The DR

🚨Question for the Sons out there, I lost my Father on Thursday morning (78 yrs old) to a four year battle with cancer. Those that lost their Father what items to remember your Father did you keep or wish you had kept? I’d appreciate prayers and your experienced advice. 🙏🏻

Here’s the agenda for Thursday’s House State Affairs hearing on data centers. #txlege

@CatherineAnne42 📘

Full speed on project blue ____

@CatherineAnne42 Thanks these minor local candidates are harder to vet.

I don’t know anything about Connie but I guess she used to be on the Tulsa city council? Here’s an interesting post I found on FB of Mayor Bynum defending her 🤔 facebook.com/share/1DhwYGjh… I know of E’lena and would probably pick her if I had to choose without doing more research but I haven’t followed what she’s done so far in that position so I can’t really give an opinion 😵‍💫

I am voting for Michael Phillips for Tulsa Public School Board! nondoc.com/2026/03/27/tps…

@SanjayNarayan @JesseKellyDC Chain migration isn’t merit based bud

@JesseKellyDC Nor would be Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or Donald Trump. Legal immigration premised on merit is good for the country. Illegal immigration is not.

Not a single one of these people are in elected office without legal immigration.

What started as an effort many years ago to child-proof gas cans turned into an adult-proofing model for millions of Americans who feel that these cans are virtually impossible to use. The first step (BETTER VENTING): The Trump EPA clarified to manufacturers last summer that gas cans can have self-closing vents that restore smoother fuel flow. The next, bigger step (NOZZLE DESIGN): To have the Consumer Product Safety Commission fix the ABSURDLY designed nozzle, Congress will need to pass legislation to change federal law. It shouldn’t take 3 hands and 5 minutes to pour gas out of a gas can!

Afternoon miles with an old childhood friend; 🚴🏻🚴🏻‍♂️

This has to be the largest American flag in college baseball right?

BREAKING: 28 conservative groups urge Trump admin to fast-track natural gas pipelines and energy facilities, warning Biden-era regulations have left the U.S. at risk of “massive utility hikes and energy blackouts.”

🚨Ballpark Food Review🚨 The Dirty Hulio from The Curty Shack Price: $12 Rating: 7.6/10 Love the cream cheese & pineapple salsa on the hot dog! Considering the price and the fact I got a hearty option for $11 at the ballpark it’s hard to rank it higher.

Not just large loads coming to ERCOT

""The Alabama Legislature heard your complaints about your power bill. They said: Shut up." alabamareflector.com/2026/04/06/pol…

Leftover Hastybake BBQ from Easter.

@TulsaPolice “This sounds like us…”

LAST NIGHT WAS A MOVIE – Suspects try to take movie theater gear from closed mall “Just the Facts Ma’am”: - Suspects break into Promenade Mall - Suspects take several items, including furniture, movie theater lenses - Officers catch suspects taking stolen items - Suspects arrested and taken to jail The rest of the story: On April 5, 2026, around 9:55 p.m., Tulsa Police Officers patrolling outside the Promenade Mall spotted a flashlight shining near the north entrance of the mall. Officers arrived to find two people loading up a pickup truck with furniture and other items from inside the mall. Officers took 26-year-old Melissa Ray and 23-year-old Benjamin Frew into custody without incident. The total amount of equipment and furniture loaded into the truck amounted to more than $160,000 in value. The late-night shoppers had lined up several more items inside the previously boarded-up door and told Officers they’d planned to take them as well. Officers arrested Ray and Frew and booked them into the Tulsa County Jail for: - Second-Degree Burglary - Conspiracy to Commit a Felony These are arrests, not convictions. #TulsaPolice

Musing of the day: if I wanted to build an oil refinery (for which, I have no qualifications or experience), would I get as much credibility with the community and utility industry as equivalent data center "developers" do? #twoguysandavan

The biggest challenge with all the talk about data center load growth is that there is likely 80+% of requests that are either duplicated or just straight up not true. Too much junk in the queue and no legal right to discriminate against the unqualified and/or uncapitalized is jacking up the system.

FERC Term of the Week! “Load Growth”: An increase in demand for electricity. This can happen gradually – due to population growth or new businesses – or more rapidly when large facilities, such as data centers, come online.

@SimonMahan My peeps… ⚡️👀

The Oklahoma legislature researched adding more nuclear to the power mix. Utilities weighed in: it'd cost 8-10x more than alternatives. The legislature spent $375k when the utilities already had the answer.

ERCOT staff say they are about to transfer work on the transitional batch study process to streamline the interconnection of large loads, as most of the rule is laid out in a Planning Guide revision request. See Full Story: ow.ly/Ohvp50YEkQr Writer: Tom Kleckner

@Cbvheartland2 Here’s what gets asked day one: High voltage transmission lines nearby? What service territory is the land in? 500 acres? # of landowners? Quality of the land (wet land etc) ? Access to water infrastructure? Size of substation, any gas pipelines nearby? Fiber lines nearby? ⚡️👀

Let me be the Data center landman, here I have an electric sub station circled, a heavily traveled highway, natural gas compressor sites to drown out the noise, and nobody lives within a mile of it?