It’s 6 p.m. and the living room reads 74, which is what the thermostat was told to deliver back in July. Outside it’s 62 and dropping. The compressor kicks on, runs a short cycle, shuts off, and the homeowner opens the app wondering why the bill keeps climbing. The schedule the thermostat learned over a ... Read more

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Most of what a modern garage door opener costs to run gets burned while nobody is using it. The motor barely registers. The transformer keeping the radio receiver, safety sensors, LEDs, and Wi-Fi module alive 24 hours a day is the real meter-spinner, and that’s the component federal regulators have been chasing for a decade. ... Read more

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Everyone keeps blaming the substation. The real constraint on the next wave of data center buildout is thermodynamics on the back side of the rack. Chips can be fed. The heat they throw off has to go somewhere, and in a lot of markets there is nowhere left to put it that isn’t already fought ... Read more

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Some parents wore pink wristbands with two X’s in Sharpie on each, and two years later, even after a First Circuit win, they still can’t wear them to games. Plaintiffs’ motion to expedite. Earlier this month, the First Circuit Court of Appeals remanded the case to the lower court to consider whether to grant the ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, Dems have been pretending to be the party of Civility (meaning they are the opposite) for years, so some Dem-on-Dem election intimidation hate-crime isn’t surprising news. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. S.2  024 (Ep. 288) Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their ... Read more

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Did you see the news? Democrat State Senate Candidate Cecil Abels of Rochester was forced to suspend his campaign due to the fact that he did not meet residency requirements to be a member of the Senate. This begs the question: why can’t the Senate Democrats find candidates that are actually from New Hampshire to ... Read more

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One of the dumbest things the Social Justice “Igors” ever birthed from their fetid womb of cultural Marxism was “appropriation.” The idea that if it’s not your culture, you can’t have it, use it, or express it. Unless it’s white, Western, colonialist culture and, more precisely, the American Constitutional Republic – then have at it. ... Read more

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On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified and became part of the Constitution. Most people think they know why. But most actually don’t. It was birthed out of a brutal political battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over a question that nearly killed ratification: When the Constitution doesn’t mention a power, who gets ... Read more

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Don Bolduc’s ridiculous excuse of an endorsement of Democrat Socialist shill Chris Pappas continues to produce bad press for the retired General. Our first fisking and commentary on the news has been very well received, with numerous commenters on X summed up thusly: “That man has turned into such a huge disappointment.” Indeed, he has, ... Read more

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Pray.com sends emails every morning with a suggested reading and prayer.  They do that year-round, even in October, which they’ve declared “Fruit of the Spirit Month.”  Since 10/1, they’ve been sending a 2nd email later in the day.  That email includes a suggested thing to do, and for me, not all suggestions require equal effort. ... Read more

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Michael Smith, writing for the Patriot Post, has a great piece titled “The Right to Be Comfortable.” It looks at the reality/fantasy contradiction of the transgender agenda and the idea that there’s such a thing as trans rights. One of those is the right to be comfortable, or to feel comfortable, in whatever fantasy your ... Read more

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Beaten, Blinded, Imprisoned Watch the footage closely. On an Iranian street, a man in a Vladimir Putin T-shirt kicks a young woman to the pavement and beats her with the butt of an assault rifle. There is no hesitation in his movements and no fear of consequence. To outside observers, it is a shocking burst of street ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, your reliable Handmaiden media is back to demsplain the difference between what we’re seeing in France (third-world rioting) and what it actually means. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load.  S.2  023 (Ep. 287) Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may ... Read more

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Come to our last fair of the year! Saturday, Oct 24 9am-1pm Benjamin Franklin Academy Charter School, 157 Chichester Rd, Loudon NH The fair will be held in conjunction with a 5k run and an organized yard sale, so we expect a lot of families to show up. There will be food available, too. Attendees ... Read more

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On Thursday, Tesla engineers remotely drove the company’s new Roadster up a gigantic half loop that looked like a life-sized Hot Wheels track. At the top of the loop, the road ended, and the car, upside down, flipped, and then slowly hovered to the ground. With jets of compressed air shooting from the car, it ... Read more

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ICYMI, this week on GrokTALK!, we look back at wealth and value, and why money does its best work in the free market, not in the hands of the government. 00:00 Introduction and Fundraising Announcement00:46 Critique of Government and Wealth Redistribution02:38 The Economic Impact of Jeff Bezos and Amazon10:44 Elon Musk’s Job Creation and Technological ... Read more

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Jeff Chidester and I will be speaking at the Stratham Republican Town Committee’s annual fundraising event later this week. It’s called ‘What a Crock (of Soup).” It’s the 6th annual occurrence, and I love soup, so when they asked if I’d like to keynote, I said yes. There will be many, many crocks of soup, ... Read more

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Noah Webster told us exactly what happens when people join a political party – they become mindless puppets of people in power.  His timeless warning that “faction is death to liberty” is one we can’t afford to ignore any longer. FREEDOM LOST Most people think the greatest threats we face come from foreign enemies or ... Read more

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Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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There is little debate that the New Democrats despise this country. They hold America in such little regard that you have to question why they want to become a part of the system except to be a component of the destruction of America from within the halls of the People’s House, the Capitol. We still ... Read more

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