Hopefully you will notice the trail feels a little smoother today, and you didn’t get batted away by a moody digital bouncer.
That’s because TRAILMIX.CC has officially moved into a brand new home!
Over our 21-year run—starting out on Blogspot back in 2005, riding shotgun on The Atlantic’s servers, then hosted by Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call, The Economist, and The New York Times, before eventually setting up camp at Network Solutions—we’ve carried this community through many digital landscapes.
As we always say, we were social media literally before it had a name.
For the majority of those 11 years on Network Solutions, they were a reliable, safe home that just quietly did its job. But recent corporate mergers and private equity shakeups changed the neighborhood, trading stable infrastructure for mysterious 500 errors, stubborn firewalls, and unannounced backend surprises.
So, we packed up our entire archive yesterday—all 14-plus gigabytes of it—and relocated to a lightning-fast new server built by the folks who actually created WordPress (Pressable).
The best part? Your favorite feature—dropping photos and files right into the comments—is coming along for the ride, and it’s finally running on machinery that won’t choke when you use it.
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a not-so-fond farewell to Network Solutions
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[hmmm “infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump…” makes me wonder about our old server turned hyper-corporate sharing some of our names and comments]
yesterday from the guardian US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
Newly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City, infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and left-leaning non-profit groups.
Nearly 30 internal law enforcement reports were released on Thursday as part of a criminal case the Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed against 15 Minneapolis protesters. The defendants are accused of a “conspiracy” to “impede” US immigration officers during the Trump administration’s surge in the region.
The DHS investigative reports were disclosed by the government and submitted to the court by an attorney for one of the defendants. The records show that in January, DHS launched an inquiry called “Operation Puppet Master” to identify a “network of conspirators” organizing against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The operation came as community organizing against ICE was swelling in the region in response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
A DHS report from February said the agency was looking into people who were “providing material support to violent opportunists and agitators”. The records suggest agents launched elaborate spying efforts targeting activists, protesters and mainstream progressive organizations opposing the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
“I was shocked at the scope and the apparent lack of investigative discipline involved, but not totally surprised,” said Kevin Riach, an attorney for one of the indicted protesters, who filed the tranche of records in federal court.
DHS spokespeople did not respond to inquiries and the DoJ declined to comment.
The records indicate that the investigations followed the directive of Trump’s executive order last year that designated “antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization” responsible for “riots” against ICE. The investigations led to the criminal case filed in June against 15 protesters, which focused on Direct Action Minnesota, a loose coalition of organizers that the government says was part of a “conspiracy” opposing ICE’s surge in the region.
The documents show that the government alleged major groups were connected to the criminal conspiracy, including the national labor unions AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union; the local unions Minneapolis Federation of Educators and the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees; and several large left-leaning groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).
None of those organizations have been charged with any crimes.
The records have added fuel to the concerns of civil rights groups, who have argued that the federal government was criminalizing lawful protest activity under the guise of targeting leftwing “terrorism”.
The documents show that DHS investigators obtained financial records of unions and non-profits, as part of an inquiry into “domestic terrorist financing”. One investigative record showed DHS used administrative subpoenas to obtain “wire transfers from various financial institutions to and from” SEIU, one of the largest unions in the US. Investigators also requested that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide financial data from the Communications Workers of America, an international union, the records showed.
DHS further obtained financial records related to the Sunrise Movement, a national non-profit focused on the climate crisis.
The records also provided detailed documentation of spying operations conducted by undercover agents who posed as activists and surveilled community activities.
One DHS report documented “undercover agent activity” on 31 January at a Sunrise Movement “resistance skills training” at the Minneapolis public library. An agent described activists discussing recruitment and “de-escalation” at protests, with speakers suggesting having a “police liaison” and “safety marshal” at events. The report said: “It was clear that the Sunrise Movement organization focused on ‘peaceful’ protests.”
