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@Ratio_Disputati @StoriesBySammi @ConservativeTht The industry is set up to be so fully insulated against its own insolvent decisions that it literally churns more profit from even bad choices. /2

@Ratio_Disputati @StoriesBySammi @ConservativeTht The mining of this copper serves no purpose than to do the opposite of providing for global demand. AFG also will not be punished by glutting the total supply. The additional cost of refining & smelting this copper-sulfide ore will simply be passed on to the overall market. /1

Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota. The most visited canoe country in America. Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it. The Senate just sold it out outright. They called it "America First." Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China. The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections. Here's the deal they made. A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine. America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity. So the ore ships to China. China processes it. Sells it on the world market. Chile keeps the profits. Minnesotans don't even get the jobs. Minnesota keeps the pollution. And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price. This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years. They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K. The protection died by one vote. Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen. Who do YOU think this mine actually serves? #DemsUnited

UPDATE: According to sources who have seen the final text, Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical, set for release tomorrow, will argue that humanity faces a defining choice regarding AI. He uses the Tower of Babel — the ancient story of a people who tried to engineer their way to godhood and collapsed under the weight of their own power — as a warning about where unchecked technical mastery leads. Instead, the U.S.-born pontiff will urge the world to build something humbler in its place: a civilization where God and humanity can dwell together.

Look up the ages of the Freedom Riders. Lots of young folks. So when people are discussing whether it’s fair to ask young people to boycott attending certain schools in the Deep South over gerrymandering, realize young people were a core component of the civil rights movement.

My uncle Dude Bachom was a radio operator on the Zombie B17 in the Us Army Air Corp, when gave the “last full measure” fighting Nazis on December 22, 1942. A man in the plane behind him, said he was “shooting all the way down” He was 19 years old. His body never found. I am his neice, I will continue in his name. “The Dude abides”.

@Ratio_Disputati @StoriesBySammi @ConservativeTht The only USA located smelters who can handle the poor quality sulfide-rich copper twin metals is expected to extract are owned by AFG rivals, namely Rio Tinto in Utah & Freeport-McMoRan in Arizona. AFG will put the ore on container ships & move it international.

Wrong. Antofagasta PLC signed agreements in December 2025 for zero-cost processing of copper concentrate with at least one Chinese smelter for 2026. The deals set treatment and refining charges at $0 per metric ton and 0 cents per pound. They followed earlier 2025 settlements at $21.25 per ton and matched mid-year zero-charge terms. Antofagasta owns Twin Metals Minnesota, the developer of the proposed copper-nickel mine. The processing agreements apply to the company overall. No public record shows a specific contract for unproduced Twin Metals ore. Since there is no contract regarding the mine output, which has not yet been permitted, both the state and the federal government can condition approval of the project on not shipping ore to communist China.

My kid's school asked me to donate supplies. Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues. I pay property taxes. My state has a $4 billion surplus. The federal education budget is $238 billion. And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck. And I'm sending in Ziploc bags. We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money. We fund schools with bake sales. And then blame teachers when test scores drop.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

On this day in 1920, The Elaine Race Massacre inquiry began, addressing the killing of 200+ Black sharecroppers. A blood-thirsty gang of white soldiers led the deadliest massacre in U.S. history in 1919. -The Elaine Massacre- A THREAD

@cwebbonline Stay classy Toledo Catholics 🤡

They didn’t notice those folding chairs? ☠️ 😭

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold." So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house? I didn't sell it. I didn't cash out. I didn't make a profit. But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year. Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

@Zoya_ki_batein Not a single private entity reached out to this mother. The welfare State was eroded down past nothing to where it actively harms women & children instead. This is @TXGOPCaucus' pro-life in practice.

This newborn baby was found in a dumpster in Houston, Texas. "The child appeared to be fresh out of the womb, with his hair wet, his skin pruned and his umbilical cord still attached." Thankfully, he survived

@TheStreetsofATX Being on a Kayak in Zilker park doesn't make up for how ugly 35's concrete jungle is.

Most beautiful city in…. Texas?

@doggygoth All the food and music from other color zones exists in the Blue zone, which is turning more mild every year with how North America is warming.

genuinely if you pick anything except blue you are a complete and total moron

Martha Stewart went to prison for saving herself $45,673 using an illegal stock tip. Donald Trump traded stocks 3,700 times between Jan—Mar of this year, totaling between $220–$750 million, and used the presidency to make his stocks go up… And he’s walking around a free man.

One part of US history I hate most is the so-called “Louisiana Purchase.” It’s always taught as legitimate when neither France nor the US had any right to buy or sell those lands belonging to the Native American nations who are never included on the maps used in schools! Ripoff!

@LabLove760 @simonmaechling @Stevemac270 LD50 levels are measured as milligrams of substance per every kilogram of weight of the individual.

@simonmaechling @Stevemac270 Anatomy and physiology also play a roll. The same amount of alcohol that a 6' 220 lb. man who drinks regularly and consumes with no problem could kill a teenage girl.

Natural doesn't always mean safer. Toxicity depends on dose, not on whether something is natural or synthetic. Even common substances like caffeine, vitamin D, and salt can be lethal at certain levels. Understanding toxicology is key to rational risk assessment.

@davenewworld_2 Texas has always been a lip service State. They do contrary to their message more often than not.

Texas solar is projected to beat coal for the first time on the ERCOT grid. This news isn't getting the attention it deserves. Texas is at the center of America's "forever marriage" to fossil fuels, yet here they are adding more solar than any other state, while the national GOP is committed to framing renewable energy as "unreliable."