I was born in the 1950s. I’ve lived in seven decades, two centuries, and two millennia.Amen.
My generation had the fastest cars, the prettiest girls, drive-ins, soda fountains, and happy days.
You could understand the words in our music, and you could dance to it.
We carried knives in our pockets, and guns in our pickup trucks, and nobody got killed.
I have seen the past.
And it works.
He posted, “It’s been a year since I left the former Twitter, in terms of posting there, but I kept the account active so that tweets that were linked to from elsewhere would still be active, and to keep anyone from using my handle there, since it’s been identified with me for 16 years and I wanted to keep an impostor or troll from picking it up and pretending to be me.”While originally meant as a counter to Twitter – aka ‘X’ – after Elon Musk purchased that platform, it appears it has devolved because, as Scalzi mentioned above, it has become an echo chamber. If you have the audacity to disagree with ‘opinions’ on Bluesky you become a non-person because you are obviously “not one of them”.
“But you know what? In both cases, I don’t really care any more,” he continued.
He didn’t care so much that he had to post about it. Much like he apparently doesn’t care at this point about BlueSky losing a lot of its following as most people realized the engagement levels on the site are zero because of the echo chamber.
An article from Fortune was released this week saying, “Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the ‘lack of diversity of thought’ is actually pushing users back to X.”
The article details how the echo chamber failed to generate any meaningful engagement, and Mark Cuban has noted a change where the extreme left userbase has started to turn on themselves saying the site has gotten “ruder and more hateful.”
Those normal folk on the other side of the aisle who have been targets of the left’s ire for years can only help but smile knowingly at how rude and hateful the BlueSky crowd can be.
Cuban continued saying, “Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist. We are forcing posts to X.”
Canada’s Benjamin Franklin—Lord Stanley of Preston— once said. “In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes and the NHL.So the NYT is claiming it’s unfair that some states have lower taxes which makes it more difficult to get professional hockey players to sign on to teams in places that will tax the heck out of their income? I would like to think this was more a tongue-in-cheek opinion, but knowing the NYT they are likely quite serious. If they really want to level the playing field (no pun intended), then perhaps they need to address the states and provinces that are taxing the bejeezus out of people’s income to drop their tax rates. I have a feeling that would be a lot more popular.
OK, maybe I made that up but it is befitting the manufacture of a controversy of the New York Times and others that live in states with high state income taxes. Their NHL teams suck while the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights, Nashville Predators, Dallas Stars, and Seattle Kraken all flourish in states that do not tax income.
Canada has not won a Stanley Cup in 32 seasons although the Edmonton Oilers may break that that spell this year now that Canadians rid themselves of Justin Castreau after President Trump humiliated him.
But Canada’s taxes remain the same.
While Canada’s top marginal tax rate is 33% and America’s is 37%, the top marginal rates for its provinces range from 11.5% to 21.8%.
The combined provincial and national tax rates top 50% in 8 provinces. Who is going to argue for $2 million more a year just to receive less than a million more? Take the lower pay and sign with Tampa Bay for the better weather.
I expect we will see a lot more of this as the regime falls. People in Iran have done this before, taken to the streets in the cause of freedom, and were brutalized and killed by the tens of thousands.Read The Whole Thing.
“The Israelis just gave the Iranian people a reason to believe”. Not my words, theirs.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), whom most people couldn’t pick out of a line-up before last week, wants America to believe his little performance during a Homeland Security press conference was totally spontaneous. Just an organic moment of righteous frustration, he claims. But we know better—his whole stunt reeked of a desperate cry for attention, and the more he tries to explain it away, the more obvious that becomes.It was theater, pure and simple. It was bad theater and no one wants to back up his claims.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Padilla tried spinning his headline-grabbing antics as an innocent attempt to get information. “You can’t script this in Hollywood,” he said with dramatic flair, insisting he just happened to be near the press conference while waiting for a briefing and spontaneously decided to pop in, wearing plain clothes and lacking his Senate Security pin. He was apparently stunned—stunned!—that the press conference didn’t meet his expectations: “Surprise, surprise, no substance came from that press conference, just political attacks.”