The undercover agent actively engaged participants, according to the report. At one point, the agent told someone in attendance that he “works in construction and could build items that might assist other groups with more ‘direct-action’ protests”. That agent told the individual that “going to jail did not bother him” and gave out his phone number.
The records documented the operations of another undercover agent who joined Signal groups of activists involved in protests.
The records also showed undercover agents surveilling a virtual meeting at Hunter College in New York focused on “ICE brutality” and “responding to state violence”; a meeting at a labor center in Minneapolis during which activists discussed a wide range of political issues; a meeting in a Minneapolis public park about protest tactics; and a Direct Action Minnesota meeting at a church.
The documents indicate that agents made audio recordings of the events.
One undercover agent attended a “training” event at a gymnasium in a church and participated in “boxing/sparring practice”, according to a DHS report. The report noted that the agent was surreptitiously recording audio of the event, but that at one point the recorder “erroneously fell to the floor” and the agent had to return to the gym to retrieve the device.
At one anti-ICE event at a church, agents documented the license plate information of attendees, the records showed. When two agents were approached by a man who “asked if they were ICE”, the agent responded, falsely, that they were not.
Riach, the defense attorney, filed the records as part of a motion urging the court to compel the government to release additional records. In his filing, Riach accused the government of presenting “wild conspiracy allegations … born from the fantasies of political retribution that animate the Trump Administration”.
He also alleged that DHS’s investigations were part of a “mass spying campaign” and said undercover agents “participated in organizing and directing the groups they were surveilling, at times working to entice people into discussing or committing crimes”.
The records relate to activities that extend far beyond the allegations of the 15 defendants facing prosecution. That case alleges a vast conspiracy to organize against ICE, but across a 94-page indictment, there are no allegations of injuries to specific ICE officers caused by any defendants and no charges of serious violence.
Emilia Gonzalez Avalos is the executive director of Unidos MN, a Minneapolis social justice non-profit group, whose activities were mentioned in the files.
“I believe that this is a clear attempt to intimidate us, to punish and politically repress disagreement and difference,” she said. “And that is not the America that we have built through hundreds of years. And it’s definitely not the America that we are organizing for.”
During trainings, organizers asked people not to record the sessions, Gonzalez Avalos said. But organizers would also say if there were any immigration agents or officers in the room, they were welcome to stay because the group had nothing to hide, because their work was “entirely grounded in the United States constitution”.
Mike German, a former FBI agent and civil liberties advocate, said it was striking that DHS was leading the investigations when typically the FBI would spearhead operations targeting potential “terrorist” activity. He said it was also notable that DHS was using administrative subpoenas, which don’t require judicial authorization, to obtain records.
The government, German said, also appeared to be relying on theories of “guilt by association” to justify surveillance instead of narrower investigations focused on specific alleged criminal activity. German, who previously served as an undercover agent, further scoffed at the notion of undercover agents spying on what appeared to be accessible, community events.
“You’re talking about meetings that are open to the public, where they are recruiting among the public, saying: ‘Please come to this protest,’” he said. “It’s hardly a challenge to ‘infiltrate’ this kind of meeting, and that should be a clue this isn’t a criminal group. It’s very rare for criminals to [publicize] discussion of their criminal activities.”
The investigations, he added, fit patterns in US history of the government targeting leftwing activist and labor organizing. After 9/11, he said, those powers to spy on communities were greatly expanded.
“Nobody should be surprised that the government would use these authorities to target political opposition rather than target criminals, particularly so under this administration,” he said.
That cartoon fits. PatD. When I started out with Network Solutions it was a customer-first indie with pioneering tech. Anybody who runs a website on their own knows the relationship with your server company is crucial, like any partner.on a rocky ride. But then it got bought by Web.com, which then got swallowed up by this most recent cost-cutting conglomerate, and now Oracle is gradually taking over. Now it’s all about upsells and ghosting customers in trouble.
