Washington Can’t Afford To Let The US Lose The Open-Source AI War Authored by Julio Rivera via American Greatness, President Trump was right about China. Long before it became conventional wisdom in Washington, he recognized that America wasn’t simply competing with another trading partner. China was executing a long-term strategy to dominate the industries that would define the 21st century. From manufacturing and […]

Lavrov To Challenge Germany’s Bid For French Nuclear Shield In Rubio Talks Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to hold an important, rare meeting on Thursday to address shaky bilateral relations in the context of the Ukraine war, as well as recent nuclear rhetoric out of European NATO countries. The Kremlin is especially alarmed at the German government’s intent to gain access […]

The Great Menopause Grift Authored by Alan Cassels via The Brownstone Institute, Well, well, look here. In its June 2026 update the venerated OED or Oxford English Dictionary, finally added the ‘new’ word, fearmonging. It explains fearmongering as “the action or an act of spreading fear or alarm among the public, esp. by exaggerating the dangers associated with a political, social, or economic issue; alarmism.” Thank goodness, […]

Taco Bell Getting Desperate With This Shockingly Cheap Offer Amid “Explosive Diarrhea” Parasite Blowback Taco Bell is betting a buck can buy back your love. The fast-food giant rolled out $1 lettuce-free enchiritos – “for the ones who’ve been riding with us,” as the company put it – a peace offering to customers who bolted after a cyclospora outbreak was traced to lettuce served at its restaurants, the New York Post reports. The […]

House Passes Defense Policy Bill That Attaches SAVE America Act Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The House of Representatives on July 22 passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill that attaches a key election integrity bill championed by President Donald Trump. The tally for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was 216–212. Six Democrats crossed the aisle to back passage of the bill, while six […]

Deutsche Bank: Humanoid Robot Market Accelerates Globally As China Ramps Production The latest “Humanoid Robot Pulse” report from Deutsche Bank states that the global humanoid robot market is accelerating, with China, unsurprisingly, leading the race. “The humanoid robot market is accelerating globally. China is leading in production, with government officials estimating 100,000 units of humanoid robot production in 2026, […]

Supreme Court To Decide If Plane Can Be Seized Over 6-Pack Of Beer Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on July 20 agreed to hear the appeal of an Alaska pilot whose small airplane was seized for attempting to haul beer into a so-called dry jurisdiction where alcohol is banned. The court’s decision in Jouppi v. Alaska took the form of an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not […]

AI Is Quietly Transforming Healthcare And Might Just Save Your Life Amid the broader debate over artificial intelligence’s economic disruptions, the healthcare sector is quietly demonstrating some of the technology’s most concrete applications. Rather than the job losses feared in other industries, hospitals report AI augmenting physicians, streamlining routine tasks and accelerating innovation in ways that could improve outcomes […]

Poo-Demic: As Cases Spread To 41 States, FDA Suddenly Can’t Find Parasite In Recalled Lettuce A stomach parasite spread by feces on fresh produce has now sickened people in 41 states, federal health officials said – five days after the FDA pulled back the only lab test linking the outbreak to the lettuce it recalled. Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in a stool sample, in an undated file image. CDC via The Epoch Times The Centers for […]

RFK Jr. Says Government Pausing More Than $1 Billion In Medicaid Payments To California, Minnesota Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The federal government is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to two states, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is withholding more than $867 million from California and more than $200 million from Minnesota. […]

House Panel Subpoenas Far-Left Groups Linked To China-Based Marxist Financier Neville Singham The House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed the People’s Forum, a New York-based far-left NGO; BreakThrough News, a far-left propaganda media outlet; and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which can be described as anchored in “national liberation Marxism.” These organizations are part of a broader investigation into […]

Biden Bucks: Climate Change Funds A Bonanza For State Outfits Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy. All that […]

Secret Service Official Sounds Alarm: “Threat Environment Highest Ever” As Assassination Attempts Explode The threat environment facing individuals under U.S. Secret Service protection, including President Trump, is the highest the agency has ever recorded, a senior official said during a background briefing with reporters, according to CNBC. Getty Images “What we’re seeing now is something I’ve never seen before,” the official […]

