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Join us on Wednesday night to hear from @abdulelsayed @darializaforny @claireforny @chrisrabb and @haynesforcongress about the fight to end US complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.

This year, pro-Palestine candidates across the country are sending shockwaves through the political establishment. Together we’re proving: when we fight, we win.

Voters want fighters in office who will fund and resource our communities at home, not wars and genocide abroad.

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A person who commits theft can still show compassion, but the act of stealing is morally wrong regardless of the thief’s feelings toward others. A compassionate person might be moved to help someone in need, yet that does not make theft acceptable.

This brings me to a recent story about a thief who returned a handbag he had stolen the day before, leaving behind a handwritten apology that deeply moved the woman. The note read: “Forgive me. I didn’t know you were Palestinian. If I had known, I wouldn’t have stolen from you.”

What actually happened?

A Palestinian woman living in an unnamed Arab country (reports do not confirm Doha specifically, though Qatari outlets amplified the story) had her handbag stolen. The next morning, the thief returned the bag to her doorstep along with a handwritten apology note.

What was inside the bag?

• Personal documents
• A medical file (which revealed her nationality and health condition)
• $275 in cash, which the thief also returned

These items appear to have led the thief to realize she was Palestinian and undergoing medical treatment.

As the US Supreme Court ends this term and releases a torrent of decisions before taking off on its European vacation from July through August, I kept looking for the long-awaited decision on the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. A torrent of decisions was released yesterday. The majority refused to void $5 million judgement against Trump for sexual abuse, allowed him more discretion in firing federal appointees, blocked his firing of a Federal Reserve member, allowed a grace period in Mississippi for receiving mail ballots, and blocked geofencing in a win for privacy. 

Nothing on birthright citizenship yet, which is now expected on the last day of June.

Warning: Renewable prices may double after July 4th

According to a new market insight report from LevelTen Energy, the impending July 4 "tax credit cliff" is poised to rapidly spike power prices, forcing corporate procurement managers to move with extreme speed or face soaring project costs.

It has been nearly a year since the passage of the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which established an accelerated timeline for phasing out federal wind and solar tax incentives. Under the law, utility-scale projects must either begin construction by July 4, or be placed in service (PIS) by the end of next year to capture full federal tax credits.

Immediately following the OBBBA's passage in late 2025, PPA prices jumped 7 percent. Looking ahead to the July 4th expiration , developers anticipate that PPA prices will increase 40 percent to 50 percent across the nation.

In ERCOT, which is the system operating within Texas, the price increases are expected to be even more severe. Early transaction data suggests that prices could more than double without tax credits, representing a massive 120 percent spike over last year.

For more than two decades, two men in Huntsville, Alabama, have quietly held the keys to America’s voting machines.

First, there was Shawn Southworth, who floated from lab to lab like a ghost in a white coat. Certifying code he didn’t test, using scripts he didn’t write, for companies that paid him not to ask questions. When one lab got shut down, he surfaced at another. The name on the door changed. He didn’t. From Wyle Labs to Nichols Research to PSINet to Metamore to CIBER INC, and eventually, back to Wyle.

Then came Jack Cobb, real name Ryan Jackson Cobb, Southworth’s quiet shadow.

Today, Cobb runs Pro V&V, one of just two private labs entrusted to decide whether the machines used in U.S. elections are secure, reliable, and accurate.

His lab signs off on critical software updates. His word alone determines whether changes are too small to test, or too dangerous to ignore. Whether the voting machines are secure and trustworthy, or just signed off by someone who says they are.

Hi there. It’s us again, popping into your inbox to remind you that the 2016 and 2024 elections were stolen and that elections have been rigged for decades, since the electronic election equipment companies were founded and became part of the far-right ecosystem.

But don’t take our word for it. Watch these short, two- to three-minute videos and listen to what these computer programmers, election experts, and reporters had to say about the 2000 and 2004 elections.

In October 2000, computer programmer Clint Curtis wrote a vote-flipping prototype for Florida Congressman Tom Feeney that would flip the vote 51–49:

Cliff Arnebeck: “Mr. Curtis, are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?”

Clint Curtis: “Yes.”

Arnebeck: “How do you know that to be the case?”

Clint Curtis: “Because, in October 2000, I wrote a prototype for Congressman Tom Feeney.”

Arnebeck: “It would rig an election?”

Clint Curtis: “It would flip the vote 51–49.”

Against the horrific high- and low-tech butchery of Palestinians and Lebanese by Israeli ethno-nationalist psychopathic killers, this week there will be an effort in Congress to formally merge or integrate the military of Israel and the United States at the most advanced levels.

Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act of 2027, provides for an unprecedented unification. The nearly $4 billion in the NDAA for Israel’s offensive efforts pales next to Israel having direct access to determining use of $1.5 trillion in annual military resources of the United States.

Money can be appropriated one year and withdrawn the next. Institutional integration is permanent.

Section 219 creates permanent mechanisms through which military planning, intelligence sharing, weapons development, procurement, research, artificial intelligence, and strategic coordination become increasingly intertwined between the United States and Israel.

It is a proposal to embed another nation’s military establishment within the long-term planning and strategic architecture of the United States government.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn came as a complete shock to white America. Today we must worry about an even greater shock with an essentially infinite radioactive death toll.

The stunning defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry came on the Great Plains at the hands of the Lakota warrior-chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse on June 25, 1876, 150 years ago this month.

The U.S. was in the throes of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Its centerpiece was a huge global exposition in Philadelphia, which bragged to the world about America’s technological innovations.

The military defeat came as an astonishing, very public gut punch to American arrogance and pride. It was epitomized by Custer, the celebrated son of Monroe, Michigan, where his statue still stands in the town square, a short distance from the Fermi Atomic Power Plant.

Fermi Unit One nearly blew up on October 5, 1966. Unit Two has recently been threatened by fire, an “incident” potentially capable of irradiating much of the Great Lakes and continental U.S.