Tim Guise

Retired. Love travel and golf. Love my Tesla. Concerned about global warming and political divisiveness and extremism.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Laos just implemented a total ban on all petrol- and diesel-vehicle imports, to at least end-2026
>EV and hybrid sales are already 36% of new sales
>Laos wants 30% of all vehicles on the road to be electric by 2030, so EVs will be 75% to 100% of all vehicle sales over the next few years (that's just the math)
>Laos bleeds $1.27b/year on refined petroleum imports alone, in a country with a GDP of $17b. Laos has zero domestic oil reserves and imports 100% of its refined petroleum products. That's macro-economic suicide for a hydro powerhouse with 26.5GW of water-based energy potential, positioned as the “battery of SE Asia”. The ban will drastically cut that import bill

Wires are chewing pipelines

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received the vaccine." https://t.co/VKyZMDHJdj

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

Crimean supply artery - Highway to Hell

"We fell into an ambush, and it's burning behind us, and it's burning in front of us. And they're still flying!"

Ukrainian long-range drones have cornered Russian fuel tankers on the "land corridor" to occupied Crimea.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Zelensky confirmed successful long-range strikes by Ukraine’s SBU, SBS, SSO, HUR and Border Guard forces overnight. Targets included the St. Petersburg oil terminal about 1,100 km from Ukraine’s border, military targets at Kronstadt base and a Tambov region enterprise involved in Russian weapons production. #Russia

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOOM: Sen. Cory Booker just masterfully backed Marco Rubio into a CORNER:

Booker got Marco Rubio to admit that Trump’s war has ENRICHED Iran by nearly $50 BILLION due to his dumb decisions.

Then he torched Rubio for begging Iran for a deal that’s WORSE than the Obama deal Trump ripped up!

This exchange is BRUTAL. 🔥

[Tim Guise @timforeuk]

This is DISGUSTING.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: YES! A federal judge blocks Trump from gutting a crucial climate and weather research lab in Colorado in a major blow to the MAGA agenda.

The courts are once again holding this country together by a thread...

“Any degradation in forecasting, modeling, or related scientific capabilities carries real-world consequences, including potential harm to property and human life,” stated Judge R. Brooke Jackson in his ruling to temporarily halt the White House's efforts.

The administration has been trying to confiscate a powerful supercomputer from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder as part of their scheme to "break up" NCAR because it feeds into "climate alarmism."

The real goal here is obvious. Trump is bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies. He and his minions are working tirelessly to discredit climate science itself so that oil and gas companies can keep raking in profits as the world burns. It's one of the most sinister components of his thoroughly corrupt tenure.

NCAR is an invaluable resource for the American people. It conducts groundbreaking climate research but also helps predict major weather events and flooding — calamities that will only increase in frequency and intensity as climate change accelerates. The Center also monitors air quality.

Jackson's ruling comes after the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which is composed of 129 renowned schools, filed a lawsuit to stop the dismantling of NCAR. They alleged that the Trump administration is seeking to punish the state of Colorado for refusing to hand over control of its elections and for taking legal action against MAGA election interferer Tina Peters.

“Our work supports national security, public safety, and economic prosperity, and any steps made toward divesting NCAR of its high-performance computing facilities would risk disrupting the country’s extraordinary advances in weather and space weather modeling and forecasting, as well as related programs spanning agriculture, water resources, wildfire risk, military support, power grid interruption, and aviation safety,” stated UCAR Interim President Eric Barron.

Jackson said that the Trump-controlled National Science Foundation's “offered no explanation for its decision” and “failed to abide its own process to consider public feedback before proceeding with the transfer" in its efforts to remove the supercomputer in question from NCAR.

More infuriating still for the administration, the judge wrote that allowing the lab to keep the computer "supports the efficient and uninterrupted data collection that supports more accurate climate-prediction modeling, which in turn is used to mitigate harmful extreme weather events that are a feature of our world.”

This is a ruling truly worth celebrating.

Please ❤️ and share to thank the judge!

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends.

He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission.

Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Seven states sue US for paying $1bn to make TotalEnergies exit wind power. New York leads lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s effort to make French company reinvest in fossil fuels. A coalition of Northeastern states argues the March deal, in which the company gives up its two offshore wind leases in exchange for a full refund of their $928mn cost and a pledge to redirect the money to fossil fuel investments, is “blatantly unlawful” and should be struck down by the courts. Led by New York, the coalition includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont. The lawsuit marks the latest pushback by states and pension funds against the Trump administration’s payments designed to curtail wind power.

FT 2nd June 2026
https://t.co/JNeJ6zdD1e

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Lake Turkana Wind Power is Africa’s largest wind farm: 310 MW from 365 turbines. One of the continent’s most ambitious renewable energy projects.

Supplying roughly 11-17% of Kenya’s electricity system capacity (depending on metric used), achieves exceptionally high utilisation.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Does he get a lollipop and a sticker, too?

[Tim Guise @timforeuk]

@HQNewsNow @ChrisMurphyCT This is disgusting. Congress needs to stop this.

[Tim Guise @timforeuk]

@krassenstein It's time to boycott CBS.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

‼️ZELENSKYY: None of the Russian drones or missiles can be made without components from Western countries.

“None of these drones or types of Russian missiles can be made without parts brought in from other countries. In each of these strikes, whether they realize it or not, there's still the involvement of those working for Russia, those funding Russia, those helping it dodge sanctions and search for not just a few, but thousands of components, without which Russian military production would just stop. Five Kalibr missiles need 145 of these parts. 33 Iskander missiles need 1,122 parts. 650 attack drones of different types need more than 17,000 parts, without which making them is just impossible” - Ukrainian president on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

[Tim Guise @timforeuk]

Good. The sooner this guy is out of the WH the better.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

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BREAKING🚨 Trump’s presidency isn’t just politically collapsing — his vanity projects are literally being torn off the map, blocked by judges, and starved by his own party while gas soars and the Iran war burns money.

