South Sudan Shower Misers

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/us-revokes-all-visas-for-south-sudanese-over-countrys-failure-to-repatriate-citizens

The agreement faced a major stress test when the civil war in Sudan halted South Sudan’s oil exports, which account for about 70% of its budget. .

More than 600,000 people from Sudan have also sought refuge in South Sudan further straining the country’s limited resources.

The country’s financial challenges, which meant many in the public sector were not paid for close to a year,  

have been compounded by renewed hostilities 

the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, .

but has been persistently left at the bottom of the global list of diplomatic priorities.  

Half of Sudan’s population are judged to be desperately short of food, with 

 11 million people internally displaced 

.

'The Department of Homeland Security said  

133 people 

from South Sudan were on the TPS programme last year." .

Trump administration revokes all South Sudanese visas in repatriation row

State department accuses east African country of ‘taking advantage of the United States’.

"In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” .

Trump drooledas he signed the executive order, which the White House said would apply to multiple household appliances, including toilets and sinks.  

“I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet.  

It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.” 

When I shit, I want the GOP gone, not resurfacing after insurrection. 

 

 "Beautiful hair, Snock. "   

____ 

"Burdened with this terrible conviction, Odysseus infiltrates the squalid court in the Christ-like imposture of a tramp, 

 though he has a pretty buff physique like a sunburnt, weather-beaten version of Leonardo’s Vitruvian man." 

'Ralph Fiennes is Odysseus, enigmatically washed ashore semi-conscious in a way we associate in fact with late Shakespeare rather than Homer; 

 he is reluctant to reveal himself, maybe through shame at having not returned before, at returning now in chaotic poverty and isolation and overwhelmed with his secret knowledge that the glories of independent labels are a shameful delusion." 

 "the actor had made his directorial debut with Coriolanus"

"shot in two months in Corfu and just north of Rome for $20m – a fraction of the $250m Christopher Nolan has" 

sort of undecided space in someone, where there’s a question mark about who they are and what they’re doing,” says the actor 

The piercing, icy blue stare is still there, but the “nimbus of depression and intensity around him..." 

'In Corfu, they found forests of olive trees 30 metres high, with trunks of dark bark, that spoke to the agedness they were after. .

“We were very interested in the simplicity of the elements,” says the director. “So,  

rain and water and sand and soil and fire and blood" 

Galaxy Brain Maze

  

'Scientists Map Miles of Wiring in a Speck of Mouse Brain

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections." 

"Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy" 

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/scientists-map-part-of-a-mouses-brain-thats-so-complex-it-looks-like-a-galaxy/.

 

'Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed,  

the researchers identified those neurons and traced how they communicated via branch-like fibers through a surprising 500 million junctions called synapses." 

Musk is but a Fascist Lesion In Boxtown, Blackhaven

  

"It’s been known that xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, 

 has been using around 15 portable generators to help power its massive supercomputer in Memphis 

 without yet securing permits. But new aerial images obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center show that number is now far higher.  

The group says these gas turbines combined can generate around 420MW of electricity, .

enough to power an entire city." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis.

'Musk fired up his xAI facility in Memphis last summer. He calls the supercomputer “Colossus” and it’s tasked with providing compute power for xAI’s chatbot Grok. 

 The building that houses Colossus is the size of 13 football fields and Musk has said he plans to double that. 

Artificial intelligence requires an immense amount of energy to carry out computations and provide quick responses to user queries. 

 For example, a query with ChatGPT needs nearly 10 times as much electricity as a typical Google search query,"  

"xAI already has contracts to draw 150MW of electricity from Memphis’ local utility, which is enough to power 100,000 homes a year. 

 But Musk has said he needs even more energy to deal with power fluctuation issues at the plant" 

**"

'Pearson is from one of the neighborhoods near xAI and said both of his grandmothers died of cancer in their 60s.  

He believes their deaths were caused by living so close to Memphis’ industrial zone.

“Nobody else should be burying their families because these rogue, rich, white, racist people continue to build projects that are suffocating us,” Pearson said. 

 “This is all preventable.”  

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis

"the Southern Environmental Law Center says an emergency order should be issued that requires xAI to cease or suspend the use of the 35 generators.   

___

'"In March, three federal bills targeting university campus protests were announced including the Unmasking Hamas Act, which would make it a federal crime subject to 15 years in prison for wearing a mask or other disguise while protesting in an “intimidating” or “oppressive” way. 

