Capt Potato

[Tinnitis Emeritus @pbontoast1]

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[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Some of the documented timeline from the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war announcements—each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Oil fell around 15 percent.

On April 17, around $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil dropped.

On April 21, approximately $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire. Oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million. Iran called the report "the Americans' wish list."

Previously, a senior Iranian official told investigative outlet Drop Site News that Tehran privately warned JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations—"more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Threatening us all with a good time :)

[🇨🇦 Policy Hawk @CDNPolicyHawk]

This is interesting. Canada just purchased a number of M142s from the US. One of the reasons for the selection is that Canada wants to be able to fly it to the Arctic on short notice, and the M142 (unlike competitors) can fit aboard C-130s.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but the RCAF flying a US M142 to Alaska (even aboard a much larger C-17) has the appearance of early planned baby-steps towards that capability.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government:

WSJ

NYT

AP

Reuters

CNN

NBC

ABC

CBS

The Guardian

The Hill

Semafor

Washington Post

Fox News

New York Post

BBC

Newsweek

MS NOW

The Telegraph

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

😳 a drowsy Trump mumbles his way through bonkers Oval Office event 😳

Trump just slurred his way through a back-and-forth with reporters in which he claimed he understands Venezuela because "Miss Venezuela always did very well in the Miss Universe pageant," said he trusts Putin and Xi just one week after accusing Xi of conspiring to rig the 2020 election against him, admitted he "hasn't thought about" the parasite giving Americans explosive diarrhea, suggested his Energy Secretary signed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia without his knowledge, and accused LeBron James of being racist because he doesn't support him.

Suffice it to say that grandpa is banged up. Here's the blooper reel:

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Every. Fucking. Word.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

If you think this ad is ridiculous, you’re not paying attention to what Trump is doing.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(1/2) As the NYT bestseller PROOF OF CONSPIRACY (Macmillan, 2019) detailed 7 years ago, Barack Obama had a plan that was working beautifully to have there be only one nuclear power in the Middle East—and we would retain some distance from it.

Today, America learned Trump's plan:

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Q: Can you rule out that the US is going to take Greenland by force?

Miller: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO. @atrupar (2026)

[𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕖 𝔸l 🌐 𝕏 @ShitzN_Giggles]

Trump should freeze Ron DeSantis’ assets.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Angus: "I think in Washington, they see this middle-power move as somehow an attempt to create a power bloc to oppose the United States. It's not. It's about creating an alternative so we're not being threatened constantly by the United States.

I think the Gordie Howe Bridge debacle was very much trying to teach us a lesson because right after you had, again, Colby come out and say, 'This middle-power stuff has got to stop.'"

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

US Army Secretary Driscoll: 10-12 weeks ago I was in Germany on training with Ukrainians and I asked them, "Do you all have trouble syncing your sensors?"

The look that they gave me was like 13-year-old looking at their 85-year-old great-grandparent who can't zoom in on a phone.

And basically Ukrainians were like, "No sir, as long as it moves data through a wire and can access the network, we can hook anything."

We often invite Ukrainians to be our 'red team' or our enemy in training because they're really talented and we learn a lot from them.

So, what happened is, the day before, I was in one of the other Eastern European countries talking to President and Minister of defense.

They had just gotten this new counter-drone technology and interceptor, but one thing wasn’t working.

They were talking about how difficult it was for them to sync this new interceptor with their radars, sensors and command-and-control system.

[🇨🇦 Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

Update/Wildfire : A dangerous USA Bill drafted to punish Canada that reads like a declaration of War :
1- Seize assets of Prime Minister Carney, Cabinet ministers, and any individual they deem responsible for the "smoke".
2- It imposes travel bans, diplomatic penalties on the Canadian government and Canadian officials
3-Federal agencies could be prohibited from buying goods or services from the Canadian government.
4- The U.S. Export-Import Bank would stop financing exports to the Canadian government.
5-American banks could be prohibited from lending money to the Canadian government.
6-Americans could be prohibited from buying newly issued Canadian government debt.
7-Americans could be barred from making new investments in Canadian government-owned companies.
8- It declares many Canadian diplomats persona non grata (unwelcome), potentially requiring Canada to recall them.
Never has such an aggressive bill towards Canada been drafted.
If you ever doubted the USA wants to annihilate Canada economically, think again.
This is " their hemisphere", and they want us as vassals.
#cdnpoli #uspoli #onpoli #polqc #abpoli

[MechCanuck 🤖 🔧 @JessieTweeting]

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[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

When wife-beating alcoholics hated by their own mothers get to make decisions

[Capt Potato @captpotatoold]

@CDNPolicyHawk @dehavillandAIR The question: how deHavilland can ramp up production? Maybe the Defense investment agency could help, as this is a Security challenge. It may help finance provinces buys. The more bombers there is, the less CAF are to be called to help…

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

We are about to see the most sustained aggressive attack on democracy the US have ever witnessed, and Trump will be firing the starting gun on the all out assault in his address to the nation tomorrow.

He is a man who can hear the drumbeat of accountability getting louder as each day passes and there’s no way he’s going to face it without an all out war.

I believe we are about to see the biggest stress test of the American system of government since the founding of the nation. Be in no doubt, he is about to deploy every lever of government and executive power to crush any possibility of Republicans losing in November.

This is NOT hyperbole, this is about to truly be the beginning of a fight for the soul of a nation, and one thing he’s going to attempt to convince his base on is ‘the communists are coming’ so I thought I might provide a sort of idiots guide to some isms.

THE RED SCARE IS A RED HERRING. It’s time to NOT be the Turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

My thanks to Global Intelligence Letter for the clip.

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[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

These are the words of the President of the United States speaking (if you can call it that) at the NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye.

We are so used to having mainstream media translate his butchery of the English language his lunacy has become like a ticking clock, we are so used to hearing his crimes against grammar and punctuation we don’t hear them anymore.

If you think this is normal can I suggest you seek some help to quit the Trump narcotics?

My thanks to thepolichick for her delivery of his words verbatim

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[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

This woman is reciting Trump’s words exactly as he said them during the NATO summit.

We have become so inured to Trump’s incoherence that is sanewashed by the media 24/7 that we fail to recognize just how much he’s declined.

Reading a transcript of his words makes it SO CLEAR.