I don't think Americans are making this connection. And the way we can see this in - right here and now, take a look at the monthly change in Google searches. Look at the searches for wildfire, up 2,400 percent. My goodness gracious. This is the most amount of people searching for wildfires ever. Ever. Going back since Google [trends began back in 2004].

But look at climate change. Look at the change. It doesn't go hand in hand with wildfires. It's actually down. It's down 9 percent. And I also looked in California. There has been no increase in the number of searches for climate change. //

anon-ha5c
3 minutes ago
The “extreme” weather events of the past few decades are nothing compared to those of the 19th Century, why don’t we ever have a comparison between then and now.

MajorKong
43 minutes ago
Top four threats to humanity:

1. Marxism
2. Nuclear war triggered by Marxists (see 1, above)
3. Famine triggered by Marxists (see 1, above)
4. Did I mention Marxists?

Grapie MajorKong
5 minutes ago

5. American Democrats (see 1, above)

nebraskared
an hour ago
So let me get this straight...Jack Smith, who should never have begun a case, seeks by any means possible, mostly inuendo, to put Trump in jail gets to release his "report" and nobody named in the report for any reason can defend themselves from Smith's, largely, slander. Smith gets to resign with what he would consider clean hands even though once again he failed to complete his assignment in terms of law, but succeeds to rub people's reputations in the mud. Makes you wonder if Biden will give Smith a pardon,...or maybe a Medal of Freedom,... with distinction.

bk
38 minutes ago
What happened to the idea of "the fruit of the poisoned tree" given his appointment was not legit?

DaveM bk
26 minutes ago edited
To date Cannon is the only Court that has ruled Smith's appointment unlawful.
And if it gets appealed the 11'th Circuit Appeals Court will uphold his appointment.
Not once has the 11'th circuit Appeals Court ruled against Smith or in favor of Trump and his co-defendants.

Hogan testified Friday that the story he green-lit prior to publication did not include the term “black market,” and that it was Jake Tapper who included that term.

“The text of the story did not do that,” Hogan testified. “The banner and Jake Tapper’s lead-in did that.”

Nonetheless, Hogan later testified that he thought describing the situation as a “black market” was “accurate” and disputed the allegation that “black market” has a “negative connotation.”

Young alleges the use of the term “black market” to describe his evacuation efforts “rendered Young permanently unemployable” because it implied Young was involved in illegal conduct. Young later testified that his defense contracts expressly prohibited involvement in “black markets.” Notably, a court also found Young did not commit a crime. //

Young had previously testified that he needed more than two hours to respond to the inquiry to seek guidance from other individuals and organizations he worked with. Young also said in messages to Marquardt that the two-hour deadline was “definitely not a realistic deadline” but that “in any case, I can tell you for sure, some of your facts/assertions [are] not accurate, and if they are published, I will seek legal damages.”

CNN still aired the segment, shared it on social media and CNN’s website, and re-aired the segment before later issuing an apology months later. Young is seeking punitive damages.

Zuckerberg’s admission of a pressure campaign lays bare the truth: the government colluded with Big Tech to violate Americans’ First Amendment right and the Supreme Court squandered an opportunity to right a wrong.

A federal judge ruled Friday that American Airlines's pension fund had violated the law by making investment decisions using criteria other than the interests of the plan beneficiaries. The decision by Judge Reed O'Connor, a George Bush appointee serving the Northern District of Texas, comes from a decision by American Airlines management to allow the pension fund to be managed by BlackRock, which in turn used Environmental, Social, and Governance principles rather than financial performance to guide investment. //

For the reasons explained below, the Court concludes that the facts compellingly demonstrated that Defendants breached their fiduciary duty by failing to loyally act solely in the retirement plan’s best financial interests by allowing their corporate interests, as well as BlackRock’s ESG interests, to influence management of the plan. However, the facts do not compel the same result for the duty of prudence. Defendants acted according to prevailing industry practices, even if leaders in the fiduciary industry contrived to set the standard. This is fatal to Plaintiff’s breach of prudence claim. //

The day before Judge O'Connor ruled that BlackRock had sacrificed the pension payout to plan beneficiaries on the altar of ESG investing, BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, with $11.5 trillion in assets under management, announced its withdrawal from Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, an international group of asset management companies "committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner."

