Report: Texas Wind and Solar Failed During This Week's Winter Storm, Grid Carried by 'Natural Gas and Coal'

Report: Texas Wind and Solar Failed During This Week's Winter Storm, Grid Carried by 'Natural Gas and Coal': 

The recent snow storm that overtook Texas reportedly crashed the state’s wind and solar energy generators, leading to natural gas, coal, and nuclear providing most of the state’s electricity.

Kerry Clapp, an online writer cited by meteorologist Ryan Maue, reported in his Substack last week that “renewable generation declined almost immediately” as the snow storm took over.

“Wind, solar, and batteries fell from briefly supplying ~63% of generation to ~7% within roughly 48 hours,” he wrote. “Battery storage played a negligible role, constrained by high prices and lack of surplus electricity.”

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Who Watches the ‘ICE Watchers’?

Disrupting the execution of federal law is not mere protest. - James Freeman

Christina Buttons reports for City Journal:

...Both Pretti and Good participated in “ICE watching,” an anti-immigration-enforcement tactic that can involve tracking ICE agents, filming arrests, and alerting other activists of enforcement actions. While participants frame ICE watching as a “community safety” measure, these tactics often place untrained civilians in direct, high-stakes confrontation with armed federal agents.

In Minneapolis, one key organizer of these activities is “Defend the 612.” The group, the membership of which apparently included Renee Good, oversees a massive network of Signal chats dedicated to monitoring and protesting ICE activity...

City Journal reviewed Defend the 612’s trainings, entered its Signal network, and traced its organizational support...

NumbersUSA’s Jeremy Beck explains the reality about immigration enforcement in “sanctuary states” such as Minnesota.

NumbersUSA’s Jeremy Beck explains:  - NumbersUSA

'No wiggle room': Polling confirms only loud minority is pushing Dems' anti-ICE ideology * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'No wiggle room': Polling confirms only loud minority is pushing Dems' anti-ICE ideology * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

A RedState commentary said, "If you've consumed a moment of news from the legacy media in recent weeks, one might forgive you for developing the impression that the American people despise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That they think they're the ones committing crimes. That they need to be abolished. But that is a view held almost exclusively by radicals in the Democrat party, then amplified by their sycophant worshippers in the field of journalism." Cygnal said, "When voters are told Democrats want to defund ICE or even shut down the government to stop ICE from enforcing immigration law, the political fallout is immediate and severe. The generic ballot flips from D 4 to R 0 if Democrats oppose ICE." RedState said, "The latest poll goes on to demonstrate that the Democrats are living in a world not even vaguely aligned with reality.

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General Dynamics is progressing with the development of MEDUSA: An unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that is set to equip U.S. Navy submarines with a long-range offensive mine warfare capability.

Known as the Mining Expendable Delivery Unmanned Submarine Asset (MEDUSA), work on this expendable drone was highlighted by the American defense firm earlier this month. - Aaron-Matthew Lariosa

• The service’s request for the capability comes amid an increasingly large and capable People’s Liberation Army Navy, which currently outnumbers the U.S. Navy in surface combatants. 
• Offensive mining could prove crucial in a conflict in the Indo-Pacific against China, particularly over Taiwan...

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Majority of Americans approve of Trump's response to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis: Harvard poll | Blaze Media

Majority of Americans approve of Trump's response to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis: Harvard poll | Blaze Media: 

The online poll was conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll and found that of all categories listed, Trump's favorability was highest over the Minneapolis anti-ICE response.

If the other guy is stronger, yer gonna lose everything!

 

The Democrats’ Empty Threats of Oppression

The left has decided that, if they ever take power again, they’re going to launch another pogrom against conservatives, but this time they’re going to be even more ruthless than the last time. - Kurt Schlichter

• Arrests, prosecutions, even killings, all directed at us, are on the table because we are the designated bad people. 
• That’s why they call us Nazis, because it’s OK to kill Nazis, and in fact, they are morally obligated to do so...

So, let’s look at the mechanics of what might happen, assuming they win in 2028 and have the power of the feds at their disposal again. 

We weren’t really prepared for what they would do in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when they conspired to frame President Trump and many others...

That moron Secret Service boss ought to join him!

 

New Yorkers Are Learning the 'Warmth of Collectivism' Is a Big Pile of Garbage

Eight-foot-high piles of rat-infested trash are choking the streets around Gracie Mansion — while Hizzoner’s new home has gotten the white-glove shoveling treatment. - Amy Curtis

Zohran Mamdani has only been the Mayor of New York City for a month, and on his watch, at least a dozen homeless people have died in the freezing cold after Mamdani implemented a policy prohibiting the clearing of homeless encampments and forcing sheltering.

• Now trash is piling up in the city...

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Professors say Gen Z students can’t read, forcing colleges to lower academic standards

Professors at Pepperdine and Notre Dame say many college students can no longer read or process assigned texts, increasingly relying on scanning habits and artificial intelligence to get by. - Patrick McDonald '26 

A new survey and grade data from schools like Harvard suggest AI dependence, shrinking attention spans, and grade inflation are eroding academic standards and the value of degrees.

• College students are increasingly unprepared for serious study, with some professors recently reporting they are illiterate, raising significant questions about the overall quality of American education.
• “It’s not even an inability to critically think,” Jessica Hooten Wilson, a Pepperdine University professor, told Fortune. “It’s an inability to read sentences.”...

Zero evidence!

 

'ICE on Notice': Chicago Mayor Johnson threatens to prosecute federal agents enforcing immigration laws | Blaze Media

'ICE on Notice': Chicago Mayor Johnson threatens to prosecute federal agents enforcing immigration laws | Blaze Media: 

Illinois sanctuary politicians RELEASE violent criminals from their jails directly back into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims.”

McLaughlin contended that the state’s sanctuary policies had led to the release of 1,768 criminal illegal aliens since January 20. She noted that there are over 4,000 immigrants with active detainers currently incarcerated in Illinois jails.

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In a major blow to Chuck Schumer and Democrats—who've long claimed voter ID is rooted in Jim Crow-era tactics—recent polling shows 76% of Black Americans support nationwide voter ID requirements. - Lance Smith
White voters: 85% in favor 

Latino voters: 82% in favor

• Every major demographic is overwhelmingly saying YES to secure elections.

The old "voter ID is racist" argument is dead and buried...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 5

History for February 5 - On-This-Day.com

Adlai Stevenson 1900

• 1885 - Congo State was established under Leopold II of Belgium, as a personal possession.
• 1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority. The action overrode President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto.
• 1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court. The plan failed.
• 1952 - In New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians "don't walk."
• 1988 - A pair of indictments were unsealed in Florida, accusing Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, of bribery and drug trafficking.
• 1997 - Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.

FLASHBACK VIDEO: The Barack Obama Video That Anti-ICE Dems Want Buried Forever and That Trump Should Run on TV 24/7

FLASHBACK VIDEO: The Barack Obama Video That Anti-ICE Dems Want Buried Forever and That Trump Should Run on TV 24/7: 

“I’m the president of the United States; I’m not the emperor of the United States,” Obama began. “My job is to execute laws that are passed.”

Can you feel the irony building? After all, in a comment about illegal immigration, Obama admitted that he had no choice but to enforce existing laws. To do otherwise — and this surely will confuse the “No Kings” morons — would make him an emperor!

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