Eric Larison

assistant superintendent (ret.); husband, father—Navy Dad; Rotarian... “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”-Neal Postman.

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

Advocates for knowledge-rich curriculum often speak as though the evidence is finally on their side, and it is. But evidence was never the obstacle. The obstacles are ideological, professional, structural, and political. Many are deeply embedded in the culture of education and in American society itself.

https://t.co/yenGAxnhJP

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

Robert Pondiscio: 19 reasons that knowledge-rich curricula have not been broadly adopted in the US, despite strong research support. I'd add this one: "educators underestimate what young children can learn, and the joy with which they will learn it." https://t.co/NQPakMfP3B

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

I reviewed NY's data-center "moratorium" so you don't have to. The bottom line: it's not just a one-year delay for the biggest facilities. It's an open-ended mess that would create permanent obstacles for building even relatively small data processors.

https://t.co/osT2IfyxiQ

[Eric Larison @eric_larison]

@Handre Time for it to end…

[Eric Larison @eric_larison]

@JamesMelville True—solar farms, wind turbine farms, data centers and the push for “renewables” to power them are the biggest threat to clean water and the environment for our time…

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

All too rich that Democrats, who recklessly called everyone they don’t like a Nazi, are about to put a Nazi in the United States Senate.

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

More of this please

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

New York State politicians want the tax-paying citizens of this state to fund a grant program that they pitch to solar companies.

NYSERDA gets that money from the delivery charge on your electric bill. It’s why you can’t afford your electricity payment.

The grant program will be shopped to foreign corporations intent on cashing in.

The “green” in green energy is nothing more than money.

The losers? Our wildlife, our water, and our environment.

These people must be stopped.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

To fully understand how evil these foreign solar and wind corporations are, I need you to take some time out of your day today to read the screenshots attached below.

I anonymously received one of the solar contracts that was dispersed to landowners in the Flat Creek Solar project footprint, which is located in Montgomery County. Flat Creek, like every ORES project, received its final permit. It will irreversibly fragment and destroy the Amish community there, as well as the bald eagles that nest WITHIN the facility site (I documented that on here earlier this spring).

I'm not sure where to begin with how one-sided, crooked, and broad this contract is in favor of the developer.

It grants the developer broad rights to transmission facilities
poles, underground and overhead lines, communication systems, access roads, vehicles and equipment, and future replacement and reconstruction.

The easement is PERPETUAL! The contract is for 25-years, but if you read on, you see the developer has the right to extend it for 5-years at a time at will. That's how these contracts become 40-year+ leases that transfer our prime farmland into the hands of foreign countries.

Owner restrictions are shocking. On page 4-5, the owner agrees not to interfere with the easement, build structures that affect it, use the property in ways that could impact developer operations, or impose restrictions that impair the easement.

Page 6 contains a "Taking" provision. If eminent domain occurs, the developer receives compensation for damage to its facilities
and the developer may receive compensation for loss of use and business interests. The developer also retains significant rights regarding the award... many landowners don't realize they will be sharing condemnation proceeds with an easement holder!

And don't forget the gag order.

It says the owner agrees to keep confidential: the agreement itself, information regarding the developer's operations, information regarding the developer's project, and "any other information" provided by the developer that is designated confidential.

If you can think, for a single moment, that this is about saving the environment and the climate, you need to read through this contract below.

This is foreign corporate pillaging and intimidation waged against the rural towns that safeguard our best farmland in New York State.

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

Why do we give teachers pensions instead of just putting $500 a month into an S&P ETF on their behalf?

They’d get a higher income in retirement than they made as a teacher, it would cost the district less, and if they quit early it’s already theirs to keep and continues to grow.

[Handre @Handre]

John Maynard Keynes lived as a quintessential elitist who despised the very people his theories claimed to help. While you hear endless praise for his "compassionate" economics, the man himself viewed workers and savers with open contempt, calling them irrational actors who needed enlightened technocrats to manage their affairs.

The Cambridge don made his fortune speculating in currencies and commodities while simultaneously advocating for government controls that would eliminate such opportunities for ordinary people. He lost his shirt in 1928, then again in 1929, proving himself a mediocre investor despite his theoretical "brilliance". His personal financial disasters never dimmed his confidence that he could engineer prosperity for entire nations.

Keynes openly admitted his theories served political expediency rather than economic truth. In a 1944 letter to Friedrich Hayek, he wrote that he expected his ideas to be temporary measures, lasting perhaps 25 years before sounder thinking would prevail. He never intended his deficit spending prescriptions to become permanent doctrine.

