a Gulf shutdown would slash global supply and send prices soaring, leaving Russia as one of the few large exporters still able to sell significant volumes, at much higher margins, to energy‑hungry buyers like China and India

"Qatar’s energy minister warned that war in the Middle East could 'bring down the economies of the world,' predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150 a barrel." Gift link www.ft.com/content/be12...

The bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz is forcing Kuwait and Iraq to cut oil production. They can't ship it, and they're running out of room to store it. "Shutting in an oil well risks long-term damage and incurs high restart costs, making it a measure of last resort." www.wsj.com/business/ene...

I don't have health insurance.

Friends, it’s a cult. MAGA is a cult. Please—for God’s sake, after a decade—accept this. Accept it, internalize it, and then decide what you think America should do. And as you think about that, think about all the other cults you’re aware of, what they did, and how they ended.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

And this is all he had to replace Noem.

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party. This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

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Fed terminates enforcement action imposed on Wells Fargo due to fake accounts scandal reut.rs/3OQPNbk

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

1/2 Mullin cannot be Acting Secretary of DHS. While in the Senate, he cannot hold office in the executive branch. (U.S. Const., Art. I, Sec. 6.) If he resigned the Senate to become a DHS employee, he would be eligible for appointment only after serving in DHS for 90 says. (5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)) -- and

BREAKING: Today Trump fired Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary, and replaced her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK). Mullin has no homeland security experience. What he DOES have: violent threats, recent media disasters, absolute Trump loyalty. This is alarming. Thread 🧵 #Noem #Mullin #Trump #DHS

Only Trump would replace an unhinged dog killer with Mullin, who makes a stiff motel bedspread look intelligent

Kristi Noem’s firing is long overdue. She oversaw vile crimes against humanity and we’ll never forget it. But until ICE is abolished and expelled from our communities, we keep fighting. Lawless federal agents kidnapping and killing people on our streets can never be normalized.

Starmer Stands By Decision to Not Join Initial Strikes on Iran Despite Trump Complaints

Rand Paul: Americans 'have been robbed of a public debate' on Iran war

CNN Critics Berate Trump WH For Splicing Real Clips of Iran Strikes With ‘Call of Duty’: Like ‘This Is a Game’ Mediaite

Trump's DHS pick, y'all. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mul...

Nice that Noem is getting fired, but: (1) Noem is not facing accountability for her corruption & terror campaign against US. (2) Miller is still in charge of Homeland & Defense.

The White House wants an extra $50 billion to fund Trump’s illegal war. That’s on top of the Pentagon’s $1T budget — which Trump is trying to boost to $1.5T. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private corporations and the Pentagon has failed eight financial audits in a row.

Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD

The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...

You want to go there, let’s go there… Truth is treason in an empire of lies. - George Orwell, 1984

Noem is the first high-profile Cabinet official to leave her role in Trump's second term

your new DHS secretary, everyone:

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse. 1/2

Russia has confirmed that a Ukrainian naval drone hit a Russian oil tanker 100km off Malta in the Mediterranean. A long, long way from Ukraine. #explodey

Ah, we're replaying the hits from the 1980s. I hope the Kurds remember the value of American promises to support them if they rise up...

USian plan for successful regime change in the Middle East: ✅ Bogus pretext of WMDs ✅ Arm militias (to become insurgents or warlords later) ✅ Activate the Kurds (to abandon later) ✅ Kill civilians ✅ No exit strategy 🔲 Get stuck in quagmire for a decade

A lot of eyes are focused on the Tx Senate race, but a HUGE congratulations to Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social, our new Dem nominee for Governor of the great state of Texas! ⭐️ Keep your eyes on Texas! (Seriously, legal eagles, keep your eyes on Texas.)

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said. Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Super illegal and would be an enormous giveaway to the rich. Literally 99% of it goes to people in the top fifth of earners, and 86% goes to the top 1%

Sen. Roger Wicker, Chair of the Armed Services Committee, after a classified briefing today told reporters that the Trump administration is “not ruling out” Americans boots on the ground in Iran.

Bunch of Senators on both sides sounding the alarm about possible boots on the ground in Iran after their classified briefing today. I was told Kamala was going to send my children to fight in Iran. What happened?

Trump is lying. I serve on the Intel & Armed Services Committees. There’s no intelligence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. or the American people.

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: “What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”