Amy Ruffo

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Trump’s blueprint for tyranny Don’t be fooled. The “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education” is not just about higher education.

“Think what I think. Do what I do. Or, else.”

Trump’s “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education” is an attempt to further control universities across the country.

Austin Sarat unpacks what’s inside the compact and why this attack on educational freedom is one we can’t ignore.

YouTube video by PCNTV The PCN Capitol Preview 10/07/25

Businesses in PA are taxed like individuals, 3.07%
Corporations pay 8.49%. Use loopholes to reduce.
The Fair Share Tax Proposal would reduce the tax on everyday workers and increase the tax on passive wealth. Would be able to generate $ 2.5 billion.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Kash was begging for a Community Note

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

DAILY MEMO: The Kidnapping of Latino Workers Continues From California to Chicago

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Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans (Gift Article) If he regains power, Donald Trump wants not only to revive some of the immigration policies criticized as draconian during his presidency, but expand and toughen them.

Once again, posting this 2023 article. This was the plan all along.

“Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Mr. Miller said, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”

www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...

I wish he wouldn’t have said those last few statements. No need to encourage them. Her goal was to destroyed the dept.

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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If they can blow this much on military, ICE & authoritarianism, ballrooms & gilding for the oval, they can damn well cover FREE universal healthcare.

This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.

I know a glass cliff when I see one

The thing about Iran-Contra and Watergate was that they WEREN’T flagrant: they had to be exposed.Trump literally does stuff five times worse than Watergate every day, and then tweets an openly neo-Nazi meme about it from the official White House account. It’s a difference in kind, not just degree.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones  | TechCrunch The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

Scoop, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: A federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with fake cellphone towers known as cell-site simulators, which can be used to spy on nearby phones.

The latest at YMRI: How ICE markets to young men

Despite collapsing numbers among young men overall, ICE continues to hire a lot of young men - by targeting those who are drowning in debt, and those who still buy its Call of Duty aesthetic.

youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/how-ice-ma...

“Violence is not the cause of Trump and Miller’s desire to use state power to crush their opposition. It is the pretext for which they transparently long.”

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

See, this right here gives the game away: "But the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s." First of all...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota when Biden was President. Guess what she said regarding Biden potentially federalizing the Guard.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care

www.propublica.org/article/heal...

LNG: The India Question The global LNG industry has an economics problem. The main use for LNG (liquefied natural gas) is to burn it to generate electricity. However, there are lots of ways to make electricity these days and...

From earlier this year.

"The global LNG industry has an economics problem. The main use for LNG is to burn it to generate electricity. However, there are lots of ways to make electricity these days and importing LNG to then burn it to power gas turbines is currently one of the most expensive."

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

🚨Renewables have now overtaken coal in the share of electricity generation globally.

Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago

We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...