As rates of depression and suicide among young people continue to rise, a question has captured experts’ attention: Does social media make kids more depressed, or are kids who are already struggling simply spending more time online?I find it interesting the study found that depression “did not lead to more time spent on social platforms.” One would think depression would lead to more time on social media. But that might be a saving grace. However, with more social media use adding to depression, I stand by my statement above that social media too often paints a picture that is an illusion. Comparing one’s life to that of someone on social media can certainly lead kids to the conclusion that their own lives are awful in comparison.
A new study from UC San Francisco is shedding light on the issue. Researchers found that when preteens increased their social media use, their depressive symptoms also rose. Interestingly, the opposite was not true. Higher levels of depression did not lead to more time spent on social platforms.
The numbers are eye-opening. Over the three years of the study, kids’ daily social media use jumped from just seven minutes to 73 minutes. During that same period, their depressive symptoms climbed by 35%. The study, supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was published in JAMA Network Open.
The study found kids aged 11 to 12 years who were cyberbullied were 2.62 times more likely to report suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt one year later. Additionally, those kids were also 2.31 times more likely to experiment with a substance (4.65 times more likely with marijuana, 3.37 with nicotine, and 1.92 with alcohol) in the following year.It is a balancing act to deal with both the pros and cons of social media with kids. I know the ex and I had to deal with that with our son. While smart phones weren’t all that prevalent back when he was in high school, we worried about issues with cyberbullying via text and our son did not get a cell phone until his senior year. He’d seen what some of his friends were going through with that and he didn’t want any part of it.
Increasingly, the youngest generations find themselves facing a catch-22, with growing evidence that social media is associated with depressive symptoms and risky behavior, yet it is also a primary area for them to connect and communicate with friends.
Several news outlets have recently reported that the administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to eliminate the Energy Star program, while seeming to gloss over criticism of the program and the fact it received multiple unsatisfactory reports from federal government audits. While Energy Star has reportedly saved American households and businesses over $500 billion in energy costs since 1992, some experts have warned that the program can negatively impact consumers, such as by pushing them to purchase less effective appliances.I have mentioned more than a few times my experiences with Energy Star compliant appliances that did not adequately perform their functions. I have discussed a past experience with looking for a new front-loading washing machine to replace one that had been lightning damaged. My then-wife had spent time going Consumer Reports and other evaluations of Energy Star washing machines and found there wasn’t a single one that either CR or the other reports could recommend because none of them properly cleaned clothes. We ended up spending money to repair our old machine even though it cost us more than buying a new one because at least the old washing machine cleaned clothes. When I replaced the dishwasher at the WP Mom’s I found it used more electricity than the machine it replaced, taking over three hours to wash a load that took the old machine a little over an hour. Yes, the new machine used less water, but the cost of the lower water use did not offset the higher energy usage.
In today’s automotive market, big touchscreens and digital interfaces dominate the cabin experience, often at the expense of usability and safety. While these features offer a high-tech aesthetic and access to a virtual library of fancy features, they also increase the time to execute the most basic automotive operations, like adjusting climate and audio. Fortunately, a few automakers still understand the value of intuitive physical controls—dials, knobs, and buttons placed within easy reach of the driver. We laud certain manufacturers in 2025 for their commitment to driver-focused ergonomics, blending modern tech with excellent switchgear that makes life behind the wheel simpler and safer.It’s bad design whenever a driver has to stop paying attention to the road in order to use a touchscreen to perform some of the aforementioned functions, something that drivers could do in the past without the need to look away from the road. This is where muscle memory comes into play.
There was a time, not so long ago, when climate scientist Michael Mann could bully critics into silence with the mere threat of a lawsuit. He was the face behind the infamous "hockey stick" graph, a man lauded by progressives, featured in Al Gore's documentary, and embraced by a media eager to label skeptics as dangerous deniers. But the courtroom, as it turns out, is no place for manufactured myths or moral grandstanding.Mann’s downfall was of his own making, pushing his infamous climate “hockey stick” chart as a warning and going after anyone who disagreed with his findings. However, it turns out his findings were bogus, the mathematics of his chart designed to give the hockey stick graph regardless of the data used.