My helpful friend became that cartoon. Our struggles, our wins and our losses over the years were mostly behind the scenes, so it’s not easy to explain what a tough separation this has been.
The new folks at Pressable already feel like the old days with Network Solutions. They guided me step by step through the half-day long migration yesterday. It was remarkably smooth considering that we were moving 15 gig of data from a choked Network Solutions server, and more than a million files including all our comments with attached images, memes and videos.
As we slogged through it the team would send me little gifs of them cheering our success. There will be gltches to tackle at first, and in the dynamic environment of web mastering the next tech demon is always waiting to pounce.
But this new place feels like home again.
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You just need to clear your cache (refresh the page) to achieve the full potential of our new digs. Mobile devices seem to need this the most today!
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Oh please, not another fake spat between these two. Netanyahu must have dirt on Trump or we would have never gotten into this pointless war at all… AXIOS: “1 big thing — Exclusive: New Bibi, Trump rift”
Well, Poobah, I just went and did what you said just for grins and cleared the history in my apps folder. I closed out of the site and then came back in and restarted it and rather than wait for what used to be 5 to 10 seconds to have the initial homepage load, it came up immediately. Good job.
And in the WV news about our sitting Senator, former GovernorNewsbreak
Hmmm, something sounds familiar about some guy who can’t make a casino profitable and doesn’t pay his taxes.
Music to my ears, Pog! It is amazing how much old data these browsers hold onto. Their intention is make frequently-visited sites open faster by storing their static files, but when that site makes a change as big as ours they freak out until you clean house. Jumping from a 10-second delay to an immediate load is exactly why we made this move.
… and Poobah, the editing function works better now – I don’t have to toggle the “Read More”, “Read Less” buttons to access enough text in the edit block to make edits.
Yes, Pog, wasn’t that annoying. It still needs some tinkering, but now i can focus on details like that instead of just trying to keep the whole place afloat. (The issue, by the way, is that the Read More and Edit Comment plugins are coded by different third-party vendors and are still in conflict. Pressable team did what they could but I might have AI write our own code for both functions so that they play well together.)
Woo hoo! as we used to say. (This was taken near John Brown Park.) MILE ZERO; here we go!
I guess we still have not gotten to the bottom of whether Karoline Leavitt was on that trip to Turkey or not??? Snopes is leaving it an unsettled queston. She’s the White House Press Secretary. How can we n not know this?
I’m not even to the question of whether she was on the decoy plane, just whether or not she went to Turkey.
Gemini Pro says “Leavitt was not publicly documented as being on Trump’s July 7–8 Turkey trip, and the White House specifically says she was not on the trip.”
Mile Zero indeed, BlueD! Fresh servers, a fresh start, and a wide-open trail ahead.
Just wrote my official refund request to the corporate goons who took over Network Solutions and ruined it:
Of course Netanyahu knows more stump dirt than the Russians and Todd Blanche do.
Why else would he do what he do?
In that world knowing about bad stuff gets results.
Never hurts to be an underdog 80 days out, and it’s almost a statistical tie. Don’t dismiss this because it’s FOX. Better to get to work instead of blaming the polls. Not even in a FOX poll is any Republican winning independents. Scary.
why do people say “even in Fox poll”, whoever they use is well-regarded and allegedly unbiased
you should be saying even in this “two bit community college poll” or something for the other ones
Shift in predictions market, but Abdul still on top.
I’d say those poll numbers indicate GOP has so far failed to disqualify El-Sayed with the racist culture war attacks.
Actually Anon, their pollsters are pretty good, first to call 2020 for Biden. I say “even” in anticipation of the “oh but its FOX” attitude on Dem side.
omg we really are going to let Kalshi be a political influencer eh
yeah, you’re not the only one that says “even in a fox poll”, Mr. C
Literally everybody that cites a fox poll says that
I’ll never stop saying it and I’ll never get it across: NO POLL IS PREDICTIVE. Just a snapshot of whatever their demographic sample is saying. It might not even be an accurate snapshot of the overall electorate, but it is still useful to see who they polled and draw conclusions from that about how to proceed in a campaign.
