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CA state retirement fund lost 71% of $468M put in clean energy, won’t say how. CETF losses show “the combined dangers of private equity and ESG investment — you have a very opaque investment choice that appears to have been chosen because of its green credentials, and yet it’s now generated a huge loss for …
Top CBS News star QUITS without explanation as new anti-woke boss Bari Weiss begins to clean house https://t.co/XuVCWqn8CO — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) October 27, 2025 CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson has dramatically quit his role on the struggling show – and not offered any explanation for his departure. The 57-year-old announced his exit …
OMB Director Russ Vought just canceled $8 billion in climate funding for CA, NY, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, OR, VT, and WA. He also froze $18 BILLION for NYC infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.”… pic.twitter.com/PBn65y4aOU — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) …
LISTEN TO ANDREW MCCARTHY STARTING AT 1:01 MARK. 'Trump may be completely exonerated in Letitia James case.'pic.twitter.com/z2j3bLIM2B — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 21, 2025
Every cat's dream: a timely, clean, and efficient subway system. — LeeGStringer (@Helpful_Shadow_) August 17, 2025
Trump signs an executive order banning “woke AI” in the federal government. Sounds bold on paper. Dig into the language and it’s a mixture of political theater, selective enforcement, and an open door for regulatory arbitrage. The order claims government AI must follow “truth-seeking,” “ideologically neutral” standards and be free from “diversity-driven distortions.” The White …
China just pulled ahead in the global energy race and barely anyone in the West is paying attention. Engineers there have finished building a wind turbine so massive it makes most American skyscrapers look small. It stands taller than a 63 story building and is already operational. This single turbine can generate enough electricity to …
Oh look! The fake news New York Times published fake news… again! Give me a few moments while I pretend like I’m shocked. — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 17, 2025
One of the most funded, most heavily taxed cities doesn't have funding? Where did all the money go? The left keeps suggesting that they manage money perfectly and it's all Trump's fault for manufacturing DOGE finds. — Sheep 🐑🇺🇸 (@SheepvWolf) June 12, 2025
ROME DIDN’T FALL – IT BLED OUT IN GOLD, TAXES & DEBT (AND WE’RE NOT IMMUNE) The Roman Empire, once a beacon of power and prosperity, crumbled under the weight of internal mismanagement, with reckless spending and currency devaluation playing pivotal roles in its decline. Rome’s vast empire required an immense military to defend its …
House Republicans are proposing a significant rollback of Democrats’ clean energy tax credits— a key step toward fulfilling President Donald Trump’s pledge to eviscerate President Joe Biden’s landmark climate change programs. The tax-writing Ways and Means Committee is moving to repeal key subsidies for electric vehicles and phase out many other clean energy tax incentives …
Trump presented the new budget in which he requests $1 trillion for defense – MorePerfectUnion Trump has asked Congress to increase the defense budget for the next fiscal year to $1.01 trillion, the White House has officially announced. The proposal includes: – $163 billion in cuts to health care, child care, education, housing, research, clean …
Stopping the revolving door between private business and the institutions that regulate them would be awesome. h/t Masterpicker
New York troopers deployed to restore order in crime-infested, prostitution-heavy Queens strip. via Foxnews: New York state troopers have been deployed to help clean up a crime-infested seedy strip in Queens, part of which encompasses “defund the police” advocate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district, where prostitution, illegal vendors and robberies are rampant. Some residents compare it …
The crux of the breakthrough is a magnet, but not just any magnet. The scientists created a new type of magnet that broke the world record for magnetic field strength, according to MIT News. Made from a high-temperature superconducting material, the magnet has a strength of 20 tesla. (For reference, a common refrigerator magnet is …
KAMALA HARRIS: “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and REDUCE POPULATION, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water.” pic.twitter.com/0nNTct0nE0 — Kambree (@KamVTV) July 14, 2023 https://twitter.com/GayBearRes/status/1783592197499072802 h/t dr0id
“BRAVO! Armed citizens in Hartford, Conn. are patrolling the streets day and night while also picking up trash They’re fed up with liberal policies that have made their neighborhood a warzone “We are not vigilantes, we are a group of people that are disciplined, trained, who go to the shooting range…” The Mayor didn’t thank …
A DIRE WARNING for independent content creators We have hit another Big Tech censorship mile marker. Glenn exposes the latest attempts by Facebook, Apple, AND YouTube to soft-censor conservative media during an election year. He warns that independent content creators who believe that they can rely on Big Tech platforms will soon find out the …
via Mike Shedlock: Cheers to France if pending legislation passes as currently written. It effectively scraps most hard commitments and turns more towards nuclear power. Preliminary Bill relating to Energy Sovereignty Please consider a Google translation of a Preliminary Bill relating to Energy Sovereignty Four Key Things The wording of this preliminary bill relating to energy …
This is from my heating engineer.This is how stupid and greedy our government are.The opposition don't challenge this pic.twitter.com/rHsEecUsNv — June Slater (@juneslater17) December 11, 2023 View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com h/t Little Lost
Hey Kevin, have some guts…. Have NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill: While talking to @RepTimBurchett after the GOP conference meeting, former @SpeakerMcCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not. And a chase ensued… — Claudia Grisales (on Bsky & …
At earnings this week, several auto execs pulled back on EV targets. Dealers have been warning of slowing EV demand for months. “This is a pretty brutal space,” Mercedes-Benz’s CFO said this week. With signs of growing inventory and slowing sales, auto industry executives admitted this week that their ambitious electric vehicle plans are in …
Banks block money and clean up ATMs: ‘National policy’– Dordrecht is well on its way to becoming one of the first cities in the Netherlands to become a cashless municipality. All banks, ING, but also ABN AMRO, for example, have now removed payment terminals from their offices. It is no longer possible to collect or …
via ace.mu.nu: “Youngsters.” Whatever euphemisms we can think of to make hardened thieves appear to be innocent scamps. “When you walk into this CVS, you’d think the store is closing because there’s barely anything on the shelves,” WTTG reporter Sierra Fox said. Spoiler:is closing. CVS will close 900 locations by the end of 2024. What are the odds …
via thebrighterside: The discovery is outlined in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which suggests that the traditional thinking around the formation of OH in the atmosphere is incomplete. Until now, it was thought that sunlight was the primary driver of OH formation, but this new research shows that …
via Julianne Geiger: Oil demand’s future is rosier than the common narrative would have you believe, according to a report released today by Energy Outlook Advisors. According to energy analyst and the report’s author Anas Alhajji, the hope that oil demand will decrease as the world transitions to clean energy is built on a lot …