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Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8 p.m. No.23650688   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0724 >>0729 >>0807 >>0828

Natalie Winters: Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Rosenzweig secretly ran anti-Trump blog for YEARS attacking Trump, mocking his supporters, and even plotting “opposition” tactics

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1970575369389363658.html

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:02 p.m. No.23650697   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0704 >>0740 >>0807 >>0828

FBI Director Kash Patel

 

@FBIDirectorKash

This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.

 

While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE.” More updates will be forthcoming.

 

These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prarieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers. It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.

 

Thankfully, no law enforcement personnel were injured. Please pray for the injured and deceased.

 

https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970877754221498599

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:02 p.m. No.23650702   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0807 >>0828

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

Newsom calls Trump an 'authoritarian son of a bitch' on Kimmel. It's probably going to be Gavin Newsom vs AOC in the 2028 Democrat primary. Moderate Marxists vs progressive Marxists.

 

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1970856138695741594

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:04 p.m. No.23650708   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0807 >>0828

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

@SecScottBessent

Yesterday, @POTUS and I spoke extensively with President @JMilei and his senior team in New York. As President Trump has stated, we stand ready to do what is needed to support Argentina and the Argentine people.

 

Under President Milei, Argentina has taken important strides toward stabilization. He has achieved impressive fiscal consolidation and a broad liberalization of prices and restrictive regulations, laying the foundation for Argentina’s historic return to prosperity.

 

The @USTreasury stands ready to purchase Argentina’s USD bonds and will do so as conditions warrant. We are also prepared to deliver significant stand-by credit via the Exchange Stabilization Fund, and we have been in active discussions with President Milei’s team to do so.

 

The Treasury is currently in negotiations with Argentine officials for a $20 billion swap line with the Central Bank. We are working in close coordination with the Argentine government to prevent excessive volatility.

 

In addition, the United States stands ready to purchase secondary or primary government debt and we are working with the Argentine government to end the tax holiday for commodity producers converting foreign exchange.

 

Argentina has the tools to defeat speculators, including those who seek to destabilize Argentina’s markets for political objectives. I have also been in touch with numerous US companies who intend to make substantial foreign direct investments in Argentina multiple sectors in the event of a positive election outcome.

 

The Trump Administration is resolute in our support for allies of the United States, and President Trump has given President Milei a rare endorsement of a foreign official, showing his confidence in his government’s economic plans and the geopolitical strategic importance of the relationship between the United States and Argentina. Immediately after the election, we will start working with the Argentine government on its principal repayments.

 

I will be watching developments closely, and the Treasury remains fully prepared to do what is necessary.

 

https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/1970821535507026177

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:06 p.m. No.23650715   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0807 >>0828

FBI says it found classified documents in John Bolton’s DC office

 

FBI agents executing a search warrant at former national security adviser John Bolton’s downtown Washington office last month turned up documents marked as classified, according to a court filing released Tuesday.

 

A description of the documents gathered in the Aug. 22 search suggested they included materials that referenced weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. mission to the United Nations and records related to the U.S. government’s strategic communications.

 

The inventory by an FBI agent doesn’t specify the number of suspected classified documents. But it lists several collections or folders that were labeled “confidential” and some pages marked “secret.” The heading on at least one set marked “confidential” was redacted from the inventory, filed earlier this month in federal court in Washington.

 

FBI agents also carried out a search warrant the same morning at Bolton’s Bethesda, Maryland, home. The inventory from that search contained no outward indication that classified information was located. However, in both instances, agents reported seizing computers and other electronic devices whose contents were not detailed.

 

Both search warrant applications indicated FBI agents were seeking evidence related to three felony offenses, including gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act and retaining classified information without permission.

 

In Trump’s first term, Bolton faced a lawsuit claiming he included classified information in a book he wrote after leaving the administration. A federal judge warned publicly that the former White House official’s actions might have been criminal. However, a Justice Department probe did not lead to charges and was eventually dropped under the Biden administration in 2021.

 

It’s not known when the investigation restarted. Court filings indicate that investigators determined that Bolton’s AOL email account was hacked by a foreign entity, although details of the alleged hack and how the U.S. became aware of it remain unclear.

 

Redacted court filings related to the Washington search were released by Justice Department lawyers after several news organizations, including POLITICO, filed a formal motion asking for disclosure of the records. DOJ attorneys agreed to make public redacted versions of the inventory, search warrant and accompanying affidavit, but resisted blanket release of the information, citing a need to protect a national security investigation.

 

Categories of potentially classified records that the FBI reported finding at Bolton’s office included: travel memo documents with a “secret” label; confidential documents from the U.S. mission to the U.N.; confidential documents related to strategic communications; and classified documents related to weapons of mass destruction.

