www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
* Sen. Kevin Cramer on school strike in Iran: ‘Get to the bottom of it,’ but ‘You can’t undo it’
@apnews.com #NDsen
BLACKROCK’s “Chart of the Week”:
Over the past nine months — without health-care — job creation is net negative 347,000. 👀
CNBC: “.. Almost all of the economic effect of the individual tax cuts in the ‘big beautiful bill’ .. could be erased if oil prices remain elevated by more than $20 compared with prices before the U.S.-Iran war ..”
@cnbc.com #OBBBA
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/r...
This is real life.
VON DER LEYEN: EUROPE'S DEPENDENCY ON FOSSIL FUELS HAS COST IT 3 BLN EUROS IN EXTRA COSTS IN FIRST 10 DAYS OF U.S.-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN
That Qatar outage is becoming a big deal.
“.. The world's largest LNG plant hasn't exported a shipment in five days. That's the longest streak since at least 2008.”
@sstapczynski.bsky.social @bloomberg.com
WSJ: “.. Maersk has 10 ships trapped in the Persian Gulf and would need at least a week to 10 days to resume normal operations in the event of a cease-fire ..
“.. Brokers say there are more than 100 boxships trapped in the Gulf ..”
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
GOLDMAN: ".. The IEA’s oil release proposal may reportedly exceed the 182mb of oil that IEA member countries released in 2022. Even 182mb would offset 12 days of our estimated 15.4mb/d Persian Gulf exports disruption and would be worth -$7/bbl in our pricing framework .."
Fuel quotas.
Work-from-home orders.
Four-day workweeks.
Asia is beginning to scramble.
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/a46b...
The gas lines are already happening. 🇮🇳
Even Goldman is tracking the mixed messages.
GOLDMAN: Japan has 141 days worth of visible reserves.
Mexico? 20.
B of A:
“.. We now see ‘regime hard lining’ as likely as a quick end .. where military operations spill over into 2Q, 3Q or even 4Q26 ..” 👀
“.. For the American consumer, things are getting very real, very fast: average gasoline price is now up by 19.9% over the past 10 days ... that eclipses the move in 2022 and is now the largest spike we've seen in the history of the data going back to 2004.” ⛽️
- Schwab
JPMAM Kelly: 3.5% US CPI inflation possible
Commodity analyst Paul Sankey on CNBC, with an unnerving analogy:
"Some of us are looking at this a bit like what we saw with Covid, where the market seemed to be 'air-walking', regardless of what was clearly a very bad situation -- and then, suddenly, you know, collapsed when it all came home."
After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?
NEW: Trump pardoned a convicted crypto CEO, gutted the SEC & took $500M from UAE
@democracydefendersfund.org new report exposes how those corrupt landmarks mark his family's development of a $1B+ crypto empire 👇
www.democracydefendersfund.org/crypto
This is clearly fine with the GOP.
NEW: Jared Kushner has been involved in the most serious foreign policy and national security issues but has so far not been subject to federal ethics rules.
We sent a letter urging the White House to swiftly collect and review Kushner's public financial disclosure report.
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.
The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."
Enbridge, BMO, TC Energy’s U.S. wings directed donations to election deniers: theijf.org/article/cana...
BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
Is it thou?
When a US missile killed 160 children, president shits-a-lot claimed Iran stole the missile and fired at the school. When asked why he was the only one making this claim, he said "because I just don't know enough about it".
Go ahead. See if you can make this make sense.
(Source: RB Hubbell)
People are motivated to do good things for so many different reasons. This young woman is on a mission to save herself from dying of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Penn medical student with rare genetic form of ALS on mission to develop gene therapy - CBS Philadelphia share.google/ERSdrz7XlHVn...
These were posted within minutes of each other. So which one is it? Is it over or is there no end in sight?? Our msm is a clusterfuck. Guess I’ll check the news in another country to find out what is happening here.