How dare you? Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon How dare you use the bodies of thousands of murdered Iranians as political ammunition of your domestic battles? Mr. Pedro Sánchez, Our suffering is not your political theater. You spoke more than 1,600 words about war and morality, yet barely a word about the real war the Islamic Republic has been waging against unarmed Iranians for decades. More than 32,000 people have been killed by the Islamic Republic in Iran. Women shot in the eyes. Hospitals stormed to finish off the wounded. I invite you to be brave. Watch the videos of body bags piled on top of each other in the streets of Iran. Listen to the doctors and nurses who describe how security forces stormed hospitals to finish off the wounded protesters. Then look into my eyes. I survived three assassination plots by the same regime you still treat as a diplomatic partner. The FBI warned me that their killers operate even here in the West. Spain should understand this better than anyone. Spain is a country that emerged from dictatorship and rebuilt democracy. For millions of Iranians, Spain could be a symbol of hope, a reminder that a nation can leave tyranny behind and build freedom. You keep the Iranian embassy open. You shake the hands of officials whose hands are stained with the blood of my people. Yet you do not even dare to shake the hand of an Iranian woman who carries the scars of this regime’s war against us. This is not about your political fights. This is not about left or right. This is about human freedom. It is easy to make speeches about peace. It is harder to confront a regime that has been waging war against its own people for 45 years. History will remember who chose comfort over courage. And who stood with the victims. The Iranian people do not want war. But we will never accept politicians shaking hands with the regime that declared war on us. #Iran

Yesterday, I explained how seven insurance firms in London shut down one-fifth of the world's oil supply. Today, Trump may have just made the most aggressive sovereign insurance play in modern history. Here's what happened and why it matters: Trump ordered the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to immediately offer political risk insurance and guarantees to all maritime trade through the Gulf. Especially energy. Backed by Navy escorts if needed. Read that through the lens of what I described yesterday. The Strait didn't close because of missiles. It closed because the insurance market collapsed. P&I clubs pulled coverage, reinsurers withdrew, and the entire commercial shipping architecture froze. This move doesn't address the military problem. It addresses the actuarial one. The DFC is stepping into the void that Lloyd's and the London reinsurance market created when they pulled out. The U.S. government is effectively saying: we will underwrite what the private market won't. No sovereign has attempted to replace the global marine war risk market in real time during an active conflict. Here's why the structural implications are significant: 1. It challenges Lloyd's dominance. For centuries, London has been the center of gravity for marine insurance. Lloyd's and its reinsurers controlled pricing, terms, and risk appetite for global shipping. That concentration is exactly what made the actuarial blockade possible. A handful of firms in one city froze global oil flows. The DFC offering competitive political risk coverage to all shipping lines is a direct challenge to that architecture. If American-backed insurance proves cheaper and more reliable during crises, shippers may not return to London when the dust settles. 2. It breaks the actuarial blockade. I said yesterday that China has massive leverage over Iran but zero leverage over Lloyd's. The same was true of every oil-producing and oil-consuming nation watching their economies choke. This goes around the insurance market entirely. If the DFC covers the voyage and the Navy escorts the tanker, the ships sail. Oil flows. The spreadsheet blockade breaks. 3. It redirects billions in premium revenue. War risk premiums in the Gulf are currently running at extreme multiples — 3× to 5× pre-conflict rates. Those premiums were flowing to London reinsurers who then pulled coverage anyway. Now those premiums flow to Washington. At rates the DFC can set below the panicked London market, while still generating substantial returns. The same shippers get cheaper coverage. The revenue just changes continents. 4. It creates a chokepoint within the chokepoint. The Strait of Hormuz is already the world's most critical energy bottleneck. If the U.S. is both insurer and naval escort, America controls access at two levels: physical security and financial coverage. No other nation can replicate that. You need the world's dominant navy and a sovereign balance sheet large enough to backstop the risk. Only one country has both. 5. It reassures every stakeholder simultaneously. Gulf producers were watching exports freeze. Asian and European consumers were watching energy prices spike. Both feared the Iran campaign would wreck their economies. One announcement addressed all of them: your oil will move, your ships will be covered, and the rates will be reasonable. Yesterday I described a system with no TARP, no Fed equivalent, no backstop at global scale. This may be the first attempt to build one in real time, during the crisis itself. The actuarial blockade just met a sovereign counterparty.

“The U.S. is making more terrorists” by bombing them. STFU, we literally NUKED Japan & their children did not become terrorists. We bombed the shit outta Germany & their children did not become terrorists. We stayed in Vietnam for more than a decade & their children did not become terrorists. Stop making excuses for terrorists & their CANCER CULT IDEOLOGY that has ravaged the globe…

Gentle reminder that the regime in Iran slaughtered over 40,000 Iranians last month for protesting. They raped, tortured, and held bodies hostage for ransom. That’s the regime you’re defending when you oppose the war.

This is so based. Israel hacked a prayer app used by millions of Iranians and turned it into their public broadcast service to the people 3 messages came in over 30 minutes: 9:52am: “Help Has Arrived.” 10:02am: “Amnesty for anyone who takes up arms against the regime.” 10:14am: “Lay down your weapons or join the forces of liberation. For a free Iran.” Imagine you’re in Tehran. Explosions are shaking your city. Your phone buzzes. And the notification is that

NEW: Actress Kristen Stewart says Americans need to stop buying burgers during the daytime to protest the crackdown on illegal immigrants. Question: What would break your heart if it disappeared from LA? Stewart: "Immigrants... I, I can't stand the idea that the dismantling of the culture that did have a hand in like, making me who I am, which is so meaningless ... So like where I'm from, I don't identify with that right now. And so like, I, I, I, I, I definitely am dying every day thinking, so do we make movies about this? Do we throw all of our money at it?" "Do we stop buying burgers in the daytime? What do we do about this? Like it, I can't, I can't fathom that it's happening until it doesn't happen. It's like Los Angeles doesn't exist without all of us." Video: archdigest / ig.