🇺🇸🛢 The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to 283.8M barrels, its lowest level since October 1982.
A year ago, September 2025, the SPR held 406 million barrels.
The current drawdown traces back to a 172 million-barrel release President Trump authorized in March, part of a coordinated 400 million-barrel release by 32 IEA member countries. Discharge began about a week later and was expected to take roughly 120 days, with the administration pledging to refill about 200 million barrels within a year at no cost to taxpayers.
Two different floors govern how far the reserve can fall. Federal law sets an operational minimum of 252.4 million barrels, while the generally accepted operational minimum is 250 to 300 million barrels on hand to pump and process oil efficiently, a level it is now testing.
Ben Cahill, an energy analyst at the Atlantic Council, has warned the releases carry diminishing returns: "at a certain point it becomes a self-defeating move, because releasing more oil into the market is overwhelmed by the perception that we're running out of options."
The decline lines up with what MST Marquee's Saul Kavonic called "living on an oil market credit card" earlier this month: Hormuz flows are still running at about a third of pre-war levels, and stock draws, not new supply, have kept Brent under $110 through most of the crisis.
About 133 million barrels of the drawdown are structured as swaps with Shell, Vitol and Trafigura, who are contracted to return 1.25 barrels for every one they took, with deliveries scheduled to begin early next year.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s official 2024 report shows that Texas processed 2,900,357 new valid voter registrations between the 2022 and 2024 elections, representing 56.5% of 5,133,464 voter-registration transactions.
Another 2,165,514 transactions (42.2%) involved updates to existing registrations.
During that period, Texas required applicants to affirm U.S. citizenship under penalty of law but did not routinely require a birth certificate, passport or naturalization papers with registration applications. The 56.5% share exceeded the national average of 25.3%, although other states reported even higher percentages. In September 2026, Texas officials referred 117 potential noncitizen-voting cases for investigation.
Official Election Administration and Voting Comprehensive Report buried this information all the way on page 193 of the document.
55% "new" Texas voter registrations might explain how leftists won in the midterms there.
🇺🇸 The Real Architect of the Iran Mess and its not Pete Hegseth
Yesterday, the military command for the Middle East unveiled its new podcast, “Inside CENTCOM,” featuring its commander, Navy Admiral Brad Cooper — the man most responsible for the Strait of Hormuz crisis and skyrocketing gas prices.
The timing couldn’t be more hilarious. The entire country just voted against his Iran war, and there’s Cooper, the architect, grinning and chatting up his workout routine, love of french fries and basketball. Asked about Operation Epic Fury, he says only that “I just couldn’t be prouder” and how even amidst the war he guards the “sanctity” of his workouts.
Considering that Cooper never bothered to make keeping the Strait of Hormuz open an objective of the war — which sent oil prices soaring — maybe he should’ve spent less time working out. But judging from his breezy podcast appearance, Cooper sleeps like a baby.
“Let me be clear: the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the...
Things I am not afraid of (and you shouldn't be, either):
1. Trump escalates the Iran War. The U.S. will not win, Iran will prevail, U.S. will be expelled from Middle East and Israel will be destroyed.
2. Trump passes amnesty with Democrats. This was always in the cards for Trump's final 2 years, with or without a Democrat majority. There was never going to be mass deportations under ZOG. They aren't leaving without major economic collapse, civil unrest or race war.
3. Woke censorship comes back. All it did was piss off and radicalize White people the first time. The "vibe shift" did nothing except allow rightoids to cheer ZOG on Twitter.
4. Whites become a minority in America. This will the beginning of a genuine White nationalism and eventual breakup of the republic. It's also inevitable at this point. Nationalism only grows under occupation and adversity.
5. Democrats fail to end the Iran war. This will cause huge unrest within the Democratic grassroots & open revolt ...