Worth the listen: https://x.com/tfl1728/status/2041661574520111156

Oil Tumbles, Stocks Surge as Markets Greet U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire with Optimism

Investors bought up Treasurys and the dollar fell to a one-month low, while gold and silver jumped as expectations of an inflation shock-induced Fed rate hike dimmed.

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:28:00 GMT

⚡🇮🇷 Growth in the European and Asian markets in the first time in a long while since the war began.

Investors and the private sector are comfortable with the arrangements between Iran and Trump.

@medmannews

This is a good one to listen to as a counter critique: https://youtu.be/E2Nr25b6xW4

The End of the COVID Psy/Op

Unfortunately, the damage has been done to a significant percentage of the human race: Two of the major pharmaceutical companies connected with the controversial COVID vaccines were forced to abandon a new research study after failing to garner enough participants. Pfizer and German vax maker BioNTech had sought to research an updated version of the […]

https://voxday.net/2026/04/08/the-end-of-the-covid-psy-op/

Perhaps one day, people will be able to harbor the thought that Trump knows what he's doing.

I know, I know. But a girl can dream!

https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/transactions-wednesday-april-8-2026

More receipts: https://open.substack.com/pub/commonsenserebel/p/1773-1794-the-ghost-in-the-machine

Final charges against pro-life undercover journalist David Daleiden have been dropped and expunged, after more than a decade of legal battles.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/final-charge-dropped-against-david-daleiden-for-exposing-planned-parenthoods-aborted-baby-parts-sales/?utm_source=telegram

Corollary: which is not to say that you will LIKE what Trump is doing. That depends on whose side of the Empire you are on. And which Empire.

Life lessons. https://youtu.be/GHJ6pCAI13s

The scene I was actually looking for was where Richie is confused about why his tough guy stance didn't work when he was up against somebody other than Fonzie's girlfriend. The second lesson in being tough is that it only works if you have ever actually hit somebody. Simply clinching your teeth and talking big won't do it.

It’s a remarkable coincidence that the Earth was exactly the same orientation to the moon with exactly the same cloud coverage when these two pictures were taken 68 years apart. Am I now a coincidence theorist ?

https://t.me/ABridgen

“Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.'
'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.” - The Return of the King

Speaking of books, getting ready to send out Draco Alchemicus Act II - The Court.

Get ready for story time! An evening of dragonverse: https://www.youtube.com/live/37keWFoosnQ

It's story time! Want highbrow Christian fantasy beautifully illustrated and written in classic English iambic pentameter? We've got the book for you!

https://www.youtube.com/live/37keWFoosnQ

“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” - The Lord of the Rings

Iran has issued formal notice of the transit routes for approved ships to enter and exit the Strait of Hormuz
https://redd.it/1sgr2ao
@r_mapporn