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Everything I post is a joke and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

[BRV @willrayvalentin]

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[Energy Headline News @OilHeadlineNews]

Explosions heard on Iran's Kharg Island were caused by munitions disposal operations in the Bahregan oil region, state-affiliated Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

Mainstream media, once a bastion of clear-eyed liberalism, now peddles selective outrage: George Floyd’s death warranted wall-to-wall coverage, global sanctimony, and policy upheaval. Henry Nowak…an 18-year-old student stabbed to death, then handcuffed while bleeding out after his killer weaponized a false racism claim…gets a shrug and a scold about ‘dangerous’ talk of anti-white prejudice.
If a suspect’s lie can override a dying boy’s pleas, and elite media dismisses the pattern as populist grudge-mongering, that’s not journalism. It’s two-tier morality: some victims elevate narratives, others threaten them. Equal justice isn’t a ‘dark turn’…it’s the bare minimum. Pretending otherwise erodes trust in media faster than any protest.@Keir_Starmer @nytimes @Nigel_Farage

[BRV @willrayvalentin]

Truth

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran threatens the US with "complete and absolute closure of the Strait of Hormuz," following tonight’s US attacks warning it will now be "fully responsible for the consequences" on oil and gas exports, per Fars.

With this closure and global oil inventories now weeks away from hitting historic lows after IEA nations drew down strategic reserves faster than at any point in history, $200+ oil is imminent.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

The left loves George Floyd and hates Elon Musk, that’s all you need to know

[BRV @willrayvalentin]

@SuicideBlonde_2 @StealthQE4 What is this? SB v2?

[David Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sausageandeggx]

They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.

[HFI Research @HFI_Research]

Tankers not having fuel oil would be one of the funniest outcomes.

[HFI Research @HFI_Research]

Tank Bottom: Europe, Singapore next

[HFI Research @HFI_Research]

Axios!

I guess you can’t spew the same MOU bullshit nonstop. You have to come up with something that hints at a deal.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says negotiations have now fallen apart completely, seizing all messaging channels with the US following new US strikes on commercial vessels in southern Iran and the ongoing Israeli military's invasion of southern Lebanon, per Fars.

Iran also says talks were already fully deadlocked over the US refusing to release $24 billion in frozen funds without nuclear concessions in return. Iran is also rejecting Al Arabiya's claim today that Iran agreed to transfer part of its enriched uranium to a third country, calling it "incorrect" with nuclear discussions being "fundamentally not on the current negotiation agenda."

[Alpha Liger ⬛ 🟨 @AlphaLiger]

As I'm sitting on a couch this color

[HFI Research @HFI_Research]

The Oil Market Has Never Been This Mispriced

https://t.co/ki0RdbSuRi

[BRV @willrayvalentin]

@NewsFinOil More like Cathie Would

[Iran NewsFeed @IranNewsFeedX]

The War has been Started.

Tonight will be a bad night for America...

[Levant News @LevantWire]

BREAKING:

Iran’s Supreme Leader orders large-scale strikes against U.S. military bases.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

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Hezbollah leader rejects the results of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.