Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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Not off to a great start
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
So...the new approach to the Strait is, "You're not breaking up with me, I'm breaking up with you!"
I'm I reading this correctly?
One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro
I like Presidents who DON'T tweet.
NYTs headline: Trump says US will blockade strait
NYTs headline: Vance fails
NYTs headline: Trump watched fake sport while Iran talks collapse (Sec state was also watching fake fighting)
Anyone know: are we in a war? Who are we fighting? Who is the Commander in Chief? Am I insane??
BUTTIGIEG: The strait was open before they started this
KERNEN: They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons!
BUTTIGIEG: We had other ways of dealing with them
KERNEN: Like what? Obama's way?
BUTTIGIEG: That worked
KERNEN: That didn't work!
BUTTIGIEG: Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?
Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
We have never looked more feckless and ridiculous to the entire world.
What the president is doing is batshit crazy.
This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire".
They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles.
What a disaster.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY!
The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.
If 2026 was a car.
Vance, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu all support Orbán, which is all the evidence you need that he is way behind in the polls (which as a matter of fact he is) and running a wild campaign of lies (which as a matter of fact he is).
The emperor has no clothes.
Time for the #25thAmendment. Congress and the Cabinet must act.
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
I do
exactly one of the blue circles is female? do I have that right
The fact that this went out and Congress hasn’t immediately convened for an emergency session show just how much trouble we’re in.
This is psychotic. The President of the United States needs to get help. Totally unhinged and extremely dangerous.
The president hasn't been seen in public in days, while his social media account is issuing insane unhinged threats.
Seems like we should get some confirmation that he's, you know, still alive and it's not Stephen Miller tapping out the rants
If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.
This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.
I like our odds against Tampa Bay in 30 degree weather.
Life goals…. Lawfare King
