Brian Curran

North Carolinian by choice. Former USN officer. Retired college town police chief. Have a great family. Go Heels! Go Red Sox! Go Bruins!

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@ricksteins Congratulations!

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

He must be doing that chair workout that’s all over my timeline

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail.

R - Photo put out by staffer.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this.

Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@anders_aslund @grok did this really happen?

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I used to make fun of this kind of thing when reporting in North Korea.

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[ProfTalmadge @ProfTalmadge]

None of the Iran War's stated strategic objectives have been achieved. Highly repressive regime still in Tehran, nuclear program still intact, missiles & drones still launching. And US is now suddenly pausing effort to re-open Strait of Hormuz-- a problem that did not exist before the war. It's mind-boggling.

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

Is the war in Iran going so badly that the White House allowed Melania to bring up Epstein to change the news cycle? I mean, why now?

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@BulwarkOnline @MalcolmNance I’m ok with him moving to Venezuela

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@Les61410Les @TheRickWilson Location to

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@UNC Welp, there goes the Pumpkin Loop!

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@ThinkngMansGame @annmarie @joncoopertweets We can seize oil tankers in the Caribbean but not in the Gulf of Oman?

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@HawkEmDownChris UNC. University of National Champions.

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

Would Iranian retaliation for a US strike trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty? Any foreign policy wonks out there?

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@Acyn Pot, kettle?

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@Gerashchenko_en Didn’t Ukraine give up their nukes in 1992 in exchange for Russia to agree to never invade? Plus security guarantees from the US?

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@GoldenAgeUnfold D

[Brian Curran @onebaker1]

@JamieShaw5 I thought it was a block. Defender still sliding sideways when the contact was made. Strange to be a no call with contact that forceful.