We’ve got MAIL!

December 30th, 2022

20 pieces with our address, 19 to people I’ve never heard of!

But… we need EFFECTIVE ACTION, not pushing for THEIR answers and solutions.

  1. Biden needs to appoint Commissioners and to FIRE DeJOY!
  2. Raise wages and benefits enough to attract workers — the market has spoken and pay is not enough for this DIFFICULT job.
  3. Establish a float pool to cover shortages.

It’s not that difficult — JUST DO IT!

It’s the 2022 NERC Report!

December 21st, 2022

And hot off the press, well, last week, here’s the 2022 NERC Long Term Reliability Assessment Report:

WordPress doesn’t want me to upload the Supplements, an Excel file, so I’ll try pasting the link:

2022 Long-Term Reliability Assessment – Supplemental Charts and Graphs

Short version? Check out this chart, remember CapX 2020 predicated on greater than 2% peak demand increase? Here’s the reality:

NERC LTRA p. 20

Suffice it to say, things have changed:

From the supplemental charts and graphs, here’s the breakdown, with MISO at 0.3%:

And if you’re interested in the last 30 years of NERC Reports, yes, really, back to 1992:

NERC LONG TERM RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS

Review of Trump’s taxes

December 21st, 2022

Here’s the report, a review of just a few years of Trump’s taxes:

After a quick scan at the first couple of pages, it’s clear there’s serious scamming and grifting going on.

HERE is a good twit thread from David Corn about this, pulling out some factoids.

Can you spell…

(LOSSES)

Tax year 2016:

Tax years 2017 and 2018:

Tax year 2019:

Tax year 2020:

The Summary of the FINAL report from Washington Post:

Read Introductory Material to the Final Report of the Jan. 6 Select Committee

Will post the FINAL REPORT when it’s released.

Some J6 links posted by Seth Abramson:

The HJ6C Executive Summary: Report 8

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