Michael Turner

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Michael Turner

Michael Turner

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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@realMaalouf What is the male-female ratio in Europe these days since they have allowed millions of foreign fighting age males to enter their countries.
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Dr. Maalouf ‏
Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
ITALY: Italian residents helplessly watch in horror from their balconies, unable to believe their eyes. “What happened to our country? Where are we supposed to go now?” Nobody should have to live like this in their own country.
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
How can you coexist with a religion whose holy book (Koran) tells its followers that they must kill or enslave every non-Muslim or at best allow them to live as second class citizens (dhimmi) in a society controlled by Muslims and that they must keep expanding Islam by every means possible until no other religions exist.
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Neo@Realneo101·
Muslims went crazy after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this: "Radical Islam doesn’t want just a small caliphate in Iraq or Syria. They see the United States as the greatest evil on Earth and seek to dominate the entire West. Radical Islam is revolutionary, it wants endless expansion, terrorism, assassinations, and total control. They hate America, Europe, Israel, and every Muslim nation that partners with us. Orlando, Pensacola, and domestic attacks prove it. Radical Islam is a clear and imminent threat to the world." I agree with every single word he said.
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
My favorite operation during the Normandy invasion was when British bombers spent hours dropping Window in a precisely timed fashion to simulate a naval fleet slowly steaming towards Calais as part of the misdirection to keep the Germans thinking that Calais was the invasion location.
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Voices of WW2
Voices of WW2@VoicesofWW2·
The Nazis cracked the secret code announcing D-Day, intercepted the warning live on air, and still got destroyed by an army of railway workers, teenage girls, and a house painter. Every detail of this story is real and it gets crazier the longer you read. Start in 1943. A French house painter named René Duchez takes a redecorating job at a German engineering office in Caen. Sitting on a desk: a map of the Atlantic Wall defenses for the Normandy coast. He hides it behind a mirror on the wall, finishes the job like nothing happened, and walks out with it days later. The Resistance smuggles it to London in a cookie tin on a fishing boat. The Allies now have the blueprint of the wall they're about to climb. He wasn't alone. For a year, ordinary French people built the most detailed picture of enemy defenses in military history. Fishermen noted gun positions. Farmers paced out minefields. Railway clerks copied German troop movements. Cleaning ladies memorized office paperwork. Thousands of reports flowed to London every month, hidden in baguettes, bicycle frames, and babies' diapers. When Allied planners sat down to design D-Day, they knew the Normandy coast better than the Germans defending it. Meanwhile the RAF was secretly parachuting guns into French fields at night, tens of thousands of containers of rifles, Stens, and explosives, guided in by farmers holding flashlights. The Resistance was handed four sabotage plans and told to wait. Plan Green: destroy the railways. Plan Tortoise: block the roads. Plan Violet: cut the telephone lines. Plan Blue: kill the power grid. Each cell waits for its go signal, hidden among the fake "personal messages" the BBC reads every night. Nonsense phrases like "Jean has a long mustache." Each one meaningless to millions, life or death to a dozen. June 1, 1944. The BBC reads the first line of a 19th century poem about autumn violins. It means the invasion is coming. June 5, 9:15 pm, the second line airs: go within 48 hours. Here's the insane part. German intelligence had tortured the code out of a captured Resistance leader. They knew exactly what those lines meant. They intercepted both, live. One German army went on full alert. The army actually defending Normandy was never told. Its commander had left for a war game. Rommel had driven home for his wife's birthday with a pair of Paris shoes in the car. That night, while 13,000 paratroopers were still in the air, France exploded. The Resistance cut the rail network in over 950 places before dawn. They dropped bridges, derailed locomotives, and blew signal boxes. They dug up and severed the underground telephone cables, forcing German commanders onto the radio, where the Allies were reading their encrypted traffic. By sunrise on June 6, the German army in Normandy was blind, deaf, and stranded. Some units learned the largest invasion in history was happening from French civilians. Others, from lost American paratroopers landing in their gardens. Then comes the masterpiece. The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 15,000 battle-hardened troops and 200 tanks, is ordered north from Toulouse to crush the beachhead. The trip should take three days. It takes seventeen. Why? Weeks earlier, saboteurs working for a British agent had crept into the rail yards where the division's tank transporter flatcars sat, drained the axle oil, and replaced it with abrasive carborundum paste. Among the saboteurs: a teenage girl. When the panzers loaded up and rolled out, the railcars ground themselves to death within miles. Forced onto the roads, the tanks burned out their treads while the Resistance blew every bridge ahead of them, felled trees across the roads, ambushed the columns at river crossings, and sniped at them through every town, then melted into the hills. By the time Das Reich reached Normandy, the beachhead it was sent to destroy was unbreakable. The Germans took revenge on civilians along the route, including massacres in towns that had nothing to do with the attacks. The Resistance knew the price of every cut cable and every blown bridge. They kept cutting. After D-Day they rose up across the whole country, liberating entire regions, taking surrenders of German units, and feeding the Allies intelligence all the way to Paris. Some paid in full, like the thousands who fought a doomed open battle on the Vercors plateau that July. Eisenhower later judged the Resistance worth a full fifteen divisions of regular troops. Fifteen divisions. Of farmers, fishermen, train conductors, cleaning ladies, teenagers with carborundum paste, and one house painter who stole the Atlantic Wall off a Nazi desk and carried it past checkpoints in his paint van. They had no tanks, no planes, no uniforms. They had poetry on the radio and the nerve to act on it. And it worked.
