USPS Proposes Halting Mail Ballot Delivery To States That Refuse Voter Roll Verification Via American Greatness, The US Postal Service (USPS) has proposed a new rule requiring states to share voter information related to mail-in and absentee voting. The proposal follows a March executive order from Trump aimed at tightening regulations governing mail-in voting in federal elections. Trump has made election integrity a central […]

After SpaceX IPO, Jefferies Lays Out Five Takeaways For Space Boom Into 2030s Friday’s SpaceX IPO will be a defining moment not only for capital markets but also for the booming space industry and Elon Musk’s broader industrial empire, which has catapulted America to the lead in the space race against Communist China and Russia. Ahead of the four-times-oversubscribed SpaceX IPO, we explained to readers how to profit from the […]

ActBlue CEO Pleads The Fifth During House Panel Hearing Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invoked the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday before the House Administration Committee, surrounding reports that she may have misled Congress about how the platform vets foreign donations. The U.S. Capitol building on June 9, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Wallace-Jones had […]

Iran Is ‘Finished’: Trump Vows ‘Bigger, More Powerful’ Bombing Tonight After Tehran Declared Ceasefire ‘Meaningless’ Summary Trump follows with mention of “bigger, more powerful” bombing of Iran tonight. He pledged “they’re finished”. Trump announces intent to hit the Iranians “VERY HARD TONIGHT”. Iran Foreign Ministry: US attacks “rendered the ceasefire dated April 8, 2026 effectively meaningless” Third commercial vessel […]

Bessent Pulls Trigger On Using Frozen Funds To Reimburse Gulf Allies: ‘Iran Will Pay’ US Treasury Secretary Bessent announced on X Thursday morning that Washington is moving forward on a plan to compensate America’s Gulf regional allies for damage sustained during Iranian counterattacks on their energy and civic infrastructure. He made clear that any damage to Gulf allies would be paid for with frozen Iranian funds, which Tehran […]

War And Piece By Michael Every of Rabobank Sorry, Bank of Canada (rates held at 2.25%), Chinese CPI and PPI (1.2% and 3.9% y-o-y headline) US CPI (0.5% m-o-m and 4.2% y-o-y headline, 0.2% and 2.9% core), and the ECB today: you all matter but are just pieces of the global picture one now needs to finish: the war vs. Iran. Changing the recent pattern, President Trump said he would strike Iran again today and did. At time of writing, […]

Iran Threatens Elon Musk’s Gulf-Area Starlink Ground Stations In Suspicious Timing Ahead Of SpaceX IPO Summary: Iran Threatens Musk’s Starlink Ground Bases In Gulf Area Ahead Of IPO   Massive SpaceX IPO Demand Coming From Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds IranIntlbrk is the X handle for Iran International’s breaking-news account and cites Tehran-aligned Fars News Agency, stating that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has […]

AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers “Drastic Price Cuts” In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers Earlier today, in a report discussing how “AI bills are out of control”, JPMorgan tech guru and TMT salesman, Mark Schilsky wrote that “most of my high level investor discussions focus on one major topic: when will the party end? Put another way, tech investors have made so much money in Semis so quickly that they are looking for potential […]

US Initial Jobless Claims Jump To 4-Month-Highs The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time jumped to 229k last week (more than the 220k expected) and the highest in four months… Source: Bloomberg Pennsylvania, California, and Minnesota are the states seeing the largest rise in claims last week… Continuing jobless claims also rose last week to 1.795mm Americans – highest in two months, but […]

Bill Gates Tells Congress That Epstein Exploited Knowledge Of His Adultery Microsoft founder and mega-billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told Congress that Jeffrey Epstein exploited knowledge of Gates’ multiple marital infidelities. Gates insists, however, that he committed no crimes and that the women he had adulterous sexual relations with were not associated with Epstein. Nonetheless, Gates’ highlighting of Epstein’s […]

Core Producer Prices Cooler Than Expected In April, Goods Costs Jump Most On Record After yesterday’s mixed bag from consumer prices (headline in-line but core cooler than expected and goods deflating), US Producer Prices were expected to keep accelerating higher (on a YoY basis) in May and they did… by more than expected. Headline PPI rose 1.1% MoM in May (much hotter than the 0.7% MoM exp) but April’s 1.4% MoM rise was revised […]

ECB Hikes Rates For First Time Since 2023 (As Expected); Cuts Growth, Hikes Inflation Outlook As fully expected, The ECB hiked its key rate by 25bps (for the first time since 2023) as the policymakers battle with the dilemma of economic weakness combined with rising inflation. Obviously, raising rates to dampen inflation could further slow the economy, while easing rates to support growth increases the risk that higher inflation […]

