THE DATA CENTERS, THE FLOCK CAMERAS, THE THOUSANDS OF LOW-ALTITUDE SATELLITES MUSK IS PUTTING UP USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DO IT — ARE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY.

A bright 5th Grader could figure out what is happening (has happened) in America over the past ten years that we are just seeing in the present ~ its darkness and the level of depravity is appalling, sickening beyond words.

Over the past week and a half, for some reason, perhaps because he is so close to the same age as my son, I have become obsessed with trying to help an 18-year-old young man who has been accused of cutting down 3 FLOCK CAMERAS in the Port Orange, Florida area. The intensity of my focus has been surprising even to me. I see the young man as possibly being set up and used as an example by a potentially corrupt Sheriff’s Department, or a group of corrupt local, elected officials and the FLOCK Camera company itself, because the local authorities have charged him with 3 counts of criminal mischief, which is a 3rd Degree felony and carries with it up to 5 years in prison plus fines.

WHAT KIND OF IGNORANT, CORRUPT, DARK-HEARTED, EVIL, MEAN, ROTTEN PEOPLE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WOULD DO THIS TO A YOUNG MAN WHO IS A MEMBER OF THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AND AN HONOR STUDENT WHO JUST GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL? If you care, and want to help, this is the fund raiser: STAND WITH JADEN BROOKS

How can “law enforcement” officers claim to be “law enforcement” and working for the benefit of the people they have been elected or hired to serve, wherever they may be — be so ignorant, illiterate, errant, incorrect, foolish, unable to read, evil, stupid, criminal, corrupt (I don’t know what to call it) concerning the laws of the United States of America that they have allocated tax payer’s money to put these cameras up everywhere in their cities, counties, and states, when the 4th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is the only place in the Constitution in which our founding forefathers wrote that the rights explained in the 4th Amendment SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED?

The 4th Amendment says that before any person or place may be searched and any information or physical objects may be confiscated, to be used as evidence, an officer of the law must perform and/or obtain certain things. The first being: i) there must be “probable cause,” meaning there has to be something that would cause a reasonable person to think that a crime had been committed; ii) there has to be a witness that will attest and swear to witnessing the “probable cause;” iii) the place to be searched and the information and/or objects to be searched for have to be clearly explained, defined and limited to those explanations; and, iv) all of that must be presented and shown to a judge and the duly (legally) appointed/elected judge, must see all of those things and agree that “probable cause” exists and he issues a signed WARRANT, authorizing the search in the defined place for the exact thing(s) outlined in the signed warrant.

You would think that reading and studying the US Constitution at least once, or having a class on it and in-depth discussions about it and the Rights and Freedoms and restrictions on what law enforcement can and cannot do, in their police academies, would be required ~ since it is the basis and foundation of all of our other laws, and the thing that they are going to give an oath to uphold, protect, and defend, as a requirement of their election and/or employment ~ but that certainly doesn’t appear to be the case, because all of them have gone ahead and approved the purchase and use of such cameras. FLOCK is the primary one. The ones placed on poles and using cameras that are known as an ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader).

FLOCK literature and information on its website claims to be in over 5,000 communities in 49 states and taking more than 20 billion vehicle scans per month.

AXON, owned by Vigilant Solutions, a Motorola company, dominates the squad-car mounted setups. And there are many others, but all of these cameras have been purchased with taxpayer dollars and placed all over cities, counties, and States — again VIOLATING the only Amendment to say these rights SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED.

Trump was asked the other day by a reporter if he had heard of FLOCK CAMERAS and he said “Yes, and we are looking into them.”

TRUMP IS LYING!

THIS ADMINISTRATION IS PROVIDING THE MONEY FOR ALL OF THIS. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN AND IS GIVING FEDERAL FUNDS (TAXPAYER DOLLARS) TO CITIES AND STATES ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO PUT THESE CAMERAS UP AND TO INSTALL AND USE OTHER SUCH SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS.

At least, $1.8 BILLION DOLLARS OF FEDERAL TAXPAYER MONEY has been authorized by this Administration to encourage cities, counties, and states to install and use such technology.

There is the DOJ’s new MODEL CITIES INITIATIVE providing nearly $300 million to just 2-4 cities. I am sure there is no profit sharing going in those transactions. LMAO

There are additional programs in which hundreds of millions more are being awarded to cities through the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) — the people that oversee ICE!

A $2.29 billion, Space Force contract awarded to SpaceX in May 2026 for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone.

Two additional contracts worth $6.5 billion, awarded to SpaceX announced in May 2026 for COMMUNICATIONS/TARGETING SATELLITES associated with the Trump administration’s Golden Dome. Systems being built on the StarShield platform.

I WONDER WHOSE COMMUNICATIONS THEY ARE GOING TO BE MONITORING? AMERICAN CITIZENS IS THE RIGHT ANSWER!!!

There are also the tens of thousands of facial recognition cameras that have been placed in grocery stores owned and operated by the billionaires who own KROGERS, ALBERTSONS, SPROUTS, WHOLE FOODS AND OTHERS ~ AND ALL OF IT IS ILLEGAL ~ BUT NO ONE SUES THEM TO STOP THEM FROM DOING IT. They are even putting them in carts being sold by Instacart. The corruption runs deep and is appalling on so many different levels.

And much of this has been done using the same types of NDAs and SECRECY that have been discovered and used in connection with the thousands of DATA CENTERS.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS AWARDED CLOSE TO $17 BILLION DOLLARS IN TOTAL CONTRACTS TO ELON MUSK’S SPACEX AND SECURITY SATELLITE DIVISION TO PUT THOUSANDS MORE LOW-ALTITUDE SATELLITES INTO SPACE SINCE TAKING OFFICE.

THE STARSHIELD INITIATIVE is SpaceX’s Security Satellite Division which is being paid by OUR GOVERNEMENT — OUR TAXDOLLARS — TO ILLEGALLY SURVEIL AMERICANS!

This many low-altitude satellites gives SPACEX (and our Government) far shorter revisit times over any given point on Earth — giving them potentially near continuous coverage of every part of the country and earth, rather than only a single pass every several hours. All of it being used with facial recognition software and AI.

Everything is being done WITHOUT A SINGLE PUBLIC VOTE! The build out of such INFRASTRUCTURE points to the only logical conclusion ~ this is a long-term, well thought out, planned program to build out the:

INFRACSTRUCTURE FOR A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

IF THAT ISN’T WAGING WAR AGAINST AMERICA AND ITS CITIZENS BY AN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL SYNDICATE — WHAT THE FUCK ELSE WOULD YOU CALL IT? A CONINCIDENCE?

IT IS TREASON AND IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED NOW!

And then just today, I saw Trump saying he was going to completely get rid of the CAPITAL GAINS TAX — another cheap attempt to try to buy people’s votes before the mid-terms. If he wasn’t so despicable, it would almost be funny. He reminds me of a cheap Las Vegas pimp on Fremont Street at 3 in the morning.

Anyone with a functioning brain could figure out what is going on. The “Tech Bros” and this Administration are behind this. It is an elaborate and well thought out plan that has taken years to devise that men like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison, Alex Karp, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Steven Schwarzman of Blackstone who is the largest owner of both housing and student housing in the United States as well as the largest owner of DATA CENTERS in the world, Larry Fink of BlackRock, who is the largest asset manager in the world, Meta, and Apple… all of it has been devised to enslave you and make them even richer. Everyone Trump took to China is involved in it.

Here’s the list — 18 in total:

• Tim Cook — Apple

• Elon Musk — Tesla and SpaceX

• Jensen Huang — Nvidia

• Chuck Robbins — Cisco

• Sanjay Mehrotra — Micron

• Cristiano Amon — Qualcomm

• Jim Anderson — Coherent

• Dina Powell McCormick — Meta (president, not CEO)

Finance

• Larry Fink — BlackRock

• Stephen Schwarzman — Blackstone

• Jane Fraser — Citigroup

• David Solomon — Goldman Sachs

• Michael Miebach — Mastercard

• Ryan McInerney — Visa

Industrial / Ag / Other

• Kelly Ortberg — Boeing

• Larry Culp — General Electric

• Brian Sikes — Cargill

• Jacob Thaysen — Illumina

The Combined net worth of the delegation is now well over $1 trillion.

TRUMP took everyone (the owners of both the hardware and software companies) needed to finish the build out of the INFRASTRUCTURE OF A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM — AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE WHO CAN HIDE YOUR POSTS AND MESSAGES TO THE PUBLIC AND DEBANK YOU — BY CUTTING OFF CREDIT CARDS AND CASH FLOW.

CHINA IS NOT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ENEMY.

CHINA IS HIS PARTNER IN A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY WHO TOGETHER ARE TRYING TO ENSLAVE ALL OF US AS AMERICANS.

THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS ARE WAGING A WAR AGAINST AMERICANS.

IT IS TIME FOR AMERICANS TO WAKE UP TO THE SITUATION AND START BEHAVING IN A REASONABLE AND SANE MANNER IN REACTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THEM?

THESE MEN ARE EVIL TO THEIR CORE AND THINK YOU AND I ARE PIECES OF SHIT ON THE SOLES OF THEIR SHOES. AMERICANS HAD BETTER UNDERSTAND THAT AND STOP PLAYING NICE WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY CERTAINLY ARE NOT PLAYING NICE WITH US.

IF AMERICANS KEEP PLAYING AS IF THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY — IT MAYBE TOO LATE.

Just go ask all of the people they have killed on our streets and in their Detention Centers/Concentration Camps.

This is a highly ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE in the process of overthrowing the Constitutional Democratic Government of the United States.

THEY NEED TO BE STOPPED! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HELP?

There then needs to be a complete and total investigation about who is behind this and why and all of them need to be tried for their participation in it.

It is also absolutely shocking to see the level of the corruption — because it goes all the way down to the Governors, State AGs, City attorneys, District attorneys, City Councils, Mayors, County Commissioners, and law enforcement officers all over this country.

I used to wonder who was funding all of this. Then I started having my obsession with trying to help this young man in Florida over the past week and a half and it made me so concerned about him that I started to ask the some different questions and asked some of the right one to different AI agents I use and… the answers it came back with were plain as day:

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER IS PAYING FOR ALL OF THIS. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THE “TECH BROS” — THE MOTHER FUCKERS THAT THINK AMERICANS ARE SO DUMB AND TOO FRIGHTENED TO FIGHT BACK — SO THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING IT WITH TAX PAYER’S MONEY.

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LARRY FINK IDEA AND I THINK I MIGHT HAVE EVEN HEARD HIM TALKING ABOUT IT IN EUROPE AT A MEETING OF THE G-20 OR G-7 WHEN BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT. THE TIME GIORGIA MELONI HAD TO BRING BIDEN BACK TO GET HIS PICTURE TAKEN AFTER HE’D WANDERED OFF WATCHING THE SKYDIVERS.

There needs to be a complete investigation and everyone involved needs to be tried under the RICO STATUTES, and/or tried for TREASON when the evidence shows that they are clearly involved at that level, and sent to jail for a long period of time, or for the rest of their lives, because what they have done and are doing is more than obvious at this point!

Not to mention that these DATA CENTERS are DESTROYING our natural resources everywhere they are being built. They are polluting the water and air. They are killing the animals. The Birds. The Bees — which are the pollinators of the world, providing so much of the food we eat — yet they don’t give a fuck because they think they are going to make more money and be in complete and total control of the world.

PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU CAN AND STOP BEING AFRAID. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE HOPING FOR.

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IF YOU DON’T SHARE THIS, I CAN PROMISE YOU THEY (THE BILLIONAIRES AND ALGORITHMS) WILL HIDE IT FROM OTHERS SO OTHERS DON’T SEE IT.

IT WOULD ALSO BE MY RECOMMENDATION WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER, THAT WE PARDON LUIGI MANGIONE. HE KILLED ONE MAN WHOSE COMPANY HAS KILLED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS OVER THE PAST 20-30 YEARS AND DRIVEN MILLIONS MORE INTO MEDICAL BANKRUPTY.

LUIGI IS A NATIONAL HERO IN MY BOOK FIGHTING IN THE WAR THE WEALTHY HAVE BEEN WAGING AGAINST AMERICANS FOR YEARS.

FUCK TRUMP AND EVERYONE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION!

At this most important time in Jaden Brooks’ life, I DO NOT WANT HIM TO BE LEFT STANDING ALONE IN THIS. I want him to know that THE ENTIRE NATION IS STANDING WITH HIM! And I don’t want to hear anyone getting on a moral fucking high horse. The people putting these cameras up ARE BREAKING THE LAW. These cameras are Fourth Amendment violations all day long - illegally searching and seizing our information and effects.

These cameras, along with the DATA CENTERS, and their Golden Dome of low flying satellites, being used in conjunction with AI and software such as Palantir’s IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A TOTAL AND COMPLETE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY. They already have their concentration camps built.

Why do you think the Tech Bros have been doing everything they have in secret with NDAs and the DATA CENTERS? Because they probably believed if people knew what their real plans were, the possibility that they could be drug out into the streets and beaten or worse could happen.

WE WOULD BE OUT OF OUR MINDS TO ALLOW THEM TO COMPLETE THE BUILDOUT OF THEIR PLANNED INFRASTRUCTURE.

This kid understands we are at war with a bunch of racist, fascists thugs, who want to enslave and rule over every one of us, and he had the balls to actually stand up and do something about it. DO NOT LEAVE HIM STANDING ALONE. I want him to have the best legal defense money can buy and the best TRIAL BY JURY he could EVER HAVE. Please donate and share this with EVERYONE YOU CAN! I want him to know that millions of Americans have his back.

1. I think a lot of the noise about the race with China to get to AI first is the same type of noise/lies we were told during the cold war when I was a child concerning the arms race with Russia. We were told that Russia was going to bomb us and we had to have a massive buildup of nuclear weapons and silos to protect us from the Russians. It was about making money for defense contractors. Just as the war in Vietnam was about making money for defense contractors.

I believe they are now making China out to be the enemy again to frighten and distract Americans so they can keep building their data centers and waging never-ending wars. But this time it is even more ominous.

Think about what has recently happened. Trump took all these tech people from Palantir, Nvidia, Tim Cook at Apple, Musk, Michael Dell, and everyone else who owns the type of surveillance software and hardware that is needed to surveil us all. And let’s not forget, Larry Fink of BlackRock, the financial engineer of the Universe who has figured out a million different ways to steal from people, and that’s why everyone in government thinks he’s such a genius. Why would he be invited? Is that something that a President would do if he was in a race with China and saw China as our enemy? NO.

