In this panel, the PJM market monitor states plainly that data centers are almost exclusively to blame for high and rising wholesale electricity costs in the Midatlantic. It's not EVs, heat pumps, or industrial electrification. Data centers. Panel discusses how to make Big Tech pay their fair share.
03.03.2026 13:32 — 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2
This week is an opportunity for a Democrat to emerge as a leader and voice of conscience, leading up to 2028.
Who will forcefully denounce Israel and Trump's illegal war with Iran? Who will connect the dots to the failed War on Terror and Operation Ajax and US meddling? Who will reject AIPAC money?
If you can, please set up donations to The Trevor Project and find local trans support groups. Trans people need to know we love and support them no matter what this fucking monstrous admin does.
02.03.2026 02:11 — 👍 522 🔁 401 💬 1 📌 3Hey, @nbcwashington.com — do you realize your local news broadcast has no sound on Cox cable? We’re relying on closed captions in Herndon …
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re-upping this one here
27.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 234 🔁 66 💬 12 📌 2Good thread.
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A sterling silver Curiosity rover wheel pendant held with black gloves and blue tweezers over a wooden workbench. The miniature wheel features the JPL Morse code tread pattern and zigzag chevron edges.
[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]
#Curiosity rover wheel pendant, all polished up and ready to roll out 🤖✨
Just like the real thing, the tread pattern includes the JPL Morse code easter egg!
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The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
This is lovely and affirms something I say all the time: Stories matter. Even kinda silly ones you watched as a kid (I have a long list of those, ones I still fondly rewatch sometimes).
They show us what to emulate, what to fight against, how to better ourselves, how to see through others' eyes.
Again, it's looking like voting for her was a great decision. This is a terrific rebuttal to Trump's bullshit and lies.
www.98online.com/full-transcr...
The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?
If you have thoughts, send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance
19.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 6907 🔁 1636 💬 114 📌 36If I had a dime for every time a visitor to the National Air and Space Museum asked me about aliens visiting Earth, I’d have to declare income on my taxes! Sheesh. We call it “space” because it’s really, REALLY big, and mostly empty …
16.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another sign of the erosion of the rule of law and creeping fascism and authoritarianism in the U.S.: "Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
14.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 21 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 4no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
14.02.2026 03:43 — 👍 5264 🔁 1894 💬 98 📌 56
Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Thank GOD some other outlets are finally talking about this.
www.propublica.org/article/inst...
No one has yet talked in depth about Mamdani's play- as in, a childlike wonder and ceaseless fun and joy. That is rooted in what he learned from his mom about acting, which is pure play. Everything he does is rooted in encouraging US to be more playful, too. It's wonderful.
06.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 631 🔁 76 💬 16 📌 7
"But space presents its own set of problems. Data centers generate enormous heat. Space seems to offer a solution because it is cold. But it is also a vacuum, trapping heat inside objects in the same way that a Thermos keeps coffee hot using double walls with no air between them. “An uncooled computer chip in space would overheat and melt much faster than one on Earth,” said Josep Jornet, a computer and electrical engineering professor at Northeastern University. One fix is to build giant radiator panels that glow in infrared light to push the heat “out into the dark void,” says Jornet, noting that the technology has worked on a small scale, including on the International Space Station. But for Musk's data centers, he says, it would require an array of “massive, fragile structures that have never been built before.”
yeah that ain't happenin'
05.02.2026 01:53 — 👍 143 🔁 26 💬 14 📌 1
"The gun groups can’t risk condemning the politicians who have worked for decades to weaken gun regulations, all so another 129 Americans can die today to protect gun owners against tyranny they apparently happily support so long as it is delivered unto liberals." — @schaller67.bsky.social
03.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 1088 🔁 344 💬 31 📌 9
Just No.
1) Immigration judges aren't "judges." They are part of the executive branch.
2) ICE's administrative warrants aren't even signed by IJs.
3) A real judicial warrant is required for arrests in homes (absent exigency). Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980).
Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
Oh, this whole thread is GLORIOUS! I love pissed off judges!
03.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s worth activating translate if you need it to understand this sick burn
03.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 139 🔁 31 💬 9 📌 0
I have been warning for months that he is going to try to steal the election. That is why my law firm is litigating 80 voting cases with more on the way.
It is also why I tell people to sign up for Democracy Docket to stay imformed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.
02.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 4068 🔁 1371 💬 21 📌 88
My sister attended this vigil; I watched the livestream. Thank you for organizing this, @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social. www.ffxnow.com/2026/01/30/i... #ICEOut #Good #Pretti
30.01.2026 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.
30.01.2026 17:48 — 👍 3169 🔁 683 💬 29 📌 13Did my small piece for community today: donated platelets at the Fairfax Red Cross Donor Center. It’s the one way I know I can save lives.
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