[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 53 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Uh-oh. Trump on Truth Social posted about the "real agreement".

All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.

It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE. In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!

I removed the Guardian update and made it 100% Trump but I edited it to be two paragraphs.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago

maybe don't give tech companies data about your deepest desires

But what if I want my life to be an episode of Black Mirror?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 66 points 4 hours ago

‘It’s a war with no rules’: Lebanese Red Cross president makes call for blood donations - Al Jazeera update

“It’s a nightmare, a nightmare,” Antoine Zoghbi, president of the Lebanese Red Cross, said, shaking his head in disbelief in his office in the Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital in Beirut, on the night of Israel’s most devastating attack on Lebanon since the start of this latest war in early March. “It’s different today because they struck without warning,” Zoghbi told Al Jazeera.

“They struck many regions at the same time. And they struck hard to cause harm, to inflict pain. Pain, pain, pain. It’s a war with no rules. It’s a war with no limits,” he said. The Lebanese Red Cross are the sole supplier of blood banks to hospitals in Lebanon, and the organisation has made an open call for blood donations. Blood supplies are direly needed after Israel’s heavy strikes on Wednesday, which killed hundreds, particularly in hospitals overwhelmed with patients.

Many people acted quickly to donate blood shortly after the attacks, according to Zoghbi. “Whenever there is a crisis, the Lebanese people stand together,” he said.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 5 hours ago

I found this in a Bluesky thread about Trump being emo.

Cut my Strait into pieces. This is my last transport.
Suffocation, no petro

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 5 hours ago

REMEMBER GREENLAND.

~~Remember the Alamo.~~

THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!

That really makes me laugh. What a nutjob Trump is.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 5 hours ago

"Mr. President, the average price of gas has reached 10 dollars. What's your comment?"

"10 is the new 3. High so low - low-low-low-low-low. When it gets to 11 - even lower. Much low-low-low-low-low-low-low-lower."

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 8 hours ago

I think as Trump's ultimatum got closer - at any cost - he wanted a "win" and he didn't want to look weak. The people around him are not only yes men but evil and greedy too. Chaos with timed events is to their great benefit. They timed their prediction market bets for maximum profit after they all told Trump "Mr. President this is a fantastic deal! You are a genius negotiator!"

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 67 points 11 hours ago

Trump threatens 50% tariffs on countries supplying Iran with weapons - Al Jazeera update

Trump says imports from countries supplying Iran with military weapons will face immediate 50 percent tariffs with no exemptions, threatening the new duties just hours after agreeing to a two-week ceasefire with Tehran.

“A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately, There will be no exclusions or exemptions! President DJT,” Trump wrote on social media, without naming any countries. China and Russia have helped Iran build military capacity to counter US and Israeli pressure, ‌supplying missiles, air defence systems and dual-use technologies intended to bolster deterrence.

Both Beijing and Moscow have denied supplying any weapons recently, although allegations against Russia have persisted.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 54 points 11 hours ago

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday there have been three different 10-point proposals, which has contributed to confusion about what’s forming the basis of negotiations. - CNN update

“The first 10-point proposal was something that was submitted, and we think, frankly, was probably written by ChatGPT, that was submitted to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that immediately went in the garbage and was rejected,” Vance told reporters as he was leaving Hungary.

“There was a second 10-point proposal that was much more reasonable that was based on some back and forth between us, between the Pakistanis and between the Iranians. That is the 10-point proposal that the president was referencing in his Truth yesterday,” Vance added.

He criticized a third 10-point proposal that he said he’s seen on social media as “even more maximalist” than the first. That initial proposal was put forward by “little more than a random yahoo in Iran,” Vance said, as he lashed out at the media for its coverage of it.

But that statement — which said Iran achieved a great victory and forced the United States to accept its 10-point plan as a basis for negotiations — was obtained by CNN from Iranian officials and reported on by multiple Iranian state media outlets.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 11 hours ago

Even amid continued confusion on Wednesday about the terms of the cease-fire, investors welcomed the broader signal of de-escalation between Iran and the United States. - NYT update

Stocks rose around the world, sovereign bond yields fell — particularly in Europe — and the dollar weakened. The S&P 500 rose 2.5 percent. The Stoxx 600 index, a broad European index, bounced 3.9 percent, and stocks in Asia posted big gains.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 67 points 11 hours ago

US has violated three clauses of ceasefire deal, says Iran's parliament speaker - Guardian update

Earlier, Iran’s powerful parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that three key clauses of the hours-old ceasefire had been violated ahead of planned negotiations, and described further talks as “unreasonable”. In a statement on X, Ghalibaf said Iran’s “deep historical distrust” toward the US stems from its “repeated violations of all forms of commitments — a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again”.

He noted that Donald Trump had described Iran’s proposal as a “workable basis on which to negotiate” and the main framework for these talks” (which Trump did say on Truth Social, but the White House attempted to walk that back earlier).