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@Phb778273038 @em4g1 It’s a golden jackal, the Eurasian counterpart to the North American coyote, which has been spreading its range into western Europe the same way that the coyote has spread its range into the eastern United States.
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Philip@Phb778273038·
@em4g1 That looks like a coyote.
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عالم الحيوانات المفترسة والأليفة 🗺️
تم تركيب سياج محكم حتى لا تستطيع الحيوانات العبور منه لكن عندما يصل الأمر إلى الذئب ف الذئب كائن ذكي يحسب الخطوات ويحل المشاكل المعقدة
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@Frogloverrs @SecRollins @USDA There isn’t a vaccine for the screwworm. Ranchers use ivermectin to treat screwworm infections since ivermectin kills the screwworm larvae in the animal.
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DD1234@Frogloverrs·
@SecRollins @USDA First they roll the screw worm and then they're going to roll out of vaccine for the screw worm. Get rich off the problems they invent while the added bonus of destroying our food supply and putting ranchers out of business so we can eat 3D printed food and poison
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Secretary Brooke Rollins
America’s food supply is safe, and the @USDA is taking swift, aggressive action to eradicate New World screwworm. This is a pest the United States successfully eradicated in the 1960s through coordinated science and sterile fly technology. Under the previous administration, New World screwworm began to re-emerge and move north through the Darien Gap as millions of people traveled towards the southern border. By 2023, screwworm was present in Mexico. It was shocking when I came into office in February of last year to learn the last administration had just five full-time staff working on screwworm. As of last Wednesday, when our first New World screwworm case was confirmed, USDA had over 100 staff working on preparedness and response—a team we built over the last 14 months in anticipation of this moment. This in addition to the $1.3 billion committed and invested for new infrastructure and sterile fly facilities, the first opening later this month. We have rapidly scaled up our response: expanding surveillance across high-risk corridors, strengthening coordination with state agriculture officials and international partners, and accelerating deployment of proven sterile fly operations that were used successfully to push this pest out of the United States in the 1960s and all the way to South America by the 1980s. We beat screwworm in the ’60s, and we will beat it again. Visit Screwworm.gov for more information and up to date information.🐄🇺🇸
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@IVPKEDYOU @SecRollins @USDA Before it was eradicated from the United States in the 1960’s, the screwworm fly would spread north during the summer, as far north as Nebraska, then get killed back to around the Mexican border each winter, to repeat this cycle each year. Map of historic screwworm native range,
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IVPKEDYOU@IVPKEDYOU·
@SecRollins @USDA The New World screwworm cannot survive in areas with average winter temperatures below 9 °C (48.2 °F), which limits its distribution to tropical and subtropical climates. >.>
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@WyoWagyu All it would take is a female fly to enter a car or truck in Mexico where the screwworm flies are present, then drive across the border 50-60 miles into Texas and the fly gets out when a window or door is opened.
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American Rancher Alliance/Hufeisen Ranch
Something about the Texas Screwworm cases doesn’t make sense. Two infected calves. 50–60 miles inside Texas. No reported infected wildlife between the border and the outbreak. No apparent trail. Yet we’re expected to believe a flesh-eating parasite simply appeared there. Maybe there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. Maybe there isn’t. That’s exactly why genetic tracing should happen immediately. Before anyone dismisses questions as conspiracy theories, let’s answer the most basic one: How did it get there?
