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Summer vacations about to get brutally expensive as jet fuel and diesel go through the roof. Hochstein basically just said the energy party is over and the hangover starts now. "I've never seen anything like it before." Oil storage tanks in the United States will run empty "somewhere in the July 4 period," Carlyle's Jeff …
Trump on the The U.S. navy currently seizing ships in the Middle East: “It’s very profitable, we’re like pirates”. Out loud admitting & even bragging that the U.S. is an international criminal organization. Wow. pic.twitter.com/HcA8CheTaw — Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) May 2, 2026
Quantum breakthrough as battery charges almost instantly… Australian researchers have unveiled a working quantum battery, it uses “super-absorption” to charge in seconds… The device defies traditional thermodynamics, the more units you add, the faster the charging process becomes… Tech giants are already circling the patent, this could end the “lithium bottleneck” for the next generation …
Republican House Chip Roy berates his own party again: "The American people are wondering what on Earth is happening when they look at this body and see what we fail to do. We're continuing every single day to drive this entire country into bankruptcy" byu/ExactlySorta inPublicFreakout
The route is basically dead and the media is still recycling the same old peaceful narrative. Why is everyone acting like this is normal? Omg. This is absolutely insane. Why is everyone acting like this is normal? pic.twitter.com/gO0lUmC7CO — NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) April 25, 2026 There will never be a deal. Markets are being set up …
Pablo Galante Escobar, the head of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Vitol, warned the audience at the FT Commodities Summit earlier today that the “world is on borrowed time” and that the Gulf energy shock will develop into a food crisis unless LNG flows resume through the Hormuz chokepoint. “We are on borrowed time. Every …
Palantir’s Maven Smart System just became an official Pentagon program of record, AKA, a central digital backbone of modern warfare. What it does: it pulls classified and commercial data together, runs AI computer vision models over it, and spits out targeting solutions for military assets in real time. Trump called its battlefield capabilities “exceptional.” AI …
Trump: "We may stop by Cuba after we're finished with this" pic.twitter.com/Jt2xR5MmPp — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 19, 2026
This is not the rhetoric you want to hear from the guy who’s in charge of deportations. https://t.co/Feq5RjY6fe — Ned Ryun (@nedryun) April 16, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says the US is currently involved in a "HEATED" negotiation with Iran. There's a possible 2-week extension of the deadline for a deal with Iran. pic.twitter.com/WsATJKr25m — The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) April 7, 2026 Donald Trump has said he is in ‘heated negotiations’ with Iran as the two sides review a …
The Pentagon is currently preparing plans for a weeks-long ground operation in Iran, including a raid on Kharg Island—where 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports are processed—despite military experts warning that 50,000 troops are nowhere near enough for a decisive victory in a country of 93 million people with rugged terrain and a formidable military. …
IRAN'S PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN: WE'RE READY TO END WAR, BUT WANT GUARANTEES. — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) March 31, 2026 🚨 BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's President Pezeshkian reportedly today: "We're ready to end war, but want guarantees." Markets are pumping But don't get too excited, Pezeshkian has made similar statements before throughout the war. This isn't new Markets …
Whats interesting about this chart is that is says those that would have voted for Vance just aren't going to vote. Otherwise Newsome would be on the rise. — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) March 30, 2026 Senate Polls released this week Maine (Emerson)🟦 Platner: 48% (+7)🟥 Collins: 41%——Alaska (ASR)🟦 Peltola: 52.4% (+4.8)🟥 Sullivan: 47.6%——North Carolina (Harper)🟦 …
Looks like we’re going in. Or it’s just a bluff to get Iran to negotiate https://t.co/WbIZWsLZLy — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 23, 2026 Defense officials told The New York Times that senior military leaders are considering deploying a brigade combat team from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, about 3000 paratroopers assigned to the Immediate …
