Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Friday that over 60 companies provide answers on their involvement with leftist climate organizations, according to letters first shared with The Daily Wire.  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told large companies, including BlackRock, State Street Global Advisors, and J.P. Morgan, to preserve all documents related to their involvement with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and the Net Zero Asset Managers. They also asked whether their involvement with those organizations had any influence on their company policies and asset management.  The lawmakers wrote that “the Committee has uncovered evidence that financial institutions are colluding with climate activists through initiatives like the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative to collectively adopt and impose left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related goals, which may violate U.S. antitrust law.” “The Committee has obtained evidence that members of GFANZ and NZAM attempt to impose a ‘net-zero’ climate agenda on U.S. companies in their investment portfolios,” they added.  The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero describes itself as “a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy.” Net Zero Asset Managers, which says its signers have more than $57.5 trillion under management, is “an international group of asset managers committed, consistent with their fiduciary duty to their clients and beneficiaries, to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE In the letter to J.P.Morgan Asset Management shared with The Daily Wire, the lawmakers ask if its membership in the organization has “altered its ‘stewardship and engagement strategy’ with its portfolio companies” and if it had taken any actions to push the companies it invests in toward net zero.  The lawmakers also asked the companies if their involvement with both climate initiatives had impacted its voting policy, requesting an answer to its questions by January 10, 2025.  “The Committee has reason to believe that J.P. MorganAsset Management may be in possession of documents and communications related to GFANZ and NZAM’s collusive activity that would inform potential legislative reforms,” the lawmakers wrote. “This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials relating to the topics addressed in this letter.” In June, the House Judiciary Committee released a report saying that there was a “climate cartel” working together to push companies to impose radical environmental goals and the decarbonization of American industry.

One pet parent shares a hilarious tradition with his four-legged friend, Harry, whenever the dog gets his report card back from daycare. Usually, Dad reads the whole thing out loud so that the pooch can hear what his caregivers have to say about his behavior. Recently, though, the man was a little surprised by what he learned about his pup’s daily activities. His partner shared this “plot twist” in a video on social media. Harry’s report card contained a basic summary of what the dog had gotten up to throughout the day. As Dad read the piece of paper, he found out that his pooch had been very friendly and had participated in a variety of games. However, there was one pup that Harry had been especially happy to see: Stella. According to his owner, Harry has quite a little crush on this dog! @laura.bruce34 daddy reads harry’s report card from daycare .. and today we have a PLOT TWIST #fypシ #fyp #dogsoftiktok #harrythedoodle #goldendoodle #goldendoodlesoftiktok #dog #doglife #dogreportcard #doglifestyle #doggydaycare ♬ original sound – lauRA.bruce34 “That’s why you were a good boy today,” Dad teased. “You shared because Stella was back.” Obviously, Harry was very embarrassed when his owner brought up the other pooch. He started pawing at the man as if trying to get him to drop the subject. Since the dog was feeling so self-conscious about it, Dad moved on to the rest of the report card. However, this wouldn’t be the last time Stella was mentioned. As the man continued to read, he came across another reference to the canine’s crush. This time, the daycare confirmed what Dad had guessed earlier: Harry had been on his best behavior to impress the other dog. “He shared good today, mainly due to his main squeeze Stella was back,” the owner read out loud. Harry was absolutely mortified and tried to hide his face in one of the couch pillows. However, it wasn’t until the end of the report card that Dad learned something unexpected. Stella wasn’t the only pooch who seemed to be hitting it off with Harry! Screengrab from TikTok “Everybody loved Harry, mainly Stella, but also Ivy,” Dad read, adding, “Got another crush? Is Ivy your other crush?” Two-timing allegations aside, it sounded like Harry had been a good dog that day based on his report card. His owners were proud of him! However, Mom thought it was too hilarious that her pup had another girlfriend at daycare. “Daddy reads Harry’s report card from daycare… and today we have a PLOT TWIST,” the woman wrote in the caption of the video. We hope Stella doesn’t find out about this! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Pup’s Report Card From Doggy Daycare Comes With Unexpected Twist appeared first on InspireMore.

