A certain disclaimer has long been a staple of the identity politics office-seeker: “But I’m really here to serve all the citizens of” whatever electoral district said candidate is running for. For proof of how this works out in real life, look no further than Wisconsin, where a Democrat nominee for Secretary of State who has made her career on strident racial and sexual identity posturing has revealed her entire purpose for running is to advocate on a larger platform for her personal ethnic group.A why-are-we-surprised? “shocking” quote by Milwaukee Common Council member JoCasta Zamarripa has gone viral for representing…
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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Like gas station kratom, research-grade peptides have become widely available for consumers at convenience stores across the United States. Yet as one investigation into peptides sourced from a New York City bodega found, ease of access comes with a high price: your health. In new reporting on the peptide trade, CBS took a hard look at gray market peptide products available across the US, including a knockoff of Eli Lilly’s yet-to-be-released injectable weight loss drug retatrutide, bought from a corner store in Brooklyn.…
Politico admitted on Thursday that they were scammed by the fake Wedgewood polls, as you can read in a story by Andrew Howard, “How a fake pollster may have moved some 2026 elections.” Well, congratulations to Politico for that admission, but was this merely a modified limited hangout on their part? Of all the polls that Wedgewood Polls conducted, only ONE (Nebraska gubernatorial and Senate races) was valid. The rest were completely FAKE. So did Politico perform due diligence by checking the underlying data? Here is the partial admission by Politico, which does not mention the due diligence of fact-checking…
Screenshot, CNN Please follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, X, Youtube, Instagram Originally published at The Connecticut Centinal. Senator Chris Murphy went on CNN this week and did what Democrats have perfected: he took a debate about ideology, associations, and national security and reframed it as straight-up religious bigotry. Murphy’s claim is that Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers is trafficking in “racism and bigotry” and basic Islamophobia for pressing Abdul El-Sayed on his documented ties and associations. Rogers’ actual comments, and the record of course, tell a different story. Rogers has repeatedly drawn the distinction…
President Donald Trump is not the least bit concerned about lawsuits, after having been the subject of so many over the years. Speaking to a crowd in Fort Myers, Florida, the president revealed that he no longer has much of a reaction to hearing that he’s being sued. His cavalier attitude comes after years of finding himself the target of legal trouble, largely from upset critics who disagree with his political agenda. Watch: .@POTUS: “If I walk outside, somebody sues me for something… I don’t give a shit about it.” https://t.co/Uvq6m6aMCA — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 23, 2026 “If…
An allegedly fraud-fraught congresswoman has reportedly lawyered up in a big way with a pair of attorneys linked to some of the Democrats’ biggest shams of the past decade. In the wake of a friendly media appearance with MS NOW, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) made a public appearance on Friday in order to cast an early ballot for the midterm election after days of avoiding the limelight. While ridicule and suspicion have continued for the Somalia-born lawmaker accused in part of immigration and marriage fraud, the New York Post detailed that her defense includes attorneys who previously represented former…
Alan Dershowitz Legendary Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz offered some commentary on the Ilhan Omar situation during a recent appearance on Newsmax. He suggested that the situation is far worse than Omar is letting on and seems to think that deportation is a very real possibility. Derhowitz also uses his legal expertise to explain how the statute of limitations may not work in Omar’s defense because it could be classified as an ongoing conspiracy. He even goes so far as to predict that she will resign from Congress amid the probe. From Newsmax: Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz predicted…
Something very serious is happening in the Black Sea, and it demands a response. Merchant ships are being attacked and sunk without warning in the latest, highly provocative action in Russia’s shadow war against European NATO members.A slew of drone attacks on merchant vessels off the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria, attributed to Russia, have killed at least two sailors and left 21 missing. On October 5, a Turkish cargo ship hit by drones sank in Romania’s exclusive economic zone. The following week, two chemical tankers were set ablaze, one just inside and one just outside Romanian territorial waters. A…
Screenshot, CT Insider WFSB Gubernatorial Debate (10/22/26) Please follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, X, Youtube, Instagram Originally published at The Connecticut Centinal. In Thursday night’s televised WFSB/CT Insider gubernatorial debate, a lighthearted question about which three people each candidate would most like to have over for dinner produced a revealing contrast. Republican state Sen. Ryan Fazio named Abraham Lincoln, Jesus Christ, and Babe Ruth. Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont agreed on Lincoln, then added Paul McCartney—and Zhou Enlai (also rendered Chou En-lai or Cho En-lai), the longtime Premier of the People’s Republic of China and a…
