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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 “Maximum pressure” on Iran is backfiring… again. Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute, Iran expert, just dropped a reality check: Iran has adapted to years of U.S. sanctions and blockades. The pain is real, but it’s nowhere near decisive. Instead of forcing collapse or total surrender, the pressure campaign has pushed Iran to build resilience, diversify its economy, and find workarounds: from higher oil exports to stronger alliances. Is Washington repeating the same failed playbook while Tehran keeps adjusting? @tparsi

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Wheat just hit a 2-year high, fertilizer is collapsing, and the Iran war is now coming for the global food supply... Wheat futures just hit their highest level since 2024, up 28.3% year to date. The cause is a fertilizer crisis nobody is talking about loudly enough yet. Gulf urea production has collapsed by roughly 60% since the war began, falling to around 160,000 tons per week, a new yearly low. Urea is the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer on the planet, and it's the input that makes corn, wheat, and rice grow at scale. The Middle East supplies about 45% of the global urea trade, feeding the agricultural systems of India, Europe, and Brazil. Only 11 fertilizer ships have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the war started. 44 more are stuck inside the Gulf with nowhere to go, nearly half of them loaded with urea that can't reach buyers. Producers are now running out of storage space, which means the next stage of this crisis is forced shutdowns of the actual factories, not just delayed shipments. Farmers across three continents are about to plant fields with less fertilizer than they need or pay multiples more to get it, and either way the cost gets passed straight through to bread, pasta, rice, and meat. The 2022 Russia-Ukraine playbook is already running again, just with a Persian Gulf accent this time. If Hormuz stays closed through summer, the developing world is staring down a food inflation wave that makes the energy crisis look manageable. Source: Bloomberg, Financial Times, @KobeissiLetter

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇺 BREAKING: U.S. Senate voted 51-47 to block a resolution that would have prevented Trump from launching military strikes on Cuba. The same Senate that just rejected five Iran war powers resolutions is clearing the path for another potential military operation, this time 90 miles off the Florida coast. Source: NYT

iShowSpeed just went live from a private jet at 35,000 feet using @Starlink. Zero lag, no buffering, full HD quality. Streaming perfectly from the middle of the sky. Iconic. https://t.co/J2JRtVJxYZ

🚨🇺🇸 Another arrest for online threats against the president. Genuine question: how many of these does it take before people figure out the FBI has access to the internet? https://t.co/gwnDKjv4PE

🇺🇸 Former FBI Director James Comey has gotten indicted on two felony charges over his controversial “86 47” Instagram post. His response: “I’M STILL INNOCENT. I’M STILL NOT AFRAID.” Bold words from a guy now facing serious legal heat. The “86 47” post was widely seen as a veiled threat against Trump (86 = delete/remove, 47 = Trump’s presidency number). Whether it was a joke, poor wording, or something more, he is now headed to court. Comey is clearly choosing defiance over silence. Source: @realbrucesnyder

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 “Maximum pressure” on Iran is backfiring… again. Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute, Iran expert, just dropped a reality check: Iran has adapted to years of U.S. sanctions and blockades. The pain is real, but it’s nowhere near decisive. Instead of forcing collapse or total surrender, the pressure campaign has pushed Iran to build resilience, diversify its economy, and find workarounds: from higher oil exports to stronger alliances. Is Washington repeating the same failed playbook while Tehran keeps adjusting? @tparsi

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Wheat just hit a 2-year high, fertilizer is collapsing, and the Iran war is now coming for the global food supply... Wheat futures just hit their highest level since 2024, up 28.3% year to date. The cause is a fertilizer crisis nobody is talking about loudly enough yet. Gulf urea production has collapsed by roughly 60% since the war began, falling to around 160,000 tons per week, a new yearly low. Urea is the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer on the planet, and it's the input that makes corn, wheat, and rice grow at scale. The Middle East supplies about 45% of the global urea trade, feeding the agricultural systems of India, Europe, and Brazil. Only 11 fertilizer ships have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the war started. 44 more are stuck inside the Gulf with nowhere to go, nearly half of them loaded with urea that can't reach buyers. Producers are now running out of storage space, which means the next stage of this crisis is forced shutdowns of the actual factories, not just delayed shipments. Farmers across three continents are about to plant fields with less fertilizer than they need or pay multiples more to get it, and either way the cost gets passed straight through to bread, pasta, rice, and meat. The 2022 Russia-Ukraine playbook is already running again, just with a Persian Gulf accent this time. If Hormuz stays closed through summer, the developing world is staring down a food inflation wave that makes the energy crisis look manageable. Source: Bloomberg, Financial Times, @KobeissiLetter

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇺 BREAKING: U.S. Senate voted 51-47 to block a resolution that would have prevented Trump from launching military strikes on Cuba. The same Senate that just rejected five Iran war powers resolutions is clearing the path for another potential military operation, this time 90 miles off the Florida coast. Source: NYT

iShowSpeed just went live from a private jet at 35,000 feet using @Starlink. Zero lag, no buffering, full HD quality. Streaming perfectly from the middle of the sky. Iconic. https://t.co/J2JRtVJxYZ

🚨🇺🇸 Another arrest for online threats against the president. Genuine question: how many of these does it take before people figure out the FBI has access to the internet? https://t.co/gwnDKjv4PE

🇺🇸 Former FBI Director James Comey has gotten indicted on two felony charges over his controversial “86 47” Instagram post. His response: “I’M STILL INNOCENT. I’M STILL NOT AFRAID.” Bold words from a guy now facing serious legal heat. The “86 47” post was widely seen as a veiled threat against Trump (86 = delete/remove, 47 = Trump’s presidency number). Whether it was a joke, poor wording, or something more, he is now headed to court. Comey is clearly choosing defiance over silence. Source: @realbrucesnyder