@Cernovich Same with property taxes, at least in most of the northeast. Democrats are all about maximum extraction from average citizens to fund their politics and social-engineering.
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@IslanderWORLD It also reinforces the notion among GCC nations that Iran/IRGC is a mortal enemy.
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🇮🇷🇦🇪🇺🇸 Iran just torched the UAE’s oil bypass lifeline and the empire’s “Project Freedom” is already eating crow.
Drones slammed Fujairah’s petroleum industrial zone this morning, sparking fires and injuring three Indian workers in the first confirmed civilian casualties of this latest flare up that signals an end of the ceasefire theater.
Explosions rocked Dubai as UAE air defenses scrambled against 4 incoming missiles from Iran, while a cargo vessel reported an engine room blaze 36 nautical miles north of the city. Oil prices are leaping, stocks are dumping, and 30-year yields just punched above 5% again.
At the exact same moment Trump’s “Project Freedom” launched to “guide” stranded ships out of Hormuz, Iran claimed two missiles hammered a US Navy patrol boat near Jask after it blew off warnings — forcing the vessel to retreat. CENTCOM instantly denied any hit, insisting two US-flagged merchants slipped through safely while their destroyers “enforced the blockade.”
Iran’s response was crystal clear: they’ve redefined their control zone across the strait, warned that any foreign warship or uncoordinated commercial traffic will be treated as a threat, and made it brutally obvious who still holds the real leverage in these waters.
THE ISLANDER@IslanderWORLD
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Ceasefire between Iran and the US officially over. The US is running its KC refueling fleets over the Persian Gulf and UAE simultaneously. The war is back on. UAE has been hit by Iran.
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@IMPERATORAUS The revolution has failed, but marxists never leave power willingly. They hold on, usually brutally, for decades.
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The Revolution has failed.
Tradition is the future.
Pray The Rosary@PrayTheRosary
The Latin Mass is beautiful
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@RealRickRule Yes, but he's still stuck with 40 year-old slogans and whipping the Reagan straw-man. "Supply side" was a brief academic debate in the 1980s, but that ended a long time ago. No one even bothers to speak of it now. Now Fed.gov budget is just outright looting.
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Nobody knows the federal budget better than David Stockman
David Stockman@DA_Stockman
This is why I quit the Reagan Administration in July 1985. The supply-side charlatans were wrong then, and have been consistently, dangerously and risibly wrong ever since. You do not grow your way out of massive debt......you budget cut your way out and let growth take care of itself. If you get some extra growth from the 1.8% real GDP trend of the last several decades---it's a bonus contribution to living standards on main street and slightly less mountainous debt in Washington.
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The Strait of Hormuz is not an international water way. This is a common misconception, but it belongs to Iran and Oman exclusively.
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@thevivafrei Just another public-communal thing the left has destroyed in their fake narrative of "rights."
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The Arab slave trade started earlier, lasted longer and enslaved more people than the Atlantic slave trade.
Muslims enslaved 30 million Africans and 5 million Europeans since the 7th century. Many Muslim countries are still actively practicing slavery today.
Why don’t we learn about it in school?
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@LynAldenContact @CorySwan You frame it as if the two are mutually exclusive. That's wrong. The opposite is true; free speech is a necessary condition for a cohesive society.
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Free speech is more important than preserving a cohesive society.
Agree, or disagree? Explain why in the comments if you like.
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The @NHLSabres_fans suddenly like cockroaches crawling all around my twitter account were hiding from me for weeks/Even @WGR550 would not take my calls/@SalSports suddenly had no twitter finger / now they won and...Well not a good look for u Buffalo/I show up win or lose baby!
GIF
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@RonStoeferle Sorry to be churlish. "Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany" is a 2001 book by Berndt Widdig. He cites this excellent quote by Mann, which Mann originally made in a 1945 lecture series "Germany and the Germans."
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"A straight line runs from the madness of the German inflation to the madness of the Third Reich...In those days the market woman who, without batting an eyelash, demanded a hundred million for an egg, lost the capacity for surprise. And nothing that has happened since has been insane or cruel enough to surprise her. It was during the Inflation that the Germans forgot how to rely on themselves as individuals and learned to expect everything from "politics", from the "state", from "destiny”.
They learned to look on life as a wild adventure, the outcome of which depended not on their own effort but on sinister, mysterious forces. The millions who were then robbed of their wages and savings became the “masses” with whom Dr. Goebbles was to operate. Inflation is a tragedy that makes a whole people cynical, hardhearted and indifferent. Having been robbed the Germans became a nation of robbers.”
Thomas Mann - "Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany”
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@DemzDeliver NY City? Or New York State. I agree that murders are not occurring in Upstate Appalachia.
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🚨 New York’s homicide rate is now down to 2.7 per 100,000.
44.9% lower than Florida.
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@johnkonrad post-modern, rootless, unmoored value-formation. TV will train my kids!
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“As modern progressives not going to church we have to do more to inculcated moral lessons in our kids,” Ryan Holiday
“We watch Ted Lasso with our kids,” NYTimes science reporter
“Yes!"
