George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽The Trump regime is creating supply crises with fuel and fertilizer in the Persian Gulf and now labor shortages in trucking. When food prices spike higher, we know exactly who is to blame.
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Queer, fatty, scifi geek. Introvert, socialist, atheist, pacifist. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Peter GleickIf the world was less dependent on oil and gas, the amount of shipping required (and the pollution and political costs associated with that dependence) would drop dramatically.
Also, things are definitely backed up on both sides of the straits of Hormuz today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefly/s/YJU2tm0j7R Digging out my blue sun tshirt. #BringBackFirefly
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦The Financial Times reports that russia is earning as much as $150m a day in additional revenue from oil sales, making putin the "biggest winner" from the Middle East conflict.
My elderly mother walks my dog during the day when I’m at work.
I recently realized that my dog thinks she belongs to my mother, and I’m just the guy who walks her at night/early mornings.
I just watched her give my dog a potato chip with cheese dip and now I know why.
It doesn’t look like total surrender is going to happen. More like $5 gas and bigly inflation on everything else, too.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/texas-corpus-christi-water-crisis/ “That same year, Corpus Christi created a program exempting the region’s largest industrial water users from water curtailment restrictions during drought for a fee of $0.25 per 1,000 gallons.” #water
After a decade of missteps, Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say.
The American people have sacrificed enough. Stop the war. Tax the billionaires.