Start with the White House ballroom. Trump bulldozed the entire East Wing to make room for a 90,000‑square‑foot, $400 million private event space and underground bunker complex.

Historic‑preservation groups sued, arguing he can’t just demolish a historic part of the people’s house and build a mega‑ballroom without Congress signing off. A federal judge agreed in April, blocking any above‑ground construction and ruling that Trump “cannot proceed with this project without explicit congressional authorization.”

An appeals court has allowed excavation and bunker work to continue temporarily, but the ballroom itself is in limbo until a June 5 hearing. Right now, the East Wing is gone, the lawn is a fenced‑off construction pit, and the “grand ballroom” is a hole in the ground.

Then there’s the Kennedy Center fiasco. In December, a Trump‑appointed board quietly voted to slap his name onto America’s national performing arts center, rebranding it “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” Within days, workers had chiseled the hybrid name into the marble façade and updated signage and programs.

Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered Trump’s name removed everywhere — from the building, the website, even ticket stubs — within 14 days. In a 94‑page opinion, he wrote that Congress created the Kennedy Center by statute in 1964 “to honor John F. Kennedy” and that “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can remove it.”

Cooper also blocked Trump’s plan to close the center for up to two years for a glitzy redesign. Hours later, a humiliated Trump posted that he would “transfer” the Kennedy Center back to Congress and abandon the renovation.

Now add the slush fund. After suing the IRS for $10 billion over the leak of his own tax returns, Trump’s Justice Department tried to settle the case by creating a $1.776 billion “Anti‑Weaponization Fund” — supposedly to compensate people who felt “persecuted” by past investigations. The fund would have been paid for entirely with public money and overseen by political appointees, with priority for high‑profile “lawfare” cases like his own allies.

Within days, a federal judge in Virginia froze the entire thing in response to a lawsuit from a January 6 prosecutor and good‑government groups, banning DOJ from transferring “a single dollar” or processing any claims while the case proceeds.

Another judge, in the underlying IRS lawsuit, has ordered Trump and his sons to respond to detailed fraud allegations from nearly three dozen former federal judges who filed a blistering amicus brief calling the settlement “a gross abuse of public funds.” Facing a revolt from Senate Republicans who balked at the optics of a billion‑plus payoff for MAGA grievances, Trump’s own Justice Department told NPR it would “pause implementation” of the fund pending the June 12 hearing.

The political fallout is brutal. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has already blocked Trump’s demand to tuck ballroom funding into the latest immigration and border package, telling reporters there’s “no appetite” in the caucus to bankroll a private party hall while the Iran war and domestic priorities go unfunded.

Other Republicans are warning the White House to “focus on inflation, not marble.” A new Texas Public Opinion Research survey and national polls show Trump’s job approval sliding to the mid‑30s, with just about one in five Americans approving of his handling of the cost of living and a record slice of Republicans now disapproving of his economic record.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Pakistan is now world's #2 solar panel importer.

More than India, more than entire Gulf.

Almost none of it policy-driven. Grid power is costly & unreliable so households go solar.

But does that push grid fees higher for everyone left behind?

More soon: https://t.co/In5lBaF2ox

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🚨 JUST IN:

Pope Leo XIV:
​"The world is being driven to destruction at the hands of a handful of tyrants."

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

This is how we progressed towards clean oceans in May:

🔹Following the success of Interceptor 007 in LA County, we signed agreements with county and city leaders in Los Angeles to expand our operations to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers as part of our 30 Cities Program.

🔹This past month, we co-authored a study analyzing more than 20,000 eel traps lost at sea, emphasizing the durability of discarded fishing gear, which can persist for decades and travel across the entire ocean

🔹As part of our commitment to addressing the source of ocean plastic pollution, we recently joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, an initiative dedicated to tackling abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear in our oceans.

🔹New deployments are underway in Manila, Philippines, and Panama - stay tuned for updates!

[Jay Inslee @JayInslee]

Hundreds of turbines delivering 3.5 GW of electricity to 3 million people.

Clean energy is unstoppable. https://t.co/zy93PkgkkJ

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Australia, where household energy bills are to fall 10% from 1 July 2026, is executing an industrial slaughter of legacy gas peakers
>In 1st quarter of 2026, battery systems tripled their daytime-to-evening energy shifting compared to last year. Batteries surged 1,115 MW of clean power into the evening peak, hitting a record discharge of 3,556 MW
>Batteries became the grid's primary price-setting mechanism, dictating terms in 32% of all trading intervals
>Gas-powered generation collapsed to its lowest quarterly average since 1999 (dropping to an average of just 712 MW). It's in terminal structural decline
>Average wholesale electricity spot prices plummeted by 12% y-on-y to AU$73/MWh
>In Victoria, wholesale prices crashed by 28% to an average of just AU$43/MWh
>Four million households and businesses are now generating free power, acting as the biggest power plant in the country
>One in every 25 homes has a battery today, with 415,000 active residential storage systems
>Because of this unstoppable wave of clean energy and storage, residents in Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia will receive 100% free electricity from 11:00am to 2:00pm starting next month
>Australia’s battery capacity additions surged by nearly 8 GW in a single year, a nine-fold increase. Utility-scale systems skyrocketed to 4.2 GW, while behind-the-meter household storage hit 3.4 GW
>Battery storage now commands a massive 18% of all installed dispatchable capacity in Australia (China is at 7%, the US at 5%, and Europe at 4%

Storing free solar during the day and dumping it into the evening peak has permanently flattened the daily price curve, bringing down forward electricity contract prices and passing the savings directly to consumers

Every solar + battery is a national security shield