Kim Perales

More🚨missiles & drones have been launched by Iran towards the SoH in recent mins. The increase in launches🚨that we've seen over the past 2 weeks has been staggering… Very🚨little credibility to the argument “Iran is just about to run out of munitions." It’s worth remembering that the🚨US blockade of Iran was NEVER about “inflation” or “the Rial”… It was about🚨making Iran’s oil wells shut-in & EXPLODE… (in 13 days) This is just Plan G:🚨we’ve hopelessly attached to." -B Erickson #IranWar #USPol

"The E-W Pipeline: hit again, say Saudi sources & sat images. The war in #Yemen🚨enters a dangerous new phase, threatening reg energy corridors & to alter ME sec archs🚨-rapidly escalating into a wider reg #energy war, as Houthi forces & the Saudi-bkd coalition intensify MIL ops *once again🎯ing vital oil infra & trade rtes. This renewed instability is reshaping global energy governance & trade flows,🚨intro profound NEW INSTABILITIES." #IranWar #Houthis #SaudiArabia #USPol https://energygeopoliticsandstatecraft.substack.com/p/yemen-war-redux-new-offensives-alliance

"If it wasn't for the data center boom, the US economy🚨would likely be in a deep #recession. It's no wonder that #Trump is going all in for them; he has nothing else to keep the #economy humming." -C Owiki " #DataCenters are booming. 🚨All other private #construction is shrinking." #AI companies🚨will need to find at least $4.2T a year in new revenue by 2031 to pay for their data center buildout, per Bain & Co. Despite the AI boom,🚨Silicon Valley is shedding #tech #jobs." -S Rattner #USPol

"Believers in the #AI boom🚨need to take a very close look at this number: 9% of GDP. That's how much American businesses & consumers🚨eventually have to spend per year on the services of companies like #Anthropic & #OpenAI to justify the staggering sums being committed to the #technology right now. Is it plausible🚨we'll spend as much on AI as on food? Twice as much as on energy?🚨The law of diminishing returns would like a word." #Broligarchs #Fraud #Economy #Lies #USPol https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will-america-spend-9-of-its-gdp-on-ai-the-industry-is-counting-on-it-3501bb4f

Problems for #Republicans:⚡Senate: TX is in play & FL➡️not far behind. AK, NC & GA:💙likely lost. ME is problematic. Sen GOP campaign arm:⚡begging donors for $8.9M to defend Sen seats in 3 sts: #Trump won by double digits 2 yrs ago: AK/IA/OH. "We're having problems just getting R voters to respond to polls."⚡Rs may not show up on ED! Only in MI do Rs see hope. Cook Pol Report:💙moved 15 House races toward Dems on Fri -need 3 seats➡️for control. #Democrats #Elections #USPol https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/trump-republicans-midterm-election-house-senate

The man shot by an immigration agent in Austin, Texas, over the weekend said Monday that he was BLEEDING AND IN PAIN AND THAT A BULLET REMAINED LODGED IN HIS BACK. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, an IMM from Venezuela, said: he only felt one gunshot enter his body when a fed IMM off shot him *bullet near his spine was not removed at a hospital bc a doctor said that agents from #ICE were in a hurry to transport him. HE WASN'T THE🎯, #DHS #LIES 24/7. #Sadism #AbolishICE #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/ice-shooting-austin-texas.html?smid=tw-share

"All Trump pardons🚨have been scrubbed from the Justice Dept website." -X Hinojosa Trump's #DOJ is attempting a #CoverUp:🚨#Trump doled out #pardons & #clemency grants to heinous criminals &💔wiped out $Ms for victims. AG Blanche/others, deleted the files *followed his orders, but they know the info is available⬇️ Jan 21, 2025: 1 Pardon:🚨 Ross W Ulbricht: SDNY➡️Life imprisonment; lifetime supervised release (May 29, 2015)... #TrumpRegime #Crimes #Corruption #Elections #USPol https://archive.is/2026.07.03-132049/https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present#selection-1813.0-1853.61

"We are told🚨we are in an #AI arms race with China." -D Wallace-Wells We were also told by Trump & his "AI experts" that the US had to build numerous #DataCenters, & as quickly as possible, virtually unregulated, for the US economy, & that concerns are just hoaxes. #Lies #Broligarchs #Tech #Fascism #Environment #Climate #Jobs #Economy #Trump #TrumpRegime #USPol

