Captainant

That's actually produced locally and usually within 100 miles or so of you. 100% American made, baby!

Remember, people were calling out this market manipulation and profiteering on the cold dead bodies of Texans at the time, too. https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-09-22/how-market-manipulation-might-have-worsened-the-texas-blackout The natural gas market "doesn't have any specific rules limiting people in their market activities,” she said. “If your market doesn't have any rules against withholding, people will withhold because it's profitable.” ... “Gas was such an important part of the failure and [gas suppliers] made such a profit,” sayid Michael Webber, professor of energy resources at the University of Texas at Austin. “A lot of us might look at and say that doesn't feel right, that the people who underperformed get rewarded.”

Are the demands you're citing from an article, or from firsthand knowledge? What you're describing IS one hell of a reach for 600,000 employees, but that many employees wouldn't be voting to strike if they didn't feel that management was fucking them over. If the union is demanding a bad deal, then that's usually in response to bad/punitive management. It'll be interesting to see the facts around this as they get reported and confirmed

The judgement was against Jones personally, so any business he has an interest in will be potentially on the block

AP: Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones’ Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ' Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing Tuesday that he will approve the auctions that start in November. But he said he first must change a previous order to make it clear that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controls all the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, which is owned 100% by Jones.

Sounds extremely similar to the recent bullshit with Centerpoint where they could make pennies on the dollar for investments in maintenance and risk reduction - OR - they could hope for disaster so they can make a 2-3x return on investment asking for disaster relief funds while gouging their monopoly customers they've already betrayed. Also, watch out. You just called a pipeline company O&G, you sick bastard.

Man it's WILD how much that sack of shit was driving conservative dialogue vis-a-vis CRT culture war shit

We have this stroller and a Doona (THANK YOU, extremely generous extended family!!!), and they're both great. Definitely invest in the $40 add-on to click your car seat onto the stroller (they've got accessories for all the major car seat brands), it's been great for us. It collapses down to be pretty small and can fit in the footwell between the back seat and my front seat if I wedge it in a little.

Not only that - it's a very real source of inflation. If elmo is able to secure loans against his paper valuation and then he spends that money, he's spending money that didn't exist in circulation before. It drives up asking prices for products because there's more fluid cash available

Nevermind that depending on your income bracket the "economy" could mean either your local shithole town, or the NASDAQ. So when one is doing great and the other is languishing, it only intensifies the alienation and frustration and feelings of being left behind. Reality is what you make of it these days, facts are for socialist libtards.

and yet, we allow our billionaires to take tax-free loans against those paper (and bullshit) asset valuations. Just because it's a buch of nonsense doesn't mean it can't still completely fuck up our society with a flood of extra free speech money that nobody else has access to.

I mean, it helped RFK Jr! It could help you too!

Notably, russias state disinformation efforts towards the US were primarily aimed at ramping up voter apathy and the feeling of being unable to affect any change. Along with many messages of the US constantly being under threat of outside invaders seeking to destroy our way of life - one of the main mobilization messages we hear out of russia nowadays. It's gonna be something else we have a bit more time separating historians and anthropologists from the active measures by russia, and we really get a full idea of the depth and breadth of their fuckeries

Pretty cool TEXAS FIGHT stadium chant with the flashlights going 20240921_215311.mp4

Fuck these fucking refs

Hide ya kids, hide ya wives, and hide ya dog too. ERRYBODY GETTING SWATTED

Real ugly football so far

20240921_185012.mp4 Apache flyover was pretty fuckin cool

Cards Against Humanity is sueing SpaceX for trasspassing and illegal dumping on their land in Brownsville https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/ Before (2017): After (2024)

Kevin Hart, come on down! https://insidenewshub.com/kevin-hart-caught-on-camera-in-diddy-freak-off-video/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push Kevin Hart is currently receiving major criticism after being caught on camera at a controversial party hosted by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The video, which surfaced online, shows Hart engaged in questionable behavior at one of Diddy’s infamous “freak off” parties. The comedian can be seen holding a microphone next to a bathtub, surrounded by scantily clad women. In one disturbing incident, a female partygoer’s hair caught fire as a result of candles placed near the bathtub.

I have noticed while walking my dog that there's fewer trump signs in yards than there were a couple months ago, at least in my part of Spring Branch

Seems bad for Elmo... https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/tech/sec-sanctions-elon-musk-testimony-twitter-probe/index.html The Securities and Exchange Commission intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk over his failure to appear for testimony in an investigation related to his takeover of Twitter, now called X, the regulator said in a court filing Friday. Earlier this year, a federal judge ordered Musk to testify as part of the SEC’s probe of the billionaire’s $44 billion acquisition. The agency is examining whether Musk followed the law when disclosing his purchases of Twitter stock and whether his statements in relation to the deal were misleading ... The SEC asked the court to impose “meaningful conditional relief” if Musk does not appear at the new October testimony date. The SEC also said it intends to file a sanctions motion against Musk to recoup its travel costs for the cancelled testimony and for other relief.

LMAO Raskin cheesin' at the "are we doing Walz next week?"

FTC going to work on more artificial cost inflation https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/20/ftc-sues-drug-middlemen-for-allegedly-inflating-insulin-prices.html Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) sit at the center of the drug supply chain in the U.S. They negotiate rebates with drug manufacturers on behalf of insurers, large employers and federal health plans. They also create lists of medications, or formularies, that are covered by insurance and reimburse pharmacies for prescriptions. The FTC has been investigating PBMs since 2022. The agency’s suit argues that the three PBMs have created a “perverse” drug rebate system that prioritizes high rebates from drugmakers, which leads to “artificially inflated insulin list prices.” It also alleges that PBMs favor those high-list-price insulins even when more affordable insulins with lower list prices become available. The FTC is filing its complaint through its so-called administrative process, which initiates a proceeding before an administrative judge who would hear the case. “Millions of Americans with diabetes need insulin to survive, yet for many of these vulnerable patients, their insulin drug costs have skyrocketed over the past decade thanks in part to powerful PBMs and their greed,” Rahul Rao, deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, said in a statement. “The FTC’s administrative action seeks to put an end to the Big Three PBMs’ exploitative conduct and marks an important step in fixing a broken system—a fix that could ripple beyond the insulin market and restore healthy competition to drive down drug prices for consumers,” Rao continued. Roughly 8 million Americans with diabetes rely on insulin to survive, and many have been forced to ration the treatment due to high prices, according to the FTC.