THE SHOW NOTES: The 21-Year-Old Leaker, Gas Prices Going Up, & A $1.2 Million Church Fine
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Dave Ramsey is trending for a clip of a 29-year-old calling his show with $1 million in debt.
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Leaker Found
A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s Intelligence Wing living in his mom’s basement has been arrested for perpetrating the most significant intelligence leak since Edward Snowden. Unlike Snowden, Jack Teixeira appears to not have leaked the intelligence with malicious motives towards the US but instead to keep his friends on Discord “in the loop”.
Journalists at The New York Times and a Dutch investigative site are credited with identifying and locating Teixeira based off of obscure markings on a granite countertop in his childhood home. It leaves one to wonder if the SCOTUS leaker would be caught if The New York Times cared about the case.
DATA: More than 1 million U.S. government employees and contractors have access to top-secret information.
Bonus: Three US officials told Reuters that Russia was to blame for the leak less than a week ago.
Gas Prices Going Up
China’s emergence from COVID lockdowns and away from their COVID Zero policy means high energy consumption and ultimately higher gas prices. The International Energy Agency predicts the worldwide consumption of oil will surge by 2 million barrels per day thanks to the world’s second most populous nation returning to normal.
To make matters worse, some of OPEC’s biggest members recently agreed to cut oil production in a move that shocked oil markets. Saudi Arabia led the group by cutting its own production by 500,000 barrels per day. Simply put, gas prices will be going up.
Related: The EPA is implementing tailpipe emissions rules that are aimed to increase the percentage of electric vehicles on the road to 67% by 2032. Bloomberg says the timetable is crazy:
Nine years is no time at all in the auto industry — carmakers design new models for roughly six-year life spans, so that’s not even two product cycles. To grow EVs from around 5% market share today to two-thirds, a lot of new battery factories and assembly plants need to get up and running, charging infrastructure must be built out, and consumers who are happy with the vehicles they have will need to be sold on switching.
🔥 Trending news:
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Ron DeSantis quietly signs Florida's 6-week abortion ban into law - NBC
Real Clear Politics scored all major pollsters - RCP
Focus groups: Pennsylvania swing voters detest MAGA and abortion overreach - Axios
Global oil demand on course for record as China’s economy rebounds - The Guardian
TikTok might be part of a plot to make us dumber - Washington Post (paywall)
Rare classic cars up for auction after huge 230-vehicle find - CNN
This plan for a third-party presidential bid in 2024 is dangerous - Washington Post (paywall)
A classless, socially fluid America? Not today, not in politics. - Washington Post (paywall)
He put solar panels on his roof. Now his HOA wants them removed - AJC
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