Paige Osborn

@RoseGoldLady1 @EruditeElf @HollyEm46009654 Never trust anyone who argues against feeding children.

Prime Minister of Moldova Alexandru Munteanu: ‼️Russian attacks on Ukraine have disrupted Moldova's power lines. "What is happening today in the energy sector is not an accident. Russia’s attacks on civilian energy infrastructure in Ukraine constitute a war crime, but also an attack on us here in the Republic of Moldova. Last night’s strikes led to the disconnection of the main power line supplying the Republic of Moldova - the Vulcănești-Isaccea line. All four interconnection lines with Romania have been activated, but the situation remains complicated. Russia bears full responsibility for this."

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said 'No deals with the Democrats.' It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said 'No deal.'"

Today, the Supreme Court will hear a case on whether the government may nullify the INA’s asylum requirements by stopping asylum-seekers before they cross the border. Joshua Villanueva and Michael Endrias explain the case and arguments both sides are likely to make.

Last night, in the Anthropic case in ND Calif, Judge Rita Lin issued a list of questions she wants attys to address at today’s preliminary injunction hearing. Tough ones for both sides, but I’d say toughest are for the govt. ... 1/5 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

@muddymsboy @SolidEvidence Oh they don’t give a shit about any of us, and think even less of marginalized people like the disabled. I hope that luck is with you, friend.

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

NEWS that Congressional staff are not going to like- Delta is suspending its special congressional desk service for members of Congress until the shutdown is over. @ajc ajc.com/politics/2026/…

Until Congress funds TSA and agents are paid, a spokesperson for Delta told the AJC that federal lawmakers will now have the same customer service as all passengers, according to their SkyMiles status. In other words, just like the rest of us. #gapol ajc.com/politics/2026/…

Atlanta’s Delta Airlines announced this week that it is suspending its stand-alone service for members of Congress until the TSA is fully funded. #gapol ajc.com/politics/2026/…

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

You could argue over whether this is the most reckless and dangerous administration in American history, but there's no doubting these guys are the most corrupt - no one else comes close

If you still think this is about Hizbollah, and not ‘Greater Israel’, you’re either the dumbest person in the world or the most dishonest

does Lebanon have a right to exist

Detonating mosques and civilian areas, razing them to the ground. The Israeli military was not stopped in Gaza and it was protected by third states who shielded these practices as “self-defense”. It is now replicating them in new areas of southern Lebanon.

@IsraelMFA lol no

The Iranian regime is the mastermind of a global terror network. With its long-range missiles & through the IRGC and its proxies - Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ, the Houthis - it fuels chaos and bloodshed far beyond its borders, from the Middle East to Europe and beyond. The Iranian regime is the greatest threat to world peace and the free world.

Let me get this straight. The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately. Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes. Trump said no. Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote. Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse. Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks. We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math. Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today. Trump is the one standing in the way.

Trump's installed leads at the SEC are actively blocking the enforcement division from investigating insider trading tied to the Trump family.

🔥🔥🔥I’m at JFK and I was on the train leaving a whole bunch of TSA officers and they were bitching about having these ICE guys standing around doing nothing while they’re working their asses off and not getting paid! They are really really really mad and they’re not blaming the Democrats

The Supreme Court has refused to hear a man on death row's appeal for a DNA test on a murder weapon. Rodney Reed was convicted for the murder of Stacey Stites, but he says the belt that was used to strangle her was never tested for DNA and he accuses her fiance (former police officer Jimmy Fennell) of the murder. Fennell was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman in his custody while he was a cop. During his time in prison, several of his fellow inmates claimed that Fennell confessed to killing Stacey Stites. Stites was white and Reed is Black. Inmates said Fennell was angry about an interracial affair between the 2 and bragged about the murder. Unless he's granted clemency or a pardon, the state of Texas will execute Rodney Reed without the world ever knowing whether it was his or Fennell's DNA on the murder weapon. This is so messed up.

ICE is not at airports to help TSA and reduce lines. They are there (without identification) trying to arrest people, exactly as I predicted. ICE must be abolished.

welp there's my answer. no one is going to be investigating the insider trading.