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House Republicans introduce bill to extend renewables tax credits

Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives are trying to restore tax credits for wind, solar and other clean energy technologies that were curtailed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

The American Energy Dominance Act, introduced last week, would remove the accelerated deadlines that the OBBBA placed on the renewable energy production and investment tax credits.

Under current law, key renewable energy incentives are scheduled to expire on June 30th of this year. The proposed legislation would "fully restore" many of these credits eliminating the scheduled expiration. 

Political observers note that this bill is unlikely to gain support under this Congress; however, if the Democrats take the House and/or the Senate later this year,it is anticipated that clean energy tax credits would be restored. Democratic lawmakers introduced a similar bill in March.

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Palmer Luckey’s defense startup is everywhere now. And that is exactly the problem.

In the span of a single news cycle, Anduril Industries announced it is leading a team to build space-based weapons for the United States Space Force, embedded its drone defense systems into NATO infrastructure in the Netherlands, and unveiled a subscription-based private cellular network it wants to rent to the military for battlefield communications. Three announcements. Three new sectors. One company. One software backbone running through all of it.

This is not a disruption. This is an occupation.

In the halls of academia, there was once a historian named Kevin Roberts. Long before he became the President of the Heritage Foundation, Roberts spent years submerged in the archives of American history. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the evolution of slavery in Louisiana and a master’s thesis on West African family structures. He was a man who once deeply researched the "DNA of resilience"—the same resilience we trace in our own family lineages. ​

But today, that same scholar has traded the historian’s pen for a political sledgehammer. As the chief architect of Project 2025, Roberts is no longer documenting history; he is attempting to rewrite the future of the American republic. ​As we look at this 900-page blueprint, we have to stop and ask ourselves: How did America get here? ​

A stunning investigative report by Hebrew-language outlet Ynet has laid bare the embarrassing cataclysm not only of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but the Zionist entity’s effort to destroy the Resistance via covert and overt military and intelligence operations. Violent Mossad-orchestrated protests, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s murder, and a Kurdish invasion were intended to produce regime change and “total victory” over Tehran. Yet, as Ynet concludes: “what started as a far-reaching Israeli move, rich in imagination, final in its solution, ends in heartache.”

Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala.

Forgive me the click-bait headline, but I need to get your attention to how India’s Hindu nationalist party has applied the voter-purge trickery and anti-immigrant race-baiting that Trump promises to import to the USA.

This is no accident: Trump cronies have spread their dark magic on the targeting of voters of the wrong color or religion from Hungary to Russia and other proto-fascist states. And now, with great success, they’ve taught Trump’s Hindu fascist BFF, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi even hired Trump’s bodyguard.

India’s state elections this week produced Trump’s wet dream. In West Bengal alone, 9.1 million people, overwhelmingly Muslims, were stripped from the voter rolls, tagged — using AI — as suspected alien voters who crossed illegally from Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma).

Modi’s voter purge assaults hit eleven other states including Tamil Nadu (9.78 million purged), Rajasthan (3.1 million) and my beloved Kerala (2.4 million). Kēraḷa valare sundaram āṇu. [Look it up!]

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition welcomes the imminent release from Israeli detention of our colleagues Thiago Ávila and Saif Abukeshek, unlawfully abducted by Israeli forces from civilian flotilla vessels in international waters and held under punitive conditions for over a week.

I woke up this morning intending to write an article about Israel’s refusal to release the last two Flotilla hostages—Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek—who were kidnapped by Israeli pirates on April 29 while in international waters, 500 nautical miles from Gaza. I was delighted to read on my news feed that Thiago and Saif, whom Israel accused of being Sumud Flotilla leaders, will be released today.

They Faced Torture and Inhumane Treatment

According to Adalah’s lawyers, who represent the hostages, both men were subjected to physical and psychological torture, including:

Ohio Republicans violated court rulings and kept running elections using gerrymandered maps. They repeatedly ignored (or only minimally complied with) court orders until deadlines passed. The courts ultimately lacked sufficient ability to compel Ohio to comply with orders and implement acceptable replacement maps. As a result, Ohio voters cast ballots in 2022 and in 2024 using maps that the Ohio Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional. [1][2][3]

What the courts said:

The Ohio Supreme Court struck down multiple sets of state legislative maps and congressional maps because they violated Ohio’s anti-gerrymandering rules and unfairly favored Republicans. News coverage and legal summaries describe the court rejecting five sets of legislative maps and two congressional maps, each time ordering the state to try again. The court’s January 2022 congressional ruling ordered lawmakers to pass a new map within 30 days, and later rulings gave similar redraw deadlines for legislative maps.[4][5][6][7][8]

How Ohio Republicans defied the rulings:

Since the outbreak of war on February 28, 2026, between the United States, Israel, and Iran, renewed attention has focused on resistance to the Iranian regime, particularly within diasporic Iranian communities and international media spheres. Public figures—some Iranian, many not—have spoken in solidarity. They post statements, deliver award-show remarks, share symbolic gestures, and call for international awareness. These interventions are often sincere. In some cases, they carry personal risk. Yet their prominence reveals a deeper tension: the growing tendency for political movements to be understood primarily through the voices of those who are already visible.

The difficulty is not celebrity participation as such. Public figures have long lent their voices to political causes. The problem emerges when visibility itself begins to organize political authority—when recognition substitutes for representation, and when the most amplified voices are treated, implicitly, as the most authoritative. Under contemporary media systems, fame does not merely amplify political struggle; it shapes how struggle becomes intelligible.