Readers who value tight informative posting might want to skip this post. It expands in its own way on a link in the directly below post.

 It started with the sentence, "Creativity amazes. One need not have Jensen and the spy as a theme to sue."

After completing the post the thought formed, the source linked was unfamiliar, and about a strange lawsuit - strange to me - that I hadn't second sourced. The link:  https://magica.com/news/nvidia-shareholder-derivative-ai-training-data-lawsuit suggested by experience as if some marginal AI outlet and AI is known to "halucinate." In particular, the web has stories about legal briefs citing non-existant cases.

That started a string of links, where the thought process might interest some readers. First, check that site.

search =  magica PRICING, since if it is someone's AI product, pricing would pin it down. That search got https://magica.com/pricing so this -

Black Friday only. Not sold the rest of the year.

Lifetime

$499Was $1,999one-time

Pay once for Lifetime access. No recurring subscription fee.

Includes

• 15M credits per month
• 100M bonus credits at purchase
• Lifetime access with a one-time payment
• No recurring subscription fee

That said to me, remember there was a "lifetime" gym club offering which proved to be for the lifetime of the promoting LLC, not for any buyer lifetime. Lifetime being elastic that way. The thought is magrinal AI stuff is now out in droves, beyond Anthropic, OpenAI or Grok, which are market share leaders.

 https://theravenstack.com/magica-ai-pricing/ gave pricing info, and said that site was based on catalog of price info for different offerings, but that was not explored. Ditto: https://filipkonecny.com/blog/magica-ai-pricing/ Beyond HuggingFace. Ditto: https://ai-alternative.com/ and https://ai-alternative.com/tool/magica

So, interesting that web niche. Now, on to second sourcing - was the magica case real or hallucinating?

search = JESSICA BERLINER FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST NVIDIA DIRECTORS 

The case is real, but several sources for legal case searching were identified. Good to know that.

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/illinois/ilndce/1:2026cv09153/505282 = helpful.

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/66013782/Berliner_v_Huang_et_al  leads to a service, Pacer, wanting to SELL users its product. A story to itself. https://www.pacermonitor.com/pricing

 There is what looks like an AI service for lawyers not wanting to submit a brief with bogus links, and telling you about a case. https://trace.law/monitor/cases/berliner-v-huang-df5a12bedecd7dd6 

And Google Scholar does exist presenting free caselaw, not a paid service. Intuitive to use, with the main G.Scholar use being for tech literature searching, what's online, what's not.

Opening Google Scholar - federal cases - search =  Berliner v. Huang --- Try it. Since the action has not yielded any published case by that name, you get stuff. Google Scholar - case law is for finding online text of published cases. Not for docket and/or filings.

Going back to search = Berliner v. Huang -- one item, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/nvidias-board-is-latest-sued-by-shareholders-over-ai-scraping

Great. Except Bloomberg is paywalled, all its web presence. You get a blurb, for free.

One free access returned item: https://www.thebrief.news/en/standard/article/8267/nvidia-shareholder-sues-jensen-huang-and-board-over-use-of-copyrighted-works-to-train-ai deserves mention. It is descriptive, including

What makes this case unusual is who is suing. Most AI-training copyright disputes to date have been brought by creators — authors, musicians, artists — who say their work was taken without permission. Berliner's suit turns that logic inside out: she is arguing that by exposing the company to that very legal risk, Nvidia's leadership failed the shareholders they are supposed to protect.

Nvidia has faced a steady stream of such copyright claims. Three authors sued the company in March 2024, alleging it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its AI. Reuters In March 2026, a 3D artist filed proposed class actions against Nvidia, Meta and Roblox, alleging the companies misused millions of 3D models. Reuters In June 2026, music company Jamendo sued Nvidia, claiming it used Jamendo's music and data to train its Fugatto and Audio Flamingo AI models. Reuters

Berliner's complaint reframes those earlier suits not as separate grievances from outside parties but as evidence that Nvidia's own leadership created a liability for the company it runs. Bloomberg Law

The case is at its earliest stage. No trial date has been set, and Nvidia has not yet filed its response in court.

The implication is bookmark that site if you anticpate any future legal case search, in hope it gives worthwhile descriptive returned output. It's a better bet than Bloomberg's blurbs, and that site showed up in the initial search page - the first returned stuff w/o having to scroll further. 

