Bill Cortese

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[Bill Cortese @BillCortese]

Level difficulty: hard

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇦🇺 NEW: The Olympic Committee has questioned whether crocodiles on the Fitzroy River will be kept behind barriers during the rowing events at the Brisbane 2032 Olympics

[@9newsAUS]

[The Rev @RealPaulCortese]

When I scan my Costco card and point out the people coming in with me

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

June 21, 1803. Two American warships, the frigate John Adams and the little schooner Enterprise, cornered a 22 gun Tripolitan corsair off the coast of North Africa and tore it apart.

People forget that one of the very first wars the United States ever fought was not against a European empire but against the Barbary states, who had been seizing American ships and selling American sailors into slavery. The young country basically had two options, keep paying ransom forever or build a navy and go fight. It chose to fight.

This single capture gutted Tripoli's fleet and let the US Navy turn its attention to Tunis, Algiers and Morocco. A nation that barely had a navy a few years earlier was now projecting force across an entire ocean to protect its own people.

The phrase "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn comes from this war.

[Irie Sentner @iriesentner]

SCOOP: Sen. Ruben Gallego repeatedly used campaign cash to fund luxury outings with his wife and to care for his children since launching his campaign for Senate in 2023, including attending the Super Bowl using a joint campaign account with Eric Swalwell.
https://t.co/Osq33JrHr5

[The Liberty Cigar Company @LibertyCigars]

@EchoesofWarYT @BillCortese LOVE this portrait. Amazing man!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

240 years ago today, the most underrated general in American history died. From a sunburn.

Nathanael Greene was never supposed to be a soldier. He was a Quaker from Rhode Island who ran his family's iron forge. He had asthma, a stiff leg that gave him a permanent limp, and zero combat experience. His own church suspended him just for going to watch a military parade.

So how did he end up commanding the entire Southern army? He read. He bought every book on warfare he could find and taught himself strategy from scratch. Washington noticed, and trusted him more than almost anyone.

By 1780 the war in the South was a disaster. The previous American general got beaten so badly he fled 200 miles on horseback. Congress let Washington pick the replacement, and he picked Greene without hesitation.

Greene's plan was insane. He looked at his small, starving, half-naked army and decided he could not win, so he would lose correctly. He ran Cornwallis all over the Carolinas until the British were exhausted, far from supply, and bleeding men they could not replace. "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."

At Guilford Courthouse, Cornwallis technically won the battle and lost a quarter of his army doing it. That was the whole point. Greene lost almost every fight on paper and won the entire South. Cornwallis limped off to a little tobacco port to rest and refit. The port was called Yorktown.

Here's the part that should make you angry. To feed and clothe his men, Greene personally co-signed for war supplies because the government wouldn't pay. When the bills came due, Congress refused to honor them. The man who saved the South came home buried in debt that wasn't his.

Georgia gave him a plantation near Savannah as thanks. He finally had peace. Then one hot afternoon in June 1786 he spent the day walking a neighbor's rice fields with no hat. He collapsed from sunstroke and a week later he was dead at 43.

One last twist. After he died, his widow Catharine took in a broke young houseguest tinkering with an idea. His name was Eli Whitney, and the cotton gin was invented at the dead general's home.

June 19, 1786. Remember the name. Nathanael Greene.

[Bill Cortese @BillCortese]

@Gaurab Incredible work by @bscholl. There is a reason why there is a production backlog of over 15,000 commercial aircraft. A severe shortage of jet engines--and lack of materials like powder metal--is a large part of that.

[MLB2NC @MLBRaleigh]

📈Raleigh on an elevator to the top!

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Here is the map of American LNG dominance being built in real time.

Operating today: 110 MTPA across 6 terminals.

Sabine Pass
Plaquemines
Golden Pass
Freeport
Corpus Christi
Calcasieu Pass

Louisiana and Texas 2 states powering the world.

Under construction: 47 MTPA more.

Rio Grande LNG (17 MTPA) by 2027-28.

Louisiana LNG (16.5 MTPA) by 2029.

Port Arthur Phase 1 (13.5 MTPA) by 2028-29.

Post-FID and building: another 42.5 MTPA.

CP2 Phase 1, Port Arthur Phase 2, Commonwealth LNG. All targeting 2029-2030.

Total by 2030: 200 MTPA.

Nearly double today's capacity.
From 12 terminals.

Full analysis in my latest article.
Link in the comments 👇

[Mike Berg @MikeKBerg]

Chuck Schumer and Jon Tester’s top recruit Seth Bodnar is polling behind Alani Bankhead, who has raised less than $30k 😂

[James Rosen @JamesRosenTV]

SUPREME COURT HISTORY: #OTD in 1986, forty years ago, the course of American law changed forever. Read all about it in “SCALIA: SUPREME COURT YEARS, 1986-2001.”

https://t.co/X8GC7kOEjN

[Antarctic Heritage @InspireExplore]

#OnThisDay in 1928, Roald Amundsen disappeared after leaving Tromsø, Norway, while flying a rescue mission in the Arctic in search of Umberto Nobile and his crew.

Nobile's airship 'Italia' had crashed on the ice north-northeast of Spitsbergen in May 1928. When word reached Amundsen, he joined the rescue effort and boarded a French Latham 47 prototype seaplane to search for Nobile around North East Land.

While searching for the crew of 'Italia', Amundsen and his crew went missing themselves and it is believed that their aircraft crashed in the Barents Sea. One of the seaplane’s floats and other debris were later recovered; however, Amundsen’s remains, and those of his crewmen, were not. Nobile and seven companions were rescued weeks later, but eight of his crew were also lost.

Amundsen is remembered for leading the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, accompanied by Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting.

📸 Roald Amundsen, Public Domain

#OTD #inspire #explore #discover #conserve #Antarctica

[Richard Petty @therichardpetty]

Congratulations @Canes!

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

What a remarkable outcome: the world's largest ever oil supply disruption failed to create a major energy crisis.

The IEA said 2026 shock was worst than 1973, 1979 and 2022 together. And yet, the cost of oil, natural gas, electricity and coal never surpassed the previous peaks.

[MLB2NC @MLBRaleigh]

Stanley Cup ✅ --> Next up: MLB in Raleigh

#SoundTheSiren #RaleighOnDeck #MLB2NC

[Luke Farley @LukeFarleyNC]

CANES IN SIX!!!

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Rod Brind'Amour captained the Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup in 2006.

Tonight, he won it again as their coach.

He's just the seventh person in NHL history—and the first since Toe Blake in 1956—to win the Cup with the same franchise as both a player and a coach.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

THE #CANES WIN THE CUP 

THE #CANES WIN THE CUP 
THE #CANES WIN THE CUP 
THE #CANES WIN THE CUP 
THE #CANES WIN THE CUP 
THE #CANES WIN THE CUP

[Bill Cortese @BillCortese]

Just a reminder that Nico Harrison not only traded Doncic but let Brunson walk back in 2022. Disgraceful. @Mavs_FFL