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People haven't wrapped their heads around how much the politics of renewables have been altered by the fact that Texas is kicking everyone's ass in building solar, wind, and batteries. Greg Abbot sounds woke when he talks energy now. That's a preview of what's coming nationally.

Proof Twitter ain’t what it used to be: the entire Ferry Building has been evacuated and it’s not on Twitter yet

Qatar says that Trump is working for Russia

Day 1: it's going to take a couple of days Day 20: ok we need 200 billion dollars

BREAKING: The value of US data centers under construction has officially surpassed the value of office buildings under construction for the first time in history. Data centers under construction are up+29% YoY, to a record $45.1 billion. Meanwhile, the value of offices under construction are down -13%, to $43.5 billion, the lowest since October 2015. Since November 2022, when ChatGPT was launched, data center construction is up +228%. Over that same period, office construction is down -38%. AI is reshaping the US economy.

Increasingly painful

U.S. nursing homes are fabricating schizophrenia diagnoses to hide their use of dangerous antipsychotic drugs to subdue dementia patients, a government watchdog report found. The drugs increase risk of falls, strokes and death. wapo.st/4tfSUsr

What does a #HeatDome look like on satellite? This water vapor imagery from @NOAA's #GOESWest (#GOES18) 🛰️ shows you! Learn more about the historic March heatwave baking the western U.S. in our #SatelliteSnapshot: bit.ly/4rCpraF

Story from Feb 2019 — 5 months before Epstein’s arrest

Trump has granted clemency to more than 70 people convicted in fraud cases. At the same time, he says he is waging a "war on fraud." Those granted clemency included allies & donors. Those targeted in the "war on fraud" include Somali & other immigrants. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/…

@realjayg @bay_photography You should try getting off the highway sometime

@bay_photography No way this is real. I’ve driven up and down this state and never seen anything remotely close to this

California golden poppies as far as the eye can see

Very real. This photo shows the scale of the people walking the trails through the blooms of poppies.

Good news: we've still got The Anti-Saloon League on the run.

Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

China has restricted fertiliser exports, per Reuters

@Petereporter @DanLamothe @NBCNews “He said he told the defense secretary, “I understand there’s a lot of peril that goes into making decisions like this, and I just certainly hope the decisions being made are necessary.”

Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job nbcnews.com/politics/donal… via @nbcnews

@GinaHinojosaTX "I think Democrats stopped showing up here. They took this community for granted," said @jamestalarico "And so when Republican politicians showed up & made big promises, people took a chance. A year later, we're seeing those promises weren't kept." #TXSEN nytimes.com/video/us/polit…

"I've supported Mr Trump in every election that he's been a part of. We just never thought that this would come & affect us in the construction industry, but most importantly, affect our economy here in South Texas," Mario Guerrero, So Texas Builders Assoc nytimes.com/video/us/polit…

Worksites across Rio Grand Valley have ground to a halt. That's got Trump supporters in midterm battleground changing their minds Trump voter Mario Guerrero, executive director, South Texas Builders Association, said agents took workers with documentation nytimes.com/video/us/polit…