An aide for “a Republican member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, granted anonymity to describe internal party dynamics,” tells Politico they’ve “reached out to Majority Leader Scalise to let him know we’d like to see the Ratepayer Protection Act on the floor as soon as the House comes back from August recess. Our constituents are demanding substantive action on data centers.”

The quote about the bill ought to be more or less self-explanatory but there is one further detail key to why they’re having to nag Scalise to bring it to the floor when it already unanimously passed the committee last month: The bill‘s topline is “to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and for other purposes,” meaning that the federal government will tell states what to do to ensure consistent policy on how to hike rates on data centers and thus bring relief to regular folks getting fucked over on their electric bills.

Eventually. The dispositive description of the source for the Wednesday story and the actual quote expressing responsiveness to a real problem and the tension with Scalise’s “principled” opposition to the measure as proposed, that data centers are a “local issue” and he’s opposed to imposing regulations on states. Naturally Politico doesn’t so much as nod at Scalise taking the opposite approach when it comes to national bills on voting. To him that issue is as local as the Olive Garden’s menu and its requirements to produce a photo ID to use a Never-Ending Pasta Pass.

Far right influencer Milo Yiannopoulos has already been deported to the United Kingdom following his Friday arrest by ICE on Laura Loomer’s orders, TMZ reports. It’s not clear how Benny Johnson’s process servers will be able to hand Yiannopoulos the defamation complaint whenever Johnson gets around to suing Milo for spreading substantiated rumors that Johnson is a homosexual.

“Maggot Hagerman, the Fake Reporter from The Failing New York Times, an unattractive person both inside and out, and who knows less about me than most reporters on the beat (She’s a SCAMMER!), made up a story that on September 11th, I’m not going to the World Trade Center, in New York City, because they won’t let me make a speech, and I’m going to the Pentagon in DC, because I’m a featured speaker. This is more Corrupt News, I’ve been to New York many times over the years, and no one ever speaks, it’s a ‘solemn ceremony!’ I never even thought of what Maggot made up, and besides, I would love not to speak, because I’m speaking all the time, and this is a day to remember the victims, and their beautiful family members. Maggot Hagerman is a PHONY, and The New York Times knows it! It will all be revealed in the lawsuit against them, and another lawsuit against the organization which gives out the now discredited Pulitzer Prize, because Maggie got one for her ‘reporting’ on THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, which turned out to be a total CON JOB!”

“If she were ever forced to reveal her ‘sources,’ you will find out they either don’t exist, or didn’t say what she reported. She’s been falsely writing about me for years – She’s a stalker, and should be forced to turn over any and all money that she’s made through her fake reporting on me,” posted the clearly not mad president on Friday, doing nothing to seize Haberman’s proceeds from her reporting.

Soicopathic MAGA goth Laura Loomer on Friday crowed “Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody after I exposed his illegal alien lifestyle. Marjorie Traitor Greene hired Milo to work as her ‘intern’ where he produced her podcast, wrote her book and lived at her house in Rome, Georgia before she sold it,” right after TMZ reported that the former Trump fanboy shitposter haf been arrested.

This image is actually so much better to put on top than the video feed itself. The astronauts had been waiting for 15 minutes at this point, let’s see how much longer they’ll hold out.

“Ranchers and Farmers have always been a number one priority for me. They work very hard, are smart, efficient, and immaculately CLEAN, but for years I have heard that they have had a tremendous problem with the Big Processors, who many say are a nasty Monopoly. There are, essentially, 4 of them, a very non competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers, and I can’t let that happen, can I? So, in order to break this powerful monopoly, with much of its ownership based outside of the US, I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday.

The economics of this declaration might best be explained this way: Trump’s new directive is the equivalent of him trying to bust Starlink’s abusive monopoly over rural internet users by authorizing Nebraska ISP “Dialup 4 Less” to construct and launch into orbit its own network of dozens of $100 million+ satellites to provide MAGAmericans with speeds significantly higher than the 56k their telephone wire-based service currently does. All they gotta do is invent their own fleet of autonomous launch vehicles capable of landing upright after releasing the payload into orbit.

Or when the Trump boys claimed their T1 phone would be made in the United States. That’s actually probably a little closer to what it means for Trump to declare that ranchers can process beef on-site, as actually standing up the kind of infrastructure needed to slaughter cattle and produce meat on the kinds of scales required is like Eric and Don Jr saying they can just do what FoxConn does.

Officials in the regions of China and Nepal devastated on Wednesday are warning of a secondary catastrophic flash flood/mudslide as another unplanned reservoir has begun forming behind a pile of earthen debris that could give way without warning at any moment, CNN reports.

The sequence of this WNCN article is all wrong, it buries the causal chain of North Carolina Republicans’ failures to cross the Ts and dot the Is on their “election integrity theater.” You can’t properly appreciate it if you don’t know the underlying processes for implementation.

First and foremost, state law requires that any new rule being added to election procedure can be objected to and a recording of just 10 formally lodged citizen objections means that a rule need then be codified legislatively. The Republican-controlled State Board of Elections last month put out 15 such new rules, including a particularly draconian one regarding the approval of voter ID waivers.

Any voter who cannot furnish a photo ID need fill out and sign one of the forms to explain why they could not do so, all such forms are self-effecting in that submitting one with a ballot validates the vote unless the county board of elections – every single one in the state 3-2 Republican majority-controlled – unanimously gives it the thumbs down. One of the new rules was to make it a simple majority, effectively giving Republicans a veto over however many ID-less votes count or not.

Pretty clever, except that they fucked up and forgot to kill the whole objection thing, neutering that and another six of the 15 total new rules. The Republican super-majority state legislature could just sit down and hammer the rules into law but there’s one wrinkle: They won’t be back in session again until November 16th. Oh and 5pm Friday’s the deadline to lodge objections to the other rules, so maybe don’t bet the farm against the rest of them getting knocked down.

