This just happened in Calvert County (Trump +11 in ‘24, hasn’t failed to give a GOP pres. candidate a majority since Dole, hasn’t voted for a Democrat since Carter, etc.) marylandmatters.org/2026/08/04/a...

Amazon abandons plans for data center campus at Calvert Cliffs - Maryland Matters

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data cente...

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Ethan Corson had Kansas unions and the popular Democratic governor going hard for him and he got cooked by ten points by a populist who wants a moratorium on data centers

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 13h ago

Cindy Holscher pulls away in the Kansas gubernatorial primary and will be Democrats' nominee in their toughest gubernatorial defensive race of the cycle

“To be called out by the most powerful person in the world…. and called a sick, violent vandal when all I had done was pick up a piece of trash was awful.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/08/04/woman-recounts-reflecting-pool-arrest-says-she-was-humiliated/

Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken

Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.

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I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

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

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About that South Dakota situation, polling shows the independent Bengs within striking distance of incumbent GOP Sen. Mike Rounds in the 1-to-1 matchup that he wanted and now has www.sdstandardnow.com/home/bengs-t...

Bengs touts poll showing him running close to Rounds — The South Dakota Standard

Editor’s note:  The poll referenced by Lawrence follows his column below Brian Bengs is touting a poll his campaign paid for which makes the case that he can run a very competitive race aga...

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Arraez lifetime is .352 with RISP. This is the best all time for batters with over 500 RISP AB. Gwynn and Carew are second and third.

Yes!!!!!

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 16h ago

Julian Beaudion, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in South Dakota, will withdraw from the race, clearing the path for a one-on-one contest between independent Brian Bengs and incumbent Republican Mike Rounds.

Have these bozos ever been to Delaney Hall or Camp East Montana

How it started How it's going

The vote will be 48-50 against until John Fetterman wheels in a brain-dead Mitch McConnell on a hospital gurney and presses his hand to the "yes' vote clicker, before he and JD Vance put Blanche over the top, probably

To commemorate today’s official book release of “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn” I wrote the following column for @thenation.com “Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again” thenation.com/article/soci...

Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again

Zinn saw firsthand what happened when liberals did more to fight the left than the right—they sabotaged their own power.

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In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

Nearly 5 years ago, I prayed I was done writing about COVID. But MAGA can't let it go. Why? Any expert - even Fauci - is a threat to their world view of white supremacy. So they wave the bloody shirt of 2020 because they think it will win them 2026 My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.

This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 24h ago

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

For a lot of these guys, “I’m open to both sides” means “I want my girlfriend to be able to get an abortion” but also, “I really want lower capital-gains tax rates and federal right-to-work legislation”

Ellison put on a dinner headlined “Honoring the Trump White House” and included his CBS editor, top anchor, and WH correspondent, so he can spare us this both-sides ridiculousness

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterday

Shameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Yo!

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · yesterday

Good grief, it's Tuesday already?? Time for your Ask Me Anything questions for The Will Bunch Newsletter. It's been another crazy summer, so ask me about whatever is on your mind. Best one gets answered in the newsletter!

Good grief, it's Tuesday already?? Time for your Ask Me Anything questions for The Will Bunch Newsletter. It's been another crazy summer, so ask me about whatever is on your mind. Best one gets answered in the newsletter!

This is utterly appalling

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Have Donald Trump run their country for a couple of years

Trump's next Interior Secretary

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

The President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.

I preferred the prequel

Breaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup

No corruption too small

He means he wants George Strait, the country singer, to open his next rally

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

*TRUMP: TALKING ABOUT HAVING STRAIT OPEN BY TOMORROW