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) responded to a question on Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed changing his stance on defunding the police by saying that El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, has “flip-flopped, too.” And she doesn’t want a rubber stamp in the Senate. Guest host Trace Gallagher asked, “He also is changing. He’s flip-flopping. He said he did not say defund police in 2020. We have him on record saying defund the police in 2020. 2025, he said he didn’t say that. Now he’s back to saying that we…
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) responded to concerns that the DSA will mess up the Democratic Party and is full of antisemitism by saying that the DSA has “their different members, they’ve got different titles, they have different positions.” Guest host Trace Gallagher asked, “When you say you’re going to stand up [to] antisemitism, what do you tell these Jewish voters who are concerned that the DSA is literally going to ruin the Democratic Party, that the DSA is replete with antisemitism?” Dingell responded, “Okay, so, let me ask you this:…
The arrest of two former FBI officials brought with it a new sordid allegation against Hunter Biden involving his infamous laptop from hell. Friday, two former officials with the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) were arrested over allegations that they lied to Congress about their involvement in investigating the Biden family and the 2020 presidential election. Contained within an affidavit is a claim from a sex worker that Hunter Biden threatened ,”I know where you are.” Within the FBI’s probable cause statement pertaining to the arrest of former FBI officials Nikki Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, the contents…
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that, in America, “the redistribution of wealth has gotten out of whack, same as in France.” Maher began by saying, “Now that socialism is having a moment, we have to get real about how much of it we have and how much of it we can afford, because, when you don’t, [France] is what you get.” He added that the problem in France is too much spending on retirees and said America also spends a lot of money on the elderly before stating, “This is…
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “England is becoming a nation of moochers” that is trying to do the impossible task of figuring out “how to give out endlessly more money with ever less working people, and we’re heading down the same road, only with bigger cars and fatter people.” While talking about France’s and America’s programs for the elderly and costs in the U.S., Maher said, “We have to stop robbing tomorrow because we’re paying so much for yesterday. That’s the part Boomers have to own up to, but the younger…
U.S. fisherman will no longer be getting a raw deal when trying to compete against cheap and questionable seafood from international suppliers under a new initiative announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The announcement, made at a boisterous rally Friday with President Donald Trump in Fort Meyers, Florida, included the creation of a voluntary label made for U.S.-caught fish to differentiate them from items often grown in polluted fish farms abroad. [embedded content] Initiatives also in the works include a new government website, seafood.gov, which is now up and tracking catches, sales, and infrastructure…
Every few months, a young 19-year-old woman from South Carolina boards a plane to London. She isn’t going sightseeing. She’s going to get her next dose of a cancer treatment that was invented in the United States, developed by an American company, and credited by her doctors with clearing a brain tumor other surgeons had refused to touch. Advertisement She was diagnosed with glioblastoma at 16. It is the most common and most lethal brain cancer, the disease that killed John McCain and Beau Biden. Her tumor came back so aggressively after…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) clapped back at a “truly embarrassing” CBS News report on Friday. The outlet posted a story about Benny Melendez, who says he is now installing fencing that is supposed to prevent ICE from taking his workers. The idea is that it creates a barrier that would require a warrant to cross, though Melendez says he has “seen ICE agents jumping the fence.” Watch: Benny Melendez, the owner of a small construction company in South Texas, says he’s been forced to install fencing at job sites to protect his workers from ICE. “It’s embarrassing for the…
SOTS Thomas at Ferguson Library (9/17/26). Photo: The Connecticut Centinal Please follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, X, Youtube, Instagram Originally published at The Connecticut Centinal. FOIA records obtained by Greenwich Patriots regarding Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas show she received the Leadership Now Project’s August 2026 presentation titled “2026 Elections: Business Leader Engagement.” The deck, prepared as messaging guidance for the midterms, was forwarded in an email from Gabriel Di Chiara of the progressive political action committee Every Eligible American after a call that included a Leadership Now briefing. Email obtained by FOI Leadership…
AOC at the Met Gala Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s re-election campaign has spent roughly $47,000 on 45 hotel stays nationwide since April, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The spending, reviewed by the New York Post, includes multiple charges at properties rated luxury, upscale, or upper-upscale while the far-left congresswoman continues to attack wealth and “the oligarchy.” The largest bill was $5,044 at The Memphian, a boutique hotel in Memphis that features spa services and an animal-themed rooftop bar. The campaign also paid $2,694 and $1,599 at The Candler Hotel in Atlanta, a four-star historic property with an acclaimed…
