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  See new Tweets Conversation Mollie @MZHemingway Hoo boy. Quote Tweet Greg Price @greg_price11 · 17h Biden: "I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home politically." 2:54 PM · Oct 3, 2022 · Twitter Web App 1,047 Retweets 162 Quote Tweets 4,559 Likes This would have looked more authentic if he were3 speaking in Spanish.

 Washington Examiner: L ast week,  Puerto Rico  was devastated by  Hurricane Fiona . The entire island was left without power. Unfortunately, its residents continue to suffer a week later, and this time,  nature  alone cannot be blamed, as an archaic federal law called the Jones Act is preventing needed supplies from reaching the island territory as quickly as they could otherwise. "There is a ship with 300,000 barrels of diesel off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, that is prepared to deliver the diesel at a time when the island needs all the diesel it can get," CBS News correspondent David Begnaud confirmed Monday morning on social media. The problem is that this ship is foreign-flagged and its cargo comes from Texas. Therefore, the Jones Act prohibits its delivery. "Diesel helps gas stations, hospitals, the government of Puerto Rico," Begnaud explained. "Because of the Jones Act, I am told that the foreign-flagged ship cannot move into Puerto Rico to de...

  NY Times: Solar Power Offers Puerto Ricans a Lifeline but Remains an Elusive Goal The island’s energy grid has struggled after Hurricane María almost wiped it out in 2017. While solar-power systems can fill gaps, they aren’t cheap . Green energy solutions are expensive and unreliable, but that is what the left wants to impose on the rest of America. 

T. Becket Adams: The media savaged Trump when he claimed Puerto Rico officials were mismanaging disaster aid. But he was right This is the result of a media that is reflexively hostile to the President and would rather criticize him than do their own fact-checking.   Is there a media prize for getting a story wrong today?

Sharyl Attkisson: Where Did The $91 Billion For Hurricane Recovery In Puerto Rico Go? ... Nearly $20 billion has been earmarked for housing and shelter under “community planning and development” but two years after Maria, less than a million ($913,000) dollars has been paid out. ... Morrero told us not one damaged Puerto Rican school has seen permanent repairs in the past two years. ... To find out what’s wrong, we began with a helicopter tour of the 110-mile long island spotting dots of blue that mark homes that still have no roofs. Puerto Rico is extremely poor. At least 46% of its residents, 1.3 million people, were on welfare before the hurricanes. ... Fueling discontent in Puerto Rico is news that the FBI is investigating a number of government officials and contractors are under fbi investigation over allegations of misuse of all the taxpayer money sent in after Hurricane Maria. The FBI has arrested six top Puerto Rican government officials and consultants. Also ch...