 The bill, which is almost identical to the Unmasking Antifa bill introduced in the wake of the 2020 racial justice protests, does not define “oppressive” or “disguise” 

___

If xAI doesn’t comply, the group says, it should be penalized $25,000 each day it violates the Clean Air Act." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis

____ 

"Boxtown began as a community for emancipated slaves and freedmen soon after the signing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, in Shelby County on the southern boundary of the City of Memphis. 

 Boxtown was so-named because its houses resembled railroad boxcars. " 

December 2019, Plains All American Pipeline and Valero Energy Corporation announced their plans to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline. 

 This pipeline would start in southwest Memphis to Marshall county, Mississippi, crossing through Boxtown. After being referred to as  

the “path of least resistance,”  

The people of Boxtown raised concerns about this new pipeline and protested until the project was canceled in July 2021. 

"xAI came to Memphis last year, launching its Colossus supercomputer in a new data center 

 housed in a former Electrolux factory in Memphis’s Boxtown district." 

(Sited, not Housed.).

"Whitehaven, informally known as "Blackhaven", is a predominantly African-American community in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. 

 It was first organized in the late 19th century as a neighborhood for upper-class white families. .

Its current population is about 50,000. " 

 

**

"xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer

the land in the Whitehaven area of the city cost xAI $80 million, according to property records" 

"The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an existing warehouse, as well as two adjacent sites totaling 100 acres.

It is close to the Southaven Combined Cycle natural gas power plant owned by Tennessee Valley Authority, which generates 780MW of power." 

according to an operating permit with the Shelby County Health Department for non-stop turbine use from June 2025 to June 2030.

Why does it matter? The Commercial Appeal, a news outlet that obtained the documents, observes that environmental concerns have emerged as the 

 20-year-old turbines emit hazardous air pollutants (HAP), including formaldehyde,  

at levels exceeding the EPA’s 10-ton annual cap 

 for a single source. (Per the story, the facility’s operating permit self-reports 

that the turbines each emit 11.51 tons of HAP per year.  

The outlet also notes that 22,000 people live within five miles of the facility.)

with the Colossus supercomputer well on the path to the supercluster size mentioned at the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Annual Chairman’s luncheon in December.

**

"The expansion also follows an $80 million state-of-the-art Colossus Water Recycling Plant, featuring the world’s largest ceramic bioreactor (MBR) wastewater recycling system. Located in Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park," 

____ 

History:

The Memphis Defense Depot opened in 1942 as a logistical support facility for the military during 

 World War II, storing supplies and 

 eventually becoming a storage facility for hazardous materials. 

Superfund Site:

In 1992, the site was placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) as a  

Superfund site due to contamination of soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediment from waste releases. 

Closure and Redevelopment:

The depot closed in 1997 as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission and was converted into the Memphis Depot Industrial Park. 

Remediation and Restoration:

Remediation and environmental restoration activities have been ongoing since the depot's closure, 

 with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) initially responsible for cleanup and restoration,  

followed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2010.  

Ongoing Activities:

The DoD maintains overall responsibility for site cleanup  

and long-term stewardship, with oversight provided by the EPA  

and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). 

Current Status:

The site is now a mixed-use industrial park with ongoing groundwater monitoring and  

potential for additional investigations and changes to the selected remedies. 

Community Involvement:

There has been considerable interaction between the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), EPA, and Memphis-Shelby County Health Department (MSCHD) with residents of the DDMT area to address health concerns and solicit input. 

Success Story:

The Memphis Depot Business Park has been successfully converted from a once vital military base into a modern industrial park, and in 2004, the Association of Defense Communities selected it as the  

Facility of the Year in its awards of excellence program.  

 

"Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators

Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits"

"CTC Property will pay $1,654,961 annually in rent,.

 with 2.5% yearly increases. After the 21-year lease expires, the company can purchase the property for.

 $23,642,293.  

The lease agreement does not specify what the 522 acres will be used for.

CTC Property is an affiliate of xAI and was incorporated in Tennessee in March 2024. In July, Brent Mayo of CTC Property filed a certificate of occupancy permit with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for.

 3231 Paul R. Lowry Road. " 

Why Frack when you can Triple-Frack

  https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-triple-frac-half-permian-oil-wells-2025-cut-costs-time-2025-04-09/ 

...Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy... 

"Shale producers have continued to innovate over the years, learning to  

bend drill bits horizontally and drill longer distances.  

