Czerina Patel

journalist,documentarian,producer,non-profiteer,comms specialist,American,S.African,progressive,truthteller,rights/justice activist,adventurer,writer&now a mom!

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

Trump lost a jury trial and every appeal and now his personal lawyer is using the US government to attack the woman Trump raped.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

They are looting this country. Dismantling it, selling it for parts, and lining their own pockets.

It is corruption to the highest degree.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, still owes her $86 million, and is now using the power of the federal government to keep targeting and harassing her. Abusers don’t stop abusing.

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@SenWarren And instead of saving lives, fostering medical research, and preventing disease and global health pandemics, they are spending those millions on vanity projects for orange Ozymandias and to reward insurrectionists who beat up police!

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

First, Trump weaponized the DOJ to target his political enemies. Now, perversely, he’s targeting E. Jean Carroll, the woman who credibly and successfully sued him for sexual assault.

He’s using the power of the DOJ to go after his own victims.

It’s a vile attack on the rule of law and a disgusting insult to victims everywhere.

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@CNN Hope the media reminds the public with every day reporting on this story of who was found liable of RAPE!

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@CNN Pity that when she sues the Govt and wins, we the taxpayers will have to pay and not the individuals making up the most corrupt Admin in U.S. history!

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

.@VandAWaterfront more like this :) what a helpful, friendly security who knows his stuff..: told me where I can find a shoe brand even though that brand doesn't have a dedicated shop here! Well done to good service!

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@MR0808 @woolworths Also you must put in a bowl that fully fits on your scale and center the bowl , then zero it, to get real weight

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.

Crypto: $3.02B
Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M
Qatari jet: $150M
Legal fees/merch: $127.7M
Mar-a-Lago: $125M
Corporate deals: $91M
Hanoi hotel: $40M
Truth Social: $25M
Don Jr: $19.6M

Unprecedented kleptocracy.

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@FoxNews @AmericaRpts @johnrobertsFox Since when did Congress approve Trump's son in law to be sec of state? Swampiest nepotistic swamp ever serving Netanyahu and their own financial interests (not America) first!

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@TableMountainNP pls do better job of showing Tcs and Cs of #localislekker special. Did not obviously show had to be bought in advance online and couldn't be obtained at table mtn or online day of; not lekker at all at R490 round trip for locals !

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

Well done to SAFM for not letting govt get away with absolute failures to provide timely access to clean water! Ten years in and they say 3 1/2 more years to provide villages with taps! Heads should be rolling! Great segment with Kathy taking no prisoners!

[SAfmRadio 📻 @SAfmRadio]

[ON AIR] #MunicipalWatch: Residents of eNkalweni in the Eastern Cape under the Joe Gqabi District Municipality are telling a very painful story caused by a lack of clean water. Why is the municipality not getting things right so that they can provide water for the villages in that area? Thethile Ramba - Resident of eNkalweni village, Nombulelo Damba- Hendrik - Journalist at GroundUp, Dumisani Lusawana - Water Services Provision Manager at the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, Robert Fortuin - Director for Technical Services at the Joe Gqabi District Municipality on #TheNationalBriefing #sabcnews

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

Besides the fact that businesses are NOT paying their employees correctly, percentage-based tips make NO SENSE. Why should a person doing the same work make so much less because of lower cost of items? Would make more sense if tips were based on number items ordered😩

[stanley milgram stan @joshjordand]

My mind immediately starts to analyze about a dozen different things about how Bernie Sanders barely creeping up over the years to finally reach a whole entire million dollars (😱) with a living $200k salary and a book deal thru honest means in a system that allows it, that he’s willing to take down & very likely pays a higher tax bracket than Elon.

But not Elon. No he’s just a hypocrite sucking on the American taxpayer nippple & shitposting myopic memes to his apparently wide moronic audience of sycophants who eat up his entire grift.

You’re a juvenile.

[Ralph @IggyKoop]

@elonmusk Dem notes tho 💀

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

@elonmusk When we say “tax the rich” we are not talking about people that have worked for decades to own a home and a humble vacation property.

We are talking about the ones that spend $40 billion on a social media site to change narratives and flood the markets with misinformation.

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@NickJFuentes Why do you think they're trying to control who can vote by using ICE at polls & trying to make it so that we need documents issued (or refused/stalled) by the federal government, and also trying to block overseas voters; watch out for election machine fraud+intimidation at polls!

[Czerina Patel @czerina]

@ClaysonMonyela @elonmusk Facts don't matter to Elon; he only cares about pushing racist, xenophobic, anti Black, anti ANC propaganda to try to pressure his way around SA Laws that seek to redress Apartheid (which Elon benefited from)!