The three violations, Ghalibaf said, were:

  • Non-compliance with the first clause of the 10-point proposal regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon – a commitment which Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has also explicitly referred to and declared as “an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other regions, effective immediately”.

  • The entry of an intruding drone into Iran’s airspace, which was destroyed in Lar, “in clear violation of the clause prohibiting any further violation of Iranian airspace”.

  • Denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which was included in the sixth clause of the framework.

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Serious question - what do you think will happen in the next week or so? And beyond too.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 57 points 11 hours ago

The scale of killing amid Israel’s strikes on Lebanon is “horrific”, UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has said. – Guardian update

[He urged] the international community to “bring an end to this nightmare”. At least 112 people were killed and 837 more wounded on Wednesday, according to the latest Lebanese health ministry toll.

The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific. Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief.

Türk also deplored Hezbollah’s missile and drone attacks on northern Israel, and urged both parties to stop, immediately.

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Full textA leveraged bet at the top of a “buy-high” cycle tends to do one thing: deepen the downside. In 2025, Donald Trump’s family did just, wagering billions of dollars on bitcoin.

It was May of 2025, and Trump had just reentered the White House. Crypto markets were going bananas. The president’s sons, who had already made their father hundreds of millions richer with various Trump-themed digital assets, decided the next move was to make an institutional-sized bet on crypto’s flagship currency: bitcoin.

At the time, a single bitcoin cost $108,000. But with their father in the White House, the Trump sons predicted it would rise by more than 50% over the next year. “I think [it] clears $170,000,” Eric Trump declared on stage at a bitcoin conference, confidently dressed in a suit with no tie. “I was going to say between 175 and 150,” added his similarly attired brother, Donald Trump Jr.

The siblings, tasked with managing their father’s business when he returned to the White House, believed in bitcoin enough to put real money on the line. The president had placed his most valuable asset, a 52% interest in the Trump Media and Technology Group worth $2.6 billion, into a trust that left the elder Trump as the sole beneficiary but technically handed control to Don Jr.

Under the watch of the younger generation, the business strayed from its social-media roots to make a massive crypto bet. It sold $1.4 billion of stock and $1 billion of convertible bonds, then plowed the proceeds into bitcoin. In the two months between the deal’s announcement and consummation, the price of bitcoin kept climbing, hitting $119,000 by July, when Trump Media made its purchases.

The transaction reshaped the president’s portfolio, reducing his stake in Trump Media to 41%, adding a mountain of debt, and turning Donald Trump into one of the world’s biggest bitcoin investors.

If the heirs’ price targets held, the payoff was clear: roughly $1 billion of gains within a year.

They didn’t hold.

Bitcoin stalled after the purchase. It remained somewhat steady for a few months, giving the Trump family little reason to celebrate—or worry, for that matter. In August, Trump Media poured another $114 million into a lesser-known cryptocurrency, Cronos.

Then everything came tumbling down. In late November, a dip in the broader market pulled down riskier assets like bitcoin and Cronos. By month’s end, Trump Media’s crypto assets, for which it had paid $2.4 billion, were worth an estimated $1.8 billion.

Inside the company, efforts to stem the losses began. Trump Media hedged about one-third of its bitcoin toward the end of the year, seemingly limiting potential downside and upside. January brought another unpleasant gut check: Fed Chairman Jerome Powell signaled, to the president’s dismay, that interest rates would remain elevated. Bitcoin fell 5% in a day, dropping the value of Trump Media’s holdings to an estimated $1.7 billion.

The company extended its hedges, initially set to expire in March, to last until June. Just how much protection that has provided remains unclear. What is clear: Trump Media wants to project confidence amid its troubles. “Our bitcoin holdings reflect a long-term investment in this revolutionary digital currency, which we do not judge based on temporary, cyclical downturns,” spokesperson Shannon Devine said in a statement.

But investors are already judging—harshly. Trump Media shares have fallen more sharply than bitcoin itself, reflecting not just a loss of confidence in the crypto, but in the company.

With bitcoin at roughly $72,000 today, Trump Media’s crypto stash sits at an estimated $1.4 billion, down $1 billion. The president’s personal stake in Trump Media, meanwhile, has fallen $1.6 billion since his sons trumpeted their bitcoin predictions onstage.

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Goblin Valley State Park
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Goblin Valley State Park is a state park in Emery County, Utah in the United States. The park is known for its thousands of hoodoos, referred to locally as goblins. The distinct shapes of these rocks result from an erosion-resistant layer of rock atop relatively softer sandstone. Goblin Valley State Park and nearby Bryce Canyon National Park contain some of the largest occurrences of hoodoos in the world.

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75 second vid

The only place I can find the vid is on CNN's live updates page - https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/06/world/live-news/iran-war-us-trump-oil

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http://archive.today/2018.05.31-232301/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/magazine/hillary-clinton.html

I thought about reading it but I didn't realize how long it is. It's ~5.5k words.

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