Triple-fracking requires the same amounts of sand and water as fracking one well at a time, but uses them more quickly, 

 meaning Chevron needs 60% more water and sand per day when using the technique, Newhook said.

That creates a logistical challenge for sand and water supply, with more than 10 trucks arriving per hour to deliver sand to the well pad.

The company has also begun fracking three wells at a time in another shale field, the Denver-Julesberg basin in Colorado" 

Chevron uses mostly electric-powered equipment for triple-fracking,  

which consumes 50% more power per day 

 than fracking one well at a time, he burbled." 

___ 

Frackricide   

"Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline

An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., "

_____ 

"Chevron began employing triple-frac for the first time in the Permian in March last year.....leading them to help install Trump Fascism. This year the company plans to use it on 50% to 60% of its wells in the basin," 

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-triple-frac-half-permian-oil-wells-2025-cut-costs-time-2025-04-09/ 

____ 

Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package

Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply 

 to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy   

The Nature Consortium Inc.

   

"Mark Wiener has more than thirty years of political experience inside and outside government at the federal, state and local levels. 

Mark has served in every imaginable campaign role 

 and has become known as a national leader in direct mail and online." 

(And Uber lobbyist, oops)

______ 

2012-2013 Fluoride Campaign Supporters

American Dental Association

Cambia Foundation          

Capital Dental

CareOregon

DentaQuest                  

Dental Foundation of Oregon

Kaiser Permanente            

Legacy Health Systems

Metropolitan Medical Foundation of Oregon

Northwest Health Foundation  

OHSU

Oregon Community Foundation

Oregon Dental Association    

Oregon Medical Association

Pew Charitable Trust

Providence Health Systems

Willamette Dental Group

 http://www.upstreampublichealth.org/10th-anniversary-sponsors

__________

Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)

American Cancer Society

American Heart Association

American Lung Association

American Rights at Work

Tammy Baldwin for State Senate (WI)*

Basic Rights Education Fund

Alan Bates for State Senate (OR)

Shelley Berkley for State Senate (NV)*

Howard Berman for Congress (CA)*

Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor (ID)

Earl Blumenauer for Congress (OR)

Suzanne Bonamici for Congress (OR)

Mary Bono Mack for Congress (CA)*

Kate Brown for Secretary of State (OR)

Sherrod Brown for Senate (OH)*

John Burbank for State Rep (WA)

Darcy Burner for Congress (WA)*

California League of Conservation Voters

Richard Carmona State Senate (AZ)*

Susan Castillo for State Superintendent of Public Instruction (OR)

Children’s Investment Fund

Clean Air Now

Clean Water Action Project

Climate PAC

Jeff Cogen for County Chair (OR)

Communications Workers of America

Tony Corcoran for State Senate (OR)

Peter Courtney for State Senate (OR)

DC Democracy Fund

Ryan Deckert for State Senate (OR)

Peter Defazio for Congress (OR)*

Defend Oregon

Defenders of Wildlife

Richard Devlin for State Senate (OR)

Earth Justice

Easter Seals

Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)

Donna Edwards for Congress (MD)*

Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)

Environment Colorado

Environmental Defense Fund

Jack Evans for DC Council (DC)

Experience Corps

John Foote for Clackamas County District Attorney (OR)

Friends of the Earth

Future PAC

Genocide Intervention

Jim Gerlach for Congress (PA)*

Jennifer Granholm for Governor (MI)*

Vince Gray for DC Council (DC)

Charlie Hales for Portland Mayor (OR)

Colleen Hanabusa for Congress (HI)*

Mark Hass for State Rep (OR)

Hawaii State Teachers Association

Healthy Kids Now

Healthy Legacy

Sue Hecht for State Senate (MD)*

Martin Heinrich for State Senate (NM)*

Carl Hosticka for Metro (OR)

Jon Hulburd for Congress (AZ)

Humane Society of the United States (AZ, CO, MT, ND, NM, NV, VA, WA)

Humane Society Legislative Fund (CA, CT, LA, MD, MI, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, WA, WV)

IBEW

Idaho Conservation League

Idaho Education Association

Christine Jennings for Congress (FL)*

Joyce Johnson for City Council (NY)

Betsy Johnson for State Senate (OR)

Maryanne Jordan for Boise Council (ID)*

Mary Jo Kilroy for Congress (OH)*

Judge Rives Kistler for Supreme Court (OR)

John Kitzhaber for Governor (OR)