Environmental restoration sometimes requires out-of-the-box thinking. Along the waters of Long Island Sound in New York and Connecticut, experts are tackling the challenge of restoring crucial eelgrass habitats by gluing the plant’s seeds to clams. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is an important member of the ecosystem. It provides foraging areas and shelter for young fish and invertebrates, diminishes coastal erosion, draws in excess nutrients, filters water, and releases oxygen, for instance. Compared to the 1930s, eelgrass meadows in and around Long Island Sound have decreased by more than 90 percent, according to regional environmental action group Save the Sound. To make…
President Donald Trump was trying to answer a question when he stopped to call out an NBC News reporter’s behavior. The president appeared to be reacting to the Ohio gubernatorial race when a reporter, who was desperate to get her question answered, screamed at him multiple times. It took him no time at all to lay into her and her network, NBC News. Watch: This is the type of BULLSH*T President Trump has to put up with EVERY SINGLE DAY This NBC “reporter” was getting SO EMOTIONAL over President Trump’s answer to her question that she kept SCREAMING OVER him…
Attorneys and self-defense instructors told the Daily Caller News Foundation that firing a warning shot is almost a surefire way to face legal trouble, assuming one survives the incident.In two recent incidents armed citizens fired warning shots, with one in Benton County, Washington, jailed on suspicion of murder for a few days while the police investigated until the prosecutor admitted the shooting was actually self-defense. In the second incident in Franklin County, Missouri, police filed no charges against the armed citizen, but experts warn that those who advise firing warning shots are missing the mark.“Warning shots are generally forbidden for…
The aspect that is laughable is not that Canadian government officials constantly try to interfere and manipulate U.S. elections, the laughable part is that their Prime Minister would deny it in the face of overwhelming evidence. Canada routinely attempts to interfere in U.S. politics while hiding behind their own position of pearl-clutching sovereignty. Even as Mark Carney was speaking today, former Deputy Prime Minister, and current Canadian special representative to Ukraine, Chrystia Freeland is currently on a promotional tour for her book about influencing U.S. elections and opposing Donald Trump. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and current PM Mark Carney…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that 10 more non-citizens have been arrested for illegally voting in North Carolina as the Trump administration cracks down on voter fraud before the midterm elections. Among those arrested were criminals and illegal aliens from Latin American and European countries, including El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Canada, Montenegro, and Germany, with the busts coming at a crucial time for the integrity of U.S. elections. The arrestees’ rap sheets feature a plethora of crimes including drug violations involving marijuana and cocaine, battery, fleeing arrest, larceny, firearms violations, and disorderly conduct. All of them had…
In the days of the American founding, ministers stood in pulpits and preached election sermons. They opened the Bible, laid out the duties of rulers and the people who choose them, and warned the land against the sins that invite judgment. We need that clarity again.Right now, one question stands above the rest: Whether the killing of the unborn will continue under the protection of law, or whether the civil magistrate will once more bear the sword of authority to defend the weakest among us (Romans 13:4). Abortion is on the ballot. Period. Psalm 8 asks, “What is man that…
Pontificating from a co-host of ABC’s “The View” and Gotham’s mayor was checked by comedian Adam Carolla with some simple questions. “You know illegals … or they mow your f*cking lawn, b*tch?” Like harping on mass shootings without note of the tragedies averted by good guys with guns, narrative-peddlers in favor of open borders appear determined to ignore the positives of mass deportation. As the likes of Sunny Hostin and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) have painted invaders as “neighbors” and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a fascist force, Carolla garnered attention for calling out the…
Friday, on FNC’s “Hannity,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) warned about the so-called Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement, which he said was rooted in “antisemitism and Jew hatred.” “Congressman, you represent a district that has a very large Jewish population. What do you make of the heart of the DSA movement, which seems rooted in the antisemitism?” guest host Kellyanne Conway said. Lawler replied, “It is absolutely rooted in antisemitism and Jew hatred, Marxist theory, you know, the oppressed versus the oppressor. But it goes beyond that. They hate America. They hate the Judeo-Christian values that are at the foundation…
President Trump is expected to vote early in Florida on Saturday.“I think we’re voting tomorrow in Florida,” he said on Friday at the White House. Trump spoke at a rally with GOP gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds on Friday. Trump previously voted by mail in a Florida special election.
