01/21/2026
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Pope Leo Evaluating US Invitation To Join Trump’s Gaza Board Of Peace
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Pope Leo XIV has been invited to join President Donald Trump’s “Board of
Peace,” according to a fresh Wednesday statement from the Vatican’s secretary
of state. “We’ve also received this invitation and the pope received it and we
are looking at what to do. We are researching and I believe it’s a question
that demands […]
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Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up
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from the yet-more-evidence-that-haidt-is-wrong dept For years now, we’ve been
repeatedly pointing out that the “social media is destroying kids” narrative,
popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of
shaky, often contradictory research. We’ve noted that the actual data is far
more nuanced than the moral panic suggests, and that policy […]
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US Slaps Down French Calls For NATO Drills In Greenland, Mocks Macron
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Among the big and more notable quotes to come out of President Trump’s Davos
address is his statement that he “won’t use force” to take over Greenland while
calling for “immediate negotiations” to discuss the “acquisition” of the Arctic
territory by the United States from Denmark. “This enormous unsecured island is
actually part of North America,” Trump said before […]
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Von Der Leyen Hand-Wrings About “Raw Power” Under Trump After Venezuela
Silence
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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned Wednesday before the
European Parliament that the 27-member EU must accelerate efforts to strengthen
both its economy and its defenses, as it confronts a shifting global order
shaped by what she called “raw power.” She took the opportunity to caution
Washington and President Trump over his Greenland […]
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Limiting Small Refiner Protections From the RFS Puts US Refining Capacity at
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The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was created 20 years ago at a time of “peak
oil” hysteria. President George Bush feared declining U.S. oil production and
dependence on foreign oil. Domestic fuel from corn and other ethanol feedstocks
was presented as a national security imperative. Two decades later, the U.S. is
the world’s largest oil […]
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