Peter Merchant

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: HAHA! Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton burst out laughing at the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center after Michelle brilliantly shades Trump over the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is just too good...

"You were unflappable at every turn, always focused, always calm, always looking at the long view," the former First Lady said to her husband. "How absurd it is to even imagine that you might have buckled under the pressure even once, lashed out in frustration, lost your temper. How absurd it is to imagine that you might have done anything but make our family and this entire country proud."

We can think of another President who regularly loses his temper, buckles under pressure the moment that difficulties arise, and lashes out in frustration on Truth Social daily. There is an infuriating double standard at play. Obama had to always keep his cool to avoid getting labeled with the "angry Black man" racist trope. As an entitled white man, Trump can blow his top whenever he wants and nobody bats an eyelash.

"No, you were too busy. I'm not done, y'all! Not done," Mrs. Obama continued as the crowd roared with approval. "So much to say. You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding healthcare, ending a war, ordering the Bin Laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize."

She paused and smiled at that point in the speech, giving the audience a chance to cheer. Seated in the wing, Hillary Clinton burst out laughing at the obvious jab and President Obama laughed along with her.

It's well-documented that Donald Trump is absolutely obsessed with the fact that Obama has a Peace Prize while he himself has been denied the distinction. Trump aggressively lobbied in vain for one, cajoling foreign leaders to nominate him.

He was so incensed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's refusal to award him that he wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre: "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace."

He lived up to the implicit threat in that letter by going on to launch a pointless, costly, child-murdering war against Iran that ultimately ended in defeat and surrender for the United States.

And Michelle wasn't done there...

"Keeping us safe from Ebola, regulating the banks, standing up for marriage equality, listening to science, and comforting an entire nation in the face of unspeakable tragedies," she continued, listing more of her husband's accomplishments. "And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park."

The Ebola bit is another jab at Trump who, with the assistance of RFK Jr. and Elon Musk gutted research and pandemic prevention. This is the most virulently anti-science administration that this country has ever seen.

One thing is certain. The Obamas will have a lasting, radiant legacy in this country. Trump will be reviled by future generations, his name used a byword for incompetence, failure, and corruption.

Please ❤️ and share if you love the Obamas!

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Few of the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines already built will make it past 17 years in full working order.

The several billions of solar panels might make it to 20 years before they too also succumb to the laws of physics, nature and unavoidable decay. This is only a hint of the staggering mountains of recyclable waste lying ahead as exploding production just carries on regardless of the ultimate landfill pileup quagmire.

Colossal artificial forests of legacy turbines and solar panels will ultimately stop working and need costly replacements. Rusting and decaying offshore turbines in harsh marine environments are a perfect example of this cycle of decay.

What will the world do with the 7-8 billion solar panels already in environmental decay? What about the 1.3 million strong global turbine gridlock—so far? The world already faces an estimate of 43 million tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades alone—by the headlong rush of Net Zero in 2050. This small portion of the emerging e-waste catastrophe is the equivalent in weight to 215,000 locomotives.

Super-strength turbine blades the size of 747 airliners are made from almost indestructible high-strength composites designed to survive decades of brutal weather and notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but not to disappear.

They were meant to last 20 to 24 years before wearing out. But the 150,000 to 200,000 turbines built between 1990 and 2010 are already at the end of their working lives. Each lofty structure weighs 200 to 400 metric tonnes on average, of steel, concrete and composite plastics, metals and rare earths. Who will foot the bill to put these carcasses to rest forever in scattered graveyards?

Burying dead blades is the only solution, even in regions with abundant space like the US. Several European nations, such as Germany and the Netherlands, have actively banned this practice.

Renewables or bust? Ironic, isn't it.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly informed President Trump that Israel does not accept an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon or the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.