This makes BlackRock the latest asset manager to reconsider the business model of screwing over investors in exchange for invitations to all the right events. //

The exits are clearly linked to the American Airlines lawsuit, which imposes liability for damages on asset managers for breaching their fiduciary responsibility. One can't ignore the effect of an incoming Congress that is skeptical of ESG. Last summer, the House Judiciary Committee labeled the ESG movement as violating antitrust law.

Nick Field
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"An uncomfortable thought has circulated among some Biden aides and longtime supporters in the days since Carter died: If Biden passes while Trump is president, would he get a state funeral?"
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Biden confronts an ending with Carter’s funeral | CNN Politics
5:21 PM · Jan 9, 2025

Validating their concerns, the aides reference Democrats' absolute delight that Carter's passing means flags will be set at half-staff through President-elect Trump's inauguration, something he has voiced dismay over.

They also note that Trump initially did not lower flags to half-staff at the White House to honor John McCain after his death in August 2018.

Considering their cordial meeting at the White House in November, it seems unlikely that Trump would refuse to honor Biden's wishes. Despite the fact that Biden's administration did their absolute best for years to put him in jail.

Not to mention, it seems more like a case of projection. Is there any doubt President Biden and his aides would have refused to honor Trump had he unfortunately passed while Joe and Kamala were in office?

Recall, if you will, that congressional Democrats in 2021 introduced a bill that would ban former President Donald Trump from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

The legislation - H.R.484 or the "No Glory for Hate Act" - was sponsored by Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) and co-sponsored by 13 additional Democrats, including newly minted Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and former congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA).

The Act’s summary indicated it was designed to “prohibit the use of Federal funds for the commemoration of certain former Presidents, and for other purposes.”

It is designed specifically to prevent “the interment or inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery of any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives.”

Weird. He should have a special plot, considering he's also the only twice-acquitted former President.

Texas Zombie
2 days ago
The only reason they are concerned about this is they know that if the shoe were on the other foot Biden would not give Trump a state funeral. They know that for a fact. So of course they’re worried that Trump would do exactly what Biden would do. But you know what? Trump is a better man than Biden. And if Biden dies while Trump is president, there will be a state funeral and Trump will say nice things about Biden. Because that’s the kind of guy Trump is.

Newsom announced an executive order that he says will help the destroyed areas recover.

“I’m worried about issues of rebuilding as it relates to scarcity, as it relates to property taxes, meaning scarcity of resources, materials, personnel. I’m worried about time to getting these projects done,” Newsom said in an interview with NBC News’s Jacob Soboroff on “Meet the Press.”

Included in the executive order are actions halting environmental regulation in relation “to projects to repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities substantially damaged or destroyed as a result of this emergency” and targeting price gouging. //

anon-mdjj
5 hours ago
That’s all well and good until the Sierra Club ties it all up in court.

Claudius54 anon-mdjj
4 hours ago edited
... and the Kali judges and court system have been rigged for decades toward the very "environmental stewardship", regulation, gas appliance bans, hazardous materials handling restrictions, insurance 'controls', construction restrictions, diversity rules, etc., etc., that will fully constipate any sort of recovery efforts for the foreseeable future. Good luck eluding that reality with a "pen and a phone".

"What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand."
-Spock

During his appearance on Fox News with host Steve Hilton's nighttime show, the man did not hold back when the host invited him to give his take on the sentencing.

Patel didn't leave it at that, though. Instead, he used that opportunity as an opening to make news on one of Trump's priorities--making sure those who chose to commit lawfare are held accountable. That, according to Patel, will absolutely include Loren Merchan, the daughter of the New York judge. He said that he, along with partners in Congress, will issue subpoenas for Loren Merchan's company, which made about $15M on the trial. That's the thumbnail, but the entire clip is worth watching, since he gives even more, new details on the plans. //

bpbatch
2 hours ago
Kash: Following the money.