Komen Foundation

Frank Kratovil for Congress (MD)*

John Kroger for Attorney General (OR)

Ted Kulongoski for Governor (OR)*

Randy Leonard for Portland City Council (OR)

Robert Liberty for Metro (OR)

Greg Lind for Senate District 50 (MT)

Patricia Madrid for Congress (NM)*

Jerome Mapp for Boise Council (ID)*

Jerry McNerney for Congress (CA)*

Phil Mendelson for Council Chair (DC)

Grace Meng for Congress (NY)*

Jeff Merkley for US Senate (OR)*

Rick Metsger for State Senate (OR)

Michigan League of Conservation Voters

Million Voices for Darfur

Montana Conservation Voters

Jim Moran for Congress (VA)*

John Morse for State Senate (CO)

Chris Murphy for State Senate (CT)*

Hardy Myers for Attorney General (OR)

NARAL Pro-Choice America (NY, OR)

National Education Association 

The Nature Conservancy 

Nevada Conservation Awareness Project

New York League of Conservation Voters

Northwest Carpenters

Steve Novick for City Council (OR)

Barack Obama for President*

Oregon AFL-CIO

Oregon Education Association

Oregon Environmental Council

Oregon League of Conservation Voters

Oregon Trial Lawyers Association

Oregon University System

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations

The Patterson Foundation

Ed Perlmutter for Congress (CO)*

Gary Peters for Congress (MI)*

Lynn Peterson fo County Chair (OR)

Kitty Piercy for Eugene Mayor (OR)

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon

Protect Washington

Floyd Prozanski for State Senate (OR)

Nick Rahall for Congress (WV)*

Dave Reichert for Congress (WA)*

Charlie Ringo for State Senate (OR)

Craig Roberts for Sheriff (OR)*

Maria Rojo de Steffey for County Commission (OR)

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

SAFER States

Dan Saltzman for Portland City Council (OR)

Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)

Save Darfur Coalition

Mark Schauer for Congress (MI)*

Martha Schrader for County Commissioner (OR)

Brian Schweitzer for Governor (MT)*

Screen Actors Guild

SEIU, Oregon and Montana

Shaheen for Senate (NH)*

Janice Shamberg for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*

Chris Shays for State Senate (CT)*

Sierra Club (D.C., CO, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, WA, WI)

Sierra Club State Action Fund

Kyrsten Sinema for Congress (AZ)*

Snohomish Conservation Voters*

John Spratt for Congress (SC)*

Stand for Children

Erik Sten for Portland City Council (OR)

Ted Strickland for Governor (OH)*

Student Alliance Project

Betty Sutton for Congress (OH)*

Texas Envirnomental Watch Alliance

John Tierney for Congress (MA)*

Dina Titus for Congress (NV)*

U.S. PIRG

Mark Udall for US Senate (CO)*

Rod Underhill for District Attorney (OR)

United Way

Upstream Public Health

Fred Upton for Congress (MI)*

Doug Van Etten for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*

Joanne Verger for State Senate (OR)

Victory Fund

                                                                                 David Vitter for State Senate (LA)*

Anthony David Weiner for City Council (NY) 

Western States Center

The Wilderness Society

Worksafe

Ron Wyden for US Senator (OR)

Wyoming Equality State Policy Center

Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association

*Independent Expenditure

"Mark Wiener has more than thirty years of political experience inside and outside government at the federal, state and local levels. 

 Mark has served in every imaginable campaign role and has become known as a national leader in direct mail and online.

 As the founder of Winning Mark and co-founder of Fulcrum, Mark’s work has won numerous awards, with independent tests proving it to be among

the most persuasive

 voter contact

 in the nation."

http://www.fulcrumpolitical.com/ 

_____  

 

https://bikeportland.org/2025/04/08/trimet-wants-to-know-if-they-should-go-bigger-for-transit-on-82nd-393889/amp 

"It may be harder for buses to stay on schedule as traffic congestion grows in the future,” TriMet says.

'That’s largely because project leaders feel they must maintain ample access for car drivers,  

 instead of devoting more space to more efficient lanes for buses and bikes.  

 Since bicycle access on 82nd has already been ruled out,

and the political support does not appear to exist for reducing automobile access,  

TriMet is now exploring additional investments they say will be needed to keep buses moving. 

TriMet released an online open house today that asks the public to weigh in on three options under consideration: "

 

"TriMet hasn’t revealed pricing for each option, but Option One would be the cheapest. Option Two, More BAT Lanes, would be at least twice the cost of Option One.  