He refuses to even call her 'mom'

'The Raw Milkmaid Dress is the bridge'

Hahahahahahaha! This is hilarious

Musk is making a sacrifice

'I'm going to quit my job and I'm going to move'

Joseph R. Biden (reminder: still the president of the United States) will leave office in a month, leaving behind a legacy of achievements and failures, as all presidents do. Nowhere has his footprint been greater than on the issue of borders and immigration. History will judge more clearly with the perspective of time exactly what Biden has wrought. But here’s my quick take on his immediate legacy on our national security. Crime and No Punishment This deserves many  lengthier analyses, some of which I’ve already written. Our major cities, all run by elected Democrats, are already reeling from the effects of leftist  “rogue” prosecutors like New York’s Alvin Bragg, Los Angeles’ George Gascon, and Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner. Driven by woke ideology, these elected top cops chose not to prosecute many recidivist criminals, including those suffering from mental illness. Instead, they released Them onto streets and subways, where they continue to present a significant risk to others. Compounding the native-born criminals are thousands of illegal aliens released at the border or paroled within the United States by Biden’s accomplice, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. They are cut loose by the Department of Homeland Security despite us having no confirmation of their identity or knowledge of their criminal history back home. I warned about Tren de Aragua a year ago. Close to half of U.S. states are now feeling the presence of this nightmarish gang of violent criminals. We need a nationwide federal effort, aided by state and local law enforcement, to root them out. Even with that, many of these thugs will be wreaking havoc for years to come. There are too many individual examples of American lives ended or neighborhoods blighted by aliens who should not be here—robberies in New York, killer drunk drivers in Detroit,  religious minorities shot by fanatics in Chicago, and increased crime and overtaxed police forces in cities and towns across the nation. Each such incident lowers the sense of national public safety. Crumbling Cities Democrat mayors like New York’s Eric Adams, Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, and Boston’s Michelle Wu have forced taxpayers in their states to house, feed, educate, and care for tens of thousands of illegal migrants—many sent to their cities with federal assistance. They expected a federal bailout from Biden’s White House, and they did get billions while he was in office. But why would Donald Trump, with Republicans holding both houses in Congress, continue to financially support “sanctuary” cities and states that are aiding mass illegal immigration? El Paso, Texas, on the Mexican border, has only survived being a transit point for illegal migration by tapping into federal cash from a friendly administration—at least $40 million to the city, and more directly to nonprofits that are enriched by illegal migration. With Trump, that funding will dry up. “I don’t see the funding available going forward whatsoever,” Democrat El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said. Me neither. Not for El Paso, nor Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, or any other city that welcomed inadmissible migrants with no limits. The American public voted against mass illegal migration, and they surely won’t vote to keep throwing good money after bad. Executive Arrogance Biden’s worst legacy has been the way he ignored or subverted law, custom, and restraint in pursuit of his globalist ideology. Just as he did with “forgiving” student loans, Biden simply bypassed the law and arrogated authority. He used immigration parole, a tool meant for a few special cases a year, to facilitate mass illegal migration, laundering it under the labels “safe, orderly migration” and “expanded lawful pathways.” He shielded aliens from due process by handing out “temporary protected status” inconsistent with its intended purpose. His Department of Homeland Security used “administrative closure” to shelve thousands of immigration cases and avoid making decisions on asylum. Mayorkas threw administrative roadblocks in front of his enforcement officers to make their work almost impossible. Even where decisions to deport an alien after due process had been made, they sometimes “deferred enforced departure”— a deliberate decision not to carry out the court order to deport. Biden moved decision-making on many cases from experienced immigration judges to U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services asylum officers, encouraging ideological bias, less scrutiny, and more fraud. The list of ways in which Biden’s presidency set back both the rule of law and timely due process in immigration law is too long for this article, but he surely sets a historical record. We know the myth of Pandora, the Greek girl who opened a box of evils that she could never put back. Biden opened a Pandora’s box of executive overreach that