I would also submit to you that EVERYONE who went with him are in the conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government. In China, I would also submit that they talked about how to get complete control using surveillance over Americans and the rest of the world as China surveils and controls their country now. DECISIONS AND AGREEMENTS WERE MADE ALONG WITH NEXT STEPS. Why else would he take the people he did with him and not representatives of the U.S. Government? Because in Trump’s mind and the minds of these men of such massive wealth, no one else matters. They see themselves as THE RULERS OF THE UNIVERSE.

2. The next week Putin goes to China and Xi have meetings. Do you think that was a coincidence? This is a chess game being played out so there is plausible deniability for Trump and his Court of American Oligarchs.

I think Xi met with Putin to tell him what the agreements are and what was discussed and what they decided on, so Putin goes back and starts bombing Ukraine for more distraction and Chump Trump starts dropping more bombs on Iran for more distraction.

3. I would urge the reader to consider that the Golden Dome is about putting thousands more low-level satellites all around the world so Xi, Putin, Trump and their Tech Bro friends can have complete surveillance control over the world. THIS IS WHAT THE DATA CENTERS ARE GOING TO BE USED FOR. Much of the money to be used will come from the SpaceX IPO that was just completed.

China is not who we need to be afraid of. THE TRUMP ADMINIATRATION AND EVERYONE IN CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE AGREEING TO BUILD THESE DATA CENTERS WITH NO PUBLIC DISCOURSE ARE PART OF IT. They have agreed to be part of it in closed meetings and have been promised massive amounts of money from people like Steve Scharzman of Blackstone.

Blackstone is the largest owner of data centers in the world and of course BlackRock is involved because Schwarzman and Fink have been business partners since the 1980s. Schwarzman is also the largest corporate owner of homes in America, including all of the new homes that are being built to rent. And he is the largest owner of Student Housing which increases the amounts our children have to pay and borrow to go to school.

These predatory lenders have been turning the youth of America into indentured economic slaves for years. And interest rates on Student Loans can now run as high as 20%. It is absolutely barbaric that they are allowed to do this, but our Congress has voted to allow this.

And I thought slavery was illegal in the United States.

Why are there no State AGs, City Attorneys, County DAs filing suits against them for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANTY and for violating their CIVIL RIGHTS for doing this to our children and for the damage they have done to millions of people they have forced into homelessness? As well as for funding the data centers which are polluting the people’s drinking water in those areas?

Think about why they aren’t and you can only come to ONE CONCLUSION. They too have been compromised.

To those who are not compromised, please bring such suits against these people and use United States v. Park 1975 and the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine and stop this madness or we could lose democracy in this country.

4. DO NOT USE THE MAIL TO VOTE. My biggest investor in Green Plains was one of the largest mail carriers in the United States. He carried mail for the US Post Office for 48 years.

The Post Office has always contracted with private trucking companies to haul the mail from one city, or state, or coast to the other. The mail trucks you see delivering your mail are just the last mile trucks owned by the Post Office. My friend was one of the largest of those mail truckers. 10 Roads Express Trucking. He took his dad’s mail service company over in 1978. His dad started it in 1951 with one small route in North Dakota. My friend was forced to shut his trucking company down in January because DeJoy pulled all the contracts from him. He had 36 terminals, 4500 trucks, 5000 trailers and thousands of employees across the country. They asked him if he wanted to participate in what they are doing now. He said NO and they pulled the contracts forcing him to shut his company down. See the story here:

At the end of this video, you can see there were other companies driven out of business by DeJoy at the Post Office also, just like Trump is using tariffs and the high price of oil to bankrupt American farmers so his billionaire buddies can steal more of the country’s farmland. THEY WANT TO OWN IT ALL and they damn near do already.

5. After driving honest Americans out of business ~ much of the U.S. Mail is now being driven/handled by a Serbian Organized Crime Family often called SuperEgo. How hard would it be for them to pull/lose (whatever word you want to use) mail in ballots? Especially, early ballots? 60 Minutes did a report on it two months ago, which is why, I suspect, Trump rushed into shut down 60 Minutes. This is the report. I’ve seen more than enough to make my mind up. TRUMP IS A TRAITOR AS IS ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND MANY MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE HELPING HIM.

DO NOT USE MAIL IN BALLOTS TO VOTE. You can fill out the ballot they send you in the mail, but someone needs to hand deliver your ballot to the county or city, whoever handles your elections. AND YOU NEED TO SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU TALK WITH and share it on ALL OF YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS and text it and email it to friends and family members.

Meta’s AI just deleted a post of mine on Facebook this morning, where I was explaining this but left another comment of mine at the top of the thread to make me think everything was okay. If you are older and can’t drive figure out a way to have a friend or neighbor or family member hand-deliver it to the county or city for you.

6. ICE EXECUTED another Mexican man in Houston two days ago. He had a beautiful family and had lived here for 36 years. He was a construction worker and all of his children are U.S. Citizens so Trump who is the one ultimately responsible for such murders and Homan and Lyons, or whoever is running DHS and ICE now, need to be held accountable and tried for capital murder as co-conspirators.

The President of Mexico announced yesterday that she was going to file murder charges in the United States for the MURDER OF THIS MAN AND 16 OTHERS WHO ICE HAS KILLED WHILE IN THEIR CUSTODY.

7. The reason I am pointing this out is to hopefully make you see how deep the corruption in our country is. WHERE IN THE FUCK ARE OUR OWN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, CITY ATTORNEYS, AND STATE AGS WHO ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOBS AND WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN FILING SUCH SUITS FOR US AS CITIZENS AND FOR THE MEXICANS WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR THAT MANY YEARS? They have the same rights as we do under the Constitution and anyone saying they don’t is lying to you.

Our Government has allowed these people to live here for years so we can pay them less for the work they do as a sort of slave labor.

The Constitution says in Amendment XIV (14) “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

It does not say Citizen. It says “PERSON” and that was done intentionally. Undocumented Mexicans, Syrians, Somalis, or anyone else residing here have the right to equal protection of the laws, which is the Constitution. And if these City Attorneys, County District Attorneys, and State’s AGs are not bringing suits against the agents of ICE and throwing their asses in jail, they are NOT doing their jobs or upholding our laws and are most likely involved in the attempt to overthrow the government.

Please America OPEN YOUR EYES AND QUIT DOUBTING WHAT THESE ANIMALS WE HAVE ELECETED TO OFFICE ARE DOING TO US AND THE COUNTRY. And many Democrats are every bit as much involved in it as Republicans are and I think all of the Republicans are with the exception of Massie.

That’s why they went after Graham Platner so hard in Maine. Platner cannot be bought. He would have voted for Medicare for All. He would have helped get rid of Student Debt and create an Affordable Higher Education System, he would have voted to force Blackstone and their real estate Cartel to sell all of the homes they own. It is the same reason no one in the Democratic Party would endorce Zohran even after he won the primary. It was the WASHINGTON DNC that pulled ALL OF THEIR SUPPORT FROM PLATNER. FUCK THE WASHINTON DNC AND ITS CURRENT LEADERSHIP.

8. The puppet Masters include Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone, Larry Fink of BlackRock, Jamie Dimon of J. P. Morgan and of course Sandy Weill in the background of Dimon. Sandy Weill is the man who BROKE GLASS STEAGALL which let Wall Street back into our Commercial Banking system in 1999 and WHAT WE HAVE TODAY IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN. And of course there are others involved but these are some of the biggest financiers of the group. They are the ones behind it all and who have done the financial engineering.

9. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA AND CONNECT THE DOTS

10. SHARE THIS IN 100 DIFFERENT PLACES SO EVERYONE IS AWARE OF IT. SEND IT DIRECTLY TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS VIA TEXT AND EMAIL.

WE NEED TO STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THESE PEOPLE AND ACT. THEY ARE AT WAR WITH US. WE NEED TO GET VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. WE NEED TO START ACTING AS IF WE ARE IN A WAR TOO ~ BECAUSE WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT ~ WE ARE!

First, Congratulations to Melat Kiros on winning the Democratic Primary for the Congressional Seat she is running for in Colorado. I endorsed her on my website two weeks ago. We need more people like her in Washington…. and

The Housing Bill that Congress just passed SUCKS. It is complete BULLSHIT.

IT DOES NOT FORCE THE BLACKSTONE BUYING CARTEL TO SELL A SINGLE FUCKING HOME. It only stops them from buying anymore in the future ~ but since they already own millions more than they say they do, including almost every house in the country that isn’t owned by the person living in it ~ including millions of bundled Non-Performing Loans (NPL) that such funds have been buying from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after bribing someone at those institutions over the past two years, so those repossessions/foreclosures would never hit the market and lower the prices of homes across the country ~ what the fuck do they care if they can’t buy anymore?

The Cartel already owns enough that they can and do manipulate the prices of homes and the rents they charge people and hold them wherever they want them to be held so they can continue to keep everything unaffordable for younger Americans and keep sucking the rest of America dry. By controlling as many homes as they do, they can and do have immense control over the lives of tens of millions of Americans, both young and old. Their asses should be in jail for causing massive and unnecessary harm to the lives of tens of millions of people. They are the ones primarily responsible for the massive number of homeless people we have in America. They are evil, uncaring people and should be held accountable for the damage they have done and continue to inflict on millions of Americans.

FUCK THE EXTRACTION ECONOMY WE LIVE IN. VOTE OUT EVERY ENCUMBANT MEMBER OF CONGRESS THAT VOTED FOR THIS HOUSING BILL AND REPLACE THEM WITH PEOPLE LIKE MELAT KIROS.

Adam Smith has had H.R. 1745 in the House since February 27, 2025, which would force the Blackstone Cartel to sell every home they own, but 50. That would bring the prices and rents down on millions of homes and help tens of millions of people live more comfortable, less stressful lives, but only 9 people in the House have been willing to sponsor that bill. AND FUCK THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO ONLY DO WHAT THEIR WEALTHY HANDLERS WANT THEM TO DO. WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL ~ so we can finally CREATE AN AMERICA AND A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE ~ not just a handful of greedy fucking billionaires and our current members of Congress. Many of these billionaires should be in jail for all of the pain they have caused for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. The time has come to end their rein of terror. With your help, together we could do that.

Please share this Article and share my website and the information about my campaign for the Presidency with your friends and families on ALL of your social media sites. PLEASE. And please donate what you can. Even if that’s only taking the time to share my website on your social media pages. Thank you.

We want to start a nationwide text campaign to let millions know about Barry’s campaign but we need your help to do that please donate and ask your friends and family members to donate to this campaign with Barry in the Whitehouse, America could be the best place in the world to live. Help us create an America we are all proud of and get rid of this group of lowlife criminals we now have in this Administration dismantling our country right before our eyes.

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And while this is going on, the Rio Grande River has run dry in New Mexico and Mexico cannot be sent any of the water they are supposed to be receiving from the United States.

At the same time, ONE MILLION (1,000,000) acre feet of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir near the Northern Utah/Wyoming border is being released to keep Lake Powell above 3500 feet so it can continue to make electricity for millions of people who live in Arizona. That’s 1/3 of the water in Flaming Gorge. And how much of a difference has that made? Lake Powell is four feet lower than it was last month. So, NADA is the correct answer ~ por los que hablan espanol.

Then there’s Lake Mead which has dropped to within 4 feet of the lowest point ever reached in 2022 ~ which was 1040 feet above sea level. It’s only four feet above that now. It is expected to fall to as low as 1030 feet by the end of the summer. I call bullshit on that one. I say it will drop to that level by the middle of August and much lower by the end of the water year, unless it rains an insane amount this summer due to El Nino. But so far, that has only created more heat.

And then we have the insane little Orange Man in the Whitehouse trying to have an All-White State Fair in Washington, so he can relive his imagined childhood as he is trying to create a sense of nostalgia for his political base ~ although it is beyond me how anyone could still support this man and call themselves an American.

And while the crazy little fuckhead is doing that, he is encouraging everyone to drill for more oil and gas in our National Parks so he can help his business partners in Russia, Qatar and Suadi Arabia make more money on their oil, which is probably the real reason he started the war in Iran. It is also probably the reason he has agreed to give Iran $300 billion of American taxpayer money ~ so he can get at least half of it for himself in kickbacks.

For once, could we actually DO THE RIGHT THING ~ Something that would benefit and strengthen our country and the majority of Americans?

ONE: Instead of spending hundreds of billions on these stupid fucking wars, could we please sit down with the best neighbors anyone could ever ask for ~ MEXICO AND CANADA ~ and make a plan yesterday to build four or five massive desalination plants in the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico and the Sea of Cortez, so if it doesn’t rain in the next few years, those areas and people will still have drinking water and the rest of us will have vegetables to eat? And get them built NOW as National Projects as insurance for all the people living in those areas (circa 40 million+). And then stop the ridiculous amount of GROWTH IN THOSE AREAS where there isn’t any water.

TWO: As a National Project, let’s build 100 to 200 square miles of solar panels in the deserts of AZ, NV, UT, and NM and build out the electric grid to transport all of that power to where it is needed and stop with the insanity of building these fucking data centers, so Trump and his billionaire buddies can surveil us 24 hours a day. Doing that would also massively reduce the amount of carbon we are putting into the air, making the planet ever hotter.

THREE: Send a very loud and clear message to the current members of the Republican Party in Congress, that if they don’t impeach this orange headed, insane little tyrant we have in the White House ~ NOW ~ they are going to be held accountable for being complicit in genocide, murder, and various other major crimes along with the rest of the Trump Administration and possibly spend the rest of their lives in jail along with Trump and his buddies if found guilty.

FOUR: Create a National Higher Educational System that includes four-year undergraduate degrees, and Skilled Trades ~ NOW! One that is affordable, based on our Community Colleges. And we get rid of ALL STUDENT DEBT in the process so America’s children do not spend the rest of their adult lives as financial indentured slaves to these predatory, blood-sucking, Zionist little vampires on Wall Street, so America’s children can live happy productive lives.

By the way, I have a Bill right here that could do that: THE AMERICAN NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND SKILLED TRADES ACT OF 2026

FIVE: Tax the RICH as they should be taxed and stop letting them steal everything from everyone else.

FUCK DONALD TRUMP!!!

There are only 8 Democrats (Zero Republicans) who are supporting it. Why so few? Common Sense tells you its because Blackstone and Black Rock have so much money in so many different spaces, they can buy them in numerous different ways. PACS, Super PACS, direct contributions from employees, etc. This is a way to see how utterly corrupt so many Democrats in the House are. We already know all the Republicans are. Who is lying to you and who doesn’t really want Affordable Housing for Americans? Anyone who isn’t cosponsoring this Bill. It’s simple.

