Monday Watch

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• @Business   

• Iran named the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as its new supreme leader as Tehran kept up its attacks on several countries on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East. 
• The State Department ordered American employees and diplomats in Saudi Arabia to leave the country amid the war with Iran, the New York Times reported, citing current and former US officials. 
• The surge in oil prices combined with a sagging yen raises the risk that Japan will slide into stagflation, prompting the government to ramp up fiscal spending while complicating the central bank’s mission to normalize its policy settings
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• The dollar strengthened against every major currency Monday as a deepening war in the Middle East pushed oil prices above $100 a barrel and boosted demand for havens
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• @Zerohedge

• Trump: "oil prices will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over". 
• US Explores High-Risk Plan To Seize Iran's Nuclear Stockpile In Potential Gateway To Ground Troops.
• *IRAN’S QALIBAF SAYS WON'T SEEK CEASEFIRE WITH 'AGGRESSORS': TV. *IRAN'S QALIBAF: WE ARE NEITHER VENEZUELA NOR SYRIA. *IRAN'S PARLIAMENT SPEAKER QALIBAF TELLS STATE-RUN TV. 
• *IRAN TO HIT REGIONAL ENERGY SITES IF ATTACKS ON INFRA CONTINUE. *IRANIAN TV CITES IRGC STATEMENT ON WARNING TO REGIONAL NATIONS.
• It Begins: Iranian Drone Strikes Bahrain Desalination Plant As Worst-Case Scenario Unfolds. 
• *TAIWAN'S RETURN TO CHINA IS OUTCOME OF WWII VICTORY, SAYS WANG. *THOSE WHO DEFY CHINA ON TAIWAN WILL 'PERISH' SAYS WANG. 
• SAUDI SAYS SHOT DOWN THREE DRONES IN RIYADH. SAUDI SAYS. INTERCEPTED DRONE HEADING TOWARD SHAYBAH OIL FIELD. 
• Cuba Is Negotiating Deal With US, Trump Says. 
• Kremlin: "We Are Not Neutral. We Support Iran."
• Scientists Train Lab-Grown Human Brain Cells To Play Doom. 
• Iran Picks Khamenei's Son As Next Supreme Leader.
• Update: $5 gas at the pump based on $300 RBOB. 
• Operation Epic Fury - Déjà Vu. 
• Xi Hints At More Top Purges, Issues Warning To 'Corrupt Elements' In Chinese Army.
• Russia's new oil price target.
• With Only Iran-Linked Tankers Transiting Hormuz, Saudis Boost Red Sea Flows To Record. 
• 'Everything You Knew About The Market Flipped This Week': Top Goldman Trader.   
• 'Small Price To Pay': Trump Says Surging Oil Prices Will 'Drop Rapidly' Once Iran Nuke Threat Over.
• Insurance Companies Crushed As Private Credit Contagion Spills Over.
• Bahrain triggers its security pact with the United States and United Kingdom (signed in 2023). Worth watching.
• The oil island that could break Iran.
• Turkey Mulls F-16 Deployment To Turkish-Occupied Cyprus Amid Iran War Tensions.
• PJM Market Monitor Opposes Maryland Coal Plant Sale To Data Center Company.
• Venezuela's Gas Potential Could Overshadow Its Famous Oil Reserves.
• Prediction markets are on fire. Polymarket just surpassed Kalshi in weekly volume and is reportedly valued around $20B.
• Goldman Flows Guru Warns Relatively Calm Index Belies 'Fragile' Market With 'Poor Tolerance For Bad News'.
• Saudi redline communicated to #Iran. “The Crown Prince of #Saudi Arabia will take out Kharg Island”.
• Urgent. Saudi Aramco officially announces diversion of some oil quantities to Yanbu Port - The company: We are working to ensure the reliability of oil supplies and monitor developments to return operations to normal. Quoted from the Saudi News Channel.   
• Larijani plus Ghalibaf and the IRGC commanders are calling the shots. The message to the GCC countries is clear: the attacks will continue unless the become neutral states in the conflict. 
• *TRUMP: UK MAY SEND TWO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO MIDDLE EAST. *TRUMP: DON’T NEED PEOPLE WHO JOIN WARS AFTER WE’VE WON.
• *TRUMP: WAR AGAINST IRAN WILL CONTINUE 'FOR A LITTLE WHILE'. *TRUMP DECLINES TO PROJECT WAR TIMELINE, 'WHATEVER IT TAKES'.
• *TRUMP: NOT LOOKING TO KURDS GOING INTO IRAN. *TRUMP: TOLD KURDISH LEADERS WE DON'T WANT THEM TO GO IN.
• Trump Announces Military Coalition With Latin American Leaders To Eradicate Cartels.
• Breaking: All of Tehran's oil refineries and depots are burning tonight. A 360 degree view of the city. (video)     

