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ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert, and Texans are being asked to safely reduce their electric use.

— ERCOT (@ERCOT_ISO) June 14, 2021

Chaser.

I just signed a Resolution asserting Texas sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not granted to the federal government by the US Constitution.

The Resolution officially notifies the President & Congress to cease acts of encroaching upon the powers of states.

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 15, 2021

My Nest just informed me that the local power company wants to control my thermostat from 2:15 to 6:15, to keep the grid from collapsing or something.  But hey, the Governor's telling the President to back the f*ck off!  (Even though, as a lawyer, Abbott knows the question of the 10th Amendment is decided by the Courts, not the President. More waving of the stone that keeps the elephants away because the rubes are, well....rubes.)  So everything is fine deep in the heart o' Texas, right?

Why don’t you figure out how we won’t get our goddamned electricity cut off because you can’t do your job!!???

— Janet Leigh 🇺🇸 (@JanetLe91621688) June 15, 2021

Meanwhile you micromanage Texas cities….

— TamaraVotes.TX (@tamaravotes) June 15, 2021

TEXANS WOULD PREFER YOU WORKING ON THE POWER GRID SINCE SUMMER HAS JUST BEGUN AND WE SEEM TO ALREADY HAVE TROUBLE.

— Texas Gal (@CaseysCougar) June 15, 2021

Well, maybe not.  But speaking of rubes and the people who fleece them:

I just signed a law banning "Zuckerbucks" in Texas.

It bans private groups like the one supported by Zuckerberg from spending millions to administer elections like Zuckerberg & others did in Texas.

That is a government function not to be messed with by election influencers.

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 12, 2021

I have no idea what this means.  It sounds like something out of Powell/Woods/Lindell land, but I've never heard of a conspiracy theory involving Zuckerberg and the elections in Texas (where Republicans won almost everything, so how did Zuckerberg influence the elections?  And isn't that what campaigns do?  And campaign contributions?).  I did google "Zuckerbucks" and almost all of the responses looked like websites I didn't want to expose my computer to.  It does match nicely with this, though:

Cryptocurrency wins votes of confidence from Gov. Abbott & Texas Department of Banking.

Texas is open for Crypto business. #cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #blockchain https://t.co/22b7FaUTj2

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 11, 2021

It's all okay. Best I can tell "Zuckerbucks" was rumored to be Facebook's entry into cryptocurrency (maybe that's true) and now it's defined by the Urban Dictionary as money earned by selling data collected from users of on-line services; but there seems to be a conspiracy theory that Zuckerberg is using "Zuckerbucks" to...influence elections?

The whole thing seems to kinda fall apart there.  It's interesting this tweet was so nuts that nobody wanted to pick it up and explain it.  WaPo mentions it in an article on Florida's new voting restrictions, at least according to Google.  WaPo is behind a paywall, so I can't confirm.  The rest of the entries just, again, look like places I don't want my browser to go.

Still, nice to see the Gov. is concerned with matters foremost on the minds of Texans.  Wonder how long it'll be until Abbott tweets "where we go one...."?