There are real solutions to our problems. But this Congress is in bed with Wall Street - AND NOT TRYING TO HELP WORKING AMERICANS. Quit voting for people who vote against your best interests.

We have the opportunity to Create An America That Works For Everyone with the internet and AI (if it is used properly and in the hands of moral people) and not in the hands of the Tech Bro Billionaires only. If it remains in their hands, this world could very easily become a dystopian version of the Hunger Games and the only way to get our freedoms back would be a violent bloody war. Let’s do everything we can NOW to stop that from happening.

One of the most important things we could do would be

to get this bill passed.

It would only take three phone calls and three emails from you to get that to happen - if everyone would share it and make those calls and send those messages. Please commit to do your part! Then please send it to five other people. Text the link to this Article or email it or post it on Facebook, or Instagram, LinkedIn, X, BlueSky, where ever you have accounts.

Here is a link to find out who your House Rep is and their contact information: How to Find and Contact Your House Representative

Here is a link to find the contact information for both of your Senators: How to Find and Contact Your Senators

If everyone reading this would share it with FIVE FRIENDS AND/OR FAMILY MEMBERS we could reach 100 MILLION PEOPLE in a week.

IF YOU WOULD JUST SHARE IT

PLEASE DO YOUR PART

If your Rep is not on the list of Co-sponsors, will you please call them, email them, harass them, embarrass them, offer to max out on donations to them if you have the money, to get them to sponsor it? And then never vote for them again, if the last was what it took to get them to do it.

The ONLY reason someone would NOT want to pass this bill is because they are being paid by the large insurance companies to NOT pass the bill so the insurance companies can keep stealing from all of us.

We have the opportunity to Create An America That Works For Everyone with the internet and AI (if it is used properly and in the hands of moral people) and not in the hands of the Tech Bro Billionaires only. If it remains in their hands, this world could very easily become a dystopian version of the Hunger Games and the only way to get our freedoms back would be a violent bloody war. Let’s do everything we can NOW to stop that from happening.

One of the most important things we could do would be

to get this bill passed.

It would only take three phone calls and three emails from you to get that to happen if everyone would share it and do it also. Please commit to do your part! And then please send it to five other people. Text the link to this Article or email it or post it on Facebook, or Instagram, LinkedIn, X, BlueSky, where ever you have accounts.

If everyone reading this would share it with FIVE FRIENDS AND/OR FAMILY MEMBERS we could reach 100 MILLION PEOPLE in a week.

IF YOU WOULD JUST SHARE IT.

PLEASE DO YOUR PART

In case you hadn’t heard, one of our smallest states, just found the legal lever that could pry corporate money out of American politics. Here’s why it matters — and why it terrifies the people who have bought our democracy.

This is something the mainstream press has buried under its usual both-sides mush: Hawaii just handed the American people a loaded weapon against Citizens United, and almost nobody noticed.

On May 15, 2026, Governor Josh Green signed SB 2471 into law. It doesn’t repeal Citizens United — no state can do that. But it does something arguably more elegant: It uses the one power the Supreme Court forgot to strip away from the states. The power to define what a corporation is.

Here’s the logic, and it’s airtight.

Corporations are not people. They don’t spring into existence from a mother’s womb or some divine act of creation. They are legal fictions — creatures of state law, brought into existence by state charters, given their powers by state legislatures. Thomas Jefferson said people’s rights are self-evident, endowed by their creator, preceding government. Corporations? Created by government. Every single one of them. That’s not a political opinion. That’s a legal fact going back to Chief Justice John Marshall’s 1819 ruling in Dartmouth v. Woodward.

Hawaii’s new law simply states that corporations doing business there do not have the power to engage in local, state, or federal political campaigns — that electoral spending was never among the powers enumerated in the state’s corporate charter. Violators face a range of penalties up to losing the right to do business in the state entirely. (See: Prospect)

The idea originated with Tom Moore, a former Federal Election Commission counsel now at the Center for American Progress. In a paper CAP published last September, Moore argued that the states’ underlying authority to define and limit corporate powers never disappeared — it simply went quiet: unused, untested, and unmentioned. Moore found support in an 1869 Supreme Court ruling that requires corporations to comply with the charter laws of every state where they do business. That means a Delaware-incorporated company has to follow Hawaii’s rules if it wants to sell a single product in Honolulu.

Think about that. California. New York. If they pass similar laws, we’re not talking about a Pacific island novelty act. We’re talking about a choke point that covers the majority of the American consumer economy.

The bill cleared the Hawaii Senate 25-to-0, and the lower house 41-to-9. Bipartisan. Unanimous in the Senate. Because it turns out that ordinary people — Democrats, Republicans, independents — all understand at a gut level that corporations buying elections is a form of corruption. Polling shows roughly 75 percent of Americans would like Citizens United reversed. That’s not a constituency. That’s a supermajority. The problem has always been that the people who benefit from the current arrangement own the institutions capable of changing it.

Hawaii found a door the oligarchs forgot to lock.

The Supreme Court can invent corporate personhood out of thin air — which it did, essentially without explanation, in the 1886 Santa Clara County railroad case — but it cannot erase 200 years of state corporation law. It cannot pretend that states don’t create corporations. It cannot pretend that Alito himself didn’t write in Hobby Lobby that the objectives corporations may pursue “are governed by the laws of the States in which they were incorporated.”

They unknowingly hoisted their own noose!

Since Moore’s paper appeared, CAP has seen bills like Hawaii’s introduced in 14 states, while Montanans — who had a heroic history of forbidding corporate campaign spending for a full century until Citizens United wiped out their law — are working to place a similar initiative on their 2026 ballot. (See: Prospect)

Now let me be clear about what this law doesn’t do. It doesn’t touch individuals. Elon Musk and his ilk, not being creations of state governments, can continue to spend freely on elections. Stopping that would require a high-court reversal of Buckley v. Valeo. That fight is still in front of us. And the current Supreme Court will look for every wriggle room available to protect corporate power — that’s what they do.

But here’s why it still matters: Momentum. Law. Precedent. The states asserting sovereignty over the creatures they created. Every additional state that passes a version of this law adds to the legal record that courts eventually have to reckon with. And politically, every vote like Hawaii’s 25-to-0 Senate vote puts on record who is willing to stand between ordinary Americans and the corporations that are buying their government.

I talk a lot about the housing crisis, the healthcare crisis, the wage crisis. The thread connecting all of them is the same: Industries, monopolies that benefit from keeping things broken have purchased enough political power to keep them broken. Citizens United is the mechanism. Corporate personhood is the theology. Hawaii just hammered a really big nail into the coffin of Citizens United.

The question is whether the rest of the country has the stomach to follow.

I think they do. I think people are a lot angrier than the donors want to admit, and a lot smarter than the consultants give them credit for. A state that usually makes news for its beaches just wrote the most important campaign finance legislation in a generation. That’s not nothing.

That’s a start.

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Within the span of one week, China hosted the President of the United States and the President of Russia. Back to back. Same host. Same room.

I’m not going to tell you I know what was said behind closed doors. I don’t. But I’ll tell you what I can see in broad daylight, because the public record is loud enough on its own.

The Quiet Withdrawal

On May 1, the Pentagon announced the withdrawal of 5,000 American troops from Germany.

On May 14 — the same day Trump sat down with Xi — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo cancelling the scheduled deployment of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team to Poland, the Baltics, and Romania. Some of those soldiers were already in Europe. They’re being sent home.

A battalion that specializes in long-range rockets and missiles, scheduled for Germany, was cancelled too. The command that oversees those capabilities is being pulled off the continent entirely.

Last fall, the United States quietly withdrew a rotating brigade from Romania and announced it wouldn’t be replaced. The Pentagon called it “a positive sign of increased European capability.” That’s the language you use when you’re walking away and need a sentence that sounds like you aren’t.

Congress Wasn’t Told…

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she wasn’t notified about the Poland cancellation.

The 2026 defense authorization bill requires the Pentagon to give Congress notice and certifications before drawing US troop levels in Europe below 76,000. There are open legal questions about whether this administration is following that law.

Nobody in the majority seems interested in asking them.

Meanwhile…

Ukraine’s air defenses are running on fumes. Tariffs are eating into every American household budget. The Chancellor of Germany is being publicly attacked by the President of the United States on social media. The NATO Secretary General is in Bucharest telling allies not to worry — which is exactly what people say when there is something to worry about.

The War in Iran, the war in Ukraine, Israel’s war with Iran earlier this year, their war in Gaza and Lebanon, all of this has depleted our capacity to wage war and defend ourselves significantly, due to the amount of missiles that have been used.

• The 2025 Israel–Iran war alone likely consumed billions of dollars in interceptors and strike missiles in less than two weeks.

• Estimates from defense analysts and reporting suggest the U.S. fired:

  • 100–150 THAAD interceptors

  • hundreds of Patriot interceptors

  • dozens of SM-3 naval interceptors

  • large numbers of Tomahawks and other precision munitions.

The cost is staggering because these are not cheap weapons:

• THAAD interceptor: roughly $12–15 million each

• Patriot PAC-3: roughly $4–6 million each

• SM-3: often $10–30+ million each depending on variant

• Tomahawk: about $2 million each.

Just the THAAD missiles used defending Israel against Iranian ballistic missile attacks may have cost around $1–2 billion by themselves.

The bigger issue, though, is not just money — it’s production capacity.

Several reports and analyses say:

• The U.S. used roughly a quarter of its THAAD interceptor inventory during the 12-day Iran war.

• Some analysts believe Patriot and THAAD inventories fell to levels that worried Pentagon planners.

• Replacement production takes years, not weeks.

And in Beijing this week, the two men who benefit most from American retreat are sitting across a table from each other, less than a week after the American president left the room.

Call It What It Is

Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states that: “The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

The evidence is right in front of us and it supports: a deliberate, accelerating dismantling of the alliance structure that has kept this country safe and prosperous since 1949, conducted by an administration that is clearly more aligned with the interests of Moscow and Beijing than with the interests of the people who elected it.

You can argue about motive. You cannot argue about conduct. The conduct is on the record.

This Is Not Normal

Reasonable people disagree about basing levels, about burden-sharing, about the shape of the alliance. That debate has been going on since Eisenhower.

This is something else.

This is the systematic removal of American power from the places where it deters Russian aggression, conducted in the same week the American president met the Chinese president, conducted days before the Russian president arrives in the same capital, conducted without notice to Congress, conducted in apparent violation of statute.

If a Democratic administration had done a tenth of this, the impeachment resolutions would already be filed.

So why haven’t they been filed? Because almost every member of the Republican Party in Congress and many of the Democrats are, by their actions and voting records, part of this attempt to overthrow our government and destroy the Constitution because they do everything this President asks of them.

That is what the Constitution is for. Impeachment is the remedy the Founders wrote into Article II for exactly this kind of moment.

Members of Congress took an oath. They can honor it or they can explain to their grandchildren why they didn’t.

What the Rest of Us Do

For those of us who don’t sit in Congress, who don’t run the Pentagon, who don’t get a vote on troop deployments — there is still something you can do.

Over the past weeks, we have all seen what people showing up to County Commissioner’s meetings and putting unrelenting pressure on Governors that are clearly aligned with the Administration’s attempts to build Data Centers and ICE Concentration Camps. And I mean frightening pressure that has caused the elected leaders to get the message and cancel Data Centers in Utah and other places. But they still keep coming.

Data centers in Utah, Florida, Maine, Georgia have been cancelled. In Missouri the citizens became so angry the voters said “Like fuck you will” and ousted every single member of their city council who voted to approve the project, forcing an immediate collapse of the deal to develop the Data Center. However, 21 new data centers all over Utah are trying to get approved. These people do not care about the environment or if there is enough water or power. They just want the money and the local people can go without.

All of this is being done on a local level.

Why all the Data Centers and Concentration Camps are being built, really…

I grew up in a small town in Utah during the cold war. In the first three years of school, I had older women for teachers. They all had white hair and had taught for decades. I was the little boy who always finished my assignments before everyone else and was looking out the window while the others were still working. But because those teachers had taught for so many years, they knew what to do with someone like me. They used me to tutor other kids in the class who for whatever reason had more difficulty understanding the assignments. And I liked doing. It kept me engaged and I felt like I was being helpful — a friend to my classmates. And the other students appreciated the help.

I also remember seeing movies of atomic bombs going off at the test sites during that time. Our government for some reason wanted us to see the movies so we would understand how powerful those bombs were and how they could destroy everything around them immediately. And we were just kids in kindergarten, first and second grade, yet they were showing us these movies.

Because we lived so close to an Army Depot, which was the largest employer in town, we had so-called “safety drills” at school. We had to hide under our desks in case there was a nuclear attack. On other days the whole school would go out onto the playground and the principal would blow a whistle and we all had to run home as fast as we could and our mothers would time us to see how quickly we could get there.

I remember as if it were yesterday, hiding under my desk during one of those drills, thinking about the movie where everything — the cars, the houses, the stick people standing in the yards, where all destroyed and blown away in an instant — and asking myself, “Why are we doing this? The Army Depot is just down the street and if a bomb that powerful hit our town, we’d all die anyway.”

I didn’t understand it then. I do today.

Fear… was what our government was trying to create in our minds. When people are afraid, they don’t think clearly. And they are using the same tactic today. But this time, it’s China.

If you had to guess, what do you think the data centers and concentration camps are really being built to do? Understanding that at the same time, Elon Musk is trying to do an IPO for SpaceX at a valuation circa 150 times SALES, ($1.75 trillion - which is obscenely overpriced) so he can fill our skies with low altitude satellites that will be able to see and hear everything we do. Never in history has a government had this type of power to surveil and control others.

I hope the IPO is a complete and total failure — but it probably won’t be because the governments of China, the Saudis, of Russia, and all of the billionaires are going to buy it because they are the ones who want the surveillance and the power it will give to each of them including and especially this Administration — so together they can control the rest of us and the world.

We need to work LOCALLY but together — to stop these people NOW. We need to scare our local and national representatives in Washington so badly that there is no doubt in their minds about what we want, and what we are going to do if they do not do what is in the best interests of America and its citizens — AND NOT FOR THE BENEFIT OF A HANDFUL OF BILLIONAIRES WHO ARE FUNDING THIS TREASONOUS ADMINISTRATION AND THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS WHO ARE TRYING TO OVERTHROW OUR GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION.