• @CNBC

• CNBC Daily Open: Oil surges past $100 per barrel as Iran war rages.
• Dow futures tumble 900 points as U.S. oil tops $100 a barrel to begin the week's trading: Live updates.
• Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled.
• Global week ahead: Diplomacy in ruins as G7 meets on Iran.   
• China says 'thorough preparations' needed as Trump-Xi meeting hangs in the balance amid Iran war. 

• @MarioNawful

• U.S officials are reportedly discussing a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island, the chokepoint responsible for roughly 90% of Iran’s oil exports. If the proposal moves forward, the island would fall under direct U.S. military control in the next phase of the war. And Kharg is just the opening move. Once it’s secured, the plan shifts to locking down Iran’s nuclear facilities and tightening U.S. control over the Strait of Hormuz itself, the economic jugular of the entire region. (video)
• The first week of Operation Epic Fury reportedly cost the U.S. roughly $6 billion, with $4 billion of that going to munitions and interceptors alone. That burn rate is so alarming that the administration is privately discussing invoking the Defense Production Act to force manufacturers to accelerate weapons production. (video)
• Ok things changed in the last few hours, and it’s not looking good. Here's why: - Iran struck the Gulf countries hard tonight. I was not expecting that. - The NYT just reported U.S. officials gave a closed door briefing to Congress estimating Iran still retains half its ballistic missile program and even more of its drone capabilities. - The Strait of Hormuz is still shut, and if Iran can sustain this for another 3 weeks, the global markets won’t survive (and based on the NYT report, they should easily be able to)... 
• The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet base in Bahrain is on fire after a reported Iranian drone strike. It’s the headquarters for U.S. naval ops across the Middle East and Gulf waters. (video) 

• @sentdefender

• Insane video appears to show the moment last night that storm drains across the Iranian capital of Tehran exploded and burst into flames, as a result of runoff from the Shahran Oil Depot and other oil infrastructure across Northern Tehran, which were targeted earlier in the evening by strikes from the Israeli Air Force. (video)

• @Amy_K_Nelson

• No one has mentioned this re: Epstein's death - but this is a VERY big deal. SDNY moved VERY quickly - w/in 24 hours - to obtain/issue a grand jury subpoena seeking the IP address of the 4chan user who said Epstein had been "switched out" before his death. /1. (pic)

• @WallStreetApes

• I verified this and it’s true. “Lab-grown chocolate is coming to shelves in 2027. Oreo, Cadbury and Toblerone are already funding the Israeli biotech producing it because a lab is cheaper than a farm”. “Cadbury has been quietly replacing your chocolate — This dairy milk isn't legal chocolate in 27 countries, the cocoa butter was replaced with vegetable fat, a cheap blend of 6 industrial oils. What remains is diluted with polyglycerol — Soon even that gets replaced, you'll be eating cells grown in a pharmaceutical tank”. Cadbury Dairy Milk (in the UK and many markets) has included vegetable fats (like palm and shea) alongside cocoa butter for years. UK/EU regulations allow up to 5% non-cocoa vegetable fats in chocolate if it meets minimum cocoa solids (20%) and other standards. In America standards are much lower. (video)

• @DataRepublican

• Hello Senator Thune, Wow. Just wow. Democrats didn't block Trump's nominees,
  @SenateGOP did. You had the majority. You failed. Republicans rejected Trump's picks. That's not on Democrats. We aren't Marxists; we believe in historical fact. And the fact is, you torpedoed @EagleEdMartin over manufactured outrage about January 6, while ignoring actual violence your constituents face. You don't get to revise the record. You own this. You talk about being the party of personal accountability. Stop attending lobbyist steak dinners and start showing it.

