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  • Tesla Reports Robust Profit Increase on Strength of Battery Storage Sales The electric car company said profits climbed 17 percent in the third quarter as strong sales of energy products helped to make up for relatively slow auto sales.

    10/24/2024 3:16:57 AM PDT · by Cronos · 1 replies
    Tesla’s profit for the third quarter increased 17 percent from a year ago, the company said Wednesday, as strong growth in its battery storage and other businesses more than made up for a modest increase in car sales. The company said it earned $2.2 billion from July through September, compared with $1.9 billion in the same period last year. Sales were $25.2 billion, compared with $23.4 billion a year earlier. But Tesla warned investors to expect only “slight growth” in the number of cars it will deliver this year. Tesla shares jumped more than 11 percent in extended trading on...
  • Teamsters boss fires back at Tim Walz for ‘knucklehead statement’ about union leaders: ‘Our members are educated’

    10/24/2024 1:32:49 AM PDT · by blueplum · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 23 Oct 2024 | Ryan King
    Teamsters president Sean O’Brien hit back Wednesday at Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz for suggesting that certain union leaders lacked “courage” by refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. Walz, 60, had told “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart Monday that “some of those union leaders didn’t show the courage they needed to” by sitting out the 2024 election cycle without backing either Harris or former President Donald Trump. “That’s kind of a knucklehead statement — I show courage every day,” O’Brien, 52, told Fox Business Network, using the Minnesota governor’s own excuse when confronted with his past misstatements....
  • Biden-Harris admin shipping migrants to Arizona and Texas to hide border problem before Election Day: ‘It’s about optics’

    10/23/2024 9:49:50 PM PDT · by blueplum · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 23 Oct 2024 | Jennie Taer
    With just two weeks until the presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration is working overtime to hide its illegal migrant problem from the public’s view, furious Border Patrol agents say. ICE has been ordered to speed up deportations. And Border Patrol agents are busing and flying migrants from San Diego — where arrivals are still double what they were when President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office, Homeland Security sources told The Post. They’re being sent to border towns in Texas and Arizona, which have far fewer migrants.... San Diego County Border Patrol Supervisor Jim Desmond called the move...
  • Texas DPS: Over 443,000 criminal noncitizens booked in Texas jails

    10/23/2024 9:42:21 PM PDT · by blueplum · 13 replies
    Center Square ^ | 23 Oct 2024 | Bethany Blankley
    (The Center Square) – Noncitizens, including those in the country illegally, are committing crimes, and they’re being charged, imprisoned and convicted for them in Texas. A new report by the Texas Department of Public Safety highlights the extent of criminal charges...The data, covering roughly 13 years from June 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2024, represents “the minimum number of crimes associated with criminal illegal noncitizens” charged with committing state offenses.... In the first category, criminal noncitizens previously known to DHS, more than 443,000 were booked into local Texas jails during the timeframe evaluated. The majority, 314,000, were in the country...
  • 'Kind of disgusting': Harris makes move that could backfire in critical swing state

    10/23/2024 9:34:42 PM PDT · by blueplum · 36 replies
    Fox ^ | 22 Oct 2024 | Michael Lee
    Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to hit the trail with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney could backfire in Michigan, where Cheney is hugely unpopular with a critical voting bloc in the swing state. "It was surprising for us as Arab Americans to have Kamala Harris bringing someone whose family name always reminds us of war crimes in the Middle East," Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib told reporters in an online call Monday... "The Arab American community, as I see it, are very disappointed," Ghalib, who has now endorsed Trump in the election, said. "To bring this person to our backyard, to...
  • Kamala Harris calls Trump a 'fascist' as she argues he's 'dangerous' and unfit for office

    10/23/2024 9:12:04 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 54 replies
    NBC ^ | October 23, 2024 | Alex Seitz-Wald and Megan Lebowitz
    Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump a “fascist” at a CNN town hall Wednesday in Pennsylvania — echoing his onetime chief of staff's criticism as she makes a more vocal pitch to voters that he is unfit for office. John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who was Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, came forward this week to warn that his former boss meets “the general definition of a fascist." And he said that in private conversations, Trump admired dictators and said he wished he had military generals as loyal as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's....
  • BREAKING REPORT: CNN’s Dana Bash DIDN’T hold back on KAMALA’s town hall: “People I’m talking to say if her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that.” THIS the end for KAMALA?

