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Every time there’s a headline that the war in Iran may be winding down, bombs go off and wind it right back up again. So maybe I shouldn’t say that the president has cooled his jets when it comes to the pope, but he has taken a break from going off on the Holy Father. If you read Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, you’ll see that the war with Iran continues to preoccupy him; of course it does. But his messages don’t show a man who engages and then moves on, ever. Instead, he doubles back as reliably as the surf, refreshing beloved grievances and…

U.S. Navy/PhoM1 Brien Aho – Public Domain Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs, others leaning on canes—being zip-tied and dragged out of the Capitol Rotunda for staging a peaceful, anti-war protest. Sixty-six veterans were arrested while conducting a flag-folding ceremonyin recognition of the 13 military servicemembers who have died so far in Trump’s war with Iran. A growing number of active-duty military service members asking how to end their service, become conscientious objectors, and refuse unlawful orders. And a president openly threatening to commit war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure…

A former Supreme Court clerk compared Kagan to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a new book. Source link

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is entering his influencer era as US health secretary. Source link

This interesting case was reported in the literature in 2007. For some reason it was then widely published in the mainstream media in 2015. Now it is making the rounds again on social media to support a false narrative about brain function. The story is of a 20 year old German woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Over the next several months she started to slowly lose her vision – which is an important detail, it was not a sudden loss as a result of the physical trauma. After evaluation she was diagnosed with psychogenic…

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… Defendant commented on twenty-two different YouTube videos with death threats to various ethnic groups, including Muslims, “American blacks,” immigrants, and “people from India.” … [T]he Government charged Defendant by criminal complaint with violating 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which prohibits the transmission, in interstate or foreign commerce, of any communication containing any threat to injure the person of another. … The indictment … includes a chart listing the count, a summary of the communication, the communication date, and the YouTube comment ID number. The communications are listed for each count as follows: Threat to kill and eradicate Muslims off the…

U.S. troops are training for chemical and nuclear fallout while fresh forces and warships surge toward the Middle East, and I can’t shake the feeling that those “routine drills” are happening for a reason. We walk through what the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s radiation preparedness could mean in the context of reports that the U.S. is weighing major escalation options against Iran, including strikes on critical infrastructure and the far more dangerous scenario: a special operation aimed at securing Iran’s 60% enriched uranium stockpile. If that material has been moved, buried, or sits inside damaged tunnel networks, the operational risks…

Chevron station, Portland metro area, mid-April, 2026. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The market for oil is global, which is why events like the war in Iran affect oil prices – and prices of the wide range of products made from oil – literally everywhere. Federal data shows that the price at the primary crude oil hub in the U.S. was US$66 a barrel in late February 2026 – before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran – and $101 a barrel on April 13. Similar price increases have reverberated around the globe. As an energy economist and an international trade economist,…