• @ShadowofEzra

• Lindsey Graham tells America to be prepared for a great reset and to stay tuned for the war against Cuba, saying the liberation of Cuba is incoming. Graham says they are marching through the entire world and cleaning out whoever they think are the bad guys. "Cuba is next." (video)
• Harrison Smith reports that anonymous X users worldwide are discovering that their real names are being searched in Israel. This comes after X began using verification software from Au10tix, an Israeli company staffed and created by veterans from IDF Unit 8200. “X is helping Israel unmask its enemies.” (video) 

• @DropSiteNews

• “Black rain” and “nuclear winter” effect reported in Tehran after Israeli strikes on oil facilities. Israeli strikes on oil depots around Tehran have released massive quantities of toxic hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. Mixed with rainwater, these chemicals are causing highly acidic precipitation that can cause skin burns and severe lung damage upon contact, according to Iranian authorities. Dense plumes of black smoke from the Shahran and other refineries have blotted out the sun, plunging parts of the city into darkness and creating a "nuclear winter" effect, NYT reported. Authorities warned that these noxious fumes cause acute respiratory distress and eye irritation... 

• @EricLDaugh

• BREAKING: Sen. Chuck Schumer announces Senate Democrats will 100% BLOCK the SAVE America Act to guard illegal alien voter fraud. He just straight-up admits to cheating by doing this. TRAITOR. "Senate Democrats will not help pass the SAVE Act under any circumstances." "The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of people. If Trump is saying he won’t sign any bills until the SAVE Act is passed, then so be it: there will be total gridlock in the Senate." The Senate GOP can CIRCUMVENT Chuck with a talking filibuster. Get it done!
• WOW. Jaw-dropping footage captures America's C-RAM system firing back at reported drone and missile fire near the US embassy complex in Baghdad, Iraq. The sound is freaking insane. (video) 

• @BGatesIsaPsycho

• Israel & The US are destroying the Iranian Regimes Oil infrastructure all across Iran right now. (video)

• @OSINTEurope  

• U.S. officials suspect China is responsible for a compromise of the FBI's surveillance network. - WSJ.

• @NickSortor

• BREAKING: NYPD CONFIRMS the device thrown at anti-Islam protestors in NYC was a LIVE NAIL BOMB that FAILED to detonate. THIS WAS AN ATTEMPTED ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK, AND THE MEDIA IS IGNORING IT. WTF?! Legacy media is the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! (video)
• BREAKING: Kansas City International Airport is being EVACUATED of all travelers and workers due to a “SERIOUS INCIDENT”. Initial reports are of a credible bomb threat to the airport. All planes have been halted and a sweep is underway. (video) 

• @EmeraldRobinson

• Just got a call from a Senate staffer. GOP leadership can't allow the disclosure of sex harassment settlements right now. The reason? It would harm John Cornyn. I'm told: that particular settlement was paid to another man.

• @sayerjigmi

• Today the WSJ published a piece on Epstein "conspiracy theories" — cannibalism, beef jerky as human flesh, baby farms. Also today, I published 24 federal DOJ exhibits documenting Epstein's 8-year operational cloning program: his cells in liquid nitrogen at Harvard, a $9.5M designer baby company, an overseas surgical lab structured to evade US law. For context: the phrase "designer baby" isn't fringe vocabulary. The NIH indexes a peer-reviewed university genetics curriculum built entirely around it. They covered the beef jerky crowd. They didn't mention the exhibits. They didn't mention the NIH. You decide what's a conspiracy theory: (thread)

• @KobeissiLetter

• BREAKING: The US is "dismayed" by Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian oil depots on Saturday, sparking the first "significant disagreement" between the allies since the war began, per Axios. Details include: 1. The strikes reportedly went "far beyond" what the US expected when Israel notified it in advance 2. "We don't think it was a good idea," a senior US official said 3. An Israeli official said the US message to Israel was "WTF" 4. "The president doesn't like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn't want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices," a Trump adviser said US gas prices are now expected to surge well above $4/gallon this month. 
• The water desalination strikes: Yesterday, Iran said the US struck Iranian water desalination sites, leaving ~30 villages without water. Iran called this a "dangerous move with grave consequences." Then, minutes ago, Bahrain announced that Iran struck their water desalination facilities. This is being described as the "worst-case scenario." Why? Because most Gulf countries cannot survive without desalinated water. It accounts for 90% of Kuwait's drinking water, 86% in Oman, 70% in Saudi Arabia, and 42% in the UAE. Drinking water for millions of people is at risk.
• BREAKING: US money market fund assets are up to a record $8.24 trillion, a +58% surge since December 2022. During this period, the top 5 managers, Fidelity, JPMorgan, Charles Schwab, Vanguard, and BlackRock, drove ~69% of total asset growth, with combined assets now at $4.76 trillion. Their collective market share has risen +14 percentage points to ~58% since 2011. Overall, total money market fund assets have grown +$5 trillion since 2019, or at a +13.7% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). Demand for safe-haven investments remains historically high. (graph) 
• Investors are dumping Asian stocks at a rapid pace: Global investors sold -$11.0 billion of equities in developing Asia excluding China this week, the largest weekly outflow since March 2022. Outside of the 2022 bear market and the 2020 pandemic selloff, this marks the largest weekly outflow on record. Taiwan was hit hardest with a record -$7.9 billion in withdrawals, followed by South Korea at -$1.6 billion and India at -$1.3 billion. 

• @DanielGilr44222

• Bill and Hillary Clinton's personal attorney shows up in the Epstein documents — and happens to be Ghislaine Maxwell's closest friend. (pic)

• @Worldsource24

• Shahran oil depot in Tehran is still burning intensely as the city wakes up on Sunday morning. (video)

• @MattWallace888

• BREAKING: Uncensored AI has added a section to their website called “The Rabbit Hole”. It includes the entire Epstein files (deleted ones are all saved) in an organized/searchable fashion. As well as a High-Resolution rendering of ‘The Great Awakening Map’. (video)

• @BreitbartNews.

• @KenPaxtonTX tells @mboyle1: “Everything that John Cornyn did was designed to make sure that Donald Trump did not get reelected.” “If the people of Texas knew how viciously John Cornyn went after Donald Trump by encouraging and inciting these people like Jack Smith and Mueller... to basically destroy the president, there’s no way that the people of Texas would put up with that and vote for John Cornyn.” (video)

• @JuneGoh_Sparta

• The forgotten barrel but not anymore: 1) Fuel oil is what comes out of the refinery, all the bottoms, unloved, heaviest stuff. Majority of this fuel oil goes into bunker fuels, which is essentially the gas for ships. 2) What ships are we talking about? Container ships, oil ships, dry bulk ships, cruise ships. Maybe more. 3) Can you get fuel oil from anywhere else except the refinery? Nope, it has to get refined from crude. There are fuel oil storage tanks around but if we are not running crude into refineries, you won't get fuel oil...

• @TheInsidePaper

• WATCH: Absolutely massive fire and smoke seen in Tehran after major strikes on oil depots. (video)

• @DC_Draino

• Chuck Schumer and John Thune are fighting to make sure nobody uses Voter ID in DC. Marc Elias is fighting to make sure nobody sees how many ineligible are currently on the voter rolls in 30 blue states. This is how the establishment keeps their illegitimate power.

• @NoAlphaLimits

• IRAN JUST TOLD THE U.S. AND ISRAEL: "PAY US OR THE WAR DOESN'T END." THIS IS NOT A BLUFF. Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, just made a statement that should TERRIFY every market on Earth: "The war will end only when Iran's adversaries understand they no longer have the right to violate Iranian territory and agree to pay COMPENSATION for the damages caused." Let that sink in. Iran isn't negotiating. Iran is setting TERMS...

• @AdityaRajKaul

• Pakistan plunges into a fuel crisis as the government hikes petrol and diesel prices by PKR 55 per litre, citing surging global oil costs linked to escalating Middle East tensions. Long queues and panic buying reported at petrol pumps across the country. (video)

• @matttttt187 

• Iran hit Saudi Arabia’s oil refinery…now it’s FAFO time!!! BREAKING: Israel reportedly just DESTROYED 30 Iranian oil storage tanks, and a major refinery in Tehran is completely UP IN FLAMES. Numerous videos showing the aftermath of US strikes on Iranian oil depots in Tehran, Iran. This is essentially a direct hit on China now. (video)

• @amuse

• J6: In yet another slap in the face to Ashli Babbitt's family, Senate Republicans mounted a plaque honoring her killer and the other Capitol Police in the Capitol. The plague pushes the Democrat's false narratives about that day. House Republicans ought to mount a plaque memorializing Ashli Babbitt's peaceful protest on that day. (pic)

• @BrandonStraka

• Senate Republicans will not pass the SAVE Act, however DID vote in unison to have this plaque hung in the halls of Congress today. It honors Capitol police officers who killed supporters of Donald Trump and lied on witness stands to have them imprisoned and civilly sued. (pic)

• @OSINT613

• CRAZY FOOTAGE!! Apocalyptic scenes coming out of Tehran right now. (video)