I gave up that struggle a while ago, Anon. Prediction markets are a thing now, can’t avoid them.
yeah we toast
government’s only capability now is murdering its own citizens and detaining undocumented immigrants
Oh, and starting ill-conceived wars
yeah, maybe for a campaign
There’s no value in the media reporting it
except to the media in drawing eyeballs for ad revenue
listen, I’m not the one saying “even in a Fox News Poll” you don’t need to explain it to me
if you believe everything you said, then the reputations of bad pollsters should be cataloged and referenced when reported
You’re defending shitty work that has a divisive effect
honestly, your defense of the reporting of polls bolsters my argument more than yours, you basically admit they have no value
Numbers on a screen are the business model of MSnow, it’s the dumbest form of infotainment
reporting polls is protected speech
and they are a tool of confusion and division
both are true
money is protected speech too!
makes perfect sense right
you’ll never get it across is right
me neither huh
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listen, it crossed
and was rejected
38 points off a week out, reported as news
and like I said, the rest of the chattering political class is echoing me more than you, no one is pleased, the candidates especially
imagine how Haley Stevens feels about it, Polls had her down double digits and she lost by one, unintentional or not it’s electioneering
Karoline Leavitt was both on and not on the plane: Schrödinger’s Press Secretary
She’s going to lie into a mirror to stay in practice
Craig so far everything works great! Super fast loading!
One minor glitch, your “home” link takes you back to a blog post titled “Home again” from 2017.
All other bookmarked links from archive pages seem to work fine. I bookmarked some of the music lists I posted so I can listen to them ad free.
I toss some coin in the tip jar to help with expenses.
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Response for both sides
lol “tan suit” is a deep cut, had to think about that one
today’s meme…
meme #2…
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Just a few of the “Socialistic” things available in the US. Of course, they are also things the GOP loves to cut.
Today in the Diner:
Ken Paxton Pen Theft & ICE Operation Puppet Master
Ken Paxton gets caught stealing a Montblanc pen at the Collin County Courthouse while ICE deploys Operation Puppet Master in Minneapolis.
We are serving up a bizarre political menu today, starting with Ken Paxton caught on tape snagging a thousand-dollar Montblanc pen from Joe Joblin at the Collin County Courthouse. James Talarico immediately turned the footage into the ultimate campaign ad, proving once again that Texas politics is an unmatched circus.
Meanwhile, we dig into the disturbing details out of Minneapolis regarding ICE and Operation Puppet Master. If giving an agency billions of dollars results in them infiltrating groups and buying torture gloves to electrocute people, we need serious congressional hearings before the midterms to rein them in.
Finally, we cover the daily hurdles of inflation, from a staggering bill for fifth-grade school supplies to dodging the massive crowds at the new Costco in Otsego, Minnesota. Plus, we look at Donald Trump hinting at declaring a national emergency to halt elections, Roger Marshall sweating his Senate seat in Kansas, and a quick celebration for George Hamilton turning 87 on his way to Graceland.
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00:00 Intro & Trump’s Plane
02:30 Otsego Minnesota Costco Line
08:18 Rising School Supply Costs
15:48 Ken Paxton Steals Montblanc Pen
20:45 Network Solutions Migration
26:13 ICE Operation Puppet Master
33:30 Texas Data Centers & Water
40:35 Minocqua Brewing Fascist Tears
50:30 Trump National Emergency Threat
54:50 Abdul Blues Clues Campaign Ad
01:01:43 Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty
— Human Prompted and Edited. Machine Drafted. (Gemini Pro)
PAXTON STEALS A PEN:
🍽️From today’s Digital Diner menu
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-orders-navy-return-older-000154121.html
Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers, according to a directive issued Thursday.
The new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy’s most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.