• Call your senators. Call your representatives. Not once. Every week. By name. About this.

• Show up at town halls. In person. With questions.

• Write to your local paper. Letters to the editor still get read.

• Talk to your neighbors who voted for this and tell them what their vote is buying.

• Don’t let anyone in your life pretend this is ordinary.

The Bet They’re Making

The men who are reshaping the world right now are counting on Americans being too tired, too distracted, and too divided to notice what’s being done in our name.

They are counting on us being too complacent. Too angry at one another. Too separated by stupid, emotionally charged issues, like boys playing in girls sports. Too busy arguing with one another on Social Media sites.

Stop falling for their foolishness and the ways they attempt to divide us.

They have been right about that before.

THESE MEN NEED TO BE STOPPED AND NOW.

THINK ABOUT WAYS TO DO THAT. YOU MAY BE THE ONE TO COME UP WITH THE SOLUTION — THEN ACT!

If you agree with what I have said here, please restack this and share it directly with others, because the algorithms and AI aren’t going to let anyone see it without your help and we need to stop this IPO and everything else they are doing or it really could be too late. And if you have a managed 401K, I would call the manager and forbid them to buy this IPO because I believe it is going to fall out of the sky after they raise the money because of the ridiculously high price they are trying to get to raise the money.

When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in early March, twenty percent of global oil supply went offline overnight. The International Energy Agency called it the largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market. The long-term losers of that moment are not Iran. The long-term losers are every oil-producing nation on Earth, because the world looked at its oil dependence in a mirror and decided it was done.

Chinese exports of solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicles all hit record highs in March 2026. Solar, battery, and EV exports combined were up roughly 70% year-over-year. Pakistan, which spent the last few years quietly importing cheap Chinese solar, is saving billions while its neighbors panic at the pump. China is now the renewables superpower of the planet — operating three times the wind and solar capacity of the United States and India combined.

America still holds a short-term advantage because of our domestic oil and gas production. But “short-term advantage” is exactly the trap. If we use this moment to double down on drilling instead of racing to solarize the country, we will hand the next century to Beijing while we kill the oceans and cook the climate paying for the privilege.

Solar is the only sane answer. Not because it’s morally pure. Because it is the only energy source that does not require us to keep extracting things from a planet that is screaming at us to stop.

Our Real Neighbors - Mexico and Canada

The Colorado River does not recognize borders. Neither does air, drought, pandemics, wildfires, or toxic dust storms filled with compounds that kill people in dried up lake beds.

The only intelligent response to a continental crisis is continental cooperation. We need to be working hand-in-glove with Canada and Mexico — and with Central and South America — on water management, energy infrastructure, food production, and migration. Mexico and Canada are not threats to be walled off. They are the partners we should be working the closest with to insure our collective survival.

And yet our current administration is doing the exact opposite. They are deporting the very people whose labor feeds us, constructs our homes, highways and high-rises, as Trump and his billionaire friends are building cages for our actual neighbors (and anyone else who opposes them) picking trade fights with the countries we share rivers with, and treating Mexico like an enemy state while Beijing builds solar farms across three continents. This is not strength. This is a strategic catastrophe authored by men who confuse cruelty with toughness.

The current direction of American foreign policy — tariffs against Canada, mass deportations of Mexicans and Central Americans, contempt for the global cooperation we need to survive the climate emergency — is being driven by a small group of extraordinarily rich men who have decided that the rest of us exist to make their portfolios grow. Musk, Thiel, Schwarzman, Fink, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. and the political class they have purchased are not building the future. They are looting the present so they can rule whatever’s left.

I do not accept that future. I do not believe most Americans accept that future. We have simply been told there is no alternative. Together we can change everything and actually create an America and World that Works for Everyone.

As Americans, we are watching a form of collective insanity unfold in real time.

In the middle of the most significant drought in the recorded history of the American West, when Climate Change is affecting food production and the health of our oceans on a world-wide basis, the “Tech Bro Billionaires” with the help of the Trump Administration are racing to build data centers that will consume more electricity and water than the states that host them. In Box Elder County, Utah, Kevin O’Leary’s “Stratos Project” — a single 40,000-acre hyperscale campus — has been approved to draw up to 9 gigawatts of power at full buildout. The entire state of Utah currently uses about 4. That is not a typo. One data center for one industry will burn more than twice the electricity of every home, hospital, school, and factory in the state combined, and it will swallow an estimated 16.6 billion gallons of water a year while the Great Salt Lake disappears in front of us.

This is not innovation. This is moral bankruptcy dressed up as patriotism. And almost no one in a position of national or local leadership is willing to say so.

That silence is why I have seriously been considering running for the Presidency. Not because I want the job. I do not understand how anyone would want the job — but because there are real solutions to our problems, and this is the conversation we should be having, but no one on a national level is having it. The other reasons I am entertaining the idea is that I DO NOT trust other people’s morality — especially people who have been politicians for years. I do not trust their ability to think about things clearly on a larger scale — nor do I see people who are actually capable of getting things done — Gavin Newsome has spent $14 billion and still has not laid a single mile of track. But that is not what I want to discuss here.

1. The Energy-Water Paradox

The GREED for POWER — electrical, political, monetary — is winning.

These data centers require millions of gallons of water daily for cooling. I know about cooling towers because I have built ethanol plants that produce hundreds of millions of gallons of ethanol that have massive cooling towers that use large amounts of water. And the water they want to use now for the data centers comes from the same basins that feed our drying lakes and our dying crops. We are, quite literally, trading our future ability to grow food for the present ability of a machine to autocomplete a sentence. 40 million people rely on the Colorado River for drinking water — and if it does NOT snow extremely hard this winter, they might run out as early as next year. DO YOU HEAR THAT?

The math has never added up. Yet our national and local politicians are still signing the contracts and cutting the deals behind closed doors thinking that WE collectively are not going to do anything about it, when I think it is getting to the point that some of these politicians are going to start disappearing or ending up dead. They are, as individuals and for their own personal gain, making decisions about the quality of the air and water of entire regions where tens of millions of other people and their children live. Decisions that could affect the very survival of millions of others.

Just this past week in Lake Tahoe on the California side, NV Energy, the company owned by Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett which has had a monopoly on power in Nevada for years, informed the nearly 49,000 residents living in the community of Lake Tahoe that they will need to find a new supplier for their electricity by this time next year (May 2027) because NV Energy will no longer be able (willing) to supply it. Not for the residents, or for the town’s businesses, including the ski resorts. The power they have historically used is going to be sold to the new data centers being built in Sparks, NV to the east of Lake Tahoe, near Musk’s giga factory where batteries are built. This is NOT a game, and I do not believe the people living in such places are going to sit idly by and let them do such things.

2. Pantry, Or Processor

The private markets in the U.S. are optimized and focused on short-term quarterly, monetary profit. The climate and nature are not. If we want to survive what is already in motion, we have to shift the way we think as a society and country from EXTRACTION to STEWARDSHIP. From COMPETITION TO COOPORATION. Nature can get along just fine without US. We on the other hand cannot survive without Nature. There is NOTHING more important than keeping our air and water as clean as we possibly can.

The need to treat food production as a national utility/priority is real. We should be diverting the energy subsidies that have recently been handed to Big Tech behind closed doors to build data centers which consume gargantuan amounts of energy and water toward Controlled Environment Agriculture — high-tech greenhouses that produce more food using up to 95% less water than open-field irrigation as is done in Almeria, Spain, but with better more durable materials than sheet plastic — and stop producing things like alfalfa, rice, cotton, and other grasses used to feed cattle in the middle of the desert — which consume massive amounts of water at a time when we have done so much damage to the environment that we are running out of water.

Mobilize like we mean it. We should be looking at things like building vertical farms near our cities now, and/or in the Imperial Valley, so that when the Imperial Valley turns to dust — and it will if we keep using the water that we still have in such foolish and insane ways — American families can still eat.

Our clean water programs should be as much a part of our energy policy as clean energy should be, yet we have a President who thinks Climate Change is a hoax and has done away with our clean air, water, and energy policies so that oil producing countries can pay him and his family members money. It is an obscene grift taking place in front of the eyes of the world, when we should be doing what China is — converting our entire energy sources to clean solar, wind, and geothermal as a NATIONAL PRIORITY because it is.

3. Our Real Neighbors

The Colorado River does not recognize borders. Neither does air. Neither does drought. Neither does the next pandemic, the next wildfire, the next dust bowl.

The only intelligent response to a continental crisis is continental cooperation. We should be working hand-in-glove with Canada and Mexico — with Central and South America — on water management, energy infrastructure, food production, and migration. Mexico and Canada are not threats to be walled off. AND I AM FOR SECURE BORDERS, not OPEN uncontrolled highways as was the Biden Administration. Mexico and Canada are our neighbors, our friends — our most vital partners that we need for our very survival.

We have two of the most intelligent, compassionate, forward thinking leaders in Mexico and Canada in Claudia Sheinbaum and Mark Carney that may be the best leaders either country has ever had — people we should be talking and planning with for a far brighter, collective future — friends we could learn from and build with — yet our current administration is treating them like trash, while he is meeting with and praising two of the most vile despots in the world — Putin and Xi, because he wants to be just like them — a little American despot, a foolish tyrant who rules over America along with his demented billionaire supporters after they have destroyed democracy and the values this country was built upon. In his insanity, he is deporting the very people whose labor feeds us, who build and clean our homes, construct our highways and high-rises, package every piece of meat and poultry we consume, manicure and care for our yards, cook the food in our restaurants and care for our hotels — work that most Americans do not want to perform.

This Administration has built his own private police force with ICE and is building cages for our actual neighbors, picking trade fights with the countries we share rivers with, and treating Mexico like an enemy state while Beijing is building solar farms across three continents. This is not strength. This is a strategic catastrophe authored by a small group of small minded men who confuse cruelty with toughness and who are deeply flawed as human beings. Men who think it’s okay to kill people with darker skin and steal their land to push insane and cruel ideas like “Manifest Destiny” and “Building Condos for World People.”

The current direction of American foreign policy — tariffs against Canada, mass deportations of Mexicans and Central Americans, contempt for the global cooperation we need to survive the climate emergency — is being driven by a small group of extraordinarily rich men who have decided that the rest of us exist only to make their portfolios grow. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Steve Schwarzman, Larry Fink, Larry Ellison, Jamie Dimon, etc. and the political class they have purchased are not building the future. They are looting the present so they can rule whatever’s left in their twisted, maniacal, dystopian view of the future. And be very clear that is exactly what they are attempting to do.

I do not accept that future, nor do I believe most Americans. We are simply being told there is no alternative.

4. Radical Neighbors, At Home Too

There is an alternative, and it is already visible if you look for it.

Look at what Zohran Mamdani is building in New York City — a politics organized around whether ordinary people can afford groceries and rent, not around whether a handful of billionaires get another tax cut. You don’t have to agree with every policy to recognize what’s actually happening: A politician is asking the question almost no one in Washington is willing to ask anymore — what would it take for working people to live decent lives? That is the question. Everything else is noise.

“Taking care of one another” Loving one another” gets dismissed as soft sentiment. In 2026, it is a hard necessity. Every megawatt and every acre-foot is now a decision about what kind of country we want to be in ten years from now. Every immigration policy is a decision about whether we face the future with allies or with enemies of our own making. Every energy contract is a vote between cooperation or collapse.

If we do not learn to work together — with our literal neighbors across the southern and northern borders, with our metaphorical neighbors across the political aisle, with our actual neighbors on the same block — the decision gets made for us by Dead Pool at Lake Mead and Lake Powell. By empty grocery shelves. By dead reefs and dead rivers and a sky that finally stops forgiving us.

What This Comes Down To

We can have a living, vibrant planet, that supports us and other forms of biological life, or we can have humming data centers and die along with them. We can have neighbors, or enemies. We can have solar farms across the desert, or we can have empty oil derricks and a dead ocean.

We cannot have both.

I would rather be the generation that chose the living planet. I would rather be the country that chose its neighbors. I would rather lose the next election fighting for that future, than win it pretending the current path leads anywhere but a cliff.

The question is whether enough of us are willing to say it out loud, at the same time, before the choice is made for us.

If this struck a nerve, share it. Forward it to someone in your local water district, your local papers and TV stations. Send it to your representatives with one question: “Does this project help us eat in ten years, or does it simply help a stock price and your own net worth today?”

— Barry

To make it simple and understandable for everyone — economies are people doing people things. The things that people do to provide food, shelter, transportation and other needed and wanted services for themselves and their neighbors. They are living, breathing things, because they are made up of living, breathing people and they can be healthy and alive, or sick and ailing. If economies are to be healthy, each of its components need to be healthy.

There are also basically two ways to run an economy.

In one, a community produces wealth and keeps it within the community. The farmer grows the food and sells it to his neighbors and to the local grocer. The grocer banks at the local credit union. The hospital buys its linens from a laundry/company that also provides, makes, or sells linens three miles away. The construction crew lives in the houses it builds. The factory is owned, in whole or in part, by the people who work in it, so when it has a good year, they have a good year. Money circulates. It hits the same hands two, three, four, five times before it leaves town — and then usually only to go on a vacation. That circulation is what an economy actually is.

In the other, wealth is produced locally and shipped out. A hedge fund in Manhattan buys six hundred thousand single-family homes in Phoenix, Charlotte, Atlanta, Las Vegas — houses that used to be how working families built net worth — and converts them into rental income that flows back to limited partners in New York, Miami, London, and the Gulf.

Private equity buys the nursing home, the veterinary clinic, the trailer park, the newspaper, the hospital, the strip mall. It takes out huge amounts of debt to do it. It then fires as many workers as possible to cut costs to show an increased bottom line, reduces services, then pays themselves huge amounts in salary and bonuses, as well as unreasonable amounts in rents after they split the land the business sits on from the business itself, placing the land into an LLC that the executives/general partners own. They then charge the hospital ungodly rents that go directly into the executives’ pockets on top of their salary and bonuses, but it’s hidden from the less sophisticated who do not understand they are dealing with a bunch of common thieves. In other words, they steal the company blind, they rape it, until there is nothing left to steal and then walk away, leaving the community to deal with the consequences.

The casinos on the Las Vegas Strip are owned by a real-estate trust headquartered two thousand miles away, and the rent the casino pays to operate on its own floor goes to that trust, not to anyone in Nevada. The locals get the jobs. The capital goes into the pockets of someone else far away.

