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After taking a beating for the first year of the Trump administration, the beleaguered wind energy industry may finally see a glimmer of hope.

Trump and Interior Department chief Doug Burgum have spent months in an all-out assault against the technology, and in particular against offshore wind projects in federal waters. They have frozen all new leases, repealed clean energy tax credits, and even paid off an oil company to not build a planned wind project. The most dramatic move came in December, when Burgum paused work on five under-construction wind farms on “national security” grounds.

The developers of these five projects — two off the Massachusetts coastline, two south of Long Island, and one off the coast of Virginia — sued over the stop-work orders, and a series of federal judges soon issued injunctions against the Interior Department’s interventions.

Burgum had vowed to fight back, but last week, the department quietly let the final deadline for appealing the courts’ decisions lapse. The move means construction of the nation’s first five major wind farms along the eastern seaboard can continue absent a change in the case. When complete, the wind farms will generate enough electricity to power well over 2 million homes.

The lack of appeals likely represents a recognition that the government couldn’t stop the five projects from moving forward, said Tony Irish, who served as an Interior Department lawyer for decades before leaving in 2025.

“If the actual reason behind the stop work orders was legitimately founded in national security, I would be very surprised by the lack of appeal,” he said. “So I think the lack of appeal is telling in that regard.”

Developers of the five major wind projects haven’t wasted time, with several of the projects already producing power. Revolution Wind, a project from Danish company Ørsted, delivered its first electricity to the New England grid in mid-March. Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, a project from the Virginia utility Dominion, is about 70 percent complete and also delivered its first electricity last month. The farthest-along project, Vineyard Wind, produced a massive amount of electricity earlier this year during Winter Storm Fern when other power resources were offline.

The lack of appeals could be good news for future wind projects as well. A bipartisan group of senators has been debating a long-delayed “permitting reform” bill for months. The bill would speed up environmental review for critical energy projects, make it easier to build interstate transmission lines, and protect clean energy permits from federal interventions like those of the Trump administration. (It would also likely afford the same protections to oil and gas projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline, which President Joe Biden scrapped after taking office in 2021.)

Those bipartisan talks broke down after Burgum’s stop-work order. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who is leading the talks, told congressional Republicans and the Trump administration that they would only resume if the Interior Department declined to appeal the court injunctions for the offshore wind projects. Senate Democrats are also hoping to see Burgum advance solar projects on federal lands.

A potential thaw on offshore wind might benefit the president as he tries to manage the fallout from the Iran war, which has sent gasoline prices soaring and contributed to fears of an energy shortage around the world. The White House’s “energy dominance council” has begun participating in the congressional permitting talks.

“There’s a confluence of market realities that make this a particularly hopeful year for us,” said Chris Phalen, vice president of domestic policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, in an interview with Bloomberg Government. Proponents of permitting legislation stressed that the next few months before the midterm election season are pivotal for achieving a deal.

A broader set of reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, the nation’s bedrock environmental permitting law, would be controversial, but research shows that it might accelerate the deployment of onshore wind energy: A recent survey of around 50 renewable developers found that around 80 percent of them had selected a project site so as to avoid the federal environmental permitting process.

Other developers reported that reviews for historical artifacts and endangered species can add months or years to project timelines, and that the reviews may have held up at least 11 gigawatts of energy, or enough to power almost 5 million homes. A reform effort, likely modeled on the House-passed “SPEED Act,” would aim to shorten review timelines and limit litigation.  (The environmental review for the five in-progress offshore wind projects took multiple years, even under the wind-friendly Biden administration.)

“Bipartisan permitting reform is the next critical step,” said Liz Burdock, the CEO of the Oceantic Network, a trade group that advocates for offshore wind. She added that ease of permitting could enable millions more homes’ worth of new wind development, but warned that “without a predictable path to build, manufacturers, shipyards, and skilled workers are forced to sit idle, creating gaps that raise costs and delay benefits for millions of ratepayers.”

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline There’s hope for the offshore wind industry — yes, really on Apr 8, 2026.

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[Op-ed by Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and the author, most recently, of, 'The Devil and Communist China'.]

I don’t know Elsa Johnson, the Stanford student who recently testified before Congress that she is being targeted by Chinese intelligence agents because her research and writing was critical of Beijing.

But it turns out that we have a lot in common.

I, too, have been targeted by Chinese intelligence agents and for the same reason: I was a Stanford scholar who published articles critical of the Communist regime.

