@EmmaMAshford ignoring the moral and political implications i imagine that a very minimal naval presence would deter unarmed ships
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David Norrish
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Kind of amazing that in all of this, the US is also still physically blockading Cuba, creating an energy crisis on the island.
Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc
After 10 weeks of a U.S. oil blockade, Cuba's grid is near collapse. Russia may be sending a lifeline: a state-owned tanker full of crude. But a Chinese-owned tanker, spooked by U.S. threats, abandoned its Cuba delivery and is now looking for a buyer elsewhere. w/ @jacknicas
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@NFL_Researcher @NextGenStats should probably include the pressure rate next to it
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Most QB pressures when blocked 1-on-1 in 2025, per @NextGenStats:
1. Aidan Hutchinson - 70
2. Will Anderson Jr. - 65
3. Nik Bonitto - 61
4. Josh Hines-Allen - 60
5. Micah Parsons - 52
6. YaYa Diaby - 51
7. Jared Verse - 50
8. Jaelan Phillips - 49
9. Zach Allen - 46
9. Dre’Mont Jones - 46
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@MattofMystery Why would you want your CAS platform to “soak up” anti-aircraft threats that is a defeatist attitude. You’re wrong on all points.
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We still need the A-10. You’ll never be able to convince me that the F-35 is as capable as the A-10 as far as being able to soak up anti-aircraft threats, being able to orbit low and slow, etc.
Dillion 🇺🇸@bencroyderived
F-35 just tanked an Iranian SAM and flew back to base. Please tell me that we still need the A-10.
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@CathyReisenwitz The Strait of Hormuz implies the Flush of Hormuz
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One heterosexual in Hormuz is causing all this drama?
Cathy Reisenwitz@CathyReisenwitz
Where is Hormuz and how is one heterosexual causing so much drama
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@BrettKollmann Price discrimination is great:
happy hours
matinees
winter shopping in the summer
summer shopping in the winter
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Oh this is not going to go well at all.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.
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@GaryWinslett A 24hr waiver doesn’t prove anything. Of course foreign ships are cheaper, that’s the whole tradeoff. The Jones Act isn’t 100% about lowest cost, it’s about not depending on other countries for shipping when it actually matters.
Is the national security aspect bullshit then?
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When the Trump admin pays ZERO political price for waiving the Jones Act, that will be very helpful in showing both parties it’s been a paper tiger this whole time.
Not only is there no substantive reason to have the Jones Act, there’s no *political* reason to have it either.
Colin Grabow@cpgrabow
Waiver less than 24 hours old and foreign ships are already being chartered. Each of these voyages represents a cost savings. If cheaper Jones Act-compliant alternatives were available, they would have been used. Shows the existence of demand the JA fleet couldn't meet.
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@jomwilli @GaryWinslett Maybe the kuznetsov as a museum to Russian incompetence.
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@GaryWinslett We're going to see Russian ships in American Harbors aren't we?
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I don't know what the solution to this is, but people treating AI bots as omniscient oracles is extremely dangerous.
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It's one thing when people fabricate fake historical photos with AI because they put zero value on truth instead of clicks. But it's another whole issue when people depend on AI to tell them if things are real. AI does not know. Here is Grok insisting the real image is fake.
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@poe_collector @spaceghost Unfortunately STS2 is not on mobile yet. But Balatro is a good backup
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@JRHunTx It's more fundamental than that. It's about a consistent demand signal with clear well articulated unchanging requirements.
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In any conversation about defense procurement, and in particular of exquisite capabilities and shipbuilding, the limiting factor constantly cited is not $$$ but rather the availability of sufficiently skilled and sober labor. So, maybe some added cash for technical education.
James Raab 🇺🇸🇺🇦@JamesRaxz
Some things I would spend $200B on. -Opening a second B-21 production line. $4.5B -Plan a second F-47 line $4.5B -Restart C-17 production. $8B -Buy 48 US-2s from Japan. $7.5B -Max the lines of F-35, F-15EX and F-16V, all to the USAF. $28B -Grow the Army to 680,000. $42B
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Some things I would spend $200B on.
-Opening a second B-21 production line. $4.5B
-Plan a second F-47 line $4.5B
-Restart C-17 production. $8B
-Buy 48 US-2s from Japan. $7.5B
-Max the lines of F-35, F-15EX and F-16V, all to the USAF. $28B
-Grow the Army to 680,000. $42B
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@margbrennan @atrupar He's a good white Christian. The war on Iran is a new Crusade.
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The religious references as justification for war continue....
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Hegseth accuses Iran of exporting "a violent, messianic Islamist ideology chasing some sort of apocalyptic endgame"
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@elpasser1 @PhillipsPOBrien I think at this point TDS is reserved for the supporters
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@PhillipsPOBrien Only TDS can cause a person to reframe a great victory against the evil Iranian regime into a disaster.
The oil shock will quickly pass, and then you'll have to find another fly in the ointment.
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Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.
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@Luan75937152 @JeremiahDJohns Isn't liberal fascist an oxymoron
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@JeremiahDJohns Why you only criticize leftists Jeremias...
Liberals fascists can be free from accountability ?
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@Dinkeldash @glcarlstrom @yashar follow @ColbyBadhwar he is a great source on DoD/W munitions procurement
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@glcarlstrom @yashar There is the published ordinance supply level and there is the actual ordinance supply level that we’d break out if there was a major threat or do you think screwdrivers really cost $600?
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"The cost of replacing the first four days' worth of munitions would be $20bn-26bn. The problem, however, is more to do with scarcity than cost. America is thought to have used more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening days of the war, but the Pentagon had planned to buy just 57 new ones in the current fiscal year. There have been no deliveries of THAAD interceptors since 2023 and the Pentagon has not placed any new orders this year. A puny 39 interceptors are slated for delivery in 2027—six years after they were ordered." economist.com/briefing/2026/…
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A number of countries issue a statement saying they are ready to help ensure safe passage through Hormuz.
They obviously see this getting very close to spiraling completely out of control.
But let’s see what actually comes from this ….
British Embassy Washington@UKinUSA
NEW: The UK alongside France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan expresses readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz 👇 gov.uk/government/new…
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