That second model is what most of America live inside of now. Blackstone is the largest commercial landlord (which includes residential ownership because homes are now considered “commerical assets”) in the United States. It also owns the land under the Cosmopolitan and the Bellagio and the buildings themselves. VICI Properties owns the land under Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, the Venetian, Mandalay Bay, and most of the rest of the Strip — and the buildings where a great deal of Las Vegas’s economy actually happens — and the Private Equity funds collect rent on every square foot. The dealers, housekeepers, cooks, and valets who make the city run see almost none of that rent. It leaves. It goes to shareholders who will never set foot in Clark County and don’t care whether the schools work or the water runs out.

Call it what it is: An Extraction Economy. The town is the mine. The people are the worker bees. The wealth is the ore. And the shareholders are out of state. This is an economic model that always leads to one place only — DISASTER.

It does not have to be this way, and the evidence that it doesn’t is not theoretical. It is sitting in plain sight in places that decided, deliberately, to do something else.

Look at Catalonia. The region around Barcelona is the wealthiest part of Spain, and it has been wealthier than the Spanish average for more than a century, despite — and partly because of — a dense network of cooperatives, mutual societies, and family-owned firms that keep ownership local. Mondragón, in the Basque Country to the north, is the most famous example: a federation of worker-owned cooperatives employing roughly 70,000 people, where workers own the firm, elect the board, and share in the profits. When Mondragón does well, Mondragón’s workers do well, and the towns Mondragón sits in do well. The wealth doesn’t leave because there is nowhere else for it to go. The owners are already home. And as such, the owners have the “pride of ownership” and take care of everything. If there is a problem, they fix it immediately because its theirs, not someone else’s in a far away land. The business is maintained and operated properly by its owners which are made up of every employee there.

Look at Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, where a third of regional GDP runs through cooperatives and the region has spent decades among the most prosperous in Europe. Look at the Mittelstand in Germany — privately held, often family-owned mid-sized manufacturers rooted in specific towns, paying skilled wages, training apprentices, and reinvesting locally — which is the actual engine of German industrial strength.

These are not folk experiments. They are the most successful regional economies in Europe, and they share a common feature: Ownership stays close to the work.

Scotland just took the boldest step yet to make this the law of the land. And my maternal grandmother was a Stewart from Scotland, whose great aunt was a woman named Mary — Queen of Scots.

In February 2026, the Scottish Parliament passed the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act — the first national legislation of its kind anywhere in the world. It places a legal duty on every local authority and a wide range of public bodies to plan and act around five pillars: how public money is spent, how workers are treated and paid, how land and property are used, how ownership is structured, and where finance flows. The aim, in the government’s own words, is the “generation, circulation and retention of wealth in local and regional economies.” Scottish Communities — run by Scottish ministers, who must now publish a national statement and progress reports. Councils must produce action plans. Public procurement must look first to local small businesses, social enterprises, and cooperatives. Land and property must be evaluated for community benefit, not just market price. Worker ownership and cooperative ownership are explicitly favored.

The bill grew out of a real experiment. Preston, in northern England, was a struggling post-industrial town when its council decided around 2013 to redirect its anchor institutions — the hospitals, the universities, the police, the housing associations — to buy locally wherever possible. Within a few years, tens of millions of pounds that had been leaving the local economy every year were instead circulating inside it. Preston went from one of the most deprived areas in the country to one of the most improved. Scotland watched, piloted the model in five council areas, and is now hard-wiring it into national law.

The Scottish stakes are not abstract. By the government’s own measure, the top 10 percent of Scottish households hold roughly 200 times the wealth of the bottom 10 percent. A quarter of Scots have less than a few hundred pounds in savings. The Scots looked at that and concluded that the economic model itself was the problem — that an economy designed to extract will keep extracting until there is nothing left to take — and that a different model had to be written into law before the extraction was complete.

Now Look At America

The American single-family rental market is dominated by a handful of institutional landlords, a cartel led by Blackstone, who own hundreds of thousands (I believe it’s millions and they are lying) of homes between them. In some Sun Belt zip codes, corporate buyers were responsible for a majority of all home purchases at the peak. Every house they buy is a house a family cannot. Every rent check they collect is wealth that used to compound on a household balance sheet that now compounds on a hedge fund’s instead. And for context, during the first two years after the housing crash when Obama refused to bailout Main Street and instead bailout Wall Street, circa 9 million homes were taken from working Americans and handed over to Wall Street for pennies on the dollar and the taxpayers covered those losses. If you value the homes at an average of $250,000, that was a wealth transfer of $2.25 TRILLION from American families to Wall Street. F*ck Obama is my sentiment about that.

The first rung of the ladder by which working Americans have built wealth since this country was founded has been sawn off and sold for parts.

In Las Vegas, the same dynamic plays out in commercial real estate. The casinos generate enormous revenue. The rent on the buildings they sit in flows to landlords in New York. The water bill — in a city running out of water — stays here. The wage bill stays here. The profit does not.

Multiply this by every city in every state in the country. Private equity now owns a meaningful share of American hospitals, nursing homes, veterinary clinics, dental practices, daycares, and local newspapers. Each acquisition follows the same pattern: cut staff, raise prices, load the acquired company with debt that is used to pay more to the General Partners. Split the land from the business, now charge the business huge rents that go into the managing partners’ pockets directly, then pay yourself huge dividends and bonuses on top of the rents, and when the businesses go bankrupt, move on. The local community keeps the consequences. The fund keeps the money.

The problem is when the business is a HOSPITAL with a quick care clinic and an emergency room, the entire community suffers and is left without a hospital and the vital services it provides. And the men who did it, should be in jail, but in this twisted society we live in, they are looked up to because they have a forty-million-dollar yacht and a home in Aspen because much of America has been fed Wall Street lies for so long, they actually believe them.

This is not capitalism in any sense Adam Smith would have recognized. Smith assumed the merchant lived in the town. He assumed the owner saw the workers’ children at church. The whole moral architecture of his economics rested on proximity. Strip out proximity and you do not get a freer market. You get a more efficient extraction tool.

So what would a wealth-creation economy actually look like in an American city — say, the one I happen to live in Las Vegas?

Do What Scotland Just Did!

Let’s start with housing. The first thing I would suggest is anytime you hear a person say “Work Force Housing” — look at them with a great deal of distain, and say “Fuck you, you arrogant fuck” and then stomp on the arch of their foot really hard with the heal of your shoe and hopefully you break at least one bone. I’m kidding. That would be assault, but you get the point I am trying to make. The mere utterance of such a statement is, by itself, an attempt to create “classes” of people — to separate and divide people as if the “Work Force” is less valuable than the so called “Ruling Class” who own the casinos and the land they sit on and who allow the CEOs running the casinos to pay themselves 400 times what they pay their employees, because the CEOs are borrowing billions from the funds to buy back their own stock. Doing this has made the entire stock market one big, manipulated Ponzi scheme. The casinos would operate much more effectively if every employee had ownership in the business and had a say in how they were run.

The next thing any city or state could and should do in such a situation is pass a City or State Ordinance that places a massive tax on any company that owns more than 50 homes in the City. An extra $5,000 on every $100,000 of value would be a place to start. Then give them a certain amount of time to sell off every home they own above 50 (no more than five years). And they cannot purchase another one, or every home they own is taxed another $5,000 on every $100,000 of value. I could guarantee that suddenly there would be lots of affordable homes in Las Vegas that working people could afford.

Extremely strong rent controls should also be instituted so working people who do rent can enjoy their lives. Happy people are far more productive than people who are constantly worried about paying the rent and having the price of everything go up, except their salaries.

Ownership of Housing. The wealth of most Americans has come from equity in the homes they have owned over time. Now that wealth is going to a small group of Private Equity Funds and Reits. This weakens our communities and the local economies.

Besides doing what was suggested above, a community should pass laws and ordinances to encourage the use of local banks and credit unions. And encourage those same institutions to provide mortgages for local housing to create low-cost mortgages, by having cities, counties and states underwrite housing bonds to provide such mortgages, which would keep things affordable and the wealth within the local communities, counties and states rather than sending it to Wall Street. The wealth of the community would then stay within the community. This would make our communities, states, and country much stronger. Each of the parts making up the economy would be stronger and healthier making the whole healthier.

Distressed commercial buildings — the half-empty office towers nobody knows what to do with — get converted to affordable apartments, owned by entities structured to keep them affordable, with residents who can buy in overtime and build equity rather than just pay rent forever. (Understanding that very few commercial buildings can be converted into residential housing economically. They are simply not laid out right to allow for the necessary plumbing, etc. to be built out as it needs to be for an economical price and sometimes not structurally). The mortgage payments (or rents in some situations) would stay in the community and state by doing what was described earlier with mortgages. This way the money doesn’t flow to a New York Hedge Fund who is trying to suck as much money as they possibly can from the tenants.

Procurement. The hospital, the school district, the university, the city government, the convention authority — between them they spend billions a year. Right now, most of it leaves. Direct even half of it toward local suppliers, local contractors, local food producers, local cooperatives, and you have transformed the local economy without raising a single tax.

Stop the Extraction of Billions in Student Loans. Over the years, Wall Street has bribed state regents to raise tuitions by tens of thousands of dollars making getting an education extremely expensive. The result has been that young people have been forced to borrow tens of thousands of dollars to attend school. I wrote bill to fix solve that which can be read here. slfla.org. It would give employer’s tax credits if they pay off the students’ loans. And just for fun, guess who is the largest owner of student housing in the country, and who has quadrupled those rents to encourage more borrowing? Bingo! BLACKSTONE. Just like they are the largest owners of data centers in the world.

Business Ownership. Don’t allow monopolies to be created or exist. Make it cheaper and easier for retiring small-business owners (or large business owners) — and there are millions of baby-boomer owners about to retire with no succession plan — to sell to their employees through ESOPs (Employee Stock Ownership Plans) and worker cooperatives instead of to private equity roll-ups or other billionaires. The federal tax code already gives ESOPs significant advantages. State and local policy can do far more. When the owner of the local HVAC company retires, the question of who buys it is the question of where the next twenty years of that company’s profits will go or if the business will just go away. Cities and counties should write ordinances that encourage and help small businesses find others in the community to buy such businesses (including funding for employee ownership) that will keep the business operating and ownership within the community when such things happen. When the City or County puts bids out for whatever type of work that needs to be done, the first rights to bid on such things should be given to local people and businesses wherever possible and not to large national funds or companies until local options have been given the opportunity to participate.

In Las Vegas, Private Equity and other such funds not only own all of the land on the Strip and charge outrageously high rents, which is why everything costs so much on the Strip — but it is the exorbitantly high rents that force the casino managers to charge such high prices for everything, which is why no one wants to come to Vegas anymore. But the Blackstone buying cartel also own almost every home that isn’t owned by the people living in it. Such funds own almost every strip mall and every other business in the City. They own the HVAC businesses, the hospitals, the veterinary clinics, the restaurants, the fast-food places and on and on, and if they don’t own a small business, they drive tens of thousands of them out of business by charging such high amounts of rents for the spaces needed to operate such a business on the strip malls they own. The high rents also make it next to impossible for a small business to get started and off its feet. The high rents suck all of the profits the company makes out of the owner’s pockets and into the fund’s pockets in New York or wherever they are located at a time, when the owners need as much capital as they can to get their new business up and running. And every dime of the high rents leaves the community, which weakens it even more. This will never change until local leaders wakeup to the fact that these big funds are not their friends and by allowing them to own everything, the local economies keep getting weaker, not stronger. They are people who do not care at all about the local community or the local economy.

Finance. Public deposits — city money, county money, pension money — sitting in large money-center banks that lend it back into corporate debt and securitized rentals extracts money from local communities. Move the majority of it into community banks, credit unions, and CDFIs (Community Development Financial Institutions) that lend to local businesses and local borrowers. Same dollars. Different gravity and outcomes.

None of this is Socialism. None of it is novel. The Catalans and Basques, the Emilians and Germans have been doing it for over a century. The Scots just made it law. America was founded on this model and became the greatest country and economy in the world by operating in this manner. Doing it is Smart Economics. It has only changed since we allowed the Too Big To Fail Banks to exist and we bailed them out. Doing that was not a good thing and has led to the horrible malaise of unaffordability we now face and has weakened the American Economy immensely.

Of course, the objections will come, and it always comes from the same direction. You can’t tell capital where to go. This is SOCIALISM. You’ll scare off investment. The market knows best. Fuck such nonsense.

The market does not know best. The market knows where the highest extractable yield is, and right now that yield is in turning American homes into rental cash flow, American hospitals into debt-laden roll-ups, and American downtowns into rent-collection schemes for absentee owners. That is not the invisible hand of some magic market. It is a very visible hand, attached to a very specific arm, reaching into very specific pockets — yours, mine, your neighbors’, and your kids’.

We need to make Lina Khan the head of the FTC again and let her do her job.

A community has every right to decide that the wealth it produces will, to the greatest extent possible, stay where it was produced. That is not a radical proposition. That is the proposition every functional economy in human history has rested on. The radical proposition — historically novel, historically destructive — is the one we are living under now: That an economy exists to be drained for the benefit of people who do not live in it and who think it is their right to rule. F*uck the billionaires preaching this garbage.

Scotland chose. Catalonia chose, generations ago. Preston chose. Mondragón chose.

We as Americans have still not yet chosen. NYC did when it elected Zohran. And America will, one way or the other. Either we say NO to the Wall Street thieves who have been stealing Americans blind for decades, and tell them Enough Is Enough and then build the institutions — the funds, the cooperatives, the community banks, the procurement rules, the ownership structures — that keep wealth circulating where it is made, or we wake up in twenty years and discover that everything we built has been quietly retitled in someone else’s name and our children are living in a dystopian form of the Hunger Games — if we haven’t destroyed the environment so badly that none of us are alive.

The extraction economy is a choice. So is the alternative.

I believe it’s time for America to wake up and choose the ALTERNATIVE — the one in its own best interests.

Please like and restack this if you agree.

Yet the people who have caused most of it keep showing up to work everyday as if nothing is wrong.

Over the past week, I have read many different articles and watched many different pieces on YouTube and I am completely fed up with the BULLSHIT. And I mean fed up from my toes to the top of my head. So here’s my solution to plastic pollution.

The C-suites and Boards of Directors of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, and every other company of similar scale packaging food and beverages in single-use plastic need to be given a choice:

Stop using single-use, single-serving plastic within 12 months — or spend the next

Twenty-five years of your lives in a federal prison.

And I mean that. I have thought about it for years — but it’s time to really do it!

These three companies have topped the global Break Free From Plastic brand audit as the world’s worst plastic polluters for decades.