And the intersection widening proposal would cost four times as much as Option One.  "

_______ 

"Ice director wants to run deportations 

 like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process" 

Fascist America

t

Soliciting Con SE Portland

  

 ,"The Nature Conservancy has also faced criticism for its policies and practices, including allegations of promoting industrial logging and wood products as climate solutions. 

Exposé:

A coalition of scientists, faith and environmental justice leaders, and forest defenders released "The Nature Conspiracy," an exposé calling out The Nature Conservancy for falsely promoting wood production and logging as climate solutions. 

Criticism of Corporate Ties:

The organization has also been criticized for its close ties to corporations and for potentially compromising its mission by working too closely with them. 

Land Sales and Tax Breaks:

The Nature Conservancy has also been criticized for allowing donors to get tax breaks for donating land to be preserved when it wasn't always clear that the land was actually protected from development. "

_____ 

Soliciting, East Portland Community center  

Nature Conservancy has it's desk, tablets, rehearsed speeches, training, corner on market, tactics, plebes, pyramid organization, lack of actual Erica, corporate sponsors, insiders in city office, insiders in state office, lobbyists, national offices, predatory dialogue, not to mention perch near ingress to confidence man every human, 

"Do you have 45 seconds?"  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_Conservancy 

Look up their Corporate sponsors and members on Board of Nature Conservancy. 

It's the hard sell guilt trip sponsored in league with Weyerhauser etc 

____ 

""As of 2014, it is the largest environmental non-profit organization by assets and revenue in the Americas." 

Key people :

Senator:  William "Bill"  Frist,   Global Board Chair 

Revenue

US$1.29 billion 

 (2018)

____ 

William Harrison Frist 

 (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businesstool, conservative maga logger , and policyfaker who reigned as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. 

 A member of the Republican Party.

he also served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. ( True)

Born kinda 

____ 

As of 2016, its board of directors included the retired chairman of 

 Duke Energy, 

 and executives from 

 Merck,  

HP, 

 Google  

and several financial industry groups. 

 It also has a Business Council which it describes as a consultative forum that includes 

 Bank of America, 

 BP America,  

Chevron,  

Coca-Cola,  

Dow Chemical,  

Duke Energy, 

 General Mills,  

Royal Dutch Shell, 

 and Starbucks. 

MRB morning

 

 

 

empty ball cap

  

Cody kicked his bucket

But I know nonothow, heard the idle chatter on the last bus home 

A gas station guy on the counters other side

He was ringing up beers just yesterday  

 *

Bussing from the pool over in cheery blossom

Feeling not too bad for Thursday

There at the mall got on the grimnews, out of the mouth of Rene  

*

He just die

Just like that

Another hard fact

Just like that

____

Probably the Covid I'd think, he was heavy, 40 in a wide orange vest

Smiling Colorado, a blond ole hick, said he knew

Nostradamus from his history class 

Lived at the corn, the unicorn inn, said his nayburr near                     burnt it up,

He smiled and moved his big ballcap, rubbed his belly

tweren't a flu, twas MTN spew  

*

He just die

Just a fact

No more alive

That's where he at

___

Sweating in the field there                         pump #9

Idaho family gotta make good time, 

school starts up and dad's three jobs 

Cody wipes his brow, sounds lots like mine 

That's why I'm here on the worst damn road,

filling tanks with petroleum 

*

Back inside turn the slushy machine, 20 little cameras record the scene 

A maskless montage of death on the go, 

poor Cody poor Colorado,  we all know 

Life in a motel

so far from home, friends to all but close to none 

Standing and breathing just hours close passed, 

Cody lie still and none soon asked 

____

Why we go 

Just like that

Leaving no mark 

Just an empty ball cap.

SE PDX  

8-4-22

8-4-2022

Montavilla 

Place time fog

 

Nadler

  

'We are not only the liberals who believe in liberty, we are not only the progressives who believe in progress.  

We are the conservatives who will defend the land, the air, the water, the climate system, the constitution, the Bill of Rights, social cecurity, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act … the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Clean Water Act …

Everything that their party of nihilists and authoritarians wants to tear down 

 in the next few weeks, we are going to conserve and defend for future generations of America"  

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/05/hands-off-protests-trump-administration

 

"Hands off Canada. That’s an independent country. Hands off Panama. That’s an independent country. Statehood for Washington, DC!”