 

“Secret” is the middle of three major tiers of U.S. national security classification, intended to cover information expected to cause serious damage if disclosed. “Confidential” is the lowest tier, covering information that could cause some damage to national security if released. “Confidential” is often used for routine diplomatic communications.

 

The material gathered in the search underscores the potential criminal exposure for Bolton. The federal government has brought prosecutions in the past for those who knowingly retain classified information outside of secure or approved channels.

 

An attorney for Bolton, Abbe Lowell, said the records were cleared for Bolton’s use years ago and many of them were more than two decades old.

 

“These materials, many of which are documents that had been previously approved as part of a pre-publication review for Amb. Bolton’s book, were reviewed and closed years ago,” Lowell said in a statement.

 

“These are the kinds of ordinary records, many of which are 20 years old or more, that would be kept by a 40-year career official who served at the State Department, as an Assistant Attorney General, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and the National Security Advisor. Specifically, the documents with classification markings from the period 1998-2006 date back to Amb. Bolton’s time in the George W. Bush Administration,” Lowell added. “An objective and thorough review will show nothing inappropriate was stored or kept by Amb. Bolton.”

 

Lowell did not address whether the documents had been marked as declassified, as is typical practice. The FBI’s inventory doesn’t include such details.

 

U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya approved the search warrant for Bolton’s office. She is the same magistrate judge who received a grand jury’s indictment of Donald Trump in 2023 for election interference and presided over his arraignment.

 

Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump for hoarding classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving office in 2021 — a case considered to be the gravest threat to Trump until his victory in the 2024 election. Trump faced 32 counts of one of the offenses under investigation in the Bolton probe: unauthorized retention of classified information in violation of the Espionage Act. A federal judge in Florida eventually dismissed the case, citing legal flaws in Smith’s appointment.

 

Joe Biden also faced a criminal inquiry for his own collection of classified documents at his Delaware home, only for special counsel Robert Hur to conclude a jury would be unlikely to convict him for the offense.

 

Trump has long derided Bolton — after a stint as his handpicked adviser — for being a “warmonger.” Bolton’s defenders have worried that the FBI searches of his home and office were part of Trump’s public calls for retribution against his adversaries.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/23/fbi-classified-documents-john-bolton-dc-office-00577894

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:07 p.m. No.23650717   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins special election for her late father's House seat in Arizona

 

NBC News projects victory for the progressive former Pima County supervisor in a deep-blue district stretching along the U.S.-Mexico border.

 

Democrat Adelita Grijalva won Tuesday's special election for the Arizona congressional seat held by her late father, NBC News projects.

 

Grijalva, a former Pima County supervisor and Tucson school board member, captured Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which includes Tucson, over Republican Daniel Butierez. She will serve out the remaining 15 months of Rep. Raúl Grijalva's term after he died in March of complications during cancer treatment.

 

Grijalva will fill one of three vacancies in the House, narrowing Republicans' majority to 219-214 as Congress faces some key upcoming moments, including a partisan staring contest over government spending and an effort by House Democrats to force a vote on the disclosure of more files related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

 

Grijalva will join the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she and caucus co-chair Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., said Friday an endorsement video. Grijalva’s father, who served 11 terms in Congress, was a co-chair of the caucus from 2009 to 2019 and chaired the House Natural Resources Committee for four years.

 

“My dad left huge shoes to fill, but I stand on my own two feet,” the younger Grijalva said in an interview with NBC News in July.

 

In a July primary, Grijalva beat 25-year-old activist Deja Foxx and former state Rep. Daniel Hernandez. She accumulated endorsements from both of Arizona's Democratic senators, Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, as well as national progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

 

Frost called her a "progressive champion" who is "fighting for working people, fighting to end gun violence, fighting for our environment and just fighting for all the people of [her] district."

 

The endorsement from Frost, the youngest and first Gen Z member of Congress, came after age became an issue in the special Democratic primary.

 

Foxx said in an interview with NBC News in July that she hoped to leverage her hundreds of thousands of social media followers and that the Democratic Party had "lost ground with young people."

 

"We need to give young people real leadership," she said.

 

“Respectfully, I’m not old,” Grijalva said in an interview, adding later: “It’s frustrating to me how experience is being seen as a negative.”

 

At 54, Grijalva will be younger than more than half of her congressional colleagues.

 

Grijalva added that Foxx's remarks were "making it appear as if I'm part of some establishment, when the national Democratic Party has not helped me in this race."

 

Grijalva's victory gives Democrats another vote in the tightly divided House.

