San Francisco was affected by a massive power outage over the weekend. It started with a fire at a substation in the city on Saturday afternoon, causing a blackout that at times affected as much as a third of the city, leaving more than 130,000 homes without power. Among the city's affected critical systems were the traffic lights, which paralyzed Waymo's fleet of robotaxis, stopping them in their tracks and clogging traffic.
The U.S. has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, according to flight tracking data and current and former U.S. officials, in a sign of increased security cooperation between the countries. Reuters could not determine what information the flights are meant to obtain.
Explanation: Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom.
"Congress is in a coma. It has a pulse, but not many brainwaves," said former Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who represented Tennessee for 32 years. "It's hard to tell that it's even alive as an institution." read more
NASA's ongoing testing and management of the Perseverance Mars rover has confirmed it should be able to continue its journeys on the Red Planet for many years and miles to come. read more
Strawbs - Benedictus (1972)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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The wanderer has far to go
Humble must he constant be
Where the paths of wisdom
Distant is the shadow of the setting sun
Bless the daytime, bless the night
Bless the sun which gives us light
Bless the thunder, bless the rain
Bless all those who cause us pain
Yellow stars may guide the way
All diversions lead astray
While his resolution holds
Fortune and good will will surely follow him
Bless the free man, bless the slave
Bless the hero in his grave
Bless the soldier, bless the saint
Bless all those whose hearts grow faint
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@#6 ... TEOTIHUACAN PYRAMID COMPLEX ...
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Teotihuacan
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... Teotihuacan (/teotiw'kn/;[1] Spanish: Teotihuacn, Spanish pronunciation: [teotiwakan] "; Classical Nahuatl: Tethuacn Classical Nahuatl pronunciation: [te.otiwakan] ") is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley[2] of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers (25 mi) northeast of modern-day Mexico City.[3]
Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon. Although close to Mexico City, Teotihuacan was not a Mexica (i.e. Aztec) city, and it predates the Aztec Empire by many centuries. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the first millennium (1 CE to 500 CE), Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas, with a population of at least 25,000,[4] but has been estimated at 125,000 or more,[5][6] making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch.[7] ...
... One thought Trump's energy policies will lower gas prices, his dismantling of the Department of Education will make college debt go away, and his cracking down on immigrants will create jobs and lower housing prices. ...
Let's chat about those assertions one at a time ...
... Trump's energy policies will lower gas prices ...
Gas prices are dropping because there is a glut of oil.
Oil Glut Will Prompt Faster Market Rebalance
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Student Loan Forgiveness
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Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Would Raise Wages for Lower-Income Americans
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So, higher wages = more inflation?
OK, moving on ...
Trump Claims Most Aggressive Housing Reform in History' Will Lower Costs
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... and his plan is? ...
... Young Conservatives Are Worried about the Future ...
imo, they should be.
Pres Trump's MAGA seems to have taken over the Conservative brand.
Is that A Good Thing going forward?
Some conservatives seem to have a view that it is not.
The MAGA civil war takes center stage at the Turning Point USA conference
theweek.com
@#5
Curious ...
Washington Free Beacon - Bias and Credibility
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... Overall, we rate the Washington Free Beacon Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to misleading and false claims. ...
Another view ...
More than a dozen staffers leave Heritage to join Pence-led nonprofit
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... More than a dozen staffers at The Heritage Foundation are leaving the conservative think tank to join a nonprofit led by former Vice President Mike Pence as the embattled organization continues to reel from ongoing turmoil.
Advancing American Freedom -- founded by Pence in 2021 "to defend liberty and advance policies that build a stronger America" -- announced Monday that three senior officials who led the legal, economic and data teams at Heritage would be joining the group next year, along with several members of their teams.
The departures, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, mark the latest sign of upheaval at Heritage, which has seen dozens of staffers flee the organization since it became engulfed in a scandal involving Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the ongoing debate within the conservative movement over antisemitism.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, the architect behind the "Project 2025" blueprint for President Donald Trump's second administration, drew sharp rebukes from conservative voices, including commentator Ben Shapiro, after standing by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with Fuentes in October.
In the wake of the initial backlash, Roberts told staffers he'd make a "mistake," but asked for the chance to "clean it up" during a November all-staff meeting, according to a leaked video first published by the Washington Free Beacon.
The hires by Advancing American Freedom signal that the organization is looking to position itself as a key player within the broader conservative movement. ...
There are so many things wrong with what Dir Patel hs been doing.
That aside, maybe that is why Pres Trump seems to like him.