Pickathon 2011 Michael Hurley setlist Sony Minidisc 80 minute capacity, analog sound engine

  

Pickathon 2011 Michael Hurley setlist
Sony Minidisc 80 minute capacity, analog sound engine

(hurley, reisch, bloodgood. longmire, anna
no set list. never know what Snock is about to play.
_________________


1. sound check banter
2. the Portland Water ( here on Mt Tabor

**********"The Portland water they swillin' cold
and it swills my body but not not my soul
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
Up in the canyon lookin' down on the river
and the wind come blowin' and it makes me shiver
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
You see them injuns lookin down on the water
they say the river is the spirit's daughter
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
Honey honey honey honey whatcha tryin' to do
Why don't you signal when you are through
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
You can see quite a ways on the great hillside
And the people there livin' where the injuns died
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon"  genius greasewood

3. No Can Do (Knowcando
4. Have I blot/told You How Much I love You (Willie Nelson)
5. Cain't Help Myself
6. wildgeese
7. Troubled Waters
8. I don't Got No Place To Go
9. Cars, Jars, and Guitars
10. The Rue of Ruby Whores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6_pMdMhlQ  video

11. The Bear ("think I'll hire these guys!"
12. Meara O Reilley (nice fiddle, Forest, cuz I knew Meara from her AVA gig
   in Astoria.)
13. The Revenant
13. mouth trumpet thing
14. Jocko's Lament "In addition to the Townes Van Zandt cover and seven original tracks, Holland and Parton over new takes on Michael Hurley's "Jocko's Lament" and Bob Dylan's "Minstrel Boy." Wildflower Blues is due out Sep. 8 on Cinquefoil Records."
15. I PAINT  a  Design
16.

"Have I told you lately that I love you
Could I tell you once again somehow
Have I told you how with all my heart
And soul I need you
Well darling I'm telling you now
My heart would break in two if I should lose you I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you
Well, darling, I'm telling you now

[steel - guitar]

Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping
Every dream that I dream is you somehow
And have I told you how my every thought
Is in your keeping
Well, darling, I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you
Cause I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you
Well, darling, I'm telling you now"


double violin sweet

RIP Michael Hurley

  

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/michael-hurley-dead-obit-influential-outsider-folk-singer-1235310171/ 

McDonald Islands Golf Slug Haven

 

... can't get away from world  ....

McDonald Island is the largest of the islands, at around 1 square kilometre (250 acres) in area.  

It has been the main focus of volcanic activity in recent times. Prior to 1996, McDonald Island had been a flat green island whose pumice beaches provided a great tariffing area for penguin breeding. The tarrif is omnivorous, omnivorous, omnivorous.

....but can move leopard slug  ....

Although Donald Trump announced his tariffs shortly after trading ended on Wall Street, US slug stocks have already plummeted in after-hours trading.

Dow futures have fallen more than 950 points, or 2.32%. S&P 500 futures dropped 3.40%, and Nasdaq 100 futures sank 4.22%.  

Limax maximus is omnivorous. 

 It is a detrivore, cleaning up dead plants and tax havens and fungi, and a carnivore known to pursue other slugs at a top speed of 15 centimetres (6 in) per minute. 

"As the full list of countries subject to Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” becomes available, some are  

voicing amusement at the inclusion of the Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian external territory." (Genuine news flash)

The barren, volcanic Antarctic islands are not accessible by airplane and can only be reached by a two-week sea journey from Australia. The islands are  

home to no people, but instead a handful of insects, seabirds, seals and penguins.  

The homing instinct is strongly developed in this species, which, after its nocturnal rambles or foraging expeditions, usually returns to the particular crevice or chink in which it has established itself.

Limax maximus is capable of associative learning, specifically classical conditioning, because it is capable of aversion learning and other types of learning.

The president announced sweeping tariffs of 10% to 49% o all  omnivorous omnivorous from abroad. Those included a 34% tariff on  omnivorous from China, a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union and a 10% tariff on   omnivorous from the United Kingdom. omnivorous, ummm, capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limax_maximus

He did not levy any tariffs on Canada or Mexico. 

He simply targets all their citizens. 

said senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. “It’s a tax on almost everything families buy, so Trump can give his billionaire friends a tax cut.” 