• @Conflict_Radar

• The oil is flowing into the sewers and the streets are on fire in Tehran. (video)

• @ThePatriotOasis

• BREAKING: A list has been released naming the GOP senators who are either openly opposed or expressing skepticism toward using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act. - Leader John Thune. - John Cornyn. - Lisa Murkowski. - Katie Britt. - John Curtis. - Kevin Cramer. - Thom Tillis. These holdouts are now under scrutiny as pressure mounts for Republicans to unite and deliver on key America First priorities. The talking Filibuster is the only realistic path forward without securing 60 votes in the Senate. (video)

• @JinWooIQ

• STRIKE THIS SHIP AND CHINA ENTERS THE WAR. THE U.S. CAN'T TOUCH IT. AND IRAN IS USING IT TO WIN. China's spy ship Liaowang-1 is sailing off the coast of Oman RIGHT NOW — collecting REAL-TIME intelligence on every U.S. military asset in the Middle East — and feeding it DIRECTLY to Iran. Let that sink in.

• @MRefaat_Formal

• Iran is tonight bombarding #BenGurionAirport in #TelAviv and other cities in #Israel in what I believe to be the most intense manner since the start of the war.. It seems that Russia and perhaps China are present in this war from behind the curtain. The war is intensifying tonight and its fires will intensify in the coming days as each side has entered the stage of seeking to settle the battle due to the escalating costs becoming difficult to bear. (video)

Night Trading

• Asian indices are -6.0% to -2.5% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 82.75 +10.75 basis points.
• China Sovereign CDS 49.75 +5.25 basis points.
• China Iron Ore Spot 103.5 USD/Metric Tonne +1.9%.
• Crude Oil 117.2/bbl. +28.7%
• Gold 5,081.9 USD/t oz. -1.4% 
• Swiss Franc/Offshore Chinese Renminbi Cross 8.86 +.12%. 
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 35.58 -.18%.
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 96.0 +1.3%.
• US 10-Year Yield 4.21% +7.0 basis points. 
• Japan 30-Year Yield 3.49% +9.0 basis points. 
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 26.9 +7.4%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures -3.0%.
• S&P 500 futures -2.3%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures -2.6%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are sharply lower, weighed down by transport and technology shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open sharply lower and to maintain losses into the afternoon. The Portfolio is 25% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

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• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 23574 -0.28% #DOW 47362 -0.15% #NASDAQ 24606 -0.12% #FTSE 10315 -0.04% #HANGSENG 25324 -0.05% #EURUSD 11631 +0.12% #GOLD 5191 +0.39% #SILVER 8483 +0.39% #USOIL 9198 +2.78%.

• @BarronsOnline

• Had bullish commentary on (LNG), (NEXT), (VG) and (CDRE).

• @MarioNawfal

• Iran blew up an AWS data center this morning with a Shahed drone and honestly the geopolitical implications are insane. Every country building AI infrastructure in a conflict zone now has to ask: do we need Patriot missiles protecting our server farms? This is the first time a military deliberately targeted commercial cloud infrastructure. That's a new chapter in how wars get fought.
• Two kamikaze drones reportedly struck a U.S. company at the Burjesia oil complex in Basra, Iraq. A third hit the Rumaila oil field where BP operates. Iran's proxies are now going after oil infrastructure. Brent crude is already above $90... (video) 
• Academic study just confirmed: Desalination plants are already being hit, and it's only a matter of time before one goes down completely. The numbers are terrifying: * 8 of the world's 10 largest desalination plants are in the Arabian Peninsula. * The region has 60% of global desalination capacity. * 100 million people depend on them. * Without them, "almost nobody would be able to live in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE; or much of Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh". 

• @GenFlynn

• USAID is a crime Scene: USAID was (is) a crime spree and everyone involved knows it. There were crimes committed on behalf of some in the USG going back decades. Until people are held accountable, all funding globally must end. Those responsible should NOT be fired, they should have clearances suspended or revoked, they should be sent home with no pay and fully investigated (this is for the USG employees). For those contracted personnel and companies, they should be thoroughly investigated, all should be immediately suspended from any government work (make sure they didn’t change their names), investigated and if guilty of fraud or misuse of USG funds (U.S. taxpayer dollars), they should all be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. War or no war. The justice department budget is close to $30B (yes, that’s a B!). Until people are held accountable for these deep state crimes, the frustration levels will rise. People must go to jail over this subversion of our good faith efforts the American people expected but did not receive. Instead we got RIPPED OFF!!!

