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LOL, Jeffrey Epstein "pal" Bill Gates walks back his previous banana-boat climate catastrophism.

Billionaire Bill Gates -- long one of the loudest voices warning of climate catastrophe -- now says the world has bigger problems to worry about. In a 17-page memo released Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder called for a "strategic pivot" away from the obsessive focus on reducing global temperatures, urging leaders instead to prioritize fighting poverty and eradicating disease in the developing world. "Climate change is a serious problem, but it's not the end of humanity," Gates wrote.

Gates, 70, argued that global leaders have lost perspective by treating climate change as an existential crisis while millions continue to suffer from preventable diseases like malaria. "If I had to choose between eradicating malaria and preventing a tenth of a degree of warming, I'd let the temperature go up 0.1 degree," he told reporters ahead of next month's U.N. climate conference in Brazil. "People don't understand the suffering that exists today."

For decades, Gates has positioned himself as a leading advocate for global climate initiatives, investing billions in green energy projects and warning of the dangers of rising emissions. Yet his latest comments mark a striking reversal -- and a rare admission that the world's climate panic may have gone too far. "If you think climate is not important, you won't agree with the memo," Gates told journalists. "If you think climate is the only cause and apocalyptic, you won't agree with the memo. It's a pragmatic view from someone trying to maximize the money and innovation that helps poor countries."

Low-IQ thug Jasmine Ratchet has been getting rich from corporations while denouncing the same corporations.

Oh -- and she's investing heavily in pot.

Andrew Kerr of Free Beacon:

Inside Jasmine Crockett's Secret Stock Portfolio and Failed Attempts To Become a Marijuana Magnate Crockett, a potential 2028 Senate candidate, did not report her stakes in major pharmaceutical, fossil fuel, marijuana, technology, and automobile firms

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) owned stocks in at least 25 companies that she did not disclose to the public during her first congressional run in 2022, even though she'd quietly admitted to the holdings the previous year as a Texas state legislator. Crockett also didn't reveal the stock holdings once she got to Washington in 2023.

The far-left firebrand's impressive financial portfolio--according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request--clashes with her image as an eco-warrior and beacon of progressivism. Further, Crockett, a self-described civil rights attorney, was an active stakeholder in the cannabis business--seeking unsuccessfully to open marijuana dispensaries in Ohio--even as she represented, as a defense lawyer, a man accused of murdering someone in a marijuana deal gone bad. Both in the Texas statehouse and in Congress, Crockett has pushed bills to decriminalize marijuana.

The records obtained by the Free Beacon open a window into the personal financial life of Crockett, 44, who says she supports herself. "I have no husband, y'all. Never been married, never been engaged," she told an interviewer in February, holding up her hands to emphasize the absence of a ring.

The House sophomore's stock holdings include stakes in several corporations that stood to benefit from actions she's taken as a lawmaker and legislation she's introduced in Congress, and others that stand in opposition to the image she's cultivated as a champion of green energy.

Crockett reported owning a sizable stock portfolio in her last financial disclosure as a Texas state lawmaker covering the 2021 calendar year, with stakes in major pharmaceutical, fossil fuel, technology, automobile, and marijuana firms. But the potty-mouthed progressive, who said Wednesday she is strongly considering running for Senate in Texas, did not disclose owning any of those same stocks in her first congressional financial disclosure, which also covered her financial holdings during the 2021 calendar year.

Twenty-five undisclosed stocks in Crockett's portfolio include her ownership of shares in Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, General Motors, Uber, DuPont, ExxonMobil, American Airlines, AT&T, Aurora Cannabis, Ford, and "Corporate Cannabis," and "Stocks Worldwide," the records show. Crockett also reported in her last Texas financial disclosure owing debts of at least $110,000--none of which she divulged in her first congressional financial disclosure covering the same calendar year.

Candidates for Congress are required to file detailed financial disclosures. If victorious, they must file more disclosures when beginning their terms. False or incomplete financial reports can lead to civil and even criminal penalties.

Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of ethics watchdog Americans for Public Trust, told the Free Beacon that Crockett's undisclosed stock portfolio and debts raise major conflict of interest concerns, with several of the companies, in particular the firms in the pharmaceutical and marijuana industries, standing to benefit from actions she's taken in the Texas state legislature and Congress.

As a black woman of immigrant, I celebrate Jasmine Ratchet and I oppose any dirty-assed racist who wants to stop her from being Cannabis Queen.

Indiana announces it will redistrict for 2026.

They might go for two whole seats. The current makeup is 7 Republicans, two Democrats.

Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Braun announced Monday that he's calling lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special legislative session to redraw the state's congressional map -- a move expected to solidify GOP representation and potentially add up to two more Republican-held seats ahead of the 2026 midterms. Braun said in a statement posted to X that he's taking action "to protect Hoosiers from efforts in other states that seek to diminish their voice in Washington" and to ensure Indiana's congressional representation remains fair.

The governor's call follows President Donald Trump personally urging Indiana Republicans earlier this month to move quickly on redistricting before next year's elections. "I am calling a special legislative session to protect Hoosiers from efforts in other states that seek to diminish their voice in Washington and ensure their representation in Congress is fair," Braun wrote. "I am also asking the legislature to conform Indiana's tax code with new federal tax provisions to ensure stability and certainty for taxpayers and tax preparers for 2026 filings." Indiana's current U.S. House delegation consists of seven Republicans and two Democrats. While Braun didn't specify whether the goal is to flip both Democrat-held seats, GOP strategists view the session as a clear opportunity to grow the party's majority and counter Democrat-led gerrymanders in blue states.

Elon Musk has launched a direct (and superior) competitor to wikipedia, Grokipedia.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture xAI launched "Grokipedia" on Monday -- a new online encyclopedia built to challenge what he says is Wikipedia's entrenched political bias. The site, powered by xAI's technology and integrated with Grok, the same AI system behind Musk's X platform, aims to provide a politically balanced alternative to the long-dominant Wikipedia, which critics have accused for years of leftist censorship and selective editing.

Grokipedia, now live in its beta "v0.1" stage, opens with roughly 885,000 entries -- a fraction of Wikipedia's seven million English-language pages but a notable start for a platform that launched just hours ago. Some users experienced temporary errors upon the rollout, but by Monday evening the site was running smoothly. Musk framed the project as part of his broader effort to restore transparency and ideological diversity to the digital space, echoing his moves to overhaul Twitter into X.

The billionaire's feud with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has grown increasingly bitter in recent months. Musk has accused Wales of allowing Wikipedia to devolve into a propaganda outlet that protects liberal narratives while suppressing dissenting voices. "Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored," Musk wrote in a January post on X. Wales, for his part, has dismissed Grokipedia as an unserious experiment, telling the Washington Post last week that AI-generated content is prone to "massive factual errors" and lacks editorial oversight.

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