Karen A. Wyle

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court of Virginia has denied the Attorney General’s Motion for Emergency Stay in RNC v. Koski - the one where he didn’t quote the ballot language. One sentence. No dissent. No partial relief. “Upon consideration whereof, the Court denies the motion.” What this means in plain terms: Jay Jones’ outside counsel from California asked the Court to allow the election process to proceed pending the rulings on the merits of the gerrymandering cases. The Court said “no.” This stops the election from being certified for now. The same Supreme Court that allowed the referendum to go forward in March, so voters could be heard, has now declined to override a final judgment finding the constitutional amendment process defective. Strong signal that process matters in Virginia. The Attorney General asked the Court of Virginia to set aside a final order that exposed a ballot question he would not quote, an Article XII timeline he had to redefine, and a 1912 case that did not say what he needed it to say. The Supreme Court said “no.” The merits appeal continues. I will keep you posted as this develops. — Del. Wren Williams, 47th District

28 April 1937 | A Czech Jewish girl, Věra Schlesingerová, was born. Deported to #Auschwitz on 19 October 1944 from #Theresienstadt Ghetto. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

The @TexasTribune conveniently forgot to mention that the family patriarch is a terrorist who firebombed a Jewish gathering in Boulder, Colorado, injuring 12 people and murdering a Holocaust survivor.

In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES! 🚗 3 Bentleys 🚗 3 Ferraris 🚗 11 Lamborghinis 🚗 59 Maseratis 🚗 141 Porsches 🚗 244 Alfa Romeos 🚗 306 Land Rovers 🚗 2,098 Teslas And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system. These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with @VP’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW. 4.3M Americans have been moved off of SNAP — but more work to be done!

Washington State put a fully intact 6'4" convicted male child sex offender into a women's penitentiary because he said he is a woman. (Fully intact means he has his penis and testicles.) During his time in a women's prison, afforded to him to honor his declared gender identity, the 6'4" fully intact male child sex offender is alleged to have: -- assaulted one female inmate from behind, throwing her onto the ground and kicking her repeatedly, leaving her mouth lacerated, face bruised, and her jaw and eye swollen -- Masturbated in front of another female inmate forced to shared a cell with her, groped her while she slept, and repeatedly threatened her with rape. According to a lawsuit filed by America First Policy Institute, "prison staff ignored concerns for her safety and even discouraged her from filing official complaints, cautioning her about potential retaliation."

𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐒𝐍'𝐓 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐂𝐄𝐓. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐃. People keep asking the same question about the U.S. naval blockade of Iran: If they cannot ship the oil, why do they not just stop pumping it? The answer is that they cannot. The reason involves physics, geology, and three quarters of a century of accumulated reservoir damage that the regime cannot undo. Let me walk through it. 𝐀𝐧 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐭 A faucet has a valve. You close the valve, water stops, you open it, water flows. Same as before. An oil well does not work that way at all. An oil reservoir is a high-pressure system. Crude sits trapped in porous rock — typically sandstone or limestone — under pressure measured in thousands of pounds per square inch, mixed with natural gas above and saltwater below. When you drill into that rock, you are creating a controlled leak. The oil flows up the well because the underground pressure is pushing it. When you shut the wellhead, the pressure does not stay still. It redistributes. Water from below pushes upward. Gas from above expands. The oil column gets disturbed — sometimes permanently. Petroleum engineers have a term for this: 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭-𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 "𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐈𝐭 𝐎𝐟𝐟" Three categories of damage start the moment you shut in a producing well. The first is 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. While the well is producing, the pressure drawdown holds the oil-water and oil-gas interfaces in roughly stable positions. Stop production, and water begins to rise into the producing zone while gas migrates downward. When you eventually restart, the well now produces salt water and natural gas instead of oil — sometimes permanently. The second is 𝐰𝐚𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Crude oil contains paraffin waxes and heavy asphaltenes that stay liquid only because the oil is hot and moving. Stop the flow, and these solids precipitate inside the wellbore, the production tubing, and the surface flowlines. Restart attempts plug the well shut. Iranian crude is notoriously waxy. The third is 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠. The perforations through the steel casing — the holes through which oil enters the well from the rock — clog with sand, fines, and asphaltene sludge during shut-in. Restart cuts flow rate, sometimes to zero, until a workover crew is deployed at six-figure cost per well to clean each one out. For an old field — and Iran's giant fields are old: 𝐀𝐡𝐯𝐚𝐳, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧, 𝐆𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧, all producing since the 1950s and 60s — shut-in damage is brutal. Texas and Oklahoma operators in low-price periods routinely keep pumping at a loss rather than shut in, because the damage from shutting in costs more than the lost revenue. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 There are three additional factors making Iran's situation worse than a typical producing nation's. Decades of sanctions have starved the industry of Western technology. Halliburton, Schlumberger, and Baker Hughes were the global leaders in well stimulation, workover, and reservoir management until they were forced out of Iran between 2010 and 2018. The National Iranian Oil Company has limped along on Chinese-supplied equipment of significantly lower quality, plus reverse-engineered Russian and pre-revolution American gear. Restoration after a shut-in requires precisely the high-end services Iran no longer has. Iran also depends on water injection to maintain reservoir pressure. Most of Iran's giant fields are on secondary recovery — meaning seawater is pumped down injection wells to push oil toward producers. Shut in the producers and you must also shut in the injectors, or the field over-pressurizes. Stopping injection lets pressure decline. Restarting injection costs hundreds of millions of dollars and typically returns the field to lower output than before. There is no clean reset button. And oil is 𝟑𝟎-𝟒𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Stop pumping for 90 days and the Iranian currency collapses, subsidies on bread and electricity vanish, and the regime faces a domestic crisis worse than the 2022 protests. They cannot stop. They are physically and politically incapable of stopping. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐰 Iran continues pumping because it must. The U.S. blockade, which began February 28, prevents shipment. Iranian onshore storage at Kharg Island and Bandar Abbas filled up within weeks. After that, the regime began using its own fleet of aging Very Large Crude Carriers as floating storage, anchored off the Strait of Hormuz with their AIS transponders dark. The floating storage filled up next. What happens then is what petroleum engineers call a 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬. Each pumping platform is producing oil that has nowhere to go — and gas associated with that oil that, if not flared, will over-pressurize the entire system. So Iran is now flaring increasing quantities of associated gas (visible from NASA VIIRS night satellite imagery), burning off the secondary product into the sky just to keep the primary product moving. Flaring is wasteful, expensive, and visible from orbit. It is what countries do when they have run out of options. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 Even when this war ends, Iran's oil sector will not return to where it stood on February 27, 2026. A reservoir engineer can model the damage. Estimates range from 𝟐𝟎-𝟑𝟓% 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬 across Iran's giant fields, depending on how long the chaos continues and how badly the wells are mishandled while it is going on. That is hundreds of billions of dollars of reserves that will sit underground forever, because the regime did not have the technology, the time, or the strategic patience to manage a controlled shut-in properly. This is what makes the U.S. naval blockade strategically devastating in a way that ordinary sanctions are not. Sanctions reduce demand for Iranian oil. The blockade physically prevents its movement. And because Iranian oil cannot be turned off and cannot be shipped, every barrel pumped now becomes either flared waste or reservoir-damaging backpressure. The Islamic Republic is not facing a financial squeeze. It is facing a 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞 — the kind that does not get undone with a ceasefire, a sanctions waiver, or a billion-dollar Qatari escrow account. It is the kind of damage that the rocks themselves remember. 𝐀 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐲.

Fun fact: MA law prohibits housing discrimination (whether in renting or ads) based on religion or national origin, including Zionists. Worth keeping in mind, especially if you’re advertising for a roommate around Medford/Somerville/Tufts with a "No Zionists" line like CT native Amber Rocheleau.

Zohran Mamdani’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism: No Phone Number No Email Address No Website No Social Media Presence Led by a Self-Hating Jew It’s an absolute farce built to exist on paper while doing nothing to protect Jews in NYC.

