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Talking to The Economist, Musk said he doesn't care if people hate him and said he was not a racist.

The alleged pot-head has been smoking cigarettes and weed at all hours of the day and night, and burning up his Kips Bay neighbors’ patience, according to an explosive new Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

Sheridan, notably, was not in the writers' room for Season 1 of the "Yellowstone" spinoff. He served as the show's executive producer.

Sheridan, notably, was not in the writers' room for Season 1 of the "Yellowstone" spinoff. He served as the show's executive producer.

RBC Commodities Chief Warns "War Entering Dangerous Phase" As Chokepoint Chaos Risks Oil Above 2008 Peak

Brent crude futures rose nearly 5% to the mid-$98-a-barrel range after tanker attacks near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait threatened another critical maritime chokepoint as the Strait of Hormuz remained partially disrupted. Tankers are again turning away from the southern Red Sea, reversing a recovery in traffic following the 2023 disruptions.

On Wednesday night, we reported that Houthi militants targeted two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea, escalating the Gulf area conflict and threatening deeper energy supply disruptions - which spiked Brent above $95 in post-settlement trading.

Here we go again:

Murban futures surged to as much as $112.56 a barrel, a rise of 26% from Wednesday. The rise was much more than other benchmarks including Brent and WTI.

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 23, 2026

Iran's key proxy in Yemen, the Houthis, pose a direct threat to regional energy flows, while Saudi Arabia signaled it will respond forcefully to any attacks on its tankers or land-based energy assets. By early Thursday, the added war risk premium sent Brent crude to $98.70.

Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, warned clients earlier today that "war enters a dangerous phase with the Red Sea and critical infrastructure at risk."

Croft continued:

While Brent prices have risen over 30% since July 1, we still see them as a lagging indicator of the extreme pressure building in the region. Given the dangerous escalation currently unfolding, we remain of the view that oil prices could potentially take out the Russia/Ukraine oil price highs of $128/bbl in 2022 or even the 2008 peak of $146/bbl, especially in the worst-case scenario of a full regional war.

The Houthi entry into the conflict has the potential to expand the war's supply losses by reducing the effectiveness of the East-West pipeline offset route. With the Houthis indicating that they targeted two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, we think a sustained deployment of force would cause a material reduction in total Red Sea oil flows. It could also shift the sentiment of "the market always finds a workaround" camp.

On Monday, Goldman commodities expert Daan Struyven warned that Brent crude futures could surge above $120 a barrel by the fourth quarter if disruptions in the Hormuz maritime chokepoint persist. He noted, however, that such an outcome is not his base case.

The big risk now is that the Hormuz disruption is unfolding after global oil buffers have already been depleted, with Cushing inventories reportedly near "tank bottoms." This leaves the market with limited spare capacity to absorb a prolonged supply shock and will likely increase pressure on the Trump administration to revive diplomacy once the US military has sufficiently degraded Tehran's missile and drone capabilities used to threaten commercial shipping through the strait.

The US national average for regular gasoline breached $4 a gallon on Monday, intensifying pressure on the Trump administration to pursue Gulf diplomacy.

Gas prices may go higher...

Saudi Arabia has offset some disruption from the Strait of Hormuz closure by rerouting crude through its 7 million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline. However, if Bab el-Mandeb becomes impassable, Asia-bound tankers would be forced around the Cape of Good Hope, raising freight costs, delaying deliveries by weeks, and further tightening the physical market.

Simultaneous disruption would therefore put roughly one-fifth of global oil supply directly at risk through Hormuz, while disrupting or delaying as much as another 8 million to 9 million barrels a day that normally transits the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint.

Next Read: "Goldman Warns Brent Could Top $120 If Gulf Chokepoint Crisis Deepens."

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/23/2026 - 07:20

The flood of emotions hit Makenna Webster like a tidal wave. 

To The Woke Woodshed: Burnham Is Funding UK Populism By Liquidating The Progressive Project

Andy Burnham has been UK Prime Minister for three days, and he has already settled into a routine: announce something cheap for households in the morning, pay for it by killing a progressive unicorn. 

The tally so far:

Monday, within hours of kissing rings at the Palace, Burnham signaled he would fast-track oil and gas development in the North Sea - which is just words for now, but 'un-Labour' enough that Donald Trump welcomed it in the same post that dismissed Britain as a "Poverty Stricken Disaster." 

Tuesday: VAT stripped from domestic electricity bills from October 1, funded by cancelling Starmer's £1.8 billion Digital ID programme outright. BritCard - the surveillance flagship that survived a near-three-million-signature petition and a year of civil-liberties fury - died in the end as a budget line, sold for parts to buy down winter energy bills.

