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29 Apr 2025 18:28

📊 Mississippi, Louisiana fourth- and eighth-grade math scores surpass New York and California in 2024, per NAEP-adjusted results.

📝 arctotherium: This is what California K-12 demographics look like BTW. State is running off of William Shockley's legacy (being the center of the world tech industry with its network effects and natural monopolies), it's screwed if there's a true tech recession.

The state was 92% white in 1960, 78% in 2000.

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29 Apr 2025 15:48

🇨🇦 Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre loses Ottawa-area seat

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has been defeated in Carleton, ending his nearly two-decade tenure as a Member of Parliament in the Ottawa-area riding.

The result is certain to ignite questions over Poilievre’s future as leader on a night that saw the Conservatives increase their seat count and vote share but finish second to the Liberal Party.

“To my fellow Conservatives, we have much to celebrate. Tonight we’ve gained well over 20 seats. We got the highest share of the vote our party has received since 1988,” Poilievre told supporters.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/conservative-party-leader-pierre-poilievre-loses-ottawa-area-seat/

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29 Apr 2025 14:08

🇪🇸📝 Less than two weeks later, the Iberian Peninsula suffers a widespread blackout leaving Portugal, Spain, as well as southern parts of France, without electricity for up to 10 hours.

The disruption was very likely caused by a loss of solar power generation in southern Spain. The grid self-stabilized according to reports before suffering from another loss of power generation moments before the Spain-France transmission line was interrupted due to grid instability. Another massive loss of renewable power followed immediately thereafter that caused a cascading failure of the power grid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/spain/live-blog/spain-portugal-power-outage-live-updates-widespread-blackouts-cause-ha-rcna203274

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29 Apr 2025 13:58

🇪🇸🔌 Spain Signals Openness to Keeping Nuclear Power Plants Open

Spain is signaling for the first time that it’s open to reconsidering the shutdown of nuclear plants over the next decade amid a global revival of atomic energy.

While that’s not the plan agreed with nuclear plant operators, and it would be up to them to present concrete proposals, extensions are not ruled out, Environmental Transition Minister Sara Aagesen said in an interview.

“Nuclear energy will be present in our mix at least until 2035” but could go beyond that if companies propose extensions, which hasn’t happened yet, she said prior to an International Energy Agency summit on the future of energy security. “We’re not considering anything because there is no specific proposal on the table.”

The government’s energy roadmap aims to boost renewable power output to make up for the nuclear phaseout, while reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Spain’s goals of cutting carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, which Aagesen has adamantly defended, haven’t changed with the US pulling out.

“There is no coming back,” she said. “Europe has always shown leadership and will continue to do so.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/spain-signals-openness-to-nuclear-phaseout-talks-with-utilities

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29 Apr 2025 12:46

🇺🇸 The White House says even Supreme Court justices may be arrested if they harbor illegal aliens.

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29 Apr 2025 09:13

🇬🇧🇪🇺 UK and EU outline new strategic partnership to boost trade and security

The UK and the EU have outlined a “new strategic partnership” aimed at bolstering trade and presenting a united European front in Ukraine in defiance of Donald Trump’s threat to upend decades of transatlantic alignment.

A defence and security pact that would see closer cooperation on Ukraine is top of the shopping list along with migration, which is a hot topic on both sides of the Channel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/uk-offers-eu-a-strategic-partnership-to-boost-trade-and-security

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29 Apr 2025 07:12

🇺🇸🇨🇦Trump:

America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!

🔗 Clash Report

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28 Apr 2025 18:04

💍 Marriage rate decline largely a non-white phenomenon. Bretton Woods period was unique era in American history

🔗 Dr. Ben Braddock

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28 Apr 2025 15:01

🇷🇺🇰🇵 Putin thanks North Korea for troop deployment and promises not to forget their sacrifices

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked North Korea Monday for fighting alongside his troops against Ukrainian forces and promised not to forget their sacrifices, hours after North Korea confirmed its deployment for the first time.

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-south-korea-russia-ukraine-war-34716db67af6176d0d5e0ebf1b887881

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28 Apr 2025 13:01

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇾🇪 Strikes on Houthis near Ras Isa Port, Yemen.

📝 John Konrad: Why are we bombing littorals with B2s

Shelling them with 16” rounds would be much cheaper and more effective. Why are we ripping the deck guns off the USS Zumwalt. Where are the rail guns the Navy promised us? Why haven’t more Navy Admirals been fired?

