As Texas suffers through a major heat wave that has once again strained their energy grid to the breaking point, an old tweet from Ted Cruz has come back to bite the Republican Senator right on his backside. The tweet came from last summer where Cruz mocked the state of California for having to force residents to conserve energy, the same thing Texas is having to do right now. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.   Link - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-power-tweet_n_60c809fde4b0bc918b262fec?d_id=2287557 Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Ted Cruz is haunted by the ghosts of his former tweets, far too often, mostly because Ted Cruz has constantly been on Twitter for the last few years. But there's always a tweet, right? Kind of like with Donald Trump, there was always a tweet where he had contradicted himself in the past and Ted Cruz, after spending the last few years, pretty much strictly on Twitter, same situation. Last summer, Ted Cruz tweeted out mockery towards the state of California for having to regulate energy consumption in the state. And then he went on to say that, ah, this is what AOC and Biden and Pelosi want for the whole country. Yeah, they're idiots. So anyway, what's happening right now is Texas is experiencing a massive devastating heat wave. And as a result of that, the state has had to, and the state energy companies, by the way, have had to say, listen, we got to kinda, you know, everybody's got to regulate your energy uses here. The usage, there's not enough to go around. And of course, people are also once again, just like in the winter storm, being slapped with these astronomically high energy prices, because the Republican controlled state legislature never did anything to, to combat that. But here is the tweet that Ted ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQTsiryxozU

The Supreme Court continues to push the country into a full-blown theocracy, and a string of recent rulings has left the public concerned about our future. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins talks with Rayyvana, host of Rayy-Actions on Twitch, about all of these disastrous decisions and what they mean for the future of our country. Link - https://www.twitch.tv/rayyvana Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. the united states supreme court has issued a flurry i guess you would call it of really horrendous rulings within just the last seven days uh joining me now to talk about this including obviously the big one the overturning of roe versus wade is rayyvana host of reactions on twitch rayyvana it is great to have you here on ring of fire yeah thank you so much for having me on i'm a big fan well thank you and and we actually you know we had uh discussed you coming on back when the draft was leaked uh unfortunately you are not unfortunately you're at law school uh fortunately you are but you had some uh issues that week some exams that you had to focus on but now unfortunately we are here and we do have the actual overturning of roe which of course has been the big one um so we all know now what has happened row is being overturned you've got these states with the trigger laws that have gone into effect some lower courts are blocking some of them it's it's hell out there right now but i think what we need to talk about at this point is the democratic reaction to it because we have had a little bit of movement on that this week so just in general what is your thoughts about this reaction from the democratic party that we have seen in the last you know seven days here well it was exactly how i expected it to be given how uh impotent and feckless the democratic party has been in the past um and you know seeing nancy pelosi and the other establishment democrats you know really go to bat for henry cuellar who's a force birth congress person who was up against uh progressive democrat jessica cisneros and he won by only i believe less than 300 votes it was an extremely close race so you know they're not afraid to support these you know they they love to campaign on and fundraise more so on uh protecting the rights to abortion but when it comes down to it you know i i have had very low expectations of them um and especially joe biden has been you know he has sort of given lip service to wanting to protect roe but throughout his entire career has said that he thinks abortion is is not a right you know he said that uh he doesn't think that a woman has a right to choose necessarily he's voted you know for the hyde amendment and reiterated that he thinks that that was a good thing to do he hasn't sort of dispelled the idea that uh that abortion is not murder so you know they can say that they want to firmly protect this but the core of their party seems to to not truly care deeply about it um and their reaction now it's just hard to take seriously as nancy pelosi is sending me emails immediately after the decision comes out telling me that she can't breathe which is like so ridiculous but you know you need to send me 15 uh right now i can't even i can't even stand up i i couldn't believe that this was going to happen which is one insane considering we already had the draft opinion but also that this has been the plan of the republicans for decades now and we've seen them take steps to accomplish this plan we all knew this was coming you knew this was coming and you didn't do anything to prevent it from coming so the establishment's response has been pretty pretty lackluster you know pretty pretty annoying but you know democrats like aoc and ilhan omar and rashida talib have actually been putting out useful resources uh aou caught flack the other day for posting about how to have a self-induced abortion at home safely uh and someone tried to call her out for it and she said so what yeah i did post that thank you for boosting it now more people will see it you know uh and she's been pretty fearless in calling out the establishment uh when it comes to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMuHtx22jRM

