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Senate Turns Permitting Reform Into an AI-Grid Cost Allocation Deal
Senate energy and environment leaders introduced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act on September 30, 2026, a permitting package aimed at faster federal reviews for energy, transmission, and infrastructure projects. The bill would strengthen FERC transmission-siting authority and require data centers to pay associated transmission costs instead of shifting those costs to households and smaller businesses. A Senate vote is not expected until after the November 3 midterm elections.
Published Oct 1, 2026
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No One Who Wants Power Should Have It: The 90-Day State
Elections reward the people best adapted to campaigning, fundraising, party advancement and self-promotion—not necessarily the people best suited to govern. This full Pattern Nexus framework proposes High-Entropy Governance: a universal civic competency path, stratified public sortition, a 600-person assembly serving staggered 90-day terms, lifetime non-repeatability, a rotating civic executive, adversarial evidence, permanent merit-based operations, independent courts and random audit juries. It also confronts the system's largest dangers: discriminatory qualification gates, nonresponse bias, lobbying, bureaucratic capture, emergency power and legitimacy without reelection. Author: Christopher Grenke / Pattern Nexus Research Desk
Published Aug 24, 2026