Rick

[Dave Hyde @davehydesports]

On July 4th, the story of an American hero: The Dolphin who was shot down over Germany in World War II. Column https://t.co/ajnTlFeKM8

[Miami HEAT @MiamiHEAT]

If you’re wondering why Davion changed his number…this is why ❤️

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Wow.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views

He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation

https://t.co/0GEyvQd51z

[Rick @corbyone]

@DavidPSamson 🙏 Praying for you and your family

[Luther Luke Campbell @unclelukereal1]

Tune in tonight at 11:30 PM — I’ll be live on @CNN with @thelauracoates talking about my run for Congress in Florida’s Congressional District 20 in Broward County. We’re going to discuss the movement, the issues impacting our communities, and why this race matters so much for the people.

Make sure you tune in and make sure you’re on the right side of history.

For more information about the campaign, visit https://t.co/jCqvMC3KI3

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨EPSTEIN VICTIM: "THEY RAPED ME 3 TIMES A DAY, IT WAS AN ASSEMBLY LINE OF ABUSE AND IT ALL STARTED WITH DONALD TRUMP"

Do not stop talking about Epstein files!!! https://t.co/bZailsBtdB

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

25TH AMENDMENT!!!
Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization.
This is evil and madness.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

9/ As Trump crows that "a whole civilization will die tonight" (because his plan is to murder thousands of innocent Iranians and hope for a civil war that somehow ends up with the Strait of Hormuz reopening) you need to know the full scope of the global disaster he has caused.

[Rick @corbyone]

@Osinttechnical Why don’t you call out his lies like you call out the fake AI

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors annually. Full replenishment takes four to five years. Each interceptor contains neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnets sourced from Chinese-controlled supply chains. The US defence rare earth stockpile has approximately two months remaining.

Read those numbers again. The US military has consumed more precision weapons in one month than it can manufacture in three years, using materials it can only source from the country it may need to fight next.

Every Patriot fired at an Iranian Fattah-2 over Riyadh is a Patriot that does not exist for a Chinese DF-21 over the Taiwan Strait. Every rare earth magnet consumed in Gulf interceptors is a magnet that cannot be installed in a replacement built for the Pacific. The Iran war is not just depleting American arsenals. It is depleting American deterrence against China. And the country counting the interceptors from both sides of the table, as supplier and as future adversary, is the same country hosting peace talks in Beijing right now.

China controls 90 percent of rare earth refining. China produces 90 percent of the world’s high-performance magnets. China buys 80 to 91 percent of Iran’s oil exports. China provides BeiDou navigation and ammonium perchlorate propellant to the Iranian missiles that are forcing the US to burn through its interceptor stockpile. China is simultaneously the supplier of the weapons America is using, the supplier of the weapons Iran is using, the primary customer of the oil the war is disrupting, and the only country with the leverage to end the disruption.

The arithmetic of the grand bargain is not complicated. The US needs Chinese rare earths to rebuild its interceptor inventory. China needs Hormuz open to receive Iranian oil. The US needs the war to end before its stockpiles hit zero. China needs tariff relief, semiconductor export control rollbacks, and Taiwan arms-sale restraint. Both sides need something only the other can provide. The question is not whether a deal happens. The question is how much of America’s strategic position in the Pacific gets traded for the minerals needed to survive the Gulf.

RAND estimated that 78 percent of US defence contractors would face production shutdowns within 90 days of a Chinese rare earth cutoff. The 2027 deadline to ban Chinese-sourced magnets from Pentagon procurement is nine months away with no domestic alternative at scale. MP Materials operates the only US rare earth mine and ships its concentrate to China for processing. The mine-to-magnet supply chain that the Pentagon needs to survive a Taiwan contingency runs through the country the Taiwan contingency is designed to deter.

This is not a supply chain problem. This is a civilisational dependency. The United States built the most advanced military in human history on materials processed by its principal strategic competitor. It is now fighting a war that burns through those materials at a rate that makes replenishment impossible without the competitor’s cooperation. And the competitor is sitting in a conference room in Beijing today, across the table from Pakistan’s foreign minister, calculating exactly how much of America’s future it can extract in exchange for the minerals America needs to have a future at all.

The deal of the century is not a choice. It is arithmetic. And the arithmetic leads to Beijing.

https://t.co/dAOBBMrIOk

[J.J. Carrell @JJCarrell14]

What the FUCK are we doing!

My son will NEVER die for a foreign country!

I voted for you 3 times, took abuse and fought for you and this is what you do!

You do the exact opposite of what you railed against for over a decade!

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

He doesn’t even get the irony.

[Omar Kelly @OmarKelly]

So would America

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This is an absolutely INSANE thing to say out loud. We killed their leaders in the middle of negotiations because we didn’t like the way they negotiated?!?!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America. 

Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.

They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.

This was not a drill.

This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.

Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.

Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.

The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  https://t.co/lxQD3X8jaM

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

He’s lost control of the war and he is panicking.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Donald Trump responds to Robert Mueller’s death:

[Richard Farr @farrmacro]

Trump just says whatever he feels people need to hear at any given moment. Maybe that also includes helping out friends who may be long futures or crypto?

[Mayor Guy Fieri @GuyFieri]

RIP to the legend Chuck Norris
My all time favorite
Goods guys wear black

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Qatar’s Prime Minister:

This war needs to stop immediately. The aggression needs to stop immediately.

Because everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is, and dragging the whole region into this conflict is.