Those provisions are a central part of the U.S.-Iran agreement now being negotiated. (New York Post)

The gap between Trump’s deal and Netanyahu’s position is getting harder to ignore. 👀

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Voyager 1 and the Epic Journey Through the Oort Cloud Even though Voyager 1 has already entered interstellar space, it’s still deep inside our Solar System in the grandest https://t.co/YIDuNUmSWK will take roughly 300 years for humanity’s farthest spacecraft to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud — the vast, spherical shell of icy comets and frozen debris that marks the true outer boundary of our Solar System.Once there, crossing the entire Oort Cloud will take another ~30,000 years.That means Voyager 1 will spend tens of thousands of years silently drifting through this enormous region — a cosmic wilderness stretching up to 100,000 AU (nearly 2 light-years) from the Sun, filled with trillions of icy https://t.co/jPDvNrVMBY the time it finally emerges on the other side, it will have been traveling for over 30,000 years since leaving the planets behind… and it will still be only barely beginning its true journey into the wider Milky Way. A humbling reminder of just how vast our Solar System really is — and how small we are in the grand timeline of space exploration. Voyager’s voyage is only getting started.

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

You know what?

Moscow is burning🔥🔥

This oil refinery provides about 70% of Moscow and the region’s gasoline needs.

Good morning from Ukraine💙💛

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

.@SarahAMatthews1: "Expecting Trump to say or do the right thing is useless and disappointing. This is the guy who posted a racist meme of the Obamas depicted as monkeys…who posted memes depicting himself as Jesus Christ. There is no decency or decorum in this White House."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kelly: People like Donald Trump who never served in the military that doesn't understand the military and its capability—they're always the first people that want to drop a bomb on something and think that's the solution to everything, and think we can obliterate underground, you know, nuclear enrichment capacity. I mean, nobody who's a professional would ever say that to say that we're going to completely obliterate something, we can degrade it, we can damage it. I just think president Donald Trump just doesn't fundamentally understand what he's doing. And because of that, he makes very poor decisions.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

David Akin with some “question period” stats.
Carney in the first 124 questions periods they have had has only attended 26% of them.
Harper in his first 124 question periods attended 65% of them.
Carney has been out of the Country 18% of time since being elected as well.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

On the night the Titanic sank, a 21-year-old college student watched his father die.

Hours later, doctors told him both of his legs would have to be amputated.

Instead, he got up and started walking.

His name was Richard Norris Williams.

And surviving the Titanic was only the beginning of his story.

In April 1912, Richard and his father, Charles Duane Williams, boarded the Titanic as first-class passengers in Cherbourg, France.

They were traveling to America so Richard could continue his studies at Harvard.

When the ship struck the iceberg on April 14, father and son made their way to the deck together.

Then disaster struck again.

As the Titanic sank, one of its massive funnels collapsed.

The falling structure hit Charles Williams and killed him instantly.

Richard was standing beside him.

He narrowly escaped the same fate.

Moments later, he was in the freezing North Atlantic.

The water temperature was around 28°F (-2°C).

Most people survived only minutes.

Richard spent roughly six hours in the water or clinging to one of the partially submerged collapsible lifeboats before rescue arrived.

When the RMS Carpathia finally picked up survivors at dawn, his condition was severe.

His legs were frozen from the knees down.

The ship's doctor examined him and delivered a grim verdict:

Both legs would need to be amputated.

In 1912, severe frostbite often meant gangrene, infection, and death.

Amputation was considered the safest option.

Richard refused.

He reportedly told doctors that he was going to need his legs.

Then he got out of bed.

Against medical advice, he began walking the deck of the Carpathia every two hours.

Day and night.

Step after painful step.

For four days.

By the time the ship reached New York, his condition had improved enough that amputation was no longer necessary.

He walked off the ship on his own.

Most people would consider that the defining story of a lifetime.

For Richard Williams, it wasn't.

A few months later, he enrolled at Harvard.

Then he returned to tennis.

In 1914, he won the U.S. National Championship, the tournament that would later become the U.S. Open.

In 1916, he won it again.

Over the following years, he became one of the best tennis players in the world, winning multiple major doubles titles and representing the United States internationally.

Then came World War I.

Williams served in the U.S. Army and distinguished himself in combat.

France awarded him both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor for his service.

After the war, he returned to tennis once again.

At the 1924 Paris Olympics, he badly sprained his ankle during the mixed doubles tournament and considered withdrawing.

His partner, Hazel Wightman, refused to let him quit.

Williams played much of the tournament barely able to move.

Together, they won Olympic gold.

