Mike Chartier

@RetroMoviesDB It’s best because it has the best villain

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (1982) The greatest Star Trek film. I'll die on this hill.

@sheilanazarian I said this when the war broke out: This only ends when the US establishes a permanent military base inside Iran. Could take decades before that happens.

If the Iranian regime survives, they win. And the Iranian people and the rest of the world lose. I have a friend in the Middle East right now, and the consensus there is that Iran is winning. People in America hear that and say, “How? Their military is destroyed. Their navy is destroyed.” Here is how. Russia and China will help them rebuild. They will charge tariffs in the Strait of Hormuz and blackmail the world with oil prices. The only path forward is full regime change and freedom for the Iranian people.

@GrageDustin @amyklobuchar Arkansas leads the country in farm bankruptcies, almost 3 times more than MN

@amyklobuchar Minnesota leads the nation in farm bankruptcies, and it started well before tariffs and war in Iran. It’s actually your party’s policies that have killed farming.

Right now, I'm heading to our Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on fertilizer supply & affordability. Farmers in Minnesota & nationwide are being squeezed by rising input costs — like higher fuel costs — driven by the Administration’s tariffs & the ongoing conflict in Iran.

@Nickisbackbaby Someday maybe, but there are much higher priorities for deportation we should focus on first.

If someone enters your country illegally but finds work, raises a family and contributes to society.... Should they be deported?

@Milajoy Property taxes have nothing to do with your mortgage payment.

My home is paid off. Why do I have to pay property taxes on it?

@SteveInmanClips Keep em coming Steve!

People learning the art of FAFO

@JodiOnTheCouch @NicholasLissack @MwAw1956 MIGA

@NicholasLissack @MwAw1956 The Final battle! Free Iran! 🇮🇷

First footage of a massive explosion after a US strike on Bandar Abbas, Iran. The US hit regime assets following IRGC attacks on American warships that escalated the Strait of Hormuz crisis. God bless America. Free Iran!

@grok @chrisman @zerohedge @grok are you saying Elon has standing because the judge said so?

Elon has standing because the federal judge allowed the case to proceed to trial after reviewing his claims. As co-founder and major early donor (~$38M), he alleges OpenAI breached the original nonprofit/charitable trust agreement by shifting to a capped-profit model with Microsoft, enriching insiders while abandoning the "benefit humanity" mission he helped establish. Claims include breach of trust and unjust enrichment. OpenAI disputes this and says he knew about commercialization plans. The jury will weigh the evidence.

this trial is wild. elon: they stole a non profit to make themselves billionaires. openai founder: no way. openai founders journal: man i can’t believe we are stealing this non profit. feels unethical but at least i’ll be a billionaire.

@chrisman @zerohedge @grok how does Elon Musk have standing to bring this lawsuit forward?

@chrisman @zerohedge How does Elon have any standing in this case no ownership in the nonprofit.

I’ve seen this judge many times and I really like her but here’s the truth. You might listen to what she’s saying here and think the judge is explaining the situation clearly however I honestly think that the defendant and many other defendants need to hear a far simpler message. They need to hear that they have a real chance of beating that ticket in court. If they don’t believe it in their heart, then they’re gonna fight tooth and nail every step of the way, and make the situation worse for themselves.

All she had to do was take the ticket...

@Lifeinvestmoney Drugs

Need a job where I can make six figures but I have no skills and I’m not very smart What field is this?

@Shady_Justin Who remembers the Mimosas?

How do we get Midwest Express back???

We all know what those black monologues really were

@realEstateTrent I don’t think of eBay either until I need to find something without paying full price. eBay motors is a real thing too btw.

I Haven’t thought about eBay in over 10 years. They’re still doing $10B+ in revenue. Serious question: Who is actually using it?

@shanaka86 Blow it out of the water

JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days. Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel very large crude carrier that has been anchored empty off Kharg for years. TankerTrackers confirmed her reactivation yesterday. Gulf News, Iran International, and Fox News all picked it up within hours. The reason she is moving at all is that Iran is running out of places to put the oil. Kharg Island handles roughly ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports. Its onshore tanks had about thirteen million barrels of spare capacity when the US blockade began on April 13. Net inflow since has been running at one million to one point one million barrels per day because exports have collapsed to single digits of vessels while upstream production continues. The math is mechanical. Roughly twelve days of spare capacity. The calendar says that window closes this week. NASHA is not a strategy. NASHA is what you do when you have run out of strategy. A two-million-barrel floating storage vessel buys Iran approximately forty-eight hours of continued upstream production. After that, either the wells get shut in or the crude goes somewhere else. The parallel options being pursued, ship-to-ship transfers in the Riau Archipelago, AIS-dark transits, sanctioned VLCCs returning home through the blockade line, are not enough. Lloyd’s List Intelligence has tracked roughly twenty-six Iran-linked vessels evading since April 13. That cannot absorb a million barrels a day. The wells will shut in. The question is which wells, for how long, and whether they come back. The Asmari and Bangestan carbonate formations that sit under most of Iran’s giant southern fields are high-permeability, strong-water-drive systems. The Society of Petroleum Engineers literature on this specific reservoir class is unambiguous. Remove continuous pressure support for a prolonged shut-in and four damage mechanisms activate simultaneously: water coning upward through the fracture network, fines migration into pore throats, formation compaction under increased effective stress, and clay swelling under altered salinity and pH. The damage is not theoretical. It is documented. And it is measured in months to years of recoverable production capacity, not days. Maleki and Gordon estimate three hundred to five hundred thousand barrels per day of permanent capacity loss if the current shut-in trajectory completes. That is a directional estimate, not a lab measurement, but the direction is not in dispute. NASHA is the archaeological signature of the clock. When a country with the world’s third-largest oil reserves reactivates a thirty-year-old retired tanker to float on top of its main export terminal and buy forty-eight hours of time, the institutional systems designed to absorb shocks have already failed. The insurance market, the shadow fleet, the diplomatic channels, and the reservoir physics are all converging on the same conclusion at different speeds, and NASHA is the one that shows up on satellite. The market is pricing a ceasefire. The Pentagon is pricing six months of mine clearance. Iran just pulled a corpse out of the Persian Gulf and asked it to buy two days. That is not how a reversible crisis looks. That is how a regime tells you, operationally, that it has run out of options between the blockade and the shut-in. The reservoir does not negotiate. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@nomodeath “Noted”

I need a nonchalant response to “I hate you”

@WallStreetApes It’s not enough to send this degenerate to prison. This level of fraud cannot happen without help from the people who approved his applications and wrote the checks. Follow the money trail!

A 24 year old Somali fraudster named Abdimajid Mohamed Nur in Minnesota stole $48 million dollars from American taxpayers - He bought himself a $65,000 car - A month later he bought a $35,000 car - He took his new wife on a honeymoon to the Maldives, they stayed in a private villa - He spent $30,000 on jewelry in Dubai - He spent a fortune Kenya - He bought a beautiful home You paid for all of this by the way - He graduated from high school in 2019 with a GPA of 1.75 - In 2022, he paid someone to go to college for him, and got bachelor's in healthcare management He tried to pay a juror $120,000 to say this man was innocent “This Somalian fraudster stole $48 million from the Minnesota taxpayers saying he was running 30 different feeding sites where he was feeding hungry children.”

@GamewithDave Emerald Mines for Amiga! Had this 2-player mode that was addictive

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

I built CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded. It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇 Numbers don't lie, but criminals do. courtwatch.us @bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback