NEW: I went inside one Texas county's data center boom—and backlash—to report on how the state GOP's data center divide will shape the next legislative session.
Bonus scooplet: I got into a local meeting with a state senator working to draft a data center bill.
www.texasobserver.org/data-center-...
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
Definitely my preferred search engine, haven't really tried the browser
Theo Nesland was scheduled for top surgery but, as the date approached, he found out his insurance had abruptly dropped coverage for the procedure. It's a growing problem for trans people in Texas, and beyond.
Understated consequence of this: how can you convince your hospital board that it must keep offering trans youth care if one of the leftmost politicians in America set his new clinic at 19 and over?
It sets a horrible precedent.
"GOP state leaders have for years engaged in an expanding war on local control—aimed at big blue cities—in favor of state supremacy. But that ideological shift now has local Republicans finding that they, too, have fallen prey to that crusade."
Big leopards eating faces energy
Brianna Wu announcing she's leaving the Democrats for an "uneasy alliance with Republicans" because "Israel's enemies are my enemies" is utterly bonkers because SHE'S NOT EVEN JEWISH, SHE'S JUST SUPPORTING GENOCIDE FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES
