This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism by Rebecca Solnit

The current presidential administrations overwhelms with outrage by design. The intent is to ensure that no one crime against the American people or perpetrated in our name — they are straight-up murdering people in international waters, let’s not forget — takes hold enough to do real politic damage. Writing for her own shingle, Meditations on an Emergency, Rebecca Solnit catalogs the most prominent abominations happening right now. It’s a bracing survey of an infuriating state of affairs, and it ratifies the notion that we the people need to be as relentless in our opposition as the miscreants are in their demolition of everything decent in this society.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T18:56:57.431Z

Massive Bucks data center spurs call to protect consumers from getting hit with power grid costs by Frank Kummer

We are continually told that AI is vital pathway to progress and riches, and yet this revolutionary technology can’t exist without already wealthy corporations and magnates pillaging from artists and communities. Reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Frank Kummer details the inability of existing power structures to handle the energy demand of AI data centers and how the cost of needed upgrades will be passed along — are already being passed along — to average consumers.