Riyadh gets 90% of its fresh water from one desalination plant. About 85% of Israel’s domestic fresh water consumption comes from five major desalination plants. Teheran is already in severe drought. Let’s hope cooler heads prevail. A water war would be absolutely catastrophic.
The New York Times
Mind destroyingly stupid NYT headline: Trump echoes fdr and grant in calling for “unconditional surrender”
In a year of stupid headlines, what to even say, this has to be among the stupidest and frankly most offensive yet
one has to wonder if Trump voters are feeling that sweet taste of freedom
thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...
BREAKING: The national average price of diesel has seen its largest single day price increase ever recorded- rising 22.3c/gal today, beating the previous largest daily rise of 22.2c/gal on 3/4/22, according to GasBuddy data. The average for diesel is up 71.4c/gal vs a week ago.
6th this week! Including Crenshaw losing, plus Zinke, Owens, Gonzeles, Issa, and Daines over in the other chamber.
oh god no
candidates and campaign managers are completely different skill sets (not to mention each all consuming)
I haven't thought about that song in decades. holds up
yeah, they're nazis
oof!
the United States military murdering people? I was told this wasn't possible
in fact the door did hit her on the way out
Why platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket want so badly to be seen as sources of news, instead of anything-goes casinos.
They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
🇺🇸 A 40-year record, shattered in one week
US oil prices leapt 36% — the largest weekly rise on records stretching to 1983. Brent crude hit $92.69 a barrel 🛢️
The Middle East war is sending shockwaves through commodity markets
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I've been baffled that one country can just assassinate the leader of another country and the world doesn't blink an eye
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
man that terrible dude has survived far too long in politics
damn. that was incredible
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.
NEW: Over 150k Texans this week faced deliberate voting barriers driven by Republicans’ decision to switch to precinct-only polling places.
Why did Tuesday’s primaries descend into chaos and punish so many voters? As one GOP official behind the effort put it:
“Because we can.”
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
“She burnt up a ton of goodwill,” an adviser who spoke with Trump told Axios. “It was everywhere. It was everything.”
In fact, “she had no goodwill on Capitol Hill,” the adviser said. “She mismanaged FEMA. She didn’t show up to hearings. She was disrespectful. No one liked her.” trib.al/WsjHFjf
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
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Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.
