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Brent, WTI, and Dubai crudes all back in prompt backwardation now. Tighter 🛢️ Brent >$80/bbl 🚚 US Diesel >$155/bbl (>$75 crack) 🚗 US Gasoline >$130/bbl (>$50 crack)

Bitcoin is money. Bitcoin is information. Bitcoin is property. Bitcoin is software. Bitcoin is a commodity. Bitcoin is energy. Bitcoin is time. Bitcoin is freedom. Bitcoin is math. Bitcoin is an asset. Bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin is speech. Bitcoin is hope. #Bitcoin #Only

🚨 WOW! Florida Democrat governor candidate Andrew Gillum — who lost to DeSantis by 0.4 points — was not only ARRESTED, but was found with "3 packages of meth, marijuana, a bong, pipes, and cut straws" Florida dodged a MASSIVE bullet with this degenerate! 🤯 "Gillum was charged on possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana. Of course, this isn't his first rodeo, nor his first running with the law. You may recall back in March of 2020, cops responded to a call of a possible OD, that's overdose, at the South Beach hotel, and he was there." "When cops got there, they walked in the room, they saw Gillum and an alleged male escort. Body cam footage later revealed pill bottles and a small suspected bag of meth in the room." "Gillum had been a rising star in the Democratic Party not long ago, eventually getting the parties backing to take on Ron DeSantis in the Sunshine State gubernatorial race in 2018 after having served as Tallahassee's mayor from 2014 to 2018. Of course, he'd lost in that race in 2018 by around 30,000 votes."

Periodic reminder that Cialdini talks in his book Influence about the difficulty a person has taking back any position s/he has stated loudly and publicly and repeatedly. A person convinces himself of things, and is also embarrassed to admit a mistake. Forcing a person to take a public position can even work as brainwashing. So don’t expect conspiracy theorists about Charlie Kirk or anything else to do some big mea culpa. They will either continue to insist they are right and develop newer, more elaborate theories, or they will just stop talking about it and act like it didn’t happen.

Where is momentum in terms of factor exposure after the recent selling

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A Delta flight arriving at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the Fourth of July reportedly made contact with a firework, the airline said. Delta Air Lines Flight 1076 departed Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at 7:36 p.m. ET and landed at Midway Airport at 8:38 p.m. CT. Radio communication between the crew and air traffic control captured the moments after the incident.

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Peter McCormack: What if everyone figured out the game and tried to short the currency at once? "Does it require peasants on the other side having their life debased to allow it to work?" Lyn Alden: "Pretty much. Yeah. The system is based on having people hold the currency in the bonds while other people are literally shorting it." When you borrow money, you're creating more currency units and benefiting. The unlevered people storing cash in savings accounts are the ones losing. #Bitcoin.#Only

think I found the highest ROI investment in London. An ANPR traffic camera. My crime? Driving to my storage unit. If I’m coming from Chelsea, the direct route is illegal. The “green” route is to drive almost all the way to Wandsworth Bridge, loop around, and come back to the exact same destination. Meanwhile you’re crawling along at 20 mph, never getting out of second gear. This is marketed as a “Clean Air Neighbourhood.” Yet the policy often means driving farther, spending longer on the road, burning more fuel, and adding more congestion just to reach the exact same destination. Then I found the numbers. A 2025 report said the Imperial Road camera issued 851 PCNs in a single day - believed to be a UK record. The wider South Fulham camera scheme reportedly issued 212,615 PCNs in 2024. Back-of-the-envelope: • £17 million if every PCN were paid at the £80 discounted rate. • £34 million at the standard £160 penalty. • £51 million if every PCN ultimately reached the £240 enforcement stage. Forget buying London real estate. I want to own a London traffic camera. Now I’m curious who supplies these cameras. One of the biggest players is Yunex Traffic, owned by Mundys, which is controlled by the Benetton family and - of course - Blackstone. I have no idea whether Yunex supplied the Hammersmith & Fulham cameras or what the contract with the council looks like, but I’d genuinely love to see it.

🚨 HELL YEAH! US Marines taking over Central Park NYC with the Stars & Stripes flying high! Full patriot mode activated right in the heart of Mamdani’s radical NYC. Real Americans showing what love of country looks like. Heroes! 🇺🇸

Good Morning to everyone in the UTC+1 time zone (Central European Summer Time) from Spitsbergen to Cape Town! On this day, the following important events took place in recent centuries. 3/1 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility. 83 BC – The Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Rome is burned down and the Sibylline books of prophecy destroyed with it. 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt). 1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania. 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1411 – Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor. 1415 – Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz Cathedral as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake. 1438 – A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey. 1439 – The reunion of the Catholic and Orthodox Church is proclaimed and celebrated with a public holiday. 1483 – Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned King and Queen of England. 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River. 1495 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the Holy League. 1536 – Thomas More is executed after having been condemned on perjured evidence. 1536 – The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo at the end of his second expedition to North America. He returns with none of the gold he expected to find. 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the city of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again. 1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England. 1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera. 1573 – French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle end. 1614 – Raid on Żejtun: The south east of Malta, and the town of Żejtun, suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta. 1630 – Thirty Years' War: Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany. 1685 – Battle of Sedgemoor: Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion. Troops of King James II defeat troops of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. 1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York. 1779 – Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces in the Caribbean during the American Revolutionary War. 1791 – At Padua, the Emperor Leopold II calls on the monarchs of Europe to join him in demanding the king of France Louis XVI's freedom. 1801 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras. 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars. 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States held its first convention in Jackson, Michigan. 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

Japanese Yen will collapse to 165 against the U.S. Dollar, its weakest level since 1986, warns Goldman Sachs 🚨 🚨

*BROADCOM TO DEVELOP CUSTOM ASIC SILICON PRODUCTS FOR APPLE what happened to Intel?

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🔴 GERMAN INDUSTRIAL ORDERS MOM ACTUAL 1.9% (FORECAST 1.1%, PREVIOUS -3.8%)

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