ICE agent Christian Castro – wanted in Minnesota on charges of assault and falsely reporting a crime in the January 14 shooting of 24 year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who Castro lied about attempting to attack him with a shovel – was released from a jail in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday after a federal judge ruled that the Lone Star State isn’t legally bound to any timeframe to make a decision on whether or not to extradite Castro up north to face the charges, the Associated Press reports.

Castro shot Sosa-Celis in the leg through the front door of a Minneapolis house during the siege of the city by convicted felon President Trump’s legions of white nationalist stormtroopers, deployed there after that incel kid claimed a Somali-operated daycare center was siphoning millions in taxpayer money because they wouldn’t let him in to film toddlers. Sosa-Celis was one of the luckier victims compared to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were murdered in cold blood.

Pussy Governor Greg Abbott, evidently fearful that sending Castro to Minnesota could cost him support with just 10 weeks left before voters decide to keep him in office for a fourth term, has dragged his wheels and thrown up all sorts of circular bureaucratic roadblocks such as ordering a review to determine whether Castro is “legally a fugitive.” The ICE agent may actually be in Mexico already – Minnesota AG Keith Ellison had argued to a federal judge that he could flee south of the border if released from the clink in Texas. Which he was a few hours ago, from a jail just miles from the border. So maybe that’ll be the determination Abbott needs to sign the extradition order, that Castro fled to Mexico. Pretty standard operating procedure for a fugitive evading law enforcement.

There are more than 100 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Donald Trump has no intention of deporting them. Greg Bovino ran the Border Patrol until earlier this year, and saw the betrayal firsthand. Now he says the administration is threatening his life. pic.twitter.com/n2Sy98Vch5

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 27, 2026

“Today, we honor the 13 brave American HEROES who were tragically killed five years ago by evil Jihadi terrorists in Kabul, Afghanistan. This catastrophe was a result of Sleepy Joe Biden’s totally botched Withdrawal, which left our wonderful Servicemen and women defenseless, and allowed the Taliban to free thousands of bloodthirsty terrorists and criminals held at Bagram Prison. This was one of the greatest atrocities in the History of our Nation, and we can never forget that it was the result of the sheer incompetence of Joe Biden and the Democrats who were in charge.”
 
“During my 2024 Campaign, I met with the Abbey Gate Gold Star Families, wonderful people and Great Patriots, who were totally ignored and disrespected by the Democrat Party. I promised them we would deliver Justice when I returned to the White House — and we have! We quickly apprehended the evil mastermind responsible for the deaths of our Service members, and it has been one of my Greatest Honors as Commander in Chief. May God Bless America, and God Bless the Abbey Gate Gold Star Families. You will NEVER be forgotten!” posted Fat Nero on Wednesday.

He REALLY wants Democrats to demand he extend the same treatment to the greater number of families of those killed in action or in accidents since the Iran now doesn’t he?

Texas Dem James Talarico’s campaign on Wednesday filed motions to unseal depositions that his Picasso-faced opponent Ken Paxton gave in 2019 and 2022 civil cases, under which it is widely believed that Pax admitted to having committed multiple crimes, the Texas Tribune reports.

At least 17 people are dead and hundreds are missing – as many as 400 international tourists among them – on Wednesday after a flash flood tore through the high valleys of the Himalayas along the border between China and Nepal, CNN reports. Calling it a “flash flood” is actually underselling it as the deluge was not from a rainstorm but a tertiary effect of an earthquake. Nepalese officials say a 4.4-magnitude tremor – mild for the seismically-active region – caused a landslide which in turn blocked a river until the natural dam gave way and sent all the accumulated river flow downhill.

How much time between the quake and when the landslide blockage on the Lhende Khola River collapsed is unclear, but just from footage it may have been at a volume significantly greater than any one downpour of rain could trigger in a single burst. Among those missing are 60 members of a crew building a hydroelectric dam along another river downstream, guys whose project managers and engineering leads’ most important mission is mitigating the very terrifying hazard that befell them, evidently without warning. That and China’s declaration of a “mass casualty incident” on the Tibet side of the border could tragically serve as an ominous sign of a far greater cataclysm across a vast, rugged region than any anodyne headline about the “missing” could. Pretty fucking depressing.

Female Cops Jump in an Uber, Demand Help Chasing Down Male Suspect (and He Gets Away Anyways) https://t.co/A90Ad5hKML

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 25, 2026

South Carolina US Senator Darline Graham on Tuesday captured the Republican nomination for the November special election for her late brother Lindsey’s seat, though probably not by an overwhelming margin over now two-time 2026 statewide primary loser Congressman Ralph Norman, National Zero projects based on a 7.8 percent lead for Graham with 36 percent of votes counted.

Norman, a Freedom Caucasian who made the mistake of endorsing Nikki Haley for president in 2024, was otherwise a hardcore Trump loyalist who famously begged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to get the Orange God Emperor to declare “marshall law” to remain in office in a text message sent on January 17, 2021. Why Norman then sided with his former governor three years later is not all that clear but here he is, neither the gubernatorial nominee nor the senate nominee and losing to Lindsey Graham’s sister who openly admitted she doesn’t know shit about national security, anointed by Trump just to reciprocate Lindsey’s mostly fierce loyalty to him.

Legendary country music star and theme park proprietor Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, the Associated Press reports on the death of the wrong campy, flamboyant octogenarian.

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime is considering simply demolishing the Kennedy Center and replacing it with an outdoor amphitheater if courts won’t let him have his way with the storied Washington DC performing arts institution that the fat fuck claims is decrepit. This is not some CNN or Washington Post report, but in a DOJ court filing submitted on Tuesday.