Putin has brought a series of plagues onto Russia, with the first eight listed in this post already occurring. Will he capitulate before Putin's Plagues reach nine, let alone ten? His billion dollar Pleasure Palace hangs in the balance.

New research reveals that Vistra Corp likely received almost $500 million in politically directed money to build and operate its Battery Electric Storage System (BESS) in Moss Landing, prior to its self-destruction. Given the terrible harm that befell the communities surrounding Vistra’s BESS disaster and the fortune in public money used to build and operate it, Vistra should disgorge that $500 million into a community fund for victims of the disaster.

The burgeoning partnership between Burkean Nation & the Monterey County Republican Party took another step today with a press release denouncing Dawn Addis. I appreciate that the Party is using its megaphone to urge citizens up and down the Central Coast to vote out Dawn Addis in November 2026.