Donald Trump went full authoritarian at a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying he regrets not taking over ‘Democrat-run’ cities and pledged he will not make the same mistake next time.
Texas has hurt itself with a closed electrical grid that they refuse to add to the national grid. If they did that they would have to follow federal rules for safety and reliability. They would rather have a broken system that creates more profit than an electrical grid that supplies dependable energy to the people. After the system failed for the second time and even more people died during the winter Governor Abbott promised to fix it, requiring expensiveupgrades so people wouldn’t face this again. But that did not happen, why? Well after he got a huge campaign contributions of over a million dollars from the energy profit makers he forgot the entire thing. I wonder why. Profit over the needs of the people. Hugs
The state’s grid operator asked that Texans voluntarily reduce their power use on Monday as the blistering heat continues, and said no rolling blackouts are expected this week.
Employees monitor the state power grid at the ERCOT command center in Taylor. Credit: REUTERS/Julia Robinson
With a punishing heat wave across Texas driving record high power demand, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas late Sunday sent out a request that Texans cut back on their energy use on Monday.
ERCOT, the state’s power grid operator, asked Texans to turn up their thermostats and postpone running major appliances between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday. ERCOT has also called on large electric customers to lower their electricity use.
Total forecasted power demand is expected to surpass 79 gigawatts on Monday, ERCOT said — which would set another record.
An ERCOT spokesperson told the Tribune Monday that the grid operator does not expect rolling blackouts this week.
Low winds are also making it harder for the grid to keep up with demand during hotter-than-usual July temperatures. Current projections show wind generation coming in less than 10% of its capacity on Monday, ERCOT said.
Winds in Texas often drop during the daytime, especially in the summer. ERCOT forecasts more wind power will be available to the grid on Tuesday.
Power grids must keep supply and demand in balance at all times. When Texas’ grid falls below its safety margin of excess supply, the grid operator starts taking additional precautions to avoid blackouts. The first precaution is to ask the public to cut back electricity usage.
In May, ERCOT asked Texans to conserve power during a heat wave that coincided with six power plant outages.
Texas is facing extreme heat conditions, with much of the state under temperatures above 100 degrees. As of Monday morning, the National Weather Service has issued heat advisories or excessive heat warnings for 154 of the state’s 254 counties. Some regions are breaking heat records: On Sunday, San Antonio saw the hottest temperatures on record in the city at 106 degrees, while Austin hit an all-time record high for July at 110 degrees.
Climate change has made Texas heat both hotter and longer lasting. The average daily minimum and maximum temperatures in Texas have both increased by 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 125 years. The state just saw its hottest December on record since 1889.
I would think it would be kinda tough to manufacture electric cars in a state that doesn’t provide enough electricity. But what do I know? I ain’t no billionaire genius.
They were right: everything really *is* bigger in Texas. This includes the shortsightedness of their government for not taking early steps to fix the issues with the power grid.
They have a provider monopoly that is in good standing with the politicians along with congestion pricing of energy that inflates profits during such times. There isn’t much motivation to break the vicious cycle.
Texan Republicans have been working overtime dreaming up ways to penalize women who might want to have an abortion, but they still haven’t fixed the power grid that they’ve known is a problem for more than a decade.
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At one point PETE HEGSETH says “They’re committed to telling the worst story of America …” The fact that they can tell the worst parts means that those worst parts exist. It is not made up fiction, but real history. It tells you a lot about the right and the Republican party that they don’t want true history taught or know but they want a complete fiction of the worlds best most perfect country to ever be. Why? I think it is so people won’t realize how bad they have it in this country compared to other 1st world nations. Think of the benefits the public have in those countries that the “world’s wealthiest country” can not afford or manage to do. If we are so great why can we not do it here? Could it be the corporations / wealthy don’t want you to figure it out and fix it which might cost them a bit of profit. Greed and more profit is king, which leads back to why the south used slaves to build their entire economy. Low wages and bad working conditions are a poor second to the profit slavery could generate. Hugs
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: And after you leave the museum tour, which again makes you feel guilty and not so great about America, at the end there’s a gift shop where you can buy Ibram X. Kendi’s how to be a racist, how to not be a racist book —
JOEY JONES (CO-HOST): This is a racist human being who writes books about hating white people.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Right, and all of these sort of books that are damning of America and suggesting that were still a racist country are for sale in the gift shop.
PETE HEGSETH: The funding and the people behind the foundation that runs it, all leftists, many tied to the 1619 project. They’re committed to telling the worst story of America and now they’re doing it inside the homes of the Founding Fathers.
JONES: Those aren’t historians, they’re activists.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: And those founders and the donors and the people who are on those boards, that is not a coincidence. This is a diabolical plan on their part to populate these positions that have influence over how America tells its story.
Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 600 human beings throughout the course of his life. 400 people were enslaved at Monticello; the other 200 people were held in bondage on Jefferson’s other properties. At any given time, around 130 people were enslaved at Monticello.
Slaves were bred in order for whites to get as much free labor as possible. (I’m sure you know this already) The following is a must see documentary/lecture by Jeffrey Robinson:
Just watched this on Netflix. If you don’t watch the whole thing (super engrossing), find the clip where he talks to the man guarding the confederate monument in Charleston. Ho-ly shit, not only does he shut down bullshit lost cause theory eloquently and civilly, but you get to see the cognitive dissonance on the man’s face. Scary shit, as we will never get through to some people.
I’ve watched the entire thing and know exactly which part you’re talking about. The white guy is so proud of his hatred and ignorance. And you are absolutely correct.. there’s no getting through to some people.
A white guy banging a black woman. They are probably OK with that arrangement. A black guy banging a white woman, that’s usually a different story. But then there is Clarence Thomas. I suspect his political views give him a pass in this case.
They read sex as a power exchange, and the person fucking as the strong person and the other person as weak. So yeah, white men fucking a slave probably doesn’t bother them too much.
The Texas Freedom Caucus, a legislative caucus in the Texas House of Representatives, sent a threatening letter to a law firm with locations in Dallas and Houston that planned to reimburse travel costs for employees wanting an abortion. In the letter, which was addressed to Sidley Austin LLP, the 11 representatives of the caucus wrote that legislation will be introduced to impose civil and criminal sanctions on law firms that pay for abortion or abortion travel.
“We are writing to inform you of the consequences that you and your colleagues will face for these actions,” it said. The Texas Freedom Caucus said Sidley had aided or abetted drug-induced abortions that violate the Texas Heartbeat Act, a law that bans abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy. According to the letter, litigation is already underway to identify employees who may have been involved.
Texas Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Matt Schaefer first appeared on JMG in April 2021 when he introduced a bill allowing permitless open carry.
In February 2022 he appeared here when he declared that charging the parents of trans children with child abuse was “a hill we’re ready to die on.”
From the article at the link you can see they again are using the illegal but not ruled on by SCOTUS way of using bounty hunters / allowing anyone to sue. In the abortion case they made it very profitable by those who sue but costly for those who get sued no matter if they lose or win, they still have to pay the costs. Hugs
The proposed legislation will prohibit any employer in the state from paying for elective abortions or reimbursing abortion-related costs regardless of where the abortion occurs. According to these lawmakers, private citizens will be allowed to sue anyone who pays for an elective abortion performed on a Texas resident.
If passed, the law will grant The State Bar of Texas to disbar any lawyer who has violated any abortion statutes.
The Freedom Caucus, telling people what to do with their bodies, telling private business what to do with their personnel, and telling parents how to raise their children.
Their freedom to tell you what to do is WAY more important than your individual freedom to live the way you want to. All that shit from the reich about the libs and the “nanny state” was, once again for the billionth time, projection
It just seems so clear that their D opponents could find clips from these asshats saying opposite things. “We can’t tell private business what to do…until we do.”
Yep, and the most-obvious fact… that Republicans appear to favor candidates who are more adept at divisively trolling, insulting, and provoking others online than actually passing legislation which makes our/their lives better in tangible ways. That’s why we have assholes like Cruz, Gohmert, Boebert, and MTG in Congress.
Agree, which is the whole point here. The repugnant SCOTUS abortion decision was given a veneer or respectability by claiming that it merely turned the matter over to each state to decide, individually… and then the Republicans enacted laws to make it illegal for people to travel from one state to another to obtain the procedure.
While that clearly violates the intent of what the SCOTUS handed us, no one should be confident that the SCOTUS would defend a person’s right to travel to another state… and THAT is the danger of where we are today.
Not to worry. That would require permanent tracking of all women, total ban on all contraception, state line checkpoints and severe criminal penalties for all sluts. Just exactly like The Handmaids Tale. First, we have to stop women from having bank accounts and jobs. Next, we stop women from doing anything without their husband’s permission. Trans and gay women will be executed unless their ovaries are functioning; they will be sent to breeding farms.
charging the parents of trans children with child abuse was “a hill we’re ready to die on.” How many adult trans people today say they felt abused by parents who supported them? How many adult trans people today say they felt abused by parents who refused to accept them? Bonus question: how many adults from Christian household say they felt abused as children?
Remember… in Texas, it’s considered child abuse to provide a teen with gender-affirming medical care, but not to force a rape-victim teen to carry an unwanted pregnancy all the way to a live birth.
One of those scenarios is plainly more traumatic and life-altering than the other.
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