NEW: Renée Good. Alex Pretti. Before: Ruben Martinez. Friday
TX DPS released body cam + docs for the 23yo who DHS
agents killed while on vacation in South Padre. Videos shows him driving while brake lights on, before gunshots.
w/ @aydenrunnels.bsky.social
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Will it actually solve their Hormuz problem? Lol, no, but neither will almost anything else, and FTA at least codes as “doing something” about it
Honestly I’m hoping the right people use this to convince them to start handing out FTA grants like hot cakes
What’s a few million between friends?
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So long, asshole. Lowkey one of the most destructive Trump appointees.
BREAKING via NBC News
Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran.
Full Story: nbcnews.to/4rW7N2w
(Meaning post-1979 obv, the CIA-backed coup in 1953 involved strengthening an actor who was already the nominal head of state)
There was a reason the American government never seriously entertained regime change in Iran before and it was not because they just didn’t hate the Ayatollah hard enough
just for some comparison, the rough figure of "oil output shut-in" during the 1973 crisis was around 10% of world oil production.
so the world's energy mix looks like this. around 20%-25% of the world's oil (7%pt of total energy) and a third of the world's gas (another 7%pt) goes thru hormuz.
right now that's been zero'd out, and there's no clear path back. a sixth of the world's energy supply is just... gone.
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Looking like a really, really good time for Cap Metro to finally put 40 or so of its 104 electric buses into service on these new routes
Stockholm?
that seems pretty reasonable i wonder if that’s ever happened to anyone else
Border Patrol is telling us to defer enforcement because complicated procedures made it hard for them to get the right paperwork
Actually officer, the thing is, I *can’t* follow the law
Imagine a world where we simply win. We win in 2029, we win for a generation or more. Imagine it. Now let's go out and make that world.
Without the radar that battery is temporarily out of the fight and that means the Patriot batteries deployed to the base will have higher burden placed on them. THAAD and PATRIOT are meant to work together, with THAAD acting as upper layer and PATRIOT as lower layer.
Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.
Baggy pants, long hair, and a three-block line of cars at the Exxon; start investing in your local disco
That’s what Nixon did in 1971, the likely result would be the return of rationing and gas lines while discouraging investment in new production
Democrats who voted against the War Powers resolution:
-Cuellar
-golden
-Landsman
-Vargas
JUST IN: House votes to reject a resolution that would restrict President Trump’s war powers in Iran, one day after the Senate blocked a similar resolution.
Water flows downhill and despite our best efforts it refuses to negotiate this
Designers bristle at grading and drainage concerns sometimes (nothing else has ever ruined so many beautiful 2D plans) but this is why you can’t just ignore them
Filing period is April 1st through the 3rd it looks like
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A general election technically, but yes there will be an open an open seat, his term was set to end this year and he was running for re-election. The primary is scheduled for June 16
How did Seattle, the city once left in Atlanta’s dust, come to lead the nation in rail development? My colleague @mlbaruchman.bsky.social explains: www.ajc.com/politics/202...
