I learned during the COVID years what happens when a small shop owns the tap and calls it safety. You do not owe them a FOIA packet to say you will not hand moral authority to a small coastal shop again.
This piece names the Sweetwater turbine graveyard for what it is: a subsidized promise that left a Texas town with the remains. It asks the same questions of the next industrial plant, including data halls. Who pays at the start, what the place must surrender while it runs, and what the community inherits when the operator is gone. Accuracy first, then justice for the land and the people who live on it.
Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) on X WOW! The Ratepayer Protection Act, which forces DATA CENTERS and other high-demand electricity users to pay the FULL incremental cost of any grid upgrades, just passed almost UNANIMOUSLY in the House, 417-3 This bill is meant to protect REGULAR AMERICANS from having to foot the bill for grid upgrades needed to serve data centers and other similar facilities. It's VERY rare to see this sort of bipartisanship in the House nowadays All 3 nays were Democrats.
A little of what Fides et Ratio newsletter subscribers received this morning in “The Teachers Who Form Us: What We Receive, We Hand On”: “I think that is one of the gifts of looking backward from this season of life. At the time, much of this simply felt like raising a family and trying to be faithful Catholics. More than forty years later, I can see the continuity much more clearly. Good formation does not call attention to itself. It teaches us to recognize what is true, to love it, to live according to it and, eventually, to give it to someone else.” “Perhaps that is the thread running through much of what I have been writing lately. We receive far more than we realize while we are receiving it. Only later do we sometimes recognize the gift, and with that recognition comes the responsibility to hand it on faithfully.” You can join the newsletter at fidesetratio.us.
Believe them when they tell you their plans. BREAKING: Nearly every single House Democrat just voted to BLOCK a Constitutional amendment which would prevent packing the Supreme Court with more than 9 Justices. Believe them when they tell you their plans. Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) on X
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