They are not bystanders to the crisis. They are the fucking crisis. What they have been doing for decades is A CRIME AGAINST ALL OF HUMANITY — and the people doing it are CRIMINALS!

WHY DON’T WE TREAT THE POLLUTION FOR WHAT IT IS AND THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE?

For every pound of plastic produced, 3 pounds of CO₂ are created and sent into the atmosphere to warm the planet even more.

Let me share what I saw and read in just the past week.

The Snowpack Is Gone

April 1 is the day Colorado mountain snowpack is historically supposed to peak. It is the single most important date on the water calendar for the American West.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service last week reported that on April 1, 2026, ninety-five percent of its Colorado monitoring sites were at the lowest readings ever recorded in their history.

Dozens of long-term snow courses with sixty, seventy, ninety years of continuous data read zero. Not low. ZERO.

95% of Sites

Were at the lowest readings ever recorded

14 Sites

Bare ground on April 1 for the first time in recorded history

Since 1941

The worst Colorado snow year on statewide record

40 Million Americans

Depend on the Colorado River Basin for drinking water

Five long-term sites with over sixty years of records had previous record-low April 1 readings above four inches of snow water. This year they read ZERO. Fourteen additional sites that had never been snow-free on April 1 — not once in their recorded history — were bare ground this year.

Hydrologists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture are calling this the worst Colorado snow year since statewide recordkeeping began in 1941. Denver Water has already imposed lawn-watering restrictions — and it is only April — and told its customers the deficit cannot be recovered this season.

The Colorado River Basin — which supplies drinking water to forty million Americans and irrigates a huge share of our winter vegetables — is walking into summer with almost nothing in the bank. And the Bureau of Reclamation just this past week ordered the release of 1,000,000 ACRE FEET of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in northern Utah. That is 1/3 of the water in Flaming Gorge.

For over 50 years climate scientists have been saying this was going to happen and NOW IT HAS.

Oh, and I forgot to say that we have a President who is so ignorant that he believes Climate Change a Hoax!

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas…

The TECH BROS want to triple our power draw — and they are doing this all over the country!

While the Green River and the Colorado are running dry, the Tech Bros are racing to build so many new AI data centers in Southern Nevada that NV Energy — the utility serving ninety percent of the state — has publicly stated that accommodating the full pipeline would require roughly THREE TIMES the electricity currently used to power the Entire City of Las Vegas. They have openly conceded they cannot deliver it without burning more fossil fuels, meaning Nevada will miss its 2030 clean-energy mandate.

And Nevada is not an outlier. In Abilene, Texas, a single Stargate data center — a joint venture of OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, announced at the White House by Donald Trump — will draw 1.2 gigawatts of power, enough for three quarters of a million homes. Stargate’s full plan is ten gigawatts and five hundred billion dollars. Texas already has more than four hundred data centers; ERCOT projects state power demand will nearly double by 2030, with data centers driving nearly half the growth, and Texas residential electricity bills are projected to rise twenty-five to seventy percent over the next five years to pay for it. At the Abilene Stargate site, they are building an on-site natural gas power plant just to feed the machines.

3× Las Vegas’s total power use, requested by data centers

$500B Stargate commitment announced at the White House

25–70% Projected 5-year increase in Texas residential electricity bills

The machines proposed for the centers in Las Vegas alone will throw off so much heat they require between 3 - 5 million gallons of water per day in evaporative cooling towers — in a state where the Colorado is running dry. Additionally, the towers aerosolize (spit out into the air) biocides, chlorine, and quaternary ammonium compounds that Las Vegans breathe, and are the single leading environmental source of Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks according to the CDC.

And the backup power is worse. At Elon Musk’s xAI “Colossus” facility in South Memphis, the company is running dozens of methane-burning gas turbines — as many as thirty-five at one point, most of them without permits — to power a supercomputer sited in Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood that already had a cancer rate four times the national average before xAI arrived. The turbines pump nitrogen oxides, formaldehyde, and unburned methane into the air Memphians breathe. The Southern Environmental Law Center has called it likely the single largest industrial source of smog-forming pollution in the city. The NAACP is suing under the Clean Air Act.

And then there’s the part I am sure Musk is aware of: Methane is eighty times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas over a twenty-year window — the exact window that matters most for what is happening to the Colorado snowpack right now. Every leak, every vent, every unburned molecule coming out of those turbines is heating the planet at a rate that makes CO₂ look like a rounding error. They are poisoning Memphis and accelerating the very drought drying up the West — all so a chatbot can answer questions faster and help the Tech Bros finish the job they set out to do: Own all the land, Own all the houses, Own all the water, Own the power grid, Own the AI, Own the robots doing the work — and leave the rest of us renting our lives from them one subscription at a time — with automatic renewal.

A handful of men — with last names like Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Bezos, Schwarzman, Fink, and others — in their insane quest for more data centers, more money, more houses, more compute, more yachts — all dead, lifeless objects — are killing off the biological life of the planet — of which we as humans are a part.

And what is this quest really about?

It is about making themselves ever richer by putting more and more workers out of work — as if hundreds of billions of dollars weren’t already enough. It is driven by a raging addiction for more money and the dead objects it can buy. A kind of aberrant Necrophilia — an obsessive lust for dead, lifeless things, and a willingness to trade every living thing on the planet to get them.

Consider this timeline. The Earth is 4.2 billion years old. Homo sapiens have been here somewhere between 1.5 million to three hundred thousand years, depending on where you draw the line. And yet in less than a hundred and fifty years (150) — in the blink of an eye — a very small number of men, chasing dirty green paper that you count (now digital numbers on a computer) have warmed the atmosphere, acidified the oceans, drained the aquifers, paved the continents, driven millions of other species into extinction, and filled every river and ocean and every human body with micro-plastics, which is KILLING EVERYTHING. Everything in the oceans and on the land — including us as human beings. And they are now proposing to triple the electricity draw of American cities so they can replace every human worker with a robot and make trillions of dollars. Yet they do not appear to be intelligent enough to realize that 68% of the American economy is CONSUMPTION and when people have no jobs, they have no money, and they can’t consume much at all without money. In my opinion, these people are completely out of their minds and should be STOPPED.

This is not innovation and these people certainly are not visionaries. They are money drunks and what they are doing is: The most spectacular failure of stewardship in the history of the species and a crime against All of Humanity. And they should be treated as the criminals they are!!!

The Great Salt Lake has been turned to poison

Due to twenty-five years of drought driven by climate change, the Great Salt Lake has dried out so much that there is now roughly eight hundred square miles of exposed lake-bed. That is an area the size of the island of Maui. I was born and raised in a small town just 15 miles south of the Lake, so I am very familiar with it.

That lake-bed is laced with arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, copper, and uranium — a century’s worth of industrial deposition from the tailings of the Kennecott Copper mine. All of that industrial waste used to sit safely underwater.

Now it blows onto the Wasatch Front, where 2.6 million people breathe it.

A movie called The Lake was premiered in January of this year at the Sundance Film Festival. It won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change.

Leonardo di Caprio was behind it and when someone like him, with as much star power as he hasm is behind it, and after it won such a prestigious award you would think it would be out and available for people to see within weeks, yet it CANNOT BE SEEN ANYWHERE.

University of Utah researchers have documented elevated oxidative potential in the dust, meaning it does more biological damage per particle than other major sources of particulate pollution. Utah State researchers have found the metals transferring from airborne dust into leafy vegetables that people grow and eat in their backyards.

The dust also lands on mountain snow. Darker snow melts faster. Faster snowmelt worsens the water shortage that dries the lake in the first place.

It is a negative feedback loop engineered by human indifference.

And we have a President who says climate change is a hoax.

Our Oceans are being emptied

The great white sharks that used to patrol the waters off Cape Town, South Africa, are functionally gone.

One photographer who documented that coastline for decades used to log two hundred and fifty (250) to three hundred (300) individual great whites a year at Seal Island. This year he has logged ZERO.

The cause is debated — but only because the authorities want people to keep thinking there is room for debate. A pair of shark-hunting Orcas (Killer Whales) named Port and Starboard, and other pods of Orcas, have eaten most of them. The oceans are so depleted that Orcas are eating Great whites because there is nothing else left.

Orcas have been doing the same thing to Narwhals in the Arctic Sea over the past few years, because there is far less sea ice and there is so little of the most common foods they have eaten for millennia left in the oceans.

And then there are the commercial long-line fishing nets that have stripped the food chain so completely that Apex Predators are now preying on Apex Predators because there is nothing left for them to eat.

The causes might be debated, but the results cannot! One of the ocean’s Apex predators has been removed from one of its historic strongholds within a very short time period.

Our bodies and our children’s bodies are filled with Microplastics

In peer-reviewed research to date, microplastics have been found in every single human testicle tested. Every One.

The 2024 University of New Mexico study, led by Dr. Xiaozhong “John” Yu and published in Toxicological Sciences, tested twenty-three human testes obtained at autopsy. Every sample was positive. A 2023 study out of China, using different methodology, found the same thing in six of six samples examined. The concentration in human tissue averaged three times higher than in dogs — the “sentinel animal” researchers used for comparison.

They are in placentas. They are in human blood. They have been detected in roughly three-quarters of breast milk samples in the published studies. They are in human brains — which, according to the most recent research, carry the highest concentration of plastic particles of any organ in the body.

Sperm counts in the Western world have been falling for half a century. Some researchers project they will hit zero around 2045.

A 2024 study published in Toxicological Sciences detected polyethylene and PVC — the exact plastics used to make single-use bottles and bags — inside the reproductive tissue of men ranging from sixteen to eighty-eight years old.

Who Put it There?

The Break Free From Plastic coalition conducts an annual global brand audit. Volunteers in dozens of countries collect plastic waste from beaches, rivers, and communities, then count the branded pieces. The same three names top the list every single year.

The World’s Worst Branded Plastic Polluters

1. Coca-Cola

2. PepsiCo

3. Nestlé

Coca-Cola alone has been the single largest branded plastic polluter on earth every year since the audit began. The company produces roughly three million metric tons of plastic packaging annually. That is the weight of about fifteen million male African elephants, in single-use bottles, thrown away every year, forever.

These are not small companies being hassled by activists. These are three of the most valuable consumer-goods corporations in human history. They know exactly what their packaging does. They have been told. Their own internal research has told them. They have signed pledges. They have missed every target!

They have funded front groups to lobby against bottle deposit laws and extended producer responsibility statutes in every state that has considered them.

They have spent decades telling the public that the solution is recycling — knowing full well that less than nine percent of plastic has ever been recycled, that the recycling symbol on their bottles is a marketing device, not a reality, and that the real fate of the bottle is the ocean, the roadside, the landfill, or the microplastic in your bloodstream.

This is not a failure. It is a fucking strategy!

When Trump was first elected President, James Quincey, the CEO of Coke showed up to Mar-a-Lago with a specially made bottle of Diet Coke for the President to commemorate his inauguration. Would anyone like to guess what else they talked about in that meeting?

This is the LARGEST PLASTIC POLLUTER IN THE WORLD. They know what they are doing and they have been doing it for decades. They know they have filled the world’s rivers and oceans with plastic garbage along with our bodies and brains and the bodies and brains of our children.

Americans are plagued with chronic diseases. Microplastics are believed to cause chronic inflammation in many parts of the body. They contain known carcinogens, including BPA, phthalates, vinyl chloride and styrene. They cannot be broken down by the human body and are believed to be associated with everything from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to an increased risk of heart attacks, dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Think about it. Gobs of microplastics are hanging out in our bodies in our tissues, and some of the smaller ones known as nano-plastics are actually entering our cells. The human body cannot break them down, so they are seen as FOREIGN INVADERS by our immune systems, which cause inflammation that never goes away as the body tries to get rid of them. Inflammation that becomes chronic because the body can’t get rid of what it sees as a foreign invader so the inflammation is never turned off.

I Know How These Companies Think

In 2004, I started a company called Green Plains Renewable Energy and raised two hundred million dollars in debt and equity. I raised the equity primarily from Midwestern farmers and borrowed the rest from CoBank and built the first two plants for Green Plains (GPRE on NASDAQ). I built those plants in the middle of the least expensive corn in the United States, which made me the low-cost producer in the U.S. as soon as the plants became operational. We were paying $.26 a bushel less for corn than our nearest competitors in Nebraska and were grinding 68,000 bushels of corn a day at each plant. That equated to lower costs (greater profits) of $17,680 a day at each plant; $12.9 million more profit a year. When the economy collapsed because of the housing crisis, Green Plains was able to keep its head above water and acquired several ethanol plants out of bankruptcy to become the second largest ethanol producer in the world for a time. It is still one of the largest ethanol producers in the world. Ethanol is added to gasoline as an oxygenate to meet the clean air standards, because gas is such a dirty fuel by itself. On any given day, Green Plain’s ethanol is in the tanks of close to 10 to 20 million cars in the United States and Canada.

I started Green Plains to make the air we breathe cleaner and to decrease our reliance on imported oil.

I mention this simply to point out that I KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A PRODUCT AT SCALE. My mind has always been able to see such things. I know what cost curves look like and what makes things profitable or not. And I know how executive compensation committees think and work.

The leaders of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé know that plastic pollution is killing everything in our rivers and oceans and that it has entered our bodies, polluting everyone of us, yet still they DO NOTHING TO STOP IT. THEY ARE CHOOSING TO CONTINUE TO POLLUTE OUR ENVIRONMENT AND BODIES! It is a conscious decision.

What kind of people do this? Evil, Arrogant, Short-sighted Uncaring Ones is the Only Answer Any Thinking Person Could Arrive At.

They do not care at all about you or your children. The math works for them as long as the external cost — the ocean, the groundwater, the testicles of the next generation — is paid by someone else. So the external cost to them has to come home. The SOLUTION!

One Year.

— or —

Twenty-Five.

These are the types of things I would do if you would give me the power to do them. If you would support me and I were to be elected President, I would get on TV and explain to the Nation what they are doing and have been doing for years. I would instruct Congress to pass a bill giving the CEOs and Boards of Directors of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, and every other corporation selling more than a hundred million units of single-serve plastic food or beverage packaging per year in the United States a One-Year Window.

Within that window, they must present and begin executing a credible phase-out plan — glass, aluminum, refill infrastructure, bulk dispensing, compostable materials, any combination that works.

If they do not, the officers and directors who signed off on continued production would face criminal and personal liability. Non-dischargeable. Prison exposure measured in decades.

This is not radical. It is already the law.

