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Iran is fighting an asymmetrical economic war against the US and they're sick of Trump manipulating the market. Every time he lies and drops the price of oil, it pushes back the day of reckoning. They're not about to let him lie and say there are peace talks when they haven't agreed to any.

Lindsay is doing the best analysis I've seen of the back and forth on talks. This is from the middle of one of her threads.

I don't know what it will take to make Trump get serious. Probably a major market crash.

But he'll announce something tonight and his marks in the market will do his bidding.

Otrolig bok. Jag säger inte det bara för att hans uppgörelse med västerländsk hyckleri i allmänhet och de västerländska journalisternas vanföreställningar om sin egen förträfflighet i synnerhet, stämmer överens med mina åsikter.

Ketan is a writer, analyst and communications consultant focusing on clean energy and climate change. He previously worked in climate and energy for private companies and government agencies, and now writes from the front lines of climate and energy battles around the world. He is the author of "Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil Free Future" published with the University of New South Wales, and "The AI Climate Hoax", a recent investigation into greenwashing on behalf of corporate accountability campaigners

Very much looking forward to speaking at the ODA inspiration day in May!!

I remain a tech fanboy and it's that fandom that drives me to constructively criticise it. I think we shouldn't accept any fate that's handed to us for the world we want to live in

www.odainspirationday.no/speakers/ket...

En reform som kommer påverka hela samhället och kommande generationer. Papporna har (i snitt, pratar inte om din upplysta man) konsekvent tagit ut exakt så mycket som de måste sedan den första månaden infördes. Utan obligatorisk delning kommer de närma sig noll igen.

Bölar varje gång det här brevet dyker upp.
Vi är ingen utan andra människor.
Så många gånger jag fått och fortfarande får hjälp av folk omring mig.

Doomerism isn’t as edgy as people think, and it’s often not accurate either

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.

This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.

Here's why.

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."

Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.

Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.

Fucking say it!

Will Trump nuke Iran? When President Trump, echoing Gen. Curtis LeMay’s 1965 threat toward North Vietnam, threatened to “obliterate” Iran and bomb it “back into the Stone Age, he wasn't just posturing. He was signaling…

"Never has humankind seen so much power concentrated in the hands of one so capricious," writes Pakistani nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy.

"No one—not even Donald Trump—knows the end game. But the constant is the man whose finger can push the nuclear button."

Visst, det finns ingen botten som kan nås hos svenska högern. Men till och med detta fick mig att tappa hakan. Bombvurmande som hade fått Reagan att rodna.

Knivskarpt o imponerande sansat skrivet (med tanke på de vansinniga omständigheterna)

okay who wants to be in the treatment group for my "is nuking people bad" experiment

Sama’a stands with her two daughters in front of the market on a dirt road. Sam is wearing a black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, black pants, and is holding baby Talia in her arms who is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a headband at her hip is three year-old Julia, who is wearing a blue and green plaid dress with a white collar and white shoes with big gold flowers on them. Her dark hair is pulled back into two pigtails.

Julia and baby Talia lying next to each other inside of a tent. Julia is wearing a beige t shirt, and she is turned over looking at her sister with love. Talia is wearing a lavender sweater and covered in a white muslin cloth with purple flowers.

6 month old baby Talia sleeping. she wearing a light blue linen dress with a pink flowery bib. her right arm is resting over her short dark head of hair.

Julia smiling big while standing on the concrete floor in their bombed out apartment. she is wearing a light pink sweatshirt with flowers, a puffy flower print vest over it, light blue jeans and silver lace up boots. her dark hair is pulled back in two buns and she has tinted pink cat-shaped glasses on her head

We are living through indescribably harsh days. Fear, hunger, and illness surround my family on all sides. My children need so much and I’m unable to provide even their most basic needs. It weighs heavy on my heart. Please don't leave us

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

chuffed.org/project/157569

a cartoon cat is holding a heart and a hammer and says my current situation Alt: a cartoon cat is holding a heart and a hammer and says my current situation as it smashes the heart against a background of a brick wall.

Where I’ve landed today:

Donald Trump—everything else aside—threatened warcrimes that would break world as we know it.

And Congress & its members did almost nothing.

And Trump remains in power.

And we remain in mortal danger.

system in place has *failed* & must be reconstructed.

🧵Det är min födelsedag, jag fyller 59. Det innebär att jag är född före månlandningen, och därmed får ta mig rätten att tala om ett och annat för alla er yngre. Och det jag vill säga är såhär: det ni ser idag är inte normalt. Nästan inget av det ni hört de senaste två-tre decennierna är normalt.

@atrupar.com: Q: Is the Strait of Hormuz open right now? CAINE: I believe so. I believe so. I believe so April 8, 2026

@EnglishFars on X: The passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been halted following Israel’s attacks on Lebanon 08 Apr 26

Two hours apart

The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (ScenarioMIP-CMIP7) Abstract. Scenarios serve as a critical tool in climate change analysis, enabling the exploration of future evolution of the climate system, climate impacts, and the human system (including mitigation...

So... now we can breathe again. Let's talk about ScenarioMIP.

The final version is now up on GMD - and there's some changes since the first draft. /THREAD/

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

Nekas ersättning – är en total systemkollaps DEBATT. Den här dagen för nio år sedan var en vanlig dag. Solen sken över Stockholm, klockan skulle snart slå tre och jag hade precis landat mitt första stora,

Varje dag på X berättar Tenje och Britz om hur enkelt det är att leva på bidrag i Sverige. I verkligheten kan inte ens vårt mest kända terroroffer (som överlevde) få sjukpeng för att hon inte kan arbeta heltid. www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/6qq...

Jesus Christ.

Thank God.

But Jesus fucking Christ.

Some light rioting really seems in order, honestly.

Well that was a dumb fucking waste of everyone's time

I am back home heavily medicating my PTSD & anxiety & working all my behavioral coping.

The terrorizing of us & others is one of many reasons Trump is unfit & should resign or impeached & removed.

Least of issues & imagine the economic productivity lost today

4 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy steps in bear trap and screams Panel 2: Purple Guy gets punched in the penis by a boxing glove Panel 3: Purple Guy gets set on fire Panel 4: Purple Guy lying on the ground, almost dead. Blue guy sticks head into shot and says: Heads up, things are about to get bad

what being alive currently feels like

Hur ser motsvarande svar ut från de svenska partiledarna?

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Kriget startades av en dåre i ett rum av guld KARIN PETTERSSON Livsfarligt när Europas ledare lägger sig platt för Trump

Nu säger Trump att han ska ”. utrota en hel civilisation”. Kommer ni ihåg i början av det här kriget när Europas ledare - inklusive vår egen statsminister - misslyckades med att tydligt säga att det som skedde var ett olagligt krig? www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/6q9...

UK will refuse Trump access to British bases for Iranian bridge strikes Targeting civilian bridges and power plants would constitute a war crime, some international law experts have warned

The UK has already said the US can't use it's bases for the threatened strikes on civilian infrastructure. From yesterday: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

There have also been updated stories published in the last hour or so.

Donald Trump post threatening Iran, saying “a whole civilisation will die tonight.”

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice.

Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.