Jogging Judges | Still Running Hard
THE DECK | TRUTH ENGINE 2550 ™
Jogging Judges 2026 ™
The IMF estimates that in 2022 the United States effectively subsidized fossil fuels by roughly $760 billion, mostly not through direct checks but through unpriced costs, the health and environmental damages that don’t show up at the pump. When those costs stay off the balance sheet, the public eats the difference, and the industry keeps the margin. That scale creates a predictable political gravity: if hundreds of billions are at stake, you should expect relentless pressure on regulators, courts, and elections to keep the price of pollution artificially low.
STILL RUNNING HARD
Questions about judicial ethics illustrate how difficult it is to surface hidden costs once they’re embedded in the system. Public reporting has documented undisclosed gifts and a forgiven six-figure loan to a sitting Supreme Court justice, alongside extensive financial support received by a spouse — yet no formal, independent fact-finding process exists to establish what happened, what was reported, or whether rules were violated. The point isn’t the outcome of any one case. It’s that when transparency depends on voluntary disclosure, opacity becomes normal. The same dynamic applies at scale when pollution costs stay unpriced: what isn’t formally accounted for quietly shifts onto the public.
This morning’s news turned breakfast into nausea.
Violence doesn’t just happen.
Who ordered that meal?
TJ Baden | CreatorHuman™
