Senior Iranian source to CNN: “We hold the screw of the global oil price in our hands. For a long time the U.S. will have to wait for our actions to control the price. Energy markets are unstable and we will continue to fight until Trump declares defeat.”

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

Trump is completely flailing. He didn't anticipate the economic blowback and now he's trying to undo the past 10 days and contain the damage.

“Certain things will happen, certain things will take place”

I think about this tweet like 3x a week nowadays.

I don't want to hear any more of this "when you insult Trump you're insulting his voters" nonsense

Trump: "We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion. Short term. Short term!"

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

"The Mad King Does Everything At His Own Whims, Therefore The Markets Try To Predict The Mad King, Therefore It Seems Like He's Magic Because They Never Give Him Bad News About His Madness" is, turns out, a very bad way for a democracy to work

a number of thoughts here: - oh my god he admit it - what happened to the reactionary group chat?! - commonality here is that none of these inputs will offend their sensibilities by challenging their worldview one bit - i expect a full pivot from this class to 'filter bubbles are great, actually'

They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.

The War is highly unpopular, yet Congress voted to not require the President to appear befor Congress and explain the rationale for the War. This is good evidence that your Congressional representatives do not represent their constituants but, rather, represent some minority interest.

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: “Iran does not want to harm ordinary Americans who overwhelmingly voted to end involvement in costly foreign wars. “Blame for surging gas prices, costlier mortgages, and pummeled 401(k)'s lies squarely with Israel and its dupes in Washington.”

I genuinely don’t think Americans could handle austerity

Lmao fire these people. Their analysis and decision making is poor

Anthony Blinken says Israel tried to pressure Obama to bomb Iran, warning they’d do it with or without the U.S. Obama refused. Trump caved to the same tactic. Also worth noting: Obama’s name doesn’t appear in the Epstein tapes.

Page One @miamiherald.com

This bill is so expensive, if you took every single Biden proposed tax on the rich & corporations (which rule btw), it’s still not enough Ofc that would be a waste. We should use our taxes to fund a better world through nutrition, housing, child care, education, & health care — not to fund tax cuts

Not Putin though. He’s one of the good guys now I guess. bsky.app/profile/atru...

what we desperately need most of all a confiscatory tax on billionaires. after that taxes on everyone else are going to need to go up, not down

"This is now starting to look like a potential combination of the 1973 post-Yom Kippur War oil shock, the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War commodity shock, and the 2020-21 COVID supply chain shock," warns Rabobank's senior global strategist Michael Every.

The discussion to review the #NEH for #DOGE cuts lasted one minute, according to deposition with Nate Cavanaugh. It was not one of the agencies singled out by Executive Order but one "proactively" chosen as a potential "useless agency" and a place to make cuts. youtu.be/6AprpPJ1Cmc?...

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

Nobody really talks about it anymore. It's such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term: stress-free Sunday night.

Another day of interest on the tariffs Trump collected and refuses to give back. American consumers paid the tariffs, American taxpayers pay the interest on Trump holding onto the money as long as possible. Every day the bill goes up.

Yeah, he’s a Nazi None of these guys deserve any benefit of doubt They’re Nazis

Does Trump invade Israel out of anger

Lmao are we having a good time yet

“Trump Org Files Trademarks to Put the President’s Name Front and Center at America’s 250th” Amelia Benavides-Colón, @davelevinthal.com for @notus.com

“.. A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.” @postandcourier.bsky.social www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

HOUSTON HOBBY AIRPORT: “.. passengers should arrive 4-5 hours before their flight ..” #$JETS #$XAL

JUST IN: Oil prices have crossed into triple digits for the first time since 2022 — a stark sign of how the Iran war is throttling global supplies and raising consumers costs.

I feel like people are in shock at these opening prices and haven’t really processed them.

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

The Iranian people, amidst US and Israeli bombardments and threats from the IRGC and the Islamic Republic, have had no internet access since the start of the war. Being cut off from the world and each other deliberately puts their lives in grave danger.

YARDENI: “.. We can’t rule out a bear market if investors start to anticipate a Stagflating 1970s Redux scenario. .. We are lowering the ‘Meltup’ scenario from 20% to 5% and increasing the ‘Meltdown’ scenario (which now includes a 1970s-style stagflation) from 20% to 35%.”

They didn't die in vain.

As a seventh US service member has tragically died in Trump’s illegal war against Iran I’m wondering when this story-considering all the classified intel Trump has given Putin over the years (both intentionally and due to his administration’s incompetence)-is finally going to gain some traction

Here @jamellebouie.net puts his finger on what is not only the problem with Hegseth as SecDef, but with so many in maga--violence is what gives them meaning, it defines them, it makes them feel manly, so they will use violence wherever they can (not just in war). www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJjk...

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury. See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

Fantastic piece on the IRGC: on their leadership structure, their role and belief about how the war will play out:

What this further confirms is that the Trump administration knows Russia is helping Iranians try to kill Americans, but is doing nothing to stop it. How about sanctions or more arms sales to Ukraine?

This morning in Tehran. It's presently raining oil, per CNN

This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.

Time is a circle

President Trump’s administration spent the past year dismissing Europeans as pathetic and irrelevant. Now, as he wages a war alongside Israel to force regime change in Iran, he wants Europe to cheer him on.

hearing the Department of War has contingency plans for a Tomb of the Unknown Poster, if necessary