And Wednesday: a £2 nationwide cap on single bus fares from January 1, 2027, running through that year, announced by a Prime Minister insisting cheaper transport was always possible: "I've done it before and I will do it again." The funding? A £454 million package drawn entirely from a "reprioritisation" of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's budget - the bulk of it from converting investment money earmarked for international climate finance into repayable loans. The climate budget pays the bus fare.

Whose Money Is It Anyway

The government's line, delivered by Chancellor John Healey, is that all of this is funded from savings rather than borrowing, with no burden on taxpayers. Except - on the Digital ID swap, the OBR has pointed out that the £1.8 billion BritCard budget was never actually funded in the first place - meaning its cancellation conjures savings from a line item that existed mostly on paper. On the bus cap, the £454 million covers a scheme whose total cost is expected to top £500 million, with the gap filled by Department for Transport money "already allocated to buses."

The climate-finance maneuver is the cleverest of the three, and the department has an answer ready. Converting grants to loans, DESNZ argues, frees the capital for bus fares while still allowing Britain to invest in international climate projects such as the Tropical Forests Forever Facility - the money goes out either way, it just comes back now. Which is true, if it comes back. A grant that becomes a loan books a saving today against a repayment that lands in somebody else's parliament.

Critics are abuzz in response. Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden's complaint begins with the observation that the Conservatives "introduced the £2 bus fare cap, expanded it, and pledged to keep it" - which is to say, the Tories' first objection to Britain's new left-wing government is that it is stealing their policies. He then asks how Labour intends to pay for any of it, and predicts borrowing or taxes will have to rise. On that second point he is asking the same question the arithmetic asks. A 20% business-rates cut for hospitality is reportedly next in the queue. There will presumably be something progressive left to defund by then.

The Mayor's Playbook

Burnham, it appears, is basically going to run Britain the way he ran Greater Manchester for nine years; bills, bus fares, and no patience for Whitehall's pet schemes. The £2 cap is literally his Manchester policy gone national - he kept it there out of his own budget when Starmer and Rachel Reeves raised the national cap to £3 in 2024 - and the loser, three days running, has been his own party's managerial wing: the ID cards, the climate money, the net zero department's budget. Ed Miliband, the climate agenda's standard-bearer, can do the math from his new office - packed off to the Foreign Office on Monday evening - roughly 36 hours before his old department's budget was raided to subsidize bus tickets.

The gilt market is letting all this slide for one simple reason: he is raiding, not borrowing. The 10-year yield jumped 8 basis points to 5.04% on Burnham's first-day rhetoric, then retreated in relief once Healey - a defense hawk, not a spender - got the Treasury. 

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/23/2026 - 06:55

Google's fine was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing.

“I didn’t want to do what the voice was telling me, but at the same time, I felt like it was going to make me do it,” she told The Post.

The Secret Service has investigated approximately 10,000 threats to its protectees -- including President Trump -- in the first half of this year, the head of the agency revealed Wednesday.

Trump Suggests He May Restart Bombing Yemen

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

President Trump on Tuesday suggested he could restart a bombing campaign in Yemen in response to the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, enforcing a blockade on the Red Sea.

Trump's comments came after Ansar Allah announced a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, which came a week after the Saudis bombed Yemen’s Sanaa airport to prevent the landing of a plane carrying a Yemeni delegation from Iran to enforce its long-standing blockade on the country that was eased under a 2022 ceasefire deal but never fully lifted.

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Ansar Allah has already warned shipping companies against using Saudi ports, and Reuters reported that two oil tankers loaded with Saudi crude bound for China and India made U-turns in the Red Sea, heading for the Suez Canal instead of attempting to cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Yemeni media reported that a total of six ships turned around following the warning.

For his part, Trump downplayed the blockade, claiming it hasn’t started yet. "So far, it hasn’t happened, might happen, but we take care of things," Trump told reporters while meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office.

"If something like that happens, we take care of it. You know, we’ve done that with the Houthis before, and we haven't heard from them in a while since we did what we did originally," he added.

Trump launched a bombing campaign in Yemen on March 15, 2025, a few days after Ansar Allah announced it was renewing its blockade of Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea in response to Israel violating the January 2025 Gaza ceasefire deal by imposing a full blockade on the Palestinian territory.

The US bombing campaign lasted about a month and a half and involved major civilian casualties, including the bombing of the Ras Issa Fuel Port in Hodeidah, which killed 84 people, all civilians, according to the monitoring group Airwars. A few days after the strike, the US bombed a migrant detention facility in Saada, killing 68 African migrants.

