Hell yeah

The proposed Armory data center is a 120-megawatt (MW) facility. • GraniteCityGossip... +3 At full capacity, its annual electricity consumption would be approximately 1,051,200 megawatt-hours (MWh). This is calculated based on its 120 MW sustained capacity running 24 hours a day for 365 days. Energy Impact & Requirements • Scale of Usage: The facility is expected to be one of the largest energy users in the region. Its annual consumption (1.05M MWh) would equal roughly 28% of the entire City of St. Louis' current annual electricity usage (approx. 3.68M MWh). • Renewable Energy Mandate: Under the conditional use permit approved on April 21, 2026, the developers must ensure at least 50% of the energy load comes from renewable sources within five years of starting operations.

Seems bad!
The Armory data center that’s proposed and had its conditional use permit approved yesterday is going to use electricity equal to28% of the electricity already consumed in STL City each year.

Oh my god.

I'm sure Alito is fuming about the Virginia vote and itching to strike down the rest of the Voting Rights Act as petty revenge.

But Democrats are likely retaking the House, maybe the Senate, no matter what SCOTUS does now.

Killing the VRA would just be a final insult that speeds court reform.

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Pricey crash!

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

New Yorkers have known for a long time that going to a game or concert at the Garden meant surrendering some privacy. That, as you watched the show, the Garden in a real sense watched you.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

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"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

apnorc.org/projects/few...

Ever cry and laugh at the same time?

Every damn time!
What is this joyous feeling?

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter.

But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t:

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

An important read.
[The Atlantic-gift article]: What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center

I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.By Josef Palermo

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Uline sucks. What was in the warehouse, medical supplies from Kimberley Clark, amongst other things, caused a lot of headache for folks in healthcare.

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

Spiritual bypassing in essence

How is TJ Maxx not getting in on "looksmaxxing," riding it hard for a fiscal quarter of advertising campaign, then walking away with the satisfaction of having murdered the trend.

After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood.

After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago

John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood.

open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

MERKLEY: Would I be in the ballpark to say we've already spent at least $50b?

VOUGHT: I wouldn't want to make a characterization of that

MERKLEY: As the most knowledgeable person in executive branch on the budget, I would expect you to have pretty good numbers, so I'm disappointed in that answer

"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr

We alright for now.

as usual he missed the entire emotional denouement of Jules’ character and the movie as a whole in the riveting final scene, because conservatives can’t read

In a single sentence, our dementia-ravaged president says that he might not get the support of Senator Thom Tillis but it's OK because Senator Thom Tillis is not a senator anymore.

Trump:
2/6-“They want to make a deal badly
3/2-“They want to make a deal badly
3/16-“They want to make a deal badly
3/24-“They want to make a deal badly
3/25-“They want to make a deal badly
4/1-“They want to make a deal badly
4-13-“They want to make a deal badly
4/14-“They want to make a deal badly

a doctor, on the basis of their expertise, gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis in your knee. whether or not your knee hurts is an entirely different question. nevertheless, Discourse persisted

Yeah, I was by no means insinuating that it’s a lost cause. It’s definitely an outlier. Something about the 70’s/80’s did a number on some folks coming of age in that moment.

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style