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
Rubber oxidizes and cracks with age. That is why they recommend replacing your tires after they get over 6 years old, even though the tread wear is still good. Roof tile rubber isn’t quite as strenuous a usage as tires, but I can’t see the rubber lasting for 50+ years of exposure to the hot sun, uv, and air pollution without losing flexibility and cracking.
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TB1™️ 🇺🇲
TB1™️ 🇺🇲@TB1Kinobe·
Euroshield rubber shingles made from 70% ♻️ tires, Donovan Lea doing the install with his team⚒️
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
The screwworm was native in the United States as far north as Nebraska until the 1960’s when sterile male releases eradicated them in the United States and pushed them south to Panama’s Darian Gap in the 1980’s, where they were kept from re-invading from South America for many decades by continued sterile male releases. They breached the Darian Gap in 2023 when large numbers of migrants was passing through the Darian Gap en route to the United States southern border. So a huge flood of people were crossing an area under desperate and stressful conditions that previously was lightly populated with little movement of people through it. It is likely that screwworm flies laid eggs on the wounds of some of the people passing through, so they carried the eggs and larvae past the sterile male release zone up into Central America where the larvae dropped off a week after hatching to pupate and establish a population of flies in Central America. Another thing to thank President Biden and his open border policies for. They could reclaim their historical range if measures aren’t taken to eradicate them again.
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@USAPippa @mattvanswol It’s been leftified with the defund the police, homeless encampments, drug zombies, crime, sanctuary city status, cancel whatever we don’t agree with, and litter that is typical of bright blue cities across America. They tore down the Vance Memorial obelisk several years ago.
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HeyYou💎@USAPippa·
@mattvanswol well damn.. I thought Ashville was supposed to be a nice city... I have not been there in years though.. What happened??
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
There are TWO Asheville NC City Council Members who REFUSE to stand for or say, the Pledge of Allegiance. 1) Kim Roney (who is running for mayor!) 2) Sheneika Smith. …should you be able to hold office in America if you refuse to pledge allegiance to America?!!!!!
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@KimKatieUSA This isn’t grassroots. These are professional protesters, mostly out-of-staters, bused in from as far away as Portland, OR. Being paid a salary to cause mayhem.
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Kim "Katie" USA
Kim "Katie" USA@KimKatieUSA·
Newark chaos at Delaney Hall ICE facility: Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s decision to pull back local control and insert state police has backfired into total anarchy. Protesters are jumping on hoods of departing vehicles, physically grappling with drivers, and blocking exits forcing one driver to hit the gas to escape. Great job @GovSherrillNJ, you are setting an example for piss poor leadership!
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
This was the historic range of the screwworm fly before it was eradicated in the United States. It breached the sterile male release zone at the Darian Gap, where it had been held for decades, in 2023 when large numbers of migrants were crossing the Gap en route to the southern United States border.
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Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
The screwworm breached the Darian Gap in 2023 after being held back there for decades by sterile male releases. 2023 was when large numbers of migrants was passing through the Darian Gap en route to the United States southern border. So a huge flood of people were crossing an area under desperate and stressful conditions that previously was lightly populated with little movement of people through it. It is likely that screwworm flies laid eggs on the wounds of some of the people passing through, so they carried the eggs and larvae past the sterile male release zone up into Central America where the larvae dropped off a week after hatching to pupate and establish a population of flies in Central America. Another thing to thank President Biden and his open border policies for. Before they were eradicated in the United States, they were found as far north as Nebraska and could reclaim this range if measures aren’t taken to eradicate them again.
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Reddit Lies@reddit_lies·
Today you're probably going to hear a lot about screwworm and how "DOGE caused screwworm to enter the US again!" Here are the facts: 1966: The US eradicates the screwworm via the Sterile Insect Technique. Multiple central American nations follow suit over the coming decades. 1994: The US and Panama form COPEG, the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm that successfully created a biological barrier for screwworm at the Darién Gap. It held for decades until... 2023: Screwworm cases breach the Darién Gap and surge in Central America March 2025: DOGE cuts $250m in funding to the UN fund that was, in part, used for screwworm monitoring in Central America. (Note: These cuts did not affect the USDA's screwworm Sterile Insect Production nor the COPEG.) Summer 2025: Trump's USDA allocates $850m in funding to novel methods of screwworm eradication and a new sterile fly production facility in Texas as part of a 5 pronged approach with dealing with the emerging threat. Summer 2026: Screwworm detected in Texas. In summary: The only thing DOGE's UN funding cut could have possibly done is reduced our visibility into the reach of screwworm inside Central America, but given that the US just months later started a massive screwworm initiative suggests DOGE's cuts had effectively no negative effect.