The memo directs the Pentagon and the Navy to present Trump with plans to remove the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, also known as EMALS, within two months. It also says the Ford-class carrier’s electromagnetic weapons elevators should be replaced.
*For. Fk. Sake!
Trump’s ire with the new technology goes back to at least 2017 in his first term, when he claimed the new system is “not good” and “doesn’t have the power” of the older, steam systems in an interview with Time magazine.
“You’re going to goddamned steam,” Trump said at the time. The topic has frequently come up since then at rallies and other events.
While Trump is looking to roll back the latest technology, the newest Chinese aircraft carriers employ electromagnetic catapults and France said it plans to use the system on its new carrier.
Missing Nash.
Navy ships on steam-engines. Sounds very on brand for Dumbass.
Jack, the tip jar thanks you! Big help on the new server expense.
Yes. Nash, come back with those Maine reports!
Regarding Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea for interstate stalking resulting in death, this from lamag.com:
OK, sentencing is in the judge’s discretion, but let’s say he goes with life. Anyone know how someone might calculate that that he had served 85% of that sentence if he wanted to seek early release? Irony alert – when the Manafort ruling came down establishing that NY could not prosecute him for fraud after he was convicted in Federal Court, Todd Blanche was Manafort’s defense attorney and Mangioni’s defense attorney was an assistant DA in the Manhattan DA’s office. They’re on opposite sides of the v. this time and each is expected to take the other’s position from the Manafort trial.
Well, BiD, he probably doesn’t believe in electromagnetism and really just likes a really hot shower. Maybe now’s a good time to invest in buggy whips.
BTW, Poobah, what Jack said about the speed of the site now. t’s really night and day.
Speaking of polls, they serve to remind me of how many people in America are so smart they voted gop.
That always brightens up my day.
It’s like someone showing up with a bucket of fried chicken and 2 joints.
And beer.
here’s the story Claire brought up in chat today…
Trump ally Nigel Farage beats Count Binface in special UK election
— The Hill
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/politics/ken-paxton-republicans-us-senate
*Pen Paxton (not a typo) won’t have any time to spend with his mistress in any of his dozen-ish houses if he has to campaign. He thought this thing was going to be handed to him.
Texas Republicans are openly worried about losing a statewide race for the first time in three decades. Sen. Ted Cruz, who has been working privately to introduce Paxton to donors, recently said he expected the race “could be decided by a point or two,” which would be tighter than Cruz’s close call against Democrat Beto O’Rourke in 2018. And Michael Berry, a prominent conservative radio host, opened an interview with Paxton on Tuesday by saying he is in “a tough race.”
Paxton has made significant inroads with Republicans in Austin and Washington, visiting DC recently for a fundraiser that was attended by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other members. But it remains an open question how much outside funding Washington Republicans will pony up for the race – and whether Paxton and the GOP can unite enough to stave off a loss that could endanger the party’s control of the Senate.
“We need help now,” Paxton said in a Fox News interview Sunday, suggesting his campaign was trying to raise enough money so it could start airing TV ads next month.
Paxton is working to shore up support from Republicans after he defeated longtime Sen. John Cornyn in a May runoff with a late endorsement from President Donald Trump.
Only a few House Republicans from Texas supported Paxton against Cornyn, but on Wednesday, Paxton’s campaign touted that he now had the backing of 18 out of the 24 Republican members in the state’s US House delegation – and that it signaled “unity.”
Talarico has long staked his campaign on a populist economic message that cuts across party lines. He sought to set the tone for the rest of the election with a slickly produced rally last week in Arlington where he was introduced by Glen Whitley, who was a Republican when he served as Tarrant County judge from 2007 to 2022.
“We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis,” Talarico said at the rally, blaming “billionaires buying politicians like Ken Paxton.”
