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[Mike Hartz @hartz_mike]

@JoJoFromJerz Trump’s grandfather Frederick, fled WWI Germany to avoid fighting for The Fatherland. He came to America & became rich owning & running a brothel. Look it up.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The internet is unrivaled. 😂😂😂

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

Here's the way around having to pretend that McConnell is not dead, if that is indeed the case. We should all agree on this point: if Mitch McConnell can't be wheeled to a podium for a live press conference to speak, then he is not competent to serve. https://t.co/qYp3OzFwbU

[Kalvexa @StunnedD1]

The current crisis around Iran is about more than Iran, it is exposing one of the most important geopolitical questions of the 21st century: what happens when the world's largest oil importer depends on energy routes that a rival power can influence?

As tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz--a chokepoint through which roughly 20% of global oil passes--Beijing is confronting a vulnerability its strategists have worried about for decades.

China became a net oil importer in 1993. Today, it imports more than 11 million barrels of crude oil per day, much of it from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and other Gulf states. A huge share of that energy still travels through maritime chokepoints such as Hormuz and Malacca before reaching Chinese ports.

Chinese strategists call this the "Malacca Dilemma."

The concern is simple: a country that depends on imported energy can be pressured by whoever controls the routes carrying it.

History offered plenty of warnings. Britain's naval supremacy helped sustain a global empire. Energy blockades crippled rivals during both World Wars. Japan's access to oil was cut before Pearl Harbor. China was determined not to repeat those vulnerabilities.

That is why the Belt and Road Initiative was never just about trade.

Beijing invested in Gwadar Port in Pakistan, built pipelines across Central Asia, expanded energy links with Russia, and became the largest customer for many Gulf producers.

The goal is to ensure that there's no dependence on any single route that could be disrupted during a crisis.

The irony is that the Middle East is no longer primarily about America's own oil consumption. The U.S. shale boom transformed the country into one of the world's largest energy producers, yet Middle Eastern oil remains strategically important to the US because it powers the economies that will shape the 21st century, especially China and America can't have that.

As the US continues applying pressure around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, China can barely feel its impact because it spent decades preparing for this exact scenario. Right now it has large tanks of oil reserve which it has accumulated over the years, especially when oil was cheap.

Meanwhile, the US is reportedly running low on oil and gas prices are getting too high for the average American.

The question now is: between the US and China, who will break first if the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz continues.

[Julius Kanyi @kanyicool]

@ricwe123 Trump opening The Strait of Hormuz

[J.M. Hamilton @jmhamiltonblog]

@ricwe123 Trump and friends... Bibi, Dems, Epstein, GOP, and Billionaires...

Have done incalculable damage to the United States.

You don't recover from this. It's part of a decades long slide.

[Richard @ricwe123]

China laying bare the brutal facts:

Donald Trump:
"It is costing us $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz"

China's Foreign Minister:
"The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal operations against Iran; you created a global crisis out of nothing"

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Epstein survivor Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche:

“I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors -- a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing."

“While quick to point to the failures of previous administrations, he refused to take accountability for mistakes made under his own leadership..”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Helen Comperatore, the widow of Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the attempted assassination of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, now alleges the attack was an inside job.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​US House Representative Ted Lieu:

​The entirety of the Epstein files contains information that Donald Trump raped underage children.

​So he started a war to distract our attention from his crimes.

​Never stop talking about Epstein.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This video is terrifying.

And it’s another example of how ICE is making everyone less safe.

At Las Vegas International Airport, two people, in plain clothes, are seen trying to handcuff a man.

The man is screaming for help.

When the person filming asks a TSA agent what is happening, the agent replies, “It’s law enforcement.”

But when the person filming walks over and starts recording the people claiming to be law enforcement, one of them tries to swat the phone away.

Then, as more people begin watching, they get up and leave.

The man is left with a handcuff still attached to one of his wrists. He is visibly shaken and says they stole his belongings.

Think about how dangerous this is.

The government is normalizing armed agents, in plain clothes, grabbing people in public, without immediately identifying themselves in a way bystanders can verify. That creates confusion, panic, and makes it impossible for ordinary people to know whether they’re witnessing a lawful arrest, or a kidnapping.

In this case, people intervened… They started asking questions, and filming.

If no one had stepped in, who knows what would have happened to that man.

A government that expects people to simply accept unidentified agents, taking someone away without question, is making every person in this country less safe.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

At the behest of the pedophile president, Todd Blanche has carried out the the most insidious child sex trafficking cover-up in world history. Any Senator who confirms Blanche will be complicit in the child sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Donald Trump.

[BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 @BigBlueWaveUSA]

This is America under Trump.
This happens every day, but not usually this well documented. No elected Republicans called for this deranged cop’s termination.
This is a child.
Republicans either look the other way, or worse, support this.

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

David Brouillette, the ICE Officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine, is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, according to close relatives. https://t.co/zSPNXvIJoB

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

So apparently, the Secret Service is FURIOUS at JD Vance for using a military helicopter to fly his son to his fucking golf lesson. These people are ridiculous. Could you imagine if Kamala Harris did this?!

[Desperate Citizen @MargueriteInDC]

@Bill43111 @atrupar This is just performative banter. Tillis will get to say he got the agreement Blanche will do nothing meaningful with the victims. Too easy for both of them.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

How To Steal The 2026 Election

Trump's speech tonight isn't about 2020…it's a preview of how he'll rig 2026.

Link in comments and bio.

[Michele🐝🌷🆘Save Gaza🇵🇸 & UA🇺🇦🆘🐿️🦜 @RadarResist]

Kentucky Gov. Beshear says he's prepared to challenge state law in court if Mitch McConnell is unable to return to office, arguing that the Kentucky Constitution gives the governor the authority to appoint someone to fill a vacant Senate seat.

[Desperate Citizen @MargueriteInDC]

@MacFarlaneNews Yes