SEN. ANGUS KING: We're shooting down $35,000 drones with $2.7 million missiles. The math simply doesn't add up. HOST: Why were we so unprepared? SEN. ANGUS KING: Great question. We should've learned from Ukraine — the war there has been drone-dominated for 3 years. pic.twitter.com/gRK2g9hPE6 — Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) March 21, 2026
Canada is now trying to convince residents to get the flue vaccine by telling them it reduces the risk of stroke “We're starting to see more strokes — The good news is that getting your flu shot reduces your risk of stroke. According to a study from the University of California” pic.twitter.com/yFYvlAJdVL — Wall Street …
Fear and Greed in Extreme Fear. Historically signals we're getting close to a short-term bounce. pic.twitter.com/tN4YpIHB0E — Tobias Carlisle (@Greenbackd) March 13, 2026 Tom Lee says the market will bottom this month. He also believes higher oil prices could actually be bullish for U.S. equities. If investors start worrying about slowing global growth, they may …
Tucker: US is gearing up for a "big war" as the Pentagon's 2027 budget has boosted up to $1.5T. “That's a war budget, a big war budget. So I think it's fair to expect, and all the signs suggest, that we're going to have a big war soon.” pic.twitter.com/ylSOJkKxlg — redpillbot (@redpillb0t) March 13, 2026
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool flagged the essay …
President Trump says Cuba is “about to fall” and “we’re going to put Marco over there”. pic.twitter.com/keNVsdqviY — ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 6, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, it’s true. In a March 6 phone interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, President Trump said unprompted: “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon… They want to make a deal so …
Trump in 2020: We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we’re not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it? And we’re not fixing our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, our schools? It’s crazy. pic.twitter.com/2A9bfOrskF — Clash Report (@clashreport) March 1, 2026 TRUMP HAS NO REALISTIC PLAN FOR IRAN’S …
Trump: "We’re leading everybody in everything. This is the greatest period of anything that we've ever seen." pic.twitter.com/qfzXbn8UcT — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 16, 2026
via Phoenix Capital Research The biggest opportunities in AI are no longer in Big Tech. For years, Big Tech’s success in the stock market was driven by two factors: Profits Share buybacks Outside of speculation, investors buy companies based on future cash flows. The Big Tech/ Mag-7 plays have been cash generating machines, producing over …
We’re in “reverse” now. 👇🏼 https://t.co/BoKr3sseXk pic.twitter.com/AHzh49jOwC — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) February 5, 2026 “Nobody could have seen this coming.” 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/r94w0m3Xze — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) February 5, 2026 Can someone explain to me like I’m 10 years old, how Bitcoin has gone down -$32,000 with NO BOUNCE in 14 days? pic.twitter.com/WRcyBnbfcQ — …
Escalating Threats to Midterm Elections, Bannon Says Trump Will ‘Have ICE Surround the Polls’ “This is a red alert moment,” said Sen. Ed Markey. “We have to start working to protect polling places from Trump’s paramilitary ICE goons before it’s too late.” Days after President Donald Trump suggested that Republicans should “nationalize the voting” in …
Ron DeSantis: We’re finding things in Baby Formula like LEAD “at levels that are not good for human consumption” • 16 out of 24 formulas contained elevated levels of one or more heavy metals exceeding federal benchmarks • The heavy metals tested for and detected included arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium. —— Mercury was noted …
“Dimon is the polite version of what I call "rational MAGA" on Wall Street. He has to know guys like that. Know way he does not. So when he says, yeah, I dont mind paying $100k a year in taxes if it all goes back to the people, but it goes to bullshit and most …
This is who they’re defending — Washingtons ghost (@washghost1) January 18, 2026
It was/is never about helping the American citizens or stopping the corruption bankrupting our nation. Hakeem Jeffries: If Democrats retake power, we’re coming after everyone who doesn’t have immunity. Republicans either win now or be imprisoned later. That’s ultimately the choice before us. pic.twitter.com/m5mG5lSwVO — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 18, 2026 “All tyrannies rule …
BREAKING: Sec. Scott Bessent says the IRS is now STEPPING IN because Tim Walz’s Minnesota laws go easy on the fraudsters “You can steal hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars and under the Minnesota laws, you might not even get jail time!” “I can tell you that we have the ability to bring in IRS …