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Texas blackouts explained: Arctic weather shut down power plants as demand for heat surged, and the state's grid is on its own bjones@businessinsider.com (Benji Jones) © Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Service trucks lining up after a snowstorm in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter Storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to the state this week. Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Half a million Texans were still without power Thursday morning as arctic weather pummeled the state. The cold weather caused energy sources to go offline just as demand for electricity went up. Climate...

Unusual arctic weather caused power plants to stop working just as households needed more heat, pushing the state over the edge.

The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology Illustration by Hunter French In the dark recesses of the internet lurks a man who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat. He makes his home on onaforums.net, a community named after the shock jock duo Opie & Anthony—a safe space to say what cannot be said offline. He’s posted in threads like “N----r hate thread #1,” “The K-ke Hate Thread,” “Juno comes out as a tranny,” and “OFFICIAL Post-Election Voter Fraud THREAD,” where he called ...