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This Presidential Determination is a landmark invocation of the Defense Production Act, specifically Section 303. This invocation is important because it is likely part of a chain of similar usages of the production action act . It formally classifies the entire U.S. electric grid infrastructure and associated upstream supply chains as essential to national defense. Covered items include large transformers, high-voltage transmission lines and conductors, grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), substations, power electronics, and related critical raw materials. All of which are existing bottlenecks . The order authorizes and directs the Secretary of Energy to immediately implement purchases, financial support, and commitments aimed at rapidly expanding domestic production capacity. Normal procedural requirements are waived to enable swift progress. This announcement is vitally important as it confronts serious vulnerabilities including chronic shortages, extended multi-year lead times, and dangerous overreliance on imported equipment from China and other foreign sources. It significantly strengthens overall grid resilience, meets the exploding electricity demand driven by AI data centers and electrification, reduces critical supply chain risks, and bolsters long-term U.S. energy independence and national security.

J Street/GBAO poll of 800 American Jews: 40%, including 66% of younger Jewish Democrats, say that an AIPAC endorsement makes them less likely to support that candidate. 66% oppose AIPAC spending in Dem primaries.

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the German Chancellor should bow his head and apologize a thousand times on behalf of Germany, rather than daring to preach morality to us on how to conduct ourselves against the Nazis of our generation—who murdered, raped, slaughtered, and burned women, the elderly, and children in the most horrific massacre perpetrated against the Jewish people since the terrible Holocaust. We will not accept instructions from hypocritical leaders in Europe, a continent that is once again losing its conscience and its ability to distinguish between good and evil. ​Mr. Chancellor, ​The days when Germans dictated to Jews where they were permitted or forbidden to live are over and shall not return. You will not force us into ghettos again, certainly not in our own land. ​Our return to the Land of Israel—our biblical and historical homeland—is the answer to anyone who tried or tries to destroy us, and we do not apologize for it for a single moment. ​Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the German Chancellor should bow his head and apologize a thousand times on behalf of Germany, rather than daring to preach morality to us on how to conduct ourselves against the Nazis of our generation—who murdered, raped, slaughtered, and burned women, the elderly, and children in the most horrific massacre perpetrated against the Jewish people since the terrible Holocaust. We will not accept instructions from hypocritical leaders in Europe, a continent that is once again losing its conscience and its ability to distinguish between good and evil. ​Mr. Chancellor, ​The days when Germans dictated to Jews where they were permitted or forbidden to live are over and shall not return. You will not force us into ghettos again, certainly not in our own land. ​Our return to the Land of Israel—our biblical and historical homeland—is the answer to anyone who tried or tries to destroy us, and we do not apologize for it for a single moment. ​Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

Some absolutely INSANE numbers about the Amish. Average woman gives birth to 6 children in their lifetime. ~4% of first births are to unwed mothers. But here's crazier numbers: They convert virtually NO ONE. 154 total in 100 years. Retention: 85%

"Zero Enrichment" is a deal-breaker, a non-starter and unserious. No country would EVER agree to that, and frankly, we shouldn't have the right to tell people. Nobody wants to say it, but it's true. If that's the stand US wants to take, then we'll be fighting until we're spent.