"Why're some #Republicans🚨suddenly & conspicuously breaking from #Trump? Rs in ruby-red states,🚨in the span of days? Probably #diesel: aver to reach🚨$7 by the end of next week. Trump's base of power,🚨believe the #economy is worse under him *rural economy runs on diesel." -J Stoehr "Diesel➡️currently selling at🚨>$200/bbl *always a 'crack spread' btw crude & diesel *typically: $20. So the price of diesel is currently roughly what we'd normally expect with crude at around $190." -P Krugman #USPol

"New: The #Trump admin🚨has spent >$1M in public funds so far to boost the pres on the airwaves. Experts incl a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely🚨violates federal laws against #propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff." Some Rs have expressed concern about the ads. Sen Kennedy🚨said in an interview broadcast on Sun that no public official, incl Trump, “should spend public money on private ads for themselves.” #Theft #Fascism #DOJ #Lies #IranWar #Elections #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/us/politics/trump-ad-government-campaign.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVE.gMqi.-dnxNkdquOXY&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“The government of #Greenland & the Danish Prime Minister’s office🚨have released a joint statement on an agreement with the US. Unsurprisingly, the statement🚨doesn’t match the sweeping nature of Trump’s post on Truth Social. #Denmark & Greenland⚡️are saying they expect to sign a new security agreement with the US at the #UN next week… I don’t have any insight how that will be received but we do know that🚨President #Trump’s approval rating amongst the Danish🚨is 4%…” -Y Ali #Lies #USPol

"Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas ICE Processing Center.🚨He’s being taken to the hospital.💔He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side.💔HE CAN'T MOVE THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS BODY." -Rep Joaquin Castro Another account of the horrific #ICE shooting of Garces Perez, by Univision (Eng translation): #DHS #Torture #Abuse #Fascism #Racism #StateViolence #TrumpRegime #Elections #USPol https://www.univision.com/local/austin-kakw/wilber-garces-ice-austin-video-arresto-tiroteo-inmigracion-pearsall

#HHS & many Americans are struggling to survive bc #RFKJr🚨has ZOMBIFIED the agency: "30% fewer staff, scientists sidelined, pol interference, its new dir, who pledged to 'follow the science,' instead challenged PA's announcement of 2 #measles deaths, shunning stand procedure." -T Gabriel For decades, the #CDC⚡was the global leader in #PublicHealth. Its scientists helped train #health ofcls ww. In the US: primary source of guidance for prevention & trt of diseases. #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/health/cdc-staff-cuts-rfk-jr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.1RAr.dMJ1uYfo8vQa&smid=tw-share

Top Dem on the Sen Fgn Rel CMTE: J Shaheen,⚡has blocked an arms sale to #Israel since July & conts to w/h consent for advancing the $2.8B tx. Asked the Trump admin➡️how #Netanyahu plans to use the weapons *unresolved concerns re how the bombs would be used in SY, LB, & Gaza +to intensify the #IranWar. Her pushback establishes bicameral⚡Dem opp to Trump’s latest proposed arms sales to IL with HSE ranking mem G Meeks. Welcome news, esp from a centrist Dem. #Genocide #USPol https://www.semafor.com/article/09/18/2026/shaheen-holds-up-28b-arms-sale-to-israel

Sad:🚨There’s a TON of very obvious signaling taking place right now for imminent massive escalation against Iran. #Trump, just after Camp David, is returning early to the WH (& reported on by Barak…). #Netanyahu is cutting his US Tour a day early, cancelling the Texas leg, and flying directly back to Tel Aviv from NY. All ME US embassies have issued STEP alert warning to Americans in the reg. This could be legitimate #escalation…but this is a lot…” -BE #IranWar #Israel #SaudiArabia #USPol

"Whistleblower photos from the Miramar #ICE bldg, where 100s of migrants are being illegally held for days in overcrowded rooms like the one below, where they're forced to sleep on the ground." -T Kennedy “#ICE facs in FL:💔overcrowded cells, prolonged shackling, inadequate access to med care & hygiene, insufficient food, & limited to no legal access. Trump Admin:🚨trying to #CoverUp these disgusting & unsafe conds +escape accountability. Lives:💔in danger." #Torture #USPol https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-members-robert-garcia-bennie-thompson-and-maxwell-frost-demand-answers-from-ice-on-dangerous-conditions-in-florida-immigration-facilities