Starbucks is accusing their workers of kidnapping a manager – but all they really did was request better benefits. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. link - https://truthout.org/articles/starbucks-files-false-and-absurd-kidnapping-charges-against-unionized-workers/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Starbucks is accusing their workers of kidnapping a manager, but all they really did was request better benefits. I, I dunno, you read this story and it makes it sound like the manager was held hostage. Like, if you don't fix this machine, we're going to never let you go. If you don't give us benefits, we're never gonna let you go. But this is part of the spin. Look, let me just tell you something. I have been shocked by how good Starbucks has been at, at pushing back the unions. I mean, they've been amazing. They've been like the worst of the worst, the people who we talk about all the time that are destroying the possibilities of unionizing. These people are masters at it. Yeah. They, they are. And I think at this point they may have gotten a little too greedy with these claims of, of kidnapping of this manager, because they had been doing a, a decent job of systemically getting people to not unionize. Closing stores where they were about to unionize saying, you don't get the benefits of the unionized workers. So you're actually getting worse. But this particular instance, there's full video evidence that these workers in South Carolina united together, went up to the manager and basically wanted better benefits. Go and fight for us, essentially is what they're telling, because they know the manager can't unilaterally do it. And the manager says, can, can I just go? And they're like, well, yeah. I mean the door is right there, dude. If you wanna walk out, walk out. And then Starbucks says, this man was kidnapped. Yeah. Yeah. And held hostage. His lawyers are tell, I mean, you know, look, I don't know how they built this. I guess it's the every man kind of image that they had, where you take your computer, you go drink coffee. You have people that you can talk to every morning that you see there all the time. It was almost like a community. Like a family. Buddy, I'll tell you what, that's unwinding by the second. And right now these folks are regarded, really, if you take everybody who's union busting, Amazon, the whole bunch of 'em, these people have the imperial, they have the imperial data on how to go about doing that. It, it is truly disturbing. And you know, again, we're seeing a big union push here in the United States today, which is wonderful. Something we haven't seen since the seventies and companies like Starbucks, companies like Amazon, they want to do whatever they can to keep the workers down. And they've made it clear to some of these people that have given 15 years of their life, firing them for no reason saying, guess what? You're expendable. You wanna start a union? We'll just bring in the next person up. Wasn't this company regarded at one time is the woke company? Yeah. In the world. The, the, the woke company. Well, this is part of their wokeness. #rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1CMdwE-V4

Go to https://thld.co/shakerandspoon_therof_0522 and use code rof to get $20 off your first Shaker & Spoon box! A judge has denied Donald Trump's appeal and says that the former President must sit down for conversations with the New York Attorney General, and he has to do it under oath. Trump has fought diligently to avoid having to give sworn testimony to prosecutors, but his legal options are quickly running out as he continues to lose appeals. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what this means for the case. Link - https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/former-president-donald-trump-loses-appeal-must-testify-in-new-york-civil-probe-attorney-general-letitia-james-criminal-investigation-constitutional-rights-violation-argument-manhattan-trump-organization-judge-arthur-engoron Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Donald Trump suffered yet another major loss in court this week, along with Don junior and Ivanka Trump. When a four judge panel on an appeals court said that, yes, you have to abide by a February 17th lower court ruling that says you have to go testify under oath in front of New York, attorney Latisha, James New York, attorney general, Latia James, as part of the ongoing civil investigation into the Trump organization. So Trump, Trump Jr. Ivanka, you all have to testify and you have to do it under oath, which means if you lie, they can hit you with perjury. But here's the thing Donald Trump had gone in actually had his lawyers go in just to be clear. Uh, and they argued, Hey, listen, my clients can't testify in front of the civil investigators because we got this criminal investigation going on over here and they're just gonna use the information to prosecute 'em okay. Okay. Okay. It's a lot to unpack, right? Because if you're worried that having your clients talk to one group of people is gonna lead them to have criminal charges leveled against them over here. Then are you not admitting that your clients have probably engaged in some kind of criminal behavior? Um, not a smart argument. And of course, as the judge has found also not a winning argument, cuz Trump's lawyers had argued this violates their constitutional rights because it could be used against them over here, which again, kind of a green light that yeah, they committed some crimes, but the judges told them like, that's not how it works, buddy. The existence of a criminal investigation does not change the facts of the civil investigation. Plus you idiot the judge, didn't say that buddy should have plus they complete the fifth. Like, you know, that's a thing they can do. Right? I think it's amazing that this four judge appellate panel had to give Trump's lawyers a lesson in constitutional law. Like you, you know, they can plead the fifth in the civil, right? Like they, they absolutely can do this. And if they can't do it over here or they choose not to, they can still do it. And the criminal investigation, nobody's trying to trap anybody here. We're just trying to get some answers to probes that have been going on for years now. And your clients continue to try to hold things up. And as everybody is always said, and of course I think at this point is it is exceptionally obvious. They wouldn't be hiding if they didn't have something worth hiding. If these people did absolutely nothing wrong, they would go sit down in front of Latitia, James Talk, as long as she wanted them to talk and then get the hell out of there and move on. You know, these are the ones say like, oh, they're just trying to tie us up. Oh, they're dragging this thing out. You're dragging this thing out. If you truly did nothing wrong, you could put an into it by the end of next week, by going up to New York, sitting down with her, actually turning over the documents that you swear, you can't find anywhere and setting the whole record straight. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnCHvEJv9c