In Johnson’s case the apparent agent first posed as a fellow student, asking her about her research and flattering her by saying she could become a social media star in China and make a lot of money. When he offered to arrange for a visa and pay her travel costs, her alarm bells went off.

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On one occasion a Chinese man posing as a political dissident first befriended me in person, attending talks I was giving at various California universities, and then not long after began offering all-expense-paid trips to China, complete with generous lecture fees and access to senior officials.

“You must visit the New China,” he urged me again and again in follow-up calls and texts. “You will be treated very well.”

I knew that the unspoken trade-off of accepting such largesse was having to tone down my criticism of China’s abysmal human rights record. I declined the offer. I have seen too many of my fellow China watchers go wobbly on China, if not become grovelling panda-huggers, after a few profitable trips there.

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The Chinese authorities were so apparently furious at my exposure of their brutal one-child policy — in which I documented forced abortions up to the point of birth — that it threatened to cancel the entire scholarly exchange programme between the US and China unless I was silenced. Stanford University itself, I learnt from my late colleague, Professor Arthur Wolf, was warned that it must “punish me severely for my crimes against the Chinese people” or else no Stanford scholars would ever again be allowed to do research in China.

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Punished for buying villagers a $4,000 truck

As I would ultimately testify in Congress, Stanford not only did not defend my right to publish my research on China’s crimes against its people, but it punished me for doing so. University officials, anxious to preserve their ties with China and bowing to its threats, began an investigation of my research in China that lasted five long years.

They actively collaborated with China to concoct a case against me, going so far as to ask the Beijing authorities to detail my supposed “crimes against the Chinese people”. The denunciation that Stanford received in return read like it came straight out of the Cultural Revolution.

It accused me of entering a restricted province (I had a valid travel document), of gifting Junan commune, where I lived, a small flatbed truck costing $4,000 (I wanted to help the villagers get their produce to market and alleviate their poverty), and — my personal favourite — of writing articles to “attack the Chinese people”.

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A disabled woman who featured in a BBC Panorama episode about benefit cuts has shared her complaint to the BBC over their biased reporting of her experiences. She also shared the BBC’s bullshit response.

BBC Panorama doing the DWP’s job

Alex appeared in the Panorama episode ‘The Rising Cost of Health Benefits’, which aired in March 2026. The documentary was the usual anti-disability benefits propaganda from the BBC that does the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) job for them.

In the current climate, where the DWP are trying to restrict Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and has already cut Universal Credit (UC) for disabled people, the intent was clear. To spread mistrust of disabled people who rely on benefits to survive.

The backdrop to this hate was disabled people’s real stories of their struggles to survive and why they need benefits. This included Alex, a prominent content creator who is multiply disabled, though the documentary, of course, only focused on her ADHD and autism. It’s absolutely no coincidence these were the focus whilst the government is trying to prove those particular conditions are overdiagnosed.

During the documentary, all of Alex’s actions and accommodations she makes for her disability are presented as choices. The documentary even had Alex go through her PIP assessment results and, via the voiceover, snarkily contradicted her. The presenter incorrectly says:

Alex is able to do all the activities in the PIP assessment but she says she needs prompting or assistance with some of them.

Overall, the documentary presents the idea that it’s easy to get PIP. It exploited vulnerable people who wanted to get their truth out there against the rising tide of disabled hatred.

Bias is clear

But now, Alex is sharing her complaint to the BBC and their bullshit response.

Alex was only able to complain about one particular quote from the show so she chose the line mentioned above, reporting it as inaccuracy and bias. She points out that if the line was true, she wouldn’t get PIP in the first place and that by using ‘she says’ the presenter makes it sound like Alex’s opinion and not a fact.

The BBC also missed out a crucial part of the assessment criteria, which Alex highlights:

The wording of PIP questionnaires is ‘can prepare food unaided’, ‘can wash or bathe unaided’ – ‘unaided’ is a key word here that the journalist has missed out.

Alex also explained that she didn’t just decide she was neurodivergent, it’s backed up a mountain of evidence, which you need to get PIP.

The BBC’s response is, as expected, patronising as fuck and takes no accountability. The complaints team claim they reflected Alex’s experiences fairly and ‘respecfully disagree’ that the line was biased and inaccurate.

