Source: Associated Press
“Record growth in solar, especially in China and India, was a driving factor for clean energy sources surpassing the world’s strong demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new global power analysis. Clean power generation grew 887 terawatt hours last year, exceeding overall global electricity demand growth of 849 terawatt hours, according to a report by energy think tank Ember, released after midnight Tuesday London time. Ember analyzes electricity data from 215 countries, and studied 2025 data for 91 countries, which the firm says represents 93% of global demand. Overall, the share of renewables — including solar, wind, hydropower and other clean energies — hit more than one-third of the world’s electricity mix for the first time in modern history last year, growing 33.8% to 10,730 terawatt hours.” (04/21/26)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-renewables-clean-energy-china-india-solar-electricity-demand-c412207bc332c5e0f904030ab21389e7
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller and JVL celebrate JVL’s Webby win (sort of), and cover Tucker Carlson’s sudden ‘regret’ turn and what it means about MAGA, Donald Trump Jr. as a 2028 front-runner, and the continued disaster in Iran. Plus: the ongoing dysfunction inside the administration, including the latest turmoil surrounding Kash Patel.” (04/21/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pha75haBFbY
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Tucker Carlson had it ALMOST RIGHT.” (04/21/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arzfaCMejec
Source: Expression
by Michael Hurley
“Imagine you’re a professor who disagrees with your university’s indigenous land acknowledgement, so you write your own as a joke — and then your school investigates you for ‘unacceptable’ and ‘inappropriate’ speech. Or imagine you invite a controversial former Black Panther to speak on campus, so your university forces the event online. These are real stories, and FIRE’s archives are full of plenty more just like them. But thanks to a new measure passed in Tennessee, the university’s actions in cases like these wouldn’t just violate the First Amendment, but state law, too.” (04/21/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-critics-are-wrong-about-tennessees
Source: Association of Mature American Citizens
by Shane Harris
“On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that will allow Democrats to draw new maps, handing them control of 10 of 11 U.S. House seats in a state that Kamala Harris won by just five points in 2024. The result should be a shock to the senses for Republicans nationwide that it’s time to get serious about redistricting – starting with a push in Florida next week. What Americans witnessed over the past three months in Virginia was one of the most corrupt, dishonest – and well-funded – campaigns in American history.” [editor’s note: “Playing hardball” with gerrymandering was what got the GOP into this mess in the first placce – TLK] (04/22/26)
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/democrats-virginia-gerrymander-is-gops-sign-to-play-hardball/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Pope Leo has criticised the treatment of prisoners in Equatorial Guinea, ahead of a visit to a jail known for its dire conditions. He addressed the Central African nation on Wednesday at a Mass that drew some 100,000 people, including Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the country’s leader and the world’s long-serving president. Pope Leo said: ‘My thoughts go to the poorest, to families experiencing difficulty and to prisoners who are often forced to live in troubling hygienic and sanitary conditions.’ Oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, a country with a poor human rights record and vast income inequalities, is the Pope’s final stop on a four-nation tour of Africa. In the evening on Wednesday, his last full day of the tour, Pope Leo is scheduled to visit an infamous prison in the economic capital, Bata.” (04/22/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80m4822m1no
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Congress Cleans House! The Future of Tech, Politics, and AI (with Tom Merritt).” (04/21/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/congress-cleans-house-the-future
Source: Glenn Greenwald
“Trump has two options: (1) end the war without achieving its stated aims and without victory, or (2) continue to fight this destructive and costly Middle East war.” (04/21/26)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/trump-gives-an-indefinite-cease-fire
Source: UnHerd
by Thomas Fazi
“Remember the Paris Agreement? Signed a decade ago today, it was hailed as a historic milestone in the fight against climate change, with practically every country promising drastic action to keep global warming below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels. And, at the time, the stakes couldn’t have felt higher. As Western politicians and activists endlessly warned, unless carbon emissions were urgently and drastically reduced by 2030, climate change would have apocalyptic consequences, potentially extinguishing humanity — if not all life on Earth. … Ten years on, then, one cannot help but ask: did the Paris Agreement, and the broader UN Conference of the Parties (COP) process, actually achieve anything?” (04/21/26)
https://archive.is/deyma
Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke
“It’s a proud day for American toughness! Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has officially done away with the U.S. military’s WOKE flu vaccine mandate, and I applaud that decision from the bed I currently can’t get out of due to a high fever. TRUE warfighters know their lethality is only enhanced by bacterial pneumonia, and soft and so-called proven public health tools like vaccines are for weenies. Simply put, the libs will never understand that a fever is just God warming your body for the battle ahead.” (04/21/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/04/21/hegseth-military-flu-vaccine-mandate/89716815007/
