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US commercial crude oil inventories are reaching critical levels:
Crude inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, the largest commercial storage hub in the US and the pricing point for WTI Crude, dropped -1.6 million barrels last week, to 20 million barrels, the lowest since 2014.
This marks the 8th consecutive weekly decline, totaling -8.3 million barrels.
As a result, Cushing now holds less than 2 days worth of US crude production, approaching the minimum level at which the facility can continue pumping oil efficiently.
Once inventories fall below ~20 million barrels, extracting crude becomes technically difficult and more costly, while oil quality can deteriorate due to water and sediment.
Meanwhile, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is down to ~340 million barrels, the lowest since 1983, after 172 million barrels were released to contain war-driven fuel price increases.
US oil inventories down to levels rarely seen in modern energy markets.
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🔎 🇺🇸 🚗 Flock Safety’s AI cameras are scanning 20 billion license plates every month, giving police the power to track any vehicle’s movements across cities and jurisdictions in seconds.
The system doesn’t just read plates — it logs color, make, model, and details like bumper stickers or gun racks, then stores everything in a searchable cloud database.
Police can reconstruct travel history, set alerts, and pull data from other agencies. The company says it played a role in about 1 million arrests last year and many police chiefs call it their most impactful tool ever.
But this mass data collection is sparking a major backlash over privacy and the 4th Amendment. Critics argue it’s indiscriminate surveillance of everyone’s movements — not targeted policing — creating a permanent dragnet of innocent drivers without warrants.
Flock claims no facial recognition is used and data is deleted after 30 days by default, with some safeguards in place. This may be true ...
🇺🇸🐊⚡️- In a PBS/NPR affiliated WGCU and Florida Trident article, Byron Donalds’ ex wife, Bisa Hall, describes a man who looks nothing like the image he sells. She says he pretended to be Jamaican at FAMU, even using an accent, before later admitting he was actually from New York. For a man now asking American voters for trust, even his own American background was apparently flexible when it suited him.
Hall says he was not religious or conservative when she knew him. He had also registered as a Democrat in Tallahassee, but the bigger issue is what she describes as a pattern of reinvention whenever opportunity called. As she put it, “An opportunistic person like he is will take whatever opportunity they’re given.”
The record is not much better. Donalds was arrested for marijuana possession with intent to distribute, not simple possession as he has described it. He was also arrested on a felony bribery charge, pleaded no contest, and later gave an explanation Hall says ...
📅 Daily summary — 09/07/2026
• The U.S.-Iran escalation widened with fresh American strikes on Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Chabahar, Konarak, Sirik, Kharg, Bushehr, Khuzestan and the Lavan refinery, targeting radar sites, air defenses, coastal sensors, missile and drone depots, naval capabilities and logistics infrastructure. Iran replied with missiles and drones against U.S. ships in the Sea of Oman and targets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, while Tehran raised the toll to 14 dead and 78 wounded and confirmed 8 losses in its air force and navy.
• CENTCOM said the latest round of strikes on Iran hit about 90 targets, after around 80 were struck the night before, including more than 60 small Revolutionary Guard boats, and said the campaign could last days or weeks. Bloomberg also reported that ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz came to a complete halt.
• At the NATO summit, Donald Trump attacked Spain, calling it a “terrible partner” and “a lost cause,” and repeated that he ...
