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Yet there, at his life’s lowest, the remarkable happened. A contraption he’d rigged up in his driveway—a car trailer decked with solar panels and a heavy battery—got the attention of people with real money. Carpoff could scarcely have imagined it. He’d never gone to college and had no experience in green technology. His invention, he thought, was “crazy, harebrained.” But investors saw the makings of a clean-energy revolution. For decades, there was basically one way to rush power to places without electricity: the portable diesel generator. -snip Carpoff’s machine—a solar generator on wheels—was a sun-fueled alternative. He called it the...

Protests against the killing of homeless schizophrenic Jordan Neely on the New York City subway turned violent on Monday night, with a demonstrator pictured being restrained by police with blood pouring down his face. Neely, 30, was killed on May 1 when, while ranting and throwing garbage at subway passengers, he was put into a chokehold by a 24-year-old former Marine, Daniel Penny. Neely's death was decreed a homicide last week, and the Neely family are calling for Penny to be prosecuted. The Manhattan district attorney is weighing whether to press charges. On Monday, demonstrators calling for justice for Neely...

Behind closed doors, the report is already making the rounds in expert circles: if you follow the rules of sound commercial accounting, the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) has lost its equity and is, as common language would have it, bankrupt. What happened? During spring 2020 (i.e., in a period of extremely low interest rates), the Fed purchased large amounts of government bonds and mortgage bonds to support the economy and financial markets during the covid crisis. The Fed paid for the purchases by issuing vast amounts of new central bank money. This has created an enormous “money surplus” in...

ARCO, ID - APRIL 21: A sign disparaging Bud Light beer is seen along a country road on April 21, 2023 in Arco, Idaho. Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Bud Light has faced backlash after the company sponsored two Instagram posts from a transgender woman.Bud Light sales continued to worsen for the week ended April 29, NielsenIQ data showed, amid controversy around the brand's partnership with a transgender influencer. The country's No. 1-selling beer brand saw in-store sales of $71.6 million that week, off 23.4% from the same week in 2022. Bud Light sales were off 21.4% for the week...

Dude is using an earpiece. He’s always been obsessed with the Secret Service agents, badges, and G-men. The natural way to pronounce the name is to look at the Teleprompter as you say it. He figures the pronunciation out with his eyes closed. Someone is whispering in his ear! It’s obvious https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1655733244317319171

There’s a kweer on my beer "cause I don't want no girl on my beer that has a penis" song is 2 minutes long

@OliLondonTV Israeli Police and security officers have changed their policy for searching transgender persons. The previous policy gave trans people who had not fully transitioned the option of choosing whether a male or female officer searched them during security checks. However, now male officers will search male body parts and female officers will search female body parts. Those that have fully transitioned will still be able to request male or female depending on their preference. An Israeli police spokesperson explained the policy: “If a male is undergoing a sex change, or the opposite, and the process hasn’t been completed, a...

A notoriously liberal Catholic church in New York has sparked a backlash with a 'God is Trans' art exhibit. The Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan is displaying a show called 'God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.' The exhibit has raised some eyebrows among its Roman Catholic parishioners, with some balking at the words 'there is no devil; just past selves.' It is the creation of artist Adah Unachukwu, which attempts to show how faith and gender identity intersect. It features somewhat abstract colorful paintings which appear to show where the personal meet the spiritual, with videos...

An anonymous young man has confessed a massive secret which he claims could "ruin" his life. The unnamed male, who was in his late 20s at the time of writing, responded to a thread on Reddit's r/AskReddit forum, which encouraged users to share a "secret that could literally ruin your life if it came out". p> Despite being uploaded to Reddit nine years ago, the thread is still proving immensely popular today and has even recently been discussed by TikTok users, going viral once more. He says that his mum even managed to convince him and everyone else that he...

T-Mobile joined a growing list of companies that have moved out of San Francisco’s downtown area in recent months.T-Mobile’s two-story flagship location in San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood was permanently shuttered, with a note now directing customers to instead visit two other locations in the city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.The building broke price records for the area back when it was sold in 2013 at $50 million, according to the outlet, but now the building joins other properties sitting vacant in the city. The 17,000-square-foot space was previously occupied for decades by an Apple flagship location until...

