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Oil crashed the day after Democrats took Congress. Then Van Jones went on CNN and admitted the quiet part out loud. The day after the election, Brent crude fell 8.7% in a single day. WTI fell 13% on the week. Worst week for oil since COVID. Nothing about the war changed overnight. Only the election ended. And it is still falling this morning. WTI is down near $87 a barrel. Tankers are still getting hit near the Strait of Hormuz. But the fear is gone, right on schedule. The official story is that traders think a Democrat Congress will force Trump to end the Iran war. Maybe. Hold that thought. Because then Van Jones went on CNN and bragged about how they did it. His exact words: 'The Republicans never figured out what we were doing.' Jones said Democrats ran something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of real people. Not bots. Coordinated to post the same message, everywhere, every day. And the message never changed. Everything is unaffordable. Gas costs too much. And it is all the Republicans' fault. Jones said they tied kitchen table pain to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative. The scale he claimed: 32.5 million hits a day on Instagram. 88.8 million on X. 185 million on Facebook. That is not a campaign. That is a flood. And it was aimed at your gas tank. This was not some random group either. The network's own partner list includes the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, MoveOn, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU. The whole machine, working one message. So here is the question people are asking now. If the crisis was real, why did oil fall off a cliff the morning after the votes were counted? Inventories actually went down that week. Less oil sitting around usually means higher prices. Prices crashed anyway. They did not win on policy. They won on volume. They manufactured a crisis, pointed it at your gas tank, and flooded every feed in America until it worked. And Jones said the network is not going away. What were you paying for gas on Election Day?

Oil crashed the day after Democrats took Congress. Then Van Jones went on CNN and admitted the quiet part out loud. The day after the election, Brent crude fell 8.7% in a single day. WTI fell 13% on the week. Worst week for oil since COVID. Nothing about the war changed overnight. Only the election ended. And it is still falling this morning. WTI is down near $87 a barrel. Tankers are still getting hit near the Strait of Hormuz. But the fear is gone, right on schedule. The official story is that traders think a Democrat Congress will force Trump to end the Iran war. Maybe. Hold that thought. Because then Van Jones went on CNN and bragged about how they did it. His exact words: 'The Republicans never figured out what we were doing.' Jones said Democrats ran something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of real people. Not bots. Coordinated to post the same message, everywhere, every day. And the message never changed. Everything is unaffordable. Gas costs too much. And it is all the Republicans' fault. Jones said they tied kitchen table pain to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative. The scale he claimed: 32.5 million hits a day on Instagram. 88.8 million on X. 185 million on Facebook. That is not a campaign. That is a flood. And it was aimed at your gas tank. This was not some random group either. The network's own partner list includes the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, MoveOn, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU. The whole machine, working one message. So here is the question people are asking now. If the crisis was real, why did oil fall off a cliff the morning after the votes were counted? Inventories actually went down that week. Less oil sitting around usually means higher prices. Prices crashed anyway. They did not win on policy. They won on volume. They manufactured a crisis, pointed it at your gas tank, and flooded every feed in America until it worked. And Jones said the network is not going away. What were you paying for gas on Election Day?

🚨 JUST IN: The US Senate just ADVANCED the President Trump-backed American affordability and jobs bill, by a vote of 73-25 — a HUGE step toward freeing America to BUILD again TRUMP: "This Landmark Permitting Reform Legislation will codify our America First Energy Agenda, and ensure that we can build Pipelines, Mines, and Power Plants faster than ever before, lowering Energy Costs for American Families, and creating High Paying American Jobs." 🇺🇸 - Has data centers pay the full cost of the new grid they need - Speeds up at least $10 BILLION a year in HUD housing money - Ends automatic historic preservation reviews for many federally backed housing projects - Requires planning for power lines across regions, with a federal backstop when states or localities block them Get it to President Trump's desk ASAP!

🚨 ELECTION ISSUES: Virginia has more registered voters than Census adult citizens. Statewide, 68 of 133 localities are over 100%. Fairfax City is at 121.3%. Falls Church City is at 121.1%. Goochland County is at 114.3%. Loudoun County is at 113.4%. Fairfax County is 58,187 over. Why are so many of these rolls over the adult-citizen count?

JUST IN: Gas is set to drop below $4 for the first time since July

Bloomington, Indiana, has banned artificial superintelligence. The city council voted 7–0 to bar superintelligent AI within city limits, including through apps and browsers. Violators face fines and possible prosecution. Lifting the ban would take approval from more than 95% of registered voters.

Bloomington, Indiana, has banned artificial superintelligence. The city council voted 7–0 to bar superintelligent AI within city limits, including through apps and browsers. Violators face fines and possible prosecution. Lifting the ban would take approval from more than 95% of registered voters.

SITUATION DETECTED: Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control.

kinda crazy insight from the X algo: if you paste a reply into the text box, it will rank lower than if you type it out this kinda sucks because i often draft posts somewhere else, then paste them into X afterwards

There is NO statistical possibility that the map changed this much in just 2 years. I call bull shit. It insanity to even think this is possible. Take the state of Oklahoma for example. The ENTIRE state went from totally red 2 years ago to entirely blue?? Bull-fcking-shit.

THE FERMI PARADOX HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED for sixty years you have been sold a mystery. the universe is huge, the stars are old, somebody should have called by now, and the silence demands an explanation. three researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford went to check the arithmetic under the product. what was in the old packaging: one number plugged into each slot of the Drake equation. a single value for the share of planets where life starts, a single value for the share where intelligence appears. point estimates. the trouble is that our knowledge of those quantities is smeared across orders of magnitude. you cannot be uncertain by a factor of a billion and then write down one number for it. so Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord fed in the whole spread of the uncertainty instead. they ran it twice, once from their own reading of the science, once from the range of published estimates in the astrobiology literature. the output: > probability we are alone in the Milky Way: from about half to near certainty > probability we are alone in the observable universe: from about 40 to 85 percent at those numbers the silence stops being strange. nothing is missing from the sky. no paradox left to explain, and no Great Filter needed to explain it. i went in expecting to find the trick, because a paper that deletes a famous problem usually has one. what i came out with is a complaint about method. one number written where a range belongs, repeated for sixty years. the fine print, and i am the one insisting on it. these are probabilities under the distributions the authors picked, so change the assumptions and the numbers move. the paper measures how little we know and it does not prove that nobody is out there. what it takes away is your right to be surprised that nobody has called. link in the comments

🚨 WOW! El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just had his troops STORM through Haiti to take down the gangs and rescue his missing men — and the locals love it This is the guy who turned the m*rder capital of the world into one of the safest countries in the hemisphere 🇺🇸🇸🇻 Bukele is ripping apart these savages on their HOME TURF And globalist NGOs can't stand it. Bring your men home, @nayibbukele!

🚨 WOW! El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just had his troops STORM through Haiti to take down the gangs and rescue his missing men — and the locals love it This is the guy who turned the m*rder capital of the world into one of the safest countries in the hemisphere 🇺🇸🇸🇻 Bukele is ripping apart these savages on their HOME TURF And globalist NGOs can't stand it. Bring your men home, @nayibbukele!

If Texas or other states don’t want the economic benefits of data centers, Alabama will gladly take the business. alreporter.com/2026/10/16/op…

Follow this guy. He’s about to spend an entire year without looking at a screen, while tracking his biomarkers and overall health to see what changes.