Senate Moves Major Crypto Regulation Bill Toward Vote Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) took a procedural step Saturday to bring the CLARITY Act to the Senate floor, setting up a vote on whether to consider the bill when lawmakers return from their August recess. The CLARITY Act would establish a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets, […]

Rich-Kid Mamdani Ally Wants To “Abolish Rent”; Could Hawley Reform Bill Stop College Indoctrination? Tracy Rosenthal, co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, has emerged as an influential far-left star in the Democratic Socialists of America’s tenant-organizing ‘squatting’ movement, promoting rent strikes and aggressive pressure campaigns to bankrupt landlords.   While the article focuses largely on New York City, […]

Drug Kingpin Gets Life After 3-Year-Old Found With Backpack Full Of Drugs A decade-long drug empire that prosecutors say pumped cocaine and fentanyl through Mobile has ended with its alleged mastermind headed to federal prison for the rest of his life, according to WSFA. McGee, 42, received life sentences after being convicted of running a large-scale narcotics operation involving drugs, firearms and minors. U.S. District Judge […]

Seattle Mayor Targets ‘Surveillance Pricing’ At Grocery Stores Seattle leaders are moving forward with a first-of-its-kind proposal aimed at preventing grocery retailers from using consumers’ personal data to charge different prices for the same products. The ordinance, backed by Mayor Katie Wilson and City Councilmembers Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Dionne Foster, would prohibit large grocery chains from using information such as […]

UK Police Literally Have An ‘Elite Squad’ To Flag Spicy Social Media Posts… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s latest free speech assault is underway. An elite police unit set up by the Labour government has already flagged more than 100 social media posts to local forces, monitoring online “protest related activity” in a move critics brand a sinister step toward state control of speech. The National […]

Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level On Record Amid Decade-Long Western Drought Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir by storage capacity, has fallen to its lowest level on record as a drought throughout western states continues. Bureau of Reclamation data indicate that the reservoir’s surface elevation rose to 1,040.50 feet above sea level on Thursday, below the previous low of 1,040.58 feet set in July 2022, when the lake first […]

The Democrat Embrace Of Islamo-Socialism Is Party Suicide Authored by David Sultzer via AmericanThinker.com, The Democrat party leadership—sensing its mortal danger from a very well-organized and radicalized Islamo-socialist movement—is trying to stay afloat, claiming that the Democrat Party is a “big tent” where the socialists can find a welcome home: Senator Chuck Schumer thinks Democrat Socialists — who want to oust […]

Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips As Supply Crunch Pushes PC Giants Toward CXMT After months of lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to purchase Chinese memory chips, Apple appears to be nearing the point where it can tap China’s domestic chip market. The push follows what the iPhone maker has described as “unsustainable” pricing from the memory “cartel,” namely SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, and SanDisk, whose production has […]

UN Sounds Alarm As Iran Steps Up Executions To Silence Dissent Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The United Nations human rights chief has expressed alarm over a sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran, warning that authorities are using capital punishment to intimidate the population and suppress dissent. “I am alarmed by the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March, and that […]

Turkish FM Affirms Defense Pact With Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Is Same As NATO’s Article 5 World leaders have been reacting to the Friday signing of a major defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan in the Saudi city of Makkah among their heads of state. It seeks to strengthen joint deterrence and expanding defense cooperation, the Saudi Press Agency said. As we reported, it essentially a NATO-style agreement for […]

Europe Bets Billions On North Africa’s Clean Energy Potential Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, The EU’s T-MED initiative aims to mobilize billions of euros for renewable energy, hydrogen, clean technology, and electricity networks across the Mediterranean. Morocco and Egypt are emerging as important partners as Europe invests in renewable generation, grid infrastructure, and potential subsea electricity […]

Fire Erupts At Saudi Aramco’s Jazan Refinery As Iran-Backed Houthis Claim Drone Strike Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Saudi Aramco’s $21 billion Jazan refinery, located on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Red Sea coast, roughly 44 miles from the Yemeni border. The facility is strategically important because it allows Aramco to export refined products through the Red Sea without transiting the […]

