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Hope you enjoyed your Easter weekend!

Next Monday, April 13, we will reconvene to deal with ever more nuclear madness and the escalating attempt to trash the 2026 election.

Utilities earning record profits

Consumers have seen their electric bills rise dramatically over recent years. Many blame the explosion of data center development, or the rising cost of natural gas, or demand placed on the grid as drivers transition from gasoline vehicles to electric.

But another reason for the escalating rates are utility profit margins, which have increased dramatically, according to a recent report released by the Energy & Policy Institute - a watchdog organization that evaluated financial data from 110 investor-owned utilities from 2021 through 2025.

The analysis found that a substantial share of what consumers pay for electricity ends up in the pockets of investors as profit. About 13 cents of every dollar paid to the analyzed utilities between 2021-24 was retained as profit. This amount rose to 15 percent in 2025.

You already know that President Trump hates democracy, but some of his best friends aren’t just in Washington D.C.

They also work at Columbus City Hall.

Anocracy is when we have elements of democracy, but most decisions are no longer decided by the citizens. Put simply: Columbus City Hall can do whatever it wants and it doesn’t matter what you think.

And remember that this is with a strong dose of corporatocracy.

The goal of Columbus business leaders is to make decisions for the Mayor and City Council to follow. You are still allowed to vote, but all the candidates believe the same thing and follow what they are told.

They protect each other and communicate as little as possible with the public.

All decisions are made in secret and the media only exists to support their agenda (as chosen by corporations and billionaires). This is corporatocracy and it works exactly as designed.

Columbus City Hall Loves Billionaires.

Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month, reporting the following:

This past week was what many Christians regard as Holy Week, starting with celebration of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday; mourning Christ’s crucifixion and death on Good Friday; continuing with prayer and church services on Holy Saturday; and concluding with the glory of Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. Here in Washington things were predictably a bit different, starting with a President Donald Trump speech to the nation on Wednesday night which was a series of lies including how great the economy is doing. The intention was to address the American public concern over the ongoing war with Iran, in which he praised the valor of the US troops who are slaughtering Iranian schoolchildren before launching into a tirade demanding that Iran de facto surrender or he would bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages where it belongs” if it did not comply. On Holy Saturday Trump was at it again, threatening Iran.

Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling for a national Mayday strike. It’s a powerful idea, building off of a Minnesota day this past January where people didn’t go to work or school, didn’t shop, and didn’t otherwise participate in ordinary activities. The Minnesota day was spearheaded by major unions, 700 local businesses closed in solidarity, and 75,000-100,000 people marched in the streets.

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Special Report: Melt ICE/Free Palestine

Is it possible the present movement to thwart American fascism now includes Palestinian liberation, for the first time? Exploring the connections reveals a bedrock commonality: ethnic cleansing.

“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms.

Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they said. His health condition is “dire.”

Many are already familiar with the iconic Palestinian doctor from Gaza. But the deserved and urgent focus on his case should not end with him. Rather, it should illuminate the broader catastrophe afflicting Gaza’s health sector — one deliberately dismantled as part of the ongoing genocide that began on October 7, 2023.