• @natalimorris

• The Trump administration launches the Patriot Act 2.0. "We will unveil and embarrass online espionage, destructive propaganda and influence operations, and cultural subversion." When the government starts defining threats by “propaganda,” “influence,” and “cultural subversion,” it is not just targeting hackers. It is targeting narratives. (pic)

• @EricLDaugh

• BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Maces floats "freezing" every piece of legislation in the Senate until the SAVE America Act is passed. "We should freeze all senate bills until Thune passes the SAVE Act." Members of the House GOP are growing impatient. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna floated attaching SAVE America Act to FISA. Either way, JUST GET IT DONE, PLEASE!

• @NoLimitGains

• IRAN JUST MADE A MOVE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING: Iran’s president just said neighboring countries will no longer be attacked. Sounds like de-escalation. It’s not. It’s actually the opposite. Most people are going to completely misread this. Here’s what’s really happening: “Unless an attack on Iran is launched from their territory.” The U.S. is literally launching strikes on Iran FROM those countries right now. Al Udeid in Qatar. Al Dhafra in the UAE. Ali Al Salem in Kuwait. Bases in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman. That’s where American bombers, fighters, and drones are flying from. Iran isn’t saying “we’ll stop.” They’re saying “tell America to leave or we keep hitting you.” This is a pressure play on the Gulf states.
• A VERY DANGEROUS CLAIM IS CIRCULATING RIGHT NOW: Before you believe it, you need to read the full breakdown below. Reports are circulating that the U.S. struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island in Iran. Iran’s Foreign Minister is warning of “consequences.” There is NO verified proof this happened. – No satellite imagery. – No confirmation from the Pentagon or CENTCOM. – No independent verification from any major outlet. The source is Iranian state-affiliated media. That doesn’t mean it’s fake, but it doesn’t mean it’s confirmed either. Now here’s where it gets important...

• @RenzTom

• I mean no disrespect when I ask this but is this a serious question? Election fraud is real and used by both parties. Why do you think people like Mitch McConnell or Cornyn win their primaries when their GOP base hate them? Election fraud isn’t only about Dems stealing elections, it’s also about the uniparty maintaining control while trying to convince us that there are two distinct parties.

• @seanmdav

• 10 Times John Cornyn Betrayed Trump And MAGA. (video)

• @sungleeiq

• AN IRANIAN DRONE JUST HIT A RESIDENTIAL TOWER IN DUBAI MARINA. THIS IS NOT A MILITARY TARGET. While Iran's President was telling the world "we won't attack neighbors" — a drone just slammed into a CIVILIAN TOWER in Dubai Marina. Let that sink in. (video)
• Nobody is telling you how screwed the data center situation actually is right now. Every major tech company on earth just spent BILLIONS building AI data centers in the Gulf. Microsoft. Google. Amazon. Oracle. All of them. Sitting right there. In the middle of a warzone. Here's what you need to understand: 

• @Chicago1Ray

• Do you want Majority @LeaderJohnThune to resign?!?!? He's passed only (38) bills... the lowest in modern history. He allowed a vote in (2) days on a (WPR) but hasn't brought the Save America Act to the floor. His body language says he's way over his head He's not cut out for this. (video)

• @1776General_

• Trump: We'll bring in any Iranian refugees that aid the U.S Military! Trump complained about the Afghan INVADERS and now is doing the same thing. This is how we got invaded with people from the Middle East. (video)

• @illuminatibot

• NEW EPSTEIN FILES REVEAL THAT JEFFREY EPSTEIN SAID HE WAS HELPING ISIS THROUGH US-ISRAELI PROXIES. (pic)

• @MonitorX99800  

• Direct impact in Dubai International Airport. (video)

• @jayplemons

• Rep. Chip Roy predicts exactly how the SAVE Act is going to fail. • Leader Thune puts it on the Senate floor. • Manages amendments for ~2 weeks. • Amendments offered & debated. • No major Democrat shift. • Cloture vote fails. • Bill dies. The only chance for this to pass is with a talking filibuster (like they do every year on the budget). (video)

• @liz_churchill10

• Child Traffickers were in charge of all ‘Science’… Robert Maxwell headed the Scientific Journal System that controlled ‘Science’ for decades. Bill Gates invested $10M in ResearchGate…that has 25 MILLION members. Epstein and Gates decided what research got amplified… (video)

