Matthew Haugen
@mjhaugen.bsky.social
Research and Editorial Manager @cplusc.bsky.social (opinions expressed are my own) • sometimes writing at www.terrain.news • based in Tuscaloosa, AL
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Thanks to Democrats like Ruben "why aren't women hot anymore" Gallego, who voted for the Laken Riley bill, this young woman cannot be released on bail while her appeal is pending. She's in Lumpkin, GA.
Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thanks to Democrats like Ruben "why aren't women hot anymore" Gallego, who voted for the Laken Riley bill, this young woman cannot be released on bail while her appeal is pending. She's in Lumpkin, GA.
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
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This election, we have a chance to send a new slate of fighters for affordability to Albany. Join our campaign as a day one supporter so we can tell Kathy Hochul it's time to tax the rich and deliver a New York we can afford. valdesforny.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This election, we have a chance to send a new slate of fighters for affordability to Albany. Join our campaign as a day one supporter so we can tell Kathy Hochul it's time to tax the rich and deliver a New York we can afford. valdesforny.com
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
I worry a lot about politicians' now seemingly ubiquitous rhetorical focus on affordability being used to undermine important regulations
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I worry a lot about politicians' now seemingly ubiquitous rhetorical focus on affordability being used to undermine important regulations
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November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Must read by my colleague Michelle Cottle for anyone with parents: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Must read by my colleague Michelle Cottle for anyone with parents: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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People keep saying that driverless cars will end congestion.
In reality, all driverless cars do is change the math so that instead of roads being jammed with cars with just 1-2 people in them, the roads will be jammed with cars with 0-1 people in them.
In reality, all driverless cars do is change the math so that instead of roads being jammed with cars with just 1-2 people in them, the roads will be jammed with cars with 0-1 people in them.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
People keep saying that driverless cars will end congestion.
In reality, all driverless cars do is change the math so that instead of roads being jammed with cars with just 1-2 people in them, the roads will be jammed with cars with 0-1 people in them.
In reality, all driverless cars do is change the math so that instead of roads being jammed with cars with just 1-2 people in them, the roads will be jammed with cars with 0-1 people in them.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
We need a federal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We need a federal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
1. THIEF
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone while wearing a plaid shirt .
Alt: harrison ford in the fugitive starting to trim off his iconic beard
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
1. THIEF
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xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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Planned obsolescence is not a sustainable way to build an economy and we shouldnt measure it that way either.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Planned obsolescence is not a sustainable way to build an economy and we shouldnt measure it that way either.
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a big part of my politics these days is "when people are clearly lying about what they're doing and why, don't pretend they are not!"
The purpose of DOGE was not actually cutting federal spending or improving government efficiency, so it was not really a failure.
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
a big part of my politics these days is "when people are clearly lying about what they're doing and why, don't pretend they are not!"
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground