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[AVO Power @avo_power]

Transformer Shortage Threatens U.S. Grid Expansion as AI Boom Drives Electricity Demand Higher – [your]NEWS https://t.co/0Up47ET02k

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Which brings us to the question people across across the country should be asking: How did this county come to release a man like this so easily?
Part of the answer is a decade of deliberate policy. Some of it was paid for by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur (@macfound) Foundation when it awarded Allegheny County a Safety and Justice Challenge grant. The initiative describes its mission as fighting “the misuse and overuse of jails.” The county’s own first-year report is blunt about what the money was for: “to reduce the population of the Allegheny County Jail by 20%.”
The county beat that goal. It reported a 36% reduction in its jail population during that first two-year grant.
The MacArthur Foundation then renewed: $2 million in 2020, $1.17 million in 2022 over four years, and $334,000 in 2024. In all, $5.5 million since 2018. The county has said it was chosen for the 2021 renewal “based on the promise and progress of work to date.”

In other words, results got rewarded.
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[Historian Brady Crytzer 🇺🇸 @BradyCrytzer]

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[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

"The problem isn’t that a judge cut him loose early. It’s what happened after the door opened. Nothing in the public record I could find shows anyone kept watching a man a Florida judge had called a likely danger without treatment, or that anyone passed that warning to Pennsylvania.

And “adjudication withheld” matters. Pennsylvania’s online court system doesn’t show out-of-state cases at all. And on a national background check, a Florida felony case involving three counts of battery on officers can show up as something less than a conviction. Either way, a Pittsburgh arraignment could easily see a guy with a few summary offenses.

Which brings us to the question people across Allegheny County are asking, from Facebook comment threads to talk radio: How did this county come to release a man like this so easily?

Part of the answer is a decade of deliberate policy. Some of it was paid for by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation when it awarded Allegheny County a Safety and Justice Challenge grant. The initiative describes its mission as fighting “the misuse and overuse of jails.” The county’s own first-year report is blunt about what the money was for: “to reduce the population of the Allegheny County Jail by 20%.”

The county beat that goal. It reported a 36% reduction in its jail population during that first two-year grant, a stretch that included the COVID-19 shutdowns, when jails nationwide emptied out.

The MacArthur Foundation then renewed: $2 million in 2020, $1.17 million in 2022 over four years, and $334,000 in 2024. In all, $5.5 million since 2018. The county has said it was chosen for the 2021 renewal “based on the promise and progress of work to date.”

In other words, results got rewarded.

What did the money buy? The county’s reports list public defenders at overnight arraignments, hiring staff so every district judge could get a pretrial risk assessment, and faster court processing. The results were measurable. At the overnight arraignments where public defenders began appearing, district judges set money bonds 39% less often than in the same period of 2018. And the county’s pretrial office, in its own words, “never recommends money bail, which is ineffective and unfair to people who are poor.”

That recommendation creates a system built to say yes to release, one that measures success by how many beds sit empty. Keeping a man in jail requires somebody — a judge, a prosecutor, a victim — to push against that current. At Hemingway’s arraignment, by the district attorney’s own account, nobody from his office was there to push."
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[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

My warning 4 years ago about anti-diesel policies.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

AI critics mistakenly assume that data centers ALWAYS raise electricity prices.

It’s not true.

“We can definitely do AI in a way that keeps electricity prices the same or even lowers them,” explains @AlexEpstein.

Here’s how:

[Historian Brady Crytzer 🇺🇸 @BradyCrytzer]

Take a number! Our region is filled with amazing history! #history

[Yacht Rock Playlist Consultant @RedsSuffering]

Today’s certified Yacht Rock song of the day:

Steely Dan Saturday!!

Don’t Take Me Alive
Steely Dan
1976

Yachtski scale score 75
My score 70

The criminal element of smooth music aided by the smoking guitar of Larry Carlton…

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled 6-3 to ALLOW the Trump administration to use federal voter identification database to verify citizenship.

All illegal voters need to be REMOVED from the voter rolls.

The 3 liberal justices dissented, of course...

[AVO Power @avo_power]

@RedsSuffering @Super70sSports Which Doobie, you be?

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

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[JD Vance @JDVance]

Our message to corporate America is simple: We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.

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[Rep. Mary Miller @RepMaryMiller]

ICYMI: The American Federation of Teachers is suing the federal government to allow illegal aliens who cannot speak English or understand road signs to drive your children to school.

Crazy doesn’t even begin to cover it.

[CapyBarrett @CapyBarrett]

@avo_power “Safe and effective”

[AVO Power @avo_power]

"unprecedented" 🤨

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Strokes among younger adults are at unprecedented levels, nearly doubling over the past 3 decades. — CNN

[Rosa DeLauro @rosadelauro]

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[C3 @C_3C_3]

Once you realize this everything makes sense…

Illegals don’t vote in massive numbers, but their illegal ballots do.

That’s the fraud op.

That’s why it’s difficult to prove.

That’s why Dem state DMVs auto register.

That’s why Dems are hiding voter rolls at all costs.

Fact.

[Mark Cook @PatriotMarkCook]

Now imagine if this was taken advantage of on the order of millions scattered all around the nation in an organized diaries fashion.

Are you getting it yet?

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[⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ @EnergyAbsurdity]

Google Agrees To Help Pay For Georgia Nuclear Upgrades In Deal Utility Says Would Protect Other Customers https://t.co/G34uffKm2h via @dailycaller

[Today in Yacht Rock @in_yacht]

Steely Dan’s sixth studio album, “Aja”, was released on this day in 1977. The album reached platinum in three months, won a Grammy for Best-Engineered Non-Classical Recording, and is the band’s highest-selling album. All seven tracks are certified yacht rock.