Over the years, he became a Davis Cup captain, a respected figure in American tennis, and eventually a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Yet people who knew him rarely heard him talk about any of it.

Not the Titanic.

Not the championships.

Not the war.

Not the medals.

Not the Olympic gold.

In fact, he disliked attention so much that later in life he had approximately 160 tennis trophies melted down into a single silver serving tray.

He used it to serve drinks to guests in his Pennsylvania home.

Most visitors had no idea what it was.

Or what it represented.

A Titanic survivor.

A two-time national champion.

A decorated war veteran.

An Olympic gold medalist.

A Hall of Famer.

All hidden inside an ordinary tray sitting quietly on a side table.

Richard Norris Williams died in 1968 at the age of 77.

If you had met him, he probably wouldn't have told you any of this.

And that may be the most remarkable thing about him.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

JD Vance: "If you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

Lawrence O'Donnell: "No. They didn't.
WWII ended with ZERO negotiations."

How is Yale Law-educated JD Vance so f*cking stupid?

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

$300 BILLION DOLLARS TO IRAN??!!!

Trump agreed to give Iran $300 BILLION dollars for reconstruction cost after Trump bombed Iran.

Are you kidding me? What an embarrassment!

Americans are getting screwed again!!

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Donald Tusk
Prime Minister of Poland:

"It is Russia that has rejected every credible peace proposal. Ukraine did not start this war, and Ukraine is not an obstacle to peace.

No one should pressure President Zelensky to make territorial concessions. We must pressure Russia to end its aggression.

The free world must remain united. Any division in support of Ukraine is a gift to Moscow and a risk to our own security.”

Just wow, thank you for your support 😉
🫡

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A new study found autumn cooling across central Eurasia.

From 2004 to 2020, 98% of the vast region showed cooling of 2°C (checked against 408 weather stations and CRU temperature data).

The paper also found snow moved the other way.

Autumn snow cover rose by 5.38% per decade.

More white ground reflects more sunlight. Less absorbed sunlight means less surface warming.

The study estimates rising snow cover explained 21.5% of the cooling, with atmospheric circulation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Siberian High also playing their part.

The public story says: more CO2, more warming, less snow. But across Eurasia, the data show the opposite.

[Ruben Brekelmans @rubenbrekelmans]

Poetin staat onder druk, dus antwoordt hij met meer terreur.

Een historisch klooster, musea, theaters, een school: vannacht was weer niks heilig voor de Russische agressie.

En voor iedereen die beweert dat Poetin opkomt voor ‘traditionele waarden’: hoe past het bombarderen van kerken en kloosters hierin (naast het zinloos vermoorden van duizenden Oekraïners)?

Deze Russische terreur mag zich niet verspreiden. Oekraïne verdient voluit onze steun! 🇺🇦

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Bob Costas on Trump: "He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history.

You have to be in a toxic cult to believe that Trump has ever been emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically fit to be POTUS." * (2024)

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump's latest stock trading spree — 3,642 stock trades in just 3 months — has ethics experts SOUNDING THE ALARM.

At this point, it’s pretty undeniable that Donald Trump is more interested in enriching himself than doing his job as president.

The numbers just dropped, and they are STAGGERING. Donald Trump's investment accounts made 3,642 stock trades — worth between $212 million and $695 MILLION — in just the first three months of 2026.
That is an UNPRECEDENTED volume of trading for a sitting president, and ethics experts are sounding alarms.

Let's put that in perspective. Trump's previous disclosures showed him slowly trading bonds — just 191 transactions over two entire months. Then suddenly, in early 2026, his accounts EXPLODED into 3,642 trades across more than 1,000 companies. On March 23 ALONE, his accounts made 283 purchases.

And the timing of certain trades is INFURIATING.

His accounts bought Nvidia stock on January 6th. The next week, his administration relaxed export controls, letting Nvidia sell AI chips to China.

His accounts bought Palantir stock throughout March. On April 7th, Trump personally PUMPED the stock on Truth Social, including its ticker symbol: "Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities... Just ask our enemies!!!"
His accounts bought Eli Lilly stock right as his administration made "several favorable government decisions" benefiting the drugmaker.

