Sparkplug Power is an energy storage project development group deploying electric Storage as a Service & working out of @Greentownlabs.
Somerville, MA
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PCBs made in America. Twice as fast as Shenzhen.
Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.
No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.
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Seems like Simon & Shuster’s not exactly quaking in their boots from the threats made by Jared’s lawyers
New: Amid legal threats from Jared Kushner over explosive allegations published in a Vanity Fair excerpt, Simon & Schuster quietly expedited the release of Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early
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BREAKING: President Trump issues a second statement endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This marks the first time a US President has publicly endorsed a candidate in the Israeli elections.
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New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.
The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.
WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…
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Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.
This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.
Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".
We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.
The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.
We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
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The pioneer cemeteries of Iowa stand two and three feet above the fields around them, with a fence round each one, and the step up from the corn to the graves is the topsoil that has left the state since the men in the graves broke the prairie.
Iowa was the finest soil on the continent. Ten thousand years of tallgrass prairie, with roots fifteen feet deep, had built a black loam over a foot thick across the whole state, so rich the settlers of the 1850s said you could not kill it. They ploughed it in a generation. The grass went under, the corn went in, and every spring since then the bare field has met the Iowa rain with nothing holding it, and the soil has gone down the gullies into the creeks and the creeks into the Mississippi, which has carried it to Louisiana, where it is the Gulf's problem.
The cemeteries were the one piece of each township never ploughed. The prairie grass survived inside the fence, the roots held, and the ground inside stayed where it was while the ground outside went south. So the graveyards rose, or seem to have, as the fields fell around them, and a man can stand at the fence and measure with his eye what a century and a half of corn has cost: half the topsoil of Iowa, by the state's own estimate, more than a foot in places, from the most fertile soil in the world, to grow a crop that is mostly fed to pigs or turned into fuel.
The fields are still losing it at ten tonnes an acre a year in the worst years, five times faster than it forms, and the farmer makes up the difference out of a bag.
For ten thousand years the bison grazed that grass and the roots held the state together. The men who ploughed it are the only part of Iowa still standing at the height they knew.
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Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people
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BREAKING MAJOR RESCUE OPERATION UNDERWAY OF THE NORTHWEST OF IRELAND
A major search and rescue operation is underway of the northwest coast of Ireland around the center of #stormboelo this evening following distress calls from big Russian tanker carrying diesel.
The UK Coastguard is coordinating a response to an Inmarsat-C Distress Alert from vessel MYRA.
This potentially one of the Russian ships heading to the USA with Diesel . I hope there is no leaks as it would be a environmental disaster.
The Irish air corps and Coastguard don't have the capabilities to provide cover due to the range the tanker is out
𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 & 𝗦𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
Given the extreme distance from mainland coastal stations (beyond typical shore-based rotary SAR operational radius without offshore refueling) and current sea states, direct surface intervention by coastal rescue craft is technically constrained.
Standard Search and Rescue protocol in this scenario relies on:Alerting nearby commercial traffic via GMDSS broadcast.Deploying long-range fixed-wing maritime patrol aircraft (such as RAF P-8A Poseidon) for top-cover monitoring and communications relay if required.
This rescue operation is ongoing as off 20:57
#SAR #Mayday #Coastguard #storm #weather #ireland #uk – at Leitrim, Ireland
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A distress alert from tanker MYRA led UK Coastguard to alert nearby vessels for assistance but no major rescue was underway; the ship continued sailing and trackers reported it in ballast (empty), not carrying diesel, en route to Egypt.
theins.ru/news/298705
vesselfinder.com/vessels/detail…
vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Myra-…
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“Mercedes-Benz is surprised by the high demand for its all-electric models”
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#alwaysbecharging
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China, the worlds biggest car market is closing in on 70% of all new car sales being Electric..
Denmark 🇩🇰 shows the way - electric cars reach 90% of the market.
Six years ago, battery electric cars made up less than 10% of Denmark's new car market. In September it reached 90.
To catalyse this transition, Denmark helped make electric cars more attractive to buy and own:
✅ Substantial registration tax reductions for electric cars.
✅ Grants for charging infrastructure in housing associations.
✅ Building regulations requiring charging infrastructure in certain car parks.
These measures address both the purchasing decision and the practical question of where people will charge.
With more than 800,000 electric cars on the road, Denmark is displacing 13% of the country's entire oil consumption - becoming more energy independent!
For long we in Norway was alone at the world electric car per capita top. Now we are joined by Denmark. China, Nepal, Ethiopia, Vietnam and some other European countries are right behind. The future of driving is electric!
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The jokes about Trump giving Alaska back to Russia can't keep up with reality...
This is the kind of deal the Democrats need to investigate immediately if they take Congress. An oil deal in Alaska which actually might be a gift to the Russians with Trump involvement. ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
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So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?
Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson today, “Should we bother asking you a question about Jared Kushner treasonously manipulating US foreign policy behind Marco Rubio’s back with billions in laundered bribes sitting in secret bank accounts, or have you not heard about it yet?"
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US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
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This is how the candidates are listed on Alaska's ballots. It's clearly marked, which one is the GOP candidate and which one is just a guy
NEW: DOJ is suing to prevent Alaska from certifying its election results until the state investigates whether the other "Dan Sullivan" on the ballot created "voter confusion" to the detriment of incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.
w/ @G_Svirnovskiy
politico.com/news/2026/10/23…
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Tesla added 2,108 net new Supercharger stalls in Q3, down 41% from a year ago, per its Q3 update.
From 30+ years in the utility business, my guess is the bottleneck isn't the hardware. Tesla can ship pre-assembled stalls fast. The slower part is getting utility service: interconnection studies, transformer lead times and make-ready work. I would expect more sites sized to the capacity they can get now, with room to add later.
Source: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…