It is a direct application of the Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine, which American courts have used since United States v. Park in 1975 to hold executives personally criminally liable for their companies’ violations of public welfare statutes — the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Executives already go to prison for willfully contaminating a single river. There is no principled reason the CEOs and the Boards of the three largest plastic polluters on the planet should not face the same exposure for willfully contaminating Every River.

WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IS A CRIME AGAINST

ALL OF HUMANITY

AND IT SHOULD BE SEEN FOR WHAT IT IS!

The reason they continue to do it is NOT because it is legal. It’s because our Political Leaders do Nothing to Stop Them. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé spend generational fortunes on political donations, lobbying, and philanthropy-washing designed to ensure no meaningful statute ever reaches a floor vote. Both parties take their money. Both parties protect them. Meaning YOUR ELECTED LEADERS IN CONGRESS ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE TO POISON YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN. The vast majority of our elected leaders are real live PIECES OF SHIT. I think the Republicans are worse than the Democrats, but not by much.

Which brings me to the midterms…

What is it going to take to get Americans as angry as the citizens of Hungary? Our bodies and our children’s bodies are filled with plastic! You would think that would be enough. However, I talked about this for close to five years, running a company called Focus Energy Drinks that refused to use single-use plastic. We used home compostable packaging made by a company in Israel called TIPA. With the Colorado drying up and with ZERO snowpack in the Rockies, all caused by Climate Change, perhaps they will listen now.

Many Americans appear to think that spending their time in places like Substack, Instagram, TikTok and X, writing new pieces every day or making more videos, loudly complaining about our problems is going to change something, when the reality is that nothing is going to change until Americans learn to organize and work together towards the same goal. We need to get new people in Washington. That is what we need to do and that is going to take every person on the social media sites going out and finding the ones who will get us out of this mess and then knocking on doors for them to make sure they win. Or run for office themselves. And at this point, the time to do that for the midterms is over. The filing deadlines have passed.

And I am also not saying that what is happening on social media is not important. It is vitally important to help people become more informed about how corrupt our current system is. I am posting this on Substack and every where else I can. But for people to see it, I NEED YOUR HELP. Posting such things is important, but bitching about things alone isn’t going to change anything unless we get different people in Congress and then scare the ones currently in Congress so badly that they actually vote differently. And I mean scare the shit out of them.

People CANNOT VOTE for whoever the DNC or the RNC tells us to elect. If you vote for their vetted candidates, you can be sure that not a goddamned thing is going to change.

Both parties are captured. By pharmaceutical money. By defense contractor money. By the Big Five Banks. By private equity money. By the packaged-goods giants. By the extraction industries. By the AIPAC money protecting a government conducting what human rights organizations — including B’Tselem, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch — have called Genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.

Anybody who is enthusiastically endorsed by either Party has already been vetted for willingness to do nothing that threatens those revenue streams. That is the job description. It has been the job description for twenty-five plus years.

The only thing the established order fears is an Electorate that stops accepting the menu it is handed.

Find out who is running in your district, who is NOT in that class — people like Zohran Mamdani in New York, James Talarico in Texas. There are others. Talk to them to find out what they stand for and who they are. When you find the right one, help them. Be willing to tell other people about for them and work to get them elected. And that includes being willing to send them whatever money you can to fun their campaigns. Getting new people in Washington is the MOST important thing we can do.

Would You Support Me If I Ran For the Presidency?

I am so frustrated with what is happening that I am considering running for the Presidency myself. I ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012, here in Nevada where I discovered that Harry Reid was paying the ex-husband of Krystal Ball, who I had hired to run my campaign, to sabotage my campaign. That experience showed me even more how corrupt the entire process is.

When I look at the people currently jockeying for positions for a Presidential run, deep down I think I should run, because I don’t believe any of these people. I think most are LIARS that will SAY ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED. Most have been politicians for years and lying is just what you do as a politician. And I DO NOT trust their morality (if they have any) or their worldview. Most of them have never created anything BIG in their lives, so they don’t really understand how things work.

I voted for Bernie twice, and he didn’t win because Americans were not ready to hear what he was saying. They wanted to believe the lies that the leaders in their own parties had been feeding them for years. I am and want almost exactly what Bernie Sanders has always wanted. You can listen to me saying the same things in 2012 here. Just scroll down to the line that says When Barry Ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/@anamericathatworksforeveryone

I wrote a book about the housing situation in 2024 called Wall Street’s War On America and Its Attack on Affordable Housing. It was the Number 1 book in both Private Equity and Venture Capital for the first three weeks is was out and then one day it was as if it hit a brick wall and just quit selling. I assume that someone on Wall Street read it and called someone at Amazon and told them to shadow-ban it. You can read it here: https://a.co/d/0gudCKPJ

I CANNOT BE BOUGHT. I don’t care if people offered me billions of dollars. I can see what the world could be like if we were to use AI as an assistant to help us create a better life for everyone rather than use it to enrich a few who want to make everyone else their slaves — their subordinates as in the Hunger Games. Everyone could live enjoyable, happy lives if we would simply learn to work together for the benefit of everyone.

I understand the financial side of this mess as well as anyone in the WORLD because I have been involved in it for most of my life. I became a stockbroker in the 1980s, in Utah when Utah was known as “The Penny Stock Capital of the World.” I learned from some of the best stock minds on the planet, by observing how the stock promoters in Utah manipulated stocks when I was a young man and the Intermountain Exchange was still in existence. That’s why it drives me crazy when I watch Trump doing what he has with his Meme coins and Truth Social when he merged it into a SPAC that trades under DJT. I can’t help but see it, because I KNOW WHAT I AM LOOKING AT. He is a lying, common thief who has stolen billions of dollars from the people who voted for him and put him in office.

Because I know what I do about the financial markets, Wall Street cannot pull the wool over my eyes. And the most important thing for me is: I trust my own morality to actually do everything I have been writing about for years. I will not lie to you to make myself wealthy. That is not why I would run.

But I cannot do it alone, and I will not do it on a hunch. Whether I actually run will depend on how many of you, after reading this, tell me you will support me and if you do, by the number of people you share it with. If you want me in this fight, SAY SO.

And then I would need your financial support because it would take tens of millions to let people know who I am. Is it possible? Yes, with your help!

What I would do!

Single-payer healthcare. Not in five years. Now.

A tax code where billionaires pay a higher effective rate than their secretaries — with no loopholes which is the reason they do not pay any now.

Blackstone and friends would be forced to sell ALL OF THE HOMES they have bought up as financial instruments, and the student housing they have weaponized against the next generation.

A public tuition-low-cost four-year higher education system, including skilled trades, beginning NOW.

Reinstate Lina Khan at the FTC and break up the monopolies that have strangled the American middle class for a generation.

This is not radical. It is Eisenhower Republicanism with a pulse.

Read these 15 Common Sense Reforms that I wrote about:

https://substack.com/@barrye54/p-181018665

If you agree with what I want to do, tell me you would support me.

None of this happens without your help!

None of this happens unless ordinary people decide — the way Americans decided about Vietnam, the way they decided about civil rights, the way Hungary just decided about Orbán. They all showed up to vote and got rid of him. They decide that this is no longer tolerable.

When Is Enough Really Enough?

The oceans are dying. The snowpack is gone. The droughts are not going to cease. They are going to continue to get worse, with perhaps breakups for an extremely wet year. A million acre feet of water is being released from Flaming Gorge Dam as I am writing this because the Colorado River is drying up. That’s 1/3 of the water in Flaming Gorge. It will be good for only ONE YEAR. The Great Salt Lake has dried into toxic dust. The sharks and other fish life are disappearing. 60% of ALL honey bee colonies in the U.S. died last year.

There are plastic particles in the testicles of every man reading this

and in the bodies of every woman. Have you had ENOUGH yet?

The C Suites and Boards of Directors of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé, are protected by the elected officials whose campaigns they fund, and are continuing to make the decisions that caused it — because it is profitable for them to continue and costly for them to stop. The playing field HAS TO BE CHANGED.

One year.

Or

Twenty-five.

If You Want Me To Run For President

TELL ME

I said at the end of this essay that I will run for the Presidency if enough people say they would support me and help me. Whether I enter this race depends on whether enough of you read this and say, clearly, that you want me in it. And that will depend on how many people who read this, share it and contact me.

If you want me to run, send me the following to contact@slfla.org:

1. Your name

2. Your city and state

3. Your ZIP code

4. Yes or no: Would you volunteer, donate, or knock on doors?

I will not share your email or your information with anyone. If enough of you write, I will tell you — here, in this same place — what I decide to do next.

Write to:

contact@slfla.org

barrye54.substack.com

© 2026 Barry Ellsworth

Las Vegas has always been a city built on the illusion of infinite natural resources in a place that has few to none. But the latest gamble happening in the Mojave isn’t taking place on green-felt craps tables. It’s happening in the “Apex” industrial parks and the windowless monoliths rising from the dust.

The tech industry, fueled by a Wall Street engine that has become untethered from biological reality, is currently proposing a data center expansion in Southern Nevada that would require “THREE TIMES” the electricity currently used to power the entire city of Las Vegas. Read that again and let it sink in for a minute. THREE TIMES!

They call it “progress.” We should call it what it actually is: A twisted, ridiculously absurd form of economic necrophilia.

And for those of you going WTF is necrophilia, let me explain. The most common definition of necrophilia is the desire or compulsion to have sex with a dead corpse. And surprisingly it is something that has been written about for millennia, just not something commonly discussed at the dinner table. In ancient Egypt, the bodies of beautiful women were not sent to embalmers until their bodies had begun to decay, to prevent workers from engaging in “unnatural acts” with their dead bodies. In the Middle Ages it was lumped in with “bestiality” or “sacrilege” in the legal codes. Joseph Guislain, (1850) a Belgian physician was the first to use the term “necrophilia” in a clinical context. Later (1886) Richard von Draft-Ebin in his seminal work Psychopathia Sexualis formally categorized it as a sever mental aberration.

I am using it to mean “People who love dead things more than living.” People like so many on Wall Street who think that making more money every quarter and buying their fifth house in the Hamptons is more important than paying their employees enough to pay the rent and buy groceries for their children. For many on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, making more money at the expense of others is a kin to showing others how tough and ruthless you can be. That you are a true winner - if you can do that without blinking an eye. Fuck those poor peasants. Making money for my shareholders is far more important than taking care of the people helping me make the money I am making. A true Hungar Games type of scenario.

The Desert’s Breaking Point

The names involved are the usual titans: Switch, Google, Microsoft, Novva, and Vantage. Both Meta and Microsoft already have centers in Northern Nevada. These and others are racing to plant flags in the Nevada soil to house the rows of buzzing H100 GPUs required for the Artificial Intelligence boom.

The math of this expansion is, quite frankly, insane. As global temperatures tick upward and Lake Mead’s “bathtub ring” grows ever wider and higher, these companies are asking for: A Power Surge!

NV Energy is facing a demand spike that could force the state to abandon renewable goals and lean back into fossil fuels just to keep the servers cool.

Water in the Wasteland: Even with “water-free” cooling claims, the infrastructure required to support these hubs places an unsustainable burden on a fragile ecosystem.

The “Tech Bro” Whisperers in D.C.

The most dangerous part of this isn’t just the construction — it’s the narrative. The “tech bros” have successfully convinced the fools in Washington that AI is a national security imperative, a “space race” that justifies any cost.

By framing AI as an inevitable evolution, they’ve secured a blank check from the federal government. But this isn’t an evolution; it’s an extraction. They are selling the American public on a technology that generates “synthetic intelligence” at the cost of the very biological life required to sustain the people using it.

Wall Street’s Necrophilic Logic

Why would they do this? Why build a machine that kills the planet to power the machine?

The answer lies in the mental instability of modern Wall Street and the leaders of our so called High Tech Companies. We are living under a regime that loves “dead things” — spreadsheets, quarterly growth charts, derivative assets — more than living ones.

This is the logic of the “Asset Class.” Just as they turned the American home from a place of shelter into a financial instrument to be traded and hollowed out, they are now turning the climate itself into an “externality” on a balance sheet. They are chasing “ever better” financial quarters by liquidating the habitability of the planet. And they have no fucking idea how insane everything they are doing is.

They are creating an EXTRACTION ECONOMY. When you value a digital “token” or a generative model more than the water in the ground or the stability of the atmosphere, you are practicing a form of necrophilia. You are in love with the static, dead representation of value, and you are willing to kill the living world to see that number go up.

The Empty Data Centers of Tomorrow

If we continue down this path of blind greed, we know where it ends. We will have the most sophisticated AI on earth, capable of writing poetry about the stars, while the billions of human beings it was supposed to serve, struggle for water and breath.

Lake Mead is hitting more record lows every day, and just last week it was reported that the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains, which feeds Lake Mead, reached a historic low for this time of year. ZERO! The winter was so warm and there was so little snowfall that the majority of the Rocky Mountains has ZERO snowpack, when historically the end of March has been the time of the highest snowpack. It does not take a genius to figure out how this is going to end.

Eventually, those data centers in Las Vegas will stand as silent, windowless tombs in a desert too hot for human life. They will be as empty as the greed-powered ideas that built them.

It is time to stop listening to the “Visionaries” who cannot see past the next fiscal quarter. It is time to demand a system that prioritizes the living over the dead.

A community well-being centered system which stops the extraction of wealth from a local community.

FUCK THE TECH BROS, FUCK THE DATA CENTERS, FUCK EXTRACTION ECONOMIES, FUCK BITCOIN AND ANY OTHER TYPE OF MONETARY SYSTEM THAT USES MORE ENERGY TO MAINTAIN THAN A LARGE CITY, AND FUCK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BUILDING THEM.

Together, we can build communities and pass legislation that keeps the wealth within each of our local communities as Scotland recently did, and thereby create:

A World that Works for Everyone!

When a trucking empire fails — a company that was one of the largest carriers for the U.S. Postal Service — ask yourself who benefits!

I know something about building a business from scratch with other people’s money and trust. Several years ago, I raised roughly $100 million in equity primarily from Midwestern farmers, and then CoBank loaned me another $100 million plus to construct the first two ethanol plants I built when I started Green Plains Renewable Energy (now Green Plains Inc - GPRE on NASDAQ). Green Plains grew to be one of the largest ethanol producers in the World. The ethanol it makes is in 10 to 20 million cars in the U.S. and Canada on any given day. The farmers I raised the money from were not Wall Street. They were people who worked the land, kept their word, and bet on someone who promised to do the same.

