More violence in Winston-Salem, NC. A mass shooting happened mid morning that resulted in 7 people being shot. Two men (both minors) were pronounced dead at the scene & 5 others (4 females & 1 male) suffered gunshot wounds are hospitalized. Our city has been under democrat… pic.twitter.com/NPKjUV7dWK

— Evans Wroten (@Evans_Wroten) April 20, 2026

🚨🇲🇲 Meanwhile at Port Homalin, Myanmar

Huge fire set a number of tankers carrying fuel in a devastating blaze which reports say a number of people have died in.

That’s Russia, India & Myanmar fuel & energy resource all catching fire in the last 24 hours.

Then go look up all… pic.twitter.com/qnRM1fvVxK

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) April 20, 2026

The Last Man Standing: The Confederate Color Bearer and the Brief, Doomed Rank of Ensign

Look at him in Don Troiani's painting — the color bearer standing in a winter wood, the battle flag spreading its red field above bare trees, the names of the fights stitched into the… pic.twitter.com/yDn6Rd144u

— Michael Brasher (@2ndMississippi) April 18, 2026

h/t WRSA

Well, that didn’t take too long. Friday’s false optimism about an imminent peace deal with Iran following Donald Trump’s claims that Iran had agreed to surrender to the US demands, fed wild swing to the positive side in the US stock market and crashed oil prices. Once again, it turns out that Trump was merely manipulating the financial and commodity markets and benefiting wealthy insiders.

There will be no more negotiations between the US and Iran until the US lifts its naval blockade and complies with the 10-points Iran delivered two weeks ago.

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I asked Grok:

CNN money.cnn.com shows no updates for premarket US stocks

Yes, you’re right—money.cnn.com (and CNN’s dedicated premarkets page at cnn.com/markets/premarkets) is showing no live premarket updates for US stock indices right now. The page either displays no numerical data at all in the markets section or sticks to stale figures from Friday’s close (e.g., S&P 500 futures around +1.23%, Dow +1.84%, Nasdaq +1.34% unadjusted). There’s even an explicit note on their premarkets page: “Fair value and implied open will be back later this year. Meanwhile, CNN will continue to provide unadjusted index futures data.” No timestamps or live Globex activity is reflected, matching exactly what you’re seeing.This is the same pattern as the NYMEX oil futures delay from the original DarioCpx post. CNN (like many consumer-facing sites) pulls from official CME Group disseminated feeds for futures and indices. Those feeds are either:

• Subject to their standard 10-minute delay (which feels like “no update” overnight), or
• Experiencing a broader dissemination lag in this extreme volatility session.

CME’s own delayed-quotes pages confirm this behavior, and there was a reported investigation into order-entry/market-data delays as recently as late Sunday. No full Globex outage, but the official “published” data isn’t refreshing in real time across platforms that rely on it.

Wild brawl breaks out in a Whataburger in Waco TX#fight #texas pic.twitter.com/Vztcx7Nd9k

— TX Street Fights (@txstreetfights2) April 19, 2026

ONE DAY after a sho*ting at the Raleigh NC mall sent the place into lockdown…

…now we just have people beat the living hell out of each other broad daylight in the exact same mall

We shouldn't have to deal with this EVERY SINGLE DAY in North Carolina…

What do we do?!!! pic.twitter.com/9W5mbAqIVs

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 19, 2026

🚨 GLOBAL POWERS WATCHING: Claims circulate that Chinese naval forces may be moving toward Gulf waters amid Hormuz tensions

Unconfirmed reports suggest Chinese PLA Navy vessels could be positioning near the Persian Gulf following threats to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.… pic.twitter.com/snMjOhHoER

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) February 28, 2026

From Huter der Irminsul

The figure of Giovanni Battista Bugatti is not a macabre historical curiosity—he is a case indictment. 514 executions in the name of a state that saw itself as a moral authority. 514 lives ended under the banner of order, justice, and—particularly cynically—Christian mercy.

In the Papal States, violence was not an accident. It was institutionalized. Publicly staged in squares like the Piazza del Popolo, so that everyone could see what happens when you question the “divine order.” This was not just criminal justice—it was a demonstration of power.

