Democrats have erupted in rage at a raid on a California marijuana farm operation by agents for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement but are facing backlash because the operation was caught exploiting children for its labor.
A report at the Hill said the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that undocumented minors were found working at the cannabis scheme in the raid.
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Dems accused of protecting child-labor rackets after California ICE raid * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Dems accused of protecting child-labor rackets after California ICE raid * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup
I keep reading how big batteries are all it takes to make wind and solar reliable as the sole grid electricity source. - David Wojick
- The reality is that making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.
PJM is America’s biggest grid operator, with a territory covering the Mid-Atlantic and points west...
My example year is 2030, as that is a standard near-term transition target year for which we have reasonable estimates of peak demand.
My example year is 2030, as that is a standard near-term transition target year for which we have reasonable estimates of peak demand.
Here then are the very simple numbers.
- PJM’s estimate peak demand for 2030 is about 180,000 MW.
- Meeting that for 16 hours with batteries requires 2,880,000 MWh of usable storage.
- Usable storage is between 20% and 80% of nameplate battery capacity, hence 60%.
- Thus we need 4,800,000 MWh of nameplate battery capacity.
- Storage facility capital costs vary, but $500,000 per MWh is a reasonable estimate.
- This gives a total cost of $2.4 trillion, or $2,400,000,000,000, for the batteries to make wind and solar reliable in this case.
This fantastic cost is clearly not feasible...
UNBELIEVABLE: A San Antonio City Council candidate calls for the MURDER of ICE agents on social media.
”I wanna see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles. Don't let me down.” - DeVory Darkins@devorydarkins
- UNBELIEVABLE: A San Antonio City Council candidate calls for the MURDER of ICE agents on social media.
- ”I wanna see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles. Don't let me down.”
The Big Beautiful Bill Gives Some of Higher Ed’s Ugliest Problems a Makeover
This law does so much that major provisions—like the elimination of Grad PLUS loans—that would’ve made headlines on their own are now easy to overlook. - Andrew Gillen
To help make sense of it all, here’s my take on the best and worst parts of the new law.
One, it eliminated Grad PLUS loans. Grad PLUS was the worst of the loan programs...Taxpayers lost tons of money on the loans, around 24 cents for every dollar lent...
Two, Parent PLUS loans now have maximum caps. Parent borrowing was previously limited only by the college’s cost of attendance, but will now be capped at $20,000 per year...
Three, a new income-driven student loan repayment plan was created...
- What are the Best Provisions in the Law?
One, it eliminated Grad PLUS loans. Grad PLUS was the worst of the loan programs...Taxpayers lost tons of money on the loans, around 24 cents for every dollar lent...
Two, Parent PLUS loans now have maximum caps. Parent borrowing was previously limited only by the college’s cost of attendance, but will now be capped at $20,000 per year...
Three, a new income-driven student loan repayment plan was created...
- What are the Worst Provisions in the Law?
But it contains two features that worry me: it waives any unpaid interest, and it guarantees that a borrower’s principal will be reduced by at least $50 per month when they make the required monthly payment...
Bongino and Bondi clash over botched handling of Epstein files | Blaze Media
Bongino and Bondi clash over botched handling of Epstein files | Blaze Media:
The dramatic Epstein saga has caused a rift between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Bondi in recent days, one source familiar with the matter confirmed to Blaze News. Other reports indicate that Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel are both threatening to leave the bureau altogether unless Bondi is removed from office.
Watch this CNN analyst discover how little we all care about climate change
I'm sorry but this is just wonderful. It's like it's gift-wrapped just for us. - Daniel Plainview
Harry Enten:
Harry Enten:
'Are Americans afraid of climate change? And the answer is, Americans aren't afraid of climate change. Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people.
'We have data going all the way back since 1989 [showing who is greatly worried about climate change]. Look at that, it was 35 percent. 2000, 40 percent. 2020, 46 percent. And 2025, 40 percent -- which is the exact same percentage as back in 2000.'
History for July 13
History for July 13 - On-This-Day.com 
Jack Kemp 1935
- 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
- 1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
- 1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
- 1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.
- 1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
DOJ Nails Prolific Chinese Hacker Accused of Stealing 'Groundbreaking' US Secrets
DOJ Nails Prolific Chinese Hacker Accused of Stealing 'Groundbreaking' US Secrets:
The Department of Justice announced earlier this week that a “prolific” Chinese hacker was apprehended on July 3 at the request of the Justice Department on charges of attempting to steal sensitive coronavirus research.
Xu Zewei, 33, of the People’s Republic of China, was charged in a nine-count indictment in the Southern District of Texas, according to the Department of Justice website.
He is accused of carrying out “computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021, including the indiscriminate HAFNIUM computer intrusion campaign that compromised thousands of computers worldwide, including in the United States.”
Smart Move, Lee Zeldin - David Strom
BREAKING: Trump's EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announces the EPA will now compile and release EVERYTHING they know about geoengineering and contrails
He's clawing back some of the most outrageous and useless grants that were dished out to Democratic Party pols, and now he is helping to sort out public confusion on issues that have festered due to increasing (and often justified) mistrust of the government.
He's clawing back some of the most outrageous and useless grants that were dished out to Democratic Party pols, and now he is helping to sort out public confusion on issues that have festered due to increasing (and often justified) mistrust of the government.
Karen Bass says LA anti-ICE riots 'never happened' as the media reported them | Blaze Media
Karen Bass says LA anti-ICE riots 'never happened' as the media reported them | Blaze Media:
Bass says the media exaggerated the extent of the violence from protesters.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting ridiculed for arguing that the mainstream media exaggerated "a couple of incidents" of vandalism during anti-ICE protests into full city rioting.
It’s Time for Regime Change in Higher Education
Interestingly, alongside each of our politically infiltrated state and city government administrations are local universities that act as their ancillary political organizations.
They provide the most critical element of successful political operation: ideology, belief, and agenda. -Matthew G. AnderssonUniversities are also a “professional labor mill” that supplies trained members to the political class...
Universities are especially suited to do this, because they can hold out an array of hard incentives, rewards, and punishments, that effectively guarantees ideological assimilation and behavioral compliance:
- The awarding of degrees,
- the promise of jobs;
- the social ranking by grades and honors;
- the favor of faculty recommendations;
- the enticement of scholarships; and the burden of tuition debt, which shapes risk and reward behavior...
Lunch video-----Deliberate destruction of biosamples
The Intent of this program was to study the effects and benefits of Covid Vaccines, through a prospective study over several years of a representative sample of adults in Queenland, which has one fifth of the Australia’s population and an area seven times that of the UK.
Several of the major research and health care institutions in QLD were collaborators in the study.
The Estimated cost over several years was to be Aus $20 million.
It was a show-cased as a “real time study” with few to compare internationally...
- It was suddenly announced in mid-2023, when many participants would have been followed for less than a year, that enrolment would cease, that the surveillance data would be indefinitely quarantined and the stored biosamples would be destroyed within 12 months.
- This occurred without advance notice or consultation of participants or of the study team...
John Kerry admits: Trump 'was right' on immigration * WorldNetDaily * by Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal
John Kerry admits: Trump 'was right' on immigration * WorldNetDaily * by Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal:
Under the four years of the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S., including about 2 million known "gotaways"—individuals who evaded Border Patrol apprehension.
In 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that more than 662,000 criminal illegal aliens were released into the interior of the U.S. Among those, 435,719 had already been convicted of a crime, with 226,847 more facing pending criminal charges.
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