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The House Oversight Committee met on Wednesday for a hearing on "rightsizing the government." Rep. Nancy Mace was on fire, but she had Rep. Gerry Connolly clutching his pearls at her use of the T-word (tranny). Mace replied by saying it three more times.

As universities across the U.S. seek to deal with protests, polarization, and the presidential election, many have focused on how to foster civil-discourse skills in students. As this tweet (below) from Professor Robert “Robby” George illustrates, civil-discourse programs are popping up across the nation. Of course, UNC has its own version with its School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL). What Is Civil Discourse? Since this is an essay about AI, I’ll use an AI-generated answer from Google Search for the definition (Google Search AI collects data from websites on a topic, in this case “civil discourse,” and summarizes the...

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 🚨🇺🇸 DOGE GETS HIGH-TECH SLEEP PODS TO FUEL 24/7 EFFICIENCY DRIVE Eight Sleep's AI-powered Pods arrive at @DOGE headquarters, enabling Elon's team to optimize rest while working around the clock. The $1.94T in federal waste won't cut itself. The smart beds use machine learning to track vital signs and automatically adjust temperature for each sleep stage, achieving 78% accuracy compared to medical-grade EEG. Perfect for power naps between budget cuts.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump has called on Elon Musk to launch a SpaceX mission to save stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from space. Elon Musk has given the green light to the rescue operation. 8:19 PM · Jan 28, 2025

https://insiderpaper.com/thousands-leave-as-fresh-tremors-shake-santorini/ —- note Revelation 6:12-14; 16:18-20: Earthquakes are a sign of God's judgment and the end of the world Luke 21:11: Great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences are a sign of the end times Matthew 24:7: Earthquakes, famines, and pestilences are a sign of the end times Mark 13:8: Earthquakes and famines are a sign of the end times Index: earthquake trackers worldwide 2 sources 1 Gov 1 Not gov https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map https://earthquaketrack.com/

This video contains excerpts of Sam Altman's 9/15/16 interview with Elon Musk. They were the original Co-Chairs of OpenAI. Here, they openly promote the connection of AI and transhumanism (the merging of the human brain/mind with technology, as is being developed by Musk's Neuralink company). Elon Musk himself said that there's a "ten to twenty percent chance AI goes BAD." We are gambling with the future of every man, woman, and child on earth. At the very least, we should ensure that those who are involved in the Stargate Project are ethical and sensible human beings. There is a serious...

A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These cell-specific gene expression patterns, which ensure that a brain cell is different from a skin cell, are partly determined by the three-dimensional structure of the genetic material, which controls the accessibility of each gene. MIT chemists have now come up with a new way to determine those 3D genome structures, using generative artificial intelligence. Their technique can predict...

I voted for President Donald J. Trump three times. I did that because I love my country, and am committed to help preserve, protect, and improve it. I admire so much about the President. Starting with his great strength of vision and the willingness to pursue it. I am one hundred percent onboard with his desire to protect the citizens of this country from those who seek... And I am one hundred percent onboard with the President’s desire to “Make America Great Again.” I am grateful that this President is quickly fulfilling a number of campaign promises to the American...

Vented attics are a major contributing factor when it comes to the spread of wildfires, as embers that are in the air are drawn into the attic space, resulting in an attic fire. Many homes and buildings in California feature vented attics and this significantly exacerbated the intensity and spread of the 2025 wildfires. This isn't just a California problem, this is anywhere that is prone to wildfires. Unvented conditioned attic assemblies are significantly safer in wildfire zones, as they do not allow outside air or embers to enter the roof assembly. In this video, we discuss why vented attics...

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has established herself as a flawed-yet-principled advocate for women. Meanwhile, former Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, who served as Social Security Commissioner for less than a year under President Joe Biden and whom extreme political junkies might remember as an obscure Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, has exposed himself as the latest in a long line of cowardly and spiritually corrupt woke leftists who cannot, or will not, explain the difference between a man and a woman. On Wednesday, at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee focused on the stay-at-home federal...