A Washington, D.C. court just handed Mann a bruising legal defeat. After more than a decade of litigation, he has been ordered to pay over $1 million in attorney's fees to the very people he accused of defamation: National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and writer Rand Simberg, a former PJM contributor.
Even more humiliating, the court revealed that Mann grossly misrepresented his financial damages. Once celebrated as a martyr for the climate cause, he now stands exposed as a fabricator, not just of projections, but of personal injury.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) elevated the hockey stick to icon status. Schools taught it. Politicians cited it. Al Gore plastered it in "An Inconvenient Truth," like a gospel.Too bad this court case hadn’t been decided before Mann’s suit against Mark Steyn, where Mann was awarded $1 million USD in a defamation suit against Steyn. It turns out that Steyn was telling the truth and Mann’s reputation is trash. The million dollar award was later reduced to $5000.
But critics soon noticed that something wasn’t right. Canadian researchers Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick uncovered glaring flaws in Mann’s methodology, showing that his algorithm could produce a hockey stick shape even when fed with random data. This wasn’t just bad science; it was political theater dressed in lab coats.
Donald Trump took a huge step toward ensuring America's energy future by signing four executive orders that gave the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a long-overdue overhaul.I have seen how overregulation, hostile legislation, and licensing delays can add billions of dollars to the cost of building a nuclear power station.
Currently, it takes about 12 years to plan, design, and construct a nuclear power plant, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Getting all the license approvals takes an average of five years.
One of Trump's executive orders directs the NRC to streamline its rules so that it takes just 18 months to approve applications for a new reactor.
Another order directs the Energy and Defense departments to explore placing reactors on federal land, thus bypassing the NRC entirely. It would also allow those departments to develop their own faster, more efficient approval process for building nuclear reactors.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum participated in the signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
“This is a huge day for the nuclear industry,” said Burgum, adding: “Mark this day on your calendar. This is going to turn the clock back on over 50 years of overregulation.”
Women are more likely to have their jobs replaced by generative AI, and they are slower to adopt AI technology into their work. Eight out of ten women in the workforce are in ‘occupations highly exposed to generative AI automation,’ compared to six out of ten men, said a 2023 analysis by the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.Much of what the linked article states makes sense. However, it might not happen nearly as quickly as some folks think because, quite frankly, there isn’t enough electricity to run all those A.I. data centers that will be needed to take over all those jobs, at least not yet.
Parents are saving their children. The left has destroyed a generation of young minds. No country can thrive let alone survive the destruction of the mind.As dire as the numbers are I have to wonder if there isn’t another possible explanation for the decline, that being that there aren’t nearly as many children in California as there used to be. It could be because of a low birthrate. It could be that because families are leaving California in growing numbers because they can no longer afford to live there or state regulations are making it increasingly difficult to do business there. It could be a combination of all of these things.
There are now 20 percent less 1st graders than 12th graders. Los Angeles Times: California public school enrollment has declined for the seventh straight year and the number of students from low-income and homeless families has increased as many school districts throughout the state face financial pressures to downsize. Statewide, perhaps the most stark figure is a comparison between enrollment in 12th grade — 488,295 students — and in 1st grade — 384,822. That’s a more than 20% difference between the size of the class leaving school and the size of the class beginning its trek through the public school system.
Why wouldn’t a parent want their precious little one in a California public school? After all, they rank in bottom quarter of public schools across the nation—at number 38. Golden State public schools are 42nd in high school graduation rate and 43rd in college readiness.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by subsidies enacted in 2022.To quote Stephen Green in his Instapundit post, “Here’s a tip for Reuters: It’s not a boom if it’s financed by tax dollars and summoned into existence by mandates. It’s just another boondoggle.”
Republican lawmakers' "one big beautiful bill" to carry out President Donald Trump's plan to cut taxes and boost spending on the military and border enforcement would end Biden-era tax credits for clean energy projects years sooner than planned in an earlier draft, rendering them unusable for most companies.