• @LoneStar_PAC

• John Cornyn compared January 6 to 9/11, and called attendees "white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionists, anarchists." He then asked then-FBI Director Chris Wray if a new law was needed to charge attendees with "domestic terrorism." (video)

• @nedryun

• Katie Britt, yet another miserable waste of a red state Senator. . . She should be primaried next time. We need rockstar conservatives from deep red states like Alabama, not low IQ milquetoast establishment types. (video)

• @barchart

• The World reached highest level of uncertainty in history this year, surpassing Covid, the Global Financial Crisis, and the Dot Com Bubble. (graph)

• @KobeissiLetter

• BREAKING: Kuwait officially confirms it has cut oil production today. Prior to the war, Kuwait was producing nearly 2.8 MILLION barrels of oil per day.
• Asia is the most dependent region on oil and natural gas flows from the Middle East: ~90% of all crude oil transiting the Strait of Hormuz is destined for Asia.. And, ~82% of LNG exports from Qatar and the UAE flow to Asian buyers. China alone receives 38% of all oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, followed by India at 15%, South Korea at 12%, and Japan at 11%. Furthermore, for Japan and South Korea, over 60% of their total oil imports are transported via Hormuz, making them the most vulnerable to supply disruptions. For Asia, the Strait of Hormuz is an energy lifeline. 
• The market has never experienced anything like this: The S&P 500's trading range in the first 41 trading days of 2026 is just 2.7%, the narrowest for this period on record, going back to 1928. This is also tighter than any Dow Jones trading range since 1896. By comparison, during the 2008 Financial Crisis, the index traded within a ~35% range, ~1,200% wider than the current level. The 2020 pandemic saw a range of ~15%, or ~450% wider. Even the calmest periods in the 1950s, 1960s, and before the Financial Crisis saw higher volatility than today. The market remains extremely subdued despite elevated volatility beneath the surface. (graph) 

• @nypost

• Prison guard googled Jeffrey Epstein minutes before his body was found - and deposited thousands days before pedophile's suicide: DOJ.

• @Worldsource24

• BREAKING: After more than 60 hours of complete power outages, widespread frustration has boiled over in Havana. Nighttime demonstrations have broken out in the Cuban capital, with residents voicing their anger against the communist government. Reports indicate that protests are now spreading through multiple neighborhoods across the city. (video)

• @Olivia_Reingold

• I found 70+ posts liked by Rama Duwaji, Zohran Mamdani's wife, of radical anti-Israel content—and even Holocaust inversion. (video)

• @WatcherGuru

• JUST IN: White House official says the US will seize "all the oil" from Iran. (video)

• @pati_marins64

• The United States has handed the Chinese an encyclopedia on its military doctrines. The war involving the US and Israel is being monitored and recorded in real time by LEO satellite constellations such as Jilin-1, which are even capable of capturing 4K UHD video. Today, China operates at least three LEO constellations comprising at least 300 satellites dedicated to espionage or dual-use purposes. From the images constantly released about American bases, it is clear that the Chinese are building a true encyclopedia on U.S. naval and air doctrines. Every ship positioning, fiend tactics, refueling time, ammunition resupply, everything is being monitored by Chinese satellites. This includes the exact location and behavior of air defenses, their mapped reaction times, missile trajectories, and reprogramming durations.

• @TrendSpider

• $SPY S&P REBALANCING... (list)

• @mboyle1

• Based off what’s come out on him the past 3 days since the primary, it looks like it’s actually CORNYN who has so much unvetted “baggage” not PAXTON. In just past 3 days, we’ve seen: — Video evidence of John Cornyn defending Jack Smith weaponization against President Trump in documents case — Proof that Cornyn is harboring Russia Hoax perpetrators on his campaign — Deeper dives on Cornyn’s amnesty and gun control record in the Senate. — Pure demonstrable evidence that Cornyn does not seriously want the SAVE AMERICA ACT to pass since he won’t do what’s necessary to get it through the senate. What else is John Cornyn hiding? Where is the rest of the baggage? What other shocks and surprises are in store that could derail him in a general election if he were the nominee? Are Republicans willing to roll the dice here?

