Clay Edwards
@SaveJxn
🚨GRAPHIC WARNING🚨
I’m told this happened in Pickens, Mississippi sometime here recently, a wild sh00tout between 3 car loads of people at a gas station. They’re determined to make gas stations extinct. Seriously has me considering an electric vehicle.
https://x.com/SaveJxn/status/1874860905407918562
Hard to steal a Tesla so gangsters don't drive them.
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
‘THESE PEOPLE ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH.’
Democrats and Republicans are teaming up with to steal your jobs and destroy your country as we speak.
And censoring you if you dare to speak out.
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1874985210451993057
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
@pmarca
This is a really remarkable chart of tariffs as % of total federal revenue. The Second Industrial Revolution, perhaps the most fertile era for technology development and deployment in human history, was 1870-1914.
https://x.com/pmarca/status/1873880292043481203
Biden to Block More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives
-Order would set permanent protections for some coastal waters
-Decree to complicate Trump’s plan to boost US crude production
President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections for sensitive marine areas during his final weeks in the White House.
Biden is set within days to issue the executive order barring the sale of new drilling rights in portions of the country’s outer continental shelf, according to people familiar with the effort who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t public.
The move is certain to complicate President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitions to drive more domestic energy production. Unlike other executive actions that can be easily undone, Biden’s planned declaration is rooted in a 72-year-old law that gives the White House wide discretion to permanently protect US waters from oil and gas leasing without explicitly empowering presidents to revoke the designations.
The move responds to pressure from congressional Democrats and environmental groups who have lobbied Biden to “maximize permanent protections” against offshore drilling, arguing the action is essential to safeguard vulnerable coastal communities, protect marine ecosystems from oil spills and fight climate change.
White House and Interior Department officials didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Biden administration officials have been considering the approach for more than two years, though their efforts intensified after Trump’s victory, as the outgoing president sought to enshrine new environmental measures before the end of his term. The fresh offshore protections are in line with similar recent Biden actions to protect areas from industrial mining and energy development, including a formal proposal issued Monday to thwart the sale of new oil, gas and geothermal leases in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains.
Biden has prioritized conservation while in office and is already on track to protect more US lands and waters than any other president, even as he faces mounting calls to expand that record with new national monuments safeguarding culturally significant land in California.
The full scope of Biden’s coming offshore protections wasn’t clear early Thursday, but the protected areas include waters considered critical to coastal resilience and the designation is designed to be targeted, said people familiar with the decision. Although congressional Democrats and scores of environmental groups had urged Biden to make a more sweeping designation, recent deliberations have focused on parts of the Pacific Ocean near California and eastern Gulf of Mexico waters by Florida.
Trump Challenge
Trump is expected to order a reversal of the protections, but it’s not clear he will be successful. During his first term in office, Trump sought to revoke former President Barack Obama’s order to protect more than 125 million acres (50.6 million hectares) of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, which was rejected by a federal district court in 2019.
Trump, himself, has actually used the same statute to block oil and gas leasing in waters near Florida and North Carolina in a bid to appeal to voters in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign.
Supporters of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which governs offshore oil and gas development, note that Congress gave presidents wide discretion to permanently protect waters from leasing, but it didn’t explicitly grant them the authority to undo those designations.
For decades, presidents have invoked the provision to preserve walrus feeding grounds, US Arctic waters and other sensitive marine resources, beginning with former President Dwight Eisenhower, who in 1960 created the Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve that remains protected today. Though presidents have modified decisions from their predecessors to exempt areas from oil leasing, courts have never validated a complete reversal — and until Trump, no president had even attempted one.
Biden has already curtailed new offshore oil and gas development opportunities in the short term with less enduring measures. His administration created a program for selling offshore leases that allows just three auctions over the next five years, a record low. However, Trump is expected to rewrite that leasing plan using an administrative process that could take at least a year, and Republican lawmakers are considering ways to expand offshore oil lease sales as a way to raise revenue to offset the cost of extending tax cuts.
Oil industry advocates have warned against restrictions, arguing the world will need fossil fuels for decades to come — and the US produces them more cleanly than other countries. Nearly a century after it was first drilled, the Gulf of Mexico remains a key source of US oil and gas, providing about 14% of domestic output today — enough that if it were a country, it would rank among the world’s top 12 oil producers.
https://archive.is/nFvap#selection-1373.0-1373.62
Biden moving to ban oil and gas leases for 20 years in Nevada region, just weeks before Trump inauguration
The Biden administration is attempting to implement last-minute restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the west just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
On Monday, the Department of the Interior announced plans to pursue a 20-year ban on oil and gas leases in 264,000 acres of Nevada's Ruby Mountains.
The administration submitted an application to withdraw the acreage from any potential leasing, which initiated a two-year ban on new mineral leases in the area during the approval process. The proposal now heads into a 90-day public comment period, which will fall under the Trump administration.
"The Ruby Mountains are an iconic landscape with exceptional recreation opportunities and valuable fish and wildlife habitat worth preserving for the future," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement. "Today’s action honors the voices of Tribal communities and conservation and sportsmen’s groups and marks another important step to protect a treasured landscape."
The Biden administration's lease limitation does not put restrictions on mining in the region.
During Trump's first administration, the Forest Service conducted a study to determine whether 54,000 acres could be leased for oil and gas drilling in the Ruby Mountains.
The proposal was eventually rejected in 2019 after the public comment period saw "thousands of comments from the local area, the state of Nevada, and from across the nation" opposing the idea, according to William Dunkelberger, the forest supervisor who signed the decision.
Jenna Padilla, the geologist for the Humboldt-Toiyabe Ruby Mountains ranger district at the time, said that geological surveys "show there is low to no potential for oil" in the region, the LA Times reported in 2018.
It is unclear whether the Trump administration will consider potential leases in the region, but such actions could face roadblocks following the Biden administration's new proposal.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-moving-ban-oil-gas-leases-20-years-nevada-region-just-weeks-before-trump-inauguration
U.S. Army (official) career timeline for Din Jabbar
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
Army service record: Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar was in the regular Army as a Human Resource Specialist (42A) and Information Technology (IT) Specialist (25B) from March 2007 until January 2015 and then in the Army Reserve as an IT Specialist (25B) from January 2015 until July 2020. He deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010. He held the rank of Staff Sergeant at the end of service.
https://x.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1874584428258959852
Happy Allahu Ekber from Cologne, Germany.
Scholars from Tunisia having an Allahu Ekber convention in Italy.
Doctors and Engineers storm the Icelandic parliament.
When you're hanging out with grandma and the beat drops.