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[Rich Chetwynd @richchetwynd]

My 13yr old kid came home from school yesterday and told me one of the teachers was having a rant about AI and data centers using so much water.

So we talked about water consumption. Golf courses in the US use 30x more water than all of the data centers. Almond farming uses 80-90x more than all of the data centers.

Uneducated teachers are a worry.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hey everyone - remember when the experts were saying.....

Anonymous well-placed industry source, CNN Business (Jan. 5)
“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low. We have no idea what the government there will look like. The president’s desire is different than the industry’s.”

Doug Leggate, Wolfe Research, CNN Business (Jan. 5)
“The idea that there will be an overnight restart of the Venezuelan oil industry is just unrealistic. It’s all very premature.”

Luisa Palacios, Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, CNN (Jan. 5–6)
“Venezuela has a very unfavorable fiscal regime – why would you go to a place like that? This is a very difficult company to operate in – not even the Chinese can operate in this country.”

MS NOW segment title and guest line (Jan. 5–6)
‘No CEO wants to go back in.’ and

"U.S. oil giants reluctant to invest in Venezuela despite Trump push. They had no advanced knowledge and they have no interest in this.”

Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago, CNN (Jan. 6)
“The word of this administration is nowhere near enough. This takes a very strong political consensus, and we’re very far from that.”

Ben Nussdorf, former DOE oil adviser, The Atlantic (Jan. 10)
“I really can’t overstate just how hard this would be to actually pull off. Don’t even think about making a dollar for at least a decade.”

MS NOW, “Trump’s Venezuela oil pipe dream” (Feb. 26)
“Wright’s three-day visit won’t persuade publicly traded oil companies to move quickly into Venezuela any more than did the January meeting of oil executives…

Bonus from NPR (Jan. 7), Claudio Galimberti of Rystad:
“These companies would not go there if they know that the breakeven is $80 per barrel and that the prospects are for the next two, three, four years, oil prices stay between $60 and $70 per barrel. They won’t do it, because it makes no sense.”

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

You can watch a man curse Christ and spit on a Bible.

You can watch him mock you. Laugh. Dismiss it all.

And then one day, mid-sentence, the Spirit opens his eyes.

Paul is riding to kill Christians. By lunchtime, he’s blind and calling Jesus Lord.

Zodhiates hurls rocks at missionaries. By nightfall, he’s preaching the gospel.

Augustine lies on a garden bench, drunk with shame, and hears a child say, “Take up and read.” He picks up Romans and everything breaks for him.

This is the Spirit’s work. It cannot be mimicked. It happens in pews, in jail cells and in hospital beds.

It has happened to you, hasn’t it?

You didn’t get there by logic or by accident. You got there because the Spirit found you and convicted you.

He showed you a Christ so lovely, so sufficient, that you stopped arguing and started worshiping.

That is the Spirit’s signature: He makes Christ your treasure.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

There were no TikToks from moms empathizing with Iryna Zarutska. No tribute videos saying, "This could have been me." Empathy is not what's going on. Forces are much darker and anti-child. Moloch has returned.

[Handre @Handre]

How do we convince millions of young people that the answer to their problems is less government, not more?

They're not even reading any book, let alone Mises or Rothbard.

We need to meet them where they are: short-form content, TikTok videos, Instagram posts, etc.

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

X Fact Check: You know it's true.

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[Steve @SteveL3385]

Completely agree!

[Wayne Dunlap @wdunlap]

WOW... the Left sure gets Crazy about anything Trump ignoring when they do it!

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

ALEXANDER HAMILTON: "To admit foreigners indiscriminately would be nothing less than to admit a Trojan Horse into the citadel of our liberty & sovereignty."

[Jay Caruso @JayCaruso]

This has become a common tactic of the progressive left these days: the false dilemma.

"We have money for bombs but not education!"

"We have money for war but not to feed the poor!"

"We have money for X but not to fund healthcare!"

The reality, of course, is that federal, state, and local governments spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars every year on welfare, education, and healthcare. And interviewers have to stop allowing them to say these things without challenge.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

The fraud known as John Harwood once moderated a Republican primary debate.

Harwood told numerous, verifiable lies while "moderating" the debate, including one about Marco Rubio's tax plan. Harwood just flat out lied, as proven by his own social media posts.

Later it was revealed that Harwood had been emailing the Clinton campaign during that time and even discussing what questions to ask some Republicans. Think about how insanely unethical that was.

That's John Harwood.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

They printed $9 trillion, gave you $1400 in stimmy checks, sent the rest to their NGOs and campaign donors and left you with the inflation.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Everyone says “tax the rich” but look at the actual numbers.

Someone earning $150,000 pays around $30,600 in federal tax.

Someone earning $25,000 pays about $1,200.

It takes 25 people at that lower income to contribute what one high earner pays alone.

So why keep pushing high earners to leave when they’re already carrying most of the load?

The real problem was never how much tax gets collected.

It’s how much gets wasted once it’s in the government’s hands.

Stop blaming the rich.

Start asking where the money actually goes.

[LucyLu 🇺🇸 @DoobiNDandilyn]

I hope people wake up, but it doesn't look good.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Friendly reminder: if you’re the Governor of New York and you’re wrapping a hijab around your head to pander to Muslim men two weeks before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, you’re the biggest piece of shit.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The Handmaid’s Tale the Left wants you to worry about vs. the Handmaid’s Tale the Left is helping to make happen.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

So it turns out China was building a hydro electric facility by a glacier and all the construction caused a portion of the glacier to collapse, tumble down, and turn into a mudslide that killed like 2,500 Nepalese people.

But all you will hear about in the news is leftists claiming this was because of climate change