4/ OMB Director Russ Vought: “It’s very possible we might use pocket rescissions. It’s one of our executive tools. It’s been used before. And it’s fully legal.” This is how you defund the swamp without getting bogged down by RINOs or Senate Dems.

“The engineering of consent by an elite of experts and professional politicians. Consent that is thus engineered is difficult to distinguish in any fundamental way from the consent that supports modern totalitarian governments.” — The Consent of the Governed

The Brussels Defect, How the European Union Failed the People.

The US Department of Energy has published a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate The Report is authored by DOE’s Climate Working Group (CWG): John Christy, Judith Curry, Steve Koonin, Ross McKitrick, Roy

“The report concludes that CO2-induced warming appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and that aggressive mitigation strategies could be more harmful than beneficial.” — 1.5C policy is catastrophic. energy.gov/topics/climate

Commission proposes partial suspension of Israel's association to Horizon Europe “This decision will affect the participation of Israeli entities in start-ups and small businesses with technologies that have potential dual-use applications, such as in AI” ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

“Non-profits are accused of ‘exploiting businesses’. Florida’s attorney general has subpoenaed CDP and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as part of an investigation into “deceptive trade practices”. real-economy-progress.com/cdp-sbti-subpo…