Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
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Undeterred by the backlash and widespread delays that followed his disruptive operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service last year, Louis DeJoy is planning to roll out another slate of policies that would significantly hike postage rates & further slow the delivery of certain kinds of mail.
More than 40 million Americans hold $1.7 trillion of student loan debt — whether they graduated from college or graduate school or not. The economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has only compounded this crisis.
President Joe Biden is facing growing calls from lawmakers, mail carriers, and others to take urgent steps to protect the U.S. Postal Service from further damage, pave the way for DeJoy's removal, and shore up the agency's finances for the near and distant future.
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The fight over the agency’s future is expected to … [leave] Americans with unreliable mail delivery for the foreseeable future. Only 38 percent of nonlocal first-class mail arrived on time in late December, compared with 92 percent in the year-ago period … The agency has not disclosed performance data in 2021.
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The Missouri Democrat went on to specifically address the Republicans whose incessant lies about the results of the 2020 presidential election, & efforts to overturn the results of that contest, helped fuel last month's attack, pointing to her resolution calling for investigation and expulsion of seditious members of Congress.
"The unreasonable prefunding mandate has threatened the survival of the USPS and placed at risk vital services for the millions who rely on it."
Why would Democrats take one of their most celebrated young phenoms and remove her from a committee where she has as much expertise as anyone in Congress?
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Investigation of the two Republican senators will be held behind closed doors and could go on for months for what is being a termed a "deep dive" into their words and actions prior to, and on the day of, the storming of the nation's Capitol.
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All the debates over ‘fintech,’ once you get beyond the scams and the hype, are really a debate about the future of money. The recent rise of ‘fintech’ is just the latest saga in a centuries-old struggle between democratic accountability & unaccountable private power, with the latter hiding behind promises of technological innovation.
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Sanders launched her run for governor Monday with a curdled, grievance-packed, fear-mongering, culture-war stoking, seven-minute-46-second video vowing to "defend your right to be free of socialism and tyranny," and warning, "With the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line of defense,"
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Polling shows that a large majority of Republicans are still in thrall to Trump … but somewhere between 1/5th & 1/4th of the party has fallen away. …more than 30% of Republicans disapprove of Trump …[which] is enough to make it impossible for Republicans to win nationally if those people fall away from the GOP permanently.
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Lee Carter, a member of Virginia’s House of Delegates, a former Marine Corps member … and a socialist, discusses his legislative history pushing for expanded health care, worker rights, the threat of far-right violence & how a socialist governor could transform the state of Virginia.
There is no middle ground between lies and facts. There is no halfway point between civil discourse and violence
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Almost no one expected Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to both win in Georgia — let alone planned for how they’d run Washington if it happened. The lack of preparation is now causing confusion among congressional Democrats about how they should exercise their newfound power in the critical early days of the administration.
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Republicans may still be able to block key parts of Joe Biden's agenda. But there are plenty of critical policies he can and must enact without them.
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"The American occupation forces continue to plunder Syria's wealth of oil, gas and agricultural crops, burning and destroying what it cannot steal," said Syrian permanent representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari
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Democracy Now! is live-streaming the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Biden’s plan would shovel billions of dollars to private health insurers … which could further boost insurers’ skyrocketing profits.
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"Is there any depravity too low? Is there any outrage too far? Is there any blood and violence too much to turn hearts and minds in this body?" For 197 House Republicans, the answer, apparently, is no — at least when it comes to President Donald Trump and his rabid supporters.
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