August 10, 2026
· 9 min read
- Blog: A Minute from the Moderators
- The Power of Lies
- We need a PIT Crew for news
- American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.
- AI vendors can't be trusted to secure their systems. Newsrooms need to act accordingly
- Noncitizen voters discovered in New Jersey fuel nationwide debate over how frequently that happens
- Democratic states, leaders sue Trump administration for conditioning grant money on election policies
- The noncitizen voter mystery: New Trump numbers raise more questions than answers
- The second-degree sentencing deadline has passed. What happens now?
- ‘We will not be bullied’: Plymouth Township pushes back against proposed Conshohocken data center
- It Took 2 Years for DEP to Formally Answer Questions and Comments at the Last BRADS Landfill Public Hearing – Here’s What They Said
- Lawmakers, workers plan to keep pushing for Pennsylvania to raise the minimum wage
- Amid USPS delays, Wisconsin officials tell voters to mail their ballots ASAP and voters sue for more options
- Democrat Paige Cognetti’s New TV Ad Targets Data Centers in Drive to Oust GOP Rep. Rob Bresnahan From Swing Pennsylvania House Seat
- Pro-data center industry group behind ad campaign in Oregon, Pennsylvania and five other states
- Trump’s New Ridiculous and Dangerous Red-baiting
- ‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
- Big Oil Is Getting Sued for Heat Deaths. It’s Fighting Back With an Army of Immunity Laws.
- Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
- ‘Countless Seniors Will Soon Pay More’: Trump Administration Ends Subsidy for Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
- Why American elections are so complicated — and secure
- Covid Truthers Are Claiming Fauci’s Diary Was “Scrubbed”
- “Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting
- In Pennsylvania, the Data Center Wars Hit the Ballot Box
- Missouri Library Defiantly Holds LGBTQ Story Hour Despite Funding and Legal State Threats
- [Eugene Volokh] A Bit on Pentagon Contractor's Wiretapping Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group
- Millions from state lands could be redirected to rural Pennsylvania to help make up for tax-exempt property
- New ballot drop-off option proves popular in primary, potentially leading to faster election results
- Change is fractal. It starts with leaders
- Pennsylvania asks Trump admin how it identified potential noncitizens registered to vote
- Toot.community is shutting down
- Fauci Is Getting Jack Smithed by the GOP
- Pennsylvania Asks Trump Administration How Exactly It Identified Potential Noncitizen Voters
- GSA official put on leave for social media post saying veterans’ preference in federal hiring is hampering tech recruiting
- [Ilya Somin] New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"
- PA-08 Becomes Third “Toss-Up” Congressional Race In Commonwealth This Cycle
- Can Opposing Data Centers Help Progressives Win?
- U.S. Rep. Scanlon makes unannounced visit to ICE’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center
- Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer
- Gov. Shapiro launches multimillion-dollar plan to boost Pennsylvania’s Democratic voters, touts strong economy as the state ranks 13th in CNBC’s analysis, 47th in U.S. News & World Report
- Butler Twp. Sets Hearing on Data Center Overlay Expansion, Stricter Noise Limit
- July 30, 2026
- E-bike surge powers suburban lawmaking in Pennsylvania
- The AI Phrasebook
- 10 Snipping Tool Hacks Every Windows 11 User Should Know
- Jeanine Pirro’s Epic Study in Passive Voice
- SCOTUS Majority Says Racism Is All Gone
- The Post-Roe Surprise: More Abortions
- We are beginning to see the outlines of accountability
- The story of my blog (AuguStory)
- Phoneblogging
- Hysteria in Russia: ‘Nowhere to Hide’ as Putin’s Palace Falls Within Ukraine’s Reach
- Democrats haven’t held the Pa. Senate in nearly 50 years. Philly’s suburban swing districts may change that
- A Central Jersey police department is using a ‘shrub’ to enforce distracted driving laws
- Man from El Salvador dies at Delaney Hall in New Jersey, ICE says
- The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
- ‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
- Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
- Should We Sweat the Small Cases?
- Model routing with Google Cloud API Gateway
- Nonpartisan groups can resume registering newly naturalized citizens to vote at USCIS sites
- Bucks County DA will not charge Quakertown police chief in student ICE protest response
- We're headed toward the first true AI election
- Coming to some of Pennsylvania’s most picturesque places: data centers
- Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
- A Progressive Victory in a Nail-Biter Primary
- GOP may be stuck with Rep. Max Miller in Ohio
- Anti-AI Populism is Reshaping American Politics
- Bucks County Courier Times’ Corporate Owner Enlists Palantir to Uncover ‘Actionable Intelligence’ on Readers