Scott 🌊(OC SoCal)
@skinoc.bsky.social
Twitter refugee 🚫MAGA, MBA, Techie, 🌊Liberal AF, Labrador 💙🐕 Dad. Blessed to live in SoCal - Escaped from Indiana. #Resist
Even corrupt and incompetent Texas politicians eventually realize that 500 nuclear reactors' worth of new energy demand might be a bit of an issue... 🤷♂️
Reuters@reuters.com · 22h agoTexas governor orders pause on new data center approvals pending audit reut.rs/45HgJzi
Combined, the oil giants made so much MORE than normal, that they could pay for the war and STILL have seen an increase in profits. Exon, Valero, Chevron, BP, Shell, Aramco, etc already make 50+ Billion in profits each quarter, but this last quarter they made $100B+ And no windfall profits tax
"Communist President Trump complains about capitalism" Trump slams Chevron CEO, demands immediate reduction in US fuel prices | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera share.google/4bWhKSSutAjV...
Trump slams Chevron CEO, demands immediate reduction in US fuel prices
Trump claims Chevron's success stems from his policies, calling for urgent reductions in US fuel prices for consumers.
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LA Dodgers now have the reigning two time Cy Young winner ANF the reigning two time MVP. First time in MLB history.
The absolute cringiest "world leader" and it's not even close. 🤦
Literally monetizing the office. Corrupt is too mild a description. Trump Media's new data service gives faster access to Trump’s posts share.google/1RqiXhzKbCSx...
Trump Media's new paid data service goes live, giving clients faster access to Trump’s posts
Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched Aug. 1, selling faster access to top Truth Social posts from President Donald Trump and more.
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"How to make easy money in ForEx trading" Bessent ‘to-do’ list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen | US politics | The Guardian share.google/X0MDMYM2qJdq...
Bessent ‘to-do’ list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen
Treasury secretary’s notepad, photographed by Reuters on Friday morning, prompts questions over US plans
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All they do is lie, steal and try to wreck people's lives... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.
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Progress. Still too slow, but heading in a better direction than the US. China generates less than half of its electricity from coal for the first time share.google/XNmHXFrjHLOM...
China, the world’s largest coal consumer, generated less than 50% of its electricity from the fossil fuel in the six months to June, marking a first for the country which has been promoting the use of...
China, the world’s largest coal consumer, has been promoting the use of renewable energy, with a deadline for coal consumption to peak no later than 2030.
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Good. Was a horrible idea. FIFA has scrapped $20 billion World Cup sell-off plan, New York Post reports | Reuters share.google/K5jpik5DyxvS...
FIFA has scrapped $20 billion World Cup sell-off plan, New York Post reports
FIFA's plan to sell a piece of its business empire to outside investors has collapsed following an open revolt by soccer officials worldwide and a major rift among top FIFA executives, the New York ...
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In a normal country, these companies might face "windfall profits tax", but because both are huge MAGA donors... Exxon and Chevron’s $26.5 Billion Quarter| OilPrice.com share.google/SgMJRFZVTc5t...
Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
Crude oil prices & gas price charts. Oil price charts for Brent Crude, WTI & oil futures. Energy news covering oil, petroleum, natural gas and investment advice
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When the pendulum swings, this dude needs to be dealt with...
‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Trump Has Reportedly Been Demanding Companies and Donors Pay Up www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Trump Has Reportedly Been Demanding Companies and Donors Pay Up
President Donald Trump has taken an unusually hands-on role in raising money, personally directing multimillion-dollar fundraising efforts and pushing corporate leaders for increasingly large contribu...
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Remember, National Couch Cleaning Day is 8/2. Share your tips. (JD Vance's Birthday coincidentally)
If you only targeted the 1000-odd US Billionaires with a 5% wealth tax, periodically (each 5 years), literally none would be impacted in terms of lifestyle or generational wealth. That's $350+ Billion in revenue. ($70-80 Billion/year) Expanding to 11,000+ Centimillionaires easily doubles that.
Trump killing affordability across the board. Mortgage Rates Jump to a One-Year High Four straight weeks of rising mortgage rates pushed the 30-year borrowing rate this week to 6.66%
Elon pledges $100m to boost GQP in midterms and gets massive boost to SpaceX via environmental laws being made optional by Trump. Corruption running rampant.
SpaceX, Blue Origin could get quicker launch approval under FAA move to waive environmental rules
"America won the first Space Race, and we can do it again — but only if we get government red tape out of the way," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
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When an EV SUV is quicker than a La Ferrari, pulls 1.05g on a ski pad and brakes like a sportscar too, the war is over. Complete EV supremacy achieved by Porsche. ($160,000 though)
Porsche's 6,000-Pound Electric Cayenne Beats Supercars To 60 MPH
Despite weighing almost 6,000 pounds, instrumented testing shows the Cayenne Turbo EV hitting 60 mph in 2.1 seconds, making it faster than most supercars.
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No, you're not imagining things. The U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index for the second quarter of 2026 increased at an annual rate of 5.1% This includes food and energy, which are MUCH more expensive lately.
Anyone shocked by this? US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference | Reuters share.google/DrTbnbSvdiIh...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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EVs that charge to 70% in 3 minutes. But not in the US, because we're corruptly beholden to fossil fuel interests...
Hongqi says its new EV tech can charge a battery in just eight minutes, beating BYD
FAW's Hongqi brand claims a battery that charges from 10% to 90% in under 8 minutes, joining an increasingly wild Chinese EV charging race against BYD, CATL, and Geely.
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The last time we had a stock market, bond market and GOP Administration doing similar dumb shit to what we see now, there was a crash and a recession... 2007/8 repeating?
Epic fail on economy, affordability, foreign wars, inflation, etc...
U.S. Economic Growth Slowed in the Second Quarter
Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.5 percent annual rate over the past three months, as war in the Middle East shook energy prices and supply chains.
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"Liars. We'll fix this ourselves." -Bond Market to Warsh and Trump
Warsh’s Performance Falls Flat With Markets as Fed Holds Rates Steady
Kevin M. Warsh has made taming inflation the top priority of his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. But his hesitancy to embrace the possibility of higher borrowing costs has sparked a backlash.
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Blue Wave 🌊 incoming... Record high strongly disapprove of Donald Trump in new poll www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Record high strongly disapprove of Donald Trump in new poll
In a new CNN/SSRS poll, President Donald Trump gets a 34% approval rating. The portion of Americans who strongly disapprove is at a career high.
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That's $3 Trillion dollars of investor wealth vaporized in July. Nice job Trump.
