I know people are tired of me talking about the heat, but the heat index in Texas topped 120F today. This means the electrical grid, which the #GOP deregulated and took off the national grid to better serve their money guys, is fragile under the best circumstances, but is starting to crash like it did during the Great Freeze that caused lost lives and millions of dollars in damages to property. There are over 400,000 Texas households without power right now. Deaths are already being reported in West Texas from heat and lack of power.

This is what the GOP is. They will sacrifice anyone and everyone for a few dollars more in their campaign coffers. They have set their sites on dismantling and privatizing the commons for the benefit of a few and the detriment to the rest.

@MissConstrue they have more than enough renewable energy sources that would kick butt on a day like this. But the grid sucks worse than CA and they're trying to shore up NG plants vs encouraging local battery storage

Edit: the problem w/ the CA grid is there's population centers and hundreds of miles of single-lane HV lines in between. But it's not like it was 10 years ago either