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Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa sat down with @john_walters_ for a conversation on how Ukraine can secure the front line, defend its civilian population, and ensure a just and lasting peace at the negotiating table.
Watch the full event: hudson.org/events/special-ad…
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UPDATE: This event will now air at 12:00 p.m.
Tomorrow, President @ZelenskyyUa will remotely deliver a special address and join @john_walters_ for a conversation on how Ukraine can secure the front line, defend its civilian population, and ensure a just and lasting peace at the negotiating table.
Watch live at 10:00 a.m. hudson.org/events/special-ad…
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With utility returns trending downward, Jigar Shah is blaming the wrong target for rising electricity bills, writes Guy Caruso, former administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
utilitydive.com/news/jigar-s…
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🚨Philadelphia jury delivers major win for ExxonMobil in gasoline-leukemia case
A Philadelphia jury has rejected claims that gasoline and other automotive products caused a man’s leukemia, handing ExxonMobil a clear victory that stands in sharp contrast to a recent $725 million verdict against the company in a similar case that the Superior Court recently upheld on procedural grounds.
Key points from the Oct. 13 verdict in the Leon and Ruth Mazza lawsuit:
◾️Jurors found ExxonMobil’s benzene-containing gasoline was not defectively designed.
◾️The jury concluded the company did not intentionally conceal the dangers of benzene, even while finding the gasoline lacked an adequate benzene warning.
◾️Plaintiffs (represented by the same Locks Law Firm as in the earlier Gill case) argued there is no safe level of benzene exposure and pointed to the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s reclassification of gasoline as carcinogenic to humans; the jury was not persuaded that these products caused Mazza’s leukemia.
◾️Mazza’s alleged exposures came from work at a Wyndmoor Exxon station, a body shop, landscaping businesses (1970–2020), plus personal use of benzene-containing products in his drag-racing hobby; he was diagnosed in 2022.
◾️The result undercuts the narrative from the Gill case, where a juror later blogged about the “best feeling ever” of seeing Exxon lawyers look like they “were going to puke,” and business groups had warned that such nuclear verdicts raise costs for everyone.
This defense win arrives just days after the Superior Court upheld the massive Gill judgment (largely on procedural grounds rather than a deep dive into the disputed science) and amid broader pushback against IARC-driven claims, including federal efforts to limit the agency’s influence.
For ExxonMobil and the industry, it shows that not every benzene-exposure lawsuit ends in a blockbuster plaintiff verdict. Juries can and do reject the “gasoline causes cancer” theory when the evidence doesn’t support it.
[Link to full story in the next post.]
Brigham McCown retweeted
The United States cannot let the CCP dictate the terms of technology, privacy, commerce, and communications.
America needs to work with its allies and partners to win the AI race and cement the free world's leadership in the global economy, @SenMcCormickPA emphasizes.
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“He reflected on the promise he had made at the [Russian] military academy, almost a decade earlier. ‘Did I betray my oath? I pledged to defend freedom, independence, and the constitutional order,’ he said.
‘But Putin destroyed all three.’”
"The Defector" - a 5,500-word espionage tale in today's WSJ that I can guarantee is worth your time.
I spent months speaking to one of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history, a Russian officer who helped Kyiv kill hundreds of his fellow troops wsj.com/world/russian-defect…
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🇺🇸⚡ An LNG exporter is building its own power grid, and selling the spare to AI
Venture Global has signed frame agreements with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes for up to 16 new 720MW power units.
11.5GW of gas-fired generation, off the public grid.
⚙️ The power will run its LNG plants, and the company plans to offer up to 10GW of capacity for data centers on land it owns.
📈 Venture Global already has gas, pipelines and land on the US Gulf Coast.
AI developers like Oracle are waiting months for a single pipeline.
Owning both the molecules and the power plant cuts that wait.
⚠️ There are two consequences.
More US gas gets burned at home, competing with LNG exports and it locks up turbines that are already reported sold out into 2030–31, leaving fewer for utilities.
Brigham McCown retweeted
If Americans continue to let fears of AI outweigh US interests, they risk dealing a devastating blow to one of the most innovative sectors of the economy.
Without American leadership in AI, Beijing will shape the technology's future, @pasracic writes.
realclearpolitics.com/articl…
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Cavemen Issues Dire Warning That The Wheel Is Going To Eliminate Countless Jobs
Brigham McCown retweeted
FERC rejects most of PJM’s large load interconnection plan
PJM Interconnection’s plan for curtailing large loads that don’t have matching new generation intrudes on state jurisdiction and may be discriminatory, FERC.
utilitydive.com/news/ferc-pj…
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Isn’t that quite telling? Nvidia’s market cap sits above the entire UK equity market, Microsoft’s above France and Germany. A few American companies now outweigh the entire stock markets of major European states.
Europe still trains strong engineers and scientists. What systematically discourages growth and innovation is the business environment. Layered regulation, data rules, the AI Act, sector-specific mandates, and slow permitting raise the fixed cost of trying anything large. High marginal taxes and repeated calls for wealth or “excess profit” levies shift capital from investment and innovation toward preservation and exit. A redistribution-first instinct treats outsized returns as a problem to be corrected rather than evidence that customers valued what was built.
Founders and capital notice, they incorporate, innovate, and hire where upside is allowed to compound, not punished by overregulation and taxation. The chart is the cumulative result of those choices, not a one-off accident of the last business cycle.
The AI revolution will only widen the gap between the US and Europe, which will become an open-air museum for wealthy Americans and Asians.
Brigham McCown retweeted
An economist, a chemist, and an engineer are on a deserted island... What could go wrong? Ronald Reagan explains.
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It's official! Oxford, Ohio is the Best College Town.🏆❤️
Thank you to everyone who voted and helped make this happen!
#MiamiOH #LoveAndHonor
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T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America.
This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap.
Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks.
Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon.
Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.
Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.
The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
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Hudson Institute is hiring a paid intern to join its Public Affairs Department.
This intern will support Hudson's public events, media outreach, and communications efforts to help maximize our impact in Washington and around the world.
Apply today: recruiting.paylocity.com/Rec…
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Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason and accused of selling state secrets to a foreign power ft.trib.al/urgwtQt
Brigham McCown retweeted
My #diesel fuel shortage article was published Friday morning just before the #G7 countries announced their coordinated response.
The missing #energy cushion is a real deal so please read my take on the challenge and the solution.
Check it out and let me know on what you think.
realclearworld.com/articles/…
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NOW: @russvought, director of @WHOMB, sits down with @RLHeinrichs to discuss the Trump administration's decisive efforts to build the Navy needed for today's intensifying threat environment. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwyrj…
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Trump says he did not 'jump the gun' on South Korea Alaska LNG investment announcement reuters.com/world/us/trump-s…