And this is precisely where it becomes uncomfortable: The Church was not just a religious authority; it was political power. And political power defends itself. Often with the harshest means. Anyone who resisted, anyone who threatened the existing order—whether for criminal, political, or religious reasons—could be declared an enemy. Not because God demanded it, but because institutions want to maintain control.

The Church was not only a religious authority, it was a political power. And political power defends itself. Not infrequently with the harshest means. The oft-repeated story that people were executed en masse “simply because of their faith” is an oversimplification—but it does contain a kernel of truth: In a system that claims to possess the sole truth, dissent quickly becomes a threat. And where dissent becomes a threat, the path to violence is short.

Bugatti himself? Not a sadistic monster. That’s precisely what makes him so disturbing. He was dutiful, routine, almost banal. A man who got up in the morning and did what the state demanded of him—while this state invoked divine legitimacy.

That is the real scandal: Not the executioner, but the structure behind him. An institution that preaches charity while simultaneously upholding a system in which killing is part of the order.

When morality and power become inextricably intertwined, criticism becomes a threat—and violence becomes justification.

The story of Giovanni Battista Bugatti is not a distant echo from a barbaric past. It is a warning. 514 executions in the Papal States—carried out not in chaos, but in the name of order, morality, and divine truth.

This is the crux of the problem: violence that considers itself just.

This pattern can be seen throughout history. In the Spanish Inquisition, where “pure faith” became the justification for persecution. In the case of Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake because thinking was dangerous. In England under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, where religion became a political weapon. And in the witch hunts of the Holy Roman Empire, where fear, faith, and power combined to form a deadly mixture.

The same formula is repeated time and again: An institution claims absolute truth → dissent becomes a threat → violence becomes a “necessity.”

Bugatti was no outlier. He was the logical consequence of a system that never had to question itself.

And this is precisely where the present begins.

Because anyone who believes these mechanisms have disappeared overlooks how little has fundamentally changed. Even today, institutions—religious and political alike—appeal to moral superiority. Even today, people are marginalized, persecuted, or silenced because they don’t fit into the prevailing worldview. Perhaps no longer in public squares with axes. But with laws, with social pressure, with digital ostracism, with violence on the fringes of society.

The methods change. The logic remains.

The truly dangerous element is not the fanatic. It is the system that legitimizes fanaticism. It is the structure that says: We are right—and therefore we are justified in acting.

That is precisely where the justification of injustice begins.

When an institution—whether church, state, or ideology—places itself above criticism, it becomes dangerous. When it considers itself infallible, it becomes blind. And when it begins to impose its “truth,” it becomes brutal.
The Bugatti story is therefore not a reason for mere outrage at the past. It is a touchstone for the present.

The real question is not: How could that have happened back then?

But rather:
Where is it happening today – only in a different form, with different means, but with the same conviction of being right?

WATCH: IDF soldiers shot 84 year old Christian famous piano player Elham Farah in the leg and left her to bleed to death.

Then they saw she’s still breathing, so they decided to drive a tank over her body. pic.twitter.com/1phpwCUiW1

— Jvnior (@Jvnior) April 17, 2026

For the Christian reader who holds to ‘end times’ theology comes the question; could Trump be The Antichrist? Interesting article from Unz Review:

Trump ticks several boxes:

– He opposes the spirit of Jesus Christ, who was meek, humble, hung out with the poor and despised the rich, opposed the Jewish bankers and drove them out of the temple, preached love and forgiveness and turn-the-other-cheek, and so on.
– Trump seems to be falsely claiming the savior role.
– Trump is the epitome of “lawless world leader.”
– Trump persecutes the genuine believers, whether Christians like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly and Prejean Boller, or Muslims like the Iranian leadership (and the other 2 billion Muslims).
– Trump demands worship. Stop bowing to him, and you’ll never work in his town again.
– And finally, though we are only in the sixth year of Trump’s eight-year “covenant,” he has permanently broken his main promise—to be a peacemaker. That is not quite “breaking a 7-year covenant” but it’s close enough.

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🚨 JUST NOW: Sitting US Senator just went OVERSEAS and TRASHED America, bad-mouthed our president as a tyrant

"Donald Trump is trying to end our democracy. He's trying to seize control!"

"Most significant threat since Civil War!"

RESIGN, CHRIS MURPHY!pic.twitter.com/WZfxiTblZd

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 18, 2026