Universal Studios released the second full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” Monday, making this the must-see movie of the summer. Cillian Murphy is in the starring role alongside Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer. The movie also stars Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Jack Quaid, Rami Malek and many more. The plot line is riveting, and this epic trailer brings audiences on a gripping ride, thrusting them into pulse-pounding scenes showcasing a man who must risk destroying the entire world in a wild and dangerous attempt to save it. Oppenheimer” tells the tale of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer...

Protests over the death of Justin Neely reached new levels of stupid over the weekend. Matt shows video of protests. People standing on the train tracks, blocking trains. Goes into Neely's criminal past.

We all need to read and promote "The Transgender Leviathan," a 40 page report written for the American Principles Project by Pedro Gonzalez of Chronicles Magazine... It's pure fire starting with its title page, There have been many terrible medical experiments in America, but none of them have had the deadly and destructive combination of ideology, politics, and profits propelling them into the culture....Transgenderism has the winning trifecta, and it makes the movement much more difficult to defeat, despite its obvious harm to people and the lack of any legitimate science or data to back up its central tenets.

Here 4 the Kids, a gun control group comprised of mothers, is urging Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) to use an executive order to ban all guns in the state. The mothers are hoping a “group of 25,000 will come together for a sit-in at the state Capitol” on June 5 to demand all guns be banned, 9 News reports. The homepage on the Here 4 the Kids website says, “We demand that Colorado Governor Jared Polis sign an executive order to ban guns and buy them back.” Another section of their website explains, “We are not an organization. This...

Mention of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein Prompts Cut Microphone and Removal From ArenaFalls Church, VA --News Direct-- National Legal & Policy CenterDuring the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on Saturday in Omaha, Peter Flaherty had his microphone cut, was arrested, and forcibly removed from the arena.Flaherty is the Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), which was the sponsor of Proposal #8 to “require hereafter that two separate people hold the office of the Chairman and the office of the CEO.”In support of this resolution for an independent chair, Flaherty attempted to assert that Berkshire “would be less...

A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. Senate said on May 6 that they “oppose raising the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms,” coalescing around their House counterparts ahead of the White House meeting over the federal debt ceiling amid a monthslong political standoff.“The Senate Republican conference is united behind the House Republican conference in support of spending cuts and structural budget reform as a starting point for negotiations on the debt ceiling,” the group of Republicans, led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), said in a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-Calif.).“It is now...

Ekaterina Lisina has the longest legs among women in the world. She is the world’s tallest model, and as far as anyone can tell, she has the biggest female feet in Russia. Ekaterina Lisina holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest legs among women. Her left leg measures 52.3 inches while the right one is an even 52 inches long. The model stands 6’9″ tall, and realised rather early that her height would be one of her biggest assets. With a successful career in basketball where height is of the essence, the young Russian’s foresight allowed her to...

Heavenly Father - thank you that I, David French, am so much more righteous than all the other white evangelicals in the world. It is such a deep privilege, every Lord's Day, to publicly proclaim in the pages of the New York Times how stupid and bigoted white evangelicals are - with one exception (me, David French). What a gift it is to be me. Yes, I thank you Lord! Thank you that I am not like those evil "Christians" who declined the COVID vaccine. From my seat atop this shining hill of righteousness, I can write articles declaring those...

If the veteran who restrained the homeless man is prosecuted, it will establish a right to terrorize subway passengers and help revive the ‘anti-racist’ assault on justice.Daniel Penny is not going quietly to the slaughter. The 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran who took action when fellow subway passengers were being threatened by a maniacal homeless person has lawyered up and will need all the legal help he can get if he hopes to avoid spending decades in prison.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has assigned Joshua Steinglass, a veteran prosecutor who led the trial team in the case that prosecuted former President...

Contrary to misleading headlines, none of the eight electors granted immunity in Fulton County’s anti-Trump war ‘said anything … incriminating to themselves or anyone else.’“At Least Eight Trump Electors Have Accepted Immunity in Georgia Investigation,” headlines uniformly blared on Friday. The legacy outlets echoing that narrative, however, buried the lede, which is that Fulton County’s get-Trump district attorney can’t even find incriminating evidence against the former president when she grants immunity to targets of her criminal investigation. A strong secondary story, also ignored or downplayed by the left-wing media, reveals multiple incidents of alleged misconduct by the D.A.’s office. The...