Also ...

More from the press release ...

... The report details how Epstein and Maxwell's network facilitated the recruitment, control, and abuse of young women. It also exposes how Epstein cultivated relationships with powerful individuals and leveraged those connections to establish financial and social legitimacy. Additionally, the report documents the federal government's decades-long failure to hold Epstein accountable for his crimes and deliver justice for survivors.

The report offers several recommendations to deliver long-overdue justice for survivors and prevent the federal government from repeating these failures. Among its recommendations, the report calls on Congress to pass Chairman Comer's legislation, which would ensure survivors can speak freely about sexual abuse, even if they previously signed confidentiality agreements. ...

"The evidence we uncovered makes clear that the Department of Justice must interview or re-interview key witnesses, investigate Epstein associates accused of criminal activity, and ensure survivors have access to their records. Congress must also pass legislation protecting the ability of individuals with knowledge of sexual abuse and survivors to speak freely about these crimes, regardless of nondisclosure agreements. We cannot undo the horrific harm inflicted on these women. But we must ensure that allegations of criminal activity are thoroughly investigated, survivors are protected, and those responsible are held accountable. The failures of the past must not be repeated," concluded Chairman Comer. ...

@#27 ... As a result, the wealthy towns (and CT has a few of those) have quite good public schools. The less-than-wealthy towns? Not so much. ...

To wit ...

More from the cited article...

... The Associated Press called the contest Wednesday in Colom's favor after local elections officials spent several days processing absentee and provisional ballots, called affidavit ballots in Mississippi. ...

So, not yet official?

@#18 ... WHY do impoverished districts receive more funding? ...

Here in Connecticut, schools are funded mostly by town budgets, not the state budget.

As a result, the wealthy towns (and CT has a few of those) have quite good public schools. The less-than-wealthy towns? Not so much.

Related ...

Yet another example of the lack of respect for fallen soldiers by Pres Trump and those in his administration.

That aside, the Sec of Defense should know better than allow this to occur within his entourage.

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... Higher wholesale prices had a downstream effect on energy consumers, the researchers said, as residential customers paid huge fractions of the spending on transmission built for data centers.

The study found that spending across the four power grids jumped from $2 billion in 2020 to $34.2 billion in 2025, with data centers responsible for $8.25 billion of energy infrastructure costs last year.

Residential users were responsible for just under $3.5 billion, but they were billed more than $16 billion while data centers were billed about $3 billion.

Researchers said that antiquated formulas used to allocate energy costs along a power grid have historically divided those costs based on previous energy consumption, rather than new growth. That means households take on much of the costs for developing new power infrastructure.

"It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem," said Fengqi You, one of the study's authors, in a statement. "Because if you're going to build a data center, you need to expand this power infrastructure. Otherwise, there's no electricity for them to run. But before they build, they're not using energy."

Residents of rural and lower-income areas saw their bills skyrocket, and in some cases faced increases in energy costs that were 76% larger than residents of urban communities, according to the study.

The researchers said that despite the concentration of data centers near metropolitan hubs, the financial loads they trigger often seep into surrounding suburban and rural areas because of policies that govern how energy costs are shared across regions. They argued that such policies warrant review. ...

@#10

fwiw, there is more to that CorruptionLand.org link than the video.

There is also an interactive map of Washington, D.C. showing the places where corruption was alleged to have occurred.

@#4 ... which means the people at the top of the US Armed Forces don't know how to plan for that which they are now doing. ...

I'm not convinced that the people at the top of the Armed Forces don't know how to plan. I'd think the Military is better than that, much better.

I suspect the problem is more along the lines of the Commander in Chief rejecting the plans.

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... White House staff and congressional committees have sought answers from the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command over a series of suicides.

At least 11 people working for the two organizations died by suicide in the 12 months through September, Bloomberg reported, citing U.S. officials and public records.

The military classified five of the deaths, which occurred between early June and early July, as a suicide cluster, Bloomberg reported.

Congressional committees overseeing the military and intelligence agencies received briefings after those deaths.

NSA Deputy Director Tim Kosiba briefed White House staff in August, an official told Bloomberg.

Ten of the deaths occurred in the area around Fort Meade, Maryland, where both organizations are based, and one occurred near an NSA facility in Georgia, an official said.

The tally includes military personnel, civilians and contractors. ...

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... Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care for babies.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which analyzed more than 5 million births nationwide, found that refusals of vitamin K shots nearly doubled between 2017 and 2024, from 2.9% to 5.2%. Other research suggests that parents who decline vitamin K shots are much more likely to refuse getting their newborns the hepatitis B vaccine and an eye ointment to prevent potentially blinding infections. ...

Innumerable social media posts question doctors' advice on safe and effective measures like vitamin K and eye ointment. And the Trump administration has repeatedly undermined established science. A federal advisory committee whose members were appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a leading anti-vaccine activist before joining the administration -- voted to end the longstanding recommendation to immunize all babies against hepatitis B right after birth. ...

One common thread that ties together anti-vaccine views and growing sentiments against other protective measures for newborns is the fallacy that natural is always better than artificial, said Dr. David Hill, a Seattle pediatrician and researcher.

"Nature will allow 1 in 5 human infants to die in the first year of life," Hill said, "which is why generations of scientists and doctors have worked to bring that number way, way down." ...

So, I have to ask ...

Does Pres Trump seem to be more concerned about his vanity and grifting projects than he seems to be about the people and Constitution he swore to serve?

... GOP bucks Trump on Nvidia ...

Does this mean the GOP finally has grown a spine?

Or is this just a temporary thing?

Time will tell.

More from the article ...

... Senior Republican lawmakers are considering investigating Nvidia over CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy, putting President Donald Trump's strong defense of the tech titan at odds with mounting scrutiny from members of his own party.

GOP chairs of the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and China committees are asking Huang to appear at a closed-door briefing next week that could lay the groundwork for an investigation into Nvidia. Other Republicans are now calling for Congress or other federal authorities to launch probes into Huang's conduct and Nvidia's broader dealings with China.

House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) told reporters "we need to do an investigation" through the "proper authorities," while outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Huang should be broadly investigated and Congress should "absolutely" have a role in probing him. ...

Is Mr Jensen Huang a Robert Cray fanboy?

Speakin' of Robert Cray ...

@#11 ... When does she go blonde and start on FOX News?...

And then get hired as Pres Trump's new press secretary?

I dunno. It may take two or three months for all that to occur.

;)

@#2

Oops, forgot to include ...

The link for that astute commentary and lyrics excerpt is...

@#8 ... I have no problem with her having an exciting sex life. More power to her. ..

I do not necessarily disagree.

... I just judge conservatives for their hypocrisy. If a liberal politician did that they would have crucified her. ...

Well, I try not to "judge" but I do understand with the gist of your comment.

If conservatives do things - OK

If liberals do those same things - OMG, the world is going to end!!!!!

YMMV and all that ...

@#4 ... Please delete this RCADE ...

Nah.

My view is that RCade should leave this (and the other comment posted today) available for all to see.

imo, there is no reason to delete the comment.

It looks to be purely an opinion.

It does not contain offensive commentary.

So, why should it be deleted?

It seems the reason proffered by the poster is that the poster was too stupid to realize it was a duplicate post of prior posts.

So, then the decision faced by RCade seems to be, should he delete posts based upon such stupidity?