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Energy Department Issues Emergency Order As Hot Weather Conditions Threaten Blackouts
Energy Department Issues Emergency Order As Hot Weather Conditions Threaten Blackouts
The Department of Energy (DOE) issued an emergency order authorizing Southwest Power Pool Inc. to use certain energy resources to reduce the risk of potential blackouts, according to a July 21 statement from the department.
Electrical transmission poles and lines in Commerce, Calif., on Aug. 7, 2025. Mike Blake/Reuters
The order, issued on July 20 and signed by Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, stated that Southwest Power Pool (SPP) had asked the DOE to temporarily permit certain resources to operate beyond...
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Aug 15, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Rage Politics: Hakeem Jeffries Will Take A Baseball Bat To The Supreme Court
Rage Politics: Hakeem Jeffries Will Take A Baseball Bat To The Supreme Court
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has struggled to pander to the mob to secure power in the midterm elections, including brandishing a baseball bat on social media to show his radical bona fides.
With Democratic Socialists chanting “you’re next” when seeing Jeffries, he continues to struggle to stay in front of the mob.
This week, he doubled down on his pledge to throw the Supreme Court to the mob if they make him the next Speaker of the House of...
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Apr 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
A "Bulging Lobe" Of Polar Vortex Madness Headed For U.S. East
A "Bulging Lobe" Of Polar Vortex Madness Headed For U.S. East
Mother Nature across the Mid-Atlantic can only be described by the Katy Perry lyric, “You’re hot, then you’re cold,” as a meteorologist warns that a "tropospheric polar vortex" will sweep across the Lower 48 this weekend into early next week, abruptly ending the summer-like conditions in Washington, D.C.
"A bulging lobe of the tropospheric 'polar vortex' will be tracking through the Lower 48, bringing a cold front and much cooler air to the Eastern U.S.," meteorologist Ryan Maue wrote...
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Jun 30, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Today Will Or Won't See A US-Iran Meeting In Doha Which Will Be "Perhaps Important, Perhaps Not"
Today Will Or Won't See A US-Iran Meeting In Doha Which Will Be "Perhaps Important, Perhaps Not"
By Michael Every of Rabobank
Build 'em up or Burnham down?
In typical form, today will or won’t see a US-Iran meeting in Doha; which will be ‘perhaps important, perhaps not’; and either discussing the MoU or unfreezing $6bn of Iranian assets. So, the ‘peacefire’ continues, as expected, but with little chance this holds permanently. Likewise in Lebanon, where the US is pushing to disarm Hezbollah --which refuses-- and Israel won’t leave until that happens....
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