BOTTOM LINE: = the case is real, and not near to any resolution. Nvidia, being sued, has no choice but to appear and defend. Or settle on some shakedown terms. It is interesting some plaintiff/lawyer combo came up with the idea of filing a lengthy shareholders derivative action using original author litigation against AI training on web scraped data w/o paying a thing to copyright holders.

Value to following the thinking steps in searching and second sourcing a single link source where the source is unfamiliar, likely AI, and possibly AI hallucinating. Not the tightest Crabgrass posting, but there online for anyone who cares.

 

 ___________________UPDATE_______________

Peeling more facts from web content -

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/66013782/Berliner_v_Huang_et_al  notes a filed paper

ATTORNEY Appearance for Plaintiff Jessica Berliner by David Wissbroecker (Wissbroecker, David)

in the Jessica Berliner lawsuit. Searching the name >> https://www.bottinilaw.com/attorneys  and the firm's homepage: https://www.bottinilaw.com/ >> https://www.bottinilaw.com/sites/default/files/nvidia-v-huang.pdf - the 104p federal suit item filed in Chicago

https://www.bottinilaw.com/node/194 is of interest since it is a parallel filing against Adobe to the filing against Nvidia:

Case Category

Shareholder Derivative Action

On June 16, 2026, BOTTINI & BOTTINI, INC. filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit on behalf of Adobe Inc. shareholders seeking to hold certain current and former officers and directors accountable for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and related misconduct arising from Adobe’s artificial intelligence strategy and public representations concerning its AI products.

The case -- Hirschberger et al. v. Narayen et al., Case No. 5:26-cv-05882 -- is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

The complaint alleges that Adobe and certain of its senior executives repeatedly represented to investors and customers that its AI products, including Firefly, were trained exclusively on licensed and public-domain content and were therefore “commercially safe” for enterprise use. According to the complaint, Adobe’s AI-development efforts allegedly relied on datasets that incorporated unauthorized copyrighted materials, exposing the Company to significant legal, financial, and reputational risks.

The complaint further alleges that despite public assurances regarding responsible AI development and respect for creator rights, Adobe failed to implement adequate oversight and compliance controls to prevent the use of allegedly infringing training data. The lawsuit contends that these practices contributed to copyright infringement litigation against Adobe and caused substantial harm to the Company.

According to the complaint, Adobe repurchased approximately $26.89 billion of its own stock between March 2024 and February 2026 at allegedly inflated prices while the market was unaware of the full extent of the Company’s exposure to copyright-related claims and risks associated with its AI strategy.

The complaint also alleges that investor concerns intensified following the filing of multiple copyright infringement lawsuits against Adobe and the subsequent resignations of the Company’s CEO and CFO in 2026, events that contributed to significant declines in Adobe’s stock price.

Frank A. Bottini, Jr. of Bottini & Bottini, counsel for plaintiffs, stated: “Adobe repeatedly assured investors and customers that its AI products were developed responsibly and trained only on content for which the Company had the necessary rights. This action seeks to hold Adobe’s officers and directors accountable for the substantial harm allegedly caused by their failure to ensure that those representations were accurate and that appropriate compliance controls were in place.”

The complete complaint can be downloaded from the link below.

CONTACT:

BOTTINI & BOTTINI, INC.
Frank A. Bottini, Jr.
7817 Ivanhoe Ave., Suite 102
La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 914-2001
fbottini@bottinilaw.com

Document(s)

(2026-06-16) Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint.pdf

That pdf shows, with study, that it is not a cookie-cutter cause of action theme, but clearly parallel

Suing a shareholders derivative action that insider failure to respect and deal correctly over content copyright has damaged the firm in some recoverable damages amount

It is a clever theory of the case, and other firms are ripe for similar litigation.

The firm's landmark won lawsuit? As cocounsel, https://bottinilaw.com/other-case/twitter-inc 

All neater stuff than chasing ambulances. How in a specific instance Crabgrass enlarged upon a single search return, to second source, and to find a very neat theory of the case derivative action approach.

