Cindy Forrest

To the extent that America was ever "great" it was due to education/Innovation not Ra Ra Rallies, Flag Waving and Church. #Science

This is disgusting and despicable. Trump literally just celebrated Robert Mueller dying. Mueller did so much good for America.

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Iran hanged a 19-year-old wrestler on the eve of Nowruz. His name was Saleh Mohammadi. He won bronze at the 2024 Saitiev Cup in Russia. He turned 19 one week before the rope. The charge was moharebeh, waging war against God, for his role in the January protests that swept Iranian cities after the currency collapsed and bread prices doubled. Amnesty International said Mohammadi was denied adequate defence, forced to confess in proceedings that bore no resemblance to a trial. Iran Human Rights described the execution as an extrajudicial killing and warned that hundreds more face capital charges. The Norway-based organisation said the hangings were designed to create terror and suppress dissent during wartime. Two other men were hanged alongside him in Qom on March 19. All three were convicted of killing two police officers during the protests. The trials were fast-tracked. The confessions were extracted under what rights groups describe as torture and coercion. The executions were public. Consider the timing. In the four days before Mohammadi was hanged, the regime lost its intelligence minister, its Basij paramilitary commander, its most senior security official, and its IRGC spokesperson. Four generals killed by precision strikes that the regime could not prevent, could not detect in advance, and could not retaliate against with equivalent precision. The same government that cannot protect its most senior officials from American and Israeli munitions can still hang a teenager from a crane in a public square. The disparity is not incidental. It is the regime’s operating logic. The war it is losing in the sky is compensated by the war it is winning on the ground against its own citizens. Every JDAM that kills a general creates an internal security vacuum that the regime fills with executions. The hangings are not despite the war. They are because of it. A regime under existential military pressure accelerates domestic repression precisely because it cannot project strength externally. The rope replaces the missile as the instrument of state authority. Mohammadi was an athlete. He competed internationally. He travelled to Russia for the Saitiev Cup and came home with a bronze medal. The same Russia that is now reportedly hosting the Supreme Leader for medical treatment. The same Russia providing Iran with targeting coordinates for American warships. Mohammadi competed in a tournament named after a Russian wrestling legend, returned to Iran, protested his government, and was killed by that government while it begged the same country for hospital beds and satellite imagery. The January protests were the largest in Iran since 2022. Millions participated. The regime responded with what Human Rights Watch documented as lethal force, mass detention, and internet shutdowns. Thousands were arrested. Now, three months later, with the regime’s military capacity being degraded hourly and its leadership being eliminated weekly, the judiciary is processing those arrests into executions. The war provides cover. The world is watching Hormuz. Nobody is watching Qom. A bronze medal and a noose. A 19-year-old body that was trained to compete and was used to demonstrate. The regime that cannot protect its IRGC spokesperson can still kill its wrestlers. The war will end. The executions will not. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

I sympathize with Trump here. It's outrageous that he didn't find out about Pearl Harbor until 76 years later when his chief of staff in 2017 told him what Yamamoto had done. I can't believe we ever made peace with them. hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/01/17/dan…

The embodiment of fragile masculinity.

I regret to inform America that this was just posted by the HHS Secretary.

@RonFilipkowski Wrestling a Twinkie? People, this is called dynamic inactivity. They fire actual scientists, doctors, and public health experts and hired social media content creators. They have done this across all agencies. Trump drained the swamp and filled it with shit.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

I'm shocked, shocked that the Justice Department would do something stupid and embarrassing in defense of an insanely illegal position just because @realDonaldTrump threw a shit fit. I'm utterly astonished.

BREAKING: Just hours after Trump told Oil Tankers to enter the Strait of Hormuz, regardless of Iran's threats, an oil tanker is reportedly targeted and decimated by Iran in the Persian Gulf, just past the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's horrific advice may have just gotten people killed.

@allenanalysis Weak Trump could never. This is what you call a real man MAGA

🚨 BREAKING: An American oil tanker has been targeted and decimated in the Persian Gulf — hours after Trump told tankers to “show some guts” and enter the Strait. An American ship. Trump told them to go. They went. Iran was waiting. This is not a policy failure. This is not a miscalculation. The President of the United States told American civilian mariners to sail into an active war zone — against the advice of every intelligence agency, every shipping authority, and every insurer on earth. And an American ship is now destroyed. Who was on that ship? Trump told America to inject bleach. Trump told tanker crews to show some guts. People pay the price every time. He moves on every time. Not this time.

@allenanalysis @ShawnMcCreesh He’s perfectly comfortable with it. He shrugs. 🤮 I can’t bear this anymore.

🚨💪HELL YEAHHH: A reporter just did what every journalist in that room should be doing. @ShawnMcCreesh looked the President of the United States in the eye and said: “You suggested Iran bombed its own elementary school with a missile only America sells. You are the only person in your government saying this. Why?” Trump’s response: “Whatever the report shows, I’m willing to live with it.” 🔥🔥 165 girls. Ages 7-12. That’s what accountability journalism looks like. Not softball questions. Not access journalism. Not protecting your White House credential. Going for the jugular on behalf of dead children. Remember that name: @ShawnMcCreesh. That’s how it’s done.

Failing to apologize for killing Iranian schoolchildren makes our country look immoral. Denying that we did it -- claiming that Iran did it -- makes our leaders look like they think Americans and the world are stupid. We are not. Reverse this stance now, President Trump.

@TheLaurenChen White women constantly get caught lying about black men raping them. Meanwhile, white men who ADMIT to raping women don't see a minute in jail, so why would white women bother reporting white men to the police in the first place?

@TheLaurenChen Lying cunt.

🚨 BREAKING: Evacuations underway on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. NYPD Bomb Squad and FBI on scene after a suspicious device found inside a parked vehicle. This morning the White House blocked intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement about terror threats linked to the Iran war. This afternoon — a suspicious device in Manhattan. We don’t know if these are connected. But we know what we were told: The warnings were blocked.

I want a Democratic Party where the left sounds like Mamdani and AOC, the center sounds like Talarico, and the right sounds like Osborn and Ossoff. Different styles, same mission: economic policies for the working class. Build a coalition against the Oligarchs.