Airwars recorded more than 250 civilian deaths in Yemen as a result of the bombing campaign, which ended on May 6 with a ceasefire between the US and Ansar Allah as the US failed to end the blockade on Israeli-linked shipping and the Yemeni missile and drone attacks on Israel that began after Israel restarted its full-scale bombing campaign in Gaza.

President Biden also conducted a bombing campaign against Ansar Allah that failed to stop the blockade on Israeli shipping that lasted from January 2024 to January 2025, until the Gaza ceasefire deal halted the Yemeni attacks.

President Trump minimized the prospect of immediate talks with Iran as the two sides exchanged strikes and Houthi militants in Yemen threatened shipping in the Red Sea https://t.co/qRs3Xouamz pic.twitter.com/hW0ax2UZFO

— Bloomberg (@business) July 21, 2026

The US also backed a brutal Saudi/UAE war against Ansar Allah from 2015 until the ceasefire in 2022, which killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, including many children who starved to death under a blockade, but failed at reinstalling the government of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who died in Riyadh earlier this year.

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/23/2026 - 06:30

This Knicks group winning another championship together would go against the grain in the modern NBA.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the United States remains prepared to play a "constructive role" in helping ​bring an end to the war in Ukraine, following talks with Russian ‌Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering in Manila.

Not even a whopping 59 criminal charges against manosphere influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, can dampen their reach. In fact, the controversy may have activated their fanbase.

The former NBA star exclusively spoke to Page Six while promoting his new true crime series.

The former NBA star exclusively spoke to Page Six while promoting his new true crime series.

“My name is Eric Leroy Adams, I am Jesus Christ,”  he declares in the phony AI footage.“I’m gonna give you a new Libertarian constitution.”

Wildberries - Russia's Amazon - Has Seen Four Major Hubs Attacked In Quick Succession

Wildberries, which is widely referenced as 'Russia's Amazon', has seen four of its top ten distribution hubs attacked by Ukrainian long-range drones in only a matter of days, potentially putting their business operations in doubt.

Stunning footage is widely circulating Wednesday of some of the latest attacks, which came overnight. A large fire broke out in the outskirts of Krasnodar in southern Russia at a sprawling Wildberries warehouse. 

Image via Exilenova+

Regional media has cited several separate fires in the area, before which witnesses reported hearing some 20 to 30 explosions across the city and its outskirts.

Another key logistics hub for Wildberries, which is far and away the country's biggest online retailer, was also hit in the Stavropol region overnight, resulting in the urgent evacuation of employees.

Four days prior, the company's warehouses in central Russia were struck, which killed eight people. In the face of the Krelmin calling the attacks acts of terrorism and war crimes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that the hubs were "involved in providing the Russian army with drone components, navigation equipment and other gear."

Massive fire rages in Krasnodar, Russia overnight:

A massive fire rages in Krasnodar, Russia tonight after Ukrainian drones blew up a distribution center belonging to the Wildberries company. Notably, this is the third warehouse belonging to the online retailer which has been destroyed in the span of a week. https://t.co/vcH8y2Mmyb pic.twitter.com/eVhRH57ul2

— Woofers (@NotWoofers) July 22, 2026

The regional anti-Kremlin publication Meduza has tallied the size of the huge hubs hit and damaged in the following:

The Ukrainian military’s strike hit two Wildberries warehouses: one in Elektrostal, outside Moscow — a 250,000-square-meter (2.7-million-square-foot) facility and one of the company’s largest logistics centers — and another in Kotovsk, in the Tambov region, a 108,000-square-meter (1.2-million-square-foot) warehouse that opened only last year.

Experts estimate the Elektrostal and Kotovsk warehouses accounted for 6.5% to 9% of Wildberries’ total warehouse space. Losing them won’t paralyze the marketplace’s operations, though it could strain its logistics network. Customers are unlikely to see significantly longer delivery times, since Wildberries operates numerous sorting centers that let it reroute shipments quickly.

And additionally of note:

Wildberries isn’t formally required to compensate sellers for the damage. On July 7 — 11 days before the attack — the company changed its contract terms with sellers, exempting itself from liability for “force majeure circumstances,” a category that now includes drone attacks.

The Kremlin will no doubt take the ongoing threat and targeting of Wildberries' hubs very seriously. Reuters has reviewed that "Together with smaller rivals, Wildberries and Ozon sell goods and services worth the equivalent of 8.5% of Russia's gross domestic product. They provide jobs for 4 million people, or more than 5% of the country's workforce."

