Conner Smith

Veteran, former Montanan now living in amazing Oklahoma , Husband to an Amazing Wife, and Father to two Awesome Daughters.

[SheepDog Society LLC @SDSLLC_USA]

What in the hell is going on with women and killing their children? This is getting to be too much now. We have to start setting examples.

[Rabbi Jeff @RabbiJeffx]

Hey @grok, concise, no spin.

What ethnicity do all three share?

One word only.

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Highlighted (confirmed) incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the Middle East by the @IMOHQ

▶️Number of confirmed incidents as at 30 September 2026: 88

▶️Number of confirmed seafarer fatalities: 24

https://t.co/vKaEoHmKge

[Jones Plantation @JonesPlantation]

We cANt looZE to CHyna!

[SheepDog Society LLC @SDSLLC_USA]

If you come on my property with a baseball bat, you will leave with a gun in your face or you won't leave it all.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Just thinking about this. If people can go to prison for lying to congress, then why can't we put members of Congress in prison for lying to the American people?

[Shannon Joy @ShannonJoyRadio]

Always remember…

When they say they’re spraying to kill ‘ticks and mosquitoes’ they actually mean you.

“JUST IN: Trump signs executive order directing federal agencies to deploy genetic modification technologies against ticks & mosquitoes”

This will not end well:

[J.J. Carrell @JJCarrell14]

The truth about the ICE Stand Down!

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

𝗜 𝗦𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀.
𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁...

Since May and June, and every month after, I have told my readers the same thing.

When fuel turns scarce, governments stop selling it abroad.

First crude, then diesel. I said Trump would reach for an oil export ban, and that a diesel export ban would follow in the weeks ahead.

This week China showed everyone how it works. PetroChina cancelled the bulk of the gasoline and jet fuel cargoes it had committed only weeks earlier.

Zhejiang Petrochemical shipped ZERO through the holiday week that opened on 1 October.

The stated reason was blunt: protect domestic supply while inventories run thin.

Brent crossed back above $100 dollars a barrel on the news. It is the second time this year the largest crude importer on earth has pulled its fuel off the market to feed itself first...

The timing is the part I want to put your attention to... President Xi Jinping just wrapped his state visit with Trump on 24 September.

Beijing held this announcement UNITIL roughly a week after he was home.

A fuel cut that lifts Brent above $100 USD and tells every nation to fend for itself would have soured the summit had it landed while Xi was still on American soil.

So...so China took the handshake in daylight and kept the barrels in the quiet that came after. Whatever was agreed in Washington with Trump, China is already positioning for scarcity underneath it...

That is the whole logic in one move. A country that senses a shortage keeps its barrels at home, and exports are the first thing it cuts, because a government answers to its own citizens and self-interest BEFORE anyone else's... that is AMERICA FIRST, but the Chinese Version: China FIRST...!!!

The United States is one step behind on the same road. Diesel sits at record highs, distillate stocks are thin, and an export ban is already being floated in Washington.

The reasons China acted are the reasons America will, and I expect the US to move on diesel exports in the coming weeks. When it does, it will be the pattern completing itself, not a surprise.

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

A critical read: 𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 $𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹. 𝗜 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝘆.

Since January I have kept a ledger of every reported strike on a Russian refinery, opened each one at its source, and graded it by who confirmed it.

I have tracked at least 92 verified strikes on 27 plants, eleven of them are now idle. Russian refining has fallen to a 24-year low, and its product exports have nearly stopped.

The numbers alone are staggering.

The gasoil crack, the premium for turning crude into diesel, hit a record $79 USD a barrel. US diesel passed $200 USD, 94% above pre-war.

The price is the unsophisticated version of events, but underneath this, there is a more frightening issue and this issue does not stop within the borders of Russia...

It ends at a smallholder in Kenya, the American farmer, a grain buyer in Egypt, a soybean field in Brazil and everyone who eats anything on this planet.

Diesel carries the fertiliser to the farm AND the food from it to the grocery food processing plants and to the stores where we shop, and the barrels that used to move both are coming off the market intentionally...

In this investigation I asked three questions the headlines skip.

1. What this campaign removes from the world.

2. WHO pays first, and why the bill lands farthest from the war.

3. And the one that breaks the easy story: the reflex says a crisis sends money running into the dollar and US Treasuries, yet in 2026 the opposite is happening, and the reason matters more than the price.

Underneath it sits the mechanism I have named "Sanctions Capitalism," market share taken by removing the competition rather than out-competing it, and a "coalition of the forced" assembled through scarcity.

Two energy shocks in one year, the refinery war and the Hormuz/ Bab Al Mandeeb closure, compound rather than cancel, and August is when the pace hit a record.

The full investigation, the ledger, the orders of effect, and where this goes next, is on Substack. Link in reply.

If my work resonates with you, be sure to amplify this Signal.

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

I shut my truck off at 1030 am this morning.

