Andy Flach 🌵

Electricity prices are essential to the US economy. But it’s hard to get recent, local, user-friendly data on them. We’re changing that. This week, @heatmap_news and MIT released the ELECTRICITY PRICE HUB, a new tool breaking down local power rates and bills going back to 2021.

For context: Trump won white non-college voters by 34 points in 2024.

"Energy costs...including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months" — Trump, 8/19/24 "12 months from January 20th… your gasoline for your car is going to be 50% cheaper" — Trump, 10/10/24 "Mark it down, and you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it.” — Trump, 9/21/24

Trump is being undone because he can't wrap his mind around the hard fact: America may have its own oil, but it cannot have its own oil price. Latest in @theatlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

US manufacturers of soda bottles, peanut butter jars, sandwich bags and just about anything else made of plastic are getting squeezed as the Iran war chokes off supplies of key components. Several makers of monoethylene glycol and purified terephthalic acid have declared forces majeures as the Persian Gulf conflict damages oil fields, disrupts processing plants and halts most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. #oott bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In the 2020 election, Arizona: 1) Required documented proof of citizenship 2) Only sent mail ballots to voters who requested 3) Had an intelligent barcode that allowed voters and election workers to track outbound and inbound ballot ... The main things required by President Trump's new executive order to "secure mail voting." Does this mean people will stop making allegations about mail voting in Arizona in 2020?

The national average price of diesel, at $5.49/gal, is less than 35c/gal away from reaching a new all-time record in the U.S.- and with ULSD diesel futures solidly higher, it's looking likely the U.S. will soon set a new record high for diesel.

1/ NEW: We cross-referenced purchases of individual ESA accounts to the data analysis that Superintendent Tom Horne recently declared is proof of low misspending rates. Turns out, Horne's analysis categorized many banned taxpayer purchases as "Allowed." 12news.com/article/news/i…

WTI futures hit $110. Not good!

strip mall sign didn’t have to go this hard

I love how Trump is just up front about “we can’t do good things because I need to do wars”

1/ (1of5) Rachel and Seth Keshel Election Fraud…RELOAD! A few weeks ago, I told you that the election deniers, Rachel and Seth Keshel, were in fact committing election fraud themselves. They have signed multiple documents over multiple years (under penalty of perjury) that all say that the relative newlyweds live in a 2400SF home in Vail Arizona in LD19. This makes Rachel Keshel ineligible to either continue to serve or to run for another term in LD17. No one, including Rachel and Seth, has been able to refute these facts or provide any rational explanation. Quite the opposite, the couple have threatened anyone who brings up these facts with legal action, and/or gaslit or blocked them entirely rather than engage with the facts. Today I will provide some additional findings from official campaign finance reports that demonstrate that both Rachel and Seth have no problem PROVIDING INCORRECT ADDRESSES ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. You can judge for yourselves why they would do this. A quick note that I will use actual addresses in the case where the evidence shows there is no chance that the subjects being discussed in this post still live at those addresses. Despite the fact that I post publicly available information, I AM EXTREMELY DILIGENT about redacting addresses and other contact information from the documents I post. This is why, despite what these chucklef@cks have to say about me, I have never been suspended for "the D-word"! It is also why Rachel could tell me in confidence where she actually lives any time or even provide evidence that Seth is engaging in mortgage fraud. But she can't…

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

@EricTopol Study finds that people who make smart choices are smarter than people who make poor choices. I suspect people who are more cognitively intact are more likely to choose to get the shingles vaccine & the heavy duty flu shot.

We've seen the Shingles vaccine is linked with reduced risk of Alzheimer's and dementias in 4 large natural experiments. Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose for the same in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort [N>160,000). More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccine) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.121…

I annotated it with appropriate paraphrases.

BREAKING: S&P 500 futures erase -$550 billion in market cap in 25 minutes as President Trump delivers his address to the nation on the Iran War.

let me be clear: the clock is ticking. lawmakers have a narrow window to reverse course and fully restore the Strait. If that doesn’t happen soon, Americans will start changing their summer travel plans- and they will NOT forget why when they head to the polls in November.

@Rory_Johnston @DanielleFong Bookmarking to post when this war turns three years old

We didn’t really learn anything more from Trump’s Iran War address, but those things he reaffirmed are likely going to continue driving crude prices higher: - plans to achieve military targets in 2-3 weeks, which likely means further escalation - believes US is winning, achieving all its goals, energy price pain a temporary necessary cost - plans to leave the task of reopening the Strait to Europe/Asia, and no one knows what that will look like More escalation, more risk of upstream facility counterattacks, Hormuz likely closed for another month at least and who knows after that. Hard to believe that, best case, we’re only like halfway through this.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This speech is insane. Our President is a lunatic. Also, he sounds like a moron. A real low IQ individual. Don’t be numb to how crazy this is.