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BTAM Master's avatar

Great job covering Katie Zacharia's "qualifications." It's "head of lettuce" time...

If only the MSM paid that much attention to your other work...

Katy Bolger's avatar

Oh, Btam, I think they have been watching Judd's work for a few years now. This was a big fish because she was right next to President and in the moment, but Judd's work seeps into daily MSM reporting, unattributed, all the time. The best part is that Judd is on the side of right and his megaphone, while seemingly small, actually gets louder the further afield it gets. The other hard working investigative journalism is of course Propublica which does amazing deep dives into the corruption all around the country. And with the time we live in, these journalists are playing whack-a-mole with the evildoing feral underground rodents. I know you are a daily consumer of Popinfo as am I, so rest assured that Judd et al are getting under the slimy skin of the mole people.

Jim Carmichael's avatar

As usual, so proud of the fine job the PI Team is doing on investigative reporting!

Krister Ulmanis's avatar

Trump grifting family, or even Trump himself, must have stocks in data centres or he would not support them so eagerly…always follow the money with them.

Joseph Mangano's avatar

As is frequently the case with Republicans, their accusations are really projection. Donald Trump supports deeply unpopular data centers as supposed money printers, even though they probably won't generate nearly as many jobs and as much revenue as advertised. Then again, he seems largely emotionally disconnected from what happens in the midterms anyway.

BTAM Master's avatar

Win or lose, Trump will continue to trash the place. He's a Russian asset whose assignment was to weaken / destroy America and the West, and he's doing a superb job.

Katy Bolger's avatar

This is what data centers will do to the towns that bear them: property values plummet. Homeowners take the loss and move for their sanity's sake. Homes are devalued and they are bought by landlords who rent them to low income persons who will put ten people into a three bedroom, one bathroom house creating a ghetto of poor people. Crime will surge and life will be miserable, once again, for the poor. So, in a sense, data centers are creating affordable housing. And then our lives, all of us, are poorer for the wasteland they create. F the oligarchs. Why do they need data centers? For powering AI. Who wants AI? Hands?

JenneJ's avatar

This is Trump hedging his bets. Either way he wins :)

Jen Baron's avatar

The Circus came to town and stayed! Voted in by 77,000,000 heads of lettuce and enabled by a Republican Congress that should also be called out for allowing ALL of this each - and - every- Day!!

I’d like to see scrap books (for the Smithsonian) for each Nazi Party member that is Enabling this assault on America and The World, when they could simply Save the All of us.

Pretending that the lettuce who voted for Trump wanted any of this insanity is pretty ridiculous, and if any of these chodes in Congress had the guts to hold a Town Hall they wouldn’t be able to claim it’s a “mandate”, if they are even bothering to use that as an excuse anymore.

WE all know Trump is an Idiot, but the 218 Congressman need to be called out like the executioners they are.

Wildwynde's avatar

Kudos on the Zacharia investigation. The many faces of Donald Trump. It is well-known that Trump has no idea how to govern, but we are seeing that he doesn't even have an idea of how to be a politician, so as a result, one day he supports something, the next day, he or his ally trashes it, claiming that Democrats wrongly support it. There is no policy there, possibly he seems to hope that he is able to satisfy everyone. He also has a great deal of projection which is typical of a certain type of mental dysfunction or illness (reference: Book, The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 50 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew; quote: "His worsening impairments, while holding the most powerful position on the planet, pose many existential dangers for humankind".)

Katy Bolger's avatar

I want to comment on your prologue of the fake lawyer getting caught in your net: this is why we have the First Amendment and how and why it is supposed to work. We can also have arts and entertainment but it is the daily grind and the investigative stuff that holds us all accountable, especially those who control other people's lives. Everyone is saying it but it bears repeating: Keep up the good work, Popular information. We need you now and forever.

Larry Carr (autocarr)'s avatar

So, why is Trump’s super PAC attacking Democrats for something he has publicly supported? — Because data is in 📈 until truth comes out 📉, up is down 🔃, and his PAC tries to turn voters inside out 🔄 🔁 … until voters decide that red is out 🛑

Jim Tragos's avatar

Great job on the Zacharia story.

Popular Information isn't my only independent media subscription but it's the one I know has an actual impact on the greater political landscape.