In reality, China is far and away the world’s leading producer of wind energy, with more than triple the current U.S. wind capacity. Trump, however, has long had issues with renewable energy ― especially wind, which he has called “bullshit” and “a hoax,” a grudge he has held since a dispute over an offshore wind farm near one of his resorts. www.huffpost.com/…x 'I Have Never Seen A Wind Farm In China': Donald Trump Humiliates Himself, Claims China Has No Wind Energy In Sad Attempt To Demean Renewableswww.msn.com/en-us/news/o...[image or embed] — Jack (@nashtn5.bsky.social) Jul 5, 2025 at 12:22 AMGEMINI:Subjectivist: A subjectivist believes that knowledge and truth are dependent on the individual's subjective experience or perspective. Naïve Realist (in a specific context): Naïve realism is the common-sense view that we perceive the world directly as it is. The GOP Senate version of the "big, beautiful bill" would raise the cost of wind and solar projects by 10% to 20%, one energy group estimated.

….While complaining about Democrats not voting for his health care-gutting, food assistance-removing, so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” Trump said: “They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that?”“I really do. I hate them,” Trump repeated. “I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country, if you want to know the truth.”….. ...Critics on social media slammed Trump as a “small, hateful man” and described his comments were “truly fucking disgusting” and then some….

Olivia Munn VALERIE MACON via Getty ImagesOlivia Munn is claiming a director on the series The Newsroom tried to derail her career. “There was one director who came in multiple times,” Olivia said during the interview. “And there was a storyline where my character and Tom Sadoski’s character are dating and falling in love. AdvertisementOlivia told the host that her dispute with the director eventually resurfaced when she was trying out for another role. But first, I guess there’s another director who they know, and he says that on The Newsroom, you were late all the time and really combative’,” Olivia explained.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON ― Republicans pushed their giant bill cutting taxes and Medicaid through the House on Thursday, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump to sign into law. AdvertisementThe big bill rolls back expansions of the federal safety net recently enacted by Democratic presidents and entrenches the temporary tax cuts Trump signed into law during his first term. Citing fantastical economic growth forecasts, they’ve said the budget experts are all wrong and the tax cuts will pay for themselves. They claimed that failing to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts before they expire at the end of the year posed a major threat to the economy. Advertisement“If we do nothing, the Trump tax cuts, the most pro-growth tax reforms in generations, will expire.

Republicans have struggled mightily with the bill nearly every step of the way this year, often succeeding by only one vote. Some Republicans are likely to balk at being asked to rubber-stamp the Senate version less than 24 hours after passage. AdvertisementIn a warning sign of some House Republican resistance, a resolution setting up terms for debating Trump’s bill barely cleared the House Rules Committee on Wednesday morning. AdvertisementThe House passed its version of the bill in May, despite worries about spending cuts and the overall price tag. One House Republican who has staked out opposition to the bill, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, is being targeted by Trump’s well-funded political operation.

Just a bunch of regular adults, quietly, and for a moment, refusing to be bystanders to something as insane as school lunch debt. DJ Bracken lives with his 7-year-old daughter, Liara, and splits his time between coaching basketball and fighting school lunch debt. After personally paying off $835 at a local elementary school, DJ founded the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation, which has raised over $50,000 and paid off the lunch debt of 12 Utah schools. His advocacy helped pass HB100, legislation that changed “reduced-price” lunch kids into “free” lunch kids, and prohibited lunch shaming in Utah schools. Follow his work on his Substack, “Lunch Money,” or donate directly to lunch debt relief at www.utldr.org.

Photo Courtesy Of Sarah Baker PendletonNow that the Senate has passed its budget bill, the House is voting this week on taking my ability to commit to medically complex foster children away. Four in 10 kids across the United States are on Medicaid, including 368,000 foster kids like mine, who are entitled to Medicaid benefits through the foster system. We know how essential Medicaid benefits are for children in the foster system, nearly half of whom have special health care needs. Cuts to Medicaid would be devastating for medically complex foster children like mine across the United States. AdvertisementAnsley wasn’t a burden, because loving a child is never a burden, but she did have complex medical needs throughout her life.

As part of the settlement, Paramount stated that “60 Minutes” will release transcripts of interviews that it conducts with U.S. presidential candidates after they’ve aired. But Puck reported that Redstone had told “60 Minutes” producers to hold back on stories critical of Trump until the merger was complete. In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Paramount offered Trump $15 million to settle his lawsuit. Then, at the end of June, a mediator proposed a $20 million settlement, with $17 million of that going to Trump’s presidential foundation. Speaking on CBS’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in May, Sen. Sanders stressed that Paramount shouldn’t cave to Trump.

Keith Urban via Associated PressKeith Urban shut down a recent radio interview when faced with an inappropriate question about his wife Nicole Kidman. Advertisement“I get really uncomfortable, to be honest, asking our beautiful guests something they might feel uncomfortable [about],” Hayley then admitted. star in 2005, and the pair tied the knot the following year. Since then, the couple have become parents to two children, 17-year-old Sunday Rose and 14-year-old Faith Margaret. During her first marriage, she and ex-husband Tom Cruise also adopted two children, 32-year-old Isabella and 30-year-old Connor.

Valadao is one of more than two dozen House Republicans who have complained about the Senate bill or threatened to vote against it. A lot of House Republicans griped about the House version of the bill, but only two of them — Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Warren Davidson (Ohio) — actually voted no when it passed the House last month. AdvertisementThere are three main complaints among the House Republicans with reservations about the Big Beautiful Bill. have insisted the bill doesn’t actually cut Medicaid, despite the fact that the bill cuts projected program spending more than 10%. Other House Republicans concerned about the state-and-local tax deduction, however, have said they’re OK with the Senate version.

You supporting the Senate mark will hurt people who are eligible and qualified for Medicaid,” Tillis said. The legislation uses $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid to help pay for about $4 trillion in tax cuts favoring wealthy households. Tillis has previously warned his colleagues about the politics of the bill’s Medicaid cuts. “Now, Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betraying a promise,” Tillis said. Health care experts have warned the cuts could lead to hospital closures, especially in rural areas.

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