When colleagues ask when I, a citizen, plan to return/visit the US I say "earliest possible is 2029." Now you know why.
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When colleagues ask when I, a citizen, plan to return/visit the US I say "earliest possible is 2029." Now you know why.
Sunny Naqvi is a US citizen. "Afzul said the three [Pakistani] Green Card holders were taken elsewhere Thursday after landing back in Chicago."
Brown people are not safe from CBP regardless of their status.
"Iran has destroyed a key $300 million radar system crucial to directing US missile defense batteries in the Gulf..., according to a US official...
an RTX Corp. AN/TPY-2 radar and support equipment — used by US THAAD missile defense systems — was destroyed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan"
Assholes fill the Trump administration, from the mob boss on downward.
Interesting report with some shocking statistics and some guidance on the way forward. Aviation CO₂ seems unavoidable for a while, though.
US domestic corn use from 1980 to 2022. See if you can spot when the Renewable Fuels Standard was established in 2005. Source: USDA NASS.
US transportation energy sources, 2022. Gasoline more than half. Biofuels 6%. Source: EIA.
Today the US uses about 30-40% of our corn supply and 40-50% of our soybean oil supply to produce biofuels that account for…
…about 6% of our total transportation fuel.
Lots of land & food/feed, small amount of energy.
Solar is 100x more efficient per acre at producing energy.
End of 🧵 for now.
The article above estimates if the US reached its stated goal of 35 billion gallons of “sustainable” aviation fuel via ethanol, this would require 114M acres of corn.
That’s more than the total area currently planted with corn in the US.
Using soy would require even more land due to lower yields.
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Two White Ambassador cars parked outside a brick building. Very popular with the Indian government.
A Fiat Premier Padmini taxi cab, in the classic black body and yellow roof coloring.
The Ambassador has a gradual transition from the roof to the body (apparent at the rear), unlike the sharp angles of the Padmini.
...that's a Fiat Premier Padmini :)
Danny Denzongpa
$217 billion a year is enough to reverse Trump's Medicaid and SNAP cuts AND fund the enhanced premium tax credits that Trump let expire.
We torpedoed an unarmed ship and left the sailors to die.
We bombed a girl's school.
We kill our own citizens who are only trying to help their community.
We re-arrest and jail refugees seeking asylum from persecution.
Are these the old Reagan Democrats, vote Republican but are still registered Ds?
Sri Lanka takes in an auxiliary Iranian ship and ~200 crew. Indian Navy has a statement on search and rescue efforts.
LMAO
"In Zapata County, for instance, where 94% of the population is Hispanic, Trump won just 33% of the vote in 2016, but took 53% in 2020 and 61% in 2024.
On Tuesday, it was among the five counties where more voters cast ballots in the Democratic primary than voted for Harris in 2024"
Wow nice.
Don't let this regime convince you that what they are doing is legal.
Even if both the House and the Senate failed to pass resolutions to stop this... THIS IS WRONG.
I don't understand the "if it's true" part (and I really respect the Aaron's work and subcribe). The strike was carried out either by us or by our closest allies, Israel - probably using our weaponry and tech. Either way, we bear that responsibility.
(I get The Economist with my subscription to The Mint. It was either the Economist or the WSJ.)
"regime targets... include a gathering of the Assembly of Experts, a body to choose the next supreme leader"
You are cheering a sovereign leader's assassination and the decimation of the committee following their Constitutional procedure?
You war-mongering pricks.
"the opportunity to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader." You Economist fuckers understand he wasn't a terrorist hiding somewhere but their leader assassinated at his fucking office?
I see @economist.com get a giant hard-on for bombing Iran and killing Iranians including schoolgirls (that massacre dismissed with "there have been serious mistakes... But the war has mostly gone as planned.") 🎁
Video worth watching and sharing.
Not a lawyer, but it seems like Hegseth's explicit order to relax rules of engagement, thereby deliberately endangering civilians, would make this a war crime for which he is responsible. He should he prosecuted as a monstrous war criminal at the earliest opportunity. His order killed 165 children.
The reason she SHOULD have been fired.
“When Tapper pressed Mullin on whether Good’s actions warranted her being killed, the senator said yes, repeatedly insisting that her vehicle was being used in a so-called ‘lethal manner.’”
Tapper said footage “appears to show Ross firing at the side of Good’s car … Mullin dismissed the footage.”