Ukrainian attack drones struck a second distribution center/warehouse for the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries in Nevinnomyssk this morning, setting it ablaze.

Half of Wildberries largest 10 distribution centers have been destroyed in the last week. pic.twitter.com/7XPqEutsVu

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) July 22, 2026

"The firms are central to the Kremlin's plans to reinvigorate growth in ​a stagnating, war-focused economy," Reuters continues. "President Vladimir Putin's top man on the economy, Maxim Oreshkin, has been personally tasked with overseeing the sector."

Russia has in turn also been striking some major manufacturing centers inside Ukraine, claiming that these sites are have dual civilian-military purposes, such as for drone or aircraft component production.

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/23/2026 - 05:45

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz says Geoffrey Zakarian has 'revolutionized our thinking' around hospital meals

What Is The UK Government So Afraid Of?

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

The British government is in court to stop the public seeing the full picture of migrant crime rates.

After the Information Commissioner ordered the Ministry of Justice to release nationality-linked conviction data from 2018 to 2024, officials have launched an appeal, claiming it risks identifying offenders and costs too much.

Campaigners say the real fear is what the numbers will show about open-border policies that have left British streets, transport and communities less safe.

'Apparently in Britain we are not allowed to see it, and that's appalling.'

Crime and Justice Journalist David Shipley says the Government is blocking data on crime by type of offence and nationality because it doesn't want Britons to know the harms of mass migration. pic.twitter.com/eqkZIXsMYF

— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 21, 2026

The Centre for Migration Control submitted the Freedom of Information request that triggered the ruling. The MoJ rejected both the identification and cost arguments.

Director of Research Robert Bates called the legal fight "astonishing" and said it raises serious questions about what the government is hiding.

Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, Rob Bates, accuses the Government of 'launching an attack on transparency and accountability', as they enter a legal battle to block the publication of data on migrant convictions by nationality. pic.twitter.com/dVoK4sdQIn

— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 21, 2026

The publication of migrant crime data matters. A lot.

"If certain nationalities commit crime at a greater rate than others, knowing this would allow us to adjust our visa policy accordingly and, when appropriate, introduce blanket bans on immigration from certain countries." https://t.co/E7bqIApDLw

— Centre for Migration Control (@migrationCtrl) July 22, 2026

Reform UK's Robert Jenrick put it bluntly: "The cover-up continues. Successive Tory and Labour justice secretaries have refused to publish this basic information. A Reform government led by Nigel Farage would immediately blow the lid on what's really happening and begin deporting these dangerous criminals."

'The public deserve to know.'

Deputy Online Editor at The Critic, Tom Jones relays some of the figures on migrant crime that the Government are entering a legal battle to try and conceal. pic.twitter.com/xXtiAel7Qz

— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 21, 2026

A Ministry of Justice spokesman insisted there is no cover-up but declined further comment while proceedings continue.

Partial data already released shows foreign nationals accounted for 14.1 per cent of sex offence convictions in 2025. That figure excludes naturalised British citizens and lacks breakdowns for rape, grooming or child sexual abuse.

Earlier analysis comparing prison rolls to census figures found foreigners overall 27 per cent more likely to be imprisoned than British citizens.

Albanians recorded an imprisonment rate of 232.33 per 10,000 people against 14 for British citizens. Kosovars, Vietnamese, Algerians, Jamaicans, Eritreans, Iraqis and Somalis all sat well above the British baseline. Some groups, including Germans, Italians and Indians, sat below it.

Those patterns match the detailed pictures already forced into the open through earlier FOI work.

Foreign nationals made up 79 per cent of theft arrests on British trains in 2025, 40 per cent of drug offence arrests, 37 per cent of sexual offence arrests and 36 per cent of violent crime arrests.

They accounted for nearly 3,700 of the 9,771 total arrests recorded by British Transport Police that year.

Across England and Wales, foreign nationals were arrested 172,889 times in the year ending March 2025 - one every 183 seconds - including 51,212 for violence and 11,264 for sexual offences.

Separate figures showed foreign nationals 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for sex crimes than British citizens, with an arrest rate of nearly 165 per 100,000 against 48 per 100,000 for Britons.

They formed 26.1 per cent of sexual offence arrests despite comprising around 9 per cent of the population.

In the City of London the foreign share of sex crime arrests reached 66.9 per cent; in Derbyshire it hit 44.8 per cent. Nationalities with the highest rates included Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalis.

The two-tier reality of enforcement has also become impossible to ignore. An Ethiopian small-boat arrival housed in an Epping asylum hotel sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman who tried to help him.

He received a 12-month sentence. Local residents who protested the hotel and the offender later received longer jail terms.

