@#11

Interesting site.

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... Why it matters: This Trump-Musk fusion seems to grow stronger by the day. The two are working together to shape the new White House, the new Senate and the new Cabinet, plus future foreign relations and governing blueprints.

The pair plots and plans at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, where Musk is often camped out. He's one of only a couple of confidants who attends Cabinet-selection sessions in Trump's makeshift Situation Room.

The two amplify their thinking and desires on Musk's X. ...

No wonder they seem to have much sway in the current GOP.

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... Venezuela lost its final glacier this year. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing, on average, 30 million tons of ice per hour. Ice loss from the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "Doomsday" glacier because its collapse could precipitate rapid Antarctic ice loss, may be unstoppable.

These are just a few of the stark findings from more than 50 leading snow and ice scientists, which are detailed in a new report from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative.

The report summarizes the state of snow and ice in 2024: In short, experts agree, it's been a horrible year for the frozen parts of Earth, an expected result of global warming. What's more, top cryosphere scientists are growing increasingly worried that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key ocean current that governs how heat cycles in the Atlantic Ocean, is on a path toward collapse. ...

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... Carlson and Trump Jr. played a role in persuading Trump to choose JD Vance as his running mate at the Republican convention in Milwaukee. They wielded their influence again this weekend as Trump announced former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley wouldn't serve.

Pompeo had been angling for a job as defense secretary but was seen as too supportive of Ukraine. Pompeo had also considered a presidential run this year and criticized Trump -- though never by name -- several times.

But Trump Jr. and Carlson, who now holds forth with a webcast on X, made no secret of their opposition. Don Jr. wrote on X on Sunday: "Agreed 100% 100% 100%!!! I'm on it" in response to a tweet that said "the stop Pompeo' movement is great but it's not enough."

"Someone like Mike Pompeo, I'll just say the name, who I don't think is going to get a job in this administration " I would pray that he's not," Carlson said in an episode of his show Sunday in which he interviewed Elbridge Colby, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. ...

Regulation is the main reasons why we currently have clean air and water.

Without regulation, polluters will just, well, pollute because of the cost involved in not polluting the air ans water.

@#12 ... IRONY:
A convicted felon promoting more prisons to incarcerate criminals, while gaming the system to evade any prison time. ...

Irony?

Or just a sad description of what has happened to the Country?

@#14 ... go home.... no cost

Go home, no imprisonment
Just go home.. we good ...

Do try harder to be rational.

I'll leave it at that for this comment.

@#6 ... The Mrs. must be just thrilled to be back under the Washington microscope for four more interminable years. ...

So, it seems you are offering the view that the First Lady-elect did not know what she was getting into when she started her relationship and marriage with Pres-elect Trump?

If so, I am not convinced of that.

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... NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE:NRG) today announced it is partnering with Renew Home, a leading virtual power plant (VPP) company to boost its residential VPP capabilities. Together, NRG and Renew Home aim to distribute hundreds of thousands of VPP-enabled smart thermostats by 2035 and create a nearly 1 GW AI-powered VPP " enabled by Google Cloud technology " to improve the Texas grid's resiliency and help households manage and lower their energy costs.

"This marks a pivotal step forward in our efforts to deliver more value and an enhanced experience to customers while empowering them with our virtual power plant capabilities," said Rasesh Patel, President, NRG Consumer. "By partnering with industry leaders like Renew Home and Google Cloud, we are set to deliver cutting-edge, AI-driven solutions that will bolster grid resilience and contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited about the transformative impact this collaboration will have on our customers and the broader energy landscape."

Texas is experiencing a significant increase in peak energy demand due to population, load growth, and extreme weather, reaching an unprecedented demand surge of 85 GW in 2023. Residential VPPs have the potential to provide large, reliable energy resources to help meet these peak demand needs. They work by aggregating numerous, small-scale distributed energy resources like HVAC systems controlled by smart thermostats and home batteries and coordinating them to balance supply and demand. Equipping homes with these smart devices gives control to the end consumer and empowers them to not only make an impact and be part of the solution in Texas but also to save energy and money. ...

@#33

I don't click on google.com links.

For starters, there always looks to be far too much tracking data on those links.

I mean...

From the link in @33...

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@#4 ... Elon today is just like Lewzer was in the '90s... waving around in the background to get his face in the tabloids. ...

Yeah, I remember reading those tabloids in the late 1980's and 1990's.

