꧁༺ 𝒮𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒽 ༻꧂
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꧁༺ 𝒮𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒽 ༻꧂
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My big conclusion from this week: Introspection causes emotional disorders.









Only an hour after we learn that Russians tried to stage a fake assassination attempt for Victor Orban to help him in the coming election, Trump releases a video promoting him.




Homeless man seen with projector, laptop, and sound system in his tent in Hollywood

𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡'𝗦 𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗣𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗧. Iran's strategy was straightforward: choke the Strait of Hormuz, drive global energy prices to catastrophic levels, cause enough economic pain worldwide that the pressure to stop the war becomes unbearable. Force Trump to blink. Trump's response: temporarily unsanction 140 million barrels of Iranian oil already sitting on ships and in storage — and let it flow to allies like India and Japan. 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗼𝗶𝗹. Ambassador Waltz was clear: this oil is already out there in the system — already on tankers, already in storage. It isn't new revenue flowing to Tehran. It's existing supply being strategically released to relieve the price pressure Iran was counting on to break Western resolve. The media framing — "Trump is letting Iran sell oil during a war" — is deliberately misleading. The actual move is surgical: use Iran's own stockpiled oil to undercut the economic leverage Iran was trying to use against us. Flood the market with supply. Drop the price. Eliminate the pain Iran was inflicting on American consumers and allied economies. Remove the one card Tehran had left to play. This is maximum pressure sophistication. Iran's currency is tanking. Its foreign currency reserves are depleting. Its military infrastructure has been dismantled. Its leadership has been eliminated. And now the one economic weapon it retained — the ability to spike global oil prices through Hormuz disruption — is being neutralized using its own oil supply. Biden tried Iran Deal 2.0. He unfroze their assets, let their proxies rearm, and called it diplomacy. Trump came back, reimposed maximum pressure as his second national security action, and has been systematically dismantling every Iranian leverage point one by one. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀.






The FDA did a very unusual thing this week: It included photos from a recent unannounced inspection of an Indian drug manufacturer in its Warning Letter to the company - the first time I believe it's ever done so. Would you believe this is from a drug manufacturer?


NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife axes her X account after controversial posts resurface. Details: tmz.me/XNFktfm
















