Don't fall for it TX! As soon as those assholes win their elections, it's full steam ahead. youtu.be/n6qf403wEPM?...
Texas halts power grid connections for new data centers
YouTube video by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
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Meercat
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Information addict. I promise you do not want to follow me. I will annoy you at 2am with my OCD information gathering.
NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN
We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.
open.substack.com
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
katemanne.substack.com
As of last night, there are now *7* pastors, former pastors and seminarians who've become Democratic nominees running for Congress. Some have already won safe Dem seats, and several are in hotly contested races. In multiple cases, the GOP has attacked their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
religionnews.com
North Korea is deploying ballistic missiles to attack Europeans. The missiles have bigger payloads, longer range, and are less accurate than the ballistic missiles the russian terrorist state uses. What are Europeans and Americans doing to stop North Korea? Absolutely nothing.
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 7h agoNorth Korea has begun deploying a 90-person missile unit with 6 launchers and 120 ballistic missiles to Russia's Voronezh region. Here's what it means ⬇️ 🧵 1/3
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 19h agoFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
The thing about tactical nukes is that we deployed them across Asia during the Cold War but withdrew them starting in the 70s (Japan/Okinawa, Taiwan, Philippines) because they were security/logistical/political headaches and basically made obsolete by sea and CONUS based forces.
Jesse Johnson@jljzen.bsky.social · 7h agoThe Defense Department’s policy chief is drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy that emphasizes the possible use of shorter-range tactical weapons in case of a regional war with China or Russia, according to five people familiar with the plans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
After Trump lost in 2020, Flynn threatened a “shooting civil war” and urged Trump to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law so the military could conduct a new election. That’s the kind of person who got $1.25 million of your money. 3/4🧵
Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election
‘Only then can the winning candidate be accepted as legitimate’
independent.co.uk
In December 2015, before Trump won the presidency and chose Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, Flynn took a $45,000 fee for giving a speech in Moscow at an event for RT, a state-controlled Russian “news” outlet. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin sat beside him at the banquet. 2/4🧵
Russians paid Mike Flynn $45k for RT speech, documents show
The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency earned more than $50,00 from giving speeches RT and two other Russian companies.
nbcnews.com
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
theguardian.com
Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
It's the latest cybersecurity incident involving frontier models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI.
cnb.cx
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
For four years the world has been warning Europe: They’re carving up the planet, and the Oligarchs aren’t stopping at Ukraine. Git yer shit together!
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 11h ago❗️🇩🇪🇺🇦 A drone with explosives and a detonator was found on the ground at Leipzig Airport at night. The drone was near a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane, which caused the airport to temporarily suspend operations, - Bild
Ukrainian drone strike destroys Wildberries distribution center in Aleksin, Russia tonight, footage shows facility fully engulfed in flames.
One thing people should notice, Dems are turning out in almost 2X the numbers of GOP in Michigan so far for this
Susan Collins is very concerned about Blanche’s politicalisation of the DOJ… because Cassidy, Murkowski &/or Fetterman gave her a 👍
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h agoThe same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”
New climate finance scam just dropped: Colorado ranchers scam index-based drought insurance for $3M by putting pie tins over rain gauges. HT @bryanwx.bsky.social
Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidies
Two southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought co...
cbsnews.com
America’s chain of command is just billionaires tugging on Trump’s leash from different directions.
🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri blocks anti-gerrymander referendum from November ballot in attempt to silence voters
Voter advocates are expected to immediately challenge the move and ask the courts to ensure that Missouri voters have the final say on the map.
democracydocket.com
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
mediaite.com
Exclusive: Sen. Rand Paul published Anthony Fauci's diary entries without redacting the names or medical details of over 20 people, including people with cancer, Ebola or HIV. www.notus.org/health-scien...
Rand Paul’s Fauci Diary Dump Exposed Peoples’ Medical Histories
The Republican senator’s office published over 20 individuals’ health information without redaction.
notus.org
This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
🚢A cargo ship was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday, forcing the crew to abandon the vessel, w/ one seafarer missing, according to Reuters & UK Maritime Trade Ops. The Liberia-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Minoan Pioneer was hit while sailing northbound...