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@TK___Ultra @NHLPlayerSafety Was not a slew foot. McAvoy attempted at last second to get behind Benson, to drive him into the boards. That's how McAvoy plays. He raised his center of gravity, locked legs with Benson, and fell. He gambled on a big hit, and lost.
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@NHLPlayerSafety Is Benson going to get a hearing for the Slewfoot? I get it they’re the talk of the playoffs but that shit was dirty and led to the two hander. This shit is super similar to when Dahlin speared Malkin and got chopped in the neck. Dirty plays get dirty retaliation.
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Boston’s Charlie McAvoy has been offered an in-person hearing for slashing Buffalo’s Zach Benson. Date and time TBD.
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@NHLPlayerSafety Watch the play in slo-mo. McAvoy and Benson both going into the boards, lowering their center of gravity. McAvoy suddenly pops up, trying to get behind Benson to make a hit. McAvoy was going for a big, dirty hit - and lost.
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@thesiriusreport 6-7 years running out is the stupidest comment yet today. Congratulations, you win!
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Which means in about 6 to 7 years the US runs out of oil at current consumption levels.
Meanwhile Russia has enough oil and gas for the next 200 years.
Why did you think the US is trying to seize e.g. Venezuelan oil
As ever be informed.
Hedgeye@Hedgeye
🇺🇸 U.S. Oil & Gas: The U.S. sits on 46 billion barrels of proved crude oil reserves, with 60% of that locked in dense underground rock. The Permian Basin, which stretches across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, pumps out 6.6 million barrels a day on its own, more than every OPEC country except Saudi Arabia. The U.S. is the single largest oil producer on the planet at 13.6 million barrels a day, out-producing both Russia (9.1M) and Saudi Arabia (9.3M). On natural gas, it isn't close: America produced a record 43.2 trillion cubic feet in 2025, roughly a quarter of the world's supply and more than Russia and Iran combined. The U.S. sits on world-class reserves and out-produces every petrostate.
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@Will_Tanner_1 Its also an instructive lesson about how American democracy will fail, because Congress is too political, too controlled, too impotent to make necessary changes
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“America can’t reindustrialize because Mr Schwartz wants to resell wine at a huge markup”
New York Magazine@NYMag
As a small-business owner, wine importer Victor O. Schwartz has plenty of reasons to dislike the president’s policies. For almost 40 years, Schwartz has owned and operated VOS Selections, an importer and distributor of fine wines from 16 countries. Tariffs on wine have frustrated his industry since 2018, making the already heavily taxed business of sourcing from small farms and importing bottles from abroad more expensive. When Trump’s second-term tariffs were first announced last April, it looked like an even worse disaster for American wine importers than the first term. But the tariffs were also when he realized, unlike so many frustrated by Trump, he had an opportunity to do something. The weekend after the announcement of the tax on imports, a relative mentioned that their law professor, Ilya Somin, had put out a call for plaintiffs to challenge the tariffs. Somin a ragtag crew of small businesses who wanted to file a case against the administration: a tackle store on Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, a pipe manufacturer in Utah, a women’s cycling brand in Vermont, the maker of a banana-shaped synth in Virginia, and, eventually, Victor Schwartz and his wine-importing business. Within a few days, Somin, together with attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center, asked Schwartz to be the lead plaintiff. Read more from Matt Stieb’s conversation with Schwartz about how he and his fellow plaintiffs overturned Trump’s tariffs and earned a $166 billion refund: nymag.visitlink.me/tfzyVs
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@PeterDClack ALL leftist/collectivist central-planning and social-engineering has a similar result - massive intended consequences, especially on the environment.
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The world will have to deal with 43 million tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades by Net Zero in 2050.
To put that in perspective, it’s the equivalent weight of 215,000 locomotives. These blades are made of high-strength composites designed to survive decades of brutal weather, and they are notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but they weren't built to disappear.
Every turbine standing today will likely be decommissioned and replaced at least once before 2050. Without a cost-effective way to recycle fibre-reinforced polymers, the majority of these massive blades are destined for eternity - buried forever in turbine graveyards.
China, Europe, and the US will account for the vast majority of this waste, creating a mountainous industrial heartache that many Net Zero models simply haven't priced in.
But 43 million tons of purely composite blade waste every 20 years is a colossal physical reality.
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As a Muslim & descendant
of those who actually spread
this faith, I have one question:
Why the fuck are these idiots praying
in the middle of streets & blocking
roads? What if someone’s dying
& needs an ambulance, you morons?
Your street prayer is more important
than their life?
That’s not Islam that’s political
bullshit and extremism by the
Muslim Brotherhood and IRGC types!
Pray in the mosque or at home.
You’re not in an Islamic country.
Deal with these clowns firmly ..
RadioGenoa@RadioGenoa
New York will become worse than London and Paris.
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Malcolm Caldwell spent twenty years studying Southeast Asia
He was one of Britain's most respected Marxist scholars, with dozens of books, a university chair, and an audience that trusted his every word
He believed Cambodia under Pol Pot was the first serious attempt to implement the model he had spent his life refining
So in December 1978 he flew to Phnom Penh to meet the man personally
Pol Pot had him killed that night 🧵
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The United States Supreme Court, in the eyes of America and the world.
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