Military boards are disobeying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban on openly transgender-identifying service members in the U.S. Armed Forces. Nine of 12 Navy and Marine Corps review boards have recommended retaining transgender service members despite Pentagon directives calling for their discharge, according to The New York Times. The decisions raise questions about enforcement of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s military personnel policies and whether individual review boards are prioritizing their own ideology over the Pentagon’s stated readiness standards. (RELATED: Troy Jackson Backed Trans Prison Policy — Female Inmate Says Convicted Killer Threatened To Rape Her)Directly after this executive order, the Pentagon…
Washington Free Beacon‘s Chuck Ross reports that Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan directed millions of dollars toward booty-bumping kits. The kits help junkies take drugs through the rectum. Walz and Flanagan called encouraging drug use for druggies “harm prevention.” They used funds from a $100 million homelessness grant to do so. In the announcement, Flanagan, now running for Senate, said that “These grants will ensure that everyone can access the supports they need to find and secure safe, stable housing,” Ross said. Alpha News reports that Minnesota also requires them to provide voter registration materials with the…
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warns President Trump that if he continues with the diesel deal with Russia he “will enter the history books in the chapter on leaders who sold out their country’s democratic values to appease a dictator.” Friedman then compares Trump to, who else, Neville Chamberlain, who also, according to Friedman, was a “traitor to his country’s core values.” But, Friedman writes, Trump is worse because Chamberlain was trying to avert a world war whereas Trump is doing the diesel deal supposedly to avoid Republicans losing the midterm elections. The headline for the column says that Trump’s…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Thanks to the rise of military-style imaging drones, AI-integrated surveillance towers, and automatic license plate readers, police across the United States have more eyes in the sky than ever before. So why on Earth are university police in Florida spending six figures on a ridiculous-looking quadcopter that fits just one single officer at a time? The answer to that question is harder to find than it appears on the surface. A new collaboration between Florida Polytechnic University, the campus police department, and a…
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, October 24, 2026U.S. Vice President JD Vance | Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesVice President JD Vance led Nebraska rallygoers in the Lord’s Prayer Thursday, then walked into the stands to check on a woman who collapsed behind him.Supporters on risers behind the stage grew worried about a woman among them, and a few attendees waved down police Thursday, USA Today reported. The rally took place at the D&N Event Center in North Platte.The woman seemed to faint, according to reports.Vance stopped speaking. “All right, looks like we got a medical issue, everybody. So, let’s just…
Vanessa Trump, 48, said Friday that after a long battle she is now breast cancer-free and wanted to tell others about her experience. The ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. and mother to 19-year-old Kai Trump was diagnosed six months ago and is beyond pleased that this fight is behind her, the New York Post reported Friday. Kai shared a video of herself and her mother talking about the news. “So my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in April, so we thought we’d share her story and how she was diagnosed and how she actually overcame it,” the young woman…
Potential 2028 White House hopeful Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) loves to portray herself as an oligarchy-fighting champion of the working class, but the receipts tell a much different story. While raging against the rich in order to appeal to her gullible followers, AOC is living high off the hog. A “champagne communist” who reportedly spends money like a drunken sailor on luxurious lodging at fancy hotels. The New York Post has outed the “Squad” leader as a massive hypocrite in a Friday report that lists examples of Ocasio-Cortez’s preference for posh accommodations far out of the price range of the…
Image: Wikimedia Commons (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech) Navy and Marine Corps separation boards are repeatedly voting to keep transgender service members despite Pentagon rules that leave them almost no choice but to recommend discharge, according to a new report. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the policy in blunt terms during a September “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico. “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals,” Hegseth told the audience, describing the people he said had no place in the military under the Trump administration’s push…
Former Deep State FBI Agent Nikki Floris Arrested, but Not for Suppressing China’s Actions in the 2020 ElectionA former Deep State actor in the FBI was indicted and arrested by the FBI for lying to Congress on Friday.🚨 FORMER FBI OFFICIAL NIKKI FLORIS HAS BEEN INDICTED AND ARRESTED BY THE FBI for lying to Congress about 2020 election interference.The same official who infamously said: “I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”THINGS ARE HAPPENING… 👀 https://t.co/Xi6RQwCcA8— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) October 23, 2026ADVERTISEMENTBut Floris’s bigger crime was suppressing China’s actions in the 2020 Election. CONNECTING THE DOTS: SUPPRESSION…
Townhall Video 10:36 AM · October 24, 2026 U.S. House Speaker MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA) warns that TV images of violent riots in France could offer a preview of how America may look if radical Democrats gain control of Congress on November 3rd; he also charges that Christians opting to NOT vote because they “don’t like their choices” in some political contests are “derelict in their duty” to vote their values. JAMES ROSEN, chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax, says “it is not a slam dunk” that BENJAMIN NETANYAHU will emerge from upcoming elections by continuing as the longest serving Prime Minister…
BusinessCellectis Exits Two CAR-T Programs, Advances Gene EditingCellectis announced a strategic transformation to become an in vivo gene editing company, shifting resources to two lead programs HEAL-101 and HEAL-201 for severe dyslipidemias and exiting lasme-cel and eti-cel to extend its cash runway into the second half of 2028, while realigning its operating model around the in vivo pipeline. Phase 1 data are planned for HEAL-101 in the second half of 2027 and for HEAL-201 in the first half of 2028, with ongoing cell therapy partnerships and a September 14 conference call to discuss updates.