They were on the waiting seats of the barber I went to for haircuts. So, yeah, I have said that I have known of Pres-elect Trump from decades ago. I live in the NYC media area.

But the distinction I see in your comment is that back then Pres-elect Trump was just trying to keep himself in the "news."

Nowadays, i seems like Mr Musk has a different goal.

He is looking for a government position, apparently by sucking up to Pres-elect Trump.

Why?

Well, one reason might be...

If Mr Musk gets a government position, he can sell lots of the stock he owns, but he won't have to pay any capital gains taxes, potentially saving him hundreds of millions of dollars.

OK, found this...

... he appeared in a recent Trump family photo instead of her. ...

Wow.

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... "I think it's a little weird, right?" said Navarro. "I mean, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere at all times. He's like Secretary of Everything, and at the same time, he's like the First Lady."

She continued: "The other day, I saw this picture of him. It was a picture of Trump with his entire family, except Melania, but Elon Musk was there. ...

[photo in the cited article]

Mr Musk in a Trump family photo?

At this point, I am 40-60 on that photo.

I am hoping it was AI generated. Mr Musk's holding of the child seems odd.

@#23 ... You know, ...

No, I do not know.

Which is why I asked the question, which I do note your current alias has avoided answering.

So, please allow me to ask once again...

Specifically, who are the "we" your current alias refers to in #18, "We'd never separate the families"?

@#2 ... But those Generals seemed to have had issues with Pres-elect Trump back then. ...

Yeah. For starters...

Their oath o the Constitution, and not a Hitler Oath to the ruler.

@#1 ... The big difference from Trump's 2016 election victory is that this time he is much better prepared, ...

Yup.

He is much better prepared to surround himself with those people who only agree with him.

Back in 2016, he seemed to want to surround himself with Generals.

But those Generals seemed to have had issues with Pres-elect Trump back then.

Now he seems to castigate those Generals?

So, what is the job requirement we are talking about?

Adulation or capability?

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... "This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country," President-elect Donald Trump said in his victory speech on Wednesday, promising to "turn it around."

The United States swung significantly to the right on Election Day. Republicans aligned with Trump's Make America Great Again movement now have a majority in the Senate and will also likely retain control of the House of Representatives once all the votes have been counted.

Trump's MAGA movement has "regained control of their country," having already hinted during the campaign at big plans for how Republicans intend to use this power.

The big difference from Trump's 2016 election victory is that this time he is much better prepared, said Stormy-Annika Mildner, director of the Aspen Institute Germany, an independent think tank.

"Trump has learned that it can be problematic if there are non-loyalists on his team," Mildner told DW, adding that he is expected to deal only with genuine supporters. "And through the extensive replacement of people in ministries and downstream authorities, there will no longer be an important factor that existed from 2016 to 2020: the many people who prevented worse things from happening at one point or another." ...

@#1 ... He then said of Ukraine, "We should wash this Nazi scum off the face of the Russian soil," adding that the war-torn nation "simply doesn't exist." ...

So, basically echoing Pres Putin's comments that a sovereign state of Ukraine should not exist.

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... President-elect Donald Trump has previously said that if he were at the negotiating table with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the war between the two Eastern European nations would end "within 24 hours."

Now that Trump won this year's presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, the world will be looking to see how he handles the war.

Solovyov warned on a program he hosts on Russia-1, a Russian state-owned television channel, "If [the U.S.] tries to give us any kind of an ultimatum, the Stalin Strait will appear [in the middle of America]," according to an English-translated clip of the show posted on the Russian Media Monitor's YouTube channel on Saturday.

The Russian Media Monitor is a watchdog group created by journalist Julia Davis dedicated to combating Russian propaganda.

"I will say it once again, we should destroy every dam, every hydro system," Solovyov said on his show.

He then said of Ukraine, "We should wash this Nazi scum off the face of the Russian soil," adding that the war-torn nation "simply doesn't exist." ...

@#18 ... We'd never separate the families ...

Who is the "we" your current alias' comment refers to?

The reason I ask is that a denial that "we" did not do something does not necessarily mean that the thing was not done.

So, I ask again ...

Who is the "we" your current alias' comment refers to?

@#15 ... The actual amount of mass deportation will be on par with the amount of wall that got built. ...

While my view is that it is too soon to tell how successful Pres-elect Trump will be in his promise of deporting 20 million immigrants...

I will say... if you want to make equivalencies, I would not stop at the amount of wall that was built, but go on to the amount of wall that Mexico has paid for.