That little black box on the utility pole down the street is photographing your car every time you drive past. If it’s one of the automated license plate readers now bolted to poles in thousands of American neighborhoods, it’s snapping your plate, stamping it with a time and GPS location, and shipping the record to ... 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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For decades, the ruling apparatus in Tehran has relied on two foundational lies to maintain its grip on power: first, that the Iranian opposition is fragmented and planless; second, that no viable structure exists inside the country to manage a transition. Today, as the Islamic Republic enters its most precarious era of institutional decay, both ... Read more

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A traffic stop is now a multi-camera production, and the driver is holding one of the cameras. The officer has a body cam and a cruiser cam. The dashboard has a forward camera, an in-cabin lens, and often a rear-facing one. A parked car down the block may be running sentry mode. By the time ... Read more

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That old hospital bill on your credit report? The federal rule that was supposed to keep it off got vacated in court. The account you thought was buried is back in the file the next lender pulls. Take one balance and follow it. An emergency-room charge from two years ago was reported, disputed, sold, resold, ... Read more

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The federal rule requiring automatic emergency braking in every new passenger vehicle is going to change how fault gets assigned in rear-end crashes long before it changes a single crash statistic. Almost nobody is talking about that part. The regulation targets automakers and their compliance timelines, but the second-order effects land on drivers, insurers, and ... Read more

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Today on the Morning Update, the 2028 presidential prom is coming up, and Kamala Harris doesn’t have a “date” yet. The DNC doesn’t want her, California voters don’t want her, but she’s an entitled climber with her eyes on the only rung left, and she has to earn this one. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble ... Read more

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I got up and spoke out against former Gordon MacDonald at his Executive Council confirmation hearing. Everyone was running and scrambling to set up their microphones as if Elvis had just walked into the building. I got up after introducing myself to the council and handed AG MacDonald my not-guilty slip, which I still have. ... Read more

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Let’s just stipulate one thing right off the top: If Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, Tim Walz of Minnesota, and JB Pritzker of Illinois are adamantly opposed to something involving energy policy, it’s a safe bet that what they’re fighting against is actually a really good idea. That’s definitely the case for the Stop Climate ... Read more

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On September 3, President Trump announced that up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef trimmings would be imported with no out-of-quota tariffs for 90 days. The move was designed to ease grocery prices. Instead, it fueled a fierce backlash from ranchers and farmers, who have suffered years of drought and low commodity prices. The ... Read more

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Yesterday I did a Morning Update on so-called news outlets whining (and suing) over being evicted from the White House. Boo Hoo. There’s no right to be anywhere, especially when what you excel at is lies and hoaxes, and there are plenty of receipts. One of those networks, CNN, is past struggle sessions and fearing ... Read more

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The left has watered down a parent’s responsibility so much that they are willingly putting their children into situations that will see them fail to thrive. Infamous “1619” author Nikole Hannah-Jones spent years arguing that, in order to solve New York City’s racist public school system, she and her husband would send their daughter, Najya, ... Read more

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In November of 2023, some nutjob shot three college students in Burlington, Vermont. Jason Eaton was later identified and arrested for the shootings, which left one of his victims paralyzed. This past week, a jury found Eaton guilty on three counts of attempted murder. His defense? “Eaton’s lawyers argued that he was not criminally responsible ... Read more

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Six weeks. Forty-two Days. A blink of the eye until America decides its future course. That is not sensationalism or hyperbole. Never before has America been faced with a choice to continue as a Constitutional Republic or throw in the white flag and wander down the path to Socialism. We have had radical candidates before, ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, we’ve reported on a lot of financial fraud and loads of COVID fraud, but what about both, intertwined, such that American taxpayers actually paid for a hit squad to kill the president of Haiti? Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 269 Links: ... Read more

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Scores 100% on the Democratic Socialist Party policy questionnaire Democrat Lieutenant Governor Candidate Molly Gray is out on the campaign trail projecting herself as some sort of moderate and a champion of rural Vermont. But, as highlighted in a recent interview on WVMT’s Morning Drive, Gray responded to the Green Mountain Democratic Socialists of America ... Read more

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A WMUR headline story ran yesterday afternoon about the closure of the Queen City Bridge (QCB) in Manchester.  Readers with no ties to Manchester might not care about the QCB because it’s “out of sight, out of mind,” so to speak, but I’ll explain why everyone should pay attention.  No sound-minded person would want a ... Read more

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This week, on Right Side Up, Alison and I discuss our attendance at the Tunbridge Fair, farm and agricultural culture, small businesses and regulations, the “Species of Greatest Conservation Need” op-ed, and Prop 3. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and ... Read more

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Before any Vermonters vote on a constitutional amendment that makes it impossible to avoid the corrosive cultural rot of union power, check this out. The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred irrespective of ... Read more

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The country is ready for a female President, as long as she is qualified and ready to accept the responsibility of serving America, and not promoting a cause. Hillary and Kamala were neither. Hillary has always thought that she was entitled and destined to be behind the desk that her husband made fashion history with ... Read more

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