DARPA’s ‘ECHO’ Project: A Computer System That Declares You A Bio Threat – With No Physical Evidence Authored by Jon Fleetwood via JonFleetwood.com, In 2018, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) proposed building a portable computer system allegedly capable of determining whether a person had been exposed to biological or chemical threats – including weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their precursors. Even […]

Overeducated Liberals With Worthless Degrees Are DSA’s “Sweet Spot” Voter Nate Silver identifies lower-income, highly educated voters as the core demographic of the Democratic Socialists of America, revealing a striking breakdown in the traditional relationship between education and higher income. “Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What’s the most Democratic voting […]

Google Tumbles After Boosting 2026 Capex Guidance Again Update (5:00pm ET): It took just a few minutes into the call for management to get to the elephant in the room, namely the relentless spending on overpriced commodity chips, and just like last quarter when GOOGL guided to a much higher capex for the current year, it did so again (if to a slightly lesser extent). The stock promptly slumped 3% to new session lows. *ALPHABET SEES […]

We Watched ‘The Odyssey’ So You Don’t Have To! Submitted by blueapples on X via ashesofacacia.substack.com, After watching The Odyssey (don’t worry, I pirated it), all I can say is that the hatred it fomented was ultimately to its benefit. It caused a reactionary response that amplified the hype surrounding the movie, with the hate-posting ultimately serving as free publicity. It needed it because the movie was extraordinarily […]

House Narrowly Passes $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill That Integrates US Military Tech & Supply Chains With Israel The House passed the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday by a 216-212 vote, sending the $1.15 trillion measure to the Senate after one of the most partisan House votes in the must-pass bill’s recent history. Only six Democrats supported it, while seven Republicans voted no. 🚨 JUST IN: […]

Despite Big Bounce In Revenues, TSLA Shares Drop After Disappointing Earnings After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk’s political activities, Tesla’s road to recovery remains mixed on the heels of an impressive delivery report. While earnings fell 18% compared to Q2 2025 to 33c a share (well below expectations of 51c) with higher AI spending and R&D weighing on […]

IRGC To Trump: Strike Iran’s Infrastructure, We’ll Shut Off The Gulf’s Power Summary More Tanker Attacks: Iran-backed Houthi militants said they targeted two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea Trump ultimatum: Trump vowed the US will strike an Iranian bridge or power plant after every Iranian attack on shipping. Iran responds: The IRGC threatened to hit Gulf energy infrastructure if Iranian […]

Jim Quinn Warns “We’ve Already Entered This Fourth Turning’s Global War…” Authored by Jim Quinn via The Bruning Platform blog, “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation […]

Shirley You Must Be Joking: Groups Sue For Communication Records Linked To Somali Daycare Fraud Claims Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A coalition of civil-rights groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, seeking to force the release of internal communications between federal health officials and a YouTube journalist who accused Somali-run Minnesota daycare centers of fraud. Independent Journalist Nick Shirley […]

OpenAI Admits Model Escaped Containment And Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities. In a blog post, OpenAI said the evaluation was […]

“He Was Very Close To Being Arrested”: Epstein’s Paris Model Scout Found Dead At Home, Weeks After CNN Appearance Daniel Siad, the 69-year-old Paris modeling scout whose name appears nearly 2,000 times in the DOJ’s Epstein files, was found dead at his home in Colombes, northwest of Paris, on Monday. The deputy public prosecutor at Nanterre, Marie-Celine Lawrysz, confirmed the death Wednesday and said an investigation into the cause […]

Video Game Market Tanks As Studio, Console Stocks Sink ; Can GTA VI Revive Industry? Video game stocks have been battered so far this year, with Electronic Arts the only major name in positive territory and even then only marginally higher. The Roundhill Video Games ETF is down about 14.8% YTD, highlighting industry-wide weakness as investors await a potential revival sparked by Take-Two’s release of Grand Theft Auto VI this […]