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Experts recommend utilities and regulators exclude data-center demand response from planning reserve margins, build more generation and storage, and enforce capacity-credit agreements with 75% participation floors to avoid a dependency trap.
Power Grid Watchdog Warns AI Data Centers Are Straining Supply
NERC's 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment projects summer peak demand could climb 224 gigawatts over the next decade---a 69% increase from last year's forecast---with AI data centers driving most o...
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February 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Experts recommend utilities and regulators exclude data-center demand response from planning reserve margins, build more generation and storage, and enforce capacity-credit agreements with 75% participation floors to avoid a dependency trap.
Ya think?
On Feb 4, 2026, Human Rights Watch released the 529-page World Report 2026, stating the United States has quickly fallen into a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism.
Dismantling US democracy pillars and it withdrew from multilateral forums and gutted US State Department capacity.
On Feb 4, 2026, Human Rights Watch released the 529-page World Report 2026, stating the United States has quickly fallen into a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism.
Dismantling US democracy pillars and it withdrew from multilateral forums and gutted US State Department capacity.
Human Rights Watch warns US heading to ‘authoritarianism’
US President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by widespread human rights violations and sustained attacks on core pillars of accountable, democratic governance in the country, Human Rights W...
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February 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Ya think?
On Feb 4, 2026, Human Rights Watch released the 529-page World Report 2026, stating the United States has quickly fallen into a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism.
Dismantling US democracy pillars and it withdrew from multilateral forums and gutted US State Department capacity.
On Feb 4, 2026, Human Rights Watch released the 529-page World Report 2026, stating the United States has quickly fallen into a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism.
Dismantling US democracy pillars and it withdrew from multilateral forums and gutted US State Department capacity.
No, AI Doesn’t Justify Lower Interest Rates
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No, AI Doesn’t Justify Lower Interest Rates
Debunking the latest Trump-minion talking point
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February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
No, AI Doesn’t Justify Lower Interest Rates
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Great explanation. Truly beautiful! IMNSHO
A Frame-By-Frame Tour Through Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance, From Wonkette's Resident Puerto Rican Writer!
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A Frame-By-Frame Tour Through Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance, From Wonkette's Resident Puerto Rican Writer!
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A Frame-By-Frame Tour Through Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance, From Wonkette's Resident Puerto Rican Writer!
Apparently, there was also a game.
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February 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Great explanation. Truly beautiful! IMNSHO
A Frame-By-Frame Tour Through Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance, From Wonkette's Resident Puerto Rican Writer!
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A Frame-By-Frame Tour Through Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance, From Wonkette's Resident Puerto Rican Writer!
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We Can Always Trust What the Pentagon Says, Right?
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We Can Always Trust What the Pentagon Says, Right?
Trump’s “Project 2025” autocrats are now rushing to slam an iron door of censorship on reporters trying to inform us commoners about the militaristic schemes and corporate fraud that come from inside ...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
We Can Always Trust What the Pentagon Says, Right?
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February 9, 2026
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February 9, 2026
Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have st...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faces zero consequences for lying about his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The files reveal family trips, business deals, and charitable donations between Lutnick and Epstein, contradicting his claims that he cut off contact with him in 2005.
Lutnick Lied About Epstein. Why Don't Republicans Care?
Sam Stein and Catherine Rampell give their takes on why Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faces zero consequences for lying about his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faces zero consequences for lying about his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The files reveal family trips, business deals, and charitable donations between Lutnick and Epstein, contradicting his claims that he cut off contact with him in 2005.
the Dead Pedo Bestie Files coverup just got a thousand times worse
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the Dead Pedo Bestie Files coverup just got a thousand times worse
there’s no justice in sight, and it’s fucking infuriating
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February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
the Dead Pedo Bestie Files coverup just got a thousand times worse
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Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, on Sunday urged people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states and as the United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status.
'Take the vaccine, please,' Dr. Mehmet Oz says in an appeal as measles cases rise
A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states. The appeal is from Dr.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, on Sunday urged people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states and as the United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status.
The FBI spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused multiple underage girls, they found scant evidence he led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men.
FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential peopl...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The FBI spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused multiple underage girls, they found scant evidence he led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men.
What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE
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What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE
You are not powerless. You can stop their complicity in this humanitarian disaster.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE
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Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment
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Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment
What JD Vance and his entourage in Milan teach us about Epstein’s magnetism
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February 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment
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February 8, 2026
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February 8, 2026
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
February 8, 2026
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