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BYD just killed your EV argument with a battery that competes with gas engines

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“.. the prospect of Ms. Halligan losing her license could serve as a check on administration lawyers who have been accused by judges of pushing the boundaries of the law or intentionally misleading the courts, which has happened frequently in recent months.”

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Does he think The Shield of America is what TSA stands for now?

Spain denies cooperating with U.S. military operations in Middle East, contradicting White House A diplomatic tussle between the United States and Spain over the war in Iran intensified on Wednesday when the governments exchanged contradictory statements over the possible use of Spanish military ...

The White House doesn’t just get facts wrong they’ve turned “say it first, worry about the truth later” into an art form. Take Spain: the U.S. says Madrid has agreed to cooperate; Spain’s foreign minister immediately says, nope, that’s not happening.

Well would you look at that

Key Trump ally behind emergency elections order reveals loony conspiracy theory motivating his effort Peter Ticktin said the Trump should sign an executive order to take over voting machines, because machines in Antrim County, Michigan flipped votes from Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

NEW: A conservative attorney said to be coordinating with the White House to push Donald Trump to take control of elections via executive order cited a bizarre 2020 conspiracy theory involving Michigan voting machines as the emergency that justifies the scheme.

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$1.5T defense budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$300M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ for Trump to golf
$75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip

And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran?

Priorities.

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

Here is Trump’s Director of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin trying to physically fight someone in the middle of a Senate hearing

All Aboard! For Miles and Miles of Entitlement Saskatchewan MLAs - including the Saskatchewan NDP - have turned their own expense claims into a permanent gravy train.

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Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54350004945)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en -- Brian Gratwicke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lithobates_pipiens.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more!

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World War III? Trump's and Netanyahu's illegal war turns global

World War III?
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

So, you found a chart 4 years out of date, that doesn't have anything to do with the topic, and then accused me of something I haven't done. Cool

How much of the world's manufacturing are they doing?

China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric-Powered Containership China’s first 10,000-ton electric containership is beginning sea trials. The shipyard is billing the ship as the largest of its kind and a further bre...

Electric container ships are being developed in China.
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Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% - Carbon Brief China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a podium in Bowmanville, Ontario.

As we forge new partnerships abroad, we’re building our strength at home — working with provinces and territories to build major infrastructure projects faster.

This is amazing.

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"This has never happened in Alberta’s history, and it reflects the profound harm caused by the Premier’s embrace of separatism."

The NDP have released a statement on the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs vote of non-confidence in the UCP.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“We fought alongside Americans and came here as refugees…now this draft-dodging son of a bitch is deporting us to Vietnam”

Don't let your eyes fool you; this is exactly what it looks like... a modern-day American Gestapo. The USA is an absolute disgrace of a country.

Canada Electricity Rates by Province 2026 | Solar Savings Calculator Compare electricity rates across all Canadian provinces. Find the cheapest and most expensive rates, calculate your solar savings potential, and see detailed province-by-province comparisons.

It's all kinds of fun to lookup what we actually pay all in, in Alberta for electricity instead of weirdly manipulated market price info.

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