I love it. It's high time we have a bureau of investigation that investigates in a Department of Justice that implements justice. What a concept. //

Damocles brushman
2 hours ago
Let FJB issue pardons, at that point the new administration can get them on the stand to incriminate their bedfellows. I'm sure there were "other" crimes their dear leader would not have pardon them for. And if it is a 'blanket pardon' like he gave his crackhead son, then he assures Conservative Rule for the next term as well. //

brushman
2 hours ago
I wonder if it would be better fir Kash and all of PDJT's team to keep quiet about their plans until the 20th. Bidet may very well issue pardons to those Kash has vowed to investigate. //

Steprock
2 hours ago
Woah! The company of the judge's daughter made $15 million on the trial??? And they're trying to hold Trump accountable for fraud?

Talk about glass houses!

I've also read that this payment issue was from 2017, even though he was elected in 2016. Yet, they elevated this misdemeanor to an elections related felony?

You're going down, Judge Merchan.

Souza
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Here’s another cool thing I stumbled upon. Not as cool as yours, hah, but it sort of blew me away too.

This was written in 1973 - literally calls out this election as being consequential to eliminating corruption:

“We have noted that corruption appears to visit the White House in fifty-year cycles. This suggests that exposure and retribution inoculate the Presidency against its latent criminal impulses for about half a century. Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.”

—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Imperial Presidency
11:40 PM · Jan 9, 2025
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Battleboy
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Jan 10
Biden has been in DC for THE ENTIRE 50 YEAR CYCLE...

stepfanie tyler

@wildbarestepf
so let me get this straight… Nikola Tesla dies, and the ONLY person allowed access to his safe—the one containing all his most secret inventions—is John G. Trump, a brilliant MIT scientist and, oh yeah, Donald Trump’s uncle, who conveniently says, “nothing to see here” while the government quietly packs up Tesla’s life’s work
...

fast forward to 1953 and Wernher von Braun—the father of rocket science—publishes a book about humans colonizing Mars led by a guy literally called Elon!!!

and today we’ve got Elon Musk, who runs Tesla (named after Nikola Tesla!) and is obsessed with getting us to Mars and is not only working with Trump but quite literally got him elected and has even visited his magic wall

how is this not the wildest, most ridiculous, too-weird-to-be-real conspiracy of coincidences ever?

like, who’s writing this timeline?

Representative Mike Waltz, President Trump's choice to lead the National Security Council, said in an interview published Thursday that all current civil service members of the NSC who are detailed from another agency are expected to be out of the building as soon as Trump is sworn in.

“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said. “We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”

What Waltz, a retired Special Forces colonel, is reacting to is the obstruction and leaks from the NSC staff on loan from other agencies that damaged Trump's agenda in his first term. He plans to get rid of people who may have made a career as part of the "interagency process" and have more loyalty to that process than they do to Trump. //

Alexander S. Vindman 🇺🇸
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Statement on National Security Staff Firings

Yesterday, President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz , announced a sweeping directive to terminate all national security staffers loaned from other departments and agencies who serve in apolitical,… Show more
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Nah, you were fired for leaking a privileged conversation to a co-conspirator who then had himself labeled a "whistleblower" to create a fake fact case for impeaching President Trump. And also for being a treasonous oxygen thief. //

There is an admitted danger in groupthink. We can see that in the way the Biden NSC has coddled Iran, China, and Russia in the misguided view that in some bizarro universe, they would become useful members of the international community. Dissent doesn't need to be hashed out at the staff level. Also, I don't think anyone in the Trump administration is interested in "continuity of policy" with Biden because his foreign policy failures, both active and in terms of missed opportunities, are the stuff of legend. //

You have to admire how Vindman categorizes himself as a "talented professional" who was dismissed for taking "principled stances or offering objective advice." Actually, the role of making policy in civil service is the realm of political appointees. The career staff are supposed to serve every president loyally. The last thing needed in the NSC are staffers who are first and foremost loyal to "the way we've always done it," who are overly concerned about the agency "equities" at stake when decisions are made, and who see themselves as players in policy in their own right. //

John Q. Public
3 minutes ago
LOL at the tags…
Douchenozzle is correct.

Also, when he says, “tens of thousands of senior apolitical government officials” he is unintentionally letting slip how many actually need to be fired.