This brings us to the issue of Biden’s pardons, especially those granted to his family and public figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Put simply, did Biden have any idea what he was doing when his autopen scratched the surface of those presidential papers?If those Autopen pardons were not signed with Joe’s knowledge or consent, then that pushes the narrative that maybe he was never in charge of anything during his administration. Rather it was the WRBA (Whoever is Running the Biden Administration) cabal running the show...and the Autopen. It makes us wonder if Joe was nothing more than a “John Gill” figurehead. Even now that the MSM is admitting it did cover up Joe’s increasing mental decline, they aren’t willing to actually own up to being complicit in the cover up by offering all kinds of lame excuses for doing so. One has to wonder if they knew about the abuse of the Autopen as well.
In the case of the pardon for his son Hunter, Biden is on the record just months earlier saying he would never ever do that. Sure, it’s possible that he was lying, but he did give us his word as a Biden.
If, as Democrats and their media allies insist, Biden’s decline was so swift, starting in 2023, that it caught everyone off guard, then shouldn’t we question whether the Joe Biden who signed Hunter’s pardon wasn’t deeper in the throes of dementia than the one who promised not to?
The worst part of the mendacity from the Biden administration is that all those smarmy spokespeople like Ian Sams and all his bosses knew that the harm they were doing probably could not be undone, even if the actions were born of lies.
They knew that, as a practical matter, it is likely impossible to deport 10 million illegal aliens, and they knew that it would be almost impossible to challenge Biden’s pardons, even if he thought he was signing a pool pass for Corn Pop.
Most of the renewed interest in nuclear seen around the world stems from the expected growth in electricity demand from AI data centres, but Denmark is different. The Danes are concerned about possible blackouts similar to the one that struck Iberia recently. Like Spain and Portugal, Denmark is heavily dependent on weather-based renewable energy which is not very compatible with the way power grids operate.The loss of synchronization of the 50Hz alternating current was one of the causes of the major electrical blackout in Spain, Portugal, and portions of France earlier this year.
Conventional generators produce alternating current, creating a stable output of current and voltage that alternates at a frequency which is directly – synchronously – linked with the rotating turbines which drive the generators in gas, coal, nuclear or hydropower plants. All of these turbines rotate at a speed of 3000 revolutions per minute, so producing electricity with current and voltage that varies in a sine wave shape with a frequency of 50 cycles per second (ie 50 Hz).
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Electrical equipment is highly sensitive to this frequency and can break if it deviates too much from 50 Hz. For this reason, power stations, substations, switching equipment and other devices in the grid have fail-safes which will cause them to trip out should frequency fall outside acceptable bounds.
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However, wind and solar do not produce synchronous alternating current. Although wind turbines rotate, they do not do so at a constant speed, and solar has no moving parts at all. They produce direct current which is converted to alternating current using electronic devices known as inverters. Wind and solar also have no inertia.
1. They may not hire the worker at all. Outlawing jobs below a certain pay doesn’t guarantee higher-paid work; it guarantees unemployment for those priced out. If a person’s skills or experience don’t merit $30 in the market, this law has made it illegal for them to earn a wage at all. Consider an immigrant with limited English who might start in hotel housekeeping, dishwashing, or entry-level service jobs. At $15 – $20 an hour, an employer might take a chance and hire them, training them on the job. At $30 an hour, that same employer will likely demand a more experienced, highly productive worker for the role (if the role isn’t eliminated altogether). The rung at the bottom of the ladder gets sawed off.So we’ll see a repeat of what happened when California raised the fast food minimum wage. It is insane to think it won’t happen again. Remember Einstein’s the definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result this time.”
