Your Phones And Computers Rely On This Remote North Carolina Mine. Helene Just Walloped It.

In December 2018, Sam Nunberg met with Steve Bannon at the Loews Regency hotel in Manhattan. Nunberg, a former Donald Trump campaign aide, expected to discuss work he was doing for a PAC that Bannon ran. But Bannon, whom Trump had fired from a White House job the year before, had other plans. Nunberg says that moments after the meeting began, Bannon pulled out what he said was a printed lawsuit and warned that the fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui was poised to sue Nunberg. Bannon—who was working for Guo at the time—said he could have the lawsuit shelved.

This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You wouldn’t expect to find the linchpin of the global microchip industry tucked away in a Blue Ridge Mountains town, but it’s there. Scattered across the outskirts of Spruce Pine, a series of mines has been extracting some of the purest quartz on Earth for decades.

First, we need to dispense with the silly use of the word “fetus.”

Ineligible voters are Democrats’ favorite kind—and their most reliable voting bloc.

Knucklehead Walz. It has a ring to it.

While some might argue that Matt Walsh happened to highlight a few imbeciles at the top of the DEI hierarchy, my own little experiment suggests gullibility is endemic to the field.