ICYMI:🚨A #DOD IG report found that “100s of buildings & structures” had been damaged at Am posts across the region. Among the photos🚨appears to be an E-3 Sentry aircraft, damaged in late Mar, on Prince Sultan AB in SA.🚨The E-3 is a surveillance aircraft -deployed for early warning *valued at $270M. "It's being kept a secret, & we're acting like it's no big deal, but🚨drone strikes & ballistic missile strikes -every day," the service member said. #CoverUp #Hegseth #USPol https://abcnews.com/Politics/photos-show-extensive-damage-us-middle-east-bases/story?id=136507770

The #Progressive leads in the LA mayoral race:⚡"The Berkeley IGS/LAT poll represented the strongest showing yet for Nithya Raman, who trailed Karen Bass in almost every poll during the primary campaign & placed second to Bass in the June 2 primary. Raman, 45,⚡dominated the 72-year-old Bass among younger voters, with 66% of likely voters ages 18 to 29 choosing the council member while just 4% chose Bass, according to the poll." #California #Elections #Democrats #USPol https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-23/raman-takes-big-lead-over-bass-in-latest-poll-for-la-mayors-race

“While the US is continuing to move “some” oil thru the SoH along the Omani Rte thru Project Freedom, everyone can see the writing on the wall at this pt: Too much is breaking at once. If the Saudi E-W Pipeline🚨was destroyed in isolation? Yeah, there’d be some marginal pain on the energy mkts. Sure, there’d be political fallout if diesel & gas prices in the US were high, but if that was the only problem? Survivable. It’s the🚨COMPOUNDING & MULT-VECTOR turmoil taking place…” #IranWar #USPol

"Fascists🚨are marching again in Germany, but what's worrying Murdoch's WSJ is a plurality for the left in Berlin." -J Jarvis The insurgent-right AfD🚨was the top vote-getter at nearly 40%, echoing its success this month in Saxony-Anhalt st elections. Berlin highlights a diff problem. The big winner there is Die Linke (“The Left”), the successor of the old E German communist party. Its ldr, E Eralp, embraces comparisons with⚡NYC Mayor Mamdani. #Fascism #Elections #USPol https://www.wsj.com/opinion/germany-elections-afd-die-linke-elif-eralp-b8feb3e6?st=t9iK2w

"Fed agents detained🚨US citizen Sun AM" "The video shows🚨 the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street & driving off." -A R Melnick "Man🚨reported injuries to his head, neck & teeth, police said, & witnesses “told offs that indivs they believed were #ICE agents had attempted to take him into cust.” Never forget:🚨"First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out BcI was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists..." #Fascism #DHS #Evil #USPol https://evanstonnow.com/federal-agents-detained-u-s-citizen-sunday-morning/

"World oil inventories🚨are projected to hit their operational floor of 6.8B bbl this mo if the SoH stays shut *JPM. Below this level,🚨pipelines can't maintain pressure & refineries start failing, regardless of what price #oil is trading at. This'd mark🚨the 1st time in recorded history the W has had to worry:🚨physical oil avail, not just price." -B Theory "Rate of #SPR drawdowns⚡rev'd since Jun➡️~43 mmb above: 252M-bbl stat floor for limited drawdowns." -A Berman Trump⚡complied. #IranWar #USPol

"It's always been, & will always be true that💙#immigrants (documented & otherwise) are a⚡net gain for our #economy. They're working age, they come here to work & they pay taxes. The inverse of is also true:🚨Trump’s anti-immigrant policies slow US economic growth." -Rep Casten "CBO est Biden's immigration surge as a⚡nearly $1T deficit/debt reducer over a decade." -D Doney #Economy #ICE #Detention #Deportations #Kakistocracy #Racism #TrumpRegime #DHS #Elections #USPol https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60165

