Sean Sanchez

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A man in Nebraska ordered a pizza for his grandmother in Florida after he was unable to reach her in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. The delivery served as a welfare check, allowing him to confirm she was safe when the pizza arrived. As he later said, “Police and fire couldn’t do it, but Papa John’s got there in 30 minutes and put the cellphone to her ear.”

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

If you ever feel stressed, just remember that in China there is a 50-lane highway that narrows down to 4 lanes

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The Hormuz crisis is the precipitating factor in the current energy crisis, but the underlying cause is too little oil and gas production outside the Persian Gulf.

Had the world spent the past decade building the oil, gas, LNG, pipeline, and fertilizer infrastructure that engineers designed and companies proposed, the Hormuz crisis would still be a serious geopolitical event, but it would not threaten to cause a recession.

North America

— The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile natural gas line from West Virginia to North Carolina, saw its cost double from $4.5 billion to $8 billion during years of environmental litigation before Duke Energy and Dominion Energy cancelled it in July 2020.

— The Constitution Pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York died the same year.

— The PennEast Pipeline won its case at the United States Supreme Court in 2021 and still could not get built because New Jersey refused to issue state permits.

— In Canada, TransCanada abandoned the $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline in 2017 after the National Energy Board required an unprecedented review of upstream and downstream emissions.

— In January 2024, the Biden administration paused all pending approvals for LNG export terminals shipping to non-free-trade-agreement countries, freezing projects representing tens of billions of cubic feet per day of potential capacity.

— Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Louisiana, designed for 20 million tonnes per annum, sat in regulatory limbo for over a year.

— NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG in Texas, with 48 MTPA of planned capacity, stalled alongside it.

— PTT Global Chemical’s proposed $10 billion ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio, first announced in 2015, remains on indefinite hold after failing to attract financing partners amid climate-driven investor sentiment.

— Across the US Gulf Coast, nearly 60% of planned plastic and petrochemical production projects sit on hold.

— LNG Canada, the Shell-led terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, took over six years from construction start to first cargo, with its pipeline running 263% over budget. Environmental review, Indigenous disputes, and contractor cost escalation all contributed.

— Pieridae Energy’s Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, a 10 MTPA facility first proposed in 2012, was abandoned in November 2023 after more than a decade of permitting and financing obstacles.

Australia

— Australia’s Santos’s Barossa gas project was halted midway through construction after a Federal Court ruling overturned its environmental approval.

— Woodside’s Scarborough project faces ongoing litigation from the Australian Conservation Foundation seeking to block it on climate grounds.

Africa

— Perhaps nowhere has the damage been more consequential than in Africa. At COP26 in 2021, wealthy nations pledged to halt overseas development finance for gas projects, a commitment that fell hardest on the continent least responsible for climate change and most in need of energy infrastructure.

— The World Bank stopped financing oil and gas extraction in 2019 and imposed restrictive conditions on downstream gas projects.

— The European Investment Bank announced a complete ban on unabated fossil fuel financing by the end of 2021, with its president declaring that “gas is over.”

— At least 21 other development finance institutions followed suit.

As a result:

— TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project sat under force majeure for four and a half years after the UK Export Credit Agency and other backers withdrew climate-motivated financing.

— The East African Crude Oil Pipeline lost financing commitments from more than 30 major international banks under pressure from climatists.

Europe

— France prevented the completion of a third gas interconnector with Spain, citing climate neutrality goals.

— The United Kingdom imposed a moratorium on fracking in 2019 despite sitting atop one of Europe’s most promising shale gas formations.

— Germany, which shuttered its last three nuclear plants in April 2023, compounded its gas dependency by refusing to develop domestic shale resources.

— CF Industries permanently shut the UK’s largest ammonia plant at Billingham, a facility that also produced 60% of Britain’s food-grade CO2.

— Yara International curtailed output across plants in France, Italy, and Belgium before permanently closing its 400,000 tonne per year ammonia facility at Tertre, Belgium, in October 2024.

These closures occurred because European climate policy made gas too expensive for the domestic industry to survive.

[Ann ❤️ @Annie_Modiba]

Smart move Kasongo.

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

This. Is. Amazing.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

My littlest godson, Josiah, is fighting a grave complication of the liver in the NICU. If you can spare a prayer for him and his family, it would be greatly appreciated!

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

💪🏼 @lindseyvonn, you are a great inspiration and an example of perseverance.

Stay strong and get well soon! 😘

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

We are discovering why the world is so screwed up. Not exactly how, though we know lots more than we did two weeks ago. And not the full extent. We'll probably never know that. But the Epstein files are revealing how interconnected and ubiquitous the rot actually is. Incredible.

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

The @who now claims it never supported lockdowns in 2020. Let's look at some receipts.

Feb 2020
The WHO Potemkin tour of China proclaims the Chinese lockdown "proven" to stop human "transmission chains", buying time for "vaccine development".

https://t.co/aW40emZ9ri
1/15

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

For inspiration

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This artist plays one of Vivaldi's most difficult pieces on his accordion, a work that is normally performed by a whole orchestra.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

“Rugged individualism” as a pejorative is so summer 2020:

https://t.co/vKXd60Cxbp

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Today’s 10% move in Silver is a 4-5 sigma event.

A 3.8 sigma move is the chance that you personally get hit by lightning at least once in your lifetime…so not likely.

You are witnessing history today.

[Sean Sanchez @dasanch1]

Done

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Wikipedia has been weaponized to slander those who would tell the truth. It shouldn't surprise us that @jimmy_wales storms off when asked to clarify a factual claim about his own role in founding the site. Let's make this clip famous.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

New Epstein files show Rep. @StaceyPlaskett got real-time help via text messages from Jeffrey Epstein on how to hurt Trump during 2019 congressional hearing with former Trump attorney. Plaskett is the person who smeared us during Twitter Files hearing & falsely accused @mtaibbi

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Kudu bull easily clears 2 metre electrified fence with no run-up

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Do other countries have trouble electing women in races where both candidates are women?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Best example for why ups and downs are important in life