One father of two was given two years and nine months for violent disorder after adopting what a judge called a "fighting or boxing stance."

Police Scotland has gone further, refusing FOI requests for aggregated data on call-outs, crimes and arrests at five asylum hotels.

Officers cited fears that releasing the figures would heighten community tensions and put people at risk of physical harm. The force acknowledged the hotels house asylum seekers and refugees yet argued that numbers could change over time and that incidents might be linked to protests rather than residents.

Scottish Conservative shadow justice secretary Liam Kerr called the refusal another example of public bodies following an SNP culture of secrecy.

The same pattern repeats across Europe. In Spain a CEU-CEFAS study found foreigners commit five times more rapes and four times more murders per capita than Spanish citizens.

They make up 31 per cent of the prison population. In Catalonia 91 per cent of convicted rapists are migrants, who form only 17 per cent of the population.

Penetrative rape cases rose 143 per cent between 2019 and 2024. Attempted murders nearly doubled over a similar period. Illegal property occupations saw foreigners accounting for 51.8 per cent of arrests.

Official Spanish figures show rape crimes tripled from 1,878 cases in 2019 to 5,206 in 2024 - an average of 14 rapes per day. Catalonia, Madrid and Andalusia led the surge. Sixty-four per cent of sexual assault and rape inmates are foreign nationals.

Eurostat data confirmed the continental scale: rape reports in Spain surged 322 per cent over the last decade, against an EU average rise of 150 per cent.

EU-wide sexual violence cases exceeded 250,000 in 2024, with nearly 100,000 rapes. Foreigners in Spain remain over-represented in serious crime even as the native population ages.

In France left-wing MPs, including Greens, tabled an amendment demanding public media reduce coverage of crime stories. They cited the murders of 13-year-old Lola and of Thomas in Crépol as examples of "political exploitation" by the right.

Marine Le Pen called the move a hallmark of totalitarian ideology that threatens the public's right to know. French statistics already show foreigners responsible for 69 per cent of violence and sexual crimes on public transport, half of all crimes in Paris and 55 per cent in Marseille.

Germany's 2025 police crime statistics show foreigners, 15 per cent of the population, responsible for 41 per cent of violent crimes and 38 per cent of murders.

They account for 39.1 per cent of serious sexual offences. Rape has risen 72 per cent since 2018. Afghans are 14 times more likely than Germans to commit sexual offences; Syrians are 11 times more likely to commit violence.

Knife crime runs at 29,000 incidents a year. In North Rhine-Westphalia foreigners commit 48 per cent of robberies.

Reported rapes in Germany reached nearly 14,000 in 2025, a 9 per cent rise on the previous year and a 72 per cent jump since 2018. Non-German nationals formed around 41 per cent of suspects for crimes against sexual self-determination.

In some states the over-representation reaches three to four times their population share. Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck noted that perpetrators with a migration background are overrepresented and that some arrive with "a completely wrong understanding of roles" regarding women's rights.

Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Weimers forced the European Parliament to confront the pattern after a Swedish police officer was beaten to death at a Copenhagen fan zone and a Gambian migrant in Milan stabbed a man 20 times "for fun."

Weimers described the attacks as part of a broader wave undermining ordinary Europeans' safety. Swedish Social Democrats voted against even holding the debate.

The refusal to publish the data sits against a starker warning delivered inside the same parliament.

At a conference titled "Civil War: Europe at Risk?", Professor David Betz of King's College London told MEPs that "Europe is on track for civil war."

Marion Maréchal warned that cultural homogeneity - the main basis of trust between citizens - is eroding, producing societies of violence and mistrust.

A report mapped up to a thousand no-go zones across the continent. Betz described the trajectory as Balkanisation that could extinguish coherent national identities and lead to large-scale conflict resembling the Troubles or the Years of Lead, only on a continental scale.

British officials still claim the full nationality breakdown is too expensive or too risky to release. The Information Commissioner already rejected those arguments.

Campaigners note that partial data and FOI-driven releases have already painted a consistent picture: certain nationalities drive disproportionate shares of theft, violence and sexual crime, while native protesters face longer sentences than the offenders who provoked them.

Across Spain, France and Germany the same disparities appear, often followed by official efforts to limit public discussion rather than confront the numbers.

The legal battle is therefore not about administrative cost. It is about whether British voters are allowed to see the consequences of the migration policies successive governments have pursued.

Reform UK has pledged to publish the data and begin deportations. Until then, the Ministry of Justice will keep fighting in the courts to keep the full ledger closed.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 07/23/2026 - 05:00