BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act amid rising energy prices.
The order directs federal resources toward boosting production of petroleum, liquefied natural gas, coal, and power grid infrastructure.
BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has RESIGNED.
Her exit follows a tenure rocked by multiple scandals—including an investigation into an alleged affair with a security staffer and accusations of drinking on the job.
Keith Sonderling will serve as Acting Labor Secretary.
As Trump's war on Iran continues, reminder that his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth.
This chart is scary as shit.
The original of this- Eddie Murphy was talking about how a black man might get elected to POTUS.
But I firmly believe that this is how Trump got elected.
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UAE has informed the US that if it runs short of US dollars, it may be forced to use Chinese yuan or other currencies for oil sales and transactions.
The move is seen as a potential challenge to the petrodollar system – WSJ
I was coming to say the same thing...
I love Donie...I was surprised that this was such an old article.
CENTCOM publishes video of them firing the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance’s 5-inch Mk 45 gun into Touska’s engine room after it “failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period.”
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Trump says U.S. Navy destroyer USS Spruance intercepted Iranian-flagged ship TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman. Vessel now in U.S. custody.
NEW - USS Gerald R. Ford returns to the Middle East, along with 2 destroyers, USS Mahan and the USS Winston S. Churchill, joining USS Abraham Lincoln that is already operating in the north Arabian Sea. USS George HW Bush is also enroute, expected to arrive before end April — CBS
GOOD MORNING!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
so much crazy (tylenol, vaccines, mistrust of science like climate-change denying, blah blah blah)...
But this is one of the few times the clock is right - look into plant medicine before you judge. 60 years of research you can easily find.
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
Trump has no public appearances scheduled tomorrow....
Serious question - what have they ever done for us?
Trump convened a meeting in the White House Situation Room on Saturday morning to discuss the renewed crisis around the Strait of Hormuz and negotiations with Iran, with attendees including Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Bessent, Witkoff, Ratliffe and Caine, according to two U.S. officials to Axios.
U.S. Apache gunships spotted over the Strait of Hormuz.
Mark Kelly as POTUS.
Buttigieg as VP....
Get Buttigieg experience before POTUS....
I'm all for it.
US is preparing for major escalation, engaging US troops directly with ships with Iran's oil for the first time.... either US backs down and Iran emerges as the 4th center of world power in the near term -- or, escalation to prevent that from happening. Trump is heading to escalation - WSJ
The U.S. aircraft carrier Ford has entered the Red Sea accompanied by two destroyers - AP
Reuters: Iran is broadcasting this VHF message: "Att all ships, regarding the failure of the U.S. gov to fulfil its commitment in the negotiation, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely closed again. No vessel of any type or nationality is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”
TRUMP on IRAN closing the Strait again:
"They got a little cute, as they have been doing for 47 years.... We're talking to them. They wanted to close up the strait again. You know, they've been doing for years and they can't blackmail us."
Iran's Fars News Agency says the Strait of Hormuz is back under "the strict management and control of the armed forces" following what they claim is continued "piracy and maritime robbery under the so-called blockade" by the United States.
Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
The US dropped a Friday night notice lifting sanctions on Russian oil for another month.
Comes just 2 days after Treasury Secretary Bessant said the US would not renew the waiver.
-Reuters
JUST IN - Iran's enriched uranium is "as sacred to us as the soil of Iran and will not be transferred anywhere under any circumstances," declares Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman — Tasnim
Iran says it will not accept any temporary ceasefire and will only accept a permanent end to all conflicts across the region, per Al Jazeera
Senior Iranian official says vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz will continue to be required to pay tolls to the IRGC. Maybe open but definitely not free.
