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. 🙏🏻

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?

👀 “One executive at a major electrical manufacturer, granted anonymity to speak freely, said the company has already sold out of transformers for two years at one of its U.S.-based manufacturing facilities — which hasn't even opened yet.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Found my new favorite butcher shop! It was an Easter miracle!

How was your easter? Drop me some food pics.

A huge thank you to the great patriots across the country who build our critical energy infrastructure to help strengthen and secure our nation's grid.    BUILD, BABY, BUILD! 🇺🇸

META is building 10 gas-fired power plants for its Hyperion AI data center campus in rural Louisiana They will use as much power as 5 million American homes and pollute the equivalent of 5+ million cars on the road full time per year These are the same people who tell you not to drive or run your AC because of climate change

@TapRootsFood Thanks for the meat knowledge drop

Without seeing more I’m not 100% but likely the teres major or flat iron depending on the exact location so either the second most tender muscle on a cow or like 5th most tender lol so the. The Denver is the Under Blade steak and the Flat Iron is the Top Blade Steak so it’s most likely the Flat iron on this slice.

I wishhhh I could get bone in chuck!