Los Angeles Mayoral Candidates Spar Over Response To Rise In Homelessness Authored by City News Service via The Epoch Times, Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger in the Nov. 3 election, Councilmember Nithya Raman, criticized one another on July 24 over the increase in homelessness in Los Angeles. Homeless tents are seen in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles on June 11, 2026. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images Homelessness […]

Mitch McConnell Pokes Head Out Of Shell With New ‘Proof Of Life’ Pic From Rehab Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday ‘said’ he’s undergoing physical therapy, but that he hasn’t been medically cleared to leave rehab after being admitted to the hospital after his June 14 fall.  “I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ […]

YouTube, Instagram, And The Future Of Ministry Authored by Van Mylar via RealClearReligion, Meta is testing Instagram on television. Pinterest has acquired a connected-TV ad-buying platform. Social media content is becoming one of the most-watched video types on American television. And YouTube is leading the way, with tens of millions of Americans now watching YouTube on the biggest screen in the house. YouTube’s move into […]

Putin Admits Escalation: Enemies Unable To Defeat Russia On Battlefield, Resort To ‘Open Terrorism’ This month has witnessed a string of major Wildberries warehouses and logistics hubs go up in flames due to wave after wave of Ukrainian drones strikes. The Russian online retailer, which is by far the largest and widely deemed the ‘Russian Amazon’ – is bracing for likely more attacks to come. Ukraine’s long-range drones strikes have […]

Renewables ‘Can’t Keep Up’ With Data Center Pace. As Usual, The Left Wants Government To Step In… Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, The political left is worried that the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S. – a controversial but necessary development considering our competition with China – is increasingly accompanied by the corresponding construction of stand-alone natural gas plants to provide […]

Court Rules Illinois’ In-State Tuition Benefits For Illegals ‘Unconstitutional And Invalid’ Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A federal court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in a lawsuit challenging Illinois’ laws that offered education benefits to illegal immigrants while denying the same for out-of-state Americans. In a July 24 order, the District Court for the Southern District of Illinois […]

Cracker Barrel Dumps CEO After Woke Logo Fiasco Shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have yet to fully recover from outgoing CEO Julie Masino’s brief “woke” rebranding effort last year. The family-dining chain quickly restored its iconic “Old Country Store” logo and nostalgic aesthetic. Still, the failed overhaul now appears to have cost Masino her job after exposing a serious failure of brand stewardship. The Cracker Barrel […]

Will The “Fat Lady” Finally Sing For Fauci? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The Fauci diary is amazing. He monologues like a Scooby Doo villain.” – El Gato Malo on “X” Remember Covid-19? Seems like long ago in a world that time forgot. Well, you get to revisit the whole sketchy business on Wednesday, July, 29, when Dr. Anthony Fauci is called to testify about it to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]

BMO Says Return Of Mexican Cattle Is “Clear Positive” For Two Beaten-Down Meatpackers Following the USDA’s announcement that it will begin lifting the year-long ban on Mexican live cattle imports on Aug. 24, BMO Capital Markets senior equity research analyst Andrew Strelzik called the decision a “key positive” for publicly traded meatpackers Tyson Foods and JBS. The restrictions were imposed to combat the New World screwworm, a […]

BofA Downplays China’s DUV Tool Production Report, Sees Only “Modest Threat” To ASML ASML Holding NV shares in Amsterdam suffered their steepest decline in more than a year, breaking below the crucial 50-day moving average after The Information reported that a Chinese state-backed company had begun producing immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines. The Information did not cite the Shanghai-based company that plans […]

US Treasury Sells $139BN In Two Polar Opposite Auctions: A Stellar 2Y And A Dismal 5Y Ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC decision (where according to SOFR futures, the odds of a rate hike are a significant 38%, even as most traders expect no action by the Fed), we had the week’s first two coupon auctions take place according to an abbreviated schedule, with the sale of $69BN in 2Y notes taking place at 11:30am, followed by $70BN in 5Y notes. […]

Flashback: Fauci Funded Technique To Hide Evidence Of Genetic Engineering According To RFK Jr. Four years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an accusation that got him shadowbanned, “fact-checked,” and dismissed as a crank: that Anthony Fauci’s NIAID had bankrolled the development of a laboratory technique whose primary utility was erasing the fingerprints of human engineering from a manipulated virus – and that the technique was then […]

