NIFTY: Data centers become ‘killer application’ for new power transformer tech.

Several US companies, including Amperesand, Heron Power, and DG Matrix, have collectively raised more than $280 million in funding over the past year to commercialize solid-state transformer technology.

Solid-state transformers could also greatly reduce the amount of copper and other materials needed by data center projects, while their smaller physical footprints allow data center developers to do other things with the available space, Lukic explained.

In the long run, successful commercialization of solid-state transformers could even help ease the broader supply chain shortage affecting power transformers. That would make transformers more readily available for power grid upgrades and expansions beyond data center projects.

“There are relatively few specialized companies that manufacture [conventional] transformers, while solid-state transformers are like an electronics device,” Lukic said. “It completely opens up the space for who can play in the transformer space, and also opens up where transformers can be manufactured.”

Faster, please.

MORE DETAILS AND REACTIONS: Dolly Parton Passes Away at 80.

FREE ALBERTA!

This gives the game away.

To Carney, building a pipeline to export Alberta oil is a burden, something he needs to be convinced to do by America. They have to give him something to do it.

Alberta's interests don't matter. Alberta is simply a bargaining chip. https://t.co/vfPK6WVmof

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) August 25, 2026

But — oh, Canada — there’s always more:

"We will never surrender sovereignty over this unceded land we're illegally occupying." https://t.co/rAQtUa9xHF

— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) August 25, 2026

CHRIS QUEEN: James Talarico Says He Hates Christianity. Why Do We Keep Calling Him Christian?

OBAMA SAID HE’D MAKE COLLEGE MORE AFFORDABLE AND YOU CAN GUESS THE REST:

The US govt is the biggest predatory lender in the world, transferring wealth from young people to college administrators. https://t.co/Z9GcsAaezJ

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) August 25, 2026

SMALL-TOWN CRIME: Ungodly Doings In Godley. “In a small city of some 5,000, you would expect there to be some overlap between the city council and other institutions in town, like the volunteer fire department, the PTA, or the Kiwanis Club. One thing you wouldn’t expect city council overlap with: a prostitution ring.”

THAT SEEMS RIGHT:

This many far-left activists going after the Paramount / Warner Bros. merger signals absolute fear that conservatives will get a foothold in Hollywood. https://t.co/SjBSIlcbFM

— Red Pilled America (@RedPilled_USA) August 25, 2026

Related thoughts from George MF Washington:

Yes, the only thing keeping them here is nostalgia for a world long gone and social pressure. The truth is that getting out and around normal Americans and away from LA which is a clinically insane city would do wonders for the product being pushed out the door https://t.co/DFZe8iKxL4

— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) August 24, 2026

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Yeah, About That ‘Famine’ in Gaza…

Most of the coverage, such as it was, was the result of an IPC report from July of last year including this dire warning:

Through June 2026, at least 132,000 children under five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition—double the IPC estimates from May 2025. This includes over 41,000 severe cases of children at heightened risk of death. Nearly 55,500 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women will require urgent nutrition response.

Well, now it’s August. So let me be crude and ask, “Where all the dead kiddos at?”

Full details at the link.

OH NO:

A message from the family of Dolly Parton. pic.twitter.com/9DNRgRx0uH

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) August 25, 2026

OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Who’s Paying for Climate Reporting in the Mainstream Media?

Over the years, the lack of trust in journalism led to fewer subscribers, resulting in fewer newspapers and, naturally, fewer outlets subscribing to the Associated Press news service.

To fend off complete obliteration, the AP adopted a model that includes accepting “support” to help fund its reporting. For instance, a recent story on an appeals court ruling against the Trump administration regarding Biden-era clean energy projects included this note: “The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy.”

The Walton Family Foundation is an organization devoted, in part, to environmental causes. Its political position is clear – back in 2022, it applauded passage of President Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act, a giveaway of billions to the climate crusade.

“The challenges of climate change have and will continue to impact every aspect of our lives,” the Walton Foundation declared at the time. “Government, business, tribal nations, philanthropy, advocates, and others will all need to build on this historic investment together to continue to build momentum for a more resilient future.”

The AP insists, of course, that it is editorially independent and “solely responsible for all content” of its climate stories. But consider this – the Walton Foundation’s original two-year $785,000 grant in 2021 funded three AP reporters (and, presumably, related expenses), according to the foundation. Just two years later, the grant had grown to a three-year commitment totaling $2.5 million.

From there, things get worse.

ONCE AGAIN, REALITY GETS OUT IN FRONT OF THE BEE:

Lol, lmao even pic.twitter.com/Id7fFQI8QX

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) August 24, 2026

ERIK FLORACK: The Tale of the Red Robes. “Seems to me an indication of a lack of things to protest on the left, or at least a lack of things they can protest without getting themselves into trouble, either by running afoul of their own set of values, or running into the angry and violent. And even in this case, it’s a bit of a stretch to ignore Islam in this.”

