***** [The Washington Post] Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

Artificial intelligence, data centers and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s aging power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

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****** History Will Judge the Complicit
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The Gilded Age on PBS rj
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*** Shouting Into the Institutional Void
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**** The Judges Who Serve at Trump’s Pleasure
American judges are well paid, unafraid of dismissal, and free from legal and political pressures. But that hasn’t stopped some of them from seeking to alter the law in egregiously partisan ways. @anneapplebaum on how judicial independence could end: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/judicial-independence-judge-aileen-cannon-trump/679561/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
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The Gilded Age on PBS rj
Aired February 6, 2018 The Gilded Age on PBS The American Experience Gilded is not golden. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/gilded-age/ Film Description In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. The nation became the […]
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