One of the primary drivers of the devastation has been a lack of water due to unfilled reservoirs in Los Angeles County and unmaintained, failing infrastructure that caused fire hydrants to run dry. As RedState reported, the Ynez Reservoir was taken offline for maintenance during wildfire season, a decision that has turned out to be catastrophic.

When three 1-million-gallon capacity water storage tanks in Pacific Palisades went dry Tuesday night, firefighters were forced to abandon efforts to save thousands of homes. LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones has repeatedly claimed during press conferences that her utility did everything it could to prepare for the forecasted wind event and support the Los Angeles Fire Department as it responded, but left out one key fact: The Santa Ynez Reservoir in the hills above Pacific Palisades, which holds 117 million gallons of water and normally feeds those tanks, had been drained and taken offline for repairs to its cover even though the state's brush fire season was ongoing. //

Is Quiñones a unique talent, though? She sure doesn't seem to be given how badly and quickly the infrastructure failed in this case. Not filling the Ynez Reservoir for wildfire season was bad enough, but clearly, the water pumping facilities and hydrant system were not prepared for what should have been treated as an inevitability. For context, the hydrant issue has been known about since at least 2021.

What Quiñones did do well, though, is push the preferred narratives of the far-left. When Bass hired her, the mayor touted the new "CEO" as a person who could shift the city to "100% clean energy," but take a wild guess what else Quiñones was really concerned with? If you said "equity" and "social justice," collect your winnings at the window: //

Bearsblow
8 hours ago
They're achieving equity! The rich and the poor are suddenly homeless!!

Well done Janisse Quiñones. You deserve a raise!

Denmark sent private messages in recent days to President-elect Trump's team expressing willingness to discuss boosting security in Greenland or increasing the U.S. military presence on the island, two sources with knowledge of the issue tell Axios.

Not only that, Greenland’s leader Múte Egede said that he was prepared to enter into negotiations with Trump about the territory.

At first, I was going to just respond in the comments, but after a few attempts, I decided it would best be an article of its own.

He said:

I've always been somewhat bemused by the notion that God lost in the Garden of Eden, that Satan won, and that there was this mad scramble in Heaven to come up with a "Plan B".

Ask yourself this, "If Adam and Eve weren't supposed to fall, why didn't God just start over again with a new couple in the Garden of Eden? Had he lost the power to create such a couple?"

When you realize that the Fall was planned from the beginning, it all makes sense. //

This presents the idea that God had written this drama from the beginning, which would logically lead to the idea that our fates were already decided beforehand. This is a topic that inevitably gets brought up when discussing God at length, which usually triggers a debate between free will and determinism. I can assume the commenter takes the side of determinism, at least in some capacity.

Personally, I take the side of free will. //

To get back to my commenter, the reason God let us fall even though He knew we were going to is because he is a God who knows that love and free will are intermingled, and you cannot have one without the other. //

In Deuteronomy 30:19 God is directing Israel to make a choice with Moses as his spokesman saying, “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live." Here is God offering the choice to do as one pleases, but points out which way is the right way, which is a habit of God's throughout humanity's existence. //

Here are 34 favorite sayings from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking and founder of Guideposts. //

19 of 34 I’ll tell you a secret: The way to handle the little things is to bring God into them, for nothing is so small that it is beneath His notice.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The Meta CEO tried to paint the censorship as well-intentioned, claiming:

"I still think it's good for more people to get the vaccine. I'm not sure in that case how much of it was like a personal political gain that they were going for. I think that they had a kind of goal that they thought was in the interests of the country."

But Rogan wasn't having it. He fired back:

"Well, there's a bunch of problems with that," //

"There's the emergency use authorization that they needed in order to get this pushed through. And you can't have that without valid therapeutics being available. And so they suppressed valid therapeutics." //

"This was Fauci's game plan. I mean, this is the movie Dallas Buyers Club. That's Fauci in that movie. That was with the AIDS crisis. This exact same game plan that was played out with the COVID vaccine." //

They pushed one solution, this only one, suppressed all therapeutics through propaganda, through suppressing monoclonal antibodies, like all of it. And that was done, in my opinion, for profit. The amount of money that was made was extraordinary during that time." //

While Zuckerberg tried to frame the censorship as serving the greater good, Rogan exposed how it actually served to create a vaccine monopoly by eliminating discussion of alternative treatments.

