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BREAKING: More Winning. Oil Prices Drop To Lowest Level Since 2021 In a stunning win for America First policies, oil prices have crashed to their lowest since 2021, with crude tanking to $65.50 a barrel today, proving President Trump’s energy dominance is back in full force.… pic.twitter.com/fjNfC2Fta4 — MAGA Resource (@MAGAResource) April 4, 2025
Gavin’s entire life has been glitchy and a complete failure to launch. He is a charlatan. A fraud. A fake. Gavin Newscum @GavinNewsom's entire governorship is a parody. We wish it was AI. He is a sociopath and has no ability to lead, only destroy! He has totally ruined… pic.twitter.com/W23aRvzONS — Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April …
PUT THIS ON BLAST: Trump’s tariffs just pushed the risk of a U.S. and global recession this year up to 60%—up from 40%, according to J.P. Morgan. THATS NOT ALL: The White House made up the numbers—Trump Math 🤡 pic.twitter.com/Y98nhtO266 — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) April 4, 2025 JPMorgan suggested that the chance of a recession …
European Central Bank chief Lagarde calls for an alternative to American Visa and Mastercard in “a march to independence”. The completion of the Capital Market Union would pave the way for the Fiscal Union. Further European integration would add €3 trillion in value (!) every year byu/EUstrongerthanUS ingeopolitics
By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over. That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers. We announced in January we’d be winding down the program & removing penalties. In place of fact checks, the first Community Notes will start… — Joel Kaplan (@joel_kaplan) April 4, 2025 Well, …
And despite all the skepticism: Gold is on the verge of outperforming the S&P 500 over the past decade.⁰This likely represents the early stages of a structural shift in which hard assets outperform overvalued financial assets over the long term, in my view. pic.twitter.com/gczeVmRvod — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 4, 2025 After a long consolidation …
“People are yet to understand that we have a macro hedge fund manager running the Treasury, not an ex-Central Banker. He deeply understands liquidity impacts and how to drive financial conditions to drive liquidity and how that in turn drives the economy and markets. His entire strategy is to lower the three legs of Financial …
JUST IN: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino declares, “Tether won’t try to make USDT comply with new U.S. laws.” Their stance follows the SEC’s latest crackdown on stablecoins. It’s clear this fraud is unraveling. Tether’s days in the U.S. are numbered. Once it goes bust, BTC will… — Jacob King (@JacobKinge) April 4, 2025
We now have the name of the event linked to the "blood indicator." pic.twitter.com/6AwjjPjkxe — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) April 4, 2025
At Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, Matt Taibbi explained how an Obama executive order led to the Censorship Industrial Complex. MATT TAIBBI: Mr. Chairman, Madam Ranking Member, thank you. My name is Matt Taibbi, I’m the editor of the Independent Site Racket, and I’ve been covering digital censorship issues since 2018, the fictional ones. …
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon put on hold an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would have required the Department of Education to reinstate more than $65 million in grants that it terminated in February because they funded programs that included diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In an unsigned three-page opinion, a …
Hedge funds have been hit with the biggest margin calls since Covid shut down huge parts of the global economy in 2020, after Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered a powerful rout in global financial markets. Wall Street banks have asked their hedge fund clients to stump up more money as security for their loans because the …
The stock market was pounded for a second day Friday after China retaliated with new tariffs on U.S. goods, sparking fears President Donald Trump has ignited a global trade war that will lead to a recession. Here’s a tally of the stock market damage: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,231.07 points, or 5.5%, to 38,314.86 on Friday, the …
"He’s at the peak of just not giving a f*** anymore” “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a f***. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.” – White House official with knowledge of Trump’s thinking tells WaPo pic.twitter.com/pbyaf8O6G6 — db (@tier10k) …
The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism, according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations. Internal discussions are exploring trimming the force to between 360,000 …
We now control the federal investigatory apparatus (at least in theory). We need to expose the money trails from China and Russia to the green movement. Trump Cancels Biden Grants to China-Tied Think Tank Behind War on Gas Stoves. The Department of Energy canceled two climate grants the Biden administration awarded to the Rocky Mountain …
Nina Jankowicz is smarter than the rest of us. That’s how she rose to be director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board. “Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works,” Jankowicz told the House Foreign Affairs South and Central Asia Subcommittee in a hearing about the State Department’s …
🇺🇸 MASSIVE U.S MISSILE DEFENSE AIRLIFT TO MIDDLE EAST Tzvai Tracker reported 95 U.S Air Force cargo and refueling flights into the Middle East from March 25 to April 3. At least 24 were C-17 and C-5 missions from South Korea, delivering Patriot missile batteries and a THAAD… https://t.co/uTMp2fhO4Q pic.twitter.com/UbYpSa2gcs — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April …
Trump is expected to sign an executive order to extend the deadline (tomorrow) for TikTok to be banned or sold off. Sources say there are several investors interested in jumping in to purchase TikTok, including Amazon, Oracle, and Applovin. A source close to the deal also says… — Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) April 4, 2025
The Republican-led Senate voted 52-48 on Thursday to begin debate on a budget blueprint for a multitrillion-dollar package to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda. https://t.co/r6YZJTH2g3 — NBC News (@NBCNews) April 4, 2025 The measure calls for a steep tax cut and a spending increase for immigration enforcement and a Pentagon expansion, alongside unspecified spending cuts …
🚨 JUST IN – CANADA PM MARK CARNEY: As a result of Trump's tariffs, an auto plant in Windsor, Ontario is closing for at least 2 weeks.pic.twitter.com/GON7n9TbWM — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 3, 2025 Fear and anxiety are running high in Windsor, Ontario, after carmaker Stellantis announced it will temporarily shutdown its assembly plant in …
Donald Trump shows off the Trump Gold card which costs $5 million and grants you residency in the United States pic.twitter.com/TnWrKtmRA6 — Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) April 4, 2025
BREAKING 🚨 President Trump stuns the world by exposing France and saying “Free Marine Le Pen” France has officially fallen pic.twitter.com/u9U9XwdGEi — MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) April 4, 2025 President Donald Trump has offered his support to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen demanding she be set ‘free’ while branding her ban from elective office a …
Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that’s poisonous for the insects, so sucking on this blood marks their last meal. The drug in question is nitisinone, and a proof-of-concept study led by a team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in …
Trump confirms that Iran “want to have direct talks”. Trump does not want war with Iran. However, Trump is willing to flex his muscle and posture, to create urgency and force Iran to bend the knee. This is power politics, and Trump is not afraid to use the power of being POTUS.… pic.twitter.com/yIVOUfzmhO — Clandestine …
🇺🇸🇨🇳 SPACE FORCE CHIEF WARNS: CHINA’S ORBITAL TECH IS A DESTABILIZING FORCE Gen. Chance Saltzman told Congress that China’s anti-satellite weapons and space capabilities are a growing threat, calling them a “powerful destabilizing force.” Saltzman: "We do all training in… https://t.co/0CQ1TCQBOm pic.twitter.com/0yqGVV0rAs — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 4, 2025
“The private sector’s hiring was much stronger than expected. Economists had forecast 115,000 jobs. Businesses added 209,000 jobs. The workforce participation rate climbed from 62.4 percent to 62.5 percent. The average workweek lengthened, a sign of increased demand for labor. Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent compared with February and 3.8 percent compared with a …
For Tim Hsu, who sells modern lamps and ceiling lights mostly to American customers, US President Donald Trump’s historic tariff announcement has upended his carefully made plans. Last year, the Taiwanese businessman decided to invest in Cambodia to diversify his production base beyond his traditional stronghold of south China. He was preemptively hedging against the …