Talarico has also appealed to Cornyn supporters recently by praising the senator for sending a letter to the Trump administration raising concerns about border wall construction in Big Bend National Park. And after Paxton touted his latest congressional endorsements, Talarico’s campaign issued a statement questioning why six House Republicans from Texas were still withholding their support. The group includes Reps. Michael McCaul, Dan Crenshaw and Chip Roy, all of whom are leaving the House after this year.
“I think that (Talarico’s) got a chance with a small number of (Republican) voters – and he may only need a small number of voters,” said Katherine Fischer, executive director of Texas Majority PAC.
Talarico’s campaign has spent $21 million on ads since the runoff compared to $100,000 by Paxton’s campaign, according to AdImpact data. Even with an expected GOP ad blitz this summer and fall, a super PAC supporting Talarico, Lone Star Rising PAC, has yet to start seriously spending on his behalf. It had nearly $13 million in the bank heading into July.
GOP operatives in Texas and DC believe a group like the Senate Leadership Fund, the top GOP super PAC in Senate races that worked hard to try to defeat Paxton in the primary election, or MAGA Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC sitting on $400 million, will ultimately need to spend big to get Paxton over the finish line.
*Buying votes, it’s the American way.
Sounds like a Monty Python skit.
Margaret Thatcher privatized water way back then. Huh. Anyway, the UK is en fuego, too.
We need our own version of Count Binface. Claire. please speak up next time you have story this good!
GEORGE HAMILTON SURVIVES:
We genuinely thought he died years ago. Turns out he just turned 87 and remains far too tan for a normal human.
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Bin face was the more responsible vote
and that’s not even a joke the whole country regrets Nigel’s Brexit
I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships,” Kelly wrote on social media. “Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.”
Mark Kelly throwing his hat into the ring for 2028?
A federal judge is forcing the DOJ’s hand on the unredacted FBI notes detailing Trump’s worst Epstein connection. The ultimate truth bomb is coming.
Better have a live fuse in that truth bomb.
Love Kelly’s alliteration. I can see the t-shirt now – a MAGA 47 emblem on the left front chest and
Ballrooms,
Bankruptcies and
Bullshit
on the back. All the letters in chickenshit yellow.
We gotta push this video ourselves because. not surprisingly, YouTube and TikTok are throttling it.
Here’s a blurb and short link for pasting:
The Epstein File That Scares Trump The Most
Covering the Coverage
Coverage of Judge Sullivan forcing the DOJ to produce unredacted Epstein files—specifically FBI notes implicating Donald Trump—reveals a fractured media landscape. Mainstream outlets emphasize the severe procedural tension as Sullivan threatens DOJ lawyers with contempt. Meanwhile, progressive and independent media portray Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s blatant defiance of court orders as a desperate, almost comical coverup.
— Human Prompted and Edited. Machine Drafted. (Gemini Pro)
Today’s calls to Congress: electrified, torture gloves for ICE that shouldn’t even be manufactured, let alone supported with our tax dollars; females as young as 13 who are now pregnant in ICE concentration camps, meaning our tax dollars have supported their illegal/unconstitutional incarceration and their sexual assault; it’s not just those on the USS Lincoln in dire straits (no pun intended), but on other ships, as well. 202-224-3121
Man beats system, for now. Seeing them claim their Escalated Support Team “successfully worked on your recent ticket and resolved the reported issue” by literally handing me my money back and giving up is the ultimate corporate comedy.
No thanks to YouTube,, which isn’t distributing it to anybody, that Trump-Epstein-FBI video is at 1.2k views thanks only to the Trailmix Promotions Department.
Keep pushing the link: trailmix.cc/fbi
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/14/data-center-texas-audit-moratorium/
*What utter fried baloney. Nobody in the history of audits has ever looked forward to an audit. This is a show for voters, to try to undo some of Greg’s pro-data center/let Texans subsidize billionaires garbage.
Tech companies are lining up to voice support for Gov. Greg Abbott’s audit of data centers seeking to connect to the power grid, although little is known about what the audit will entail or what it means for the data center construction boom.