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28 Apr 2025 11:01

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 U.S. President Donald J. Trump was asked earlier if he feels after their meeting yesterday at the Vatican that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “give up” Crimea in exchange for a peace deal with Russia, to which he responds, “I think so, yeah. But don’t talk to me about Crimea, talk to Obama and Biden,” adding that he is “disappointed” with continued Russian missiles strikes against Ukraine.

Trump also states that he will decide in two weeks whether he can trust Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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28 Apr 2025 10:01

🍼 A wonderful paper by Spears et al. showed that population reduction would have almost no impact on climate change.

Why? The main reason is that a baby born today will emit much less carbon than someone born a generation ago, and their children will emit even less carbon. 🧵

https://fxtwitter.com/MoreBirths/status/1916583591229739440

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28 Apr 2025 08:59

🇺🇸 Trump: I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.

Christopher is going to make a major comeback. I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before!

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28 Apr 2025 08:04

#NEWS | U.S. Department of State:

North Korea's military presence in Russia must end.

Countries like North Korea bear responsibility for the Russian war in Ukraine.

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27 Apr 2025 19:30

📝 Wildland Anon: "Logging means killing all of the invasive trees, while clearing areas for native species, as per USDA directive. Hopefully they do log more. Honestly nothing unexpected. This'll take years to see through with the amount of people they currently have."

https://fxtwitter.com/CeraGibson/status/1915958653947154746

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29 Apr 2025 16:32

🇨🇦 Canadians over 60 ranked reducing the cost of living, making Canada a better place to live, and housing affordability as less important than “dealing with Donald Trump at the ballot box,” while those aged 18 to 29 prioritized the reverse.

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29 Apr 2025 14:10

🇪🇸🔌 Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

Since the Iberian Peninsula lost power in a massive blackout, grid operators are in the process of trying to restore power to millions of customers and businesses. As you might imagine, the process—termed a "black start"—is quite a bit more challenging than flicking on a switch. However, the challenge is made considerably more difficult because nearly everything about the system—from the management hardware that remotely controls the performance of the grid to the power plants themselves—needs power to operate.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/

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29 Apr 2025 13:58

🇪🇸🔌 Spain hits first weekday of 100% renewable power on national grid

Spain’s grid ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time on April 16, with wind, solar, and hydro meeting all peninsular electricity demand during a weekday. Five days later, solar set a new record, generating 20,120 MW of instantaneous power – covering 78.6% of demand and 61.5% of the grid mix.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/spain-hits-first-weekday-of-100-renewable-power-on-national-grid/

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29 Apr 2025 13:58

🇪🇸🔌 24 March 2025: World Nuclear Association Highlights Concerns Over Spain’s Energy Future

In recent weeks, Spain has witnessed significant national discourse on the role of the Spanish nuclear fleet which has motivated many open conversations on its nuclear energy strategy.

Dr Bilbao y León raised concerns for Spain’s economy should it continue policy of phasing out nuclear power in the country, whilst promoting the benefits that nuclear energy offers as a clean, reliable, always-on power source.

"I am concerned about Spain’s economic future without nuclear energy. Progress and socioeconomic development require abundant, clean, and affordable energy, available every day, all year round. Nuclear power provides exactly this, and major energy consumers around the world—heavy industry, the chemical sector, transportation, artificial intelligence—are increasingly turning to it.”

https://world-nuclear.org/news-and-media/association-news/world-nuclear-association-highlights-concerns-over-spains-energy-future

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29 Apr 2025 10:19

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Houthi Attack Campaign Against US Navy: The Houthis used a complex strike package combining ballistic and cruise missiles and drones to force the USS Harry S. Truman to take evasive action.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-Iran Nuclear Talks: Western media reported that the April 26 US-Iran nuclear talks in Oman ended in “major disagreements” despite repeated positive messaging from senior Iranian and US officials. One of the key disputes is reportedly over whether a final agreement should address the Iranian missile program. Iran’s unwillingness to make concessions on its missile program may risk collapsing the talks or pushing negotiations toward a deal less expansive than the deal US President Donald Trump reportedly desires.

🇮🇷 Chemical Explosion in Iran: A large-scale explosion occurred at Shahid Rajaei Port in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, on April 26. Western media reported that the blast was caused by the explosion of a chemical precursor for solid missile propellant. The loss of a large amount of key chemical precursor for Iranian missiles may further delay Iran's ability to rebuild its intermediate-range, solid-fuel ballistic missile stocks after Israeli strikes damaged key production sites in October 2024. China delivered the same precursor to Bandar Abbas earlier this year. These chemicals further illustrate how China-based entities have likely helped Iran replenish its missile stockpile and restore key aspects of its defense capabilities.

