Hey White MAGA Christians, You Know DEI Was Jesus' Whole Point, Right? So, DEI is the new “woke”: MAGA America’s default boogeyman-du-jour.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just aspirations that any decent human being should support—they’re at the very heart of the life, teachings, and existence of Jesus.

Christians fighting these things are rebelling against their supposed God.

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He also started doing hard drugs.

Congratulations on being able to live your life driving only for emergencies. We use ebikes a lot for commuting, but there is no school bus. We finally got both cars mostly on electric. We use probably 12 gallons of gas per month on average (our PHEV is the backcountry/travel/hauling/towing car).

The car is not totaled if the battery malfunctions. You either replace the battery (typically done under warranty) or get the battery rebuilt (shops remove the individual cells, test them, put the good ones back in and replace the bad ones). The need for batt rebuilds is new but shops are opening.

Tech changes rapidly; economies of scale improve. Plus Tesla released a whole bunch of their patents back in 2012 to give competitors a jump start to try to save our climate. Competition didn’t have to pay for that work, and have leapt ahead.

We pay for grid connection, plus misc taxes, plus non-bypassable charges for grid power at night. Almost all is paid for by ongoing net metering overproduction credits and EV climate credits earned in 2018. We’re starting to finally draw down the stored credits since we’re charging two vehicles now.

No Tesla solar. We have two arrays of other companies’ panels that convert light to DC electricity and two inverters that convert DC to AC. Power generation and consumption are relative; we try to charge during the day.

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“Musk’s ego and actions suggest he might outstrip historical tyrants in his own way.” — Grok I am an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur thrice recognized by the United States Department of Homeland Security as having extraordinary ability. I have had the privilege of working with Stephen Hawking, of being mentored by Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, and of creating a multibillion dollar company of which I am supermajority owner. I have known Elon Musk at a deep level for 14 years. I understand exactly how sick, dangerous, sadistic, manipulative and power-hungry he truly is. He has a pattern of investing in companies, destabilizing and wounding them under the guise of making them more “efficient” before sacking their leader and taking them over. He did that with Tesla and Twitter — he tried a similar thing at OpenAI and NeuroVigil, and I had to fire him from my own company. Now, this person who worships Sulla, the Roman general who wrestled power away from the Senate and became Dictator, is doing the exact same thing with the US government, his biggest investment to-date, using Trump to tear down the Constitution and weaken the country before he tears up Trump. We are in the first phase of a double coup, the first by Musk via Trump, and the second by Musk against Trump. Elon wants to be Dictator — yes, really. His own AI recognizes the historic danger he poses. America IS under attack while Congress is in a coma. Your home is literally on fire while you are asleep and suffocating in the fumes. This is NOT a drill. Take a good look at what is happening and finally wake the fuck up!

We have essential workers getting fired, we have highly qualified people fired because of their gender, sexual orientation or skin color, we have universities, the FBI and military leadership and legal corps gutted, we have entire agencies defunded in contravention of Article 1 of the Constitution, we have Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security threatened by a Nazi Saluting Goverment Subsidized Corporate Welfare Baby, hiding behind a fake “agency”, who locked out government officials out of their office and stole Americans’ private information, we have Google pressured to summarily rename geography and social media coerced to practice censorship, we have a Vice President scolding a freedom fighter and meeting Nazis, we have a President violating the Records Act, the Hatch Act, and the 1st Amendment, a President bullying the media and law firms, a President claiming that he can interpret the law as he sees fit and that he is above the law in the first place, a President kidnapping British and Canadian tourists and even a US Permanent Resident, a President turning Guantanamo into a fucking Concentration Camp, a President who is creating a dumb trade war with Mexico as well as with Canada which it is removing from 5 Eyes and which it promises to annex, a President crashing the stock market, a President abandoning Ukraine, and a President who today promised the invasion of Greenland in front of the NATO Secretary General!!

