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Oil Market’s ‘Worst Fears’ Are Here as Gulf Conflict Hits Hormuz The oil market’s nightmare scenario came true this weekend. Now the race is on to deal with it.

“An effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is as seismic as it gets for the global oil market.”
Gift link. How interesting that prior to this T***p forcibly took a dominant position in Venezuela’s oil, which oil is also the cudgel for subduing Cuba.

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Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s emergency declaration calls for sending 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

Rubio declares an emergency to bypass Congress to send $4 billion of arms to Israel. The possible orders include more than 35,000 bombs that are 2,000 lbs. each — which US military officers say are unsuitable for urban combat. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Yeah we're going to kill the government officials, also we're going to kill the opposition, also we're going to kill the retired politicians, also we're going to bomb a school of children.

Saint Heron Saint Heron Community Library; a growing media center dedicated to students, practicing artists and designers, musicians and general literature enthusiasts.

I like to look through the index of Solange's online community library to see the books circulating. They are always checked out which is so encouraging. library.saintheron.com

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Dean W. Ball Y @deanwball X.com Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

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$XYZ Block raises 2026 gross profit growth guidance to 18% with $12.2B target following workforce reduction

Shares +20.2%

A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s

You open a new tab on Edge at work and you see national headlines from NY Post. Your doctor’s office is a Sinclair owned local station or Fox (or soon CNN). TikTok and Meta algos have been skewed. It’s the oxygen, and sets the frame for how normal people process events and just general disposition

Holy shit.

This Columbia president was seen as a tool of the wealthy business board that doesn’t care about Columbia academics.

For her to make this video now calling out the Trump administration explicitly is huge. My first reaction is it reflects how far Trump public support has fallen.

Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year' Dorsey delivered Block's layoff news with an ominous warning.

And Block’s stock is up an eye-popping 29% (!) tonight.

www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

And now T***p will control WBD

2026 02 25 18:46, W. 4th platform. Holy shit, this guy. Greg Banks. He’s from the Garden District in New Orleans, because of course he is. He was okay with me posting. /1

It’s a pilot project for the rest of the country

Ellie Aghayeva’s social media post as she was being abducted. Black and white image of her knees in jeans in the back of the car, with the words “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help” overlaid.

An indelible image.

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves - The American Prospect New docs say Jeffrey Epstein collaborated with the Russian mob to loot the New York Daily News, then tried to help Mort Zuckerman discard it when reporting became inconvenient.

Jeffrey Epstein killed everything

Even newspapers

Amazing story by an old Philly pal, Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...

He witnessed a migrant death at an ICE detention center, then was deported A deported witness describes the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an El Paso ICE facility, alleging guards beat him while he yelled 'I can't breathe.'

"He was yelling 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' as they hit him"

DHS deported one of the witnesses to the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana. He was held in disciplinary segregation at the time when guards choked the 55-year-old Cuban immigrant to death.

We could say this is just about money, or incompetence, but there's no denying what it is in practice: Bezos effectively siding with Russia.

About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.

I would rather a very simple "no war with Iran" like AOC said

Amazon AI data centers to be built in northwest Louisiana: 'Something unlike we have ever seen' “The massive amount of development that will result in this is something unlike anything that we've ever seen.” Here’s what we know.

www.nola.com/news/busines...

Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.

theintercept.com/2026/02/23/k...