Housing a person at Gitmo costs roughly $100,000 per day

What happens if Paxton wins the primary against Cornyn? Texas becomes a COMPETATIVE STATE for the 2026 midterms.

I don’t understand why Texas would become competitive.

And growing plants that we eat.

And bird flu.

It’s also a really nonsensical accusation: California isn’t even in the top 10 egg-producing states. But he hates California and wants to target liberals, so here we are …

will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

It takes time to build a power plant. A more realistic scenario is that we’ll continue as we have: AI centers will be built wherever local governments approve them for the taxes, without regard for the strain they put on the aging electrical grid and, given the massive amount of electricity they need, everyone’s electrical bill will just massively increase.

They’ve been building a large number of data centers and AI centers in Virginia, and it’s been straining and raising prices across the entire PJM interconnector region, to the point where at least a couple states are considering leaving it. Microsoft has bought the rights to and is reactivating part of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, because they wanted dedicated power, and they’re still going to be pulling power from the grid.

USC law students have set up a hotline to help move immigrants move their in-person hearing to online format, reducing the risk of getting kidnapped.

It’s PJM.

This is one of the things that pisses me off. I try to save the planet: I recycle and compost, I walk and bike places, I change the heat/air settings so I’m fairly uncomfortable, I don’t eat meat, I source local food, etc - all the things we’re supposed to do. And here’s some giant techbro company that decides they’re going to make AI that no one wants to replace jobs we can’t afford to lose, and build data centers to track everything about everyone in an attempt to sell you more goods than anyone needs (the production and shipping of which trashes the planet), all of which strains an aging grid, raises electricity prices on a people who are already struggling with an affordability crisis, and overstrains a dying planet - all so some technro dudes can have a little more money. It’s as stupid as the billionaire space race, where one SpaceX launch offset all the pollution saved by Tesla. It makes me feel like all my efforts have been futile, while they’re killing the planet for a few more dollars and a couple more toys.

He’s just absolutely determined to break the healthcare system, isn’t he?

10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, almost all with faces covered, tried to enter the courthouse at 100 Montgomery St. They were there to escort other agents already inside, who had a young immigrant man in custody. ICE has been routinely arresting asylum-seekers following their immigration hearings

are helping immigrants apply to have their hearings held online. Press release on the subject. Spread the word!

Prosecutors allege Orellana was helping protesters withstand less-lethal munitions being deployed by Los Angeles police officers and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies after an unlawful assembly had been declared. […] Asked how handing out defensive equipment was a crime […], Essayli insisted Orellana was specifically handing out supplies to violent demonstrators. “He wasn’t handing masks out at the beach. … They’re covering their faces. They’re wearing backpacks. These weren’t peaceful protesters,” he said.

In May, there were relatively elevated shares of delisted homes in metro areas including Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach in Florida, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler in Arizona, and Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands in Texas

When Trump was threatening to annex Canada, as well as having his goon squads kidnap people off the streets, there were a lot of Canadians who decided not to vacation in the States and more. And there were a bunch who owned summer homes in Florida and Arizona who decided to sell.

The economic uncertainty provoked by the massive layoffs, the tariff threats and the cratering value of the dollar, is also making people less secure, making them less likely to make big-dollar purchases.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about US President Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take over post-war Gaza and permanently resettle its population elsewhere.

This can only end well …

There won’t be any. You saw that lack in his last administration, everything wrong was “sabotage by the Deep State”. Now it’s that he’s doing the right things, they’re just “being implemented wrong”.

I keep thinking back to something I heard during the election: Republicans get to be lawless, Democrats have to be flawless.

Not that I’m bitter …

RFK wants to open “wellness farms” where people with “mental health” and addiction issues can “raise their own food”.

It’s always the same: “We can’t take because we’re busy focusing on the issue at hand” —> “We can’t talk because we’re busy investigating the problem” —> “Why are you talking about old news, we’re focused on something else that’s more important”.

CDC site showing current variants, their lineages, and percentages. Also possibly a NowCast for your state or region.

Wastewater scan for covid and other infectious diseases. Filter by state or selected individual sewage processing plants that are part of the wastewater scan project (note that not all plants test for all diseases). Tells you how prevalent those diseases are in that area, potentially before diseases start to surge. May also have variant information.

PMC data dashboard. Lots of potentially useful stuff.

Are they also hiding their license plates?

The article doesn’t have any information on where the camps are being opened. The Bloomberg article linked in the article has a map, but doesn’t provide many details.

Which is also part of the problem. If they’re cautious and issue “too many” alerts or are “too alarmist”, people ignore them.

The point is that the people of Kerr County made a deliberate decision that they didn’t need a local system to reach out to people living there. They decided they whatever information and warnings they were getting from the state and the feds was sufficient. It’s easy to point to the NWS/NOAA firings as “the culprit”, but where’s the local responsibility?