There’s no blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s a blockade on all IRAN and all their ports.
Ships going to/from other countries inside the gulf (Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman) are exempt.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. 🇺🇸
REMINDER: In Jan 2023, when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy formally removed Swalwell from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, every leading Congressional Democrat protested the move, with many claiming it world harm national security.
Sean is absolutely right. Before today, I had assumed this whole impeachment saga was driven by an opportunistic moment and then carried forward with the usual efficiency of the Democratic Party working in concert with the media when it comes to hoaxes. But having now read the documents, it looks far more like it was premeditated.
The IC IG event went so far as to backdate its forms to hide the evidence of the changes they made. And when he was nailed by Congress for these changes and the fraudulent dating of them, Atkinson dissembled and claimed they didn’t backdate the changes, they just accidentally never updated the date. An explanation that that is just laughably mendacious.
CATO analysis on the early phase of Trump's immigration crackdown:
Refugees down 90%, permanent immigrants down 50% or more, H-1B -25% (-80% for new applicants), students down 40%. Trump not only has a net outflow of illegals but an increasingly narrow entry for legal migrants.
In 2019, during the peak hysteria of the Ukraine whistleblower impeachment hoax, I exclusively reported for The Federalist that the Intelligence Community Inspector General secretly gutted internal whistleblower rules requiring firsthand evidence of wrongdoing.
I had the whistleblower forms, the revisions, and the dates for all of it, and I conclusively proved all of it.
All hell broke loose after I published my report, with Deep State assets and their media lickspittles accusing me of lying, of fabrication, and of botching the facts.
I was 100% right, and they all knew it. How do we know this? Because the IG himself admitted under oath in testimony for Congress. And his staff, despite the fact of his testimony, lied about it for years, knowing that the proof of their conspiracy would be hidden within his classified testimony.
For nearly 7 years I waited for the transcript of that testimony to be released. Today, that finally happened, and that testimony fully vindicates my original reporting and full discredits everyone who falsely claimed it was inaccurate—including the staff of the IG who deliberately peddled lies about what they did, and how I caught them red-handed.
Here’s what he secretly admitted under oath: “When it came to my attention from one of the media inquiries that we had a form that required individuals to have firsthand information before they could file a complaint, I did two things.”
“I said, first of all, is that what our form says? And then the second thing once they told me, yeah, that’s what our form says, we need to change that,” Atkinson testified.
“So the timing is unfortunate. It looks suspicious, I get that,” he said. “What I should have done was I should have explained when we changed the form why we were changing it.”
“I should have been more transparent about the reasons and the motivations for the change in the forms,” he said.
The IC IG gutted its own internal rules, eliminated its longstanding requirement of first-hand whistleblower knowledge, did so because of the anti-Trump complaint, fraudulently backdated its changes, and did it all in secret, EXACTLY as I reported in 2019. And the admission by the IG himself that my reporting was accurately was HIDDEN from public view until today.
Thankfully I kept the receipts of every fraudulent, throne-sniffing Deep State crony and publication which cast aspersions on my credibility and that of my reporting. Stay tuned on that front…
Turns out there's more evidence against one of the politicians calling for the Epstein files to be released than there is against anybody in the Epstein files.
All members of Congress resign
Perhaps our media glorifying a guy who shot a healthcare CEO in the head was a bad idea.
This is suicidal empathy which the Catholic Church is prone to. "We took this Christlike trait—empathy—and made it the ONLY ingredient to esteem as if hard truth and cause-and-effect don’t matter AT ALL anymore. This is *disastrous* when seen in government."
Swalwell was on the House Intelligence Committee.
Not only did he get taken by a Chinese spy, but he hooked up with a prostitute in front of other people who recorded the interaction.
At a $120 airfare per one-way ticket, California could find 1.05 billion flights between LA and San Francisco.
In the first 6 months of the 2026 Fiscal Year the US Federal Government took in $2.5 trillion and spent $3.7 trillion. Don’t try this at home.
EFF, which claims it's a free speech champion, stood on the sidelines while others fought the government censorship campaigns during the Biden administration. It's now packing up and leaving @X for the greener pastures of Bluesky & Mammoth.
It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.
GOP bill to prevent boys from competing in girls’ sports blocked in Minnesota House
All House Republicans voted in favor of the measure, while all DFLers opposed it.
State Rep. Peggy Scott, R-Andover, is one of the sponsors of the bill, and called out Democrats following its failure.
“Every House Democrat voted in favor of sex-based discrimination,” Scott said.
Stop gaslighting. Islamicist bomb throwers in front of NYC Mayor's Mansion, ANTIFA snipers outside Dallas ICE facility, Charlie Kirk assassination, multiple assassination attempts on DJT, ANTIFA setting fire to federal building in Portland & Tesla dealerships all over, BLM riots, etc.
In September of 2015 a Member of Congress issued a 23-page analysis of the proposed JCPOA in which he described in detail his concerns that the agreement would lead to years of Iran-sponsored terrorist and extremist attacks.
He said that the sunset clauses built in to the agreement would guarantee Iran license to return to its nuclear weaponization and ballistic missile production programs beginning at year five and continuing exponentially as more provisions expired at years eight, 10, and 15.
We are currently in what would have been year 11, had Donald Trump not pulled out of the agreement in 2018.