THIS IS A COUP BY THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH Where are the so-called Constitution Loving “Patriotic” Republicans in Congress? Have they ALL abdicated their solemn duty to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”? Are they hoping the Judiciary will magically swoop in before fucking tanks are in the streets? Have they not studied History? Do they not have, for all their tough talking over the years, a picogram of Courage? WHERE THE FUCK ARE AMERICA’S SO-CALLED LEADERS? Where is President Bill Clinton? Where is Barack Obama? Where is Joe Biden? Where is Kamala Harris? And, especially, where the hell is George W. Bush? Most of them spoke a big game about “standing up to Putin”, and sent young men and women who otherwise had their whole lives ahead of them overseas to make the Ultimate Sacrifice to protect the freedoms of other countries, but yet they cannot find it in their stomach to stand up to a Petty Buffoon, a Village Idiot despised by the majority of Americans and utter one fucking syllable to protect Freedom at home and the very Constitutional Republic it stands on? Have they completely abandoned the very people who stood by them and the “ideals” they claimed to hold dear?

Don’t they fathom that they can mobilize the Public to put Real Pressure on Congress, that they can embolden Judges and, for the former Commanders in Chief, that they can act as a moral guardrail against Trump unleashing the military on the People? If they are not speaking because they are worried Trump will remove their protection and leave them at the mercy of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers — actual domestic terrorists he released from jail — as he has for Anthony Fauci and General Milley who have served honorably, then SHARE AND @highlight THIS MESSAGE, and tell them that a Canadian citizen, Philip Low, will pay for their security and protect their right to free speech, but they need to EXERCISE IT NOW!!!

WHERE ARE AMERICA’S SO-CALLED LEADERS?

Trump to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations: Sources Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

It is not as stated about deporting immigrants who came across the Southern Border, that is happening regardless — it is actually about detaining Canadian and British nationals, which has already begun, for war across the Northern Border.

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We Really Need to Talk About MAGA's Sexual Predator Problem This week, Robert Morris, the founding pastor of Texas’ Gateway megachurch was indicted for lewd acts with a child.

The Right’s nightmare visions of immigrant r*pists, drag queen indoctrinators, and leftist media pedophiles have served as irresistible red meat for people whose near-complete fixation on sexual immorality has been unavoidable, while obscuring the truth:

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Opinion | They Saved Taxpayers Billions. Trump Fired Them Anyway. President Trump promised to investigate waste and fraud in the government, but he’s fired the watchdogs who did exactly that.

Larry Turner, DOL's inspector general, recovered hundreds of millions in taxpayers dollars ... but he was fired by guess who 🍊🤡

Hear from him and other fired inspector generals who collectively saved far more than DOGE ever could:

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Opinion | DOGE says it’s saving $100 billion. It’s about to lose a lot more. Cuts to the IRS will backfire by giving tax evaders a free pass.

"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..."

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Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.

A Canadian woman was kidnapped at the US border by CBP and ICE agents. She committed no crime or illegal crossing but was forcibly kidnapped and thrown into an ice concentration camp.

4/That all said, I have a lovely 2018 Model 3 for sale because my 6'1" kid doesn't fit well in the back seat, and looming tariffs pushed us to get a replacement car sooner than later. Elon's antics didn't help anything, and will make it harder to sell. But please be kind to those who can't choose.

3/Because of no gas engine, it doesn't leak oil or fluids, or need engine maintenance. Biggest issue is that it's heavy and goes through tires faster, though EV tires last longer. Charging at home means you're always fueled up, and you learn how to manage your fuel. Plus regen braking makes fuel.

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2/Companies such as recurrent.com do the analysis of the battery and maintenance so you can know what you're buying when you buy a used EV. For example, our battery is expected to charge to 270 miles of range out of the original 310, and it actually does better than that when charged to 100%.

I quite disagree based on my lived experience. Our 2018 Model 3 LR has nearly all of its main capacity seven years later, and there are many 2012 Model Ses on the road with their original batteries. The majority of the electricity it has used is directly from our solar panels, daytime charging.

For those of you who missed an episode, here is what Grok said today:

1. USAID was investigating Starlink for giving Russian forces access to terminals in Ukraine;

Normal people are underwater in their 2022 cars, and thought they were doing the right thing for climate change. It’s a lot of privilege to think someone should just ditch an unsalable car they haven’t paid off.

Thank you for clarifying that so well and also without being rude or condescending to me. I understand it a lot better now.

I asked for an explanation of your understanding, not vague remarks and insults. Clearly you don’t know your stuff and are bluffing for…what? You don’t win any prizes for vague posts on social media.

Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’ Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism

Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
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How so? I’m pretty sure I’m not confused, but do tell me your interpretation.

Young Woman and the Sea is Disney’s take on this. Fantastic swimmer, and I picked up the book for my stack of books. :)

✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.

📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

I had some of this done, but a re-check yielded more to do. :)