 

And her win comes amid an effort spearheaded by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., to force a vote that would compel the Justice Department to release more of its files on the investigation into Epstein.

 

The discharge petition, as the move is formally known, is just one signature shy of the 218 needed to force a floor vote on the issue. All 213 House Democrats and four Republicans have signed on, and Grijalva's victory could push the petition over the threshold.

 

The special election also leaves just two more vacancies in the 435-member House. Texas' 18th Congressional District, a blue stronghold including Houston, will be on the ballot Nov. 4 after Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, died this year. Tennessee's 7th District, where Mark Green, a Republican, won by more than 20 points before he resigned in June to take a job in the private sector, also has a special primary scheduled for later this year.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrat-adelita-grijalva-wins-special-election-late-fathers-house-sea-rcna231968

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:08 p.m. No.23650720   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0733 >>0762 >>0807 >>0828

Disclose.tv

@disclosetv

MORE - Hillary: "The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was, dominated by— you know, let's say it, White men, uh— of a certain persuasion, uh— certain religion, uh— certain point of view certain ideology, is just doing such damage…"

 

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1970830587121287451

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:09 p.m. No.23650721   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0731 >>0739 >>0807 >>0828

Andy Ngo

@MrAndyNgo

Joshua Jahn, the man who carried out a deadly shooting on an ICE facility in Dallas, left behind a literal anti-ICE message on a rifle cartridge where he killed himself.

 

Jahn comes from a liberal bi-racial family in Fairview, Texas. His mother is critical of the gun laws in her state. His sister, Kioko Jahn, is a woke woman who was a supporter of Beto O’Rourke.

 

The three people shot at the ICE facility ended up being migrant detainees. Two of them died.

 

The attack occurred in the context of months of Democrat politicians, liberals and leftists encouraging violent direct action against ICE. Antifa and far-left extremists have been releasing names, photos and addresses of agents, urging comrades to kill them. In July, members of a North Texas Antifa cell allegedly carried out a shooting ambush on an ICE facility in Alvarado. One officer was shot in the neck, but narrowly survived. The nightly violent attacks on the ICE facility in Portland by Antifa remain ongoing. http://ngocomment.com

 

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1970936239894430053

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:10 p.m. No.23650723   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0807 >>0828

Turning Point USA

@TPUSA

Crowds are lining up for the second stop of the This Is the Turning Point Tour at Virginia Tech with @megynkelly and @GovernorVA

 

https://x.com/TPUSA/status/1970968776272379978

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:12 p.m. No.23650732   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0742 >>0804 >>0807 >>0822

Sisters who trashed Charlie Kirk memorial begging for cash to pay legal bills after losing jobs

 

Two Arkansas sisters are begging for money after they were caught on camera trashing a Charlie Kirk memorial and got canned from their jobs.

 

Kerri, 23, and Kaylee Rollo, 22, set up a GoFundMe seeking $18,000 to cover legal fees last week after they were arrested days earlier for allegedly vandalizing a Kirk memorial of candles and signs on the Benton County Courthouse steps for the assassinated Turning Point USA founder.

 

“My sibling and I are being doxxed online and my sibling was fired from their job,” Kaylee wrote in the GoFundMe, adding that their First Amendment rights were being violated.

 

“Please help my sibling while they look for another job and stand against the tyranny that is creeping into the country,” she added.

 

Despite her claims, Kaylee and her sister may be the ones infringing on free speech rights — as they were filmed shredding signs memorializing Kirk and kicking the candles over in footage that went viral online.

 

“F–k Charlie Kirk,” Kerri, who uses they pronouns, said in the video, before flipping two middle fingers at the camera. “Film all you want.”

 

“Charlie Kirk died as he lived, promoting violence,” Kerri added, and yelled “F–k Charlie Kirks” a few more times before storming off with her sister in tow.

 

But law enforcement caught wind of the video, and the sisters were arrested on Sept. 17.

 

“Everyone has a right to be able to express their freedom of expression. But what the issue is, is when you trample on someone’s memorial, the human act of grieving,” said Benton County Justice of the Peace Joseph Bollinger, according to 40/29 News.

 

“You’re not just trampling on their freedom of expression, you’re trampling on the memory of a person. You’re trampling on our Benton County values,” he added.

 

And the Rollos apparently found that out the hard way.

 

After they were arrested, Kerri was fired from work at an Arkansas restaurant, and Kaylee’s boyfriend dumped her and told her to move out, the Daily Mail reported.

 

“Kaylee has lived in my home now for over a year, and I have never once cut her down or not allowed her to have the beliefs that she has,” said Lacy Christian, the mother of Kaylee’s ex, according to the Mail.