The arguments the congressman made regarding the situation it would leave for a future president and the choices he or she would be forced to make were eerily prescient, as was the prediction that the billions freed up for Iran would be used to fund proxy campaigns and attacks against Americans and our allies in the region.
That congressman has since become one of the most hyperbolic voices in his party regarding Trump's decision to attack and destroy Iran's nuclear, military and ballistic missile capacity, calling the war he predicted a future president would have no choice but to initiate "a war of choice" and urging service members engaged in the war he warned was inevitable to disobey the orders to carry out their missions.
That congressman is @tedlieu.
Here are the key components of his analysis of the existential threat the passage of the JCPOA would present to a future administration.
Link in next post.
"Why Britain Can’t Afford a Navy." from @WSJ Editorial Board. Personally I hated seeing the political decisions that led to the shrinking of the British Army and Navy to almost nothing. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/nigel-farage-triple-lock-reform-uk-welfare-benefits-d53dc7e6
If you’re wondering why the United Kingdom apparently can’t afford a navy anymore, ask Nigel Farage. The insurgent politician, who leads a party called Reform UK ostensibly committed to making Britain great again, on Thursday promised voters . . . more social welfare.
This kind of welfare recklessness has consequences, and in Britain an embarrassing one is the decline of the military. London’s struggle to deploy the navy to the Mediterranean to defend British assets during the Iran war—let alone help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—exposes the national security price Britain is paying for social handouts. It’s a recipe for continuing British decline.
Gavin Newsom spends $30 billion a year on 800,000 "in-home caregivers," who mostly look after their own direct family members; the labor unions collect $150 million a year in dues, then spend millions to support Gavin Newsom.
This is legalized corruption.
Are these reports accurate? Can this fragile ceasefire survive?
In 2021, 70% of D.C.'s prolific gun violence was done by about 500 people.
That's about 0.075% of the D.C. population at the time.
That's basically nobody and they gave the national capital a bad reputation, and they were KNOWN TO THE POLICE!
It's hard not to conclude that a large segment of the public is willing to tolerate fraud because they see it as a means of wealth redistribution and/or a source of income - and many in the political class understand that it's also a source of campaign funding.
Cultural cohesion in Florida.
My review of Tyler Cowen’s (@tylercowen) new book The Marginal Revolution is out at @FDRLST.
Kataib Hezbollah says it will release abducted American journalist Shelly Kittleson, ordering her to leave Iraq immediately.
Medicaid.
The money went to the endless maw of the medical-industrial complex. In every state, but especially in blue states. And that complex is now so powerful and widely spread that it makes the defense contracting lobby look tiny.
Fixing this is going to be a nightmare.
I'm a social scientist, and I approve of this message. Add the studies that are pointless and those that are thinly disguised propaganda for a political agenda, and I'm guessing that we're looking at something in the region of 90+ percent of the NSC research funding.
The downtown Chicago, Illinois office vacancy rate rose to an all-time high of 28.6%, having now hit new record highs for 15 consecutive quarters.
Almost half of the 40M SF of vacant office space downtown has been available for at least three years.
Up from 13.8% when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
"Companies cutting back on office space as they adapt to remote work trends have left downtown with a far smaller office tenant base than it had before 2020 and decimated property values, creating rampant distress and scaring off many institutional investors needed to fuel the market’s recovery."
-Crain's
#commercialrealestate
San Francisco @sfgov employs 34k or ~4% of the population.
For comparison Singapore, w country-level obligations beyond SF, employs ~2.6% of the population and provides better infrastructure and services. This includes defense ministries.
SF could cut 10k deadweight "jobs".
Liam was abandoned by his dad, who ran off when ICE approached him. When ICE then tried to get his mother to take him, she refused. Any outrage sparked by this incident is properly directed at the illegal alien parents & the press who tried hard to frame ICE as the bad guys.
Unpopular Fact: The Right is more diverse than the Left.
🚨 BREAKING: Apple News promoted 434 top stories from left-leaning sites in March, and only 5 from right-leaning sites.
Apple News is a megaphone for the leftist media.
https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/free-speech/heather-moon/2026/04/06/special-report-apple-news-was-most-radical-big-four-news
Here is the crazy part: most every central bank that holds RMB "reserves" aren't actually holding RMB reserves. Wait what? That doesn't make sense.
Most every RMB reserve outside of China is a dedicated "swap" line so if they need RMB they can obtain RMB.
So now your asking why is that? There are two reasons.
1. RMB never leaves China so there is no international price for RMB
2. It effectively forces other countries to run USD surplus so they can obtain RMB by exchanging USD.
So the idea that the world is dedollarizing and the RMB will be a reserve currency is entirely laughable. It also explains the desire to target USD deficits not just with China but other countries because China has effectively enlisted other countries
US population grew 6% in the last decade.
Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted.
Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?
I have never been so bullish on the United States of America.
6 years ago, you threatened to fine me $1,000 and throw me in prison for 6 months if I went to church on Easter Sunday.
“california high-speed rail is creating good-paying jobs” very cool but is it creating high-speed rail
In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight. And usually, that is a sign that the true believers know, at some level, that they are on shaky ground.
@hoovlet
The greatest Texas Easter photo of all time or the greatest photo ever taken in Texas? The pure, unabashed joy on San Antonio farmer Sam Smith's face as he celebrates rain on Easter Sunday after a prolonged drought in 1951 takes me to my happy place every Easter. Taken by Harvey Belgin and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.