Tesla Made $573 Million Selling To Musk’s Other Companies Last Year Elon Musk’s business empire is becoming increasingly intertwined — and if SpaceX eventually goes public, Wall Street will likely take a much harder look at how money moves across his companies. A newly disclosed filing shows Tesla booked more than $570 million last year from transactions with Musk-controlled companies, according to Insider. That included […]

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell’s Anti-Communist Classic George Orwell’s prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee the creation of certain technologies which make the future look even more bleak.  The reason his books, like 1984 and Animal Farm, are considered classics of literature is because they are […]

The Permanent Distortion Theory Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance “This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing. It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated. It was the rallying cry of dot-com lunatics buying companies with no revenue in 1999. It was the intellectual foundation of housing perma-bulls in 2006 who believed home prices could only go up because, apparently, […]

China Tries To Assert Dominance Over Canada After Carney Trade Deal Historically speaking, crawling to communists for help has never been a good idea; there’s always a catch.  By extension, making trade deals with China and the CCP from a position of weakness usually ends with diplomatic concessions instead of mere economic concessions.  That is to say, the Chinese are less interested in economic benefits, and more interested in […]

Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized In Critical Condition Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical condition, according to The New York Times, citing his spokesman, Ted Goodman. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,” Goodman said, before asking “that you join us in prayer” for […]

Jane Street Paid Employees $9.4 Billion, Twice What It Paid Last Year, After Record 2025 Results Jane Street Group has evolved from a niche trading shop into one of Wall Street’s most profitable firms and employees are reaping the rewards. The firm paid roughly $9.4 billion in compensation last year, more than twice what it distributed a year earlier, according to Bloomberg. On average, that translated to about $2.7 million per […]

GameStop CEO Prepares Takeover Bid For eBay Update: GameStop – the meme stonk that also happens to sell video games, is making an unsolicited offer to buy Ebay for around $56 billion, and already has a commitment letter from TD Bank to provide $20 billion in debt financing to help make it happen, the Wall Street Journal reports.  Late last month, eBay reported strong first-quarter results. Anna Webber/Getty Images for Teen […]

JetBlue Moves Fast To Turn A Spirit Collapse Into A Masterclass Growth Opportunity Summary: JetBlue Moves Quickly To Expand Market Share  Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Comments on Spirit’s Demise Airlines For America CEO Chris Sununu Blasts Democrats For Spirit’s Death Spiral Duffy Pledges Relief For Customers, Workers Spirit Airlines Is Dead, Flights Canceled JetBlue Makes Ultimate Power Move  Mike Netter, […]

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hospitalized In Critical Condition Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Iranian human rights activist, remains in critical condition in a hospital in Zanjan, northwestern Iran, after collapsing in prison last week with severe cardiac distress. She was transferred by ambulance to the local hospital’s coronary care unit on Friday, May 1, 2026, following repeated […]

Democrats Melt Down After Supreme Court Restricts Race Based Gerrymandering The response from Democrats to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-based gerrymandering has been predictable – running high in emotion and devoid of objectivity.  The Democrat Party has understood for a long time that much of their power comes from inserting themselves as the spokespeople for the supposed “have-nots”.  Racial hysteria being a […]

CNN ‘Expert’ Says Iranian Suicide Dolphins Going After US Ships Americans have been subject to a variety of creative wartime propaganda claims by their government stretching back many decades. From the ‘incubator babies’ hoax of the first Iraq war, to hyping ‘mushroom clouds’ over US cities during the 2nd Iraq War, to Gaddafi ‘mass rape’ allegations through distributing Viagra pills to Libyan troops – there seems to be no end to […]

Bessent On Iran: “We Are Suffocating The Regime” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss how the Trump administration is “suffocating” Iran with economic and financial pressure amid an ongoing U.S. military blockade of the Hormuz chokepoint. “We are running a marathon over the past 12 months, and now we are sprinting toward the finish line”” Bessent told Bartiromo […]

