David Ingalls

Computer Services, husband, father, dad, sailor, mountain climber / hiker, Christian, son, brother, and more. @[email protected]

[China Times @ChinaTimesX]

📌 China openly challenges Trump 🇨🇳🇺🇸

Trump: "We need two billion dollars a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."

Chinese Foreign Minister: "The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal actions against Iran; you have created a global crisis out of nothing."

[David Ingalls @DavidIngalls]

This is how you make deals & negotiate for the good of both sides for a better future for both.

Note: no sanctions, tariffs, cruise missiles, blockades, fighter jets, or bombs were harmed in the making of these agreements. Just cooperative mutual interest to work together.

[Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 @KingKong9888]

Wow 🤯

The UAE Crown Prince has joyfully returned home, and China and the UAE have reached 24 cooperation agreements. The specific projects are as follows:

I. Establish a high-level joint committee mechanism for China-UAE investment cooperation.
II. China-UAE Business Council cooperation to promote trade facilitation.
III. UAE sovereign fund expands investment in China.
IV. Direct settlement of RMB and Dirham as local currencies.
V. Direct connection of cross-border payment systems between the two countries to achieve second-level remittances.
VI. Deepen cooperation on digital RMB.
VII. Cooperation on financial technology and digital financial infrastructure.
VIII. Long-term stable crude oil supply with normalized RMB settlement.
IX. Abu Dhabi 2.1GW photovoltaic storage project.
X. Cooperation on low-carbon technologies such as green hydrogen and carbon capture (CCUS).
XI. Cooperation on intelligent oilfield digital management technology.
XII. Cooperation on new energy vehicles and power battery industry chains.
XIII. Cooperation on ultra-high voltage, smart grid equipment, and technology.
XIV. Investment in metallurgy and building materials deep-processing projects.
XV. Desert water-saving agriculture, seawater rice, and saline-alkali land improvement.
XVI. Construction of grain reserves and cross-border cold chain logistics systems.
XVII. Cooperation on efficient seawater desalination technology and equipment.
XVIII. Sister port cooperation between Hainan Yangpu Port and Abu Dhabi Port.
XIX. Normalized operation of Zhengzhou-Dubai cargo air route.
XX. SCO Demonstration Zone to UAE TIR cross-border highway.
XXI. Cooperation on AI, cloud computing, and computing power centers.
XXII. Commercialization and implementation of fully unmanned autonomous driving operations.
XXIII. Construction, registration, and application of traditional Chinese medicine centers.
XXIV. Cooperation on cross-border e-commerce and online-offline integration.

Among them, petroleum RMB, de-dollarization financial channels, non-oil trade at the billion-yuan level, and new energy megaprojects represent major breakthroughs for China and the UAE, all of which are pragmatic agreements that are feasible, with clear responsible entities and timelines.

Via Eason Mao

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.

Crypto: $3.02B
Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M
Qatari jet: $150M
Legal fees/merch: $127.7M
Mar-a-Lago: $125M
Corporate deals: $91M
Hanoi hotel: $40M
Truth Social: $25M
Don Jr: $19.6M

Unprecedented kleptocracy.

[Gemma Imogene 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Fella @wonkjunkie]

@atrupar @MPcoolman Wake up honey, a new rocking banger just dropped. 🔥🔥🔥

[Explosive Media @ExplosiveMediaa]

Seven lies in just a few hours.
Impressive record!
well done Donald.

(Find the 5 hidden Easter eggs)

[David Ingalls @DavidIngalls]

The real reason Cheeto in Chief wanted control over US version of Tiktok ... (same playbook used to control other sources of our media or to shut them down)

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Hundreds of AI-generated, Trump propaganda accounts are popping up on TikTok — which is owned by a Trump billionaire.

Up to 64% of users on X are bots — which is owned by a Trump billionaire.

Independent 3rd party fact-checking ended on Meta — which is owned by a Trump billionaire.

The manipulation of truth is the point.
https://t.co/NU25PR1hgL

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump is suing his own IRS for $10 billion — and he’s planning to settle it quickly to avoid going to court.

To be clear: This is a scam to steal $10 billion from taxpayers, while Republicans scream about “fraud.”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump announces plan to allow corporations to dump coal ash – which is TWICE as radioactive as *nuclear fuel* – into our drinking water!

Yes, you read that right. Trump’s EPA is proposing to weaken rules for the safe disposal of super-mega-toxic ash produced by burning coal that contains hazardous heavy metals and contaminates groundwater.

“The Trump administration proposed easing standards for monitoring and protecting groundwater near some coal ash sites, and rolling back rules that require the cleanup of entire coal properties rather than just the sites where ash was dumped. The revisions would also make it easier to reuse coal ash for other purposes,” reports the Associated Press.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the proposal reflects the agency’s “commitment to restoring American energy dominance, strengthening cooperative federalism, and accommodating unique circumstances at certain (coal) facilities.”

The rules were strengthened by – you guessed it – the Biden administration a few years ago, and now Trump is trying to gut them on behalf of his cronies in Big Coal.

It is shocking to see just how eagerly the Trump administration is gutting all the regulations that keep us safe.

