Cushing, Oklahoma, dubs itself the pipeline crossroads of the world. The tagline is emblazoned on a giant roadside sign fashioned out of pip
People are understandably paying attention to the price of gas. But a figure that's even more concerning is the dwindling supply of oil. What's going on in Cushing, Oklahoma is a warning of things to come.
Cushing, Oklahoma, dubs itself the pipeline crossroads of the world. The tagline is emblazoned on a giant roadside sign fashioned out of pipes on the corner of Main Street and South Stiles Road. It has a valve and everything.
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Cushing is the hub of America’s energy market. It literally provides the oil plumbing for the United States. It’s where America’s benchmark West Texas Intermediate oil is priced and warehoused. From there, it’s piped to refineries around the country.
In normal times, Cushing stores around 40 million barrels of oil with capacity of up to 75 million.
These are not normal times.
Cushing’s current inventory is 21.6 million barrels, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
That’s dangerously close to operational stress levels, the tipping point at which Cushing struggles to supply all of its customers with the oil they demand.
When Cushing’s reserves get below 20 million, they effectively hit empty, scraping the bottom of the barrel of what is largely unusable sludge.
So the US is just 1.61 million barrels from being down to "unusable sludge".
The New York Times published a chart showing the rapidly dwindling global supply of oil.
This is the most rapid drop of the past seven years. The supply got lower for a while in 2023 due to the effects of sanctions on Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine. But the decline was slower and markets eventually adjusted. With Trump's Iran war, there's no end in sight and much more oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz than is exported by Russia.
So what is Trump doing about all this? Every week, sometimes more than once a week, he oscillates from threatening to destroy Iranian civilization to proclaiming a new peace deal. While I've not been counting, it seems like there's been close to three dozen such abrupt shifts.
As for energy sources, Trump is again championing the moribund coal industry. He's putting a QAnon conspiracy nut in charge of a new coal project.
‘This is not normal’: Trump leans on MAGA organizer to revive coal
Even if something miraculously came of this (SPOILER: it won't), it would be way too late to help with the current crisis.
Trump created this mess and refuses to clean it up properly.
The president said Congress should pass the resolution to scrub his first-term impeachments, claiming he did ‘nothing wrong’
Rhian Lubin in New York Friday 12 June 2026 14:58 BST
Trump was impeached twice by the Democratic-led House of Representatives; first in 2019 over allegations of abusing the power of his office by attempting to extort a political favor from Ukraine, and again in January 2021 with charges of “incitement of insurrection” following the January 6 Capitol riots. The Senate acquitted him in both cases, which left him in office.
The president’s latest move to void the impeachments from the record follows his recent attempts to reverse the outcomes of multiple legal cases that ruled against him.
The updated Parentage Act aims to ensure children have legally recognized relationships with their parents regardless of biology, marital st
Christopher Wiggins at The Adovcate:
As conservative lawmakers across the country target transgender rights and revisit long-settled questions about LGBTQ+ equality, Delaware moved in the opposite direction.
On Tuesday, Gov. Matt Meyer, a Democrat, signed legislation modernizing the state's parentage laws, expanding legal protections for children and families formed through assisted reproduction, surrogacy, donor conception, and other paths to parenthood commonly used by LGBTQ+ people.
The updated Delaware Parentage Act may lack the political flash of debates over bathrooms, sports, or marriage equality — but for many LGBTQ+ families, advocates say, few laws are more consequential.
The Advocate requested comment from Meyer's office, but did not receive a response.
Parentage determines who is legally recognized as a child's parent. It governs everything from custody rights and inheritance to health insurance coverage, medical decision-making, Social Security benefits, and access to a parent following a divorce. When those relationships are unclear under state law, children can be left vulnerable.
"Parentage is the legal relationship between a parent and their child," Meg York, chief legal and policy officer at COLAGE, told The Advocate ahead of the bill signing. "Sometimes people don't realize that they may be parenting, but they may not have parentage."
The legislation updates Delaware law to align with the 2017 Uniform Parentage Act, a model law designed to ensure children have legally recognized relationships with their parents regardless of marital status, biological connection, sexual orientation, or method of conception.
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That broader argument comes as debates over family recognition, reproductive technology, and LGBTQ+ rights have become increasingly politicized. "I think there is an extremist position that wants to redefine who families are," York said. "What this is about is whether the law protects real families as they exist."
Mark Purpura, a board member of Equality Delaware, said the measure reflects a straightforward principle. "Delaware is strongest when the law respects and protects all families," he said in a statement.
Good news: Delaware expands protections for LGBTQ+ families, as Gov. Matt Meyer (D) signs a bill updating the Delaware Parentage Act.
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Mis
Jess Piper at The View From Rural Missouri:
I have two Facebook accounts. The one I log into most days is my Piper for Missouri account, where I post political content and essays and news articles. I have around 100k friends on that page, and it is where many folks keep up with me and my commentary on Missouri.
It’s also where my ugliest trolls pop up.
I still have my old Facebook page that I opened about 15 years back. It was full of family updates and photos of my kids through the years, and is now scrubbed clean of family references and photos, because there are crazy folks out there, and I work in politics in a very red state. I don’t post on that Facebook page anymore, but I do log in a few times a month to scroll through Facebook Marketplace.
I may not want anyone to see my kids or grandkids, but I am a sucker for a deal, and Marketplace is one of my favorite haunts.
I have been looking for end tables for my living room for several months. My current mismatched ones are fine, but I’d like the look of something farmhouse-like but not farmhouse kitsch. The real stuff. Old farmhouse antiques.
