It was all over for her when a real communist showed up

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills ends Senate campaign, clearing way for left-winger Graham Platner

She’s an unpopular, 78-year-old governor, so not an ideal candidate to begin with, but Platner and his “progressive” politics put paid to her campaign. Maine’s gone far, far left, and Mills’ endorsements from the old establishment Democrats like Chuck Schumer were meaningless. Hang onto your wallets.

Co-Op City woes

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(Spoiler alert: monthly maintenance fees for a 1-bedroom apartment in this moderate-income “affordable housing” project will jump from $900 to $4,000)

Co-op City: What It Looks Like When Energy Reality Catches Up To You

Co-op City, located (like the Yankees) in the New York City borough known as The Bronx, is the largest co-op apartment community in the City, and indeed in the United States. Built in the 1960s and 70s, it has more than 15,000 residential units in some 35 high-rise buildings, plus a smaller number of townhouses.

…. [It] has now suddenly become ground zero in the clash between energy fantasy and reality that is starting to come into focus as the deadlines of the State’s and City’s 2019 climate statutes start to get closer. The New York Post reports on the reality side of the story in a large piece today with the headline “NY’s climate mandates may send fees in affordable Co-Op City complex soaring from $950 to $4K.”

Meanwhile, over on the reality side of the equation, at Co-op City, they are confronting the actual costs compliance with the impending and overlapping mandates of both the State’s and City’s climate statutes. Co-op City is an owner-occupied community, so the costs of compliance will fall on the owner-occupants. The racial demographics of the community, per NICHE.com, are: 64% African-American, 28% Hispanic, 4% white, and 4% other. [*] So this is not exactly your vision of the snooty Park Avenue Manhattan co-op. Co-op City currently has its own power plant — fueled by natural gas — that provides all the electricity for the complex, as well as heat, hot water, and air-conditioning. Monthly maintenance bills to the owners, which include the cost of energy, currently average about $950 for a one-bedroom unit.

Co-op City’s current fossil fuel power plant is apparently quite efficient, but not enough so to meet the impending deadlines of New York City’s Local Law 97 [and the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019] Co-Op City will be forced to shut down its natural gas power plant and replace it with carbon-free clean energy sources such as wind, solar, hydropower and battery storage. They have now done studies on the prospective cost of that, and the Post reports on the results in today’s piece. Excerpt:

A top Co-Op City official warned that residents could pay four times more in monthly maintenance charges if New York State’s controversial green-energy laws aren’t peeled back. Jeffrey Buss, Co-Op City’s general counsel, claimed monthly maintenance fees could skyrocket from $950 for a one-bedroom to more than $4,000 to pick up the tab for the edicts. . . . [T]he state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019, coupled with a city green energy law [Local Law 97], would force Co-Op City to shut down its natural gas power plant and replace it with carbon-free clean energy sources such as wind, solar, hydropower and battery storage, [Buss] said.

So between the costs of the electric heat conversion, closing their own efficient power plant, and buying lots of additional electricity from Con Edison, they project that the residents’ monthly maintenance costs will multiply by about a factor of four, from under $1000 per month to about $4000. Apparently that’s what the PSC commenters think of as “affordable.”

Co-op City has looked into building “renewable” resources to replace its natural gas power plant, but has figured out that that is completely infeasible:

Buss said it is technologically impossible for Co-op City to completely replace its gas-fueled plant with cleaner energy sources. He said renewable, fossil-free energy sources such as solar, wind, or geo-thermal energy aren’t capable to meet the heating, cooling and electrical demands of Co-Op City. “Although our co-generation turbines can run on 30% hydrogen,” Buss said, “there is no hydrogen supply…I don’t know the solution.”

They do have a plan to install solar panels on top of the parking garages, but those will be capable of providing only a small percentage of their power needs:

Co-op City is diversifying by installing solar panels on top of its garages, which would result in the largest urban solar project in the US. But solar energy would only meet a fraction of Co-op City’s power needs, he said.

Buss’s conclusion: complying with the impending State and City energy mandates would be “foolish.”

