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NFL training camps will open in the coming weeks and he has not been signed after he was released by the Patriots back in March.

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s passing brought well-deserved, fulsome bipartisan tributes, but his colleagues in Washington and his South Carolina have clear opportunities to honor his legacy by continuing it.

Geothermal Heats Up: Fervo Drilling Rates Soar 143% While Quaise Raises $134M

While the Trump administration keeps pushing domestic energy addition through funding vehicles and executive orders aimed at grid reliability and AI-driven demand growth, two next-generation geothermal developers just posted updates that move past announcements and into measurable progress on drilling and capital formation.

Fervo announced that its third-generation well design at Cape Station in Utah has lifted drilling rates by 143% compared with the first Cape well. 

The latest well, Sawtooth 7, reached 19,448 feet measured depth, including a 7,500-foot lateral, in just 21 days. That’s a 70% reduction in drilling time versus the prior design generation, even as the team targets hotter rock at 460 degrees Fahrenheit and larger casing diameters for higher output per well. 

Phase I at Cape Station remains on track for first power later this year, with Phase II targeting 400 MW online in 2028. Faster wells directly compress costs and timelines for the kind of repeatable deployment investors have been waiting to see.

Fervo’s Cape Phase II is tracking toward roughly $5,500/kW installed, with a longer-term target of $3,000/kW as the drilling learning curve keeps compounding. That remains well below the Georgia Vogtle nuclear units, which ultimately landed somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000/kW after years of delays and overruns.

As we reported back in February when the DOE released its $171.5 million Notice of Funding Opportunity for EGS field tests and resource confirmation drilling, the policy environment has turned supportive for technologies that can deliver firm, 24/7 carbon-free power without weather dependence. 

Quaise Energy moved in parallel with the initial close of a $134 million Series B round, bringing total funding to roughly $230 million. Prelude Ventures led, with strategic participation from JERA and Idemitsu Kosan of Japan. 

The proceeds target Project Obsidian, the company’s planned first commercial superhot geothermal plant on federal leases in central Oregon near Newberry Volcano. Quaise’s millimeter-wave drilling technology is approaching one kilometer of depth in Texas test wells after penetrating more than 100 meters of granite. 

The goal remains first electrons to the grid by 2030 from a facility with long-term gigawatt-scale potential once superhot rock above 300 degrees Celsius is routinely accessed.

Both moves align with the administration’s emphasis on unleashing American energy dominance and securing reliable power for data centers that cannot tolerate intermittency. Geothermal’s baseload profile makes it a natural complement to the nuclear builds that remain frustratingly slow on actual construction despite regulatory tailwinds.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/12/2026 - 19:15

A US official said there is expected to be a a “bigger” wave of US attacks on Iranian military targets on Sunday night.

The New York Knicks are NBA champions, however, has winning the franchise’s first title in 53 years finally changed the way the team is covered? Dexter Henry is joined by Knicks Film School contributor Jeff Johnson, who coined the term “Knicks For Clicks Industrial Complex” to describe the media ecosystem that uses the Knicks’ enormous...

Graham died Saturday evening following a "brief and sudden illness."

"Even with a small increase in listings, supply remains far below normal, keeping competition strong as more than half of homes sold above asking price."

Charlotte Hornets general manager Jeff Peterson said the franchise's decision to trade LaMelo Ball was made with a long-term mentality.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a first half where just about everything has gone wrong, it’s worth pointing out when the Giants’ rookie manager does something right. And Tony Vitello pushed all the right buttons Sunday afternoon to ensure his down-and-out squad entered the All-Star break on a winning streak, no matter how meager. It raised...

Work hard? Why? You just need an ‘A’ in fame. Influence.

The musician is attempting to raise $5,000 to purchase a pizza oven for his forthcoming business.

The musician is attempting to raise $5,000 to purchase a pizza oven for his forthcoming business.

The Real Point Of The "Patriot Front" Psy-Op

Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian,

Over the Fourth of July weekend, Washington DC found itself beset by the "Patriot Front", about 400 guys in matching outfits, with white balaclavas covering their faces and waving flags about.

The (relatively small) gathering walked about a bit, did some marching, waved some flags...and scared the press to death!

The group marched away from Union Station, carrying various flags, including Confederate flags. pic.twitter.com/Xo0WDH2B9O

— Mitchell Miller (@mmillerwtop) July 4, 2026

They're not real, of course.

The running joke has already become they are barely-disguised federal agents indulging in some rather lame propaganda, even as some members of rightwing defend both their realness and their aims.

Apparently they do community projects and stuff.

Regardless, they are not real. Even if they're not literally all FBI agents - which we can't actually rule out - they are a psy-op to some extent or another.

Just look at them. And you can just look at them, do you know why? Because they're all over the press and social media.

This picture in particular has "gone viral":

Several similarly themed "lone ethnic minority surrounded by faceless Nazis" pictures all sprang up at once, which is suspicious in and of itself, but this is the one that really stuck.

Both the bots and people who don't realise they've become bots are promoting it all over the place. "It should win a Pulitzer prize" they say. "This photo will define our age."

