Stealy Dan/Anxious Boy/Mustache George

Aspiring butcher, amateur baker, still no desire to be a candlestick maker.

[Natalie Grace Alford @NatalieGABand]

It’s kind of amazing that a big reason the United States wanted to “get back to normal” was for the restaurant industry, only for the food prices to rise to such an extent that people don’t want to go out to restaurants as much.

[Wiz Fajita @trillary_banks_]

“I don’t care if you’re white, black, green, or purple” -someone who definitely cares that you’re black

[Bafflegabs! @Bafflegabs]

Oingo Boingo very much the thinking man’s Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[neopussyboi @forcedmasc]

“Prison abolition polls bad w the working class” so does communism and socialism. What do working class Americans want? Super profits from the global south and I guess some new form of media that combines sports betting with pornography

[Stealy Dan/Anxious Boy/Mustache George @dc__solomon]

@stooooooove That THAAAANG is juicy

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US.

I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it.

Amazon confirmed that it has acquired a site in Pecos County, Texas called GW Ranch, where it plans to build an AI data center campus powered by a 7.65 GW gas plant. It would initially be entirely disconnected from the Texas electric grid.

In January, GW Ranch received a permit from the state of Texas allowing the gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

If the project emitted that much CO2, it would be the largest single source of pollution in the United States—emitting more greenhouse gases than the country’s largest coal plant. It’s worth noting that companies rarely emit as much as their permits allow.

The paper trail linking Amazon to GW Ranch surfaced earlier this week when Amazon filed three construction permits with the state. The permits showed Amazon’s plans to build three data center buildings with construction beginning immediately.

Cleanview reviewed satellite imagery to look for the project and discovered that land clearing had begun at the site described in GW Ranch’s air permit records.

We reached out to Amazon and the company confirmed it had acquired the GW Ranch site and plans to buy power from the plant, which is being developed by Pacifico Energy.

Partnering with GW Ranch marks Amazon’s first major investment in an off-grid data center. In doing so, the company joins Microsoft, Google, and Meta who have all invested significantly in natural gas power this year.

Data center developers have announced nearly 60 behind-the-meter gas power projects since the beginning of 2025 with a combined capacity of 90 GW, according to Cleanview’s latest report.

Not all of these projects will be built, but in recent months a growing share of them have begun construction and signed key tenant deals.

Amazon’s project in West Texas is unlikely to be its last bet on large-scale natural gas power. Yesterday, the company confirmed that it is in talks with the developers of a 4.5 GW gas power plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania.

When the developers of the Homer City gas plant first announced their project, they said it would be the largest gas power plant in America.

Now it’s just one of many giga-scale power plants that have been proposed across the country.

[Mara Gay @MaraGay]

We traveled to Georgia - with a diner booth - to talk to Black voters about their relationship with the Democratic Party.

Many of the tired assumptions about what Black voters want are wrong

https://t.co/5eakFicA6C

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

USA TODAY is partnering with Palantir to de-anonymize & ID readers across 200 newspapers.

And turn them into "actionable intelligence."

That spy language from @USATODAY is a huge red flag.

I'm sure they are trying to stay profitable.

But media exists to hold power accountable.

Not to partner with defense intelligence contractors.

Or treat readers like intelligence targets.

By: @HanaaTameez
https://t.co/KHhSiwWq1J

[a ball knower among ball knowers @juegosnoguey]

when trump finally goes away politicians from both parties are going to start trying to talk like they did before 2016 about like Freedom and Democracy and Human Rights and its going to sound so stupid

[Cøøg @TheDonCoogi]

Brown Paper Bag is such an incredible record.

I miss when DJ Khaled actually curated fire records. lol

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Talarico is one to watch. The “Powell memo” is as close to a blueprint for oligarchy as you could ever have put down on paper, and it’s amazing politicians are only just now educating people about what it means to be on the receiving end of a class war https://t.co/PZvYHdmbjk

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

As someone who’s been deeply involved in Muslim community organizing for my entire adult life (almost 15 years now) I can’t stress how valuable it is for Muslim teenage boys to have not just one, but two Muslim men who are national political figures and can serve as their role models.

The War on Terror, the surveillance state, and the counterrevolutions of the Arab Spring, the drone strikes, the wars on Gaza and more disaffected so many guys in my teens and 20s, but zoomers can look to these wholesome, politically aligned, family men who offer both a political outlet and a healthy outlook on the future. Alhamdulilah.

[Spexx | 家紋 @Spexxx]

This is true everywhere, even Toronto. Some White people would rather have a dead night w a few White customers than a successful night w minorities. And I laugh every time they go out of business.

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

the reason no one under 45 takes 9/11 seriously is bc of how America has treated it since that day. McCain and Bush came out a day later and told everyone to go shopping as the best way to honor 3,000 dead Americans. I’m sorry but that shit doesn’t work in a postmodern world

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Zohran Mamdani: “In the 2012 mixtape Rich Forever, Rick Ross and French Montana expound on what it takes to stay schemin’ within a system that so often seems to benefit only a select few. Unfortunately, too many NYC families can relate. Today we are one step closer to doing away with New Yorkers’ need to stay schemin’ because today we are incredibly proud to announce that we have filled our first seats for free 2K programs in our city”

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

2034 You can be cop ice agent or troop. Or you can gamble on reality. Or you can stream yourself throwing slices of ham at homeless people. All other jobs are gone.

[Thobinho 🪮🇧🇼 @Thobirama_]

Sup? Struggle is up brotha!!! Oppression is up brotha!!! Salami eggs and bacon

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's actually shocking to hear one of the nation's most bloodthirsty neocons -- Robert Kagan, the husband of Victoria Nuland and partner of Bill Kristol in pushing the Iraq War long before 9/11 -- admit not only that the US is often attacked as "blowback" from its own aggression, but that both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are examples of it.

This has long been one of the most taboo truths when it comes to US war propaganda, and still is:👇

[Wheelchair Baddie Hunter @GUXSquallNoctis]

LMFAOOOOOOOO NIGGA WHAT

[Matthew Petti @matthew_petti]

Yes it makes perfect sense that the global superpower fills its intelligence services with bumbling idiots on a shoestring budget.

“America is god” and “the CIA doesn’t do anything” are both fairy tales meant to confuse and frustrate your understanding of power.