Brandon Farmahini
@MrFarmahini
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Producer, Creator, Director, Podcaster on Wrong Side of 30, 90 Day Soiree, & Tell Them Who You Are
Austin,Tx
Joined September 2008
New vid on the @CapMetroATX red line improvements in east austin as well as the closure info due to @TxDOTAustin’s highway rebuild. #transit #austin #trains
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Marco Rubio: 'The people who run Iran are religious fanatics' Meanwhile in the US:
Paula White compares Trump to Jesus during event with faith leaders: "You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It's a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us. Because of His resurrection, you rose up."
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He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last five decades, but he's doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.
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Elect a mayor who talks about bicycles. Cities designed for the bicycle tend to serve everyone: the rich and the poor, the young and the old. In transport policy, the bicycle is perhaps the most democratic instrument ever invented🚲
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Gridraven, led by CEO Georg Rute, focuses on a problem he says isn’t about not having enough power, but about not moving it efficiently to where people live and work. https://t.co/9KA5tlBneO
cbsaustin.com
When extreme weather hits Texas, the state’s power grid often struggles to keep up, leaving many Texans worried every time the forecast turns severe. An tech st
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BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than
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Israeli officials also accusing Trump of just trying to manipulate oil/stock markets
An Israeli security establishment source tells me: “I’d approach this cautiously, with a grain of salt. It’s early Monday morning in the U.S., the start of the trading week. Markets opened higher, largely as expected following the weekend reports on the negotiations and the
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.@RepCasar crashes a media avail by @JohnCornyn at Austin Bergstrom, where Cornyn is delivering lunch to TSA agents and blaming Dems for blocking DHS funding Casar says Cornyn is “trying to out Paxton Ken Paxton,” and blames Rs for blocking TSA funding
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Michael B. Jordan joins Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker and Will Smith as the only Black actors to win Best Actor at the #Oscars.
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(Reuters) - Israel informed the U.S. this week that it is running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors as the conflict with Iran continues, Semafor reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
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This is an absolutely devastating on-the-ground account of an Israeli airstrike on an apartment block in Tehran. This is the kind of evil shit Russia has been doing in Ukraine.
Triple Strike Hits Apartment Buildings in Tehran Killing 40 Mahmoud Aslan reports from the scene of the bombing for @DropSiteNews
https://t.co/tfpNFAMBsT
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Three sources tell 60 Minutes that undercover agents purchased a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network. Secret U.S. military lab testing of the device on rats and sheep has resulted in symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome, a confidential source says.
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From @nytimes story on new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei: "Since the war began, U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have killed not just Mr. Khamenei’s father, but also his wife, Zahra Adel; his mother, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh; and a son; the Iranian government said."
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After drawing down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by ~180M barrels, the previous administration began refilling it by purchasing ~60M barrels over two years. The current administration slowed that to ~1M barrels in its first year.
@MrGlobal2025 SPR purchases by year: 15.3M - 2023 45.2M - 2024 0.9M - 2025 0M - 2026 (YTD)
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Very exciting that the Trump Admin is bringing back the greatest hits of the Bush Admin: jobs reports where the country is Losing jobs and wars in the Middle East
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month and unemployment edges up to 4.4% with labor market under pressure.
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