CEO @YouthService: If you don't have a youth strategy, you don't have a strategy at all. @HamiltonCollege @ChiPsiTweets @America250 #GlobalGoals#Democracy
Grammy Award winner and actress Miley Cyrus, beloved for her role in the popular Disney Channel sitcom "Hannah Montana," was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a ceremony in Los Angeles. https://t.co/G7wLw6sBaX
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.
@DschlopesIsBack@theblackvault “I will do whatever I want” makes you sound like a petulant teenager, but I shouldn’t insult teenagers by comparing them to you. 😏
Rev250 resource of the day — The John Carter Brown Library hosts a discussion about “Visualizing the Age of Revolutions” with curators Gwendolyn Collaço, Karin Wulf, and José Montelongo on Friday, March 20, 4pm, in person and online: https://t.co/yN7HXH8fJR
Fox: A record number of people tapped into their 401ks early last year. About 4.5 million people took out hardship withdrawals. The number is concerning.
BREAKING: Bahrain just got hit. Not a base. Not a military installation. The refinery.
The Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO, is burning. Iranian missiles and drones reached the facility on March 5 despite Bahraini air defenses intercepting 75 missiles and 123 drones in the same wave. The intercept count is the highest single-day figure for any Gulf state in this war. The fires are confirmed by video. The fires are real.
Understand what BAPCO is. It is not an abstraction. It is the refinery that processes virtually all of Bahrain’s domestic petroleum output, sitting on an island of 800 square kilometers that also hosts Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the headquarters of the United States Fifth Fleet. The Fifth Fleet commands all US naval operations across the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. The commanding officer of the Fifth Fleet wakes up every morning approximately twelve kilometers from the refinery that Iran just struck. If you wanted to design a single target that communicates simultaneously to the global energy market, the US Navy, and every Gulf monarchy watching this war, you would design BAPCO.
Iran did not need to destroy the facility to win the targeting decision. The mechanism of the strike is verification cost inversion applied to oil infrastructure rather than shipping insurance. An oil refinery that has been struck once by Iranian missiles in an active war is a refinery that no insurance underwriter, no shipping counterparty, and no downstream buyer can treat as a reliable facility without repricing every contract that touches it. The fires that Al Jazeera is broadcasting tonight are doing more work in the oil derivatives market than in the actual refinery. The facility will be repaired. The actuarial fact of its vulnerability cannot be unrepaired.
Bahrain has absorbed attacks since February 28. The kingdom hosts the only US naval headquarters in the Gulf theater. It is a country of 1.5 million people on an island that cannot be defended in depth because it has no depth. Its air defense systems are among the most capable in the region and they intercepted nearly 200 incoming projectiles in a single day. Six of those projectiles reached the refinery anyway. The interceptors cost orders of magnitude more per round than the drones they are stopping.
The attrition arithmetic that has governed every Gulf state’s position in this war has now been demonstrated at the petroleum infrastructure level. Iran does not need to shut BAPCO down. It needs to establish that BAPCO can be reached whenever Iran chooses to reach it. That threshold was crossed on March 5. Bahrain now knows it. The Fifth Fleet headquarters twelve kilometers away knows it. Every energy trading desk that has been pricing Gulf risk since February 28 is repricing it again tonight.
The fires at BAPCO are the visible part. The invisible part is the number that moved in the oil options market in the thirty minutes after the first video was posted.
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BIG NEWS! We're projecting cherry blossom Peak Bloom to arrive between March 29 – April 1 this year.
Extraordinary warm or cool temperatures have resulted in Peak Bloom as early as March 15 (1990) and as late as April 18 (1958). 🌸🌸🌸 #CherryBlossom#BloomWatch
For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.
Breaking: President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled, in a stinging repudiation of a signature White House initiative https://t.co/7iQtNpSzTD
@jackunheard Wrong. But thanks for playing. 😆
The @NFL is on a mission to internationalize this game. Bad Bunny is a Global phenom. I don’t speak a word of Spanish, but the joy of that performance translated beautifully. 🇵🇷🇺🇸
It’s kind of crazy the amount of good we’ve been able to do thru a YouTube channel
23,000,000 Trees planted
33,000,000 Pounds of trash from ocean
10,000,000+ Meals to people in need
500,000 People getting water from our wells we built
$3,000,000 To war refugees for supplies
$1,000,000+ Clothes to people in need
20,000 Shoes to kids in Africa
3,000 People helped walk again
1,000 Deaf people helped hear
1,000 Blind people helped see
100+ Houses for homeless people
100+ Cars given away
100s Of Dogs rescued
3 Islands given away
1 Orphanage/School/Hospital/Town/Gym/Village Powered/etc
1 Chocolate brand that pays farmers fairly and audits child labor.
And over $50,000,000 given to people NOT including the stuff listed above. All while still in my 20s 🥰