent of the county’s registered voters.

In most counties, that is a number a determined group of neighbors with clipboards can gather, and in the largest counties it is a few thousand. Nevada is the exception: its petition requires signatures equal to 25 percent of the county’s turnout in the last general election, a far higher requirement than the other five states.

The process has the same structure everywhere: a written petition alleging specific crimes, signatures from registered voters in your county, certification by the clerk, and a judge who must then act.

In Oklahoma, the petition is filed with the court clerk before any signatures are gathered. A judge reviews it within four days and, if it is deficient, states every deficiency in writing, with two days to amend. Once it is approved, circulators have forty-five days to collect the signatures, and once the election board certifies them, the judge must impanel the grand jury within thirty days.

In Kansas, the person who filed the petition testifies to the grand jury first, and the jury can hire its own special counsel and investigators with the court’s approval, instead of or in addition to the local prosecutor. From there the grand jury does what grand juries do: it subpoenas witnesses and records, and it decides whether to indict.

That power is not theoretical. Citizen-petitioned grand juries in Kansas have subpoenaed thousands of records and returned indictments, and the court enforces a grand jury’s subpoenas with compulsory process.

The subpoena power does not end at the state line, either. Under the Uniform Act to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses, adopted in every state and sustained by the Supreme Court, a court where a grand jury investigation has commenced can certify that a person in another state is a material witness, and that person’s home-state courts can summon them to appear, with refusal punishable as if they had defied a subpoena at home. That is the process by which the engineers who moved the data, and the leadership they answered to, can be required to answer questions under oath in a county courthouse, before a jury of ordinary citizens. They will fight it, and some fights will be lost, but a subpoena fought in public is still a public record of who fought it. And if the jury finds the evidence warrants charges, it returns an indictment, a state indictment, which no presidential pardon can reach.

For six months, The Existentialist Republic has given readers the tools to act on this at every level that has authority: hundreds of police reports filed, and letters, emails, and phone calls to county prosecutors and attorneys general in all fifty states, asking them to investigate the DOGE employees who mishandled the Social Security records of hundreds of millions of Americans, conduct the federal government has admitted in court.

Not one of those officials has publicly signaled a willingness to act, despite the conduct affecting their own residents and despite possessing the legal authority to do so. Many of the answers repeat two refusals: that it is a federal matter, which the venue laws say it is not, and that civil lawsuits are underway, which cannot convict anyone.

Every official with the power to start this has now been asked. The petition is the next step, and it is the one way to start criminal process that does not require any official’s permission, which makes it the one way a refusing official cannot refuse.

One caution. Courts quash defective petitions. In 2022, the New Mexico Supreme Court invalidated petitions seeking a grand jury to investigate the governor over her COVID orders. A petition has to allege specific crimes, not general grievances. This record supplies them: state identity theft and computer crime statutes, venue where the victims live, and a Justice Department court filing admitting the conduct. Our article on the DOGE prosecutions explains all of it.

Pennsylvania has a related mechanism. Rule 506 lets any citizen submit a private criminal complaint, which the district attorney must approve or disapprove with written reasons, reviewable by the Court of Common Pleas and public under the Right-to-Know Law. It does not bypass the prosecutor, but it converts a refusal into a signed public document.

We are beginning that process now. If you live in Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, or Oklahoma, comment below or send us a direct message with your state and county, and we will invite you to the organizing group for your state.

We are building a toolkit for each state: the signature number for your county, the filing rules and deadlines, and a petition template drafted to that state’s requirements and based only on the court-admitted record. Your comments and messages tell us which states to prepare first. We will publish each state’s materials as they are ready, and as petitions advance, we will gather and share the resources filers need at each step.

If you are in Pennsylvania and want the Rule 506 private complaint materials, the same applies. A petition has been certified before by ordinary people who decided to do it. There is no reason yours cannot be next.

Do you want to help all this happens? It’s all funded through subscribers, our Buy Me A Coffee page, and our store. They’re all linked below. If you can chip in, you’re making this all real for the folks who will be gathering signatures, drafting and filing paperwork, and eventually getting some serious consequences delivered to Musk, Big Balls, or any other DOGE member who committed a crime. Let’s make some justice.

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By Christopher Armitage

LINDSEY GRAHAM, SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA HAS DIED JULY 11, 2026, UNEXPECTEDLY. The MAGA/GOP is in a tailspin with tow Senatorial losses  within days.

 

 

She spent decades fighting over contaminated water. Now Erin Brockovich is asking a new question: where is all the water for AI going to come from?

Brockovich recently launched a crowdsourced national map that tracks AI data centers across the United States, logging facilities that are operational, under construction, or rumored. Thousands of reports have poured in from communities in nearly every state.

