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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is a remarkable. You OFTEN get administration insiders leaking to the press, "we warned Trump XYZ," as when someone in Dan Caine's vicinity leaked that Caine warned Trump that Iran could go badly b4 he started war. Here, oil execs are doing that. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Oil industry warns Trump administration of price spikes within weeks
Industry executives said the loss of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is draining petroleum inventories to dangerously low levels.

A bulk cargo ship sits at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026.
A bulk cargo ship sits at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on May 2. | Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP

By Ben Lefebvre and James Bikales
06/04/2026 07:28 AM EDT


The oil industry is warning the Trump administration that a Hormuz-sized hole in the world’s petroleum market is steadily draining inventories to levels that are likely to send global energy prices surging in the next several weeks, according to four executives.

Industry executives have flagged the issue to senior White House officials and Cabinet members in recent weeks as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing dialogue with the U.S. energy industry, the people said. The warnings came as recently as late last month as data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and other sources began showing that fuel makers were increasingly relying on oil and fuel from their storage tanks to replace products no longer arriving from the Middle East.

“We’re at dangerously low levels already,” said one industry executive who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations with the administration. “We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.”
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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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bafatl.bsky.social @bafatl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party. This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Lucifer has a point
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Cartoon by Tommy Siegel
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12/09/2025
This is just the direct subsidy. It’s also an economic subsidy if you’re allowed to pollute for free. That subsidy of fossil fuel has hit $700 billion a year. Every year. It’s the biggest subsidy in world history.
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Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Firms Have Doubled Since 2017, Now $35 Billion a Year
Oil and gas companies could gobble up billions in tax credits if lawmakers don’t act, warn the authors of a new report.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Kodak, when confronted with the rise of digital photography, went big on investments in…film. Which is why you don’t hear about Kodak anymore. In a related dynamic, the United States, when confronted with the rise of clean energy, went big on investments in… oil.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Imagine laws, but for rich people.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?
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Sune 🍞 @sunpanbreadroll.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down
Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads:

DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS.

There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries.

IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant.

There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities.

This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.
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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025
Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The richest person in the world stops aid to the poorest people in the world. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday on social media.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Intellectualist will be posting more on Bluesky. Can you please give us a follow? Thank you.
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