Also - search = Hirschberger et al. v. Narayen et al., Case No. 5:26-cv-05882 -- is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California

That search string was from one of the Bottini firm's pages >> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73490781/hirschberger-v-narayen/ 

When cases are found to have had courtlistener.com pages produced online, that is about as good as you can get to follow how the litigation unfolds without having to pay a price for Pacer access. 

 

Readers should try search = shareholder derivative suit possibliity and Security Fraud actual filing rosen against Nvidia and/or Huang

 In Africa an unfortunate antelope or gnu may be killed by lions, with hyenas and jackals later moving in for a share of the kill. Nvidia and Jensen - think of that African analogy. The lions and scavengers seek meat. It is the way of predation. As natural as an oak tree growing. There is content online already on point, which the headline search should return.

Also, readers can try a simple search = Nvidia Huang lawsuits 

Some items: 

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/the-race-is-on-to-sue-nvidia/

https://www.firstpost.com/world/nvidia-jensen-huang-shareholder-lawsuit-china-spy-links-divorce-speculation-14058878.html 

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/courtside/can-nvidia-shareholders-sue-a-ceo-over-an-alleged-spy-affair/ 

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/09/nvidia-sued-jensen-huang-alleged-spy-affair-01157660

 https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/kistemacher-vs-nvidia-complaint.pdf 

https://www.courthousenews.com/nvidia-shareholder-sues-over-ceos-undisclosed-affair-with-purported-spy/ linking to a filed item in LA

Predation makes the world go 'round. It's called "rule of law" in general. 

UPDATE: Creativity amazes. One need not have Jensen and the spy as a theme to sue. All you need to sue Nvidia is a lawyer to file, and the filing fee. And a thought, not necessarily a good one, but a thought of some basis to avoid ouster via a Rule 12(b)(6) motion. (Or per Rule 56 Summary Judgement.) Get the claim to a jury, who knows, it's wilder than a bench trial.

And don't take that as legal advice. It is only an opinion about the law. Anyone can have opinions about the law. Good, bad, or awful. You don't need expertise or a license to have an opinion. You've got the First Amendment after all. 

FURTHER: I was once given an opinion on the law, as, "You can do anything you want until a judge tells you to stop." 

FURTHER: A source Crabgrass found helpful; https://finance.yahoo.com/video/jensen-huang-affair-impacts-trump-220800564.html Despite that, the story is still evolving, and no non-paywall source better than the finance.yahoo item has been seen by Crabgrass.

FURTHER: https://www.dw.com/en/megaspeed-and-the-battle-to-go-high-end-nvidia-chips-into-china/a-79909129 states -

The US government investigation began in 2024. The Commerce Department initially began looking into Megaspeed, but the US Justice Department has since taken over. According to the New York Times, this switch came about after an Nvidia executive directly contacted the Commerce Department about the investigation.

And despite that timing, the fan is only loading up now? 

FUERTHER: EmptyWheel has a follow up post which Crabgress finds a bit confusing: https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/10/the-investigation-of-nvidia-is-about-something-else/  

 

 

Guardian this morning has two interesting items. A challenger to Fetterman in 2028 announces, and the Knesset will have a new nominee for speaker, in Israel.

 The Fetterman challenge.

The Knesset speaker. 

 

AP on YouTube: LIVE: Rep. Thomas Massie files resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KIddSUUWOo

Massie enters Articles of Impeachment, 1hr 51min - posted today, hours ago, apparently.

 

 

Hegseth video posted on youtube, make of it what you feel it deserves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUd0i9drgL4 

 ___________UPDATE___________

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117576401180733840 

There seems to be a paranoia sickness going around, or to be precise, being cooked up with venom.

This stuff is ugly, and Republicans having been hammered by the electorate does not deserve this shit in return.

Or am I wrong?

 FURTHER: What this level of dumb stuff ssuggests - along with Stephen Miller being promoted - is that the Trump strategy is to try to provoke the Congressional Dems into a mean and viscous pissing match where things get so partisan that the people are turned off against both sides. Both Parties. Where an assertion of Congressional preeminence being the heart of the Constitution will play out like two hostile mobs fighting each other. 

