Joe Biden promised that there would be fewer fires, floods, and hurricanes if he wins in November. He claimed that climate change caused fires in the West, floods in the Midwest, and hurricanes on the East Coast. That's not right.
I grew up doing wildland fire mitigation in dry Colorado, and my Eagle project focused on clearing brush and duff to mitigate wildfires. Mitigation and controlled burning are essential for preventing forest fires, and California has been preventing them via red tape.
Also, thanks to @JunkScience for pointing out that floods in the Midwest are nothing new. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was far worse than the flooding last year. Finally, as @RyanMaue pointed out, hurricanes are not a result of climate change.
Trump's reelection would not usher in more "hellish" climate disasters and Biden's victory would not prevent them. Natural disasters are a tragic part of life and we have to mitigate them and restrain them, not blame them on climate change.
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Did you know the Dem nominee for Virginia governor was called as a witness in a defamation lawsuit?
Did you know she nearly got sued for defamation, and physically ran away from the guy who claimed she defamed him?
This case is wild.
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The case dates back to Nov. 3, 2022, when the Democratic Party of Virginia published a press release attacking @yestoyesli for spending time with Thomas Speciale, a retired Army intel officer and former U.S. Senate candidate.
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As you can see here on this archived version, the press release claimed Speciale "attacked the US Capitol" on Jan. 6 and suggested he "bloodied and beat law enforcement officers."
Speciale contests both claims, and says this press release defamed him.
Why did the Bureau of Labor Statistics get it so wrong?
Today, the BLS revised the jobs estimate—it was the largest downward jobs revision in BLS history.
President Trump has accused BLS of cooking the books to help Biden.
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Here's the breakdown.
911,000 fewer jobs than previously estimated in the year from April 2024 to March 2025😲
How does the BLS get it that wrong?!
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“This staggering 911,000 downward revision in jobs data marks the largest such correction in history, underscoring the urgent need for change and new leadership at the BLS," @Heritage's @RichAStern told me. "BLS must refine its data collection methods."
This week, Sen. Tim Kaine flipped the central principle of the Declaration of Independence on its head.
He got religious freedom exactly wrong.
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Key quote:
"The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government but come from the creator—that's what the Iranian government believes."😲
"The notion that our rights do not come from our laws or our government should make people very nervous."
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Kaine rightly noted that "people of any religious tradition or none are entitled to the equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment. It shouldn't matter what their religious background is."
On @NEWSMAX's The Right Squad last night, I hit on Chorus, a project of Sixteen Thirty Fund, a dark money Arabella Advisors nonprofit, which is paying leftist influencers.
Chorus says it's no strings attached, but count me skeptical.
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It sounds harmless when framed as desperate leftists trying to pay for friendship, but let's remember how much alternative media—specifically a long-form podcast strategy—bolstered Trump last year (as @bradleydevlin reported). The Left is jealous.
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Last week, @TaylorLorenz wrote an exposé in @WIRED focused on Chorus, which reportedly has offered as much as $8K per month for an influencer training program.
Lorenz said the contracts require secrecy and control over some political messaging.