If Power Shutoffs Are the New Normal in California, PG&E Needs to Do More than Provide Charging Stations
Josh Edelson/Getty In Merritt College’s parking lot, high up in the hills of Oakland, California, the big white tent is supposed to serve as an “community resource center” for PG&E customers that have been left without power since last night. The reality is that it’s mostly just a charging station with water and WiFi. About…
Does Hong Kong Even Need the NBA?
Activists wear “Free Hong Kong” T-shirts before an NBA exhibition game on Wednesday between the Washington Wizards and the Guangzhou Loong Lions in Washington, DC.Nick Wass/AP Last Friday night, Daryl Morey, the general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, tweeted an image with the seemingly innocuous text: “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Within…
Private Equity Ghouls Just Murdered a Good Website
While the world breathlessly waits, watches, and places bets on the odds of impeachment (71 percent probability at last check), there’s one fewer national news site to name names and expose the gathering excrement oozing from President Donald Trump’s octopuslike administration. Splinter, the site formerly known as Fusion and staffed by some of the best…
Impeachment Is Heading to the Supreme Court. Trump’s Lawyers Will Be Happy.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Jabin Botsford/Zuma Congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump are in a stand-off over impeachment, with Democrats requesting documents and interviews from the executive branch and the administration defying those requests by citing executive privilege and declaring Congress’ investigations invalid. It’s a constitutional clash with one all-but-inevitable end point: The Supreme…
We Found the Corruption: Giuliani Pals Making Shady Donations to Pro-Trump GOPers for Ukrainians
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP As Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump squawk that the president’s quid-pro-quo-ish call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was only prompted by Trump’s heartfelt desire to address “corruption” in that former Soviet bloc nation, a new scandal has emerged in the United States that illustrates how corruption works here. This caper has implicated…
WSJ: Ukraine Aid Was Transferred to Political Appointee
Remember that military aid to Ukraine that totally wasn’t held up until Ukraine agreed to investigate the Biden family? Well, about that: The White House gave a politically appointed official the authority to keep aid to Ukraine on hold after career budget staff members questioned the legality of delaying the funds, according to people familiar…