The man who gave intellectual cover to every government's spending addiction actually agreed with free market economists on the long run. He simply believed political reality made sound economics impossible. His famous quip "in the long run we are all dead" was political cynicism: politicians need solutions that work before the next election, consequences be damned.

You celebrate Keynes as the savior of capitalism, but he designed his system to give politicians exactly what they wanted: intellectual permission to spend money they didn't have on programs that bought votes. He knew this would end badly. He just figured someone else would clean up the mess after he died.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

BRAVO ZULU @MavrookasD and the team at Saronic!!

This is a huge win for unmanned surface vessels.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

WSP Global, who did environmental "technical work and review" for Fort Edward Solar, shares something in common with Boralex, the foreign Canadian corporation poised to destroy one of the last grasslands of its kind throughout the entire Northeast.

Boralex hired WSP to do this environmental consulting work. Not shockingly, WSP concluded nothing "substantial" would happen to the Fort Edward Grasslands. My nonprofit hired an independent assessment from Hudsonia to expose the purposely downplayed science released by WSP.

Do you know why that is?

Turns out the WSP Global President, Marie-Claude Dumas, sits on the Boralex Board of Directors.

Isn't that funny? I'd call that a conflict of interest, wouldn't you?

In a way, this is how corporations have always behaved if there are no checks or balances placed on them. That's where the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) on behalf of NY is supposed to step in. ORES should have inserted itself to tell Boralex that it's an extreme conflict of interest to have one of its board members completing the environmental review for a project it stands to make millions off of.

But ORES didn't do that. Why? ORES is a shadow agency, whose staff remain unnamed and shuffled around between the @NYSDEC, @NYSDPS, and @KathyHochul’s office from the FOILs we've filed. You can't call, email, or set up an appointment with them. They are captured by the industry they are supposed to regulate, with the very foreign solar corporations in question being the ones at the "drawing table" back in 2019 that lobbied for the 2019 Climate Act.

This is how New York State opened up one of its most imperiled habitats to development. This is how you buy off the entire NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to look the other way.

It starts with a Marie-Claude Dumas serving the interests of Boralex while being given total discretion over our American environment.

And it's all on purpose.

This is not about saving the environment at all. These foreign countries will pillage and plunder our ecological distinctions into oblivion if these people are not named, sued, and arrested.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

New York’s primary energy source is natural gas from out of state and out of country. While there is stiff competition in the category of most idiotic policies in NY, the state’s ban on natural gas extraction may be the pace setter. Was in Binghamton this morning to talk about this abundant energy resource that is available in the ground underneath NY. Despite all the jobs, lower cost of living, increased revenue, and vibrant downtowns that would come with reversing the state’s ban, Albany politicians like Kathy Hochul and her friends just refuse to apply basic common sense and lead NY back to greatness.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

The Reflecting Pool is reflecting, and it is absolutely SPECTACULAR. You can see the Washington Monument, the flags at the base, the U.S. Capitol and the flags at the WWII Memorial prominently. WOW. Not even full and proven it can be done. Thank you @POTUS and @SecretaryBurgum 🇺🇸

[Eric Larison @eric_larison]

@BuzzPatterson Reminds me of the interview with Dan Rather and George HW Bush in January 1988.

https://t.co/6XGLiUqJPw

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just EMBARRASSED Kristen Welker for being clueless about the Obama Iran deal

She desperately started flailing and moved on!

"Excuse me — they were developing *DURING* Obama's deal! You don't KNOW that?"

"He paid them BILLIONS, he thought he could BRIBE them. Listen to me! They were developing a nuclear weapon. That's how they got there. They got this uranium DURING Obama."

WELKER: "Let's..."

TRUMP: "Well, that's how they got there. Don't say—they developed it DURING Barack Hussein Obama."

WELKER: "And, they escalated their development after—let's talk about the economy."

TRUMP: "Let me tell you something. If I didn't go in there with the B2 bombers, they would right now have a nuclear weapon and it could be that half of the world would be eradicated!"

WELKER: "Let me ask you about the economy."

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

This is the first time a Congress member from upstate NY has said the “Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES)” out loud.

It’s the first time one of them has gone to the federal government to ask for assistance.

It’s fitting that he talk about Copake, NY. Copake has been fighting off their industrial solar complex for almost a decade. I’ve gotten to know many of the people there. They are amazing, incredible people who’ve organized and even sued.

Bureaucrats shouldn’t get this much control over our rural towns.

Thank you @RepRileyNY for saying it OUT LOUD and for @SecRollins for being awake to what’s happening to us in this state. We need federal governmental intervention.

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!