Since the Aug. 3 announcement, at least 43 companies — including juggernauts like Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services — have issued public statements expressing support for Abbott’s audit, despite the governor ordering regulators to not approve any new grid connections until the audit is completed. The governor has similarly touted their endorsement of his plan.
“We share your commitment to ensuring data centers are true partners in every Texas community where we operate — protecting residential ratepayers, strengthening grid reliability and promoting responsible water stewardship,” read a letter to the governor sent Tuesday by the Data Center Coalition, a trade association representing many of the largest tech companies in the world.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/14/texas-big-bend-border-wall-lawsuit-lipan-apache/
Lawsuit seeks to stop Big Bend border wall construction
A tribal nonprofit and an outdoor recreation company on Friday asked a federal judge to block border wall-related construction in Big Bend National Park, arguing that the project is contrary to U.S. law and threatens constitutionally protected religious freedoms.
Continued construction of the wall and related projects — including roads, drainage structures, erosion controls, safety features, lighting, cameras and sensors — will cause irreplaceable damage to archaeological sites within the park, including areas associated with indigenous peoples, the lawsuit said.
“Once an archaeological site is excavated by heavy machinery, once the physical context of artifacts is destroyed, or once a sacred or culturally significant landscape is permanently altered, the injury is irreparable,” said the lawsuit, filed in San Antonio federal court.
The People of La Junta for Preservation, a nonprofit associated with the Lipan Apache community, sued the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to halt work begun under a June 9 order from Secretary Markwayne Mullin that waived federal and state requirements to allow construction along 62 miles of the border with Mexico.
The action, however, did not waive a law that made the secretary of the interior and the National Park Service responsible to protect and develop the park, the lawsuit said.
The Trump administration has moved forward with plans to build vehicle barriers and a patrol road inside the national park as part of its border wall amid bipartisan outcry, including waiving environmental laws earlier this year to expedite construction.
The outcry against building structures in the region, especially in the state and national parks, has increased as visible signs of construction like bulldozers have begun to appear. On Thursday, a bipartisan coalition of 46 state House representatives sent a letter urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call for construction in the region to immediately cease.
Data centers
Screw worms
High prices
War (the possibility of a draft)
Kidnapping brown folks who were part of the community (not just deporting criminals like they promised)
Pedophiles not punished
Social Security threatened
Loss of healthcare and food assistance
Tx breaks for billionaires
*Talarico has plenty to campaign on.
Saw the Joe Rogan pod about him ~just now finding out in real time~ about tRUMP selling access to information so folks can do insider trade and bet on prediction markets.
BS. He’s not a good actor.
Also saw a Hunter Biden with Don Lemon. I second what he said about that weasel Jake Tapper.
Hunter 2028
LAME DUCK WATCH
Three Trump-endorsed candidates lost their primaries in just six days.
*Yertle is a trial run for Dumbass
“Ansrican Mahjong” sweeping the nation’s older ladies if you’re looking for a social trend
rigged election watch
At least Jake didn’t cheat on his wife to sleep with his dead brother’s wife and get her hooked on crack. I’m not buying Hunter’s comeback tour.
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i’m struck by how much hunter sounds like his father
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(the old /home address points to my Orlando home, circa 2017)
i saw that old home page and thought “man i really need to close some of these tabs”
Dumbass and Melanin didn’t sue Hunter, because they were afraid of what legal discovery would show. Just like he knows a lot about Congressional critters. JK about Hunter 2028, but it’s refreshing to hear someone not hold back. The regime is full of adulterers, sex offenders, and drug users. At least Hunter found sobriety, and part of that is facing what he did when he was using. Anyone taking responsibility for anything in DC?
Oh, and I still think Jake Tapper is an exploitative, little weasel.
Latest Talarico merch drop: A pen that’s imprinted with the words “Not Ken Paxton’s Pen.” Ha!
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