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“.. One official said the Strait of Hormuz could become an Iranian ‘kill box’ if ships start trying to pass through.

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I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

there seems to be no plan to reopen the Strait and I assume Iran has no plans to open it even if we get a TACO so…

Price of front month WTI intraday for the last three sessions

It is admittedly hilarious that crude cleaned out all the shorts Sunday night, spent three days doing nothing, and is now flying again on the news that the US is going to release one-third of what’s left in the SPR.

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

Haven’t thought of this

"believes" = "hopes"

no see the eternal torment *is* the supersetting across multiple machines, having to walk back and forth across the gym to reach each piece of equipment, hoping someone doesn’t take the machine when you’re using the other one (they often do)

Putting a bumper sticker on my car that says “I’d rather be monitoring my agentic coding agents right now.” A Waymo sees it, becomes conscious, and accelerates into me at top speed, killing me instantly.

Thank you!!

Steak salad season has begun

If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! President DONALD J. TRUMP

mr president i don't think this is going to be effective

Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs NEWS via @CBSNews : U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants, @JimLaPorta reports 2:13 PM · Mar 10, 2026 · 6,060 Views

Here we go

View of Mayhem ball :)

It is kinda funny that “taking over” Hormuz has become the get out of jail free card, the strait is merely the shortest part of the gulf, there is still hundreds of miles of coastline that Iran can lob drones and missiles from

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gloomy time change = bake an old fashioned blackberry cake

Once upon a time we had a deal with Iran that prevented them from getting a nuke - our highest strategic imperative. It worked! Wonder whatever happened to that

With the way things are going we’ll be back to bombing Iran every 6 months for the foreseeable future. As soon as we’re done with this disaster, they will move for a nuke faster than they ever have

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Statements like this from Trump will make the oil market reaction *worse*

No one who has any idea how the oil market works is buying it—all this does is make it seem like Trump believes it, which means the base case length of this disruption is growing ever-longer.

Tick. Tock.

Headlines BBG Only All Dates Time   *CSI 300 INDEX FALLS 2% TO 4,567.17 BN 21:35 *CHINA'S 30Y BOND FUTURES DROP 0.7%, BIGGEST DROP THIS YEAR BFW 21:34 *KOSPI DROP HITS CIRCUIT BREAKER; TRADING HALTED FOR 20 MINS BN 21:32 *SOUTH KOREA'S KOSPI SINKS 8%, TRIGGERING CIRCUIT BREAKER BN 21:32 *S. KOREA BRIEFLY HALTS KOSDAQ PROGRAM TRADING AS FUTURES DROP BN 21:32 *PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FALLS 3.4% TO 6,105.23 BN 21:32 *SOUTH KOREA'S KOSPI SINKS 8%, TRIGGERING CIRCUIT BREAKER BN 21:31 *CHINA'S CHINEXT INDEX FALLS 3% TO 3,132.33 BN 21:31 *PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FALLS 2.8% TO 6,141.38 BN 21:31 *PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FALLS 1.9% TO 6,198.45 AT OPEN BN 21:31 *SOUTH KOREA'S KOSPI INDEX FALLS 8%, NEARS TRADING HALT BN 21:30 *HONG KONG'S HANG SENG INDEX FALLS 3% TO 24,977.60 BN 21:30

One of those nights

No signs of it ending soon

*WTI OIL RISES ABOVE $100/BARREL FOR FIRST TIME SINCE JULY 2022

In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

They found the inflation button now after tariffs didn’t work fast enough.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

The attacks on energy infrastructure across the Middle East are more intense than I think people anticipated this past week and the attacks on Iran’s oil infrastructure, in particular, makes the closure of the strait of Hormuz *more* likely. Not good