We are now transitioning from the 'speculation phase' into the genuine 'shortage phase' in world oil supply. As I wrote since the start of Trump's war against Iran, price spikes were driven by speculation since inherent time lags in shipping and refining mean that real shortages had not arrived.

Market Manipulation Monday followed by TACO Tuesday. Seems to happen every week.

Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)

Silent spring in our village. This morning, I woke up early. One blackbird was singing in our neighbourhood. When it stopped (to find something to eat, I guess), it became silent. In the 1990s, dozens of songbirds would've been singing, sometimes making so much noise that it was hard to sleep.

There are few things more powerful than a super El Niño. www.sciencefocus.com/news/super-e...

Do you know why there is a speed bump? Because drivers can't help but drive dangerously next to this elementary school Do you know why there are flex posts next to the speed bump? Because drivers would avoid the speed bump and use the bike lane to continue their dangerous driving

Trump USAID Cuts Killed One Million People 750,000 died in the first year. By 2030 defunding USAID will kill 9.4 Million people, and 2.5 Million Children under the age of 5. Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71 percent cut in humanitarian aid. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Is this actually new or just warmed-over #18thcentury sentimentalism www.wired.com/story/book-e...

The New York Times has filed a second lawsuit challenging the Defense Department's effort to restrict the press' access to the Pentagon — arguing a requirement that reporters are accompanied by official escorts inside the building is unconstitutional.

A Few Thoughts for Those Who Cannot Sleep, with Dr. Joanne Freeman Love these warm chats. #community

**laughs in non-White American**

The Me Too movement doesn't exist anymore because corporations are mostly run by white cishet men who don't fucking care about women, racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people's safety and well-being.

Apparently, Jehovah’s Witnesses going door to door in Chelsea have led Catholic residents to start putting up “Los Protestantes no son beinvenidos” signs and somehow the Troubles have returned to Boston.

here's a whole bunch of immediate condemnations by Democratic leadership. www.npr.org/2026/03/09/g...

I can’t wait for the next president to create a fund that pays reparations to Black and Indigenous people without any Congress approval or oversight whatsoever.

Leaving to Red States like Texas, from New York and California, Sure Has Its Consequences. 😱 ⚰️⭐🤠 A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla's $1 Billion Lithium Refinery. LIKE❤️ | #rtREPOST | Comment

I have read that Pauline At The Beach & Full Moon In Paris are coming to the Criterion Channel in June and am afraid to get my hopes up but if so it remains true that complaining on social media works. 🙏

NEW: Tiny footprints. A blue blanket. The autopsy reports of babies who died after not receiving a vitamin K shot at birth included heartbreaking details about how small the babies were — and what items they had with them when they died.

Trump released the largest weekly strategic reserve distribution in history last week - almost 10 million barrels. Oil is still over $100 a barrel and gas is at record seasonal highs. This is gonna get ugly if it’s not resolved soon.

Tonight's Maddow running down a stunning list of Trump appointees with zero expertise or qualifications for their jobs. Followed by an equally outrageous series of Trump actions as POTUS that just so happen to jack up values for stocks he bought a couple days earlier.

4/ be aware of the risk (as the gyn's of most young women should mention the HPV shot to them regardless of orientation). If this generation would all just get vaxxed, we wouldn't need to worry about age cutoffs anymore - by the time most folks became sexually active, they'd be vaccinated.

Yikes. Flagrant antisemitism from the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

You just shouldn't be mixing business and pleasure as a broadcast journalist. Some lines shouldn't be crossed to have credibility with viewers. If you have to look at an anchor cross-eyed and with a transcript, it ain't worth it.

Personally don't go for that mixing promotional material and reporting. In school, you learn that it just ain't right, and to always 'do right.'

Mike Collins is running for Senate on a promise to make roads safer — by taking commercial driver’s licenses away from noncitizens. Our analysis shows his business has a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of trucking companies with substantial mileage.

No he makes false claims and blatant lies.

Coloradans, please write and call your governor and tell him what you think of this.

You heard it here, folkd. He's going to paying off his family and himself. The people angry about Hunter Biden are certainly going to have something to say about this, right?

It truly does speak for itself.

Protect yourselves and your loved ones, Never travel the US. Their borders are unsafe, their schools, their cities, their airports are unsafe. There is nothing safe or sane about the US anymore. Like a plague infested country, avoid it!

If this is true, will the mother be held accountable as accessory to murder? If you own firearms, where is your gun safe and how are you preventing suicidal family members from accessing them?

Woman who has the direct ear of the president of the United States:

Remind you of anyone? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

If a candidate cannot muster the courage to condemn giving this man your money, they do not deserve your vote.

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

Finally some riveting CBS content.

many (most?) synagogues in this country already do hire their own security it sucks and it would be a lot better to live in a world where that sort of thing wasn’t necessary

The only thing Polis left out was, “Let the big guy know I’d like to be ambassador to Luxembourg. Or, come to think of it, Monaco.”

Etats-Unis : Deux ados font trois morts lors d’une fusillade visant une mosquée en Californie Les deux suspects, âgés de 17 et 18 ans, se seraient suicidés. La police privilégie la piste d’une attaque islamophobe

Orange Caligula finally found War Plan Red.

US suspends joint defence effort with Canada dating back to World War II https://aje.news/rnfzmr

A disciplinary complaint alleging grossly unethical conduct has been filed against Brendan T Carr with bar discipline authorities in both DC and Maryland. legalaccountability.org/actions/comp...

The Northern District of Texas should be defunded and forced to hold court in an actively used barn. Animals and all.

Bill revamping college athletics is again pulled from House agenda

This is a great thread. “A distributed system of deciding where research support goes is demonstrably best.” Yes. In a recent working paper @nataliebaviles.bsky.social and I profiled the US and EU BRAIN projects as an example of this, but the principle is what made NIH strong before 2025. 1/4

It's MAGA Prime MAX+ membership.

I don't do math at all, like ever, if I can help it. 😁 I just saw that there was nobody warming in their pen when Butera pulled Schultz. Gare even said "Nobody's been warming up in the Nats pen".

Marco Rubio keeps reminding us that we don't want scientific researchers if they have the wrong skin color. And he acts on it too. It's clearing out the labs at Indiana University. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

One of the more overlooked results in LA- all of Landry’s constitutional amendments were voted down as reaction to cancelling the congressional election.