Veteran financial adviser Eric Diton — 40 years in the business — couldn't make sense of it. "I can't come up with a rationale for that amount of trading for ANYONE," he said. "It makes no sense to me. I've never seen a strategy out there that would warrant that amount of trading. Thousands of trades in a quarter."

Then he delivered the kicker: "I don't think the president can sit there and day trade. To do thousands of trades in a quarter, that's a FULL-TIME JOB and then some."

So, either Trump is somehow personally day-trading while running the country, or — as Senator Elizabeth Warren argues — he has visibility into accounts trading in companies that his every decision and TWEET can move.

"The investments that President Trump has made are not blind," Warren said. "President Trump literally signed the 113-page document publicly listing all of his individual stock trades at the same time that he is making decisions affecting those stocks."

Columbia ethics professor Richard Briffault nailed the danger: "He gets on Truth Social and says a deal with Iran is near. That's going to affect prices. The next day he says they're being difficult, we have to bomb again. In the meantime, he could have bought or sold stocks affected by these decisions."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's defense? Trump isn't "sitting in the Oval Office engaging in a high-frequency trading strategy."

Sure. He just signs off on every trade and controls the policies that move them.

Even Republican Josh Hawley wants to ban it. Trump then called him a "second-tier Senator."

This isn't a blind trust. It's a blank check.

Please like and share if you think Trump is trying to personally profit from his presidency!

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

“So let me get this straight: You started a war, got people killed, torched billions of dollars, threatened global oil supplies & ended up with basically the same deal I had - except Iran gets way more money. And I’m the one you call weak?? 😂😂😂”

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Bridget Brink
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine about her resignation:

"I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killed with impunity.

The America I love, the one our grandparents served, would never stand by and let such horrors happen. Or give up helping our friends. Or appease the aggressor.

I resigned ... because the policy was to put pressure on the victim Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia"

Respect
🫡

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: JD Vance just accidentally confirmed the DIRTY SECRET about Trump's Iran deal.

JD Vance went on CBS News and tried to spin Donald Trump's Iran deal. Instead, he CONFIRMED exactly how badly Trump got fleeced.

CBS correspondent Ed O'Keefe asked Vance point-blank whether Iran would have access to a $300 BILLION reconstruction fund. Vance's answer? Essentially yes — "funded by the Gulf Coast coalition so long as they honor their end of the obligation."

So let's do the math that the Trump administration desperately doesn't want you to do. Let's compare Trump's Iran deal to the one Republicans spent a DECADE calling the worst deal in American history — Barack Obama's.

OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL:
• $1.7 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets
• In exchange for a 98% reduction in Iran's uranium stockpile
• And strict limits capping enrichment at 3.7%

TRUMP'S IRAN DEAL:
• $24 BILLION in unfrozen assets and cash
• A $300 BILLION reconstruction fund
• Lifted sanctions
• In exchange for an "opened Strait" under Iran and Oman's control

Read those numbers again. Trump is handing Iran roughly FOURTEEN TIMES the unfrozen cash Obama did — plus a $300 billion reconstruction windfall — after starting a war that nobody wanted, spiking gas prices, and killing the existing ceasefire because he found negotiations "boring." AND the deal just kicks what happens with Iran's uranium stockpile to future negotiations!

Republicans screamed for YEARS that Obama "gave Iran billions" and "appeased the mullahs." They called his deal treasonous. They tore it up. And now their guy is giving Iran an order of magnitude MORE money for a far weaker arrangement.

But here's the part Vance accidentally revealed. He warned that Iranian hardliners would "over-emphasize the benefits that Iran gets while under-emphasizing all the things they have to concede."

That's PROJECTION. Because it's the TRUMP administration that's been over-emphasizing the "wins" while burying the $24 billion, the $300 billion fund, the lifted sanctions, and the fact that the strategic Strait would fall under Iranian and Omani control. Vance is accusing Iran of doing EXACTLY what his own administration is doing — hiding the real terms of the deal from the public.

The man who promised to be tougher than Obama on Iran just handed Tehran the biggest payday in its history — after dragging America into a war first.

$1.7 billion versus $324 billion. That's the difference between Obama's "terrible" deal and Trump's "great" one.

Someone should mention that.

Please like and share!