Do what you want but I'm sick and tired of everything being so expensive.

We either take a stand or allow this corrupt government to finish the job bankrupting us.

At the end of the day we're all consumers. Your prices will continue to rise if you don't air out your grievances.

Peacefully!!

I'm doing my part. You do yours however you feel it needs to happen.

I told you I would and here I am.

I don't care what your opinion is, I'll do me, you do you. At least I held true to my word.

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Just like we knew from the very start. It was all a cover story to try to push oil prices down.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 High School fight in LA ends in tragic suicide

Despite a teacher intervening, one of the kids left the classroom and threw himself over a balcony as he was running away from his attacker

Such a tragic waste of life

Writer: Ian

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

𝗜 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲. 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲, 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗶𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱...

At dawn today, Ansarallah Houthi forces in Yemen reportedly hit Saudi Aramco installations across the Kingdom's Eastern Province.

Satellite images captured a black column of smoke near 90km long, trailing off the site from about 06:45 UTC until darkness ended the satellite's view, roughly seven hours later.

Initial accounts named Abqaiq, the planet's biggest crude stabilization complex, responsible for close to 7% of worldwide supply.

Fresh geolocation then traced the plume's origin some 45km to the west, landing on the North Ghawar production yard instead of that plant.

Which of the two took the blow changes nothing about my argument, because both belong to the single supply chain I mapped for you earlier.

Oil lifted from Ghawar, the largest field anywhere, moves through Abqaiq and onward to the loading terminals at Ras Tanura and Juaymah.

Cripple just ONE junction, or any segment between them, and the whole run toward the Red Sea falls into doubt, with Hormuz still sealed on the opposite flank.

All of this is precisely what my viral oil essay laid out in the below links.

Protecting national energy assets has crossed a line it will NOT step back over.

The defending side must now shield an unbroken 1,500 kilometre artery, together with each booster station, every processing unit and all the shipping points fixed along it. An attacker wins by breaching a single spot, anywhere.

Iran keeps its doctrine NO secret. Officials repeat it openly, in Arabic, in English and across neighbouring languages: deny Iran its own exports and none will flow for anybody.

Yemen turns that vow into action on behalf of its own converged interest along with Iran's, and the rhythm since 1 September is unmistakable.

The moment word goes out that repairs are finished and shipments resumed, expect a follow-up within hours or days.

Aramco now stands somewhat boxed in. A ruptured booster can be mended. Torn steel can be rejoined. Making a corridor of that length FULLY safe again, though, lies beyond reach, which turns the danger overhead into a permanent target.

Two exits remain. Seek terms and settle, or bleed export capacity blow by blow until this war ends, however it ends and this is not just bad news for Saudi Arabia, or for Aramco, but for the entire world. We need a solution to this problem and war is not it in this circumstances.

The world needs to step in to help manage the flow of Oil, one way or another or the Diesel Wars, Fertilizer Shortage, Food Shortages will make the lockdowns feel like prep school. We need Saudi Arabia to do well.

Steel can be welded, yet the shadow above it never lifts.

You must read or listen to these articles to understand what is coming NEXT:

1. INVESTIGATION: The Pipeline Strike That Forced Saudi Aramco to Buy Diesel in Europe Was an Inside Job. https://t.co/sZYCAB7i6m

2. America Is Reading the Diesel Chart Wrong. The Pump Is the First Bill. The Farmer Gets the Second. https://t.co/asswgo5TuE

3. Oil: The Middle East Oil Tap Is Closing for Good, and Markets Have Not Priced It. It CANNOT Be Defended. https://t.co/1slN4MVklf

4. Iran War Prediction: Iran's Ten Declared Pillars Show Where It Strikes Next, Before and After the Midterms: https://t.co/nBo8PVcHN0

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[U.S. Minutemen @minutemen_us]

🚨BREAKING🚨

We were going to announce specific AIPAC politicians, but given the sheer amount of them that have committed treason we'll do it like this...

The U.S. Minutemen are additionally declaring all AIPAC politicians traitors and domestic terrorists.

You had your chance.

[Shannon Joy @ShannonJoyRadio]

HORRIFYING:

[🇺🇲RIPatriot🇺🇸 @Trap_12G]

I have changed my mind on something I used to believe.

I no longer believe the 2020 election was stolen.

I wholeheartedly believe it was rigged.

But I believe Trump was in on it. I believe Trump was in on all of the things he pretended to be “fighting against”

Everything is theatre, we don’t have politicians, we have actors all reading from a script. There is no democrats and republicans. There are only likuds and globalists.

[J. @izthisJudah]

Christians gather in the street to pray.

A black dude walks up, spits at them, and tries to shut it down.

Bad move. He picked the Christian who doesn’t turn the other cheek.

[OKIE PATRIOT 76 @okiepatriot_76]

Durant, Oklahoma Stockyards has some words for President Donald Trump regarding his upcoming stop in town tomorrow.