Andrei Rublev Trinity 1411 • “Iran Is Losing Its Grip On Hormuz”: Strait Traffic Explodes Nearly 400% (ZH) • Trump Eyes ‘Crushing’ Economic Blockade To Bring Iran To Its Knees (JTN) • Carney Talking A Lot, President Trump Remains Quiet (CTH) • Trump Loses Trade War With Canada — The Atlantic (TASS) • Trump: Canada Wants ‘Benefits’ of Being US State (BBC) • Zelensky Has ‘Questions To Answer’ – Fedorov (BBC) • Putin Hints At ‘Catastrophic Scenario’ For Ukraine (RT)
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René Magritte Blow to the heart 1952 • How Trump Tried To Bribe The Head Of The IRGC (Pepe Escobar) • President Trump Could to Be the Greatest Statesman of the 21st Century (PCR) • Russia Says Ready For ‘New Ideas’ From US On Ending Ukraine War (ZH) • With Ukraine’s Corruption, You Haven’t Seen The Worst Yet (Amar) • Who Needs Islam? (A.J. Christopher) • US Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box as Path to Paradise (Paul Sperry) • Democracy
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René Magritte Personal values 1952 • China Rejects US Demand To Back Its Economic Operation Against Iran (ZH) • The Strait of Hormuz Is Repricing the Entire World Economy (Martin Armstrong) • Deaths of ‘Iranian Leaders’ Hindering Deal With US — Trump (TASS) • U.S-Canada Trade War is Now a Reality (CTH) • Cocaine Networks and Communists — Marco’s Been Busy Today (Sarah Anderson) • AOC for President? It’s Time We Take That Proposition Seriously (Rick Moran) • Remember the
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Herbert Draper Lament for Icarus 1898 • Bessent: Aim Is To ‘Collapse’ Iran Regime Through Economic Warfare • Iran FM Blasts Trump’s Economic D-Day Threat ‘Diversion’ Which Will Fail (ZH) • Scott Jennings Schools CNN Panel on Biden’s Inflation Disaster (Matt Margolis) • The Harp Defense: Jennings Jockeys For SPOX After Leavitt Leaves (ZH) • Plucking Natalie Harp (M. Walter) • The Dem ‘Big Tent Party’ Is Doomed (Noel S. Williams) • The Islamic Republic of NYC (Kim Ezra Shienbaum)
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EdgarDegas A la mer 1863 • Economic D-Day (ZH) • UAE Cuts Ties As Iran Warns Gulf States Against Helping Washington (ZH) • Iran’s Latest Warning Signals The Hardliners Are Just Getting Started (CNN) • Hormuz Can’t Be Replaced – Iranian General (RT) • The Strait of Hormuz Is Open. Also Closed. It’s Complicated. (Stephen Green) • Iran Has Lost Significant Control of the Strait of Hormuz (CNN) • A Democrat Confessed the Midterms Could Be a Disaster for His
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Pablo Picasso Self portrait 1965 • Trump Vows New Strategy To ‘Strangle’ Iran Over Time (ZH) • Trump Drops Map Of Hormuz As “New US Territory” (ZH) • Iran’s Not-So-Subtle War on US Morale and the Left’s Abetting of It (Moran) • The Democrats’ ‘Big Tent’ With Socialists Is Doomed. Here’s Why (Margolis) • Johnson Convinced GOP Will Grow House Majority In November Midterms (JTN) • DOJ To Send Record 1,000 Observers To Watch Voting During Midterms (JTN) • Sacked
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Pablo Picasso Self portrait 1972 • Trump Doubles Down On Making Hormuz Strait A US Territory: “A Great Idea” (ZH) • Trump Calls On Iran To Surrender, Threatens Oman Over Strait of Hormuz (AlJ) • Iran: Shifting from Defensive to ‘Fully Offensive’ (ZH) • Former Defense Minister Fedorov Predicts Shift to Robotic War in a Year (CTH) • Almost 60 Percent of Democrats Have a Favorable View of Socialism (Turley) • Fetterman Torches His Own Party On Socialism Problem (Margolis)
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Pablo Picasso Self portrait 1896 • “US Can’t Bomb Its Way To Victory ” (Scotiabank) • Ukraine Celebrates Launching Largest Attack Drone Swarm of the War (CTH) • Not Winning? Just Change the Rules (Victor Davis Hanson) • This Might Be the Most Brutal Diagnosis of AOC You’ll Ever Hear (Margolis) • Jen Psaki Calls Karoline Leavitt a Liar (Teri Christoph) • A Love Letter to Karoline Leavitt (Scott Pinsker) • Fauci Refuses Senate Appearance (Fox) • 2026 Midterms Very,
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Jan van Eyck Saint Barbara 1437 It’s been forever since I wrote one of these “State of TAE”s. And it shows. Because of the revenue model we have here, we need to remind people regularly what exactly that model is. And I don’t do that enough. But this time it’s bad. That revenue model is shaped by Google refusing to place ads on our pages, and Google having a de facto monopoly on ads. This goes back to the origins
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Giotto Legend of St Francis, Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo c.1297-1299 • Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation of Iran “Like Never Seen Before” (ZH) • The Mohammunist Manifesto—Trojan-Horsing Society’s Institutions (Milli Sands) • ‘Woke 2.0’ Will Be More Radical, More Antisemitic, Less Tolerant (Rick Moran) • Things Get Spicy (James Howard Kunstler) • Hakeem Jeffries Will Take a Baseball Bat to the Supreme Court (Turley) • The Great Decline Of Britain (Modernity News) • Trade Court Rules U.S. President
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