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Renewable energy is now the cleanest, cheapest and most evenly distributed energy in human history and is changing everything. Retired globetrotting cleantech CEO. Anti-racist, anti-fascist. Resistor. Husband, father, friend. Enough is better than More.

Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...

Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

nytimes.com

Terry Strada spoke at the 25th anniversary ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. While reading victims’ names, including her husband’s, she went off-script, accusing Saudi Arabia of supporting al-Qaeda and criticizing US administrations for shielding the kingdom from accountability.

I’m old enough to remember reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in school every morning. We pledged allegiance to the flag (which I thought was a little weird) and the republic, but NEVER to the President.

Showing how out of touch he is, Official Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told an American audience Canadians are feeling "wounded" and "confused" about Trump's economic warfare. In fact, we Canadians are damned angry at the United States and know exactly what's going on.

Trump has lead coattails and he’s in Texas adding weight to them. Even the most delusional Republicans are starting to feel it. It’s like being locked in an Escape Room with a toddler that’s holding a loaded pistol.

MSNOW aired the part of the Talarico interview that Fox isn’t showing: REPORTER: …you said ‘there are 6 biological sexes.’ Do you still believe that? TALARICO: I think the reason that politicians… across the street want to talk about 6 sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel.