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THE BIG NEWS

Dems Prepping Massive Trump Regime Investigations

House Democrats are laying the groundwork for multiple investigations into Trump’s illegality, including his self-enrichment, destruction of the federal government, immigration terror campaign, wars on domestic political adversaries and wars on foreign friends and enemies alike, according to the Washington Post. The report comes as multiple polls show that at least a simple majority of Americans disapprove of Trump and as Republicans seem resigned to losing in the midterms.  

If Democrats retake the House, two major investigators would be Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the likely Oversight Committee and Judiciary Committee chairs, respectively. Already Garcia has been tracking the Trump family’s growing wealth in office, including the $2.25 billion from foreign payments in 2025 alone, profits from shitcoins, and other gains; meanwhile, Raskin is preparing to exercise power by seeking information about money flow to and from 1789 Capital and American Venture, venture cap firms linked to Trump’s idiot sons, Don Jr. and Eric, and investigating “companies the Trump sons invested in that got government contracts or favorable policies from the administration.” 

“There’s so much corruption and grift that it’s going to take the entire House on the Democratic side to do investigations appropriately,” Garcia told the Post. “We are all talking.”

The Trump administration is attempting to batten down the hatches, which is to say they know what they’re doing is illegal and want to avoid consequences. White House counsel is briefing political appointees on what to do. The Justice Department is claiming that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional and that Trump’s private counsel can avoid congressional oversight by asserting executive privilege. According to Georgetown Law School professor Dave Rapallo, former Democratic staff director of the House Oversight Committee, the executive privilege memo is “the clearest indication that the administration thinks they’re going to lose at least the House.”

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Climate Clusterfuck: Easier Rules for Polluters, Budget Cuts for National Parks 

• Regime Planning to Gut Environmental Restrictions on 700,000 Low-Producing ‘Stripper Wells’ So Oil Execs Can Save $42 Billion “These wells — which tend to be old, poorly maintained and thus prone to leaking — produce just 6% of the country’s oil and natural gas but are responsible for roughly half the sector’s methane pollution, studies show.” Also in the works are easier environmental rules for data centers. via Axios and ProPublica. 
• Trump Blocking $25 Million in National Park Projects, Including Fire Preparedness in California He is preventing funding that had already been secured for more than 130 projects, which also include protecting a prehistoric mound in Iowa and caring for sled dogs in Alaska. via the Washington Post. 
• Indonesia Endures Worst Wildfire Season in 11 Years As Super-El Niño Rages The wildfires burning across the archipelago are so intense that they’re producing a third of global emissions; the number of Indonesians suffering from pollution-related respiratory illnesses has doubled since the first of the month. via NBC News. 
• 1 in 9 Migratory Birds Threatened With Extinction: State of the World’s Bird Report That is the fate inflicted last year on the slender-billed curlew, the first global extinction in Africa and mainland Eurasia in hundreds of years; human activity is to blame, including “the intensification of farming, unsustainable hunting, pollution, invasive species and global heating.” via the Guardian. 

OpenAI Reports Another Instance of Killer Robots On The Loose, Delays IPO 

Here is my straight and sober summary of what the Wall Street Journal said about another instance of rogue artificial intelligence agents. According to the Journal, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents in May hacked RubyGems, an online service for coders, two months before the agents hacked software company Hugging Face. The earlier attack forced RubyGems to halt new account registrations “as they dealt with the chaos it had caused.” The WSJ published that story on Friday. The next day, Fortune reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was delaying his plan to take the company public this year “given everything happening with safety.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei took to social media the same day to say that he too believed the AI industry should “slow down,” the Guardian reported.  

Now. I am not a tech expert. I have no way to judge with absolute certainty whether there is really a 10 percent chance AI will end humanity, as a former AI industry worker claimed. So I will simply offer two thoughts. First: AI executives do not care about safety. If they did, they would have decided to slow down over the multiple instances of AI allegedly causing people to kill themselves. So some skepticism about their concern now is reasonable. Second: AI companies are unprofitable. Around the world, artificial intelligence executives are spending more on running their AI shops than they are earning. Failing to turn a profit is one reason executives at a company of any kind might delay an IPO.

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• Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Alternative Pipeline After Iraq Launches Drone Attack The 746-mile pipeline has allowed the kingdom to continue exporting millions of barrels of crude oil daily from the Red Sea’s port of Yanub rather than the Strait of Hormuz; please see below for how the closure is hitting at the pump. via the Financial Times. 
• France Flexes Power With 40-Hour, 25,000-Mile Nonstop Flight “The military exercise called Pegase 26 aims to project military might and prove the nuclear power can defend distant territories and allies by strengthening French cooperation in the air with strategic partners including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India.” via the AP. 
• POS RFK Jr. Using Military Jets to Campaign for Trump The pestilential “health secretary” is spending $9,000 per hour in taxpayer money to fly around the country in service of his liege; alleged deficit hawk Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and his staff are also bilking taxpayers by using private jets to travel. via Politico and the Washington Post.  
• Nashville Officials Unanimously Vote to Rename Airport After Dolly Parton During her lifetime, the working-class hero had laughed off the name change, saying “I think that’s probably more of a joke than anything… I mean, it does sound like a lot of fun to say: ‘Your flight is departin’ from Nashville’s D Parton.’” via the Guardian.       

SOME NUMBER

$6.06

That’s the per-gallon cost of diesel as of Friday, according to the American Automobile Association. As Common Dreams points out, that’s 14 percent higher than a month ago and 64 percent higher than a year ago, all thanks to Trump’s illegal war on Iran. An increase in diesel prices presages higher inflation.  

ON THE SHOW TODAY

9/14: Sam and Emma are in the studio today. Their guests are Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, joining to discuss their new book, "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World." Naomi Klein is a professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia and an award-winning journalist and author. Astra Taylor is a documentarian, writer and co-founder of The Debt Collective 

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

UK Finally Turns On Israel

I would be more likely to believe the English government has changed its tune if it halted the criminalization of Palestine Action supporters, which continues to ruin people’s lives.

Trump Is Obsessed With Talarico's Meat Intake

Repression can take people to some weird places.

PARTING WORDS

“Well, they’re worried we’re gonna win this race in Texas.”

– Texas Democratic nominee for US Senate James Talrico, explaining to Jimmy Kimmel why ABC demoted his interview from TV to YouTube. You can watch the whole thing here.

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