HUGE differences in jet fuel depending on exposure/ability to export- inland jet fuel prices have launched by ~$1/gal vs week ago, while potential export markets have seen jet fuel prices rising closer to $2/gal to over $4/gal on the Iran situation. US airlines will get hammered.

BREAKING: The national average price of gasoline has risen to $3.262/gal- the highest level recorded during either of Trump’s terms in office, according to live GasBuddy data.

fun fact about our Markwayne - he is the only sitting Senator who does not possess a college degree (I know, shocking!)

JAN 6 PLAQUE will finally be posted at Capitol, after long, unreasonable delay by Trump supporters youtube.com/shorts/-yLFV...

Tesla’s US vehicle sales fell year over year for the fifth straight month in February, according to data released Tuesday by Motor Intelligence. The company sold 38,500 vehicles during the month, down 11.8% from 43,650 units a year earlier. /1

With Amazon down, a good reminder to buy books from actual bookstores—not an oligarch-owned tech behemoth that exploits its workers.

“.. the prospect of Ms. Halligan losing her license could serve as a check on administration lawyers who have been accused by judges of pushing the boundaries of the law or intentionally misleading the courts, which has happened frequently in recent months.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Iraq's first lady, Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, a political/humanitarian figure from a prominent (& very political) Sulimaniyah-rooted Kurdish family closely tied to the PUK, coming in hot with a free history lesson for people who think Iraqi Kurds might be unquestioningly game for more US bait-and-switch.

BREAKING NYT: Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

93 million Iranians may also have opinions.

Beth Hammack tells @nytimes.com that the Fed should be on hold for "quite some time" The next move may also not necessarily be down: "If we don’t see inflation moving toward target as I expect, it could mean that we need to put more restriction on the economy" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

* TRADERS BOOST ECB RATE BETS, SEE 75% CHANCE OF A HIKE THIS YEAR @bloomberg.com

Wholesale gasoline is up 50% so far this year. One wonders what Trump would consider “up much.”

Private credit is having a day. @nytimes.com @bloomberg.com #$APO #$BLK #$OWL www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Ay, Dios mio. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

You are never going to put Pete Hegseth in front of cameras and microphones and have the sentient world feel anything but a bad cocktail of contempt and anxiety. He oozes obnoxious, out of his depth clown

MAERSK: WE ARE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING CARGO BOOKINGS ACCEPTANCE IN AND OUT OF UAE, OMAN, IRAQ, KUWAIT, QATAR, BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARABIA UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Miller Lite stat(s) o the day Texas Senate Primaries money spent: R $88 mil D $22 mil Texas Senate primary turnout: R 2.14 mil D 2.31 mil

Totally normal behavior here. 😏

Watch this. 19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance. As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸 We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW

Man, Cornyn already spent like $70 million on this primary, and now it goes on for another 11 weeks.

NEW: The military systems that the U.S. sent to the Iran region in recent weeks ALONE cost us nearly $60 MILLION per day — just a fraction of the cost of this war. That ~$60 million could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans per day, or SNAP for 9.5 million. From @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:

Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary. www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

What we know so far, 9:30pm: 1. Few final results. 2. In NC, 3 Dems who helped GOP trailing. 3. Crenshaw, Al Green in trouble. 4. Dems close to a leg flip in Arkansas. 5. Cornyn & Talarico narrowly ahead. 6. Close Arkansas supreme court, tho redder counties await. 7. Fort Bend County exec ousted.

Heartbreaking.

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

SHEFFIELD: “.. It’ll just give them extra cash flow. They can reduce debt. They can do buybacks. They can pay dividends .. “.. I do not anticipate anybody adding any rigs.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7af0...

Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

* U.S. JUDGE RULES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION UNLAWFULLY SOUGHT TO UNDO NEW YORK'S MANHATTAN CONGESTION PRICING PROGRAM @reuters.com

We are learning about drone warfare — tragically — in real time. “.. This is the next chapter of air defense. It's an everybody problem. It's an everywhere problem." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

You know it’s a rough news cycle when the headline begins with “Trump Admits” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

One (1) El Al flight from JFK to Tel Aviv fits more people than this. You're celebrating evacuating two busloads of American citizens from a country that usually has a few hundred thousand of them at any given time. Be real.

oh hey there $TSLA under its 200 day

*DUBAI RESIDENTS REPORT HEARING SOUNDS OF BLASTS

*DIESEL JUMPS BY RECORD 34% IN TWO DAYS AS WAR DISRUPTS SUPPLY put that in your PPI calculation

Hey, guys, is it a troubling sign when an 80-year-old man can't remember what continent his father was born on?

The most commonly encountered gas price today in the US is $2.99/gal, while the most common diesel price is $3.99/gal. We'll likely see both of those rolling over $3/$4 respectively quite soon.

The number one thing to prevent continued dramatic oil, gasoline and diesel spikes would be to *secure* the Strait of Hormuz. Not sure why it's taking this long for some to see how badly this is needed and could halt oil's rise.

No, gas prices did not just see their largest single day rise since 2005, they saw a 12.0c rise- the largest since Russia's invasion of Ukraine boosted prices 15.0c/gal on 3/4/22.

.. with “actor Dennis Quaid on board.” 🤡 @apnews.com

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

It’s not a sign of zero planning — it’s a sign of total contempt, for its own citizens. The U.S. government doesn’t represent Americans.

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin. Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

From an energy supply shock situation people will turn to Russia/Ukraine, but in February 2022 jobs and incomes and housing were still booming, the Fed was still at ZIRP, stimulus was still running through the economy. We don’t have any of that now.

one of the few true claims regarding the economy Trump has been able to make is Retail Gas was down since he took office -- it is no longer true as of today - average price has gone from $2.80 to $3.11 since 1/9

(WSJ) - The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, came under attack twice on Tuesday, causing part of the roof to collapse, according to people familiar with the matter. @wsj.com

“The U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel.”

The CEO of Siemens, a giant manufacturing supplier, flat out told me on Decoder that US factory buildout talk was partially theater, and that anything being built here should be as automated as possible because we don't have the skilled labor supply anyway www.theverge.com/podcast/8752...