‘The Orange Menace was on a tear. Even his cabinet members couldn’t help but stare at his stream-of-consciousness rant. The convicted felon went on to say that if he shared his incredible plans for the war he has on again, off again declared over with Iran, he’d be removed from office for incompetence.…’ (Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing)
‘Between 10:49 and 10:50 AM GMT on Tuesday, 734 oil futures contracts changed hands. In the next 60 seconds, that number surged to 2,168 — 16 times the average volume for the day. Bloomberg estimated the value of contracts traded in that opening minute at $650 million. Fifteen minutes later, at 11:05 GMT, Trump posted on social media that he would halt strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, citing “very good” talks to end the war. Crude prices plunged more than 14%, reports Yahoo News.
Anyone who shorted oil in those 15 minutes made a fortune.…’ (Ellsworth Toohey via Boing Boing)
‘Pakistani sources said the US vice-president, JD Vance, was being put forward as a probable chief negotiator from the US side if talks went ahead. Iranian sources have said they would refuse to sit down with Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, or Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who led the nuclear negotiations with Iran before the war.…’ (via Iran refuses to deal with Kushner and Witkoff any longer)
‘Two Minnesota priests accused of sexually abusing women they were counseling are arguing that laws banning sexual relationships in positions of power violate their religious freedom. Their lawyer is claiming, in effect, that being a priest should exempt them from rules that apply to everyone else in similar roles.…’ (via Boing Boing)
…Just as other special classes like members of the Trump Regime