2. Employers substitute and automate. When labor gets costlier, it drives businesses to find ways to get by with less labor. That can mean investing in machines or tech or shifting work onto customers or remaining staff. Many chains curtailed daily housekeeping and never restored it fully (often spinning it as “green choice” to save water, while conveniently saving on payroll).Expect more automation at the airport and hotels: kiosks instead clerks, mobile ordering in airport eateries, robotic floor cleaners. Even trash collection can be automated; Pittsburgh deployed robotic vacuum sweepers. When labor costs skyrocket, technology that replaces that labor suddenly looks a lot more attractive.
In effect, L.A. could make itself even more expensive, driving away the very tourism dollars it’s trying to redistribute.
A Palestinian support group and domestic terror outfit that operates with impunity on many U.S. college campuses has now admitted openly that they see it as their job to destroy the United States of America by subvert our youth.So he has admitted he is an active enemy of the US which means he is fomenting treason, terrorist activities, and doing so on the behalf of adversaries and enemies in the Middle East. Why is this guy still free? Somehow I doubt the First Amendment covers enemy agents working to destroy the government and doing so openly. If he is here on a student visa it should be revoked and he should be deported as an enemy alien.
The group, Students for Justice in Palestine, is responsible for many of the racist, anti-Jewish protests at schools all across the country.
These Muslim terrorists pretend that they are supporting the human rights of so-called “Palestinians” and are protesting “genocide” being perpetrated against Gazans by Israel.
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Temple University activist Rishi Arun openly admitted that “It is our job to destroy imperialism, destroy the United States, and destroy capitalism.”
“We will do it by organizing that actively undermines and destabilizes the legitimacy and the power of [the United States],” he adds, “and the power and legitimacy of capitalism,” this terrorist added.
Alberta doesn’t belong in this Canada.If it comes to that, will Alberta tell Ottawa “We’re outta here”? Goodness knows they are seeing less and less reasons to remain as part of Canada. A lot of money flows from Alberta to Ottawa and from there to some of the other “less fortunate” provinces...like Quebec, just to name one.
That’s not treason. It’s not even radical. It’s a simple observation of cultural, economic, and political reality — a reality growing starker by the year. Albertans have known for decades that something is deeply broken in the Confederation they were born into. But it’s only recently, as Ottawa’s indifference curdled into hostility, that many have begun asking the inevitable question: What if we left?
Not just to form a new nation. But to join one that already reflects their values. A nation that respects liberty, rewards hard work, and doesn’t treat resource-producing states or provinces like piggy banks and political afterthoughts. A nation that — however imperfect — still believes in the rule of law, in constitutional government, and in the right of free people to govern themselves.
That nation is not Canada. That nation is the United States.
"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... EVER, until your job has been fully automated!" —Kyle Reese in a reboot of "The Terminator," possibly.Some of the examples of A.I. that is already out there is already impressive. I think we’ve all seen examples from things like ChatGPT and Grok, just to name two. One friend has said he uses A.I. rather than Google to do web searches because as he said, “I get better results that are more relevant to what I’m looking for.” I have also seen examples where A.I. gets it hilariously wrong, particularly when it comes to generating images.
California’s high-speed rail project is a lesson in the inefficiency of big government. The project was started nearly twenty years ago and they have not even started laying down tracks.It’s going to take a total of 40 years to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco? Maybe they should have hired the guys who designed and built the TGV high speed rail system in France. It would have been done in only a few years and would have been operating for almost 15 years by now. But then, California isn’t exactly known for getting things done in a timely fashion and hasn’t been for decades. Heck, they can’t seem to repair a quarter-mile stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur, something that’s been waiting for repair for 840 days now and isn’t likely to for another 840 days if past performance is any indicator.
One of the reasons it’s in the news right now is because it has gone way over budget and the people in charge are looking for alternate forms of funding.
The current CEO, who came on board last summer, is now claiming that the project might be finished in twenty years. That would be the year 2045.
China quietly exempts US goods from tariffs, covering around $40 billion worth of imports, in an effort to soften the blow of the trade war on its own economy.Even before the trade war China’s economy had been struggling. The punitive tariffs placed an even greater burden on its economy as trade fell off. Then add in the purported demographic problems facing China and it is a perfect storm of bad economic forces.