 

“However, I will not allow someone living in my home to be OK or celebrate a murder,” she added. “I will never allow someone to live in my home who is OK with destroying a memorial for someone else.”

 

As of Wednesday afternoon, the sisters have still managed to raise nearly $15,000, which they say will go to “LEGAL COUNSEL AND COURT FEES.”

 

But some of that cash appears to be from trolls who donated the platform’s minimum amount so they could tell the sisters how they really feel in the page’s comments.

 

“I guess it pays to do something deplorable,” one person wrote, while another said, “You got what you deserved.”

 

“Only low life humans would do such a thing to a another human, let alone a father,” they said.

 

The sisters were charged with first-degree criminal mischief, and both were freed on bond worth $22,500 altogether.

 

Kirk, a father of two young children, was assassinated on Sept. 10, when a single shot allegedly fired by Tyler Robinson, 22, struck him as he spoke at Utah Valley University.

 

https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/arkansas-sisters-who-trashed-charlie-kirk-memorial-beg-for-cash-after-losing-jobs/

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:13 p.m. No.23650737   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0807 >>0828

DHS issues warning over terrorism hotbeds on Discord

 

Discord has drawn increased attention in recent weeks after reports that the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing used the platform.

 

State and federal law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were at risk of radicalization on the chat platform Discord, according to government documents obtained by NBC News.

 

Two intelligence assessments from the Department of Homeland Security and Ohio’s Statewide Terrorism Analysis & Crime Center (STACC) marked for distribution to police specifically cite Discord as a platform on which American youth have been exposed to extremist material from foreign terrorist organizations. Both documents are unclassified but marked “For Official Use Only.” They were obtained by the Property of the People, a pro-transparency nonprofit that seeks and publishes government documents through Freedom of Information Act requests, and shared with NBC News.

 

It’s unclear how widely disseminated the documents were, but law enforcement information centers like STACC routinely share warnings and analysis with other police agencies.

 

The reports, which draw on academic studies and law enforcement data, provide insight into how officials understand the risks of online radicalization. The FBI declined to comment and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to a request for comment. Discord did not respond to a request for comment about the documents.

 

Discord, which was launched in 2015 as a communications platform for gamers, is particularly popular with young men — a 2023 Pew study found that a third of teen boys in the U.S. used it. Discord has previously faced criticism over its moderation practices. The platform allows for the creation of private chat groups on nearly any topic, and has long faced criticism over lax moderation. Co-founder and former Discord CEO Jason Citron testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2024 that Discord uses a mix of proactive and reactive tools to enforce its terms of service and community guidelines.

 

One DHS memo from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, dated Jan. 21, said that “specific discussions or aspirational plotting tends to occur on Discord, where the average age of members — when determinable — was 15, according to academic reporting.”

 

In 2021, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London think tank, found 24 English-language Discord servers associated with extreme right-wing activity. It determined that the average age of members was 15 and that they sometimes discussed far-right terror groups like the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division.

 

Suspects in several high-profile mass shooting events in recent years allegedly used Discord to announce their actions or trade in violent or nihilistic content there. In 2022, the shooter in Buffalo, New York, who has since pleaded guilty to numerous charges related to killing 10 people, appeared to have posted a to-do list for the shooting on the platform. A few months later, the man who eventually pleaded guilty to killing seven in Highland Park, Illinois, appeared to have shared violent memes there.

 

In 2024, an Iowa school shooter who killed two people before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound had warned on Discord that he was “gearing up.”

 

A second document, dated April 30, jointly produced by DHS and Ohio’s STACC, focuses on attempts by foreign terrorist organizations to radicalize minors online. The website for STACC describes itself as Ohio’s primary fusion center, or law enforcement intelligence sharing hub. It did not respond to a request for comment.

 

Since August 2023, STACC said, the U.S. had disrupted three plots nationwide in which juveniles had reportedly shared the Islamic State terrorist group’s messaging “in online environments, including private Discord chats and gaming platforms.”

 

The April memo found that domestic violent extremists “create and disseminate violent content on youth-oriented platforms,” with some specifically calling on minors to commit violence before they become legal adults.

 

Western countries more broadly, the second document said, have disrupted “more than 20 juvenile-driven plots” between January and November 2024.

 

The documents, which primarily address radicalization of youth by foreign terrorist groups, also say that young Americans have been exposed to ISIS content online in spaces designed for minors. Teenagers “probably have become increasingly susceptible to such messaging due to post-pandemic shifts in online behavior, social isolation, and rising mental health issues,” one of the memos says.

 

Discord has gained increased attention over recent weeks after authorities said that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin used the chat app to communicate with friends in the wake of the killing. No law enforcement official has suggested that the suspect coordinated the attack with anyone else.