A few days ago, an X user posted a purported MJ video:🚨DNC paid $259M to M Thompson *head of CNN, so the cable news NET would promote “gender transition among children” -noted CNN: aired “8,970 reports, programs, & shows: promote gender transition among minors." Within a day,🚨the video was viewed 155K times -a fake—part of a🚨Russian atk on the 2026 midterms. Matryoshka op:🚨produced SM posts/videos falsely branded as rpts from news orgs, undercut UA... #Elections #USPol https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/how-a-russian-attack-on-the-midterms-deepfaked-mother-jones-matryoshka-putin-trump/

Alarming:🚨1/ #Russia has the #US over a #diesel bbl, says Russian analyst I Dimitriev. He says: the Kremlin is telling the West that🚨"if you don't hand #Ukraine over to us, a global [fuel] crisis will erupt that you won't be able to dig yourselves out of". 2/ Noting a sudden increase of activity btw US & Russian diplomats & negotiators, Dimitriev says it's due to🚨three converging factors that’re threatening Republican Party prospects in the Nov #elections…⬇️ +More on X” #EnergyCrisis #USPol

DOGE's savagery➡️lingers in leg. Rs now must explain away a bill:🚨would put $500B in fed spending *per year* at risk. Sev threatened House Rs supported it. The spending at risk🚨would total nearly 1/3 of all nondef discretionary spending➡️govt makes annually:🚨invalidate >$100B in vets’ HC spending, $48B for basic res into cures to diseases, >$40B in sev programs for housing... USA Act🚨would auto: sunset any fed spending on “unauthorized” prgms after 3 yrs. #Elections #USPol https://prospect.org/2026/09/18/elon-musk-trump-doge-bills-could-come-back-to-haunt-republicans/

Pathetic deference:🚨"By tradition, Am pres' don’t make the 12-mi trip to the base to greet a foreign leader. They instead wait at the WH, backed by the grandeur & power of the exec mansion *not this time. Xi🚨didn't display the same level of hospitality when #Trump visited Beijing in May, Trump's🚨shown no inclination to scold #China for sending Iran supplies & intel. Tonight, he'll extend the pageantry further & throw a glitzy state dinner for the Chinese pres."🎁 #USPol https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/09/trump-xi-china-summit/688762/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZ5pe3OyOiILEaF5BFweOcY

It's clear🚨the camp:⬆️the size of their tiny cages & EXILED ANYONE WHO SPENT TIME IN THEM. The cage images are appalling -comp of the 2 shows evidence of a #CoverUp➡️a Potemkin Village carefully pos to fool inspectors & hide a truth💔*much worse. Spoke: of an outdoor cage🚨*as punishment for alleged infractions. Described:💔handcuffed in a 2′ × 2′ cage, ankles shackled to the fl, insects, in the sun... OIG🚨made no effort to speak with previous detainees. #ICE #Torture #USPol https://prospect.org/2026/09/17/alligator-alcatrazs-tiny-cages-were-likely-even-tinier/

"US:🚨considering a ban on US diesel exports, with Sen Maj Ldr Thune telling reporters that "if we have the supply in this C & we're exporting it right now that might be one way of getting at it." US:🚨world's largest diesel exporter, at ~1.7M b/d, mostly to LATAM & Eur, & RU, the 2nd largest *already halted exports. US ban:🚨would take the last large diesel exporter off a market where diesel in Germany *reached €2.80 a liter this AM." -Hormuz L #Trump's fault US:🎯➡️more vulnerable‼️ #IranWar #USPol

“The cost of #DOGE:🚨The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 BILLION NOT TO WORK during 2025, GAO finds.” #Waste #Fraud #Musk #Sabotage #Corruption #Theft #Kleptocracy #TrumpRegime #Elections #Protest #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/politics/doge-federal-work-force.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.dCnb.pPK04dGhNNch&smid=nytcore-android-share

"Just searched the A numbers of the #Somalis at #GITMO, &🚨THEY'RE ALL GONE. Will make verifying reporting much harder." -A Moore And the #TrumpRegime wonders why we call them #Nazis. In some ways they're worse bc #Trump & #MarcoRubio have spent ~$410M of taxpayer🚨to deport detainees to 3rd countries where they've no: ties,💰, docs to travel, & are left in harm's way, some: imprisoned, tortured, have lost their jobs, futures, F&F... #Deportations #DHS #Evil #Torture #USPol https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/the-trump-administration-is-imprisoning-somali-immigrants-in-gitmo/

