Image is from this Bloomberg article, depicting world oil inventories plunging towards the operational floor at which pipelines and refineries cease operating, which is expected to occur in September at current rates.
A pretty short preamble below, in spoiler tags.
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The conflict continues to be kept at a relatively low level despite Iran's fiery encounters with US destroyers. I think it's only becoming increasingly obvious that the US is trying to cobble together some major clandestine operation mixing special forces, the air force, and naval destroyers to either seize Iranian uranium, take control of Iranian seaports, or both. Given a) how the Istafan op went, b) further Iranian preparations around sensitive sites, and c) a seeming strengthening of Iranian air defense around the Persian Gulf (multiple drones and manned aircraft have squawked emergency codes and potentially been shot down over the last few weeks), I find it difficult to imagine this operation fulfilling its objective, and even if did somehow work, why the removal of uranium would necessitate Iran ending the blockade and the war. On that note, I've seen reports that Iran is saying that if the US attacks their oil tankers again, they will resume firing on US military bases.
Additionally, Aragchi has stated that not only has Iran's missile/launcher stockpiles not gone down from pre-conflict, it has actually increased by 20%. This is unsurprising given the total war that Iran is now in; all resources within reason must now be funnelling towards drone and missile production.
Atrocities in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon are continuing. The toll that FPV drones are taking on the common Zionist soldiery are quickly becoming apparent, as we are receiving ever-increasing amounts of footage of vehicles and gatherings of soldiers being struck by Hezbollah's drones. The casualty situation is, as expected, being hidden, but any kind of serious occupation of even the border villages of southern Lebanon (let alone up to the Litani) seems unsustainable.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on the Zionists' destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Nationwide USA Gas Prices: 5/14
Gasoline has risen by 2 cents, diesel by 1 
Gasoline $4.534
February 26 (Pre War) $ $2.983
Current Gas Record: $5.016 on 6/14/22
Diesel $5.667
February 26 (Pre War) $3.720
Current Diesel Record: $5.816 on 6/19/22
The previous wartime high was gasoline $4.558 and diesel $5.674 on 5/7
Illinois, home to Chicago, has risen 10 cents in a week
Mississippi is the only state to have an average under $4, sitting at $3.998
Wes Streeting resigned as UK Health Secretary and calls for Starmer to step down.
::: spoiler Personal take / editorialising I note that his last major act as Health Secretary was allowing Palantir full access to NHS patient records. He also spent his entire term telling trans people that new restrictions on their healthcare / rights have all been part of some bigger plan to make things better, somehow, that will now clearly never be followed up on (if it wasn't clear already).
He also neglected to mention the Mandelson affair in his published criticisms of Starmer.
wall streeting maxxing
the funniest outcome is him fumbling it, so 3 more keirs it is
UK Labour Govt facing the consequences of not eliminating (or at the least controlling the yield curve) the bond market which they could've easily done by simply passing a law.
Ultimately, it won't be financial market that brings down the Labour Government but party infighting.
In The Economist this morning:
On Wednesday the leaders [Xi and Trump] concluded two-hours of talks in Beijing. Details of the discussion have yet to be released, but Mr Trump wants trade to be top of the agenda, and hopes to secure commitments from China to buy more American beef, beans and Boeing aircraft. Each side is uneasy about export controls imposed by the other. America wants China to keep critical minerals flowing, meanwhile China wants greater access to advanced American computer chips. The two powers may also agree to a rare co-operative effort to tackle risks posed by increasingly powerful AI models.
Is the "greater access to American computer chips" in the room with us right now? Instead of wanting these chips, China has banned them, encouraging domestic chip production. In fact, I'd wager Jensen (Nvidia's CEO) has joined Trump on this trip specifically to lobby the Chinese to reverse that ban and start buying Nvidia chips!
Trade offer 🚨
I receive: The ability to make bombs to keep bombing countries in your sphere of influence
You receive: Gaming Magic Beans you don't actually want
Boeing planes? Do Chinese still trust them lol
Commercial jet engines are basically the sole remaining technological advantage the US wields over China. Boeing engines do the job even if the planes as a whole are shoddy af. The US ruling class, being the stupid racist brutes they are, believe this constantly narrowing technological edge to be eternal and something the Chinese brainpan is incapable of overcoming, and so (exactly like with every other technology) they will attempt to withhold it as leverage and only accelerate Chinese domestic superiority.
No mention of Chinese EVs? SAD!!
beef, beans and Boeing aircraft
the three Bs
Dang it, I invested in Bed Bath & Beyond instead
clearly losing in iran, now theyre on a begging tour in china lol. ironic that ''MAGA'' was just a speed run on imperial decline.
Ultimately the Democrats are the competent imperialists. But they also maintain decorum as part of that responsibility to imperialism, so they can’t claim to be what they are.
Leaving the rapacious idiot republicans to take up that mantle and fumble the bag immediately every time.
Make America Grovel Abjectly
Now that is a hat I would wear
NYT - Trump [made] brief comments to reporters about how his meeting with Xi went. “Great. Great place. Incredible. China’s beautiful,” Trump said, according to a pool report. He declined to answer questions about Taiwan.
I wanna hear Xi's answer to the same question lol
Is Trump saluting the Chinese military?
I love how every picture of Xi next to this man has that subtle head tilt away like just being near this man's aura is revolting. He's trying, he's trying so hard to poker face, but there's always that head tilt.
I do the same thing next to annoying people, so I understand
his body is instinctively charging a headbutt
"Must. Do. Nothing."
This made me laugh: defensenews.com - US Navy could run out of money by July, top officer warns
Well, it's not a job, it's an adventure.
Money launder fires 
The only thing keeping those sailors alive is the loose change they have for the ship's vending machines. The chocolate bars and diet coke in those things are the only food on the ships with any sort of nutritional value whatsoever.
The US Navy is about to find out why Americans don't have healthcare
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