*Interesting; when built, its demographics were 70% white (mostly Jewish), 30% other.

Chief Chasing Tail is more like it

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offered an opportunity to speak in his own defense, the medicine man declined, explaining in sign language that he was just a little horse

Judge Sentences Native American ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Nathan Chasing Horse To Life In Prison In Sex Assault Case

A Nevada judge sentenced “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.

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After filming for Kevin Costner’s Oscar-winning film “Dances with Wolves” concluded, Chasing Horse travelled across Indian Country to attend powwows and perform healing ceremonies.

Deputy District Attorney Bianca Pucci told the court that one of his accusers, Corena Leone-LaCroix, was 14 at the time of her alleged encounter with Chasing Horse. She claimed Chasing Horse told her the spirits wanted her to give up her virginity to save her mother, who was diagnosed with cancer. She claimed he then sexually assaulted her and told her to remain silent about the encounter or her mother would die, according to CBS.

I suppose the theory is that, since "they didn't make it", their leaving will make no difference. And everything's going to be free soon, so who needs their money anyway?

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She Seems Nice: Seattle’s Socialist Nepo Mayor Cackles 'BYE' as Wealth Flees Her Dumpster Fire City

It's to be expected from a woman who was sponging off her parents up until she was elected. Is there any Democrat politician who actually supported themselves and had a real job before elected office anymore? Why does the Left keep electing nepo babies? It's weird. 

Oh well! Maybe her parents will bail Seattle out like they did her. 

(Signed into law in March 2026 by Governor Bob Ferguson, Washington’s "Millionaires' Tax" imposes a 9.9% tax on household wage earnings exceeding $1 million annually, starting in 2029.)

In a press release Tuesday, Starbucks announced it will invest $100 million and bring 2,000 new jobs to Nashville. 

Because it's not about the weather, it's about money, control, and ultimately the destruction of western civilization and the creation of Rousseau’s mythical, paradisical state of nature

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Ah, memories!

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Too lengthy to post much of it here, especially when readers can just follow the link to the article itself, but this is well worth the read:

April 29, 2026

COVID SIX YEARS AGO TODAY: Actual headline (still up) at The Atlantic — Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice.

Three weeks later, The Week reported that the Mull’s dark dreams fortunately did not come true: We should be grateful for good news in Georgia.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Atlanta is not burning. Bodies are not piled up in the streets. Hospitals in Georgia are not being overwhelmed; in fact, they are virtually empty. There is no mad rush for ventilators (remember those?). Instead, men, women, and children in the Peach State are returning to some semblance of normal life: working outside their homes, going to restaurants and bars, getting haircuts, exercising, and most important, spending time with their friends and families and worshipping God. The opening that began more than three weeks ago is continuing apace.

Oh, my apologies, you were waiting for bad news? Sorry, I forgot, we were actually not supposed to be rooting for the virus. Despite the apparent relish behind headlines like “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice,” one assumes that most Americans, even the ones most committed to omnidirectional prophecies of doom, were actually hoping this would happen. While it really is a shame that we do not get to gloat about the cravenness and stupidity of yet another GOP politician, I think on balance most of us will be glad to hear that Gov. Brian Kemp was not badly wrong here.

What is happening instead of the widely predicted bloodbath? Confirmed cases of the virus are obviously increasing (though the actual rolling weekly average of new ones have been headed down for nearly a month) while deaths remain more or less flat. This is in fact what happens when you test more people for a disease that is not fatal or even particularly serious for the vast majority of those who contract it, for which the median age of death is higher than the American life expectancy.

How was this possible? One answer is that the lockdown did not in fact do what it was supposed to do, which is to say, meaningfully impede transmission of the virus. In fact, data both from states like Georgia and from abroad suggests that the lifting of lockdowns is positively correlated with a decrease in rates of infection. This could be because lockdowns are inherently ineffective at slowing down a disease whose spread appears to be largely intrafamilial and nosocomial.

Trump, you will remember, did not do well back then:

Georgia’s Republican governor earned bipartisan attacks when he wisely reopened his state in late April: Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Affable Culture Warrior.

Continued at the link.