"Diesel market🚨is f**ked. Exxon🚨shut down one of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest due to outages. Russia *W's 2nd-largest diesel exporter: turned into an importer due to ongoing atks on: refineries. The US *W's largest diesel exporter" considering an export ban. #SaudiArabia🚨CXL Sept crude cargoes to Eur & postponed shipms to at least 1 Asian buyer. Less crude=less diesel prod. When diesel gets more expensive...🚨everything does. Brace for #inflation." -L Ekwuene #IranWar #USPol

"The entire world can clearly see:🚨Pres #Trump will STAB YOU IN THE BACK at a moments notice if it benefits him. We may just see Gulf Cs take a page out of Ol’ Donny’s playbook &🚨cut their own deals w/o Trump." -B Erickson "Trump🚨made a deal with YE’s #Houthis in a secret meeting,🚨promising not to strike seized Houthi-held terr or support #SaudiArabia & Saudi-backed Fs in any form, in exch for keeping the Bab el-Mandeb open to shipping, except to Saudi vess-. -Reuters. -Hormuz L #IranWar #USPol

Today’s House Foreign report:🚨“PAY TO PLAY in the Balkans: landmark dev in Cong #oversight of US policy towards Bosnia & Herzegovina +W Balkans. Not since the end of the Bosnian War & the signing of➡️US brokered Dayton Peace AGR has Cong rel a rpt of this depth & pol sig.⚡Rep Keating/colleagues on the CMTE deserve immense credit for recognizing🚨how wildly US policy in the reg➡️flown off the rails in the past 2 yrs➡️need🚨for Cong's interv..." -J Muj #Corruption #Trump #USPol https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/a946d82aa7068a8534e9ffd28f688e43f0f4f23e.pdf

"#SaudiArabia🚨has informed European refiners that they'll be allocated NO CRUDE OIL NEXT MONTH amid the E-W pipeline shutdown, per Bloomberg. European customers🚨normally receive SA crude oil shipments on "term contracts," which are meant to ensure a steady flow of crude oil supply every month. Countries in #Europe imported 577,000 barrels of crude oil per day from SA prior to the shutdown. Europe is facing its worst #EnergyCrisis in history." -Kobeissi L #ETTD #Economy #Trump #IranWar #USPol

"3 vessels:🚨reported as struck by IR in the last hour *not the impt part… A 4th vessel attempted to transit this morning, but UKMTO reporting explicitly states:🚨vessel was hailed by the IRGC, instructed to abandon & turn around & they did. Vessels:🚨losing trust in the ability for the US to ensure safe transit." -B Erickson SA:🚨halted the E-W Pipeline following another Houthi atk... #oil is down. Only real flood we're experiencing is a flood of #FakeNews & paper oil." -L Ekwueme #IranWar #USPol

"US military says it💔killed 4 in strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean.🚨US Southern Command did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs." -Politico "The utter🚨degradation of the United States of America continues." -A Isacson #BoatStrikes #DOD #Hegesth #Murder #DueProcess #Unlawful #Fascism #Trump #TrumpRegime #USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/19/us-military-says-it-killed-four-in-strike-on-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-in-the-caribbean-01085409?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

"W/o any court order,🚨they detain the AG of Bolivia in this manner, & #MarcoRubio🚨decides to back this action while the prosecutor was investigating a #Nazi owner of 1000s of bot farms intended to manipulate the consciousness of Ms of ppl in LATAM...🚨Several pres' allied with NARCOTRAFFICKING HAVE BEEN ELECTED..." -G Petro, fmr CO pres #Parscale🚨linked to the #DoS...🚨how #fascism rises. #Trump...🚨electoral campaigns, databases...of the new LATAM right. #Cerimedo⬇️ #USPol https://canalabierto.com.ar/2026/09/30/quien-es-brad-parscale-el-guru-de-la-ultraderecha-y-mentor-d-cerimedo/

Better late than never:💡"Obama will appear with #ElSayed at an Oct 24 rally that'll also feature other top Dem candidates in MI, incl J Benson, the party’s nominee for governor. #Obama is getting significantly more involved in the midterm #elections... The Detroit event is a notable show of support for A El-Sayed, who defeated moderate Rep H Stevens in the primary & has since worked to⚡consolidate Dem support in his race🚨against Republican M Rogers. #Progressives #USPol https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/barack-obama-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-race/