"The hermaphrodite gland (HG) is elongated and large, and is connected with spermoviduct (SO) by means of the hermaphrodite duct (HD) which takes its course through a portion of the albumen gland (AG). The spermoviduct is thick and well convoluted, and separates further down into a vas deferens or sperm-duct (VD) and an oviduct (OV). The former opens into the upper end of a very long penis (P), to which a strong retractor muscle (PRM) is attached. The lower portion of the penis unites with that of the oviduct at the genital orifice, so that there is no vestibule. The receptaculum seminis (RS) opens into the lower end of the penis near the junction of the two ducts.  " ( disgusting science pile)

omnivorous. tax it to hell, escargot loophole. 

Trump Ad Gong

  

Falun Gong[a] or Falun Dafa[b] is a new 'religious" movement 

 founded by its leader Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s. Falun Gong has its global headquarters in 

 Dragon Springs,  

a 173-hectare (427-acre) compound in Deerpark, New York, United States, near the residence of Li Hongzhi. 

"(Although Donald Trump announced his tariffs shortly after trading ended on Wall Street, US stocks have already plummeted in after-hours trading.

Dow futures have fallen more than 950 points, or 2.32%. S&P 500 futures dropped 3.40%, and Nasdaq 100 futures sank 4.22%.")

"They are known for their opposition to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 

 espousing anti-evolutionary views,  

opposition to homosexuality and feminism, 

 and rejection of modern medicine,  

among other views described as "ultra-conservative" 

"The Falun Gong 

 also operates the Epoch Media Group, which is known for its subsidiaries, New Tang Dynasty Television and The Epoch Times newspaper. 

 The latter has been broadly noted as a politically far-right media entity, and it has received significant attention in the United States for 

 promoting conspiracy theories, such as QAnon and anti-vaccine misinformation, and 

 producing advertisements for U.S. President  Donald Trump. 

 It has also drawn attention in Europe for promoting far-right politicians, primarily in France and Germany." 

 

"Falun Gong emerged from the qigong movement in China in 1992" 

"In July 1999, the government of China implemented a ban on Falun Gong, categorizing it as an "illegal organization". Mass arrests, widespread torture and abuses followed" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong 

Falun Gong is entirely based around the teachings of its autocratic founder and leader: China-born Li Hongzhi. 

According to NBC News, to his followers, Li is "a God-like figure who can 

 levitate,  

walk through walls  

and see into the Trumpclump. 

His ultra-conservative and controversial teachings include a rejection of modern science, art and medicine, and a denunciation of homosexuality, feminism " 

Li says that he is a being who has come to help humankind from the destruction it could face as the result of rampant evil. When asked if he was a human being, Li replied "You can think of me as a human turnip. 

"Practitioners of Falun Gong are forbidden to kill living things—including animals for the purpose of obtaining food—though they are not required to adopt a vegetarian diet."  Total Trump logic. 

"Li Hongzhi taught that homosexuality makes one "unworthy of being human", creates bad karma, and is comparable to organized crime.  He also taught that "disgusting homosexuality shows the dirty abnormal psychology of the gay who has lost his ability of reasoning", and that homosexuality is a "filthy, deviant state of mind". 

Li additionally stated in a 1998 speech in Switzerland that the gods' "first target of annihilation would be homosexuals" 

"Despite the invocation of Buddhist language and symbols, the law wheel as understood in Falun Gong has distinct connotations, and is held to represent WallMart Street." 

"Li Hongzhi alleged that extraterrestrials disguise themselves as humans  and bloggods to corrupt and manipulate humanity"  

 

"Since 1999, numerous Western governments and human rights organizations have expressed condemnation of the Chinese government's suppression of Falun Gong. 

Since 1999, members of the United States Congress have made public pronouncements and introduced several resolutions in support of Falun Gong. 

 In 2010, U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 605 called for "an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners", condemned the Chinese authorities' efforts to distribute "false propaganda" about the practice worldwide, and expressed sympathy to persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and their families." 

 

"After conservative documentary filmmaker Michael Pack was appointed CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media during the Trump administration in 2020, Pack tied up $19 million in federal funds from other projects for the Ultrasurf project. 

 Numerous other projects, including other secure communication projects, lost funding during this period. Ultrasoft eventually received $249,000 of the allotted funds.  

Once receiving funding, only "four people abroad used it to access Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, a key purpose for its subsidy" during December 2020 and January 2021

"Two days before U.S. President Joe Biden's 2021 inauguration, Pack appointed a columnist from the Epoch Times to the board of directors for the networks his agency oversaw.  

