6th Generation Texan Four decades (3rd generation) international oil & gas industry. (Retired) USAF Veteran
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None of this is preodained (or even close to possible without a significant shift away from capitalism to one of forced / mandated redistrbution of goods - services and whatever is used to replace today's personal "money /income" stream.
teapawt.net/i/grok/share/c2hhcmQtMโฆ
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Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee rejects reports of talks with Washington, calling them โfake newsโ and demanding that the U.S. accept Iranโs 7 conditions for ending the war.
โFOLD YOUR HAND,โ Rezaee declared, accusing Washington of acting like a โdesperate gambler.โ
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For years, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has described his Afghanistan deployment as the experience of an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper who led soldiers in combat. Now, the Army officer who supervised Moore daily says his accounts of what happened there in 2005 and 2006 are unequivocally false.
wjla.com/news/local/moore-saโฆ
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
#Breaking
Massie today introduced privileged resolution for Hegseth impeachment.
House rules generally require a vote within two days.
Rep. Comer believes there's the necessary 2-4 GOP defectors that will vote with the Dems to trigger impeachment.
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BREAKING: A judge has just DENIED Lindsay Clancy's motion to dismiss her case, opening up a potential retrial for the m*rder of her three children.
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JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court clears the way for construction of Trump border barriers in Texasโ Big Bend National Park region.
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
texas constitution art. 1 sec. 28: only the legislature can suspend laws. the 20c gas tax is a statute, so a day-one order can't touch it
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Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
Texas power is deregulated though. The governor doesn't set your rates, your provider does.
So freezing them by executive order would put Reliant and TXU in a tough spot come January, and it might not even hold up in court.
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Tesla has officially started construction of its massive new $10 billion solar manufacturing facility near Houston, Texas!
Construction is expected to finish in 2028, with commercial operations starting in Q1 2029. Total direct and indirect economic impact of the project is estimated to generate ~$6.4B in state and local taxes, and increase State of Texas GDP by ~$107 billion.
The factory will be a vertically integrated solar manufacturing facility, and it'll include:
โข Wafer Manufacturing
โข Ingot Manufacturing
โข Coating
โข Metallization and Printing Lines
โข Cell Testing and QC
โข Automation and Material Handling
โข Cleanroom and Production Support
โข Site Infrastructure
โข Chemical Storage and Delivery
โข Utility Infrastructure
โข Environmental and Safety Systems
Tesla has started the Earthworks for Project Crystal Sun!
This is/was Tesla's proposed area for Project Crystal Sun, a $10.1 billion solar-cell and panel factory. It appears Tesla has decided to build here!
The roughly 3,000-acre project would manufacture everything from silicon ingots to finished solar panels and create approximately 9,712 permanent jobs. Production is targeted for early 2029.
I decided to swing by yesterday and found massive clearings, equipment staging areas, the old homestead is being used, and they are already leveling a large area.
Enjoy the flyover and please, please subscribe
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
Stop Lying:
Trump directed a temporary lifting of U.S. sanctions on ALL Russian diesel (via OFAC General License 135 on Oct. 9, 2026) which extends until April 7, 2027.
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Trump's claim of Russia "giving" diesel to the world is also bogus - Payments will transpire.
Initially he claimed delivery of specific tonnage(s) to the U.S.
As of Nov. 9, the Malta-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes (carrying ~40,000 metric tons of Russian diesel) is still in the North Atlantic heading west but has slowed sharply and is listed as โFor Ordersโ with no confirmed destination port or arrival date. It had been expected in New York Nov. 7th.
The other two tankers initially linked to the Trump-Putin deal (Talisman and Leruo) have already diverted (one toward Egypt/ Mediterranean, the other toward Brazil).
No Russian diesel cargo from the deal has reached a U.S. port yet, amid ongoing legal and compliance uncertainties.
#BreakingNews - Facts (Not BS) Matter.
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US Ambassador to Israel, Huckabee:
โThe whole idea of phasing out the aid really was the Prime Ministerโsโฆ The move will not be to divorce the relationship, but to change it from an aid to a trade relationship.