From “Designed Viruses” To “Digital Telepathy” – AI Panic Kicks Into Overdrive Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Two days ago, I wrote an article detailing the sudden rash of “rogue AI agents” allegedly  besetting the tech community, and how that may be used to bring in new regulations, notionally targeting AI, but actually limiting or monitoring how ordinary people use the internet. In the 48 hours since, […]

Europe Was Once Bigger Than The US Economy. What Happened? The United States and the European Union are the two largest Western economies of the 21st century. Over the past two decades, however, their economic trajectories have diverged significantly. This line chart below, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, tracks the gross domestic product (GDP) of the EU and U.S. economies from 2006 to 2026 using the latest figures […]

Iran’s Mehr Releases Video Of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei For ‘First Time’ – Except It’s Old Update(2210ET): Iran’s state Mehr has purported to release video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei for the ‘first time’ since the start of the war, and since he was wounded in a US-Israeli airstrike in the opening days of the attacks of over five months ago. The state-released footage is titled “First Images of the Leader” – and shows […]

Turkey Restricts Black Sea Traffic As Drone Attacks On Commercial Vessels Spike Via The Cradle Turkey has begun restricting commercial ship traffic into the Black Sea amid a surge in Russian and Ukrainian attacks on civilian vessels, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Turkiye’s Directorate General of Coastal Safety has informed several ships heading to Novorossiysk, an important Russian oil and grain export port, that it is not […]

The Trojan Horse Inside Your Head: How Government Propaganda Is Quietly Dismantling Free Thought Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Ignore the bureaucrats; listen to the free thinkers… If the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s city gates.  They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies on social media and wait […]

Diarrhea-Gate: One Sinaloa Farm, 345 Sick, And Two Restaurant Chains Down Double Digits The FDA has finished tracing a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Javiana back to its source – a single grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, which entered the U.S. through Coast Citrus Distributors, a California importer that supplies restaurant customers. In this file photo, a shopper checks the firmness of a fresh jalapeño pepper at a produce stand in […]

The Rarest Asset In A Fourth Turning: The Freedom To Act Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, The Fourth Turning does not end with a return to the prior equilibrium. It ends with a new order – better or worse, depending on which forces prevail in the decisive battles of the crisis era. Those battles are being fought now, across domains: monetary (the BRICS challenge to dollar hegemony, the rise of non-dollar […]

Trump-Backed “El Tigre” Takes Power In Colombia As Right-Wing Wave Sweeps Americas Colombia entered a new political chapter as Trump-backed President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn into office Friday, pledging to reverse much of former President Gustavo Petro’s nation-killing socialist agenda and to restore law and order, a free market economy, and relations with the United States. 🔥 AWESOME! New Trump-endorsed Colombian […]

WNBA To Hold ‘Listening Sessions’ After Second Former NBA Star Says He’s A Woman, Declares For Draft Update (1800ET): WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women’s basketball. “I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to […]

‘Busted’: Female Bicyclists ‘Bulk Up’ Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, I’ve been a bicyclist all my life, but because I came to serious road racing late in life, I never had the opportunity to be competitive. Oh, I had a few good bikes and wore the required attire, but I was never going to make the medal stand. I did ride with enough serious riders to understand their compulsions. Among them was doing whatever […]

Hunter Biden Says Father’s Cancer Has Spread Further: “Very Painful And Very Debilitating” Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has progressed and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter said in a BBC interview broadcast Friday night. Former President Joe Biden’s office announced in May 2025 that he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images file […]

Jeftovic: The “Bitcoin Only” Era Is Over… Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower .com, (From The Sovereign Capitalist Letter #65. I was traveling at the time of the Coinkite vulnerability, surfacing a recurring theme around how to safely balance cold storage and emergency access when on the road). Just when I thought the sentiment couldn’t get any worse, on July 29-30 reports began to emerge of “certain” Coldcards […]

Another Sign Of The Times: ‘F**k ICE’ Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via American Greatness, Strolling through a major American urban metropolis, I noticed that the tightly packed homes and squat tri-level apartments and condos had tiny, browning “natural gardens” pocked with the usual virtue-signaling lawn signs setting forth their progressive secular creed’s commandments: “kindness always,” “hate has no home here,” […]