Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

AOC Expertly Clapped Back at Texas Governor After He Tried to Blame Her Policies for Power Outage

AOC Expertly Clapped Back at Texas Governor After He Tried to Blame Her Policies for Power Outage
Fox News // Yana Paskova/Getty Images

Millions of Texans endured freezing temperatures with no heat, electricity, sanitary water, or food after a devastating cold front wreaked havoc on the state's insufficiently winterized power sources, booting nuclear, electric, gas, and wind power plants offline.

The state's predicament is unique, as the majority of Texas is not on the national power grid, but an independent grid with less integration of out-of-state power sources, along with different standards of regulation and oversight.


But because a small number of the power sources to shut down were wind turbines, many Republicans are falsely claiming that the calamity in Texas is due to a disproportionate reliance on wind power.

Wind turbines are a growing form of renewable energy championed by advocates for U.S. climate policy, helping offset the imminent disasters posed by the climate crisis. As a result, the green technology has been slammed by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, whose quixotic obsession with "windmills" went viral during his presidency.

The Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, went on Fox News, where he blamed the humanitarian crisis on the Green New Deal—a climate policy overhaul championed by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) which hasn't been passed or enforced in Texas or nationally.

Watch below.

Abbot said:

"This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. Texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy such as natural gas and oil and nuclear, as well as solar and wind. But you saw...our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid."

The Governor went on to say the debacle was proof that fossil fuels are necessary, but the energy sources Abbott was defending saw nearly double the outages of the state's renewable energy outages.

According to the Texas Tribune:

"An official with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Tuesday afternoon that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy."

In fact, wind turbines surpassed expectations throughout the storm.

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, an architect of the Green New Deal that Abbot slammed, responded to his comments on Twitter.



Just a couple of days later, Ocasio-Cortez announced an initiative from Team AOC to raise funds for Texas relief efforts.

By the next day, they'd raised over $2 million.

 Meanwhile, others praised her rebuke of Abbott.




Abbott's comments on Fox News were met with widespread backlash, including from onetime Senate candidate from Texas, Beto O'Rourke, who organized hundreds of thousands of wellness check-ins on the ground during the crisis.






Nearly 40 deaths so far have been attributed to the crisis in Texas.

More from People/alexandria-ocasio-cortez

Screenshots from Dove's ad featuring transgender women
Dove

'One Million Moms' Calls For Dove Boycott Over Hair Care Ad Featuring Trans Woman

The vehemently transphobic conservative group One Million Moms (OMM)—an arm of the Christian fundamentalist nonprofit American Family Association (AFA)—called for a boycott of Dove products after the company featured a transgender woman in an advertisement for their Damage Therapy Intensive Repair Conditioner.

The ad garnered attention after it was shared by the social media account Libs of TikTok—run by the anti-LGBTQ+ conservative Chaya Raichik—which described the ad as an example of "another woke company trying to erase women."

Keep ReadingShow less
Alyssa Milano; Julian McMahon
Michael Kovac/Elton John AIDS Foundation/Getty Images; Marcus Ingram/The Surfer/Getty Images

Alyssa Milano Shares Poignant Tribute To 'TV Husband' Julian McMahon After His Death At 56

Actor Julian McMahon lost his battle with cancer at the age of 56 earlier this week, and to say that the Charmed, Nip/Tuck, and Fantastic Four actor touched many lives would be an understatement.

When the news of McMahon's passing went public, his Charmed costar and "TV wife" Alyssa Milano came forward and expressed her sadness and condolences on Instagram. The pair were a favorite couple on Charmed, and it was clear from her post that their care for each other extended beyond the screen.

Keep ReadingShow less

People Who Slept With Their Best Friend Describe The Aftermath

When two people have a deep and meaningful friendship, the question might eventually come up of whether or not they could be more. Agreeing that their friendship might deserve more, they might try to date or at least explore physical intimacy.

But crossing that line carries with it consequences, and it's only once the pair crosses that line that they'll find out if crossing it was good or bad.

Keep ReadingShow less
child writing on chalkboard
Leonardo Toshiro Okubo on Unsplash

Bilingual People Explain Which Words They're Surprised Don't Exist In English

According to one report, approximately 3.3 billion people worldwide—43 % of the population—are multilingual, meaning they speak at least two languages. According to the last Census, 21.6% of people in the United States speak more than one language, while in the United Kingdom, the number is 36%.

More multilingual people speak English as a second language than English speakers who have learned another language besides English. Worldwide, people who learned English as a first language rate among the lowest in multilingual rates.

Keep ReadingShow less
Andrew Garfield at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival
Harry Durrant/Getty Images

Andrew Garfield meets fan with wild tweet!

American actor Andrew Garfield had a funny yet awkward reunion with a fan from a viral “Thirst Tweet” featured on Buzzfeed Celeb.

The Thirst Tweet compilation shows celebrities reading a collection of scandalous tweets from fans commenting on their looks, attractiveness, and sex appeal. Blushing stars include James McAvoy, Renee Rapp, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Mackie, and more recently, Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem, as they promote F1 the Movie that was released in theaters last week.

Keep ReadingShow less