The answer appears to be, pass legislation as the people's vote has favored, and have the Creep in Chief be forced to sign or veto. Do not get into a partisan swamp fight. Take the high road, to keep the public awareness that the aims people have are being stymied by the wealth-mongers of the Republican vanguard. That but for Trump, things would be fixed quickly, but * * *

It just seems sensible to not get sucked into a king sized pissing match, because --- No Kings!

 

 

 

Crabgrass learned from today's post at EmptyWheel of a national security concern for an affair between Jensen Huang, the man behind Nvidia, and an Alice Huang of Singapore's Megaspeed data farm builder in multiple Asian locations. The intelligence community is concerned. The claim by Nvidia is no unauthorized Nvidia state-of-the-art chips reached mainland China and no trade secret compromise ensued despite the personal interactions. .

 EmptyWheel link: https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/09/honey-trap-huang/

Readers may access that, but Crabgrass notes an Israeli outlet's reporting: https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/11/08/jensen-huang-nvidia-megaspeed-intelligence-report/, quoting in part:

Congress demands answers from Nvidia's Jensen Huang over romance with suspected Chinese agent

US intelligence suspects Alice Huang of Singapore's Megaspeed was recruited by China's MSS to influence AI chip export policy. House committee chairs have set November 18 for a closed-door briefing.

by  Shachar Shapiro

Published on  11-08-2026 09:15

Last modified: 11-08-2026 13:32

According to an internal intelligence document circulated to senior officials in the administration of President Donald Trump, the US intelligence community has concluded that Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang (no family relation), a senior executive at the Singapore technology company Megaspeed. The heavy intelligence suspicion is that Alice Huang was recruited by the MSS, China's Ministry of State Security (Beijing's main intelligence and espionage agency), in order to carry out a targeted intelligence-gathering operation around the Nvidia CEO and to influence policy on exporting advanced chips to China.

The relationship between the two quickly crossed professional boundaries and developed into a personal relationship that continued under close electronic and physical surveillance by US intelligence agencies for more than a year.  

 [...] Megaspeed, where Alice Huang is employed, is not an unknown entity to Nvidia. The company operates as an official cloud partner that buys enormous quantities of equipment and graphics processing units (GPUs) from the American company and rents out computing power to AI development firms around the world.

But in recent months, Megaspeed has been under intense scrutiny from US law enforcement and intelligence officials, on suspicion that it operates as a conduit for smuggling advanced AI chips into China, in blatant circumvention of American export restrictions. According to the reports, intelligence agencies identified that the Chinese tried to exploit the closeness between the pair to obtain sensitive technological information about next-generation processors, and even to apply pressure to persuade Nvidia to keep supplying premium chips to the Chinese market.

 The timing of the report's disclosure has set off a major political storm in Washington. The intelligence document was passed to the administration shortly before the summit meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and in the wake of the US midterm election results, congressional leaders from both parties are now demanding immediate answers.

 In the world of intelligence, a "honey trap" is a classic espionage tactic in which intelligence agencies use romantic or sexual relationships to get close to key figures, build trust with them, extract sensitive information from them or blackmail them. In Nvidia's case, the target is not traditional military secrets – but AI chips. China lags behind the United States technologically in semiconductors, and American law prohibits selling it the most powerful chips (such as the H100 and H200 series).

Without those processors, China cannot train language models that would compete with the West or develop AI-based weapons systems. For that reason, any personal access to the person who holds the keys to the global chip industry is worth billions of dollars to Chinese intelligence.

 Intelligence investigations revealed the precise path by which Megaspeed circumvented trade restrictions. The company built giant server farms across Southeast Asia and rented their computing power directly to the Chinese tech giant Alibaba – which allowed Chinese companies to run advanced models without physically purchasing the chips.

Moreover, a mapping of the investor network behind Megaspeed in Shanghai and Zhejiang uncovered direct financial ties to CETC, one of the giants among technology and electronics manufacturers for China's military. Behind the operation stands the MSS, led by Minister Chen Yixin, who oversees hundreds of thousands of agents and has designated the top ranks of the Western silicon industry as a top-priority intelligence target.