The response says:

The programme makers witnessed you cooking and also filmed you explaining how you did it. They also included your explanation that it was a good day and that on other occasions you would lack the motivation to cook for yourself. You explained in the interview that you don’t like showering and that you dislike the sensory aspect in particular but you also made it clear that you can and do shower.

BBC refuse to take responsibility

Alex explains in the video that she was able to do the tasks during filming as it felt like a challenge and there were people there who, not directly supporting her, made it feel like body doubling.

She says in the video:

So yes I did cook when they were there, does it mean I can cook for myself all the freaking time? absolutely not. if you spent a whole day with me you would see that I cannot take care of myself as well as it may come across in a tiny little portion of my day where you were there and I was masking.

The BBC’s reponse also draws attention to footage which wasn’t aired showing Alex taking medication and her explaining what it was for. They also mentioned filming her going to an acting class, which Alex explains was an induction day which she asked them not to film.

As Alex explains in the second video, she took paracetamol for her endometriosis, a condition which isn’t included in the documentary, probably because it didn’t fit the narrative. Another part which was cut from the show was her explaining that she uses aids to remember her medication.

The BBC claim that they referenced her being able to complete the PIP activities because it was ‘a reflection of what the team recorded’

To this Alex responded angrily:

It fucking wasn’t and you deliberately missed out the fucking ‘with aid’ or ‘without aid’ which is the most important part because the disability is not only ‘can do’ or ‘cannot do’. If you say I can do all the activities in the PIP assessment people are gonna thing why the fuck is she getting PIP then.

Alex also reveals that the team knew she struggled because they asked her to send videos specifically talking about her struggles in between takes, which she did but they weren’t aired in the show.

‘Curating a narrative’

She closes the video series by condemning the BBC and Panorama:

You just wanted to curate your narrative that ‘invisible disability really and truly can’t be seen so should we even trust it?’

Alex is 100% correct. It’s clear that shows like BBC Panorama and the majority of the media only want to demonise disabled people for views and clicks. They do not care about what happens to us and the harm the disgusting narrative does, as long as they sell papers and get their viewing figures up.

At a time when the DWP are trying every way they can to destroy disabled people’s lives, shows like Panorama are complicit. That’s why it’s so important that they are called out.

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Russia’s profits from exporting oil, gas and fertilizer amount to more than €10 billion ($11.54 billion) a month, the chamber said. "Russia is the big winner of the new war in the Middle East," Matthias Schepp, the chamber’s chairman, told dpa.

Bedford Borough Council has received an application for Permission in Principle for a single dwelling house on land in Parklands, Brookfields Road, Bedford.

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Dümmstes Parken auf einem Radweg diese Woche? Ich habe ihn anfahren sehen und die Ladezone war auch da schon frei. Stattdessen musste er zwei Bordsteine überwinden und auf den Verkehr achten, um zu seinem Ziel neben der Ladezone zu kommen. Beides dauerte.

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Title. Obviously youtube is out. Google results have been unhelpful. I tried Pornhub, but no dice. I wanna learn how to shave my twig and berries nice and smooth, because I'm a considerate partner - but I'm tired of trial and error and nicking myself on the nuts.

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Am Samstag 11. April um 14:00 Uhr versammeln wir uns in Stuttgart gemeinsam auf dem Rotebühl-Platz, um ein klares Zeichen zu setzen: Ein klares NEIN zur Polizeisoftware von Palantir in Baden-Württemberg! Nicht jetzt, nicht später. Unsere Innere Sicherheit und kritische Infrastruktur darf nicht abhängig von solch zwielichtigen Firmen werden.

Joy and Max both work at a startup.

Joy stands out with striking looks, exceptional social skills, and flawless talent, while Max is practically invisible, socially anxious, and a master of eating alone.

Somehow, the two end up on the same team, sitting right next to each other, and on their very first day as teammates, Max accidentally sees something on Joys monitor that he definitely wasnt supposed to see!

From that moment on, his once peaceful office life begins to spiral out of control!

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Lawmakers call for use of 25th amendment after president brazenly threatens to commit war crimes in Iran

As Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while Republicans remain conspicuously silent.

Democrats are escalating their rebukes as the 79-year-old president delivers rambling, incoherent speeches, hurls puerile insults at US allies and brazenly threatens to commit war crimes. He used an Easter Sunday social media post to warn Iran to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell”.

The president followed up by insisting that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the strait of Hormuz.

By Tuesday afternoon, more than 20 Democratic members of Congress had called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove a president who is deemed unfit for office.

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