#GaPol Who will report on this?

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1/ Average gasoline prices in the US could rise to an all-time record of $5.50, and much higher in some states, if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen by the end of June. Citigroup warns that the world's oil inventories risk falling to record low levels. ⬇️

2/ A new report published by Citi sets out scenarios for the current impasse in the Strait of Hormuz, while other analysts say it could take nine months for things to return to normal even if a peace agreement is signed. Citi's analysts predict three possible outcomes:

3/ 1️⃣ A ceasefire extension is signed this week, oil tanker traffic resumes, flows recover through May, and pre-war levels resume by the end of June. A total of 900 million barrels of oil production is lost since the start of the Iran war.

🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant.

But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:

• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendees

Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges.

Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017.

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Welcome to the 4,000+ new followers this week.

You're going to see three main topics on this @grayzoneintel account. They're all interrelated, and it's imperative that you understand how they function.

A quick explainer thread 🧵🔽

1. Local Intelligence. You don't need to be former intel to produce local intel. You already do this.

Intelligence informs your decision-making and drives operations. I'm here to teach how to formalize it, and the kinds of local intel you need for the upcoming unpleasantness.

2. Organizing and counter-organizing. There is no reason to "wait around" for things to get spicy.

Build your team and organize community support behind you right now. That support translates to political and social power at the local level, which you will need to win.

OK - in Harvey Weinstein trial, now argument on prosecutor citing 2017 #MeToo articles about Weinstein. Judge Curtis: I'm going to tell the jury they can't consider it. Inner City Press is covering the trial & will live tweet, thread below matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/metoo-re-do-…

ADA: Everyone knew this was coming... Now the jurors will wonder why.
Judge: They don't have a right to know. Anyway, Ms. Mann can testify to this
ADA: She's not on until next week

Judge Farber: So you'll have read-back?
ADA: Yes.
Judge: Bring in the jury. I'm going to tell them to disregard.
Jury entering!
[Unlike with other judges in 100 Centre, and nearly all in SDNY, gallery does not have to stand as jurors come in]

Ukraine is proposing naming a slice of the Donbas “Donnyland” to pull Trump toward Kyiv’s position in peace talks, — NYT.

Ukraine is testing a simple lever — attach Trump’s name to a postwar arrangement, then make abandoning it politically costly in Washington. 1/

The territory is a front line.

A depopulated strip about 50 miles long and 40 miles wide, with one working coal mine and businesses that serve soldiers. Netting covers the main highway into the area to protect against exploding drones. 2/

The talks are stuck on who controls that land after a ceasefire.

Russia wants full legal control of the Donbas. Ukraine wants a structure that blocks a future invasion and does not legitimize Russian annexation. 3/

With the US now on the verge of achieving pure idiocracy and a brand new form of government that can only be described in terms of coconuts and bananas, I’ve decided to expand my guide to what is arguably the most cartoonishly stupid administration known to modern man. 🧵

Married to an obscenely rich man whose children were already having children by the time she was born, and often seen wearing oversized crosses to differentiate herself from her North Korean counterpart, Karoline Leavitt is currently serving as White House Press Secretary.

Famous for having gone bald and aged some 37 years by the time he entered high school, point at which he had already picked up what was to be a lifelong passion for racial purity, Stephen "Reichskommissar" Miller is the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.

This (the screencapped tweet) is such a dishonest framing of what happened. They weren't measuring the length of those women's swimsuits cause dudes would get boners if it was 1/4 inch short. They set a concrete, objective standard.
People push up on the standard to destroy it.

https://twitter.com/HariSel57511397/status/2047011184931385790

So the ladies who want to push the boundaries wear something that's just a liiiittle shorter than the standard. The people who want no standard say, "Isn't this ridiculous?" Then it gets a little shorter. A little shorter.
Deconstruction to nothing by inches. We've all seen it.

Eventually we're too a point that the original people in the picture, even most of the ladies, probably, would consider absurd. A slippery slope "fallacy."
"Of course women aren't going to walk on the beach in a micro-thong & demand men don't get aroused! That's a strawman!"

I am not doing this because of @FinPlanKaluAja1 because I know he does know how things work, but since his man is not the one ruling, he will always find fault in almost everything this admin does. I am doing it for people who care to know.

So, let's address his questions: 👇

https://twitter.com/FinPlanKaluAja1/status/2047005186678469040

Govt money is nevet like pocket money you spend once. It is like a family budget, money comes in, but some big bills must be paid first.

Yes, subsidy was removed and the reason as well all know was because Nigeria was spending HUGE money just to keep petrol cheap, money that could build roads, schools, and hospitals and do many other great stuff.

I've posted a preprint that proposes enhancing the traceability of infectious clones by incorporating sequence signatures, to reduce biosafety risk

The method is technically feasible, cryptographically secure, and shouldn't disrupt virus biology 🧵

zenodo.org/records/196994…

@RepHarshbarger @SenJoniErnst 1/ Infectious clones (ICs) are synthetic viruses produced by transfecting a cell line with a plasmid construct that contains the virus genome

The cell line expresses the virus, which can then be recovered

(from ZLS's 2016 WIV1 IC paper):

2/ Using ICs is a way of resurrecting extinct viruses, or recovering novel viruses from metagenomic or transcriptomic datasets. It can also be used to genetically modify viruses by introducing novel mutations or creating chimeras, which result in dangerous Gain of Function

NEWS: Steve Witkoff's son Zach, who is a co-founder of the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial, was arrested after a New Year's Eve 2022 fight outside a Miami nightclub. When police searched his pockets, they found cocaine. Witkoff was charged and booked but never prosecuted:

thenewsground.com/bodycam-footag…

While detained, Witkoff tried to name-drop the club's owner. "I’m friends with Marc Roberts, I swear to God,”

Court records show that Witkoff was charged with felony possession of cocaine. A trial prosecutor was assigned, but voluntarily dismissed the case.

Under Biden, the cost of educating illegals reached ~$80B/year — a massive burden on American citizens.

Thanks to President Trump’s strong immigration policies, migrant school enrollment is plummeting — freeing up resources for American students and families.

🧵THREAD:

In Utah, educating illegals cost the state’s taxpayers $650+ million in 2023 — and lawmakers were forced to deploy emergency funding to keep up with the strain on the public school system.

This school year, Utah’s K-12 public schools saw the largest decrease in enrollment in 25 years — which the state superintendent attributed, in large part, to “slowing in-migration.”

2/

In Florida, educating illegals cost the state’s taxpayers $4 billion in 2023.

This school year, the number of foreign students entering Miami-Dade County Public Schools fell by more than 80%.

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