GOV. ABBOTT: ".. Our top priority is to protect Texans’ safety and quality of life. .. Any project that fails to comply .. must be denied connection to the Texas grid. Simply put, Texans must come first.” #Texas www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/t...

New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them

On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

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Weak…and greedy.

🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️@buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 11h ago

It ended the way we knew it would. So why the charade? Cornyn & Tillis tanking Blanche, a MAGA nominee, would mean being blacklisted from K Street. Staging a delay let them pretend to have principles, while ultimately falling in line to protect their lucrative future lobbying careers.💸 #Blues

Those guys in the carts are in danger.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 11h ago

Come on folks. Give Trump some credit. It’s a lot of work to cheat at 18 holes of golf over 10 years.

He makes no sense.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h ago

This went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.

No experts include PR counsel.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24h ago

Whoever advised Max Miller to go on to Jake Tapper’s show secretly hates him. What a catastrophic interview

They are protecting us from even worse perverts.

Arbaz Kakkar5@arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · yesterday

Is every single GOP politician some kind of a sexual pervert?😳

That it was close makes is more pognant.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 13h ago

Rather absurd framing when you consider the results up and down the ballot, and where expectations were before just the last few weeks.

Pipus putzs at play.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h ago

Pure scum wrapped in fake piety.

Schiff: "The president is entitled to his own views about me or anybody else. He is not entitled, however, to use the DOJ to go after his political opponents. The day we say that's ok and the day we confirm an AG who says that's ok is the day the rule of law becomes merely an unenforceable idea."

The board of a Michigan township agreed to rezone a terrain to make way for a data center. Residents opposed to the data center forced a vote on the matter, and they blocked the rezoning tonight: www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

She ran one of the most reprehensible campaigns I have seen.

Pam Keith@pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 13h ago

Haley Stephens was bolstered by 60 million dollars of outside spending, was bolstered by Schumer and Gillibrand basically extorting McMorrow to drop out, was bolstered by a bunch of Black surrogates coming to her rescue in the Black community, and still lost. The only thing that surprised me

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

Is this the circular firing squad we love to watch.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

We did learn that the power of people beats the power of money.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 16h ago

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution

Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...

democracydocket.com

Data center groupie

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 23h ago

Jocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

This says it best.

Pam Keith@pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 14h ago

Hell YEAHSSSSSs!!! Abdul El Sayed is the Dem nominee for MI. It was closer than I expected. After all, 60 Million dollars buys a lot. But this time, it didn’t buy enough. Organized people beat organized money!

Hell YEAHSSSSSs!!! Abdul El Sayed is the Dem nominee for MI. It was closer than I expected. After all, 60 Million dollars buys a lot. But this time, it didn’t buy enough. Organized people beat organized money!

If you need a smile.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16h ago

A sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post

Should be a Dem theme this coming cycle.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 19h ago

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

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

Meaningless.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · yesterday

Concerned for her seat, Susan Collins is a no on Todd Blanche. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/...

Sixty-nine million American women changed their name when they married. The SAVE Act was written knowing exactly what that means for their paperwork. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

False equivalence from an equivocating but unequivocal coward.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis: "Everybody has this view that they are as pure as the driven snow and it's the other side that has a problem. I think we both have a problem, folks. If you want to talk about weaponization, take a look at Biden, take a look at Obama, take a look at Crossfire Hurricane ... "

Capitol One shut down 300 accounts belonging to Trump because they were flagged for potential money laundering. That was 2021. Imagine if this were Biden. How would America react? But yes "liberal media."

It’s the same bullshit play. She is still a weakling.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · yesterday

👀👀👀👀

When are polls tonight closing? —7pm local time (ET) in Virginia —7pm local time in Missouri, which is 8pm ET —7pm local time in Kansas (8pm or 9pm ET) —8pm local time in Michigan (8pm, mostly, or 9pm ET) —8pm local time in Washington (11pm ET) What to watch? boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Pussy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"