• @OANN

• Fires broke out in offices and warehouses belonging to U.S. firms Halliburton and KBR after a drone attack in Iraq's Basra.  (video)
• “I don’t think it was an accident that Epstein was given the State Department property—the five-story mansion in New York City that was seized from Iran… I don’t think it was an accident Jeffrey Epstein was handling Adnan Khashoggi’s money while Adnan Khashoggi was the CIA middleman between the U.S. and Israel during Iran-Contra.” Foundation for Freedom Online Executive Director @MikeBenzCyber breaks down Jeffrey Epstein’s connection to the CIA—suggesting that he operated as a logistics hub for intelligence services. (video) 

• @sayerjigmi

• Part 13 of my investigative series reveals just how closely Epstein and the Gates foundation worked together sharing military grade intelligence on vaccine and biological surveillance programs in Pakistan: (video)
• Epstein Files bombshell: Jeffrey Epstein ran a 6-year private backchannel directing Gates Foundation polio strategy in Taliban zones—committing funds, routing military-grade intel, and architecting anonymity. Emails debate paying "the bad guys" for vaccine access. Full investigation: (video)
• BREAKING: Email Describes $100M/Year Proposal to Epstein Attributed to Bill Gates. In May 2013, Boris Nikolic — Bill Gates's science advisor — sent Jeffrey Epstein this message: "Bill is anxiously awaiting your answer." The offer on the table: $100 million per year. For 30% of Epstein's time. This is in the documents. Here's what they show — and what they don't. (thread)

• @OcrazioCornPop

• HOMELAND: Trump's new pick for Secretary of Homeland recently voted to ALLOW "Refugee" Welfare Programs to continue to be funded at Biden-era levels. Mullin also comforted & HUGGED the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt: "He was distraught. I gave him a hug & said 'you did what you had to do.'" He also claimed Republican Senators were too "emotional" over Jan 6 to confirm Trump's pick Ed Martin for DC Prosecutor. WOULD @SenMullin ALLOW BORDER PATROL AGENTS TO OPEN FIRE ON ILLEGAL ALIENS TOLD TO STOP AT THE BORDER IF THEY DID NOT COMPLY? (video)

• @mtaibbi

• EXCLUSIVE: The FBI has been keeping a separate set of books in the form of secret “prohibited access” files for a generation, and the Bureau has finally begun to disclose them: (link)

• @TFTC21

• Over 450,000 Americans now have alpha-gal syndrome. They're allergic to red meat for the rest of their lives. The lone star tick causes it. The same tick the U.S. military released 282,800 of across Virginia in the 1960s, made radioactive with Carbon-14. Before those experiments, lone star ticks didn't exist above the Mason-Dixon Line. Now they're in 30+ states and spreading north every year. The CDC didn't even recognize alpha-gal as a diagnosis until 2009. Most doctors still miss it. Patients get told it's anxiety or IBS for years before someone thinks to test for it. A government program bred weaponized ticks. Those ticks now cause a mysterious meat allergy that didn't exist before. And no one in Washington will connect the dots publicly.

• @WallStreetApes

• Somehow John Cornyn is narrowly leading Ken Paxton in the GOP Senate Race in Texas. Texas needs to vote for Ken Paxton for America First. Charlie Kirk warned us about John Cornyn. “He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about his voters. Any decent person that gets booed by their voters — would stop and say, maybe I'm heading in the wrong direction, and they'd back off. Instead, John Cornyn gets in front of the entire Texas Republican Convention and gets booed, and then he goes back to D.C and says, I'm gonna show those people. I'm gonna show the deplorables I'm in charge.” (video)

• @amuse

• TEXAS SENATE RACE: John Cornyn's campaign manager hates President Trump and Texas Republicans. He called Trump a scam artist... Why would the Senator hire someone like Matt 'Venmo' Mackowiak to run his campaign? Does Trump know how much Cornyn and his team hate him and his family?

• @GeneralMCNews

• BREAKING: Israel has started a large bombing campaign on Iranian oil infrastructure, the first such attacks on state infrastructure since the start of the war.

• @BreannaMorello

• Ever wondered how TSA was allowing illegal aliens to board commercial flights without IDs under the Biden regime? Well I sued TSA to find out and learned that Biden’s DHS allowed CONVICTED sex offenders on to flights by showing their sex offender paperwork. Predators were allowed into the country if they promised to take sexual deviancy counseling and register as a sex offender. After suing TSA, I won and now the agency is covering my legal fees. Currently, TSA says they can’t pay my lawyer right now due to the shut down. (pic)

OpenVAERS:  

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,031,875 Reports(+713 from prior report) Through January 2nd, 2026.

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.