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America Army
America Army@AmericaSpoof·
Iranian fighter jets destroyed. Now this war is not going to stop. Pray for America.
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@dogeo86 @CattardSlim Nuclear power plants don’t have chimneys belching smoke. Considering that it is in West Virginia, it is probably a coal powered power plant.
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dogeo@dogeo86·
@CattardSlim That is clearly a nuclear power facility…..floods happen all the time all over. Please tell me how this is related to a data center that isn’t even in the video….
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Cuckturd
Cuckturd@CattardSlim·
Mason County, WV. voted +82 Trump Their reward, you ask? A new Data Center, & a backyard swamp to compliment their smokestacks. Winning!
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
It’s hard to run and win as a Democrat in many parts of South Carolina, so Democrats run as Republicans to get elected and then vote Democrat as much as possible once they get into office. Also the open primary needs to be eliminated. Since Democrats running as Democrats have no chance of winning in many parts of the state and often there is no Democrat running in the election, many Democrats vote in the open Republican primary to get Democrat leaning Republican candidates onto the November ballot.
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Nick Sortor
Nick Sortor@nicksortor·
🚨 BREAKING: Redistricting in South Carolina is officially DEAD after RINOs sided with Democrats for a key cloture vote, 20-24 "This was a SETUP," @RepAdamMorgan said This is why RINOs CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED—no matter WHAT they say. Another reason people like Cornyn MUST GO. RINOs said they can no longer move forward with redistricting because early voting started today. They KNEW it was starting today, but dragged their feet. They could've finished redistricting LAST WEEK. NEVER TRUST A RINO! They NEVER change.
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
Unlike the exhaust of solid fuel rockets, Starship produces no pollution. Its rocket fuels are liquid methane and liquid oxygen burning to create carbon dioxide and water. That thick plume you see forming in the exhaust at the mid altitudes as the rocket rises into space is a contrail produced by the water vapor. The only possible negative effect of 10k launches per year would be the amount of water vapor being released into the upper atmosphere, sort of like a miniature version of what that the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption produced, which had an effect on the climate.
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Muskonomy
Muskonomy@muskonomy·
JUST IN: Elon Musk reveals SpaceX's long-term Starship launch goal after Flight 12. "Our goal is launching Starship >10k/year, which would be more than once an hour. Probably over 200 tons of useful load to a useful orbit per flight by then." At 10,000 launches and 200 metric tons per flight, that is 2 billion metric tons to orbit per year. SpaceX delivered 2,213 metric tons in all of 2025.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

@aaronburnett Our goal is launching Starship >10k/year, which would be more than once an hour. Probably over 200 tons of useful load to a useful orbit per flight by then.

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NOVA Campaigns
NOVA Campaigns@NoVA_Campaigns·
The scale of destruction to Virginia’s coastline is hard to imagine unless you visit it… the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is obliterating Virginia Beach’s waters… 800 foot tall @DominionEnergy windmills… everywhere
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
It’s interesting comparing today’s California to the California of the 1850’s during the gold rush. In today’s California, it takes a gazillion government permits and fees, with massive cost and time overruns being the norm. Back in the 1850’s, things got done quickly. When someone saw a need for a store, hotel, or bar in a particular location, it got built and opened for business quickly. When a building burned down, they often started on rebuilding it even before all of the last embers of the previous building had burnt themselves out.
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Steve Hilton@SteveHiltonx·
HERE is the monument to 16 years of failed one party rule. $200 billion over budget, 30 years late - this is not a 'bullet train', it's a bullshit train. As governor I will stop it in its tracks. If only they had laid any...
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Michael Turner
Michael Turner@MichaelQuercus·
@RomekGod @elonmusk The tanks rupture when it slams into the water on its side and the residual fuel ignites from the heat and residual flames from the rocket engines.
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African DJAkademiks@6ixer_infinity·
@elonmusk Was it made to explode intentionally after splashing down or just a mistake that needed correcting??
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