My single largest investor was a man named Wayne Hoovestol, who had built a very large company of his own prior to investing in my company. His father started running mail for the United States Postal Service in the early 1950s — a single truck, one route, North Dakota. That grew into three routes, and Wayne took over his father’s business around 1978. Over the next five decades, Wayne changed the company’s name to 10 Roads Express and grew it into approximately: 36 terminals, 4,500 tractors, 5,000 trailers, thousands of drivers, and the largest over the road USPS surface transportation contractor in the country. Honest work. Good paying, working-class jobs. The kind of operation that doesn’t make the business press until it disappears.

On January 30, 2026, it disappeared.

The stated reason? The USPS, which accounted for close to 70% of 10 Roads’ revenue, had been systematically pulling its contracts, shifting work to brokers and insourcing transportation over the prior two years. The result was a 70% revenue loss. The company gave its notice, shut the doors, and put over 2,000 people out of work — the largest trucking collapse since Yellow Freight went under in 2023.

I want to ask a question I haven’t seen anyone else asking, and if they have, it needs to be asked much more LOUDLY:

Who benefits from a hollowed-out postal service — and when?

Let me tell you what I know about the documented record, and then I’ll tell you what I think.

In 2020, newly appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a Republican megadonor with no postal experience — dismantled hundreds of mail sorting machines within weeks of taking office, eliminated overtime, and ordered carriers to leave mail behind to keep to schedule. Mail delays surged. A federal judge described his actions as what appeared to be “an intentional effort on the part of the current administration to disrupt and challenge the legitimacy of upcoming local, state and federal elections.”

DeJoy paused some changes under congressional pressure. But here’s the detail that doesn’t get enough attention: the destroyed sorting machines were never fully restored. The capacity was never rebuilt.

Then came the network “modernization” — consolidating hundreds of local processing facilities into 60 regional mega-centers, shifting mail processing across state lines, lengthening delivery times for rural America. Bipartisan members of Congress raised alarms that these changes would impact election mail. DeJoy paused some of those plans too — until after the 2024 election.

And then DOGE arrived. As of early 2025, Elon Musk’s efficiency task force was eyeing the USPS for a major overhaul — privatization, reduction to bare-bones mail-only service, or handing off what the post office “can’t handle” to private players. The agency reported a $9.5 billion loss in 2024. It has maxed out its $15 billion borrowing limit.

It has, by any honest accounting, been set up to fail.

This is the environment in which 10 Roads Express, my friend’s trucking company lost 70% of its USPS revenue and shut down 2,000 jobs.

Now let me tell you what I think!

The 2026 midterm elections are coming. This administration has more political exposure than any in modern history. Impeachment talk is not theoretical. There are even people talking about charges of treason and exectutions. The political math of a midterm loss is existential for what’s being built in Washington right now.

Mail-in ballots are a problem for anyone who wants to control an election outcome. They are paper. They are traceable. They go through a federal system that — until recently — was one of the most trusted institutions in America.

ROUGHLY A THIRD OF ALL VOTES CAST IN RECENT NATIONAL ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN CAST BY MAIL.

I’m not telling you the 10 Roads Express shutdown was ordered by the White House.

What I am telling you is this: If you wanted to degrade the postal infrastructure that delivers ballots — to create delays, capacity gaps, and administrative chaos and an EXCUSE that seems unrelated before an election — you would do almost exactly what has been done to the USPS over the past five years. You would pull sorting machine capacity. You would consolidate processing facilities and extend delivery windows. You would squeeze the contractors who move the mail. You would install LOYALISTS at the top of the agency. You would let the finances bleed until privatization looks like the only option.

Every one of those things has happened. Some by design. Some perhaps by opportunism. Some by genuine and intentional mismanagement. But the pattern demands a question.

Wayne Hoovestol did NOT lose 70% of his revenue because of bad management. Wayne is one of the best business operators I have ever met. He is the one primarily responsible for the growth of Green Plains after I left the company because I did not want to be an absentee father to my children as my father was. My children were the reason I started the company in the first place — to ensure I had enough money to spend most of my time with them as they were growing up. And I did that. I was at every soccer practice they ever had, every game and every birthday party.

Wayne had to shut down 10 Roads because his primary customer — the United States government — rewrote the rules of the road under his feet. Two thousand working people lost their jobs. The mail infrastructure that 10 Roads was part of is now far thinner, slower, and more fragile than it was five years ago.

With a midterm election approaching, I want to know who is guarding the ballots?

I want to know who controls the trucks that move the mail?

I want to know what happens when there are not enough of them?

These are not crazy questions. They are the questions any builder would ask when he watches someone else’s infrastructure get systematically dismantled and wonders — for whose benefit?

Americans need to WAKE UP. And I don’t mean to wake up by having a few protests once a month. I mean really WTFU like the citizens in Minnesota woke up protesting every single day.

I have never been afraid to say what I see and I think Telling the Truth Matters. I also make mistakes like everyone, but I am not sure I know anyone who will admit his mistakes more quickly than I will once I see them. I voted for Donald Trump because I wanted Bobby Kennedy to fix our food and I was so angry at the Democratic Party for not having a primary (which I am sure Bernie Sanders could have won, whom I would have voted for in a heartbeat) and for taking the Green Party off the ballot in Nevada. I voted for Trump as a big Fuck You to the Democrats. I certainly regret doing that now.

However, I can see very clearly at this moment that:

Our postal system has been gutted with intention.

An election is coming up, and the power structure that has gutted it has a HUGE incentive to control the outcome of that election — including spending the rest of their lives in jail if they fail.

The war in Iran and the Epstein files are huge distractions - for all kinds of things.

But I think the most important one is something no one has been talking about. WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE U.S. POST OFFICE!

And if you think it is something that is yet to happen, think again. I believe there should be recounts of every special election that has occurred this year where mail in ballots were part of the election. Elections in Tennessee, Georgia, and others.

Ask the questions. Demand the answers. And if you still vote by mail — track your ballot like your vote depends on it.

BECAUSE IT DOES!

I would also like to mention one thing and suggest two more.

The people doing this have been thinking about it for years. That’s where Project 2025 came from. They are now just carrying out their plan. They own most of the excess housing. They control our food and its transportation (See: Wall Street’s War On America and Its Attack On Affordable Housing - https://a.co/d/0fhkmKRQ) They have turned our young people and their parents as co-signers into indentured financial slaves with high interest student loans. If you think any of this has happened by accident, think again. This is long-term planning.

If you agree with what you just read and think it is important - RESTACK THIS AND SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE YOU CAN BECAUSE THE FUCKING BILLIONAIRES AND AI WILL STOP ANYONE FROM SEEING THIS UNLESS YOU SHARE IT DIRECTLY.

Heed the wisdom of our Founding Fathers when they wrote the Amendments to the Constitution - and as I learned in the Boy Scouts – BE PREPARED!

INVEST IN OUR CHILDREN

Our Children are the country’s future.

The United States does not have a student loan problem.

We have a cost of education problem.

For decades, tuition has risen far beyond inflation while easy federal lending has allowed Universities to raise prices without restraint. Young Americans are now forced to borrow tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars simply to obtain a college degree.

The system is unsustainable, unfair, and economically destructive. It has also been well thought out by Predatory Lenders and members of the United States Congress to enslave our children economically, many for the rest of their lives.

It is time to redesign the American higher education from the ground up.

The Solution: A National Community-Based Undergraduate Model

America already has a model that works:

Community colleges.

Community colleges provide:

• Affordable tuition

• Practical workforce education

• Local accountability

• Strong ties to employers

• Two-year associate degrees at a fraction of university costs

I am simply proposing expanding this proven model into a National, low-cost undergraduate system.

What This System Would Look Like

1. Public Undergraduate Colleges Modeled After Our Community Colleges

• Locally governed, publicly funded institutions

• Focused on teaching — not bloated administrative overhead

• Standardized, accredited bachelor’s degree programs and skilled trade programs

• Transparent cost controls

2. Tuition-Free or Near-Free Undergraduate Degrees

Like Finland, Norway, and Denmark, the United States can and should treat undergraduate education as a public investment — not a private luxury.

These nations provide:

• Tuition-free or heavily subsidized university education

• Strong workforce alignment

• High educational outcomes

• Low student debt burdens

America can do the same.

3. Cost Discipline and Accountability

The new model would:

• Cap administrative overhead

• Tie funding to performance and graduation outcomes

• Require transparent budgeting

• Eliminate unnecessary capital expansion arms races

4. Integration of Trades and Professional Pathways

This system would include:

• Electrical

• Plumbing

• Carpentry

• HVAC

• Advanced manufacturing

• Nursing

• Technology and engineering pathways

We elevate trades alongside academic degrees — because both are essential to national prosperity.

How We Fund It

We already spend hundreds of billions annually on:

• Federal student loans

• Loan servicing

• Defaults

• Interest subsidies

• Complex grant systems

Instead of funding debt, we fund education directly.

By redirecting federal loan expenditures into institutional operating support, we lower total system costs while eliminating student debt dependence.

Education becomes pay-as-you-go — not borrow-and-repay.

Why This Matters

Student debt:

• Is Mean, Uncaring, and Not What We Should Be Doing for Our Children

• Delays homeownership

• Suppresses family formation

• Reduces entrepreneurship

• Limits geographic mobility

• Creates financial anxiety for decades

When young Americans begin adulthood buried in debt, the entire economy slows. And this has happened only because predatory lenders have bribed our elected representatives state run regents into raising tuitions and fees and then allowing such predatory lenders to bury our children and their parents as co-signers in debt

If we want affordable housing, strong families, and upward mobility, fixing our educational financing system is one of the most important things we could do.

The Goal

No American student should have to borrow $50,000, $80,000, or $120,000 just to earn an undergraduate degree.

We can build a system where:

• Education is affordable.

• Taxpayer dollars are transparent.

• Schools focus on teaching.

• Students graduate without crushing debt.

• Trades and academic pathways are equally respected.

America built the interstate highway system.

We built the greatest research universities in the world.

We can build a higher education system that does not bankrupt our children simply to make Wall Street and other such predatory lenders money.

It’s time to stop financing debt.

It’s time to start financing education and investing in the futures of our children and our country.

I’ve been thinking about something lately. Look around you.

On any given day, Substack is simultaneously a support group, a classroom, a confessional, a soapbox, a marketplace, and a very long, very loud primal scream into the void.

Some people are looking for community. Others are trying to make a living. Some are trying to be helpful and educate others about things they know and care about deeply — things they’ve lived, studied, built, or watched collapse — because they can see connections that others can’t yet see. Others who don’t have the background. They don’t have the context. They haven’t been close enough to the fire to smell it.

And then there’s the venting.

Oh God, THE VENTING!!!

We’re angry. We’re afraid. We’re watching the democratic experiment in America — imperfect, maddening, and irreplaceable — being deliberately dismantled by a small group of extraordinarily wealthy men who decided that buying a president was a reasonable use of a Tuesday afternoon.

And we are watching Congress do almost nothing.

Which leads to the uncomfortable thought that many are dancing around but not quite saying out loud:

Most of our elected officials are part of this.

Not necessarily in a conspiratorial sense. But in the plainest, most mundane sense possible: they are not stopping it. They are not organized against it. They are holding press conferences and sending fundraising emails and appearing on cable news to express their very serious concern — and then going home.

And if you’re paying attention, that tells you something important.

Because the most charitable explanation — and it might also be the correct one — is that many of the people we’ve sent to Washington to represent us have spent the majority if not the entirety of their professional lives learning exactly one skill: How to run for office and win. Not how to govern. Not how to fight a constitutional crisis. Not how to outmaneuver billionaires who have been playing four-dimensional chess with democratic institutions for two decades while most of us were living our lives.

They don’t know what to do. Because they’ve never had to know.

They have never started and run a business. They have never built anything but a campaign. Their minds don’t see what needs to be done next.

They are hesitant to tell anyone what they are really thinking because they might be shunned by the powers that be.

And they really only know how to do one thing: Take the money and do what they are told. Besides, doing that has worked out pretty well for them.

They are given inside information on which they can trade and make millions of dollars for themselves and their families. All they have to do is play along.

The people they interact with most of the time are all doing really well, which makes it much easier to forget the “worker bees” who voted them into office.

But here’s the question that keeps going through my mind...

Is that all this is?

Or is something else happening?

Because I keep thinking about the tech oligarchs — the ones orbiting this administration, the ones who’ve decided that democracy is inefficient and that they, being very smart and very rich, should be the ones to fix it. These are people who understand platforms. Who understand attention. Who understand that the most effective way to neutralize opposition isn’t always to silence it.

Sometimes you just have to give it somewhere to go.

What if Substack — and Twitter, the podcasts on YouTube, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and all the rest of it — is partly functioning as a pressure release valve? What if the plan, conscious or not, is to give intelligent, engaged, frustrated people a place to be intelligent, engaged, and frustrated… so that their energy stops there?

Write the post. Get the likes. Feel heard. Close the laptop.

I’m not saying that’s the intent behind every platform. I’m asking whether it’s the effect. And I’m asking whether we should be more honest with ourselves about the difference between processing our anger and converting it into something that actually changes anything.

Because the anger is legitimate. The fear is legitimate. The analysis — on this platform and others — is often genuinely brilliant. People are connecting dots that mainstream media won’t touch. People are teaching each other, in real time, how power actually works.

And then… what?

Here’s the provocation I want to leave you with.

What if we used this platform differently?

Not just to document what’s broken. Not just to be right about things in public. But to build something — together, systematically, across newsletters and comment sections and communities — that actually produces a roadmap.

A step-by-step, concrete, unsexy, shareable, arguable, refinable plan for how citizens — not saviors, not billionaires — restore functional democratic governance.

Not a manifesto. A process.

What would it look like if the smartest, (and the not so smartest — you never know who is going to come up with the best idea and there are all different kinds of smart) the most informed, the most connected people on Substack stopped writing in parallel monologues and started writing in genuine dialogue? Or at least started asking questions? If the goal wasn’t to grow your subscriber count but to solve a specific, defined set of problems? If every piece ended not with “share this” but with “here’s what we’re doing next, and here’s how you plug in”?

I don’t know if Substack can be that. I don’t know if we have the discipline for it, or the humility, or the patience.

But I know this: If all we ever do here is get better at describing the problem, then yes — we are wasting our time. And someone, somewhere, is counting on exactly that.

So… what are we all doing here?

And more importantly — what are we going to do about it?

Leave a comment. Not just your reaction — but your ideas too. And if you don’t have one now, think about it. One concrete thing. Let’s see what we’re actually capable of when we try.

What kind of world do we want to create? What do we want it to look like? And what are the steps we can take together to build it?

Here are some things I would like in it and I’d love to hear your ideas.