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29 Apr 2025 08:03

🇨🇦⚡️- BREAKING: We can now project Mark Carney's Liberal Party will form a minority government. This will be the Liberal Party's 4th consecutive term in power.

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28 Apr 2025 19:09

📝 At its core, Democracy is built on the principle of equality: the idea that each individual has an equal say in the political process. But this notion is fundamentally at odds with how human societies naturally function. Societies were historically hierarchical, organic entities where individuals were bound by duty, rank, and purpose within a larger whole. Once Democracy shattered this traditional order with the onset of the French Revolution, it set in motion a series of events that inevitably dragged society into progressively more radical forms of egalitarianism.

Perhaps my most "Reactionary" take is that far from being an antidote to Marxism, Democracy and Liberalism are the very forces which enable it. In a Democracy, politicians have a high-time preference and practically zero incentive to think about long-term planning. Even worse, Democracy incentivizes politicians to cater to the lowest common denominator because they have as much political sway as everyone else. Inevitably, the political system simply becomes a mechanism to redistribute wealth (which is what the overwhelming majority of the Federal budget is now geared towards). This sort of feeds upon the impulse that exists within the underlying premise of Liberalism itself: that inequality is unjust and must be eradicated.

As the entire political system gets dragged down to the lowest common denominator, the logic of Democracy inevitably demands further leveling of society. After all, if all individuals are equal, why not extend that principle to all areas of life? Why stop at political equality? Why not enforce economic equality too? And why even stop at equality at all? “Equity” now enters the picture. This is where Marxism (and particularly Cultural Marxism) emerges as a natural extension of Democracy’s core premise. Marx's call for an international revolution among the proletariat is not a break from Democracy but its fulfillment in a system that abolishes all remaining hierarchies.

So what happens over the course of decades and even centuries is that Liberalism enables Democracy, which enables Socialism, which eventually enables Marxism. They're all part of the same process of decay, just different steps in a continuous march toward destroying the traditional and hierarchical societies that had existed prior to the 19th century.

And this more than anything else is why I constantly criticize “Liberal Democracy.” Because the real issue is that so many people—even on the "Right"—believe that Democracy can somehow stop Marxism, when in reality it paves the way for it. The fact that Liberal Democracy, by its very nature, fails to uphold any higher authority or principle beyond the "will of the people" means it is easily hijacked by those who push for more extreme forms of egalitarianism.

🔗 Christian Heiens

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28 Apr 2025 17:06

🍼 Birth data for Mississippi and Alabama in the first full year (2023) after the 2022 Dobbs decision from the US Supreme Court, which concerned a Mississippi abortion ban. Contrary to predictions from some quarters, prior trends continued with no abrupt increases.

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28 Apr 2025 14:04

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 Times of Israel: President Trump said Sunday that Iran nuclear talks are going "very well" & he expects a deal. Meanwhile, Israeli PM Netanyahu warned a "bad deal is worse than no deal," calling for Iran's entire nuclear infrastructure to be dismantled.

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28 Apr 2025 12:02

🇺🇸 O’Leary: I don’t think 125% is enough. 400%.

Gerber: …Americans have never had things disappearing from the shelves since Covid...

O’Leary: …Have some backbone… you’re weak

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28 Apr 2025 10:34

🌎🪖 SIPRI: Global military expenditure rose to a record $2718 billion in 2024, a 9.4% increase from 2023 – the steepest rise since at least the end of the Cold War. Spending increased in all regions, with particularly rapid growth in Europe & the Middle East.

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28 Apr 2025 09:29

📉 Pew poll has Trump at 27% approval among Hispanics

CNN poll has Trump at 28% approval among Hispanics

This is a complete collapse among what was the fastest growing group of GOP supporters. Trump is now where he was before the 2018 wipeout.

🔗 Mike Madrid

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28 Apr 2025 08:37

🇻🇳🇨🇳 PLA soldiers arrived in Vietnam to participate in the military parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of VN's reunification. This is a video from last night showing the PLA's first rehearsal.
The road is called Le Duan Street, where the US Embassy is also located.

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27 Apr 2025 22:57

🇨🇳📈 China's Influence On The Global Gold Price Is 'Underappreciated'; Goldman

https://archive.ph/fBJKI

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinas-influence-global-gold-price-underappreciated-goldman

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27 Apr 2025 17:37

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attempting to purge the State Department of Israel criticism.

Under Biden, the State Department’s bureau pushed for human rights enforcement and issued critical reports on Israel, but their efforts to block weapons sales ultimately went nowhere under State Secretary Antony Blinken.

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