JUST IN: King Charles III gifted President Trump with a framed facsimile of the 1879 design plans for the Resolute Desk. In return, President Trump presented the King with a custom facsimile of a 1785 letter from John Adams to John Jay. First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Camilla also exchanged gifts: the Queen gave Melania a brooch by British jewelry designer Fiona Rae, while the First Lady gifted the Queen six Tiffany & Co. English King pattern sterling silver teaspoons and a jar of White House Honey.

🚨 BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has just CANCELED the US Department of Defense's reliance on "cheap Chinese labor" for their cloud services, an Obama-era program... ...WHY ON EARTH WAS THE US RELYING ON CHINA FOR OUR MILITARY COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE?!?! "It turns out that some tech companies have been using cheap Chinese labor to assist with DoD cloud services. This is obviously unacceptable, especially in today's digital threat environment." "Now, this was a legacy system created over a decade ago during the Obama administration...that's why today I'm announcing that China will no longer have any involvement whatsoever in our cloud services effective immediately." It is INSANE that @PeteHegseth had to do this.

Terrifying, Islamic scholar in France reveals: "In 30 years, France and Belgium will be Muslim. In Brussels today, Muslims are 43% of the population. Among the youth, Muslims are already the majority. Infidels should get ready, it's going to be very difficult for them!"

Take a look at this video just released by the IDF of two newly discovered terror tunnels in Southern Lebanon. As bad as the tunnels were in Gaza, these are even worse — bigger and more lethal. And they are dug through hardened earth and rock, not just sand, underscoring Hezbollah’s commitment and capability to inflict brutal harm on Israeli civilians. Israel and Lebanon will have peace when, and only when, Hezbollah is eliminated, an achievement that has never been closer, God willing.

"Incredible, Unstoppable Titan of Terror!": The Lobster That (With Some Fellow Critters) Devoured Virginia's Constitution jonathanturley.org/2026/04/28/inc…

Former Fauci Adviser Indicted for Allegedly Concealing Covid-Related Records nationalreview.com/news/former-fa…

It’s alarming because Cole Allen’s plan was a tried-and-tested one. Well known to VIP security experts. The IRA tried exactly this on Margaret Thatcher in 1984. If, instead of sneaking in some guns, he had brought a few suitcases full of explosives—which he easily could have, since nobody was checking—Trump and Vance, who were sitting feet apart, could both be dead or incapacitated. Third in line Mike Johnson was also present, so 92-year-old Chuck Grassley could now be leader of the free world. Renting rooms in hotels before the target’s arrival and before security is set up, and then using those rooms to launch assassination attempts, has been tried before—most notably by the IRA in 1984, when they came very close to killing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. They killed five, but Thatcher was uninjured. So it looks like most of the U.S. presidential line of succession escaped disaster.

We went through 4700 of Cole Allen tweets/posts and one of the strangest things we found was he shared a lot of posts claiming the Butler assassination attempt was staged. He also repeatedly compared Trump to Hitler and urged people to buy firearms.

🚨#BREAKING At this time massive large-scale federal operation is underway in Minneapolis as the FBI along with the United States Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Investigations executed more than 22 raids as part of a sweeping fraud investigation involving businesses, including some childcare centers.

Israel’s "Super Cows" are actually a world-class scientific achievement. Even in the middle of a desert, Israeli cows produce more milk on average than almost any other herd on the planet. It’s not just luck, but the result of decades of smart innovation and smart breeding. Scientists combined the heat-resistant Damascus cow with the high-yielding Holstein to create a breed that thrives in the heat. Israel really is the land of Milk and Honey. Now if that isn’t amazing enough, did you know that Israel has now also developed the first cow-free milk using a protein identical to that in cow’s milk?

Netanyahu abruptly left court testimony today after receiving a note. Minutes later, judges ended the session 2 hours early. No official explanation was given. Interesting.

This excavator operator is having fun with the abandoned airplane at a junkyard. Boys will always be boys. 🤣🤣🤣