Some comments on where crude trades, why, and how risk-reward dynamics have inverted over the past couple of weeks.

The good, the bad and the unknown: The future of AI in North Carolina ncnewsline.com/2026/04/15/t... #ncpol #UNC #AI #privacy

Gas Prices

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the technology and content conglomerate that owns the Reuters media agency but also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company selling data products to ICE.

New: Thomson Reuters, which runs the CLEAR database ICE uses, fired a longstanding employee for speaking out against ICE, a new lawsuit says. Billie Little led an internal effort raising concerns; was fired. We've shown CLEAR is linked to ICE's Palantir tool www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

And they're protesting in the face of a campus PD that has an active partnership with ICE. After watching ICE kidnap international students who protested last year. The stakes for Florida students, in particular, is higher than most appreciate, and yet...the students are out there!

@realfollowers.bsky.social yo

As of today the NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet is worth an estimated $10 so that must be some comfort.

Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball https://theonion.com/trump-escalates-feud-with-unclear-adversary-by-posting-ai-video-of-self-fucking-basketball/

NEW: Democratic Women's Caucus chair Teresa Leger Fernández plans to move forward with a resolution to expel GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales despite Swalwell's resignation, I'm told. She is "not backing down," a source familiar w/ the matter tells me. "Gonzales must also go."

Lol

So much of evangelical culture only cares about the symbols of Christianity. Putting the Ten Commandments in a classroom or courtroom matters. Actually following them does not.

Saudia Arabia has ordered schools to close after severe flooding swept through parts of the country. Heavy rain swamped roads around Riyadh and in the Al Ahsa governorate.

Some Sicko posted this. Not to nit-pick, but shouldn’t it read, “Yes … Hi-Diddly-Ha-Ha-Ha … YES!” @thesimpsonsonfox.bsky.social

the idea that vance is anti-war and was a skeptic seems really to come exclusively from vance and is not borne out by anything else in his record as vice president so far

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

The reaction to this tweet on UK Twitter has informed me that London foxes are self domesticating.

Wow

“The futures market is not representing the on-the-ground and on-the-water reality of oil at all,” said Vikas Dwivedi, global energy strategist at Macquarie Group, an Australian financial services firm. “It’s quite broken.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/b...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

also you know what state is getting turbofucked by drought right now? florida droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/S...

Goosestepping towards a holocaust.

“We believe representing the voters will get in the way of our election by the voters to represent them.” DO YOU HEAR HOW YOU SOUND GUYS

The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.

You can fume at people on bluesky for being disillusioned with these guys but at some point you have to admit it's their behavior that causes poll results like this. The public correctly recognizes them as weenies

I shouldn't be surprised that libertarians have no idea how hardware stores work, since libertarians don't work lol

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Trump just posted a video of a woman getting murdered on his Truth Social account truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Saudi Arabia confirms hits to the critical East-West pipeline (a pumping station), which led to a 700 kbpd throughput loss. As well as confirmed strikes to upstream production assets (!!) that have reduced Saudi production *capacity* by 600 kbpd. On top of downstream refining/processing attacks.

real long shot here but if you have any idea why melania is suddenly talking about epstein, reach me on signal at marisakabas.04 anonymity fully protected

Happy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate and I expect each and every one of you to celebrate.

genuinely I am still mad about this

McGruff The CrimeDog as a character is Sikh-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.

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No oil or gas tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire was struck yesterday, the four vessels that transited were carrying dry cargo. -NYT/Kpler

bibi wants to be the spoiler

And Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon even though the cease fire was supposed to apply to Israel and Lebanon. aje.news/9k7fl9?updat...

Whoops

The tides are turning against the book banners, it appears:

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

Concerning if true.

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

Totally unraveling. (and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.)

The new Ofcom media use survey came out last week. This bit caught my eye. www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

JESUS CHRIST (ninth hour): Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? GOOFY (present at the crucifixion): Gawrsh

you know what it is