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Jesse Stone

@JStoneVT

VT/NH, skiing, DMB, guitar, severe weather, history, rye.

New Hampshire, USA Присоединился Şubat 2011
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Jesse Stone
Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
Just tried playing Lie In Our Graves on a 12-string, thinking that the jam would be a lot of fun with six more strings. What do you think of it? Thanks for watching! @davematthewsbnd #60secondsofdmb
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Jesse Stone
Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
@NESN @NHLBruins There will never be another Jack Edwards - what an absolute legend 🖤 💛
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NESN@NESN·
Happy Birthday Jack! 🎂 Now relive some of his greatest calls 🙌
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Matt Nachtrab@MattNachtrab·
@thehill They are tying to stop funding of DHS to get ICE to stop enforcing immigration laws.
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Jesse Stone
Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
Proof of life. Anybody still out there?
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Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
@gtconway3d right but we all learned the word “littoral” today and it’s hard to put a price on that
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway3d·
"A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer."
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

JUST IN: The most powerful navy in human history just admitted it cannot safely escort a single oil tanker through a 33-kilometre strait. Reuters reported on 10 March that the US Navy has refused near-daily requests from the oil and shipping industries for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since Operation Epic Fury began on 28 February, citing the risk of Iranian attack as too high. Not once. Not occasionally. Near-daily. Every day for eleven days, the shipping industry has asked the US Navy for help, and every day the answer has been no. Consider what is deployed in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group operates in the Arabian Sea. The USS Gerald R. Ford is in the Red Sea. The USS George H.W. Bush is en route or preparing for deployment. Three nuclear-powered supercarriers, each displacing 100,000 tons, carrying 75 aircraft, escorted by Aegis cruisers and guided-missile destroyers with the most advanced radar and missile defence systems ever built. France deployed the Charles de Gaulle carrier group to the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea. Britain sent HMS Dragon, a Type 45 air-defence destroyer, to defend RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Combined allied naval firepower in theatre exceeds the total military capacity of most nations on Earth. None of it can get a tanker through Hormuz. The strait is 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point. Navigable shipping lanes compress to approximately 3 kilometres in each direction. Through this corridor, 138 tankers per day transited before the war. The corridor is now defended by 31 autonomous IRGC provincial commands with independent firing authority, pre-delegated orders from a dead Supreme Leader, coastal anti-ship cruise missiles, kamikaze drones, fast-attack boats, and a mine stockpile of 2,000 to 6,000 weapons, of which a few dozen are confirmed in the water with 80 to 90% of delivery platforms intact. The US Navy’s refusal is not cowardice. It is arithmetic. A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer. An Aegis cruiser’s radar can track hundreds of targets at 400 kilometres but cannot detect a mine sitting three metres below the surface. An F-35 can deliver precision strikes at Mach 1.6 but cannot sweep a shipping lane. The assets are wrong for the mission. The world’s most expensive hammer has been asked to thread a needle. Trump told CBS escorts would begin “as soon as possible” and “when reasonable.” His Energy Secretary posted that an escorted transit had already occurred, then deleted it when the White House confirmed none had. Iran’s Parliament Speaker mocked the claim as PlayStation. The IEA proposed the largest reserve release in history because the strait the Navy cannot escort through remains functionally closed. Ghalibaf was not wrong. The escorts do not exist. Not because America lacks the will. Because the Mosaic Doctrine created a threat environment where the cost of escort failure exceeds the cost of escort refusal. One mine striking one escorted tanker would produce a casualty event, an insurance catastrophe, and a strategic humiliation that three carrier strike groups cannot absorb. The Navy is not refusing to help. It is refusing to lose. Seven hundred tankers wait. Three carriers watch. And the 33-kilometre corridor between them remains the most expensive gap in the world. Full analysis here. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Jesse Stone
Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
@RepOgles This right here is un-American. Inhumane. Indefensible. Appalling. And at the same time, completely unsurprising.
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Rep. Andy Ogles
Rep. Andy Ogles@RepOgles·
Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.
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Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins@NHLBruins·
The Mayor of Weymouth! Welcome back to Boston, Charlie 🫶
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Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
@tedcruz You’re so close to getting it, Ted. So close.
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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz@tedcruz·
A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)
Townhall.com@townhallcom

VA Gov. Spanberger (D) laughs, smiles, and signs the redistricting bill that will disenfranchise about 48% of Republican-leaning voters by packing them into one district. It proposes a 10-1 Democratic advantage. Great stuff, Virginia.

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Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
Quick idea to improve things in Minneapolis: what about if ICE stopped fucking murdering people?
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Eric Alper 🎧
Eric Alper 🎧@ThatEricAlper·
Noah Kahan is set to headline an exclusive SiriusXM & Pandora concert at The Warfield on February 5. Enter for a chance to win tickets or catch the full broadcast on Alt Nation February 7 here: zurl.co/A01zS
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Concertvids34@concertvids34·
@JStoneVT I trust you, I just don’t trust the other 95% of weekend dmb concert goers 🤣
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Concertvids34@concertvids34·
Every year some fans want the #dmb Gilford shows to be a weekend run. The Gilford shows should always be midweek (which it would be if they play this year). Moving it to the weekend would ruin how much less the midweek crowds there don’t talk while the band is playing.
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Jesse Stone@JStoneVT·
@atrupar Four Seasons Total Spraytanning
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
A look at the president’s venue tonight
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antsmarching.org
antsmarching.org@antsmarching·
On this day in DMB History: Dave Matthews Band at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, MA in 2005 Boston got a proper Stand Up victory lap with six songs from the freshly-released album dominating the setlist, including the complete run from Old Dirt Hill through the title track spanning songs 12-14. The December 15th show also featured Rashawn Ross on trumpet for exactly 11 songs, adding brass flourishes throughout. The encore delivered the annual Christmas Song with a special configuration featuring Dave, Carter, Stefan, and Butch, before closing with Ants Marching to send the crowd home. antsmarching.org/tour/ViewShow.…
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