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[The Clunion @ClunionThe]

US Farmers Combat "Megadrought" With Bottled Water
Worst drought in 1,200 years offset by innovative new technology. VC's still refuse to invest.
https://t.co/UHGWuhV3aG

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

The obvious solution is that if an illegal alien has kids in the U.S., you deport the parents and raise the kids in some sort of ultra-patriotic super-soldier program.

[The Clunion @ClunionThe]

@jarvis_best Soon to be followed by… “Let me be clear”

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@theraybao @trustfundterry 4 stars, no. But apparently 4 dots, yes. Innovating on the bullshit made-up skills scale. 👏

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@Handre

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@LibertyLockPod

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@BobFergusonGov 🤡

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@WallStreetApes

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@walterkirn

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@walterkirn Paul Thacker was sounding alarms about Emily Kopp’s incompetence back in November.
Guess Matt found out the hard way.

https://t.co/pGiV1tzIzR

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@joshrauh Funny how these clowns never seem to have a problem with increased spending 💸

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

HUGE: $928 MILLION Stolen from California Solar Program and diverted to Democratic Voter Registration & Activism Efforts

A new report from CAL DOGE alleges that $928 million from California's Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program, intended to fund solar installations on affordable housing, has been diverted to Democratic voter registration and activism efforts.

Funded by gas taxes and utility bills, the program has completed only 269 projects worth $72 million since 2015, raising questions about the missing funds.Organizations like GRID Alternatives and the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) are implicated, with CEJA's affiliated entity reportedly using public dollars for partisan activities, including voter mobilization and candidate endorsements.

CAL DOGE calls for a full audit to ensure accountability.This highlights ongoing concerns about transparency in green energy initiatives.

Source: NY Post

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@PeterAttiaMD He would’ve cut ties sooner, but had to help an old lady across the street on his way to volunteer at an orphanage…or something.

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@PeterAttiaMD Too little, too late 🎻

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@historigins

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Bill Gates Says We'll Survive Climate Change, World Furious
https://t.co/ftIxDR3lz0

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Ya think?

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Today, Bill Gates admitted that pushing climate doomerism was a mistake.

@LLBiggers: “That shift to common sense is welcome, but it comes after decades of fearmongering that harmed young people, stalled development, and punished dissenting scientists.”

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@mtaibbi Maybe Joe could ask Gavin about his little shoulder dance during interviews?

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@VCBrags Guaranteed he wears these shoes

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@julianweisser @VCBrags He’s currently on a Vision Quest sabbatical