When those locations were laid over federal drought data, a troubling pattern showed up. A significant share of the data centers under construction right now sit in regions already struggling with drought, especially across the South and Southwest.

The timing could not be worse. More than 60 percent of the country is currently experiencing drought conditions, and water demand is climbing at the same time AI infrastructure is exploding. A single large data center can consume millions of gallons of water every day, most of it for cooling the racks of chips that never stop running.

One estimate from researchers at UC Riverside puts it in everyday terms. Generating a single 100 word AI response can use roughly one bottle of water once cooling and electricity are counted.

Residents near some of these sites are reporting the same fear over and over: that the aquifers they depend on could be drained before anyone asked their permission. Brockovich says the most common complaint is not even the water. It is transparency. Projects announced after permits are already secured, developers who never return calls, officials who signed NDAs before neighbors knew anything was being considered.

Tech companies argue newer cooling systems can cut water use dramatically, but those systems usually demand more electricity instead. Every solution trades one scarce resource for another.

Would you be okay with an AI data center being built in your town, or would you fight it?

Source: Brockovich Data Center Reporting; Newsweek drought analysis

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Occupy Democrats, you're part of that same "MEDIA" you backhandedly criticize! We know what's going on, and we know that you know it too. Yet you manipulate us just like the media. Trump was put into office twice by the same group of people that are corporate billionaires who also own all the media that is watched, read, and heard. "WHY ANYONE WANTED THIS DEMENTED CLOWN BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS BEYOND ME!" You whine. Why aren't you "following the money?" It all leads straight to oligarchs, corporations, billionaires, media owners like Larry Ellison, bought and paid for political whores, etc... Cease your pathetic ignorance and wheedling, and thinking we taxpayers haven't caught on to what is going on both to our country and to us. You've all gotten away with it far too long due to the face we were not paying attention through clever distraction. We've finally had enough and are coming wide awake. Calling this kind of deceptive nonsense out is the first warning that many of us are not the gullible fools you've been taking us for, and the fact we are sick of it all.
 

More manure du jour spread by the corporate billionaires who schemed to install Trump, a friable, obtuse psychotic mutant the preferred choice for many of the billionaires who support and protect him to use as a battering ram to dismantle what was left of democracy freeing them from all taxation, and accountability. Meanwhile, they are beginning to run from the very people they planned on annihilating, and ruling those left after the great "culling". One may have been born into great wealth, but unfortunately inherit the character of a crapulous immoderate in appetite too feckless, and mentally inefficient to accomplish the original intent due to spasmodic miscalculations of ill-conceived plans, proving the brilliance money should have brought along with it was in fact short-changed by nonexistent intelligence. Being born rich is often luck, but then so is being born a true genius, or visionary which rarely happens at the same time, as we are beginning to see clearly that many of these oligarchs born to great wealth, and enormous greed possess the intelligence of a rattlesnake, along with wealth, but little else.

 

Mitch McConnell is supposedly well enough to hold 20‑minute policy chats from his hospital bed… but somehow a 60‑second proof‑of‑life video is a logistical nightmare? Sure. Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

We’re expected to just “take their word for it” — the same party that lies about elections, lies about coup attempts, lies about everything from crowd sizes to classified documents — but now, magically, they’re the gold standard of medical transparency when it comes to an 84‑year‑old power broker who keeps disappearing from public view.

And it’s not just Twitter weirdos asking questions. The governor of Kentucky literally had to send a formal letter asking McConnell to update the public on his health and whether he can still do his job. That’s how little information is being shared. When your own state’s governor has to beg for basic clarity, something is deeply wrong.

Meanwhile, Kentucky law sets a hard deadline for calling a special election, and that date is crawling closer while Republicans conveniently insist that everything’s “under control.” What a coincidence that the foggiest health situation in America just happens to surround a man whose seat is crucial to their grip on power.

Kentuckians deserve a senator who is visibly, verifiably sentient — not a remote‑controlled vote being wheeled out by staffers and party operatives. Right now, they have a guy making decisions for millions of people who might as well be Schrödinger’s Senator: we’re told he’s fine, but we’re not allowed to actually see proof.

And if you think this is where the GOP stops, you haven’t been paying attention. This looks like a test run: normalize government by rumor and press release now, so they’re ready the next time it’s an even bigger problem — like when the president goes dark, and they decide the public doesn’t “need” to know the truth.

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They Put a Tracker on Every Road

Flock cameras were sold as a way to find stolen cars. They are becoming a searchable national map of where Americans go.