When I logged into my old Facebook to start scrolling for treasures, a post from a local woman caught my attention because I saw my State Senator’s name. I paused to read the long post about the same meeting I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, and my Senator’s smug appearance in town.
The lady writing the post had a different point of view. She was gushing praise for our lawmakers who showed up “when they didn’t have to.”
What? Showed up when they didn’t have to?
That is one of the biggest responsibilities in being a Representative — they are supposed to show up and listen, but they rarely do, so I don’t think they need praise for doing the bare minimum, but it wasn’t my post, and I digress.
The lady went on for a few paragraphs, and then towards the end of her post, she referenced the folks in the audience who were “unhinged.” She had an apology for the lawmakers who were subjected to questions — unhinged questions from a constituent.
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I was not unhinged in that meeting, but I did shout out a question to my lawmaker, asking him to address the hundreds of thousands of dollars he has accepted from an organization that sends Missouri taxpayer money to private religious schools. I did tell him that I was forced to shout a question because he refuses to answer emails and phone calls asking him the same question.
Unhinged is not a word I would use to describe a constituent calmly asking a hard question of her Representative, but I do think the word is applicable to many folks in the meeting, including the one who made the post in the first place.
In the wake of new reports detailing behind-the-scenes efforts by the White House to public outrage over the Epstein files, former MAGA acol
Walter Einenkel at Daily Kos:
In the wake of new reports detailing behind-the-scenes efforts by the White House to public outrage over the Epstein files, former MAGA acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene was asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for her reaction.
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“Well, Tucker didn’t interview Ghislaine Maxwell, did he?” Greene replied, before adding that the excerpts showed how hard the Trump administration was working, “to find someone trustworthy to the American people to try to extend this cover-up.”
“Here in America we haven’t seen any justice for the victims, and that’s because look who’s in charge,” Greene continued. “They’re not being prosecuted. They’re not being held accountable, and I think that comes from the top.”
It’s worth noting that “from the top” can really mean only one of two things: either Trump is controlling it himself, or he’s being manipulated by someone wielding even greater power behind the scenes. Either way, Greene effectively backed the MAGA bus over him.
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene went on CNN’s The Source Wednesday to state the truth that the Epstein Files coverup came from the top of the Trump White House.
From the 06.10.2026 edition of CNN's The Source:
See Also:
LGBTQ Nation: “Unforgivable”: Marjorie Taylor Greene brands Donald Trump a traitor over Epstein files
HuffPost: Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams 'Traitor' Trump Over Epstein Files 'Cover Up'
He claimed the Pentagon wants Congress to include anti-voting restrictions in a multibillion-dollar defense bill.
Jacob Knutson at Democracy Docket:
President Donald Trump said the Pentagon wants congressional Republicans to include anti-voting restrictions from the SAVE America Act in a multibillion-dollar defense bill.
That claim — which would be historically out of character for the Department of Defense (DOD) — represents Trump’s latest attempt to use the U.S. military to carry out his domestic partisan goals, including his longstanding desire to directly take control of elections.
“I am hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to IMMEDIATELY advance and pass the forthcoming $350 Billion Reconciliation Bill (Recon 3.0) — which, at the request of our Great Department of War — will include THE SAVE AMERICA ACT as well,” Trump said in a social media post Wednesday night.
“No games, no delays, and no weak compromises! Do this ASAP,” the president added.
The DOD did not respond to Democracy Docket’s request to confirm whether, as Trump claimed, military leaders requested anti-voting measures be included in the reconciliation bill.
However, reacting to Trump’s post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed that the department “will make this happen!”
Along with severely restricting mail voting, the SAVE America Act could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring them to show documentary proof of citizenship to register and to provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Since passing the House in February, the act has stalled in the Senate because of the 60-vote threshold required to get past the filibuster and other legislative rules in the chamber.
Donald Trump claims the military supports the SAVE America Act.
The pastor claims Obama's presidential library design says "this country is bad, it needs to be brought down, it needs to be fundamentally c
Pocharapon Neammanee at HuffPost:
Right-wing radio pastor Todd Friel rebuked former President Barack Obama’s anticipated presidential library opening up in Chicago, Illinois, later this month, as an “intentional slight to God.”
“His new presidential center, I think, can be described as atheistic, anti-Christian, Marxist, and just another effort from Barack Obama to do what he’s been endeavoring to do now since he was nominated president, and that is to fundamentally change America,” he said.
The $850 million Obama Presidential Center campus, set to open on June 19, will be home to a Chicago public library branch as well as basketball courts, gardens, ball fields, a playground for children, and an eight-story museum, according to reports by NPR, which previewed the facility.
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However, Friel told his listeners, “This building is a tangible symbol of Barack Obama’s horrific, his utterly destructive world views,” stating that it is an “intentional slight to God.”
“You don’t walk into a building and decide what it means, the building decides what it wants you to feel about reality. Why? Because buildings preach, and the Obama Center is a really lousy sermon,” Friel raged on his show “Wretched” Tuesday.
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“Traditional architecture, meaning is given. Modernism, meaning is built. Deconstructivism, meaning is unstable,” Friel explained. “Why does Barack Obama want to communicate instability? It is because he doesn’t want the old order. He wants a new design, and, I’m sorry, it’s clearly a Marxist design, and it’s a Marxist playbook.”
Right-wing “pastor” Todd Friel used an episode of his Wretched show to whine about the 44th President Barack Obama (D)’s soon-to-be opened Presidential Library by calling it an “intentional slight to God.”
From the 06.09.2026 edition of Fortis Institute's Wretched With Todd Friel:
See Also:
RWW: Right-Wing Pastor Todd Friel Says Obama's Presidential Library Is 'An Intentional Slight To God'
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