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The Jones Act has long been criticized for the significant costs it imposes on the U.S. economy, but recently came to the forefront as one of the factors driving up New England’s energy costs.
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@PatrickMahomes Yes you will. Thank you for an exciting season. Guns up!
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Appreciate all the love and support from #ChiefsKingdom
I let y’all down today. I’ll always continue to work and try and learn and be better for it.
Want to give thanks to God for every opportunity he has given me.
We will be back.
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🚨🚨🚨Trump says that if all hostages in Gaza are not released by 12pm on Saturday, the ceasefire should be canceled and "let all hell break loose"
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This is HUGE NEWS.
"The overall maternal mortality rate declined by about 17 percent in the first full year after the Dobbs decision."
The mainstream media has not paid much attention to this. We now have data from the CDC showing declines in maternal mortality since 2022 and declines in infant mortality since 2023.
h/t @Michael_J_New
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@PCVFWTX @DominicJPino True but that wouldn't have saved the world.
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The California High Speed Rail Authority turns 30 next year and will still have carried zero passengers.
CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨@CaHSRA
Ignore the noise. We’re busy building. 🚧 As we enter the track-laying phase, 171 miles are under active construction & we’ve already: ✅ COMPLETED 50 major structures ✅ COMPLETED 60 miles of guideway ✅ COMPLETED full enviro clearance from SF to LA ✅ CREATED 14,600 jobs
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That feels like a VERY easy lever to pull to shut down illegal immigration. Many of the illegal immigrants are using citizens’ social security numbers. If that gets flagged at the job application step, then we’ll be able to eliminate a major pull factor in the battle to curb illegal immigration.
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Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!
Your tax dollars are being stolen.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following: - Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. - All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING! - The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily. The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already! Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
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I’m a little puzzled at people saying things like, “well, it is only $500m here, or $30b there.” That is more money than most people’s entire family and extended families will pay in taxes for a many, many generations.
Taxes are an efficient way to extract wealth for necessary services, but for the 20-30% of your work that is collected via taxes you are a slave to the federal government.
Understand that this is money that was stolen from you and your family. When the govt wastes money it is stealing. We pay taxes for defense. We pay taxes roads. We do not pay taxes for left-wing media and trans operas in Ireland.
If an employee of your business was entrusted with your corporate debit card and instead of buying supplies for the company they were buying cruises for their friends you’d have them arrested for embezzlement.
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What film was so brutal to watch that you had to stop?
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When a woman miscarries, or has an abortion, it’s taboo to ask a male partner how he feels. “It’s just beyond the depth of horror,” one man tells The FP’s @KatRosenfield: thefp.pub/42MbAFR
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There’s a big, online campaign going on in lefty land right now in Texas to keep poor and middle class kids from being able to get out of their failing public schools and get a good education.
From what I can gather, the lefty argument is that poor and middle class kids shouldn’t be able to attend better schools because some rich people might also benefit from the program.
In order to avoid accidentally benefiting some rich kids who are already attending private schools we need to make sure that those dirty poor and slightly less dirty middle class kids are stuck in failing schools.
Great work, Texas democrats. Strong stuff. Well reasoned. That’ll show those rich kids!
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While Hawaii wants to use LNG as a bridge fuel to a renewable future, an August 2024 @EnergyHawaiiGov report points out that the US mainland is an unlikely source (even as the US exports LNG throughout the Pacific Rim). Take a wild guess why:
E&E News@EENewsUpdates
Hawaii can tap LNG as bridge to renewable power, study says ift.tt/jsuV0ay
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@JonahDispatch This will be called the “We Don’t Trust Free Markets Act” or “Americans Aren’t Grownups Act”
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Lololololol. So perfect.
Josh Hawley@HawleyMO
Credit card interest rates are out of control. Rates have DOUBLED in recent years. In 2022 alone, credit cards charged Americans $105 billion in interest. Today @BernieSanders and I are teaming up to introduce a 10% cap on interest rates - just like @realDonaldTrump proposed
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@courtneyknill The Double Oaked is absolutely fantastic. It is my go-to bourbon.
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while we’re on the subject:
rate my go to whiskey
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@RepCraigGoldman, here’s a legislative wishlist:
(1) eliminate the Jones Act;
(2) sell the TVA; and
(3) streamline the approval process for new nuclear power plants (specifically small modular nuclear reactors).
I’m glad you are my rep!
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Got this cool shot in a dark sky state park in Texas. @thenorthface your gear is looking good.
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