JC and Carolyn Herron were taking their three-year-old granddaughter to a doctor’s appointment when police stopped them at gunpoint. A Flock camera read the letter O in their personalized plate, “LOVEY,” as a zero. A bad machine read, combined with stale police information, turned a family trip to the doctor into an armed police stop. Their granddaughter sat in the back seat while adults with guns acted as though an algorithm could not be wrong.

Flock Safety sells automated license plate readers, which are cameras that record a vehicle’s plate, visible details, time, and location. Flock says it does not use facial recognition and deletes plate data after thirty days by default, but the system still lets authorities search by plate, color, make, partial plate, and other visible features. Flock’s own policies recognize that agencies can download and store images before the thirty days are up. The company can delete its copy, but it cannot erase the copy a police department already pulled into its own files.

Flock did not show up in a country that had fiercely protected privacy. After 9/11, Democrats and Republicans spent years building a surveillance state that kept asking Americans to give up more freedom in exchange for safety. They expanded the power to watch, collect, search, and share information about ordinary people, then called every new intrusion necessary. Flock takes that same rotten system and makes it cheaper, easier, more local, and harder to see. It does not need a secret wiretap or a federal court order. It needs a black camera on a pole, a contract signed at City Hall, and software that turns scattered sightings into a map of your life.

Flock says it has partnerships across every state except Alaska through thousands of contracts with police departments, towns, schools, businesses, apartment complexes, and homeowners’ associations. Nobody held a national vote on whether America should have a giant searchable vehicle tracking system. It was built quietly, one local purchase at a time, while most people had no idea that a camera outside a shopping center, an apartment complex, or a private neighborhood could feed into a far larger police network.

That matters even more under an administration that has already shown how willing it is to weaponize private information. A federal judge found that the IRS unlawfully gave ICE confidential taxpayer addresses about 42,695 times under a data sharing arrangement meant to help immigration enforcement. In Illinois, a state audit found that Flock allowed Customs and Border Protection to access license plate data even though state law was supposed to stop that kind of sharing. This is how authoritarian power works. Government collects information for one reason, then finds a new excuse to use it against people it wants to hunt, intimidate, punish, or deport.

The danger is already here. In Texas, a Johnson County official searched Flock for a woman after a self-managed abortion and wrote, “had an abortion, search for female.” One search reached 6,809 networks and 83,345 cameras. The sheriff’s office and Flock first called it a welfare check, but records showed deputies opened a death investigation, read the woman’s text messages, and asked prosecutors whether they could charge her. Prosecutors said Texas could not charge her for taking abortion medication. The man who reported her was later charged in connection with assaulting her. They used a system sold as a tool for stolen cars to track a woman whose partner had allegedly brutalized her.

One federal judge gave Norfolk, Virginia’s Flock system a green light after two residents learned their cars had been photographed about 475 and 325 times over four and a half months. The judge ruled that the city’s 176 camera network had not gathered enough information to reconstruct their whole lives, and the case is now on appeal. That is the legal trick holding this system together. Break the tracking into hundreds of separate pictures, call each one a harmless moment, and pretend the computer never stitched those moments into a detailed trail.

These systems never stay limited to the crimes used to sell them. Reviews of Flock searches found police using the network for school residency checks, background checks, and loud music complaints. A system marketed as a way to catch kidnappers and carjackers became another lazy shortcut for school bureaucracy, petty complaints, and everyday police convenience. Surveillance always spreads when those in power discover that watching people is easier than doing the real work.

A camera can help find a stolen car or locate a missing child in a real emergency. Nobody is asking police to be blind. But a camera cannot become a standing warrant to search the movements of every person who drove past it. When police want to dig through weeks of someone’s life, they should have to go before a judge and show probable cause. That rule should block nationwide fishing expeditions, abortion investigations, immigration dragnets, and secret data sharing schemes hidden behind the words “public safety.”

Flock’s promises about safeguards are getting harder to believe because the safeguards keep collapsing when they are tested. In Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Flock told city officials its system could not create a heat map showing where a vehicle had traveled, then admitted it could show where that vehicle had been captured over a month. The city revoked approval the next day. In San Francisco, an audit found 299 improper searches of Flock data for federal and out of state agencies through an intelligence sharing arrangement. Nobody hacked the system. Somebody with authorized access opened the side door and let them in.

Flock has not merely installed cameras. It has sold the next stage of America’s surveillance state, built through local blind spots and ready to be used by people who already believe private information is another weapon of government power. The camera does not need your face. Once it knows your plate, where you were, where you went next, and how often you returned, the people in power already have a file on your life.

They call it safety because “a tracker on every road” would make Americans understand exactly what has been done to them.

*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky @tonywriteshere.bsky.social

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