 

Discord, in a statement last week, confirmed the suspect had an account on its platform, but said it has “found no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord.” Last week, FBI Director Kash Patel said that the agency was looking into more than 20 people who shared a private Discord channel with the suspect.

 

Discord does not encrypt its private channels, meaning that the company has technical access to users’ conversations and can turn them over to law enforcement if presented with a court order or warrant.

 

It has, however, been repeatedly accused of lax moderation. The company has also been the subject of an ongoing lawsuit alleging it didn’t do enough to stop predators, and it has been referred to as a platform for abusers in other child exploitation cases. Discord has said that it does not comment on legal matters and that it has ramped up its safety practices.

 

Discord’s most recent transparency report said that the company had disabled 36,966 accounts in the first half of 2024 for promoting violent and graphic content or extremism. The U.S. government asked it for information on user accounts or servers 3,782 times in that period, the report said.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/rcna232377

Anonymous ID: 4b3f27 Sept. 24, 2025, 8:14 p.m. No.23650741   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0787 >>0807 >>0825 >>0828

$2.2 billion solar plant in California scheduled to be turned off after years of wasted money: ‘Never lived up to its promises’

 

Seen from the sky, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert resembles a futuristic dream.

 

Viewed from the bottom line, however, Ivanpah is anything but.

 

The solar power plant, which features three 459-foot towers and thousands of computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats, cost some $2.2 billion to build.

 

Construction began in 2010 and was completed in 2014. Now it’s set to close in 2026 after failing to efficiently generate solar energy.

 

In 2011, the US Department of Energy under President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project and the secretary of energy, Ernest Moniz, hailed it as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”

 

But ultimately, it’s been more emblematic of profligate government spending and unwise bets on poorly conceived, quickly outdated technologies.

 

“Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government subsidized energy schemes,”Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, an American energy advocacy group, told Fox News via statement this past February. It “never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected, while relying on natural gas to stay operational.”

 

When Ivanpah began operating in 2014, it ranked as the world’s largest solar plant. It seemed like a viable solution to California’s renewable energy goals of employing affordable and efficient technology to reduce the need for fossil fuels.

 

Located near the California-Nevada border, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, the plant’s glowing towers are as striking as some casinos on the Strip.

 

The facility’s 5 square miles of desert were covered with some 173,500 heliostats, adjusted via computer to catch maximum rays. The computer-controlled mirrors can reflect light from the sun at temperatures that can reach 1,000 degrees in part of the installment.

 

“The idea was that you could use the sun to produce a heat source,” alternative energy consultant Edward Smeloff told The Post. “The mirrors reflect heat from the sun up to a receiver, which is mounted on top of the tower. That heats a fluid. It creates steam [that spins] a conventional steam turbine. It is complicated.”

 

Though it sounds like a bit of a Rube Goldberg contraption — and looks like an art installation — Ivanpah was a cutting-edge idea for a while. But, as the market changed, it couldn’t compete with newer and less expensive forms of creating solar power.

 

“It simply did not scale up,” said Smeloff. “It’s kind of an obsolete technology [that’s] been outpaced by solar photovoltaic technology.”

 

That tech uses semiconductor material to transform sunlight into energy in a streamlined process. The solar panels you see on many residential rooftops or in endless rows across the desert rely on the technology.

 

A statement from NRG Energy, the Texas-based company that was an Ivanpah partner and the largest investor, having put up $300 million, agrees with Smeloff’s view.

 

“When the power purchase agreements were signed in 2009, the prices were competitive, but advancements over time … have led to more efficient, cost-effective and flexible options for producing reliable clean energy,” a company statement read.

 

Ivanpah hasn’t just been inefficient and expensive — it’s been deadly for wildlife.

 

According to the Association of Avian Veterinarians, the power plant “is believed to be responsible for at least 6,000 bird deaths each year.”

 

They get fried “if they fly in the area where the reflection is going up to the tower,” Smeloff explained

 

But maybe it didn’t have to be that way. A report published by World Economic Forum earlier this year noted that private investors can be more nimble with new technologies than the government.

 

“Unlike public market investors, private equity firms can implement transformative changes through hands-on management and aligned incentives,” the report read.

 

Steven Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute and former Trump EPA transition team member, agrees.

 

“No green project relying on taxpayer subsidies has ever made any economic or environmental sense,” he said. “It’s important that President Trump stop the taxpayer bleeding by ending what he accurately calls the Green New Scam.”

 

https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/2-2-billion-ivanpah-solar-facility-in-california-turned-off-after-years-of-wasted-money/