    10/23/2024 9:07:33 PM PDT · by Vendome · 28 replies
    X formerly Twitter ^ | 10/23/2024 | Chuck Callesto
    “If her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that,” said Bash. https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1849280613980803238
  • Kamala Harris prosecuted single mother due to daughter's hospitalization for illness for "truancy" (video)

    10/23/2024 8:25:40 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 10 replies
    Arrested by Kamala - A Black Mother's Story Cheree Peoples tells her story about how she was prosecuted by Kamala Harris due to her daughter's absences from school even though they were excused for legitimate medical reasons with media stationed outside to capture her arrest on film.
  • Voters deserve second chance if mail ballots are rejected, Pa. Supreme Court rules

    10/23/2024 7:40:20 PM PDT · by lightman · 33 replies
    Pennlive ^ | 23 October A.D. 2024 | Carter Walker
    Pennsylvanians must be given a chance to vote on Election Day if their mail ballots have been rejected because of a disqualifying mistake, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. That means voters who fail to correctly sign or date the return envelope or fail to use a secrecy envelope are entitled to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day at a polling place and have it counted, as long as that ballot wouldn’t be rejected for some other disqualifying issue. In a 4-3 decision, the court said that provisional voting was meant to assure access to the right to vote,...
  • Minnesota man sentenced to 30 years for shooting death of transgender woman

    10/23/2024 7:30:12 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 22 replies
    ap ^ | September 12, 2024 | staff
    A Minnesota man has been sentenced to a 30-year prison term for killing a transgender woman last year in Minneapolis. Damarean Bible, 25, was found guilty of second-degree murder in August and sentenced Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio News reported. Bible admitted fatally shooting 38-year-old Savannah Ryan Williams on Nov. 29. “She was my best friend and meant everything to me,” Williams’ mother, Kim Stillday, said at the sentencing hearing. “As a person, Savannah was funny. She would light up any room she walked into.” Prosecutor James Hannemon called the shooting “a cold-blooded, brazen killing” that was unprovoked. “She just had...
  • Quarter of young Black men say they will vote for Trump: Survey

    10/23/2024 7:28:31 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 23 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/23/24 | Cheyanne M. Daniels
    A new survey shows that more than a quarter of Black men plan to vote for former President Trump in November’s presidential election. The University of Chicago’s latest GenForward poll released Wednesday found that if the election were held today, 26 percent of Black men between the ages of 18 and 40 said they would vote for Trump, compared to only 12 percent of Black women who said the same. Vice President Harris has been struggling with young Black male voters since her campaign launch. Still, GenForward’s poll showed some contradiction among the demographic. Despite one-fourth of young Black men...
  • Ben Carson has perfect response to Kamala Harris mocking students who said 'Christ is king'

    10/23/2024 7:09:27 PM PDT · by NetAddicted · 32 replies
    Lifesitenews.com ^ | 10/22/2024 | Doug Mainwaring
    Dr. Ben Carson took aim at Democrat Kamala Harris for publicly ridiculing two college students who proclaimed 'Christ is King!' at a recent campaign rally, warning Christians that she 'said what's in her heart.' (LifeSiteNews) — Former Republican presidential candidate and world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, took aim at Democrat Kamala Harris for publicly ridiculing two college students who proclaimed “Christ is King!” and “Jesus is Lord” at a recent campaign rally. “We have somebody who’s running for president who recently said in a crowd when someone said ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’ that ‘You’re in the wrong crowd,’” noted...
  • Donald Trump Overtakes Kamala Harris in Four National Polls

    10/23/2024 7:06:48 PM PDT · by lasereye · 25 replies
    Newsweek ^ | OCT 23, 2024 | Martha McHardy
    Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Kamala Harris in four major national polls as the competition tightens in the final stretch before the election. After trailing Harris in several surveys just weeks ago, multiple polls show Trump now has a slight lead over his opponent for the first time since early August. The latest Redfield and Wilton Strategies poll, conducted on October 21, put Trump 2 points ahead among 1,273 likely voters, on 47 percent to Harris' 45 percent, in a 4 point swing from its previous national poll, conducted on October 6, which showed Harris with a 2 point...
  • Harris Dodges on How ‘Gouging’ Plan that Only Applies in Emergencies Helps with Inflation, Admits ‘Most’ Don’t Gouge