Congrats, Elizabeth Warren, On The Death Of Spirit Airlines Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Elizabeth Warren has built an entire political career on presenting herself as the righteous defender of ordinary Americans against powerful corporations. Every speech is some variation of the same script: she’s fighting for workers, fighting for consumers, fighting for families, and standing up to greedy executives and monopolistic […]

Large Cargo Ship Near Hormuz Reports Being Attacked, In First Escalation Since April 22 A large cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz has reported being attacked by multiple small craft, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said Sunday, marking at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began. All crew on the unidentified northbound carrier, which could be the […]

‘Bluesky Goes Full Panic’ After Fired Trump Official’s Anti-ICE Website Doxxes Almost 18,000 Leftists Nearly 18,000 left-wing activists on BlueSky are in panic mode this weekend after an anti-ICE activist website launched by a fired Trump official exposed their personal details due to a vulnerable connection (an unprotected API). The website – “GTFO ICE” – was created by former DHS Chief of Staff and Google security executive, […]

Contempt Of Court: Hakeem Jeffries Denounces the Supreme Court As “Illegitimate” Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais took 36 pages to explain why Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is about combating intentional racial discrimination, not allowing racial gerrymandering. However, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrapped it up in one word: “illegitimate.” Jeffries was […]

Big Tech Is Funding Space Solar And Fusion While Running On Gas Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, Meta signed a deal with startup Overview Energy to develop up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power, though a pilot satellite won’t launch until 2028 at the earliest — and commercial viability remains years away. Despite clean energy ambitions, Big Tech is still heavily dependent on natural gas: Meta is funding 10 […]

Will Black Voters Rescue The GOP In 2026? The Republican Party is bracing for a brutal midterm election this year. Polls show Democrats ahead in the generic congressional ballot, and prediction markets give them solid odds of taking the House and a modest chance of flipping the Senate. But despite polls and prediction markets, there are signs that the GOP could defy history. And it comes down to black voters. Could black voters […]

Trump Announces “Project Freedom” To Help Ships Leave Hormuz Starting Monday Update: (6:30pm ET):  It appears that Trump’s Operation Freedom is just the latest jawboning nothingburger. As the WSJ explains, Project Freedom “is a process through which countries, insurance companies and shipping organizations can coordinate moving traffic through the Strait, according to a senior U.S. official. It doesn’t currently involve U.S. Navy […]

The Left’s Reaction To Arrest Of The Latest UK Stabbing Is As Predictable As It Is Disgraceful Authored by Paul Birch via DailySceptic.org, These people have never been in a life-or-death situation like the arresting officers One would think that even when the police successfully detain a suspect who was alleged to have been conducting a marauding knife attack, the professional activists would have a day off. But you would be […]

Visualizing Europe’s Birth-Rate Collapse Europe’s population is no longer replacing itself. Across the continent, fertility rates have fallen below the 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain stable population levels, with no country meeting that threshold as of 2024. The map below, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, shows the number of live births per woman across Europe using the most recent data from Eurostat, FRED, […]

UK Schools Pushing Books On Kids Telling Them “There’s Plenty Of Room” For Small Boat Migrants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, British kids as young as five are now being read picture books that paint small boat crossings in glowing terms and urge them to open the door to unlimited migration.   While record numbers of illegal arrivals strain housing, schools and public services, left-wing charities are using […]

Ukraine Flexes With Much Deeper Drone Reach Targeting Russia’s Refineries  Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack this week, resulting in significant destruction. This as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday announced “a new stage in the use of Ukrainian weapons to limit the potential of Russia’s war.” Satellite image of Perm attack […]

60% Of Voters Believe France Is Witnessing ‘A Replacement Of The Population By Non-Europeans’ Via Remix News, A new poll from the presitigous ifop polling firm shows that a large majority of French citizens believe in a core tenent of the Great Replacement. Specifically, 60 percent of French people told ifop they believe we are witnessing “a replacement of the French population by non-European populations, mainly from the […]

Alliance Fracture Is Now Global Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, Western focus was, in 2026, on whether U.S. President Donald Trump would fulfill his threat to withdraw the United States from NATO. Eastern and Southern focus was on whether the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS alliance were even functioning. In the U.S.–NATO standoff, it may take more complex political maneuvering for Trump to […]