Daniel Ruiz

[Grand Rapids Businessman @GR_businessman]

NOW: Rosa Parks Circle has officially been taken over by homeless encampments.

The Grand Rapids taxpayer has paid Mel Trotter $1,000,000 since 2022 to provide locked trash cans for the homeless’ storage but it appears the program has completely failed.

[Daniel Ruiz @usdanielr17]

@joekent16jan19 Estás loco

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iran's chief negotiator says Iran is now taking measures to completely close the Strait of Hormuz and preparing for a "broad response to U.S. aggression with a pattern of firing and a new target bank," per Iranian outlets.

The source stated that Iran has identified its targets — U.S. military bases across the Gulf are about get wiped out and closure of the Strait of Hormuz is part of the response.

He emphasized that the firing pattern and target bank have been finalized, and the response will be broader than previous exchanges.

The source added that the response is imminent and will come without warning.

[Sarah @DDGSarah]

This government is full of pedos and sexual degenerates. You’re not going to vote your way out of this.

The Head of DHS was banging a man, not her husband, on private planes bought with our money and giving her friends million dollar contracts for nothing while her husband is wearing prosthetic breasts and doing duck face. Amazing.

[Daniel Ruiz @usdanielr17]

It was a big mistake to attack Iran.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Iran did not attack Fujairah by accident. It attacked Fujairah because Fujairah is the answer to Iran.

To understand why this strike is the most strategically precise action Iran has taken in this entire war, you need to understand what Fujairah is and why it exists. The Strait of Hormuz is the chokepoint that gives Iran its most powerful economic leverage over the world: twenty million barrels of oil per day transit through a corridor that Iranian mines, missiles, and fast-attack boats can threaten to close. The global economy’s response to forty years of that leverage was to build Fujairah. The UAE constructed the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone on the eastern Gulf of Oman coast so that oil could flow from Abu Dhabi’s fields through a 380-kilometer pipeline to Fujairah’s terminals and onto tankers without ever transiting Hormuz. Fujairah is the world’s third-largest bunkering port. It hosts terminal operators including Vopak, VTTI, MENA, and GPS. It holds tens of millions of barrels of refined products and crude storage capacity. It is the physical infrastructure the global maritime economy built to make Hormuz less relevant. Iran just told the world that Fujairah is also within range.

The attack occurred on March 3. An Iranian drone crossed into UAE airspace. Air defense intercepted it. Debris landed in the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone and ignited a fire in storage tank infrastructure. The UAE confirmed the fire was contained, no casualties, operations resuming. Argus Media reported direct hits on storage tanks and thick smoke over one terminal. Satellite imagery released March 6 confirms visible fire and impact at the storage zone.

The official narrative: a near miss. Debris from an intercepted drone. Contained fire. Resuming operations.

The strategic narrative: Iran demonstrated that it can reach Fujairah.

Those two statements can both be true simultaneously and the second one is the one that matters for the global energy market. The entire investment thesis of Fujairah as a Hormuz bypass depends on Fujairah being physically safe. An intercepted drone whose debris sets storage tanks on fire is not physically safe in any insurance underwriter’s actuarial framework. The verification cost inversion mechanism, demonstrated five times in this war across maritime insurance, oil refinery insurance, corporate presence, financial architecture, and digital infrastructure, has now been applied to the bypass route itself.

Iran’s targeting logic is architecturally coherent. Ras Tanura and Ras Laffan disrupted primary Gulf production. Ahmadi disrupted the Kuwait-Saudi pipeline corridor. Fujairah completes the circuit: the one infrastructure node the world built specifically to avoid Iranian leverage. There is no safe corridor for the global energy system that is outside Iranian reach. That is the message. It has now been sent to three simultaneous coordinates.

The jet fuel at $225.44 per barrel already includes a Hormuz closure premium. It now also includes a Fujairah vulnerability premium. These are not the same premium. They stack. Global shipping operators who rerouted through Fujairah to avoid Hormuz now face the same question: does rerouting solve the problem when Iran can reach the bypass route itself?

The Fujairah strike is Iran’s answer to the world’s answer to Iran. It did not need to destroy the facilities to accomplish its objective. It needed to prove it could reach them. Satellite imagery published March 6 provides that proof at global scale.

The bypass route that took decades and billions of dollars to build was neutered as a strategic hedge in the time it takes a drone to fly from an Iranian launch point to the Gulf of Oman coast.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[αdil @ixadilx]

• Elon Musk changed Iran's flag on X.

• Removed verification from Iranian leaders accounts.

• Platform barely shows news from Iran.

• Boosting only Israeli and American propaganda.

And they still call this "free speech."