PERSPECTIVE:

In my last two posts, I emphasized the enormous gains in material wealth and life expectancy that humanity has experienced over the past couple of centuries.

But those improvements are nothing compared with the monumental gains in what I call moral autonomy and… pic.twitter.com/i0d2nsQo6B

— Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (@JesusFerna7026) August 25, 2026

Meanwhile, some “conservatives” sing the praises of feudalism.

ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX sets rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year.

Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but this one was definitely worth staying up for.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Aug. 25), at 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 GMT).

It was the 100th Falcon 9 flight of 2026 and the record-breaking 37th mission for this rocket’s first stage, a booster designated B1067.

The initial goal was to get each Falcon 9 booster up to 10 flights.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

EXCLUSIVE: The federal government paid hundreds of social-media influencers to convince their followers to take COVID vaccines.

They even targeted children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.

While the project’s didn’t reveal the names of paid participants, I just…

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 25, 2026

Plus: “The government wasn’t merely buying posts. It watched public reaction in real time, rewrote influencer instructions and supplied rebuttals as the debate unfolded.”

IT JUST MAKES SENSE: Why Is SpaceX Buying All That Marshland in Louisiana?

DEFLECTION: Facing inaccuracy claims, historian Kerri Greenidge points to bias against black female scholars.

Kerri Greenidge’s celebrated 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which explores three generations of the history of the prominent slaveholding family, is now under heavy scrutiny, with scholars arguing it contains factual inaccuracies, nonexistent citations, and misattributed source materials.

Greenidge is an American historian who was a tenured associate professor at Tufts University in the Department of Studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora.

As a result of the controversy, she may have lost a book deal last month, according to the New York Times. Greenidge’s university email is now defunct and she does not have publicly listed contact information. She did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment on LinkedIn.

She told the New York Times that she might have misattributed some citations, but that “I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way,” adding: “The attack on Black women academics is real.”

She’s no Jason Arday, but she knows how to play the game.

BERNIE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH DATA CENTERS NEAR HIS HOME(S):

There are four data centers within 10 minutes of your Burlington, VT home: ClearBearing, Tech Vault, TelJet, and FirstLight.

Your home’s assessed value has risen from $360,000 to $760,000 since they were built.

Keep yelling at the clouds, old man. https://t.co/Xa2MjncAhr

— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) August 22, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China Delays Critical Moon Mission Until Next Year.

TAKE ALL THE SANCTIONED ONES YOU LIKE, FELLAS: Somali Pirates Hijack Sanctioned Oil Tanker Off Yemen.

OH, CANADA:

Turns out Mark Carney lied about the reason he cancelled the trade talks.

Just like he lied about the Gordie Howe Bridge.

This is from the New York Times: https://t.co/dTbGcNpj8L

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) August 25, 2026

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: The Murders of Female Social Media Influencers: Pakistan’s War Against Women.

Meanwhile, certain women in this country…:

Once again, this is a disguised sexual fetish called "Oppress me harder, daddy." https://t.co/PvU4agAtip

— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) August 24, 2026

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Protesters sentenced to jail for blocking Golden Gate Bridge over Gaza war.

Seven protesters who blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in a 2024 pro-Palestinian protest against Israel’s assault on Gaza have been sentenced to 30 days, with credit for time already served.

They were convicted in July of misdemeanor charges by a San Francisco jury that remained deadlocked on the more serious charge of felony conspiracy.

Defense attorneys said demonstrators acted out of a moral responsibility to oppose the devastation from Israeli strikes on Gaza and Washington’s support for its ally.

Yet nothing for Israeli civilians raped, kidnapped, and murdered on Oct. 7? Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face has taken an early lunch.

NOVEMBER PREVIEW:

The Supreme Court ruling that lets the Trump Administration proceed with mail ballot security measures has Democrats freaking out, but what's really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about…

— Mark Mendlovitz (@MendlovitzMark) August 25, 2026

More:

What’s really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about that) and much more about MATCHING BARCODES of the outer and inner envelopes in a mail ballot package.

Here is why that’s the problem for them. If surplus mail ballots collected from people who aren’t voting by mail are somehow voted on behalf of OTHER PEOPLE, it becomes readily detectable that a ballot was repurposed from its originally intended voter to someone else on the voter rolls. The “no-match” condition means that ballot was taken from the originally intended voter or it was given away. Either way that’s how fraud can be easily detected.

Keep in mind, the barcode matching requirement does not require any personal information that isn’t on the outside of an envelope, and it doesn’t prevent states from using mail to conduct elections, so the hysterical reactions are confirmation they know the gig is up.

Well, stay tuned.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: SCOTUS Helps Preserve a Modicum of Sanity in Mail-In Ballot Madness. “President Trump hasn’t been getting any help from Republicans in the Senate in his efforts to make our elections a little more transparent and less susceptible to fraud. Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t really leading anyone, preferring the invertebrate hand-wringing that was the hallmark of pre-Trump Republicans to anything that might help his party to win. “