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@PedroRonchi2 Me: is that an insta360 X5??

Essa imagem vai ter mais curtida do que a bandeira de Israel.

@MikeBales “The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land…”

Hello darkness, my old friend…

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

@kat_maryb You a cop??

What do you do with leftover bacon?

@Vitus_osst I have never wondered less about a thing

"I’ve been seeing a lot of conflicting opinions on this lately, and I’m curious where you all stand: Is it actually appropriate for a priest to drink beer in public?

@SarahIronside6 “Garden variety“

As much as I loathe Tucker Carlson, the man is not stupid. He was not duped. He knew exactly who and what he was supporting. If you are falling for his “apology” then you’re either very naive, or you’re just another garden variety white Christian nationalist.

@Cernovich 60% of the time it works every time

51% of voters can take away 100% of the rights of 49% of the voters. Democracy.

@ZedrowDon52777 @dontbrexitfixit WHAT NUKES YOU WALNUT??

@dontbrexitfixit Don’t forget the Iranians launching nukes at Israel and possibly the EU ! Just a minor factoid you forgot.

If Kamala Harris had become president of the US,Trump would be in prison, the Straits of Hormuz would be open, Ukraine would be victorious, Netanyahu would be in the Hague & the US would not have a shit pit to haul itself out of & a mountain to climb to restore its self respect

@Thevictoria76 The nerve of this Somali immigrant committing all these crimes 😐

The audacity of some people really never stops surprising you. Just when you think you’ve seen it all… 🙄

@schwartzbWSJ @clarencehilljr @alyrose Which one of his friends has tangible stock in Spirit Airlines?

SCOOP: The Trump administration and Spirit Airlines are nearing a deal where the U.S. government would put up to $500 million into Spirit Airlines stock warrants to try to save the company, leading to a potential significant stake in the company. Team effort w/ @alyrose and @AndrewScurria wsj.com/business/airli…

@YourAnonNews lol no dems are “leaning” to this

Dumbest fucking idea ever. Don't do this. You'll lose, again. Just no.

@SundaeDivine Not to brag but what a time to be childless

Let’s not forget the GOP wants to outlaw casual sex. They want every screw to be about a baby and that's the only reason for engaging the docking protocol. No abortions, no contraception, no premarital sex, no fun. No sex unless they approve of it.

When the illusion breaks, what’s left isn’t just disappointment,it’s embarrassment. The man you believed in wasn’t a savior. He was all talk, built on ego, noise, and self-promotion. His confidence and big promises fall apart the moment reality tests them. There’s no hidden brilliance underneath. Just someone out of his depth, trying to cover incompetence with bluster. What looked like strength was just performance. Not leadership,just hollow showmanship. And the hardest part isn’t how bad it is. It’s realizing how long you believed his shit.....

RBI Baseball on the NES from 1988. Did you ever play this one?

@MykhailoRohoza As long as that mango Mussolini is in office, no country will believe anything we have to say. Our word means nothing.

During talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Pakistan, the topic of Ukraine unexpectedly came up. While discussing U.S. guarantees in the event that Iran halts uranium enrichment and abandons the development of nuclear weapons, the Iranian side asked how the United States is fulfilling the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which it pledged to respect and protect Ukraine’s sovereignty. The U.S. delegation left the question unanswered.

@SCityNATION412 @NFL Let people enjoy painful experiences man

For any of you out there going to the @NFL draft in Pittsburgh and you've never been to Pittsburgh before I feel sorry for you. I don't get how it's even logistically possible for there to be 500k people in that area. The traffic the parking. It will be a mess

@IDF Watching you religious people argue about which flavor ice cream is the true flavor is goofy and sad.

Following the completion of an initial examination regarding a photograph published earlier today of an IDF soldier harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon. The IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier’s conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops. The incident is being investigated by the Northern Command and is currently being addressed through the chain of command. Appropriate measures will be taken against those involved in accordance with the findings. Furthermore, the IDF is working to assist the community in restoring the statue to its place. The IDF is operating to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure established by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and has no intention of harming civilian infrastructure, including religious buildings or religious symbols.

@TX_Tortilla when are those amazing flour tortillas gonna be back in stock?? Do y'all need an extra abuelita?

@atrupar @HeatherThomasAF I really hope he sees this bro

BARTIROMO: So you're gonna sue them? KASH PATEL: Absolutely. It's coming tomorrow BARTIROMO: Tomorrow you will be dropping a lawsuit against The Atlantic? PATEL: Yes I will. For defamation

@QueenAnticommie Warranty voided 😂

This looks exhausting… shout out to farm people!