Matthew Haugen

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

lauren @NotABigJerk For everyone visiting their parents this week: LG tvs call it TrueMotion Roku/TCL calls it Action Smoothing Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus Sony calls it MotionFlow Panasonic calls it Intelligent Frame Creation Amazon Fire TVs call it Motion Processing 12/25/22

Thanks to Democrats like Ruben "why aren't women hot anymore" Gallego, who voted for the Laken Riley bill, this young woman cannot be released on bail while her appeal is pending. She's in Lumpkin, GA.

imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

Danny Valdes speaks into a microphone on the steps of a building, surrounded by supporters holding bright yellow-and-red “Tax the Rich, Fund Child Care” signs. People stand closely behind him on the stairs, some wearing DSA and campaign shirts. A large decorative light fixture hangs above the group, and the mood is energetic and determined, as if at a rally or press event.

This election, we have a chance to send a new slate of fighters for affordability to Albany. Join our campaign as a day one supporter so we can tell Kathy Hochul it's time to tax the rich and deliver a New York we can afford. valdesforny.com

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Man who makes a lot of money to opine on policy still thinks it is primarily determined by public opinion

We have two examples just today of Republicans trying to dismantle air pollution and car safety regulations under the guise of affordability. If Democrats emphasize a vision of merely making the status quo cheaper, they will struggle to remedy or combat this (or may even collaborate).

I worry a lot about politicians' now seemingly ubiquitous rhetorical focus on affordability being used to undermine important regulations

Everyone should read this story.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart

Must read by my colleague Michelle Cottle for anyone with parents: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.

Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.

Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Person holds sign that says "There will be a day of reckoning"

Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

People keep saying that driverless cars will end congestion.

In reality, all driverless cars do is change the math so that instead of roads being jammed with cars with just 1-2 people in them, the roads will be jammed with cars with 0-1 people in them.

maybe i am going insane

What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.

We need a federal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

1. THIEF

xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.

So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

Planned obsolescence is not a sustainable way to build an economy and we shouldnt measure it that way either.

a big part of my politics these days is "when people are clearly lying about what they're doing and why, don't pretend they are not!"

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

The purpose of DOGE was not actually cutting federal spending or improving government efficiency, so it was not really a failure.

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!