[Daniel Ruiz @usdanielr17]

@hispanicnomad The place in Latin America where Spanish is best spoken is Mexico

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

While Trump was golfing this weekend and Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum quietly sent rescue teams to help with the Texas floods.

Despite the racist and sexist attacks from weak men, she still did the right thing. That's leadership.

[Daniel Ruiz @usdanielr17]

Man who made iPhone helping Sam Altman bury it https://t.co/3ADetb648Z vía @asiatimesonline

[Daniel Ruiz @usdanielr17]

https://t.co/M62IGbdoIu

[Fernando Cuevas @FerCuevasMur]

Oye @nayibbukele ¿Por qué usas avión privado si con 30 minutos en bicicleta llegas a cualquier parte de tu municipio?

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Pretty much says it all.

Trump is a diminished old man who has outsourced all of his power to an unelected, South African billionaire.

[Héctor Atarrabia @HectorAtarrabia]

Como buena científica, la PresidentA evocó el viejo problema: ¿Se puede atrapar a un ratón inexistente con una ratonera imaginaria?
Magistral.
El ratón inexistente son los aranceles, mentira febril e impracticable. La ratonera imaginaria, el envío de 10,000 guardias civiles. Esto debido a que estaban programados e iban para allá de cualquier forma, no sólo por las drogas de aquí para allá, sino más bien por las armas de allá para para acá.
Entonces ¿qué sí pasó? Pasó que en el transcurso, un presidente gringo aceptó por primera vez que mandar armas hacia acá es un problema de fondo (no hará nada: no puede, pero lo aceptó) y pasó, también, que aceptó y hasta solicitó know-how, que el otro problema de fondo son sus adicciones.
Eso es lo relevante. Lo demás es envoltura de colores brillantes sin mayor importancia (excepto porque los viscerales mercados reaccionaron positivamente, pero según el guión)
Enjoy the show!

[Daniel Ruiz @usdanielr17]

@elonmusk Hahaja gringos have no culture of their own or anything in reality, and they waste time changing their name to a gulf. Lower inflation, catch US drug traffickers and take care of their people from natural disasters and drug addicts

[HOT SPOT @HotSpotHotSpot]

BREAKING: Reporter Sam Husseini @samhusseini is arrested and dragged out of a press briefing by Blinken for asking “Why aren’t you in The Hague?”

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

World’s best cities for culture:

1. 🇲🇽 Mexico City
2. 🇨🇿 Prague
3. 🇿🇦 Cape Town
4. 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires
5. 🇬🇷 Athens
6. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh
7. 🇦🇹 Vienna
8. 🇪🇸 Madrid
9. 🇮🇹 Florence
10. 🇦🇺 Melbourne

Source: TimeOut

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

If Zelensky manages to survive an early departure from this earth, he should go on a pilgrimage to the Cathedral of the Armed Forces in Moscow.

While there, he should get on his hands and knees and pray to God (something he probably has never done). He should thank the generous, kind & benevolent President Putin for sparing his life & he should praise the glorious Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for putting the Ukrainian people out of their misery — a misery that was forced upon them by the satanic antihuman scum at NATO.

For the remainder of his life, he should voluntarily work in service to the good people of Russia that he has brought so much pain & suffering unto. He should sacrifice his remaining time on earth rebuilding the cities, churches, schools and homes that he has so ruthlessly destroyed in his campaign to enrich himself with Western taxpayer dollars.

At the end of it all, he should understand that the "Zelensky's" of this world will come and go, but the Ukrainian people will remain forever. In accordance with this reality, when Zelensky meets his natural end, his remains should find their place not in a grand monument or ornate tomb, but at the bottom of the ocean. Encased in a metal box, he should rest with the full weight of his amassed wealth measured in gold.

Only then, will Zelensky understand how important it was to sacrifice the lives of millions of innocent souls for an increase in his net worth.

[M. K. Bhadrakumar @BhadraPunchline]

Decades after US President Joe Biden disappears as a footnote to a turbulent chapter of American political history, his authorisation of the use of US-supplied ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles for strikes inside Russia will remain a mystery.
https://t.co/zpB6PxEWN0

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

If Netflix broadcasted NFL games…

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

If Marco Rubio is named as Secretary of State, then every single person who donated money to the Trump campaign should demand a refund, and they should realize that Trump 2.0 is just Bush 1.0. NEOCONs galore. Endless wars. The swamp is in charge. Might as well ask Dick Cheney to be Sec. of State at this point. We were all told that it would be different this time around, that Trump wouldn't choose swamp creatures to run his administration. And now we get Rubio? Are you fu#king kidding me? If you want a real Secretary of State that can achieve peace, appoint Professor Jeffrey Sachs to the position. Or Dennis Kucinich.