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[Kaiser Kuo @KaiserKuo]

This is a must-read for all those involved in debates with the current account determinists. Quite a tour de force. https://t.co/8bJK7JipjG

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

HEGSETH: “Threatening commercial ships transiting international waters is piracy.”

ALSO HEGSETH: “Two oil tankers were seized overnight. We’re going to take their 50 million barrels of oil and sell it.

The hypocrisy is unbelievable. These are not serious people.

[Javed Hassan @javedhassan]

So, a couple of the boys have been texting me: “Why the hell would Trump drop the Hormuz blockade bomb on a Sunday? It’ll send oil screaming past $120, maybe $130 if the algos really panic. Makes zero sense if you actually want cheaper barrels.”

But it makes perfect sense. Beautiful, even.

See, Tokyo and Hong Kong are already humming by the time the East Coast is still nursing its coffee. Those futures pits—Dow, S&P, the whole equity complex, plus Brent and WTI on the screens—never really sleep. You’ve got fourteen, fifteen hours of runway before the New York bell. Plenty of time for the right hands to lean in: long the indices in Hong Kong, short the crude in Tokyo, riding the fear wave as the blockade tweet lights up every terminal from Singapore to Sydney.

Then, right on cue, before the U.S. opens, comes the pivot. Something about “there’s regime change in Tehran,” “we can do business,” “Talks were Good,” the usual art-of-the-deal baloney. Markets whip around like they’ve been Tasered. Oil gives back the spike, stocks rip higher. The boys in Asia unwind clean, pocket the spread.

A few hundred million, maybe more, conjured out of thin air on the back of one perfectly timed Sunday morning post. Not bad for a morning’s work. The Street’s been running these kinds of games for decades: information, timing, leverage. Just never quite so… presidential!!

[Contracts Australia @ContractsAus]

@k_eagar @commons96055467 Exactly!

[Contracts Australia @ContractsAus]

@PhillipAdams_1 Do you believe these reports? I would love to know. Hard to credit such craziness!

[Contracts Australia @ContractsAus]

@JaneCaro So true. And we see what’s happening in the US too.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Republican Congressman Bryan Steil just acknowledged that there will be an additional process that all women will have to go through if they want to vote after changing their name due to marriage under the Save Act.

“It will look a lot like if an individual wanted to go and sell their car. If you have a different name than what was on your car, there is a simple, straightforward process for that.”

Undoubtedly this will lead to less women voting, and most women vote Democrat.

This is the real reason Republicans want to pass this law. They want to silence women.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

Sadly this is for others horrible news
but for Afghan women daily and real life💔

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

#Heartbroken: Afghan women have the “right” to beg in the freezing cold, but not the right to education or work under the Taliban. Millions are raised in their name, yet hunger and suffering continue. Where is the accountability? Where is the UN?

#EndGenderApartheid #FreeWomen

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Just waiting for the line up of athletes demanding a Royal Commission…

Imagine how many people would’ve been seriously harmed had this device detonated
But. It’s only Aboriginal people so who cares right?

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

A man threw a bomb into the crowd at an #InvasionDay rally in Perth, containing explosive liquid, ball bearings & screws. Fortunately it did not explode. Could @abcnews' headline make a greater effort to undersell the seriousness of this attack?! THIS is also terrorism. #auspol

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

When other countries protest like this.....things change.....WE NEED TO DO THIS NATIONWIDE‼️#GeneralStrike

[Shayan @shayan_]

I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.

Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Americans are more or less inured to Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings and political theatre. After his speech in Davos, stunned Europeans are inclined to call his behavior what it is: out of control.
https://t.co/PVWfxcjdOs

[Contracts Australia @ContractsAus]

@JustinWolfers Can we send a UN Peacekeeping Force to the USA?

[Contracts Australia @ContractsAus]

@Scaramucci Your checks and balances are a charade. You need to reform your whole system. Bring back rule of law - or unwind the flawed experiment that was the United States of America.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

This has to be the over reach moment when Europe stops pretending this guy is normal or can be dealt with normally, and they get their act together and fight back. He is an enemy over Ukraine and an enemy over a NATO country, Denmark, whose defence of Greenland has been weakened not by them but by the USA. He is a narcissist who cares only for himself and his fellow grifters and cultists, and his deeply fragile ego. He is a bully who will respect nobody and nothing that fails to stand up to him. I have many American friends and am deeply sorry it has got to this but while he is leader it is not a place we can support in any way. And given the chaos he is causing home and abroad it might be about time his NBF at @FIFAcom Infantino thought about shifting the World Cup to a country that wants people to feel welcome. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 among the many who could step in. But for now he just needs to be told DO ONE DONNY

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

History shows what happens when leaders in collapse drag nations into their death spirals. The personal breakdown of one man becomes political crisis for millions. That’s exactly what we’re seeing now.

[Jen @ShBVVq1]

In case people needed a reminder that legal systems don’t necessarily result in justice. The vileness of making someone else’s experience of sexual assault all about oneself as ‘victim’. Linda Reynolds may have ‘won’ - she remains a despicable human. https://t.co/wqjdcXh8Ce

[Christie Whelan @Christie_Whelan]

Linda Reynolds sued a rape victim for defamation because ‘she DID support her after the abuse took place’….. by calling her a lying cow. Suing a rape survivor and making yourself the victim is further abuse. I’m not sure how she sleeps at night.