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Critics, including us, have been warning that New Yorkers’ energy costs are about to soar even higher, thanks to the state’s insane 2019 climate law. Now, a state agency itself is confirming those warnings — and has even put a price tag on the pain: a whopping $4,100 a year extra per household by 2031. That’s just for electricity, reports the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency; the bill for gas for home heating, as well as gasoline costs, are also set to shoot up. At the pump a gallon of gas is expected to go up an...

Rep Thomas Massie receiving the Quincy award from Trita Parsi, an actual Iranian lobbyist, alongside progressive Democrat Ro Khanna.

President Trump stunned Washington insiders Monday by announcing that he will attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25 — after snubbing journalists and skipping all prior dinners during his presidency. “The White House Correspondents Association has asked me, very nicely, to be the Honoree at this year’s Dinner, a long and storied tradition since it began in 1924, under then President Calvin Coolidge,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these ‘Correspondents’ now admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled California is likely violating the constitutional rights of parents who object to policies preventing teachers from disclosing when their child changes their name or pronouns in school. The decision marks a major victory for parental rights advocates at this early stage of the case — and a blow to the state’s efforts to shield the privacy of LGBTQ students.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned that some traditional U.S. allies are "hemming and hawing about the use of force" as Washington presses forward with its campaign against Iran, raising fresh questions about NATO cohesion at a moment of escalation.Spain has refused U.S. permission to use certain bases for strikes on Iran, calling for de-escalation and adherence to international law. Turkey has criticized the operation and warned of broader regional destabilization, while President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he was "saddened" by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death and denied that Turkish territory was used in the campaign. In a statement released on...

#news Thomas Massie has allegedly received nearly $2 million in donations from Democrat donors & PACS for the 2025-2026 election cycle In fact, 79% of his donations come from democrats. Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has been accused of pulling in $1,911,557 from Democrat donors and political action committees (PACs) during the 2025-2026 election cycle. Here's a breakdown of Massie's key fundraising figures for the 2025-2026 cycle, based on FEC filings through December 31, 2025: Total receipts: $2,451,859.79 Total contributions: $2,419,692.55 Individual contributions: $2,356,004.90, split between itemized donations of $1,515,946.65 (larger gifts tracked by name) and unitemized ones of $840,058.25...

Two clips from an uplifting video, set to Trump's YMCA campaign music and featuring freed Iranians doing the 'Trump dance' in gratitude!Rob Cunningham repostedil Donaldo Trumpo@PapiTrumpoParody accountYOU CAN TELL THEY'VE BEEN WAITING TO DO THIS!!!🤣🥳🥳🥳 —WELCOME TO MAGA!!!March 2, 2026

“A Canadian is nearly three times more likely to die by MAID than an American is to die by a gunshot…”

WASHINGTON -- The Commanders have agreed to pay $1 million to the District of Columbia to settle a lawsuit from 2022 that alleged the NFL team under previous ownership colluded to deceive fans by lying about an inquiry into sexual misconduct and a persistently hostile work environment. D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb announced the settlement Monday. The lawsuit initially began in fall 2021 with an investigation by predecessor Karl Racine, who based it on consumer protection law, arguing the team mislead residents. Dan Snyder owned the team at the time of the lawsuit, before selling to Josh Harris' group...

Sir Keir Starmer has told MPs that the government "does not believe in regime change from the skies", putting him at odds with President Trump over the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran. In his first statement to Parliament since the strikes, Sir Keir defended his decision not to permit the use of UK bases for the initial wave of attacks. "President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes, but it is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest," he told MPs.

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin, Texas, is hosting an Interfaith Ramadan Iftar Dinner soon, bringing together members of the Episcopal community and Muslims to share in the “sacred moment of fast-breaking” during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, followed by a communal meal.The Church of the Good Shepherd is a prominent Episcopal parish led by The Rev. Stanford Adams, who serves as Rector.The church recently promoted an informational session on Ramadan to prepare participants and hype them up for the shared fast-breaking experience and Iftar dinner.Redditor creidmheach anticipates how this will go down:Basically you’ll...

As Republicans celebrated the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with praise for Donald Trump’s decisive action, Democrats faced their own divisions and a reckoning over how to present a united front. Most were quick to condemn the US president for sidelining Congress to launch an illegal and unconstitutional war and demanded a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain his military onslaught. But some in the party also felt obliged to acknowledge the authoritarian Khamenei’s death as a positive development and demonstrate their support for US troops. A small band of centrist Democrats have...

The US Supreme Court on Monday approved an emergency appeal from a Republican congresswoman in New York who asked the justices to block a state court ruling that ordered her Staten Island-based district to be redrawn ahead of the midterm election. The high court’s three liberal justices dissented from the decision. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and state GOP election officials had urged the Supreme Court to allow New York’s current map to be used, an outcome that will benefit Republicans in the midterm amid a flurry of mid-decade redistricting in other parts of the country.

Joint Israel-US strikes on the Iranian regime are taking place just as Jews are set to mark a festival commemorating another war against a Persian official who sought their destruction. Saturday morning, just over an hour after Israel and the United States began airstrikes against the Iranian regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Israel and the world in a video statement. In his speech, Netanyahu noted that the confrontation with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his supporters was taking place as Jews prepared to mark the anniversary of another war fought against an official from ancient Persia. “My brothers and sisters,...

France is to boost its nuclear arsenal and extend the deterrent to cover other European countries, in a major development of its nuclear defence policy. In a speech in Brittany, President Emmanuel Macron explained the changes as the response to an increasingly unstable strategic environment. "The next 50 years will be an era of nuclear weapons," he said. Speaking to naval officers in front of a nuclear submarine at the Ile Longue base near the port of Brest, he said the number of French nuclear warheads would be increased from their current level of around 300. He announced the launch...

If you rent a cheap Airbnb house in Las Vegas, you might not be altogether surprised to find dead crickets in the garage. But a thousand vials of medical samples in several freezers – and a centrifuge? After the cleaner and one guest fell ill at a property in the city’s Sunrise Manor neighborhood last week, federal agents raided it and found a whole laboratory’s worth of scientific kit of the kind more useful to medical scientists than, say, drug dealers. Curious. Curiouser still, the house belongs to a Chinese national named Jia Bei (Jesse) Zhu. He is currently in...

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As many of you know, the Pentagon is employing Palantir in Operation Epic Fury. And Palantir's AI platform, AIP, operates on a frontier AI foundation which is a military-adapted version of Claude.Ergo, I submitted all my prompts/questions to Claude.Here are my prompts and Claude's responses. I submitted Claude's responses to Grok for corroboration of accuracy and Grok said Claude was speculative and overly expansive.I thought some of you might enjoy this exchange so here it is (for what it's worth). I do not assume this is accurate. But it is interesting for a variety of reasons. Take it for what...

Leo XIV: "Not Our Task to Build a Christendom"Today, Leo XIV received a delegation from the ecumenical 'World Council of Churches', reports Oikoumene.org.The delegation included the German lay bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the Armenian archbishop Vicken Aykazian, the Baptist preacher Merlyn Hyde Riley, and the Protestant preacher Jerry Pillay.According to Pillay, Leo XIV stressed "the need for visible Christian unity, recognising the challenges this presents even within the Roman Catholic Church due to the existence of different and diverse views".Pillay said that Leo XIV affirmed that, "while our task is not to build a Christendom yet Christians must work together in...

President Donald Trump’s disdain for the Constitution is evident in his launching a war in Iran without any semblance of congressional approval. Congress must act quickly to protect its role in a Constitution that was meant to prevent such unilateral action by the president.