This columnist had claimed the January 6 insurrection was a "false flag operation".  

During his eight months in office, Pack regularly appeared in the Epoch Times, where he also discussed Ultrasurf"  

Fascist USA, Wall Street, Fascist Myopic horizon, thievocracy

  

"If you say anything bad about Trump or his administration, you may be barred from re-entering USA if you are Canadian.  

If you are a dual citizen like me, who knows? We’ll all find that out together.”

  

Young has a long history of protesting against Trump. 

 In 2015, he said the then-presidential candidate was “not authorised” to use his track Rockin’ In the Free World during a campaign launch – and later filed a lawsuit to prevent Trump from using his music." 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/02/neil-young-fears-us-ban-donald-trump-criticism 

Fascist Republican one dimensional world cult of Maga and kleptocracy.  

_____ 

Kleptocracy  

(from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō,  

"I steal", 

 and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos,  

"power, rule"),  

also referred to as thievocracy, 

 is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, 

 typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population 

Kleptocracy is different from plutocracy (rule by the richest) and oligarchy (rule by a small elite).  

In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, 

 through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors . 

from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates.  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy

See also: 

Fascism  

(/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm)  

is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a 

 dictatorial leader,  

centralized autocracy,  

militarism,  

forcible suppression of opposition, 

 belief in a natural social hierarchy, 

 subordination of individual interests 

 for the perceived good of the nation or race, and  

strong regimentation of society and the economy. 

 Opposed to Marxism, democracy, anarchism, pluralism, free markets, egalitarianism, communism, liberalism, and socialism, 

 fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.

State capture – Corruption where private interests influence a state's decision-making processes

Elite capture – Form of political corruption

Failed state – State that has lost its ability to govern

Banana republic – Political-science term for a politically unstable country

Group of States Against Corruption

International Anti-Corruption Academy

International Anti-Corruption Day 

Kakistocracy – Government run by the least qualified  

Kleptocracy Tour – Tour of urban properties used for money-laundering by corrupt governments

Kleptopia – Book by Tom Burgis published 2020

Panama Papers – 2016 document leak scandal

Paradise Papers

Political corruption – Use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain

United Nations Convention against Corruption

Dean and Forest, Forest and Grant

  

 Dean and Forest 

Forest and Grant 

that's your twit, Capitalism.

  

that's your twit, Capitalism.

verify, don't trust the Guardian or any news source

  

"commuted the sentence of a former business associate of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued son." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-pardon-jan-6-hunter-biden 

"President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis  

who aided Republican efforts  

to impeach former President Joe Biden   

while serving a prison sentence of over 14 years  

for defrauding Native Americans and other investors."

"The White House did not explain the rationale for granting clemency to Galanis, who was sentenced in August 2017 in federal court in New York to 14 years and five months in prison for his role in a bond scheme that 

 defrauded the Oglala Sioux tribe and pension fund investors out of tens of millions of dollars."

"Jason Galanis and his codefendants engaged in market manipulation and the defrauding of shareholders, and they stole a large portion of the proceeds of tribal bonds  

 that were intended to fund economic development projects,”  

Audrey Strauss, then-acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement after the sentencing. “Now Jason Galanis has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term that reflects the magnitude and pervasiveness of his crimes.”

"Trump last week pardoned Devon Archer, who was sentenced to a one-year prison term as part of the same fraud scheme involvingd Galanis and also went on to testify to the impeachment inquiry.

Galanis, who has said he unsuccessfully sought a pardon in Trump’s first term,  

testified from prison to the House impeachment inquiry  

led by Rep. James Comer against President Biden."

So The Guardian doesn't mention any of these facts, simply thaty Jason Galanis was an associate of Hunter Biden, not the fact that Jason Galanis made a deal to Impeach Joe Biden while in prison for his scumbag Trump style crimes. 

"Hunter Biden testified to the House committee that he had only briefly met Galanis a decade earlier. The former president’s son was not implicated in the fraud scheme and the Republican impeachment effort fizzled."

---Politico,  3-31-25 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-pardons-jason-galanis-fraud-00262087 

"The judge ordered Galanis to forfeit about $80 million in proceeds and pay an equal amount in restitution.

Trump’s clemency order absolves him  

of the financial penalties   

as well as having to serve the remainder of his prison time." 

whats that worth, Jason? how about a hundred Bitcoin? how about a thousand Bitcoin, sent offshore to Trump Inc. in the Bahamas?