The Justice Department is seeking an emergency order from the Ninth Circuit to stop California from counting mail-in ballots linked to more than 20,000 people federal investigators have flagged as likely noncitizens, warning that once the ballots are separated from their envelopes, the damage cannot be undone. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli and Attorney General Todd Blanche are leading the effort after a district court did not act on their earlier request to review the citizenship of individuals believed to be noncitizens. The motion names California, Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean…
Jack Fowler: France is ablaze yet again. Let’s talk about the riots. Now, a few things. The riots are not only in France, Belgium, and Italy, and now Albania also. And they’re being called student riots. Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah. They’re being called, outside of France, French riots Fowler: French, yeah. I’m sure many people who watch this show, listen, have seen the videos of the Limoges town hall, about 150 years old, burned this weekend. Donald Trump has weighed in. He’s urged France to close its borders. He has called France ungovernable and the riots apocalyptic. The police have said in these…
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(Photo by John Moore/AFP via Getty Images) President Donald Trump has scored another major legal victory in his administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration! The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a significant victory for the Trump administration on Friday, ruling that illegal aliens who entered the United States without authorization do not have a constitutional right to individualized bond hearings while their deportation proceedings are underway, even if they have lived in the country for decades. The 10-7 en banc decision reversed three lower-court orders that had granted release to the detainees and vacated a July…
For the latest example of CBS not being the MAGA-coded network so many liberals think it is, CBS Saturday Morning co-host Adriana Diaz welcomed venture capitalist and author Arian Simone to try to argue that DEI “actually makes good business sense.” Simone was on to promote her book, which deals in part with her 2024 decision to settle a lawsuit by agreeing to dismantle her Fearless Strivers Grant that handed out $20,000 to small businesses that were owned by at least one woman of color on the grounds it was illegally discriminatory. While that specific grant program has gone away, her…
Japan insists its longstanding nuclear weapons policy remains unchanged, even as officials consider a historic shift that could allow American nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory amid growing threats from China, Russia and North Korea. The Japanese Embassy in Washington told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Tokyo remains committed to its decades-old nuclear restrictions despite growing speculation about potential changes. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is nevertheless scheduled to meet his Finnish counterpart Monday to discuss Helsinki’s recent nuclear policy overhaul, the Japan Times reported, citing Japan’s Defense Ministry. “The [Japanese] Government adheres to the Three Non-Nuclear Principles as a…
French President Emmanuel Macron has been forced to an embarrassing backtrack after falsely claiming that the shootings in Trappes were the first time that the country had experienced a terror attack over race or religion. On Friday, six people were shot, leading to the death of one man and leaving a 12-year-old girl injured, in the multicultural Paris suburb of Trappes. The suspected attacker, only identified publicly as “Kevin T.”, was arrested shortly after the shootings while possessing an antique Sten MK II automatic gun, tear gas canisters, and cocaine. The attack was immediately characterised by some as being motivated…
France’s crisis deepens: Macron bans “illegitimate” protests after 2,500 arrests, 1,000 police injured French President Macron has banned “illegitimate” protests nationwide after last weekend’s riots resulted in approximately 2,500 arrests and 1,000 police injuries. The unrest began over teacher shortages and school conditions before escalating into broader protests against soaring living costs and austerity measures. Macron blamed ultra-left groups for orchestrating violence and looting aimed at “bringing down the Republic.” Cities including Lyon, Marseille, Nice and Toulon have imposed protest bans, while Paris diverted one march and banned another. The crisis comes six months before France’s presidential election, with opposition…
The global rush to embrace electric vehicles as a panacea for climate change is built on a foundation of selective truths and regulatory blind spots. While governments and automakers tout EVs as “zero-emission” solutions, a growing body of research and critical analysis reveals a far more complex reality. The latest challenge to the EV narrative comes from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), which found that battery-electric vehicles reduce lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by only 41% compared to internal combustion engines, a figure that exposes the limitations of policies built on tailpipe-only emissions metrics. As California and the European Union…