Francisco D'Anconia

This is how the daycare fraud works: - “You watch my kid, I’ll watch yours” - Enroll these kids into “daycares” - Collect money from the government - You and your family then get to live off government subsidies California has over 35,000+ licensed daycare facilities

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

🚨 SILVER CRASHED NEARLY -50% IN 53 DAYS. And we may have found who caused it. Silver hit ATH $121.64 on January 29, 2026. Today it sits at $65, a 46% collapse, and 25% of that drop happened AFTER February 25, 2026. Why does that date matter? Meet Jane Street. They made $20.5 billion in revenue in 2024 with only 3,000 employees, more than Citibank and Bank of America who both have 200,000+ employees. They do not bet on markets going up or down. They bet on markets MOVING. 87% of their $662 billion portfolio is in options, which make money when prices swing hard and fast. In Q4 2025, Jane Street bought 20.67 million shares of SLV, the most liquid silver ETF in the world, up from just 41,100 shares the quarter before. That is a 500x increase while silver was rallying hard, and nobody knew. - January 29: Silver hits $121.64 ATH with everyone maximally long. - January 30: Silver collapses 30% in 30 hours, the worst precious metals crash since 1980, with CME raising margin requirements mid crash and cascading liquidations making it worse. - February 25: Jane Street's 13F filing becomes public and the world finds out they were the LARGEST holder of SLV the entire time, bigger than BlackRock and Morgan Stanley. Silver is now dowm another 25% after this disclosure. So Jane Street built a $1.3B secret position while silver rallied, silver crashed 30% in 30 hours, the world found out they were the biggest holder only AFTER the crash, and silver dropped another 25% on top. 49% down total, sitting at $69 today. Here is what most people are missing. A 13F filing only shows long equity positions and does NOT show short positions, derivatives or the full options book, meaning Jane Street could have had a massive short bet on silver through options and nobody would know. Step 1: buy $1.3B of SLV and become the largest holder. Step 2: build a 10x larger options position betting on silver falling. Step 3: use that size to push the price down, ETF loses a little and options make 10x back. Step 4: nobody finds out until 45 days after quarter end when the crash is already done. This is not just a theory. There is documented proof Jane Street ran this EXACT playbook in India between 2023 and 2025. SEBI wrote a 105-page order, the largest fine in their history, and impounded $570 million from Jane Street. On Bank Nifty expiry days, Jane Street bought massive amounts of index stocks in the morning to push prices up while simultaneously building short options positions 7.3 times larger than their stock position. Then in the afternoon they sold everything, the index dropped and their puts printed money. On a single day they lost $7.5M on stocks and made $89M on options. The stock trade was just the cost of running the operation. SEBI found this across 18 expiry days and a whistleblower said it happened on 90 to 95% of all trading days. In crypto, the bankruptcy administrator of Terraform Labs filed an 83 page federal lawsuit against Jane Street alleging they used inside information to front-run the $40 billion Terra/LUNA collapse. When Terraform quietly withdrew $150 million from Curve Finance with zero public notice, a wallet linked to Jane Street pulled $85 million from the same pool within 10 minutes. A Jane Street employee had interned at Terraform and allegedly ran a private chat called "Bryce's Secret" with insiders as a back channel for non-public information, and Jane Street allegedly avoided $200M+ in losses. Blockchain forensics traced the wallet back to Jane Street through Coinbase records. Same pattern as India: get positioned ahead of the move, extract the profit, everyone else takes the loss. The physical silver backing SLV is held by JPMorgan, who paid $920 million in 2020 for manipulating precious metals markets, the largest CFTC sanction ever, after admitting their traders placed hundreds of thousands of fake orders in gold and silver futures for 8 straight years with their top spoofer receiving 2 years in prison. So the full picture: the silver backing the ETF is held by a bank convicted of 8 years of silver manipulation, and the largest holder of that ETF is a firm documented running a cash into derivatives manipulation scheme in India and facing a federal lawsuit for insider front running in crypto. Silver is down 46% and sitting at $65 today. None of this is proven in a US court and the macro explanations for the crash are real. But no regulator has asked the one question that matters: what was Jane Street's TOTAL net silver position on January 29 and 30, including the full options book and complete derivatives exposure? Because if the India playbook was running in silver, the $1.3B ETF stake was just the cost. The options position on the other side was the profit. And the 49% crash was not a crash. It was a payout.

NY Times has essentially confirmed that Israel played a role in stimulating the violent regime change riots that left around 3000 dead in Iran this January 8 and 9, but which were marketed in the West as pro-democracy protests. It was well understood by the Mossad that those riots would help stimulate military action by Trump. Israeli intel merely needed to convince the feeble-minded president that a wave of decapitation strikes would unleash a massive upheaval to immediately topple the Islamic Republic. The January riots were presented to Trump as a preview of what was to come. Western media, including the NY Times and The Guardian, played a central role in legitimizing Israel's deception by falsely characterizing the violent regime change riots as mere protests, massively inflating the death toll and covering up the fact that many were murdered by the Israel-backed rioters themselves The whole of Western media and the Western human rights industrial complex deliberately misrepresented the real character of those riots. But now that the war they helped to instigate is going badly for the US and Israel, that same media is now free to reveal a few kernels of truth.

“All you have to do to get a nation to go to war is tell the people they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

@DanielLMcAdams Apparently, you can.