    10/23/2024 6:55:48 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/23/2024 | IAN HANCHETT
    During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on how her plan to combat “price gouging” on groceries “during emergencies or times of crisis” would help with the fact that grocery prices have just been high every day for years by stating that there should be accountability “when companies are taking advantage of the desperation and the need of the American people,” and stating that “most” companies don’t gouge. Host Anderson Cooper asked, “I looked at your plan. You talk about going after price gougers, and I’m quoting...
  • Famed polling guru Nate Silver’s ‘gut says Donald Trump’ will win 2024 presidential election

    10/23/2024 6:38:33 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 1 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 23, 2024 | Ryan King
    Election savant Nate Silver has put his marker down and revealed his “gut says” that former President Donald Trump will emerge victorious in the Nov. 5 election, while warning that polling data indicate the race could still go either way. “In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast,” Silver, whose model currently rates the Republican nominee with a 53.1% chance of becoming the 47th president, wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday. “Yet when I deliver this unsatisfying news, I inevitably get a...
  • Dark Kamala: Harris to Close Campaign with Angry Screed Against Trump by National Mall

    10/23/2024 6:19:43 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 45 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/23/2024 | Brad
    Kamala Harris’s brief presidential campaign will culminate at the Washington Ellipse in Washington, DC, a block from the National Mall. With voting in many states already beginning, Harris’s Ellipse speech may be her last chance to appeal to voters. It may also serve as Democrats’ final opportunity to lean on a bogus January 6 narrative that most Americans have ignored or looked past in lieu of a transparent presentation of Democrats’ divisive policy agenda. The Vice President will make a closing argument to voters that reportedly ignores her record – despite her serving as second-in-command in an administration that has...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 24 October 2024

    10/23/2024 6:01:09 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 29 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend
    ~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Blue “Manta” Brigade! U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Dive and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, and Latvian Navy divers pose for a photo while training on surface supplied diving techniques at the Baltic Diving Training Center in support of the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 24 exercise in Liepāja, Latvia, June 14, 2024. BALTOPS24 is the premier maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic Region. The exercise, led by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and executed by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO, provides a unique training opportunity to strengthen combined response capabilities...
  • Los Angeles Times editorial boss resigns after billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong scraps Harris endorsement

    10/23/2024 5:55:43 PM PDT · by Libloather · 62 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/23/24 | David Propper
    The editorials editor for the Los Angeles Times stepped down Wednesday after the newspaper’s billionaire owner stopped the publication’s expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Mariel Garza is leaving her post at the Times because she wants “to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent” after biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong scrapped the paper’s endorsement for president. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review she said. “This is how I’m standing up.” Last week, Soon-Shiong told the newspaper’s editorial board through the outlet’s editor that the LA...
  • Trump leads at 60.3% — why polls don’t matter now that betting markets rule

    10/23/2024 5:38:10 PM PDT · by henbane · 24 replies
    American Wire ^ | October 22, 2024 | Vivek Saxena
    These numbers vastly differ from the polls, particularly the national polls, which continue to show Harris ahead by a few percentage points. But which one should you believe?Maxim Lott, the guy who runs ElectionBettingOdds.com, personally thinks you should believe the betting sites, not the polls.“These are really accurate,” he told Fox News. “They’re more accurate than just trying to look at polls or especially more accurate than listening to pundits bloviating. [The bettors] look at all sorts of historical data; they look at trends. I find the percent more useful than the polls.”“Last cycle we had more than a billion...
  • 'Full-Blown Scandal': Biden-Harris Admin Hid Documents To Justify Fossil Fuel Crackdown, Oversight Committee Says

    10/23/2024 5:35:08 PM PDT · by CFW · 15 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | 10/23/24 | Thomas Catenacci
    The Biden-Harris administration is allegedly covering up an internal study conducted in 2023 that would have rendered its moratorium on natural gas projects unnecessary, according to leaders on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The White House and the Department of Energy paused permitting for liquefied natural gas export projects in January—a policy critics said would cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs—to allow time for a federal study on those projects' environmental, economic, and national security impacts. That study, according to federal officials, wouldn't be completed until early 2025, effectively throwing the brakes...