Finn: Short For Feenis

Essayist Lucinda Law cuts to the heart of our corrupt current Supreme Court & the anger all thoughtful Americans feel about it. Here's Lucinda's letter to Justice Roberts. I couldn't agree with her more…

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"Dear Justice Roberts,

"It has come to my attention through your various media appearances that your feelings are hurt — that people view you and your Court as political actors, which you insist is not an accurate understanding of what the Court does.

"So let me resolve the confusion: the misunderstanding is yours, not ours.

"People believe your Court is political because it is and acts so in plain view of the nation.

"You unleash unlimited corporate money into elections by inventing constitutional protections for concentrated wealth.

You dismantle voting protections while dining with the very political movement that benefits from their destruction.

You expand presidential immunity in ways conveniently favorable to a corrupt executive you have rewarded with extraordinary deference, 90% deference.

And then you perform public astonishment when Americans recognize your pattern.

"Your Court did not merely 'interpret' the Constitution. It selectively hollowed it out whenever democratic participation threatened entrenched power.

"Citizens United accelerated America’s transformation into an oligarchy where billionaires and corporations wield more political influence than millions of citizens combined.

Shelby County gutted the Voting Rights Act, after which states moved with remarkable speed to burden the very voters the Act was designed to protect.

The immunity ruling signaled that sufficient power can place a president beyond meaningful accountability.

"Then you publicly mourn the collapse of trust. What exactly did you think would happen?

"Legitimacy is not something a court grants itself while issuing ideologically convenient outcomes wrapped in constitutional language — when the public is fortunate enough to even receive a full opinion instead of another consequential ruling buried in the shadow docket.

"Legitimacy is earned through restraint, consistency, ethical seriousness, and fidelity to principle even when principle is inconvenient to power.

"This is precisely the credibility your Court squandered. We understand perfectly well what we have been watching. We all see you and your court and its role in what our nation has become.

"And we are furious — not because we are too ignorant to understand constitutional law, but because we are capable of reading the Constitution you claim to defend- while watching this Court repeatedly twist it to serve its own ideological will.

A Missouri town voted out every city council member who approved a resolution to build an AI data center in their community.

All four city council members who approved a plan to build a data center in Festus, Missouri, lost their bids for reelection. "This data center fight has struck this community to the core and really, honestly ignited a community-driven effort here," Dan Moore, who defeated Ward 3 incumbent Bobby Benz, said.

One of the biggest issues Festus voters had with the data center plan was the lack of transparency and the feeling that council members cared less about residents' concerns and more about tax revenue.

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

A coalition of seven blue states sued the Trump administration Tuesday after it paid a French company nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money to not build offshore wind farms.

The lawsuit, led by New York attorney general Letitia James, argued that the deal struck between TotalEnergies and the Trump administration earlier this year deprived their states of much-needed power, and could raise electricity costs in the New England and mid-Atlantic regions.