needs to be shut by Congress to avoid this ever happening again. Congress needs to pass a law like last year’s Secure the Border Act that would discourage future executives from following Biden’s lawless example. Setback to National Immigration Policy Biden’s final legacy is that the public has soured, for now at least, on what should be a great success story—American immigration. He and his cabinet lumped together legal and illegal immigration, using euphemisms and Orwellian “newspeak” to attempt to dumb us all down. Not all illegal immigrants are sympathetic “refugees” or “asylum-seekers.” Calling someone “undocumented” gives us little clue as to their actual status. Are they illegal aliens, or did they simply leave their passports and visas in the hotel safe? “Noncitizen” is a useless term that encompasses foreign ambassadors, agricultural workers from Mexico, lawful permanent residents of the United States, and Venezuelan gang members released at the border. “Lawful pathways” include parole, which is arguably unlawful and leads nowhere, as it can be revoked at any time. No wonder the public is confused. Our legal immigration system does need reform to put American economic interests ahead of outdated notions of refugee and family reunification, as this Heritage Foundation report argues. But major changes to our current system will not gain enough public support until voters know that the existing laws will be respected, not ignored or circumvented. For someone who repeatedly said no one was above the law, often in reference to Donald Trump, Biden violated the law flagrantly and regularly. From Biden’s legacy of ashes at the border, we need to see a phoenix rise: an immigration policy that puts America first, respects borders and nations, and rejects globalist dictates that respect neither. The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues such as human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. Read Other BorderLine Columns: When Can Government Deport Foreign Students for Pro-Hamas Protests? Could Biden Ignore the Law Yet Again to Bring a Million Gazans to the US? Sanctuary Cities—A Dangerous Game We All Lose How Trump Reverses the Destruction Biden’s Pro-Illegal Immigration Ideologues Wrought To Have a Serious Talk About Immigration, You’ve Got to First Debunk the Myths The post Biden’s Border Legacy Is More Crime, Strained Cities: The BorderLine appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) is not the only entity engaging globally (the Gates Foundation comes to mind as another) that likes to turn to developing, or small and often functionally dependent states to “test” or “check” some of the key elements of its policies. The pandemic put the WHO center-stage, and in many ways influenced the UN’s clear change of trajectory from its true purpose to assisting governments globally in policing speech and surveilling their populations. The WHO is comfortable in conflating health-focused issues (its actual mandate), with what it presents as threats linked to “disinformation” and “AI.” And it even worries that “health misinformation” is what is eroding public trust in “governmental bodies, media, health professionals and more generally the health sector, academic institutions, and the wider scientific community” – in other words, the entrenched elites, or elites who believe they need to remain entrenched at any cost. All of this, is to promote the claim that the pandemic was a useful tool (“a catalyst”) that improved “misinformation management” – in the Pacific. Specifically, 17 island states, including Fiji and Tonga, were picked for the WHO’s “needs assessment,” carried out in November 2023. We have an addition to the mis/dis/malinformation narrative – rumors. That’s another thing the WHO now looks to “manage” and the organization says the Pacific states – where it essentially went to learn how the pandemic influenced the authorities’ treatment of public discourse – identified this as one of their “top priorities” for this year. Apparently understanding the results of its own “needs assessment” as a signal to go ahead and “build capacity” in these island states, the WHO reveals that this includes something called “enhancing social listening.” It might sound like bureaucratic gibberish, but the WHO actually gives insight into what it’s about – analyzing conversations and narratives to understand public perceptions and concerns. To what end? To “address” health misinformation and disinformation, the way this UN agency chooses to define them. And to implement its policies, the WHO has come up with a platform called “OpenWHO” (it seems no branding, especially of potentially controversial things, is these days complete without adding the word “open” to the name). The WHO’s platform consists of “a range of tools, frameworks, training, and other resources” for combating misinformation, and here, it has been “further modified to the Pacific context.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post WHO Expands “Misinformation Management” Efforts with “Social Listening” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

DOGE vs DEI (and the ACLU)