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A conversation with Jennifer Welch

Between increasingly extreme weather, rising electricity demands, and the rapid expansion of data centers, energy independence is starting to look less like a talking point for doomsday preppers and more like sound planning. That shift in thinking is driving more homeowners than ever towards solar-plus-battery energy solutions like the industry-leading Tesla Powerwall – but Powerwall isn’t the only game in town, anymore.

GM’s Latin American expansion continues with news that Chevrolet is offering EV buyers free charging at network at dealerships throughout Peru, where sales of plug-powered vehicles are growing rapidly.

AI tools are amazing for getting stuff done, but could be losing basic human skills like handwriting and critical thinking. Let’s not forget to practice these essential abilities as we embrace the digital age.

President Trump threatened to “bomb the shit out of” Oman if the country gets in the way of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reports. Financial Times: Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of U.S.-Iran negotiations.

“Greg Ballard, the former two-term Republican mayor of Indianapolis, is running for secretary of state in Indiana this year, hoping to create a new party that he says would increase competition in general elections and moderate growing extremism in the state,” NBC News reports. “Ballard, 71, gathered more than 37,000 signatures — an endeavor that […]

Newly minted Attorney General Todd Blanche made a couple of appearances over the weekend, one of which was on Shannon Bream's Fox News Sunday show, where they discussed everything from the highly controversial so-called "anti-weaponization" fund, which Blanche declared as "...

After my positive experience with Misfits Market, I decided to try out some other online grocery store delivery systems and see how these services compare. Today I’ll be talking about my experience with Martie Goods; another online grocery store with a mission of reducing food waste and making pricier items more accessible. Founded by two […]

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Peter Hamby: “As the next presidential race looms, Democratic operatives have begun studying how to reach less politically engaged swing voters on the platforms that may determine the next election—TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and even ChatGPT.” “And they’re already strategizing about how to leverage their search activity to create ads blaming Vance and Rubio for everything […]

Punchbowl News: “Jeffries leaning heavily into the ‘Democrats will fight Trump-GOP corruption’ line. Republicans are hammering the ‘Democrats are communists’ message (more on that below), which makes the Democratic response — alongside ‘Trump is failing on the economy’ — worth tracking.” Said Jeffries: “That means us, House Democrats, lowering the high cost of living in […]

“For years, Republicans have had a lock on those who base their vote on their religious preferences and values, but this year’s midterm elections have seen some Democratic candidates sharing their faith to try to connect with voters,” ABC News reports. “Starting in the 1980s, in what one expert called an ‘exodus,’ there was a shift of […]

NBC News: “For more than a year, Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton has been probing what he says is the large number of noncitizens who illegally voted in his state. So far, three people have been prosecuted.” “And among 53 cases that were referred for investigation, at least five people were […]

Financial Times appended an unusual note to the top of a column published late last week. “It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer […]

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"A new book, 'Little Blue Dot,' by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are."