Chinese officials are quietly drawing up a “whitelist” of critical U.S. goods that importers rely on to exempt them from Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs, Reuters reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
The news adds to a growing number of reports from China of businesses discovering that tariffs have been waived on some goods, such as certain semiconductor and integrated circuit products.
It also shows how, underneath its tough rhetoric, Beijing is trying to mitigate the impact of the U.S. trade war on its export-reliant economy, the world’s second-largest, which was already under pressure from a broader slowdown.
“I do wonder why so much money is being spent smothering the landscape with solar panels when the parallel plan is to diminish the energy available from the sun.”Decreasing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface means a lower output from solar arrays. It also means lower temperatures, something we won’t be able to control because of the inertia involved with doing this. There will be no thermostat we can just turn up and down as needed. If these morons get it wrong they’ll be triggering another Ice Age, something we really don’t need. We’ve seen the effects of those aerosols when something like a volcanic eruption takes place, causing all kinds of debris into the atmosphere which has the effect of cooling the Earth, sometimes for decades. There have been two volcanic eruptions that were so large that they created two different “Years without Summer”. Ironically, they also increased the CO2 content of the atmosphere some small amount.
After all, we’re talking about a sitting judge actively interfering with federal law enforcement. Instead, Democrats from Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) promptly took to social media to decry the arrest of Dugan, outraged that a “sitting judge” had been arrested—as if her job title magically excuses her from the law.It’s the double standard being applied...again. It’s OK if Democrats ignore the law and bad if Republicans enforce the law.
Democrats immediately pivoted to portraying her as a victim of authoritarian overreach. Instead of grappling with the serious allegation that a judge aided an illegal immigrant’s escape and sparked a foot chase by agents, Democrats accused ICE of behaving like a “Third World” police force. Time and time again, Democrats have proven whose side they are on, and that they are willing to distort the truth in the hopes of turning public opinion against Donald Trump.
It’s clear the real goal here isn’t justice—it’s politics. Democrats are once again defending the indefensible because the alternative would mean admitting that Trump’s crackdown on lawlessness is working. So they manufacture a martyr, whether it’s a “Maryland man” with MS-13 ties or a “sitting judge” caught obstructing immigration enforcement.
The left’s message couldn’t be clearer: if you’re politically useful to them, your crimes don’t matter. Your illegal entry, your gang ties, your obstruction of justice—all of it can be sanitized with the right label. “Maryland man.” “Sitting judge.”
Whatever it takes to keep the narrative alive.
Owen McIntire is charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce, according to the 21-page criminal complaint.Seems they believe their anger about what they think is true somehow gives them the right to act like the Sturmarbeitlung back in the bad old days of the Third Reich. Their actions remind us of a modern day Kristallnacht.
Federal officials allege that while McIntire was on spring break in his home town in mid-March he used homemade Molotov cocktails to spread a fire that damaged two Cybertrucks valued at $105,485 and $107,485; two charging stations were damaged.
“ATF’s Special Agents and forensic experts recovered and analyzed key evidence—including Molotov cocktails—used in this deliberate and dangerous arson attack,” Acting Director Dan Driscoll of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms said in a statement. “This wasn’t vandalism — it was a violent criminal act. Thanks to the relentless work of ATF special agents … we now have a suspect in custody.”
Electric vehicles are not just excessively expensive and bad for the environment. They are also a safety hazard — and not only because they spontaneously burst into flames (and people get locked inside them).I remember the issue with the buses in Maine. What surprises me is that they would consider using battery electric buses in a state that can see winter temperatures that are well below zero, something that affects the range of the buses.
A Kansas school has stopped using its electric school buses out of an abundance of caution after reports of the buses losing steering and braking, posing a threat to student safety.Guess who paid for the buses? That’s right: you did. Federal funding was used to purchase them from Lion Electric.
Kansas was not the first state to have problems with the buses:
In May 2024, the Winthrop school district in Maine reported it took four of the Lion Electric school buses out of commission after a bus suddenly stopped working while driving. Another superintendent in Maine reported the buses can have critical battery failures, blown compressors or loss of power.