I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

Crude Stocks Rise 3.5 Million, Highest Since May 2025 With oil flows passing through the Straits of Hormuz blocked indefinitely, markets were paying especially close attention to today's weekly DOE report on oil stocks, to see how much capacity the US has in case of a prolonged lockout. The result was satisfactory.  The DOE reported the following weekly changes: Crude +3.475MM, more than the expected +3.00MM, and the highest since May 2025 Gasoline -1.704MM, down to the lowest since Jan 9, 2026 Distillates +429K, biggest increase since Jan 2026 Cushing +1.6MM, rising to the highest...

In the week leading up to the war on Iran, Israel repeatedly warned Lebanon would be targeted if Hezbollah became involved in that conflict, and once the war was underway the US sought to assure Lebanon that Israel had no intention to escalate the conflict into Lebanon so long as no attacks were launched from […]

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that the US launched the war with Iran because President Trump had a “feeling” that Iranian forces were going to attack first. Leavitt made the comments when pressed on the claims that there was an “imminent threat” facing the US that justified the joint US-Israeli attack […]