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There’s an old saw in politics that says, “If you are explaining, you’re losing.” Over the past few months, Big Tech and its allies in the legacy media have been doing a lot of explaining about data centers, including why they are needed and why more communities should welcome the projects. But Big Tech’s public relations challenge got a lot harder last month, when country music legend Willie Nelson declared people need to “fight against data centers invading our land.” Nelson, who owns a house and farm in his hometown of Abbott, Texas, also said, “The last thing we need...

BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Beaver Dam police are investigating after more than 30 vehicles were egged Tuesday night. Police said they identified and interviewed three people in connection with the vandalism. The three are cooperating with the investigation and are expected to receive several citations. Police ask anyone whose vehicle was egged to call the department at ***_***_****

people speak often of “suicidal empathy” as a plague consuming the west, and to be sure, they have a point. but where does this come from? from whence did it arise and take hold? i have an idea around a dovetail. hear me out on this: the other day, i spoke about communism being a failure of second order thinking and that basically anyone capable of asking the question “but if we do that, it creates a certain set of incentives and won’t those incentives then lead to X?” does not become a communist. (apart from the select few who...

Before gay marriage was legalized, its supporters made three specific promises. Every single one of them has failed. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse walks through the actual data — Gallup polls, the UCLA Williams Institute study, and a 2025 systematic review of 123 studies across 31 countries — to show what really happened after decades of pro-gay advocacy and the legalization of same-sex marriage.

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Farage got an incredible 63% of the vote - all the other 33 parties together only got 37% Despite a lower turnout, Farage increased his votes to 22,000 Let’s see if the Establishment dare call another by-election because they will get really smashed again The Establishment were humiliated tonight @DPJHodges

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‘Detransitioners’ share sex-change horror stories about doctors pressuring them as impressionable teens: ‘Like a car salesman’ Three disturbing stories of children that were allegedly preyed upon by greedy hospitals and doctors — and encouraged as minors to undergo gender-care treatment — were outlined in the Department of Health and Human Services’ bombshell “Wolves in White Coats” report Thursday. Here are their stories. Clementine Breen Clementine was just 12 years old and anxious about her changing adolescent body, while simultaneously grappling with unprocessed trauma from sexual abuse years earlier. Desperate for an escape, she discovered the idea of transitioning gender in...

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Five current and former Refugio, Texas, city officials were arrested on Wednesday for fraud after they allegedly mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars that spanned 19 transactions. Refugio Mayor Wanda Dukes was charged with misapplication of fiduciary property, a first-degree felony, for misusing funds from the Refugio Economic Development Corporation between October 2023 and October 2025. City Secretary Callie Shreckengost was also charged with misapplication of fiduciary property. Current City Council Ixtlazihuatl Vasquez, former City Council Frank Hosey, and former City Council Michael Rocha were all hit with third-degree felony charges of abuse of official capacity. According to the indictment,...

WNBA Task Force meets to define “women.” This pic is NOT from the short video. Somebody posted it on the X post: And VERY true!

Cyber warfare is increasingly coming for U.S. water supplies. Water providers in at least seven U.S. states have been targeted by cyberattacks over the past two weeks, according to multiple agencies including the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Some officials indicated that as many as a dozen states could have been impacted. The hackers targeted components known as programmable logic controllers, which allow utility providers to manage the flow and even chemical composition of water supplies to the homes and businesses they serve, according to the agencies. In many cases, they...

Unprecedented moves in the AI space this week are giving stock market experts flashbacks to one of the most famous corporate scandals in history, stoking fears that we're in line for a similarly catastrophic fallout. The headline-worthy $500 billion that Wall Street just announced it's providing Nvidia clients to scale their AI infrastructure marks the beginning of an untested new future for financial engineering that commentators such as Ed Yardeni and Michael Burry are extremely wary of. And, based on the implications for the average portfolio and the economy at large, you may need to be wary, too. Predicting a...

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee sounds the alarm nationwide after James O'Keefe exposes in Minnesota that election officials let ONE PERSON vouch for 8 VOTERS, NO ID LEE: "Minnesota unintentionally makes a compelling case for the SAVE America Act." O'Keefe straight up walks up in Muslim garb, and the liberal woman says: "You can vouch for them." "She says, YOU ARE the ID." 🤯🤯🤯 SAVE America is existential for the republic, or this is coming to EVERY STATE. 📽️ @JamesOKeefeIII

The suspect is only 16 years old, but police determined his level of radicalization has reached an advanced stage. Italian police officers display a confiscated Islamic State (IS) flag during a press conference at the police headquarters in Romeo n January 10, 2017. - TIZIANA FABI / AFPA 16-year-old Italian of immigrant background has been arrested on suspicion of supporting ISIS and spreading jihadist propaganda, after investigators allegedly found a large collection of extremist material on his computer, including videos showing how to build an improvised explosive device. The teenager was arrested by Milan police in Grosseto, where he was...

WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center’s board moved Thursday to rename the area around the iconic performing arts center the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza” and to add Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade — after a federal judge ordered its removal. Trump’s allies on the board pushed through the changes during a meeting that lasted more than two hours, after Democrats including Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty objected to Trump’s plans to renovate and rebrand the aging facility. Trump, who chairs the board, participated virtually in part of the meeting and pushed back on...

🔥 Will Cain just DESTROYED the Democrat Socialists' $200 TRILLION spending wish list with cold hard math, proving the MIDDLE CLASS would actually be on the hook Universal healthcare: $75 trillion. Reparations: $28 trillion. Federal jobs guarantee: $60 trillion. Housing for all: $17 trillion. But there's NO MONEY to pay for it ⬇️ Confiscate ALL billionaire wealth? That only brings in $6.6 trillion. Tax ALL corporate profits to ZERO? $35 trillion. Implement 90% tax rates like the 1950s? Still only $2 trillion over 10 years. You STILL don't even reach the LOW estimate of $71 trillion, let alone $200 trillion....

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I’ve been on a small carrier/LHA in a war zone during the first Iranian dust up. We did 105 days continuous at sea. Drank that beer on steel beach. It was hard work, but we could have done another hundred days. The only thing we ran short of was fresh vegetables and milk. I’m more concerned with this concerted effort by media...aided by a dozen pussies aboard...to undermine the esteem these sailors warrant. As always, getting the job done. Bravo Abe Lincoln, BRAVO!!