Mapping SpaceX’s Lockup Expirations: HSBC Calculates When The Shares Could Hit The Market As of early Monday cash trading in New York, SpaceX shares were hovering near an all-time low of $110.21 after briefly dipping into the $108 handle. The rocket/AI company bonds have also come under pressure, leaving investors searching for signs of where the post-IPO selloff might finally find a proper floor. SPCX LOD (and all time low) […]

Gold Isn’t Returning… Confidence Is Leaving Authored by Mark St.Cyr via AmericanThinker.com, Most people are framing the conversation regarding gold wrong. They talk about gold making a comeback — as though the metal changed. As though something happened to gold. Nothing happened to gold. Gold is exactly what it has always been. What’s changed is the environment around it. And that distinction matters enormously, because […]

The Upcoming AI Spend Slowdown? Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities We have been attacking this issue orthogonally for the past few weeks. Last weekend’s Cheap China Compute brought up several issues facing the AI Spend. On Thursday we published Braggawatts (which should probably be BragCompute or something), but the concept is that a lot of the announced deals are missing some, or all of the following: […]

Deep State In “Fight To The Death” To Defend Voter Fraud Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Journalist Alex Newman is an expert on the so-called Deep State.  He is the author of the longtime popular book “Deep State” and, most recently, “Deep State 2.0.”  The Deep State is not a conspiracy theory.  It is a conspiracy fact.  This year, the Deep State will be going to war with the Trump Administration to hold […]

BlackRock Says Crypto Can Outrun The Quantum Threat… If It Moves Fast Enough Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com, BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has chimed in on the crypto-quantum debate – and is surprisingly optimistic. The firm, which manages over $15 trillion in assets, said in its new report, Quantum Computing and Blockchains, that upgrading existing cryptography to quantum-resistant […]

Trump Ready For ‘Strong Military Action’ If Talks Fail, With Saudi Aramco Under Houthi Fire Summary Trump pauses strikes: Trump said the US paused attacks to give diplomacy a chance but warned military action will resume if talks fail. Iran denies that it pushed for talks: Tehran denied any direct negotiations with Washington, while saying its response remains “attack for attack.” Saudi Aramco targeted: Houthis claimed fresh […]

‘I Almost Cried’ – Documentary Video Trove Shows Lindsey Graham’s Joy At Start Of Iran War Batches of previously unreleased documentary footage give a behind-the-scenes look at the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s work to maneuver the United States into military conflicts on behalf of Israel, and the sheer joy he exuded when President Trump finally brought Graham’s long-held dreams of an all-out war on Iran to fruition.   The video […]

Key Events This Busy Week: FOMC, PCE, GDP, War On/War Off… And Earnings Galore Before we look at the week ahead, a quick look at the main event that defines the market this Monday morning: after 13 consecutive nights of US strikes aimed at degrading Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping, Washington has refrained from further attacks since late Friday, while Tehran has publicly stated that it has also suspended […]

Massive Relax By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Oil futures are being offered this morning after President Trump on Friday declined to continue strikes on Iran. The ‘pause’ was extended over the weekend and reciprocated by the Iranians, marking the first ‘cease’ of the ceasefire in almost a fortnight. According to Axios, Donald Trump’s advisors had provided the President with attack plans for the […]

Shootout Erupts At Seattle Festival, Killing 3; Second Gunman On The Run Seattle police are searching for a second suspect after two gunmen allegedly exchanged fire inside the crowded Bite of Seattle festival beneath the Space Needle, killing three people and wounding four others, including a 2-year-old boy. BREAKING: 2 killed, 5 injured in shooting at Seattle Center, Washington pic.twitter.com/MPaA3lzO7W — Rapid Report […]

Deutsche Bank Says Starship Flight 13 Made “Solid Progress” Despite Booster Setback Following last month’s record-setting IPO, SpaceX shares have plunged 50% from their peak and now trade about 15% below the $135 offering price. The post-IPO euphoria has faded, stripping Elon Musk of his trillionaire status – at least for now. On Friday evening, SpaceX launched Starship on its 13th test flight and successfully deployed 20 […]

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Order In 23 Democrat-Led States, Setting Up SCOTUS Fight Via American Greatness, A federal appeals court sided with 23 Democrat-led states and blocked the Trump administration from enforcing key pieces of the president’s election integrity order, setting up a likely showdown at the Supreme Court just months before the midterms. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to deny […]

Trump Accounts Are Now Open: What Parents And Grandparents Need To Know Before Contributing Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times, As of July 4, 2026, money can officially flow into Trump accounts, the new child savings vehicle created by last year’s tax law. rblfmr/shutterstock Millions of families have already signed up, and millions more are asking the same practical questions: does my child qualify, how do I claim […]