You cannot punch a person in the face and then when he punches you back start crying, "See! I told you he was a bully!"

Ted Cruz admits he played a key role in pushing President Trump to launch a war with Iran just one day before it started. He told Trump that the collapse of Iran would be one of the greatest steps for America’s safety. Cruz says he persuaded the President to abandon all peaceful negotiations. “I urged the President to launch this attack.”

I’m trying to avoid posting for Lent, but I want to be clear about my position, as it seems we may be on the brink of decisions of historic consequence: The US & Israel were the ones who launched a sneak attack against Iran. Trump himself compared it to the attack on Pearl Harbor. We opened the war with an attack that killed nearly 200 little girls at school. If the Japanese had done that at Pearl Harbor, it would still be on page one of every history book recounting the attack to this day. To then punish the civilian population of Iran by destroying power and water infrastructure, which can only be intended to cause mass civilian suffering and death, simply because they have not capitulated, is a war crime of the highest order. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen are under no obligation to follow such an order, and shame on any officer who orders them to do so.

INSANE: CCTV footage shows hundreds of Israeli settlers storming the village of Jalud in the West Bank before launching their pogrom, attacking Palestinian homes and setting them on fire in an attempt to burn people alive.

A settler on Israeli TV claims the Torah gives them permission to erase anyone who isn't obedient to Israel. "The land must be emptied of every Arab who refuses to kneel to us." Not a fringe view. This is mainstream Israeli ideology, the religious justification for Genocide

JUST IN: Israeli settlers attacked more than 9 Palestinian villages and cities now, including Bethlehem, setting cars and homes on fire and attempting to burn families alive.

NEW: 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇮🇷 Ret. French General Nicolas Richoux says Trump can go fuck himself now: “He shot himself in the foot. He wanted to invade a European Union country, Greenland, not long ago. And now, his old friends whom he didn’t consult, whom he scorned, especially the British, telling them: 'We’ll remember this.' He can go fuck himself.”

🇮🇷 "If you can't hold on to Greenland — ask us to do it for you." Major General Radan, commander of Iran's Internal Security Forces, addressing the EU from Wali Asr Square in Tehran. 🤣🤣

i've been warning my neighbors for years that the family living on the hill was dangerous. finally two of us had our buddies knock on their front door and say they wanted to "talk," while we started shooting their kids in the backyard. then these monsters started shooting BACK at us. i hate to say i told you so but c'mon

Trump killed every child in this video. Every. Single. One. Not combatants. Not militants. Schoolkids from Minab, Iran.

72,000 killed in the genocide in Gaza. 1 million+ displaced in Lebanon. 1,700 settler attacks in the West Bank. And now war in Iran. Sending 20,000+ more bombs to Netanyahu isn’t just immoral—it’s illegal. That’s why I introduced legislation to stop it.

A message to Washington? In a tightly structured 12-minute address, Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei moved from familiar rhetoric into something far more consequential. The opening half followed the expected script; revisiting decades of U.S. warmongering rhetoric: sanctions, assassinations, regional conflicts. But midway through, the tone shifted from retrospective to strategic. Sayyed Khamenei outlined three concrete demands, each with a defined timeline: a rapid U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle East, a full rollback of sanctions within 60 days, and long-term financial compensation for economic damages. Then came the ultimatum. Fail to comply, and Iran escalates, economically, militarily, and potentially nuclearly. Not hypothetically, but operationally: closing the Strait of Hormuz, formalizing defense ties with Russia and China, and moving from ambiguity to declared nuclear deterrence. The timing of external reactions was just as telling. Within hours, both Beijing and Moscow issued statements aligning, carefully but unmistakably, with Tehran's framing. This definitely looked coordinated. The broader context matters. Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei represents a different leadership style from his martyred predecessor leader. Where martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei operated through long-term balancing and controlled escalation, Sayyed Mojtaba appears positioned to deliver faster, more decisive outcomes. Iran's internal reports are clear, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps is in no way, shape or form interested in incrementalism. They are pushing for structural change: removing U.S. influence from the region, restoring Iran's military standing, and forcing a re-negotiation of global power dynamics. And for the first time in decades, Iran practically has the leverage to do this. Rising oil prices, regional instability, growing alignment with China and Russia, and vulnerabilities in global trade routes have shifted the strategic landscape. So this was not just a speech. It was a test. A test of whether the United States is willing, or even able, to operate under a new set of constraints. What happens next will likely define not just the trajectory of this conflict, but the broader balance of power in the Middle East for decades to come.

.@joekent16jan19 message to others considering resigning from the admin over the Iran war: "Think about where we were at this time in 2003 in the Iraq War. How many lives could have been saved had more government officials said, No, I'm not going to do this"

TRUMP EXTORTS THE GULF FOR MORE MONEY!!! "If you want the war to continue — $5 trillion. If you want it to stop — $2.5 trillion." Omani journalist and international affairs researcher Salem Al-Jahoori on BBC Arabic confirms reports of U.S. pressure on Gulf Cooperation Council states to pay up, either way. According to leaks Al-Jahoori cites, Trump is demanding GCC states pay $5 trillion to sustain the war, or $2.5 trillion as a fee for stopping it, framed as payment for "what has been accomplished." Protection racket without any protection.

Does Lebanon have the right to exist?