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The allegations coming out in the New York Times and Miami New Timeqs are shocking and need to be investigated by the House and Senate. This is President Trump's Watergate moment.
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
3 Indian sailors are dead after a US strike disabled the tanker MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman.
CENTCOM says it was carrying Iranian crude and ignored orders. (21 crew were rescued).
India has summoned the US chargé d'affaires.
This incident will outlast the news cycle.
It's the 2nd Indian-crewed, Palau-flagged tanker hit by US forces in a single week (MT Marivex was first; all crew survived).
Blockade enforcement is no longer an abstraction between Washington and Tehran.
It's now killing 3rd-country seafarers.
The world's tanker fleet runs on flags of convenience and Indian, Filipino and Chinese crews.
A blockade that treats every non-compliant hull as a target puts those crews at risk.
For shipping, this adds a layer on top of Hormuz war-risk premia now extend into the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, crews may refuse Gulf routings, and insurers reprice everything Iran-adjacent.
The blockade's cost is no longer just barrels. It's manpower and coverage.
video source: current report
Social Security’s trust fund is now due to run low on money beginning in 2032.
The government acknowledged that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tax cuts are expected to contribute to the insolvency. https://t.co/FpQywAm1Hv
CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”
There would have been a Chernobyl-level meltdown in the media if Biden or Obama was at a freaking basketball game while an American military helicopter was shot down during a war they started.
Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)
Just silence.
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
This is a national tragedy. It was inevitable after 2020 and Megyn's probably lying here, but if you get to the point where you can't believe Rs finished third in jungle primaries in a deep blue state in a year the R president's favorability is minus a billion, nothing's real