For conservatives who have warned about the dangers of Big Tech-government collusion, this conversation provided smoking-gun evidence. It showed how content moderation policies were used to enforce a single narrative about COVID treatment, even when that meant suppressing legitimate medical information. //

Gordon of Cartoon
13 hours ago
Fascism is the systemic coordination of totalitarian government with monopolistic big business to crush competition and individual liberty. Naturally the thugs in charge get rich. //

Neil_
9 hours ago
Zuck is pulling back now because he probably realized colluding with the government in the way that he did is the definition of fascism. The Biden Administration and most leftist governments in Europe and around the world proved that leftists CAN be fascists.

mopani Neil_
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It's because he doesn't want to cooperate with the next [Trump] administration, and free speech will be his defense.

He will pivot back to fascism and cooperation with the government as soon as the next Democrat administration counts along, he just won't advertise it like he is advertising the embrace of free speech.

Here’s the reality: it is a battle zone. An existential fight over the future of America. Is this massive progressive failure the norm that we should just accept as the new American reality, or are we going to look to a new way forward, one that focuses on excellence, competence and innovation over identity politics, a lowering of our standards, and an acceptance of mediocrity (or worse)?

Many including myself have been writing for years about the decline of the Golden State—and Democrat-run cities in general—but the progressive assault continues in Chicago, St. Louis, Oakland, Seattle, New York, San Francisco… the list goes on. Could this disaster be the wake-up call to America that their warped priorities and policies simply aren’t working? //

The list of failures in this disaster could fill a lengthy tome—the decades of water mismanagement and the continued failure to adequately supply LA, though it’s well within our means to do so, the refusal to capture the billions of gallons of rainwater, opting to instead let it just flow out to the Pacific Ocean while we are told to let our lawns die, the focus at the LAFD on DEI and LGBTQ instead of actual firefighting, the billions thrown at the homeless-industrial complex with almost nothing to show for it except more homeless people…

Is this what the future of America looks like? In too many cities, it already does, with Third-World country conditions prevailing, but do we want to see that everywhere? //

Altadena and the Pacific Palisades in particular look like battlegrounds as of this writing—the images reveal a hellscape that looks like it’s been carpet-bombed by our enemies for months.

Los Angeles and the entire state of California have become a battleground for ideas. Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election shows very clearly that many Americans have woken up and are starting to reject the progressive worldview—but remember, it was just four, short years ago they voted in a man who turned out to be the most divisive, spite-filled president in our history. The battle is far from over.

On Saturday, though, the White House put out a press release revealing the real reason at last--Biden bestowing on Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the only so designated honor by the president. Instead of handing it over in person, Biden and Pope Francis spoke on the phone. //

Oh, please!
6 hours ago
The new name for the presidential medal of freedom is "Participation Medals for Marxists."

The scare story caravan has moved on to pastures new these days, not unrelated to the fact that at the end of 2024 the extent of sea ice in Antarctica was roughly the same as the 1981 to 2010 average. According to the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), “this provides a sharp illustration of the high variability of Antarctica sea ice extent”. It does indeed, and it also provides us with a classic case study of how a short-term natural variation, well understood by many scientists, is weaponised by activists in science, politics and journalism to induce mass climate psychosis with the aim of promoting the political Net Zero lunacy. //

All of the confusion – designed to constantly promote Net Zero – arises because narrative-driven commentators assign most weather and climate changes to humans adding trace amounts of a trace gas into the atmosphere. It leaves little room for explaining the role of natural variation in the changing climate. Antarctica has not warmed for at least 70 years and a recent paper found that the summer temperature had shown a dramatic 1°C fall from 1977-1999, followed by a pause since the turn of the century. Another paper found that Antarctica sea ice extent had slowly increased since the start of continuous satellite recordings in 1979. //

Measuring temperatures and ice levels over the tiny span of modern human measurements is not. The proponents of this are not engaged in serious research; they are working backward from a conclusion in pursuit of an agenda. //

Cherry-picking of data, careful tweaking of information, the control of the flow of information: Not science. Not open inquiry. Not a scrupulous examination of facts, of data. This is activism and fear-mongering. Nothing more. Nothing less.