The current 10-year MOU still has two years left. As far as I know, thereโs no abrupt cutoff that Iโm aware of, because I think that would take congressional action.
We still have two years on the MOU, but thatโs a decision that will be made far from Jerusalem.โ
@guyaz
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
Trump makes the SAME arguement Hillary Clinton & Co. made in 2016:
There had to be massive cheating.
BECAUSE polling forcasted a different result?
In fact 2026 polling showed the GOP loosing both the House and the Senate - But it failed to capture the magnitude of the margin of victory.
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
B.S. Posturing
The chance of any payments would be 1% (maybe)
This is typical Trump bluster intended as retro-active butt-cover now that it seems he will settle for a "deal" that Iran (and most of the world) will see as full-climb-down / capitulation on his part.
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๐จIran Rejects U.S. Talks Until Washington Meets Tehran's Seven Conditions
A senior Iranian official told Iranian state media that Tehran's position on negotiations with the United States remains unchanged.
According to the official, Iran will not enter talks unless Washington takes significant steps toward meeting Tehran's seven conditions.
Tehran's message: No negotiations without substantial U.S. concessions first.
The statement comes amid reports of possible diplomatic efforts involving Qatar and Turkey, raising questions about whether a proposed meeting between American and Iranian officials can move forward.
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
what the f*ck. Grok Bot just helped me win in court against my ex-wife
mid-divorce. her lawyer shows up with photos of me at every bar I went to that month. and tells the judge I'M the one stalking HER
custody hearing in 3 weeks
Grok Bot said someone's following me. let's prove it
it set up an open-source tool called Chasing Your Tail. a Raspberry Pi in my glovebox that logs every phone around you and flags the ones that keep showing up
github.com/azmatt/chasing_yoโฆ
8 days later: one phone, 23 times, 9 places
my house. my kids' school. my office. my gym. the bar
then it checked which Wi-Fi networks that phone remembers:
"Hartley_Investigations"
"Jenna_Home_5G"
a private investigator. who's been inside my ex-wife's house
she hired a PI to follow me and told the court I was following her
the logs went to my lawyer as Exhibit C
her stalking claim got thrown out. 50/50 custody
lawyers don't win custody battles anymore. Grok Bot does
prompt + how to turn it into a Grok Bot skill below ๐
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This post fabricates a personal story of using Grok and Chasing Your Tail to win in court. The account posts similar simulated tales (some explicitly illustrative), while the tool is experimental and intended for legitimate counter-surveillance.
github.com/ArgeliusLabs/Cโฆ
argeliuslabs.com/the-return-of-โฆ
x.com/0xAlbus/statusโฆ
x.com/pjfitzpatrick/โฆ
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
While conspiracy theories may be fun to post.
#Breaking Facts Do Matter:
Pre-Iran War (Jan-Feb) -
Global Daily Crude Available = 107M-108.5M bpd
May = 94.5M bpd
Oct. = 102M pbd and climbing
Because of Herculean efforts by U.S. to aid transit of tankers thru Hormuz, plus M.E. pipeline export work-arounds.
Likewise US refinery (required) Fall maintenance shutdowns have now been completed.
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
None of this is preodained (or even close to possible without a significant shift away from capitalism to one of forced / mandated redistrbution of goods - services and whatever is used to replace today's personal "money /income" stream.
teapawt.net/i/grok/share/c2hhcmQtMโฆ
Tom T. ูโ ๐บ๐ธ ืฉ retweeted
The Cybertruck order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try to make as many as possible before shutting down the line in about 8 months, but will have to return deposits for a lot of people.
This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media, but rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.
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"If the Republican Party has a future, it'll be organized around the ideas you just laid out, maybe led by you" - @TuckerCarlson to @JDVance, 2019.
When JD and his billionaire boss Peter Thiel founded Rockbridge Network in 2019, Tucker was there.
Rockbridge spinoff @1789Capital - where @DonaldJTrumpJr is now a partner - led a seed funding round for Tucker's podcast.