Steven Lemongello

The Fujairah oil refinery hit tonight too, according to reports.

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

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San Antonio archbishop: Profit, politics play roles in inhumane migrant treatment "These detention centers … cannot have empty beds, because otherwise they don't make money," said Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller. "It's business, business, business, business, business."

Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio: ICE concentration camps are an exercise in profiteering off human misery.

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock

If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

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The chart shows the stock index is.

Every single major Asian stock market is down. Kospi (Korea), Nikkei (Japan), ASX 200 (Australia), and TAIWAN are the biggest losers as the charts show.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel strikes, sources say The U.S. message to Israel was "WTF."

Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots Saturday went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance, sparking the first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began eight days ago, Axios reports

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Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Pentagon Announces Seventh U.S. Death in War With Iran The service member killed was not publicly identified, but U.S. Central Command said the death was caused by injuries after an attack on a Saudi military base.

Another American service member has died in the war with Iran, the Pentagon said on Sunday, bringing the number of American troops killed in the conflict to seven.

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

Trump Org Files Trademarks to Put the President’s Name Front and Center at ‘America 250’ In one filing submitted on Friday, a “Trump 250” image was trademarked to be used on a variety of merchandise.

NEW: The Trump Org filed for multiple trademarks last week that put the president at the center of America's 250th Anniversary.

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HORMUZ TRACKER: Iran-Linked Ships Are the Only Ones to Transit Strait of Hormuz transit remains near a standstill for a seventh day, with Iran-linked ships the only commercial vessels making the crossing in the past 24 hours.

Bloomberg’s built a ship tracker and absolutely nothing is moving in the Persian Gulf rn — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Legitimately one of the worst case scenarios.

'Intentional Chemical Warfare': Toxic Black Rain in Tehran After US-Israel Bomb Oil Facilities | Common Dreams "The consequences of this environmental and humanitarian catastrophe will not be confined within Iran's borders. These strikes constitute war crimes," said a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Minis...

“In the wake of infernos unleashed across portions of Tehran, the people woke up Sunday to the hideous sight of ominous gray clouds above, choking-levels of smoke, and black raindrops full of toxic oil falling across the city.“

Tehran’s water reservoirs were already down to 10%. Are they now toxic?

Simultaneously not a war and a war that predates the Korean War

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Israel and the United States -- you just wait to see what comes the next two weeks

BARTIROMO: Meaning what?

GRAHAM: We're going to blow the hell out of these people

They're still lying on the website:

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A pollster got a poll wrong in Fall ‘24 and she is *still* dealing with the plainly bad faith lawsuit

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TV person here: it is nearly impossible to run a a 4-month-old video BY MISTAKE particularly when the original video is brand new and a part of your on-going coverage.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

The Jan. 6 plaque honoring police was just installed in the Capitol — at 4 a.m.:

Three years since Congress ignored its own deadline, the memorial plaque recognizing the service of law enforcement on Jan. 6 is finally on display in the very building they defended from a mob of Trump supporters.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

This isn't even a bait-and-switch situation where they air old footage but still caption it correctly.

Fox & Friends outright labels 3-month-old footage as occurring yesterday -- and the assumption has to be it was due to Trump wearing a golf hat during the dignified transfer.

Long awaited by whom?

JUST IN: The US embassy in Oslo was hit by an explosion early on Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries, Norwegian police say https://cnn.it/4ldVo7A

Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

"Donald Trump is much closer to sending US troops to invade Iran than people realize."

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