#boondoggles

i quit trying to keep up with this patch

Washington Examiner - Trump administration loaning $17.5 billion to build 10 large nuclear reactors  By Callie Patteson Published June 23, 2026 10:18am ET "This was a key goal laid out by President Donald Trump last year in his plan to quadruple domestic nuclear capacity by midcentury to support surging energy demand brought on by increased manufacturing and data centers running artificial intelligence."

My letter to reps: 

I don't want my taxpayer money going to rich companies to build nuclear to make things cheaper for data center developers and their billionaire tycoon backers. Billionaires don't need more of our money to speculate with. 

THE TIME TUNNEL - A BOONDOGGLE?

In the pilot episode of Irwin Allen’s “The Time Tunnel” (1967) Senator Clark is flown to a mysterious research base in the middle of the desert. The desert is absolute flat, with no building or structures nearby. A car arrives and takes him to the complex - which is underground - an opening in the desert floor appears and the car drives down a ramp.

There, project scientist Dr. Douglas Phillips (Robert Colbert) gives the Senator a tour. He shows him:

Eight buildings built underground, explains each is 800 floors with over 12,000 working in each structure.

That’s only 15 people assigned to each floor.

A complex of 800 floors is estimated to be 11,200 feet deep or over 2 miles underground.

Compare that to the deepest underground structure today in China (the Jinping Laboratory) - only 1.5 miles!

The ICE warehouse boondoggles are related to the data center debacles. 

We Tracked Down Who's Getting Rich Off ICE Warehouse Deals More Perfect Union May 19, 2026 "ICE doesn't necessarily want to be using warehouses. The plan came from folks very close to the White House who were sitting on properties that were causing them losses every year. And the decision was to buy them at taxpayer expense. So, let's take a look at three ice warehouse sales that have used your money to make people in Trump's orbit even richer. First up, Goldman Sachs. It was the majority owner of this warehouse in Roxberry, New Jersey, that ICE purchased for nearly $130 million. That's 137% over a previous valuation in 2025. For years, Goldman Sachs executives have had close ties to Trump, like Steven Minutian, who served as Trump's Treasury Secretary in his first term. Next up, Blue Owl. You may not know this private capital company, but honestly, you should. 35 members of Trump's administration reported investments in Blue Owl funds. Even Trump himself has over $5 million invested in Blue Owl, which has also been a major funder of data centers across the country. So maybe it's not a huge surprise that Blue Owl was paid about double the market valuation of a warehouse it owned in Tremont, Pennsylvania. And then there's Deutsche Bank." (emphasis added)

It’s a 3x1 twist