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Texas hits pause on 1,800 data center projects to scrutinize power and water demands
The state wants more information before granting access. Abbott said applicants must provide tax break details, power use and generation data, water use and cooling plans, steps...
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Progressive politics without the "woke" social justice/racial justice components is libertarianism.
MJ@princessmom122.bsky.social · 12h agoExactly! I’m so sick of being called “centrists” compared to these class reductionists posers. And they are not even great at the class reductionism because everyone with a net worth under a couple million falls into their idea of the needy. It’s absurd.
Falling satellites released 17 metric tons of aluminum oxide into the atmosphere in 2022, per USC research. Full buildout of megaconstellations could push that to 360 tons yearly, a 646 percent increase over natural levels. Viasat petitioned the FCC for an environmental review. None has followed.
#Alaska Thank Trump, Senator Sullivan, & the GOP for jobs lost in the state. www.adn.com/business-eco...
Alaska lost federal jobs at one of the highest rates among states in 2025, report finds
By the fourth quarter of 2025, Alaska’s federal civilian workforce had lost 1,607 jobs, amounting to a 10.5% loss from a year earlier, according to a state report.
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The Survivors’ Truth Commission meets today, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. MDT to present its interim report and walk through its mission investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/08/04/e...
Epstein Truth Commission to present interim report Wednesday - New Mexico Political Report
By Kevin Hendricks The Survivors’ Truth Commission — formally the House Special Investigatory Committee — meets Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. in State Capitol Room 307 to present an interim report and ...
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A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body, like Epstein-Barr virus. This reactivation is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID. Published today in @nature.com:
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
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A group of Democratic lawmakers have asked the Pentagon’s watchdog to open an investigation after The Post revealed that 15 companies with investment from President Trump’s sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments and loans.
Lawmakers call for Pentagon probe of Trump family-backed companies
The letter to the Pentagon’s inspector general was prompted by reporting from The Post that startups affiliated with the president’s sons have won $3.2 billion in defense contracts.
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Trump: “Great news for the Republican Party. El-Sayed, a Communist loser who hates Jews and Israel, is the projected winner in his race with the Socialist.”
So MI's at a bit greater risk But GA, NC & ME look good, and 3 of 4 in OH, AK, IA, & TX looks doable, given the national environment. So I think Democrats are at least 50-50 to take the Senate. And other states not much discussed (e.g., KS) could well be in play. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-still-...
It’s Still a Blue Wave
The fundamentals still apply after Tuesday night’s primaries. And they look good for Democrats.
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Abdul El-Sayed has already started firing off emails begging us evil establishment types for money. So it goes. bsky.app/profile/ecle...
Ragnarok Lobster@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 3d agoThe insurgent left spends the entire primary season calling Democrats the hopelessly corrupt establishment, claims every source of party revenue is tainted by evil, insists any pol who accepts that revenue is compromised, then pivots to demanding that same party revenue if their leftist faves win.
It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.
This would never happen in reverse and all you assholes know it.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 9h agoA gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can’t take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that “weak sensing” hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance. Camera-only is Tesla’s bet, and this was a direct shot at it.
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov explains why camera-only self-driving, the approach Tesla bets on, flattens out before it reaches full autonomy.
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🤦🏾♂️ watched that video of AES supporters volunteering for Stevens to ratfuck while canvassing and look, even if I had a higher opinion of dsa types that would be enough for me to never trust a single one of them. Like imagine the culture that encourages the idea of doing that then posting that you did
Rick, you should be utterly ashamed of yourself and retract this immediately if you have any sense of decency. It is spitting in the face of every good man and woman who has ever fought for this country to suggest combat service regularly turns people into Graham Platner.
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
Hasan Piker's take on the election in Michigan. This should help heal and unite the party there going forward. What an awful person he is.
It made 126 mil but is a box office bomb, cuz the budget was so high. But it's doing well streaming & meanwhile she IS coming back in 2 more movies. I enjoyed the movie, its comic booky alien world sleaze--tho it's directing is uneven, the story sometimes blurry. But it was BIZARRE & I love Krypto.
Supergirl’s Streaming Redemption Has Begun In A Massive Way After $186M Box Office Bombing
What is next for Supergirl?
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This was someone’s response to saying “I hope AES’s supporters will rally together with dems to beat the republicans” Guess that’s a no
ndweiss@11tulips.bsky.social · 11h agoOld-school Dems are prissy defenders of their positions. Someone needs to yank them from their loungers and get them interested in blending Progressive ideals with Democratic traditional values. It can be done.
A leftist narrowly winning a closely divided election in MI after constantly shitting on the Democratic Party & his opponent seems like the worst possible scenario for bringing the party together for a November win.
NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”
Just woke up to learn that it’s still too close to call! NBC called it for Abdul but no one else has yet. Difference as of now: 19,493 or 1.28%.
What I have observed, canvassing for the Michigan Democratic Party, those numbers never felt right to me. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but we need to talk about ratfucked polling as a form of voter suppression.
Jewish Democrat @jeremymoss.bsky.social has handily defeated Aisha Farooqi who said Moss was the "Israel First" candidate.
BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected both an anti-redistricting referendum and the proposed Respect Missouri Voters amendment, arguing both are unconstitutional and setting up a court fight. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
Hoskins rejects Missouri congressional redistricting map referendum, setting up court fight
The GOP Secretary of State's decision was expected. Proponents of placing the GOP-leaning map up for a statewide vote wi
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So hey, misuse of a candidate's campaign data is illegal. Maybe Climate Defiance should be reported to the FEC and the IRS and lose their 501(c)3 status.
The craziest fallout of the Cyclospora situation for me personally is I used to work in a microbiology lab as the one (1) parasitologist. That lab didn't even have the right gear for many of the tests they wanted me to do. Couldn't train me to run the tests right, bc nobody in the lab knew how!
Congressman Mark Takano: “Users deserve to know if a creator has been compensated by a campaign to post for them." takano.house.gov/newsroom/pre...
Rep. Takano Introduces Promoting Authenticity with Influencer Disclaimer (PAID) Act to Demand Disclosure of Campaign Paid Content from Influencers | U.S. Congressman Mark Takano of California's 39th D...
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗@madisonkittay.bsky.social · 3d agoI literally don't care if people are getting paid. I mean, get your money. But it should be disclosed like any paid SM advertiser, LIKE ANY OTHER CAMPAIGN AD. Every other influencer on SM is required to disclose if the product they're touting is a paid partnership. Why not political influencers?
