"we need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever"

PRESENTED BY FIERY OFFERINGS TO MOLOCH

At 6 pm, Tesla Takedown is hosting a Dance Against DOGE Slumber Party outside the DOGE-occupied General Services Administration headquarters at 1800 F St NW. Wear your pajamas!

Google billionaire Eric Schmidt, who last year went full fracking-powered universal-paperclip, is the star witness at a House Energy and Commerce hearing on the energy, transmission, and computing infrastructure demands of data centers. The other witnesses are former Biden climate official David Turk, Micron Technology executive Manish Bhatia, and 24-year-old tech billionaire Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Scale AI’s managing director Michael Kratsios is a DOGE staffer and Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

“Most importantly, we need the energy” the tech sociopath Schmidt testified. “What we need from you, is we need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever. It needs to be there, and it needs to be there quickly.”

“Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3% to 99% of total generation.”¹

He called for hundreds of new fracked-gas power plants to help build AI “superintelligence” that will magically solve climate change after it’s too late.

I say this without hyperbole: this is a death cult.

Schmidt and all of the other witnesses are modern-day Moloch cultists.

In the afternoon, the Joint Economic Committee Committee holds another death-cult hearing on DOGE, AI, and federal government efficiency. Witnesses include Koch operative Neil Chilson, American Enterprise Institute’s Brian J. Miller, GAO chief scientist Dr. Sterling Thomas, and Andrew Cannarsa, Executive Director, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.

Also at 10 am, Natural Resources holds a markup of bills to rename the Gulf of Mexico, delist gray wolves, expedite industry appeals of public lands decisions, and other issues, and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a hearing on improving future management of the Superfund Program.

At 9 am, the House Appropriations Committee Legislative Branch Subcommittee began its budget hearing with the heads of the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Publishing Office.

At 9:45 am, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted down Democratic oversight resolutions on DOGE and Trump’s inspector general firings.

At 10:30 am, a House Appropriations subcommittee reviews GAO's assessment of the costs of deferred maintenance across the federal government, in support of the DOGE efforts to sell off most of the federal government’s real estate portfolio.

Billionaire sociopath Howard “Howie Nutlick” Lutnick is reviewing all NOAA contracts above $100,000, according to three agency employees who spoke anonymously out of fear of retribution at work.

“Lots of stuff will break,” a NOAA staffer said. “It’s just a matter of time.”

Micah Sifry on Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) two faces: “the shift from transformational performance to transactional panhandling was depressing.”

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser throws shade on Trump calling for a “clean, beautiful” city while he cuts National Park Service trash pickups and policing.

“I think people of principles should quit these law firms,” Neera Tanden challenges Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff, Harris’s advisor Karen Dunn, Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Obama U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to cut ties to Big Law that has bent the knee to Trump.

“Big Oil won, Californians lost”: the California State Senate Judiciary Committee rejected SB 222, the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act.

Hearings on the Hill:

• 9 AM: House Appropriations Committee
     Legislative Branch Subcommittee
  Budget Hearing for the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Publishing Office

• 9 AM: House Appropriations Committee
     Homeland Security Subcommittee
  Member Day for Homeland Security

• 9:45 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
  Vote on Nominations of Brian Nesvik to be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Jessica Kramer and Sean Donahue to be Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency

• 9:45 AM: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
  Markup of Oversight Resolutions on Inspector General Firings and DOGE

• 10 AM: House Appropriations Committee
     Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
  Member Day for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development

• 10 AM: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
  Nominations Hearing for Jared Isaacman to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Olivia Trusty to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission

• 10 AM: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
  Vote on Nominations of Kate MacGregor to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior and James Danly to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Markup of Conservation and Mining Legislation

• 10 AM: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
  Vote on Nominations of Scott Kupor to be Director, Office of Personnel Management, and Eric Ueland to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget

• 10 AM: House Natural Resources Committee
  Markup of Bills to Rename the Gulf of Mexico, Delist Gray Wolves, Expedite Appeals of Public Lands Decisions, and other issues

• 10 AM: House Energy and Commerce Committee
  Energy, Transmission, and Computing Infrastructure Needs of AI

• 10 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
  Improving Future Management of the Superfund Program

• 10:30 AM: House Appropriations Committee
     Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
  Public Witness Day for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education

• 10:30 AM: House Appropriations Committee
     Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
  GAO's Assessment of the Costs of Deferred Maintenance Across the Federal Government

• 2:30 PM: Joint Economic Committee Committee
  DOGE, AI, and Federal Government Efficiency

Climate Action Today:

• 6 PM: Tesla Takedown
  Dance Against DOGE Slumber Party

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1  Schmidt may have said “Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3% to 90 [sic] — 9% of total generation.” In any case, as Jonathan Koomey notes, there are papers that project data center demand will go to 100% of generation by 2030.