“The Trump administration just took a sledgehammer to the health protections in place for toxic coal pollution,” said Lisa Evans, senior counsel at environmental group Earthjustice. “This is yet another handout to the coal power industry at the expense of our health, water, and wallets.”

He is more than willing to make us drink poison and develop terrible cancers, all so his donors can save a little bit of money on cleaning up the toxic byproducts of their carbon pollution.

There is nothing sacred to these nihilistic scumbags, no respect for anything but their own bottom lines. Trump is willing to burn everything to the ground just so he can be king of the ashes – with not a care in the world for the millions of people who will suffer and die because of his decisions.

[Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter]

We have a country out there.

It’s called a Constitutional Republic.

Benjamin Franklin understood the challenges we would face in order to keep it.

Factionalism.

Despotism.

The whim of the impassioned masses.

That’s why we have a Constitution.

We have collectively failed our nation.

We have allowed ourselves to be grouped into factions defined by passion, and not the law.

We embrace the expediency of the despot because we lack the patience of due process.

And we have sacrificed everything in the name of a cult of personality built around a clinically insane con man.

[JOHN VALENTINE @NewAgeWriter2]

@KobeissiLetter We should never forget that Obama had a nuclear deal with Iran that would satisfy all the demands not only of the U.S., but most of Europe. Even China and Russia approved the deal. It was a tremendous deal undone by a jealous and petty Trump. This war didn't have to happen.

[David Ingalls @DavidIngalls]

@Auyeur @SaratogaGenki @Marcute22 Shhhh! Don't say that too loud. They will ruin lists.

[David Ingalls @DavidIngalls]

"This is the greatest number of civilians killed by the US military since the My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War."

[Dan Therriault @dantherriault]

The strategy of a “double-tap” strike, bombing first, waiting, and bombing again, is to kill survivors, rescuers, civilians and emergency medical workers. This is why the Geneva Conventions define this double-tapping as a potential war crime.

In the case of the school in Minab, the US in the second strike was killing parents in horror over the children being killed in a surprise attack and trying to find them.

This is the greatest number of civilians killed by the US military since the My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War.

This strike on schoolgirls was perpetrated on the very first day of the war. When all strikes were meticulously planned in advance.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US and Israel bombed 20 schools and 13 hospitals in Iran in 1 week, according to UNICEF.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted of unleashing “death and destruction” to provoke societal collapse.

Hegseth bragged there are “no stupid rules of engagement”.
https://t.co/vuESSHJaZm

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

According to Trump, we attacked Iran because they were about to attack us and we needed to beat them to it. I don't believe that is true. Someone needs to demand that Trump produce the intelligence that convinced him Iran was about to attack us. If this is a lie, what else is?

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

Now would be a good time for the administration to let elite Homeland Security and FBI agents do their real job of protecting us from terror and cyber attacks, instead of diverting them to chasing uber drivers who overstay their visas.

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

Woke up peacefully this Saturday morning to learn the FIFA Peace Prize Winner just started his second invasion of the year in Iran.

John Roberts gave Donald Trump total immunity from prosecution for illegal acts.

Now he's starting illegal wars WITHOUT APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I don't even know what to write about this one.

What am I supposed to say? "Hey everybody, they're lying to us about this war"? Everyone already knows that. Even the people who support this war know all the justifications for it are lies.

They know Iran isn't building nukes.

They know Iran poses no threat to the United States.

They know all that bullshit about Iran cutting out women's wombs and murdering tens of thousands of protesters was evidence-free atrocity propaganda.

Nobody needs me to tell them these things. Nobody needs me to tell them that this war is going to kill a whole lot of innocent people and inflict unfathomable amounts of suffering upon our species, both directly during these attacks and indirectly in the chaos and instability ensuing thereafter. Everyone already knows this.

Everyone already knows this, and it's happening anyway. They're just doing whatever evil things they want to do, without the slightest regard for public opinion or consent.

They're just going right ahead with a military operation to topple Tehran, after decades of inertia for fear of the horrific consequences it would unleash.

They're just choking off Cuba using siege warfare, which previous presidents refused to do because it would be a monstrous act of war.

They just kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation, which previous administrations had refused to do because it's plainly against international law.

They just helped Israel turn Gaza into a gravel parking lot and are now building a giant dystopian tech surveillance encampment to imprison the survivors.

They just designated an American company a "supply chain risk to national security" for the first time ever because the AI firm Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its technology to operate autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens — an open admission that the Pentagon plans on using AI to run autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens.

There's an old Frank Zappa quote that's been popping into my head more and more lately:

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

We're seeing a lot more bricks lately.

That's all I can think to say right now.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

The President who promised peace has now gone to war without Congressional approval over a nuclear program he claimed was obliterated eight months ago.

At the time, he dismissed reports that the attacks had only set back Iran's nuclear program by months as fake news.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.

Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.

So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

Your timely reminder that Obama negotiated a great deal with Iran (#JCPOA), which halted its nuclear program in its tracks, and did so without a war.
Trump ENDED that deal (in 2018).
Iran then resumed enriching uranium, and now here we are with another war of choice on our hands.