August 10, 2026

• 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