To understand why Chinese intelligence invested such heavy resources around a single person, one has to look at the engineering gap that has opened between the powers. Beijing's strategic goal of becoming the global AI leader by 2030 is crashing against Nvidia's silicon supremacy. The current flagship processor from the Blackwell generation, the GB300, delivers about 7,500 teraflops (trillion operations per second), measured in FP4 calculations, while drawing only 1,400 watts. The company's next-generation platform, Rubin, is expected to catapult that figure to 66,700 teraflops.

By contrast, the most advanced alternatives from China's Huawei, the Ascend 910C series and the new Ascend 950 processors, lag behind Nvidia by roughly three to four years. Because of the Western boycott on advanced lithography machines (EUV) and a shortage of HBM (high-bandwidth memory) components, the Chinese have been forced to link hundreds of processors in giant arrays such as the CloudMatrix 384 in order to train local models such as DeepSeek and Qwen.

 But the energy cost is unbearable. A single Huawei server rack draws about 559 kilowatts, compared with only 120 kilowatts in Nvidia's equivalent NVL72 system. Add to that Nvidia's absolute control of the CUDA development environment, since switching from it to China's CANN environment consumes months of grueling work and hurts efficiency, and it is clear why Beijing prefers to obtain the original by any means.

 Megaspeed is a multi-billion dollar customer of Nvidia, so it got prime customer attention independent of Jensen Huang's personal love affair.

The House Select Committee on China, together with the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees, sent Huang an official letter demanding that he appear for a confidential closed-door briefing, to explain his contacts with Alice Huang and the security protocols meant to protect the company from espionage by foreign powers.

The chairs of the House committees on China, foreign affairs and intelligence have already set an official date. Huang is required to appear for the confidential briefing on Capitol Hill on November 18, where he will be asked to provide a detailed answer about the information disclosed to Alice Huang and the level of security that prevents foreign spies from penetrating the company's production lines and chip plans.

At the same time, Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who is expected to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced that he will open a comprehensive investigation into what he described as "the insane connection between the Trump administration, Chinese spies and the AI billionaires."

That says the situation will be sensationalized with finger pointing between the two stranglehold parties.

[...] The mounting public pressure and the anger of congressional lawmakers have already exacted an immediate toll on policy. The affair upended the plans and completely halted the government initiative formulated earlier this year between Huang and Trump, which was meant to allow Nvidia to keep selling customized H200 chips to the Chinese market in exchange for the US government taking a 25% cut. [...]

This story did not break public until days ago when NYT published. Trump had notice of intelligence when most recently meeting Xi, but if earlier, Crabgrasss found no report of it. It appears Nvidia only in the last few days was given notice of intelligence concern over the relationship, and the board is launching its own investigation with outside counsel. 

Why now, and how independent of political scheming of the Trump administration are current intelligence agencies? The particular agency which broke the story, giving Nvidia its first official government notice, is not identified, per Crabgrass reading, so far. The timing is interesting.

Crabgrass speculates the timing and its market effect will delay Anthropic's planned IPO, and shake market nerves. Timed now, where the AI bubble may be poised to break and after Musk got his SpaceX IPO first and a big money market - may well have been a carefully planned and timed release. After the blue wave, give them the AI bubble splat on their congressional watch being possible Trumpian thinking. Or not? It is guesswork based on circumstantial inference.

What is unclear, is whether anything of actual intelligence and market leadership value was compromised.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-jensen-huang-email-board-of-directors-statement.html presents Huang's memo to Nvidia employees and Nvidia's board memo - details are there.

https://emeraldbook.org/news/nov-0826-3/  a site not generally known to Crabgrass does have its own published story interstitialy different from that quoted above. Between the two, facts are laid out.

search = alice hunag security risk -- shows the story has widespread reporting, with Crabgrass reading and reporting NOT trying to exhaustively read and report all coverage. Readers can do their own searching.

________________UPDATE______________

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairmen-mast-moolenaar-and-crawford-request-jensen-huang-brief-congress-on-link-to-chinese-intelligence-asset 

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/05/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-spy-congress.html 

FURTHER:  It might just be me, but I infer the bbc deliberately ran this leading image in its report, as a reminder of the infamous Al Franken grope photo. I cannot believe it coincidence. It was deliberate.

FURTHER: Adding confusion to the question of timing of intelligence community reporting, and public disclosure, as in what did Nvidia know and when did it know it; and whether the Trump administration was monkeying around with things back in 2025: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6206971-nvidia-investigates-jensen-huang/ Also, another report noted intelligence awareness of questions when a Malaysian affiliate of Magaspeed was observed to have still packaged Nvidia equipment as if not for local deployment but transshipment, without noting a specific date. Link got lost on that. 

The questions of public release of the Huang-Huang closeness - when and why then disclose it - are of interest but not clearly specified in any source Crabgrass examined. Crabgrass speculates above, but it is guesswork. Is it simple China bashing or tactical release timing to jigger the market? Musk got his IPO and Anthropic is planning one, but there is market sensitivity.

Also, blowing the concerns public now allows lame duck Republican led hearings, whereas release after January's shift in power would put Dems in charge. Is there info manipulation, or just how things evolved without any manipulation of timing of info going public? 

Jensen Huang is reported as the largest non-institutional Nvidia shareholder, but at around 4% and not at a stranglehold of control shares, so there could be a purge and change in leadership. Timing may be a factor given that, but a connection is unclear. The politics of it might not be actual, and it all could be chance disclosure. Or not?

FURTHER: Head hunting at CNN. 

Guardian does truth = "The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country. Constants do not produce change. It was a Democratic party committed to “centrism” that lost the House in 2022. A promise to maintain the status quo did not win Kamala Harris the 2024 presidency. And while some want to point to centrist victories in this blue wave, what is newsworthy is how Democratic politics have, in the last two years, shifted towards progressives and socialists, in campaigns powered by people and their small donations rather than big corporations and their money."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/08/democratic-party-midterm-election-centrism 

The post is headlined via two early paragraphs of the Guardian's item, run together.

More from Guardian's analysis -

Take the wins of eight card-carrying democratic socialists who are entering the House of Representatives, three of whom – Avila Chevalier, Melat Kiros and Donavan McKinney – are unseating establishment candidates to do so. Avila Chevalier, who was an immigration organizer and part of the student encampment, ran because her opponent, Adriano Espaillat, refused to meet with Mahmoud Khalil’s family when he was abducted by ICE and also refused to call for the agency’s abolition.

Their victories were facilitated by Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York last year. But what paved the way for him, and them, I have argued, was the pro-Palestine movement that put their bodies on the line and that made it so that most Democrats are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

It is a shift that the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) itself recognized when it declared that it will no longer endorse candidates or give campaign contributions; that its money was now toxic and served as a flag to Democratic voters not to support their candidates.

Senators-elect Troy Jackson and El-Sayed – who are progressive, but not DSA members – have called what’s happening in Palestine a “genocide” and won contentious competitions doing so in Maine and Michigan respectively. James Talarico in Texas said “God is screaming at all of us in Gaza as we speak”.

A similar thing happened with regards to other social movements. Today 77% of Democrats (and half of all Americans) support abolishing Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE), a position incredibly unpopular in the last two decades that activists have been organizing for it.

Democrats, who have long been in bed with tech, ran against AI datacenters, pushed by organizers who emphasized their destruction of the environment, water supply and social effects on everything from student learning, theft of intellectual property, to the creation of nonconsensual porn.

But these problems, while shaping candidate platforms, were secondary to economic issues for most voters. Gallup polling just before the election showed healthcare (68%) as the number one issue that registered Democrats found “extremely important”. An earlier poll from You-Gov indicates what they want: a staggering 85% of Democrats support Medicare for All.

The same Gallup poll showed that for Democratic voters it’s not just the economy that’s the top concern for their vote, but specifically “income and wealth distribution” (65%) over and above gas prices (53%). Said in a different way it’s not just “affordability” that people want, it’s affordability through justice and social programming – it’s redistribution ie socialist policy.

The blue wave is cause for celebration – the Democratic party is in a two party system, the only alternative we currently have to a Republican party that has gotten unfathomably brutal, that wears white supremacy like a crown.

However, the Democratic party too is a part of the same political machinery that has funded ICE administration after administration. That has funded the genocide in Gaza. That did not succeed in enshrining healthcare for all, or cancelling student debt. That has not brought us the progressive, socialist policy that Americans crave. And it is unclear, despite this pressure from voters, that the party is going to do differently this time.

Read the rest at the link given at the top of this post.