@MarioNawfal Where will countries get dollars to buy oil?
1. Sell US Treasuries (Japan is doing this)
2. "Swap Lines" (Fed gives USD, taking foreign currency)
Also, non-USD transactions will grow, e.g. sell/buy through Shanghai exchange, or directly with Russia (India, Turkey doing this)
Justice Thomas is giving you the answer, just follow the instructions. The ideal future cert petition might look something like:
"A small landlord purchased a duplex. After the lease expired, he sought possession so his disabled daughter could move into the unit. State law prohibited eviction and required lease renewal indefinitely. Does the Takings Clause permit a state to force a property owner to continue housing a tenant after the owner seeks to recover possession of the property for personal use?"
That question focuses directly on the constitutional issue that several Justices seem interested in: the boundary between permissible landlord-tenant regulation and a government-compelled physical occupation. It avoids broad attacks on rent control generally and presents a concrete fact pattern that could divide lower courts. Based on Thomas's statement accompanying the denial, that sort of case appears substantially more likely to receive serious consideration than the broad facial challenge presented in Pinehurst.
@chrismartenson@FurkanGozukara And the administration has been jawing down oil prices once a week with cries of "DEAL WITH IRAN!". Some entity may be manipulating the futures on top of that, but the day the supply isn't there, no amount of manipulation will save the price.
@MiamiHerald As of 2025, Florida property tax collections have increased 80% (almost doubling!) since 2019. Cities and counties burning this new cash on endless pet projects, bureaucracy, politically-connected consultants, even new city hall shrines. https://t.co/MrnJtWQnaX
@DanielDiMartino Totally unconstitutional: 5th and 14th amendments. Socialist using code enforcement for confiscatory wealth transfer from a disfavored private owner to a politically preferred private organization.
@TPostMillennial DeSantis won't back Donalds in the primary. A Feb 2026 University of North Florida poll of likely Republican voters asked whose endorsement would matter more in the governor's race: 42% chose Gov. Ron DeSantis, while only 32% picked Trump, 18% unsure.
@bennyjohnson I hope the peace deal is true and lasting. Russia and China can reign in Iran, likely strengthening BRICS. Will the US be able to reign in Netanyahu?
@DavidAsmanfox It's too generous to say that these ideologues ignore history -- they know nothing of it. They are progressive activists: indoctrinated, closed-minded, and willfully blind to realities, all just following the cult.
@VladTheInflator That's because people who are out of work for more than a year no longer count in unemployment figures. There are considered "not in labor force". Convenient!
@theficouple It doesn't surprise me, no. Washington DC has been robbing the nation for decades. Not only are bureaucrats expensive, there are way too many of them.
@NicHulscher Quercetin is also a zinc ionophore if you just need that. Getting zinc into cells isn't the only reason HCQ may work with Ebola. Because HCQ also raises endosomal pH, it interferes with Ebola's ability to use acidic endosomal compartments needed to enter cells.
@FischerKing64 For every $1,000/yr in property tax reduction a home value should rise by about $20,000. That said, home values in many places are already quite inflated (and interest rates rapidly rising), but eliminating property tax would be an instant boost to home values.