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.
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In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
NEW: The Trump administration put the Ambani family’s Reliance Industries at the center of an escalating tariff fight with India.
Then Reliance invested millions in America First Refining, in which Donald Trump Jr. secretly held a stake.
I don't trust anyone involved in this -- the feds, Musk, or the state of Texas -- to care one whit about whether swapping preserve land on the river for other land 10 miles away from it is a fair deal. It's almost certainly not. Everyone involved is a bad faith actor and a liar.
Why is Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot doubling down on forensic hypnosis, of all things? There's no junkier junk "science" www.texastribune.org/2026/06/10/t...
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
I certainly hope this is right, but nothing current D leadership has done makes me think so.
Homan makes this claim repeatedly, but it is not factual.
Local jails have a list of people detained in them publicly available on the internet. ICE agents can literally look it up. (So can you!)
Grits for Breakfast
Grits for Breakfast
Grits for Breakfast
Jessica Pishko
When local jails don't share information with ICE, agents can no longer pick people up in a controlled setting. They have to find them in the street instead and these street arrests carry more risk for everyone involved.