Futures Rise, Oil Drops As US Ends Iran Strikes US equity futures are higher led by tech and small caps, with traders buying the dip in stocks as a swift conclusion to the latest round of US strikes against Iran raised expectations that talks over a peace deal and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will get back on track. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures rise 0.7% to recover from a five-week low after Trump forewarned Iran would […]

A Small Win For Free Speech In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, South Wales Police has shelved plans to record instances of “anti-Muslim hostility” that strayed beyond what officers considered “legitimate” discussion of Islam. The force paused the policy after the Free Speech Union threatened judicial review and Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho referred it to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Critics […]

ECB Preview: First Rate Hike Since 2023 Markets expect the ECB to hike by 25bps, the first rate hike since 2023, but do not look for explicit guidance on the path ahead, with the Council likely pledging in the statement to set monetary policy in a data-dependent and meeting-by-meeting fashion. Lagarde is likely to highlight that tightening is appropriate, for example, by repeating that the energy shock requires “some measured […]

Strategy (MSTR) CEO Says Bitcoin Sale Was About Market ‘Inoculation’, Not A Retreat Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Strategy Inc. CEO Phong Le somewhat pushed back Tuesday against the wave of criticism that followed the company’s first Bitcoin sale since 2022, telling CNBC’s Power Lunch that the move was a deliberate, limited exercise designed to signal operational flexibility — not a philosophical […]

Alcoa Plunges Most In Year After CFO Warns Alumina Unit “Will Be Underwater” Amid Hormuz Disruption Alcoa shares in New York were hammered the most in over a year on Wednesday after CFO Molly Beerman warned investors that the company’s alumina segment faces heavy losses from the energy shock and ongoing disruption at the Hormuz maritime chokepoint. Beerman was blunt with investors while giving a presentation at the Wells Fargo […]

UK Plans To Jail Tech CEOs Who Refuse To Spy On Every Phone Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, New measures would compel client-side inspection of every photo, video and message on devices, escalating the digital ID lockdown already plotted for British smartphones in coordination with major technology firms. Privacy advocates warn the “child safety” framing masks a broader drive to turn personal phones into mandatory […]

First Major Weather Organization Declares El Nino Onset As Food Inflation Risks Intensify For months, we have warned readers that the probability of El Niño formation was rising, with downstream risks across critical agricultural growing belts. That forecast has now moved from a risk scenario to reality, as the first major weather body has formally declared the onset of this warming pattern in the equatorial Pacific, threatening […]

Trump Says ‘We’ll Bomb The Sh*t Out Of Them’ Tomorrow Too If No Deal,  After Dozens Of Tomahawks Hit Iran Summary Trump to FOX: ‘We’ll bomb the shit out of them tomorrow night.'” The president declared “we’ll bomb them to rubble” again tomorrow night if there is no deal by then. US says strikes completed tonight. The IRGC is claiming to have struck 18 US military targets in two waves – including attack on Bahrain’s US Fifth […]

Germany’s Big LNG Deal With Canada May Never Deliver A Single Cargo Authored by Andrew Topf via OilPrice.com, Germany has signed long-term LNG offtake agreements with Canada’s Ksi Lisims project, seeking energy security and supply diversification amid heightened geopolitical risks. Despite the deals, Canadian LNG may never physically reach Germany due to geography, shipping economics, and the lack of Atlantic Coast export […]

EU Plans €100 Billion Project To Bring African Sunlight To Power Europe’s Electric Revolution The European Union, which has been starved for cheap energy since the start of the Ukraine war, is betting that the future of its energy system lies under the North African sun. On Tuesday, the European Commission pledged €5 billion of EU money to renewables projects in North Africa and the Middle East, which could feed electricity […]

Merkel Receives The First European Order Of Merit Award, Repeats Call For Crackdown On Free Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, The European Union recently announced the first recipients of its new European Order of Merit, the organization’s highest award. The headliner was Angela Merkel, former Federal Chancellor of Germany, who indeed personifies the European Union for both her fans and her critics. For many years, some of us […]

Poland Won’t Stand In The Way Of Ukraine’s EU Bid, Despite Relations Hitting Rock Bottom Poland will not obstruct the commencement of negotiations regarding Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, but Warsaw remains firmly opposed to granting any preferential treatment to Kyiv, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told journalists. Relations between the two Eastern European allies have reached crisis-mode of late, […]

After Horrific Belfast Migrant Knife Attack, U.K. Officials Think The Problem Is X Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker, Northern Ireland went up in flames as angry Irish mobs rioted in the streets and burned down publicly funded migrant housing complexes last night. The spark that set it off was a migrant who tried to behead a resident. This is the attack in living color, which was posted on X: Tekijä: Hadi […]