Ben Rich from 1975 to 1991, was the Director of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, the division responsible for development of several advanced technological aircraft including the U-2, the SR-17 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber, and the F-22 Raptor. In a presentation about the infamous Skunk Works program, Rich made several unusual comments that had many in the audience scratching their heads. During the presentation, Rich hinted on more than one occasion that more, undisclosed, top-secret advanced technologies have been developed since the F-117 was introduced. Of course, Rich could not go into specifics. Jan Harzan, director of Mutual UFO Network...

The moment any kind of natural disaster happens, Democrats immediately begin screaming about climate change. Of all the boogiemen the left has in their closet of scary monsters, "climate change" is arguably their most successful as it's allowed the left to use it as a way to frighten people into voting for them, and allowed them to manipulated billions and billions of dollars to their liking. With the California wildfires raging around LA, you can bet the Democrats immediately pointed to climate change as the culprit. Is it? Did the fires start because of the prophesied coming of mother nature's...

The "South Carolina Ping List" has not been active in more than 16 months. It's time to get it going again, but with a different name and a more focused mission. My apologies in advance to long time Palmetto State Freepers who have been, and are still, active in trying to make South Carolina great again. This post is directed primarily to Freepers new to South Carolina, and new to our unbelievably screwed up RINO controlled GOP political BS. And, yes, I generally detest "politicians," especially RINO politicians. I know everyone has heard the old saying about the need to...

Unveiling the Deep: Chinese Submarines and Anti-Gravitic Drones Along U.S. CoastlinesThe realm of naval warfare is undergoing a significant transformation, with submarines potentially serving as launch platforms for drones capable of operating in both sea and air. This shift was spotlighted in a recent episode of the Shawn Ryan Show, aired on January 3, 2025, where guest Sam Shoemate discussed shocking allegations about the use of anti-gravitic technology by drones, possibly launched from Chinese submarines near American coastlines. These revelations, combined with documented advancements in Chinese naval and drone technology, suggest profound implications for global security and military strategy.(The internet...

It's like this European commercial. https://youtu.be/WUtE3QlTpKI

An undersea volcano is likely to erupt sometime in 2025 off the coast of Oregon. Such a volcanic eruption could trigger the Cascadia Subduction Mega Fault and produce a mega-thrust earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0. This much advance notice is a big deal, because forecasting eruptions more than hours ahead is “pretty unique,” says geophysicist William Chadwick. But 470 kilometers off the Oregon coast and over a kilometer beneath the waves, a volcano known as Axial Seamount ticks all the boxes that hint at imminent activity, Chadwick and his colleagues reported December 10 at a meeting of the American...

In New York City a taxi jumped the curb...three are hospitalized... A curfew imposed in Homs, Syria after minority groups protested...demonstrations have occurred in other cities...14 killed and 10 wounded in fighting between forces of the current and former government... "A targeted terrorist attack" That's what the owner of the Russian cargo ship "Ursa Major" says after the vessel exploded and sank in the western Mediterranean Sea... Finland's says that failure of an undersea electricity link between Finland and Estonia is being investigated as possible... In the ongoing violent protests against a disputed election in Mozambique a prison riot... An...

While the mighty Anan 7 is comprehensively beguiling Diplomat Fox with almost disdainful ease, Mr. Scott is not buyin' it. When the utterly hoodwinked Fox gives his extremely dubious order (which would have meant the summary destruction of The Enterprise, including all crew), Mr. Scott yields not an inch.

In the Harry Potter series, the villain Lord Voldemort is known as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named." There's a similar sentiment whenever someone expresses a heterodox opinion on vaccines. The long knives are already out for Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While there are valid concerns among pro-life activists, the most prominent objection is Kennedy's vaccine skepticism. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) labeled Kennedy a "denier of science." Kennedy has pushed "the scientifically discredited belief that childhood vaccines cause autism," The New York Times wrote. Trump isn't backing down. In a recent NBC interview, Kristen Welker asked Trump whether childhood...

Hping to keep tabs on the magnetic north's wandering ways, the World Magnetic Model 2025 has been released this week, revealing the latest official predicted placement of Earth's magnetic fields. This version will remain valid until late 2029, during which time we can expect to see the magnetic north pole slowly edge further toward Russia. The new version is of timely importance too as the magnetic north pole’s movement seems to be accelerating. Since the 1830s, the north magnetic pole of Earth has relocated some 2,250 kilometers (1,400 miles) across the upper stretches of the Northern Hemisphere from Canada towards...