NEWS: Today is my first day as a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon where I will continue covering all things energy/environment/climate. Thankful for my time at Fox News Digital, but so excited to join the incredible team at the Beacon.

'Moderate' Democrat Abigail Spanberger's Decision To Reenter Virginia Into Controversial Green Energy Program Could Increase Virginians' Electric Bills by $1.2 Billion From @ThomasCatenacci freebeacon.com/democrats/mod…

California governor Gavin Newsom received $50,000 in campaign contributions from a top executive at a Chinese electric vehicle company that Newsom fawned over during his 2023 visit to China. That company, BYD, is now on a Pentagon blacklist due to its ties to the Chinese military, @ThomasCatenacci reports.

'Weak Link' Gavin Newsom Took $50K From Chinese EV Exec of Now-Blacklisted 'Chinese Military Company,' According to New Pentagon Classification @ThomasCatenacci @FreeBeacon freebeacon.com/national-secu…

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy. I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham. I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past. Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me. But of course he knew it was me. What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out. I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is. But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this. Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate. I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…” But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten. I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough. They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong. One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together. I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists? Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me. Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong. I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

Chris Hayes: How is it that your ex-girlfriend was texting people that you had a Nazi tattoo in August but you didn't know until October? Graham Platner: They didn't tell me that

Much of the opposition to AI data centers is being funded by foreign actors. Chief among them is Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who has given nearly $14 million to four left-wing groups that signed a letter calling for a US data center moratorium.

NEW: GOP Moves To ‘Stop Climate Shakedowns,’ Block Democrat-Led States and Cities From Going After Oil Companies With Lawsuits, Legislation Judicial system has been 'weaponized against American energy producers,' Sen @TedCruz tells the Free Beacon "Republican lawmakers are taking the most ambitious federal action yet to shield oil companies from a growing number of state lawsuits and bills that seek to force them to pay billion-dollar penalties related to their alleged role in contributing to climate change." "And in statehouses, Democrats are pushing laws that require oil companies to pay state coffers to fund environmental resilience and infrastructure repair projects. A dozen states have introduced such laws, and two—Vermont and New York—have passed them. Under New York's law, oil companies will be forced to pay the state $75 billion over the next 25 years. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Rep. @RepHageman (R., Wyo.) authored the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act last month, which they say would prohibit such litigation and laws. According to the lawmakers, the increasingly common state actions, while pursued at a local level, ultimately seek to regulate nationwide emissions and enforce a far-left climate agenda on all Americans."

- RCP8.5 is indeed dead and that's a good thing for climate science. - Technological improvements, and to some extent climate policies, have made RCP8.5 even less plausible, but it was always implausible, for reasons we knew (thanks to @jritch) for a decade and have been widely known since 2020. - Climate impact research continued to heavily rely on RCP8.5 for years after we knew better, and there are still too many papers making it into top journals with headline findings based on RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 (or, worse, SSP3-8.5). Reviewers and editors are not pushing back hard enough. - Many journalists and policymakers have stuck their heads in the sand about RCP8.5 and continue to do so. But there have also been some notable exceptions. E.g., @dwallacewells was one of the first to cover the changing scenario understanding, something I've always admired him for. - The scientific community *is* gradually correcting course, as evidenced by RCP8.5 being discontinued for AR7, and by all the papers and other materials that led them to that decision. - Climate change is real and IPCC's Working Group I reports (The Physical Science Basis) are solid. Their conclusions have high overlap with the DOE CWG report, as @RogerPielkeJr has noted. - Large majorities of Americans want the President and Congress to do more to address global warming, according to consistent polling for the past two election cycles at least. - There are some bastions of alarmism/bias within climate change academia, but they are largely *not* in the federal civil service. In my experience, most federal climate scientists are hard-working, rigorous (mostly physical) scientists who take their Hatch Act responsibilities for non-partisanship seriously. Gutting NOAA and other federal science is bad for the country (as @RyanWeather and others have argued) and won't save us from alarmism. - A great way to get to the bottom of how deep the RCP8.5 effect on climate impact science goes and create a more balanced picture would be to convene a new National Climate Assessment, with a broad and viewpoint-diverse author team. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

‘It’s Hamas Propaganda’: New York Times Writer Nicholas Kristof’s ‘Sexual Violence’ Column Caps a Career of Corrections, Retractions, and Apologies Going Back 25 Years via @Kredo0 @FreeBeacon - freebeacon.com/media/its-ham…

SCOOP: Trump will suspend tariff-rate quotas on beef, lowering levies as part of larger affordability push today. Exec orders also lower protections for wolves, ease rules on cattle ear tags and aim to increase rancher access to capital. @PatThomas1318 and me

Truly inspiring speech from @BenSasse at the @ManhattanInst Hamilton Awards Dinner. “We are never just one piece of legislation away from civilizational recovery. Politics are merely means. The bigger goals are teleological. And there, souls are essential.”

Congrats to @aaronsibarium whose reporting drove this investigation — freebeacon.com/campus/a-fail…

Flat out false.

NYC dishes out 500,000 to "community groups" to "participate in a Reparations, Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation Network" -- amid Mamdani's ongoing budget crisis that has him proposing cuts to libraries freebeacon.com/democrats/rep…

Reupping this @ThomasCatenacci story: freebeacon.com/democrats/tex…

Since Republicans cut subsidies for EV’s, the new models have become more affordable and reliable.

In 2021 Alex invested $2 BILLION (which was a staggering 25% of his Dad's hedge fund) into just one stock: Rivian. Since then, the stock is down 86% I suspect his investment in @MeidasTouch will be similarly profitable.

BREAKING: IRS announces plans to revise nonprofit Form 990 filings to require disclosure of fiscal sponsorships This is a big deal. Liberal dark money networks including Tides and Arabella have for decades exploited fiscal sponsorships to effectively operate in the shadows.

Far-left organizations are training jurors to ignore evidence and acquit criminals—even when the facts are clear. It's a shameful violation of the Rule of Law. I passed an amendment through @HouseAppropsGOP requiring our federal courts to tell Congress how deep the rot runs.

Democratic Maryland governor Wes Moore announced late last year he would commission a climate “study” aimed at assessing “the undue burden Marylanders are paying for extreme weather events” so that fossil fuel companies can be coerced into paying some sort of climate reparations. Moore didn’t mention it, but the left-wing Rockefeller Family Fund chipped in $30,000 for the study, raising questions about the study’s impartiality, @ThomasCatenacci reports.