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, female lobbyists are more likely to gain access to meetings with policy makers. Did they really have to study that to find out that female lobbyists can get meetings with policy makers more easily? Apparently even with female policy makers. But I would have known that too. Let me tell you about my career day when I was a senior in college. In my little college in upstate New York, when I was a…

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3 and Model Y that's delivered in the United States uses batteries that are 100% made in America? Did you think we could even do that? I didn't even know that America could make that many batteries. But apparently Tesla has been able to make all of its batteries completely in America for some time now. So that's interesting to know.

And according to a post I saw on X by Nick Cruz Patain, he says that Tesla vehicles share the same batteries, cameras, and computers as the Optimus robots will. So I think I kind of guessed that it would be the same AI and computers and why wouldn't they use the same batteries, you know, the smaller versions. So yeah, you're going to have robots and self-driving cars, and it's all coming quickly.

In other news, the Washington Post is reporting that Trump has ordered that schools develop some kind of AI training for American kids. I guess China's already doing this. China is forcing kids in China at the youngest age to learn AI. And now Trump's trying to catch up and he's going to put cryptobillionaire David Sacks, that's one way to describe him, I wouldn't describe him as a cryptobillionaire, that feels dismissive, but David Sacks will be involved in that. And the executive order will force schools to train students and teachers in artificial intelligence. That seems like a really wise thing to do. And I think Trump also signed an executive order to get more trade training to young people as well. That could be good.

In other news, Paramount, I guess they own CBS, they settled a discrimination suit over DEI policies. There was a specific white man who couldn't get a job within that entity within CBS because he was told directly that he didn't check any boxes for DEI. So even though he was highly qualified and experienced, he just couldn't get a job at CBS as a writer. They just needed more DEI. So America First Legal took that case and pressed it and apparently succeeded. So I don't know if there's a financial settlement, but the company Paramount and CBS decided to publicly back away from all the DEI stuff. So that's good. So only one million companies to go.

I remember when I got cancelled and I told my story about how back in the 80s and 90s it was almost impossible to get promoted if you were a white man in San Francisco. And I remember I think it was an editor, a black editor in Chicago who challenged me on X and said, "There's no evidence of that. You're making that up." And I thought, making it up? If you want to find out if it's true that in the 80s and 90s a white man couldn't get promoted as long as there was anybody who wasn't a white man who also wanted the job, you could just walk outside and just go up to any white man if they were 50 years old or older and just tap them on the shoulder and say, "Hey, were you ever discriminated against for being a white man?" They would have all said yes. You've got something like probably 30 to 50 million witnesses. And yet there was an educated, successful, professional black man in Chicago who had no idea that that existed.

Do you know why? Because if you even mentioned it, you would get cancelled. You couldn't even mention it. So now that I don't have to worry about having a boss, I can mention it. But imagine what a surprise that would be to have lived your whole life without knowing that white men were the ones most discriminated against, at least in corporate America. I think small businesses probably were the opposite. I don't know for sure. But in the big businesses, yes, it was anti-white men since at least the mid 80s and quite severely so. You know, not slightly, but it was the main texture of the employment market. So one million companies to go.

Trump also signed an executive order requiring universities to disclose their foreign funding. Now that seems like a good idea, doesn't it? You know, I never realized how vulnerable the United States was to all the clever ways that we could be influenced and infiltrated until I saw what George Soros could do with prosecutors. It's like, holy cow, he doesn't have to spend much money and then he gets all these local prosecutors and then they can do all kinds of evil. But apparently the same problem existed with colleges and universities because they took money from China and other places and there would be influence. So yes, we should know who's influencing our colleges and universities. That seems like a good idea.

According to Jerry Dunleavy who's writing for Just the News, ther

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e's new unredacted documents about Hunter Biden search warrants that detail payments he received from Ukraine and China and I guess some other places like Romania and elsewhere around the globe. So we have actual documents showing Hunter Biden getting money from these other countries. I'm pretty sure that some of this was while his father was vice president. And I guess the IRS and the FBI was ful…

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