Titania Returns

"There are so many stars to see" - Peggy Whitson, former @NASA astronaut

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Saudi Arabia has increased its official selling price (OSP) to a record high. The state-owned Saudi oil giant told refineries in Asian it would charge a premium of $19.5 a barrel over the regional benchmark for sales of its flagship Arab Light. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

utterly unsustainably rabidly insane. makes the Reagan years look like the New Deal era.

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal. "Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it. The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations. Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time. The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules. Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation. When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design." He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration "It's an extinction-level event for science". The US government is proposing massive cuts to almost every branch of science, from NASA to the National Institutes of Health. NSF would completely eliminate the social, economic and behavioral sciences directorate. This would decimate the world's leading scientific system. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Remember the Western outrage about hostilities near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine? Israel-U.S. have bombed our Bushehr plant four times now. Radioactive fallout will end life in GCC capitals, not Tehran. Attacks on our petrochemicals also convey real objectives.

35 days of continued forceful closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel, as an occupying Power, whose presence in Palestine is illegal as found by the ICJ, has no sovereignty over Jerusalem. Israel is deliberately undermining the Status Quo to impose new realities.

US Services PMI Final 49.8 (in contraction), Exp. 51.1, Prelim 51.1

BREAKING: US job growth in February has been revised down from an initially reported -92,000 jobs to a total loss of -133,000 jobs. This marks the biggest monthly US job loss since December 2020.

After the right to torture Palestinians, Apartheid Israel claims the right to HANG Palestinians. The shame of the century continues. Ben Gvir belongs in The Hague.

Researchers at the New York Botanical Garden found more than 500 "blue zones" in NYC, places where water used to be, where there’s water now and where — thanks to climate change — water will be in the coming years. thecity.nyc/2026/04/01/flo…

WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethanju…

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Want to know why the bond market is open for an shortened session tomorrow (Friday) while the stock market is closed? It's happening for the first time since 2023 (with previous occurrences in 2021, 2015, 2012, 2010, 2007, 1999). 1/6

They asked this about Gaza after Israel killed more than 200 journalists. Israel is killing Lebanese journalists the same way it killed Palestinian journalists.

Half of US data centers planned for 2026 are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries. US doesn't have manufacturing capacity, forcing it to rely on imports. 🎁🔗 bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Disruption to shipping routes caused by the Iran war has left about 8 million kilograms of tea stuck in warehouses in Mombasa, Kenya, for weeks, threatening export earnings and farmer incomes, the East Africa Tea Traders Association said. READ MORE: reut.rs/4bU1TZ2

President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian had “asked” for a ceasefire, warning he would bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages” unless the Strait of Hormuz reopens. Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocked market reactions to misread remarks from Tehran, calling it “out-of-context quotes + manufactured FOMO = war profiteering 101” — essentially a critique of panic-driven trading that saw stock market indexes rise over 3% since Monday morning. Tehran’s actual position has not changed: it may end the war on its stated conditions, including control over access through the Strait of Hormuz.

DOL hasn’t released any reports since 2024. Employer contributions to the fund are based on headcount, but H1B’s aren’t counted. When an American is displaced by H1B, the fund loses that contribution even though a former employee is collecting on it. Massive Insolvency 2nd slide in carousel.