"ICE🚨Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Dec Striking Down 3rd-C Removals" "POLITICO reporter🚨was denied access to the WH Thurs & his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news orgs: Trump banned." +MSNOW/CNN➡️denied entry‼️ "We need to know if this #ICE flt headed for Ghana has 3rd-C nats onboard. If so,🚨it needs to bring them back." -G Brockell #Unconstitutional #1A #DOJ #Deportations #USPol https://prospect.org/2026/09/23/ice-trying-to-ignore-courts-decision-striking-down-third-country-removals/ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/politico-barred-from-white-house-after-court-ruling-restoring-access-01091259

Beyond the pale:🚨The #TrumpRegime has authorized or pledged at least🚨$410M to facilitate agreements with 31 countries, mostly in Africa & Latin America, as of the end of June, acc to internal govt records reviewed by The WP. Docs *not been previously reported, provide the most comprehensive picture to date of the regime’s🚨fast-growing third-country network. Our taxpayer💰is being used💔for #torture, #murder, destroying IMMs' lives... #Racism #Deportations #ICE #DHS #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2026/09/21/how-trump-turned-refugee-bureau-into-410-million-deportation-operation/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=wp_breaking_news_alert

Trump’s🚨CAB of curiosities wears matching $145 Florsheim Oxfords, gifted by him -reportedly eating the same “living diet" that consists almost entirely of hunks of meat & sauerkraut. Adherents are said to include: #Lutnick, #Duffy, #Vance & #RFKJr. His fav aide, N Harp,🚨passes #Trump positive news cov & good polls like she’s the “Mean Girls” -G Wieners. Other WH staffers & CAB mems➡️begun to emulate Harp: WH: overtaken by a kind of sycophancy Olympics... #Elections #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/opinion/donald-trump-administration-mean-girls.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVE.WJ3T.gEQZMxt_KHi8&smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Trump🚨supports a new plan to offer #Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of pol prisoners *likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, & even some of his allies in Cong. It'd🚨help reintegrate RU into the global economy & broaden #Trump’s talks with the Kremlin beyond: intractable war in UA *envoys have failed to end after >1yr of diplomacy (?) -create a path for the US🚨to sign lucrative deals involv Russian oil, diesel, rare earth min... #Kleptocracy #Putin #USPol https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/09/trump-russia-putin-ukraine-sanctions/688808/

"Gov Abbott⚡is blaming a scheduling conflict & says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president." -A Rupar 2/3 of R candidates in competitive House & Senate races⚡have broken with #⁠Trump on policy or played down ties to him, revealing a widespread effort to distance themselves from the president as his unpopularity threatens the party's hold on Cong. #ETTD #Elections #Trump #USPol https://www.straitstimes.com/world/most-republicans-in-tight-midterm-distance-themselves-from-trump-reuters-review-finds

"Fri's unanimous 1st Cir ruling in the “D.V.D.” case,💙setting aside #DHS’s policy for sending noncitizens to 3rd countries is⚡remarkable. If upheld:🚨means DHS has deported 1000s illegally—enabled by #SCOTUS, which lifted a prelim inj in Jun 2025... If it couldn't get “diplomatic assurances,”🚨DHS would remove the person on ~24 hrs notice. Appeals ct: both prongs of policy➡️#ILLEGAL. Ruling: in effect now, but DHS will doubtless move for a stay & presumably go back to SCOTUS." #Deportations #USPol

Global crude markets🚨are tightening at what analysts at Energy Aspects described as an “eye-watering pace”, as buyers rush to make up for curtailed Saudi supplies *market was short of about 5M b/d of crude & refined fuels +expected prices to spiral⬆️. China has sought to cushion the impact of the #IranWar by cutting imports, drawing⬇️stockpiles &🚨prices. Now🚨buying #oil on the open mkt/closure of the Saudi pipeline/lack of a res' to the war. #EnergyCrisis #Inflation #USPol https://www.ft.com/content/3a88d016-9575-4c11-bd34-14606964a867?syn-25a6b1a6=1