Blanton Ray
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Hegseth in March: “Never before has a modern, capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective.”
They lied through their teeth. Just straight up fabricated shit.
John Hudson@John_Hudson
U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles
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@JigarShahDC Some are building gas peakers now, to take advantage of subsidies from the State. I wonder at their long term viability.
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In case you were wondering whether Perm in Russia is still on fire, the answer is yes, it absolutely is! 🔥
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@JigarShahDC No gas peaking plant will be economically viable running 100-400 hours a year in ERCOT.
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Applebaum: Trump clearly did not expect the Iran war to last this long. He seems to have imagined it would be easy.
If people in the room told him otherwise, he ignored them. He knows very little about Iran and even seemed surprised by Hormuz and Iranian strikes. 1/
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@Breizh5656 @LawlessNationX @EmmanuelMacron True, England fought the French with us in the 1750s in the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years War), since we were still British subjects. But in the Revolutionary War, it was France that came to our aid to defeat England. Funny joke but iffy historically
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@LawlessNationX @EmmanuelMacron Vous ne connaissez même pas votre histoire même les Européen savent comment l Amérique a été créé, connaissez vous Bougainville ? Une partie de l Amérique avait été conquise par les Français se sont les Anglais qui vous ont libéré ou créé. De la louisiane à St pierre et miquelon
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Three months ago, Congress passed more aid for Ukraine, and @POTUS signed it into law. It’s not charity – it is an investment in a partnership with the world’s leaders in drone technology. Who is withholding appropriated funds from Ukraine? Are senior defense officials unwilling or not allowed to visit Ukraine? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@RepThomasMassie @chelliepingree Thank you Congressman for fighting Glyphosphate. It is a known carcinogen. The manufacturers cannot be given legal immunity.
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I spoke at "The People vs. Poison Rally" outside the Supreme Court this morning.
I talked about the "No Immunity for Glyphosate Act," which I co-authored with @chelliepingree. Corporations should not be shielded from accountability, and Americans deserve their day in court.
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@marctshort Marc don’t forget insane arbitrary tariffs jacking up general inflation, and starting a half-baked war that has driven gas prices up 40 %.
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When Republicans are nationalizing private companies, pushing price controls, capping credit card fees, and dictating who is allowed to buy and sell homes, it’s hard to tell the difference anymore
Aaron Blake@AaronBlake
Fox News poll shows Americans prefer Democrats to Republicans on the economy (D+4) for the first time since 2010.
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Coons to Bessent: Your Treasury lifted sanctions on Russian oil, giving them an extra $150M a day in revenue.
Those funds are going not just to kill Ukrainians, but Russia's using its profits to support Iran with drones and intelligence to kill our troops.
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There is something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.
There is also something physically wrong with the President of the United States.
trump can’t stay awake at public events with the cameras rolling. Imagine what he’s like when there are no cameras.
Bill Madden@maddenifico
Trump completely passed out, reawakened, then passed out again during today's pressor in the Oval Office. 😂🤣👇
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North Carolina had a 7-7 map. Their GOP moved it to 11-3. Guess who said NOTHING? Whiny ass @coachbrucepearl. He didn’t say a damn thing. As Della Reese said in Harlem Nights, “Kiss my ENTIRE ass!”
Bruce Pearl@coachbrucepearl
President Trump won 46% of the Vote in the State of Virginia. Before this vote there were 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans representing the people in the house. To "restore fairness" the Dems will now carry the state 10-1. This is certainly a victory for democrats but how is it fair
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We said for years that batteries would displace inefficient and pricey natural gas peaker plants first. In California and Texas, that's starting to happen.
More efficient natural gas combined cycle plants will have a role for quite a long time to come, but will increasingly lose out on some of the most profitable hours as batteries (charged mostly from solar) eat into those high priced summer late afternons and early evenings.
Assaad Razzouk@AssaadRazzouk
44% of evening peak met by batteries. In California, world’s 4th largest economy. Not some tiny pilot project or a niche experiment, a global industrial powerhouse If you’re still sitting in boardrooms or parliament banging on about baseload and the intermittency of renewables, you’re not just wrong, you’re a dinosaur California's 44% isn't an anomaly. It's a preview of the 2027-2030 reality for every major grid overbuilding renewables The "technical barriers" the fossil fuel lobby loves to cry about are gone. We are shifting solar and wind into the night at a massive, industrial scale. We don't need expensive, inflexible coal or gas to keep the lights on; we need more storage and we need it now - everywhere reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries…
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44% of evening peak met by batteries. In California, world’s 4th largest economy. Not some tiny pilot project or a niche experiment, a global industrial powerhouse
If you’re still sitting in boardrooms or parliament banging on about baseload and the intermittency of renewables, you’re not just wrong, you’re a dinosaur
California's 44% isn't an anomaly. It's a preview of the 2027-2030 reality for every major grid overbuilding renewables
The "technical barriers" the fossil fuel lobby loves to cry about are gone. We are shifting solar and wind into the night at a massive, industrial scale. We don't need expensive, inflexible coal or gas to keep the lights on; we need more storage and we need it now - everywhere
reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries…
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This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.
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@mrddmia No, the message i got is if you engage in gross professional misconduct, you will be disbarred.
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The California Supreme Court sent a clear and terrorizing message:
If attorneys represent disfavored political candidates who challenge disputed elections, California will disbar them.
While this happens in failed third-world countries, this should never happen in America.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court.:
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