This kind of coverage, this kind of engineered viral content, is the hallmark of the psy-op, and it shows what Patriot Front (and groups like them) are really for:

Creating the illusory threat of potential fascism on the fringes to distract from very real fascism already in the very centre of power.

"You see those guys? In the khakis waving flags about? They're Nazis. That's what fascism is, waving flags and doing wrong think.

"Us, the people who spy on you, lock you in your house, track your movements, restrict your speech and indoctrinate your kids, we're not fascists. In fact, we're protecting you from the meanie fascists and their heinous flag-waving ways."

That's the point of displays like the Patriot Front.

They transform fascism from policy into paraphernalia. Fascism becomes a combination of outfit and accoutrements, rather than authoritarian politics.

With the implied corollary that, as long as you're not wearing the outfit or waving the flag, you're not actually fascist.

Even as the Flock cameras spread, digital ID looms, and authors are imprisoned for criticizing the regime.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/12/2026 - 18:40

"New York’s hospitality economy, small businesses and consumers deserve a liquor law framework that reflects the realities of 2026 — not 1934."

Diners hoping for a taste of old Hollywood at the iconic Musso & Frank Grill are instead greeted by a growing homelessness problem and scattered trash near the restaurant’s front door — the harsh new reality that is plaguing one of Los Angeles’ most famous landmarks. 

Cops broke up an illegal Canal Street marketplace on Sunday, but after more than two years of playing cat-and-mouse, local businesses say it won't make a difference.

The MCU actress is also remembered for for voicing Grandma Wu in Pixar's "Turning Red."

The MCU actress is also remembered for for voicing Grandma Wu in Pixar's "Turning Red."

In a Facebook post on Sunday, Kavanagh wrote that he was “devastated” by what transpired, but pushed back on any notion that McGregor was already injured. 

James Carville Has Major Freakout Over The Socialist Wing Of The Party

James Carville thinks Democrats are making the same mistake that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016 - and he says they're doing it all over again.

In a Politicon video posted Friday, the veteran Democratic strategist blasted the party's growing crop of Democratic socialist insurgents, arguing they're more interested in defeating fellow Democrats than Republicans and warning they'll hand the GOP more victories in the process.

He pointed to a string of primary defeats that have unseated sitting Democratic members of Congress in favor of candidates running even further to their left. In New York, Brad Lander defeated Rep. Dan Goldman, and Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. Democratic socialist Melat Kiros beat sitting Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado. Carville also singled out Michigan candidate Abdul El-Sayed as the case study of what worries him most, accusing him of running a campaign that treats both parties as enemies rather than just Republicans.

For Carville, the roots of today's fight go back nearly a decade. He called the 2016 election when President Donald Trump was elected the most catastrophic event of this century and put the blame on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whom he described as an insurgent liberal who dragged the Democratic primary into the summer long after the math had settled that race.

"How did Trump win? I'll tell you how, because goddamn Bernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president. You hear me, listen to me, I'm telling you the truth." By Carville's read, the prolonged primary bled working-class voters out of Pennsylvania and into Trump's column. "Because Sanders is telling working people in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin... that somehow or another it was corporate America. Yeah, it's corporate. The Democrats are a corporatist party. There's no difference between the establishment Democrats... Are you kidding me?"

Now Carville sees the sequel writing itself. He argues the new class of socialist challengers is running the same play against Democratic incumbents that Sanders once ran against Clinton, and he wants no part of the popular argument on the left that establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans are interchangeable.

"These people are so f-king stupid I don't know what to say about it," Carville said. "So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats - and what is their solution?"

His actual complaint runs deeper than a stray insult. Carville argues these candidates aren't trying to beat Republicans at all. They're running against their own party as if it were the obstacle, a strategy he considers self-defeating on its face.

"Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No! Their solution is to beat Democrats like they're part of the problem. You are part of the problem because you're a f-king idiot!"

Carville warned Democrats against what he called false prophets, accusing far-left candidates of marketing themselves as superior to both parties in a pitch he thinks collapses under its own weight once the general election arrives.

Carville's criticism of the far left and Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates hardly makes him a moderate. He still views the Democratic Party as America's answer and the Republican Party as its biggest obstacle. "It's not both parties' faults! One party expanded health insurance, all right? Another party destroyed it. One party balanced the budget and created economic prosperity. The other party destroyed it. One party brought about a deal with Iran's nuclear program. Another party destroyed it," he said.

"And all these people, go beat a Republican - then come back and I will respect you," Carville said. "Until you do that, I have nothing but contempt for you. And somehow or another, among Democrats, something became more important than winning elections. And that became, 'Oh, I want to feel superior to people.'"

Carville sees the far left of the party as responsible for Donald Trump's election and, thus, for the current makeup of the Supreme Court. "None of this would have happened, none of it if it wasn't for the left wing of the Democratic Party," he said. "If you believe that, blame the left wing of the Democratic Party for the catastrophe that we're facing right now. Because as much as any group, it's their fault."

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Tyler Durden Sun, 07/12/2026 - 18:05