Oklo Lands DOE Plutonium Deal To Turn Surplus Material Into Bridge Fuel Oklo just secured a direct path to turn Cold War-era plutonium into fuel for its advanced reactors.   The Department of Energy selected Oklo for advanced negotiations under the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program, one of five companies chosen to convert existing stockpiles into usable fuel under strict security and safeguards rules. The move gives Oklo a […]

The Demonization Of Men (And Everyone Else Too) Authored by Thomas Harrington via The Brownstone Institute, Imagine the following message in a public space:  Caution: Area of Frequent Attempts at Reputational Destruction by Females I have never seen a sign bearing the above message in any public space, nor do I want to. Similarly, I have never seen a sign near a heavily African American neighborhood that says, “Caution, […]

Second Chinese ‘Combat’ Patrol Buzzes Taiwan Within Days, On Heels Of Xi-Trump Summit In the wake of this month’s Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, and as a ‘paused’ but still looming major US-approved weapons deal and transfer to Taipei is set to go forward, China is stepping up military patrols near and around the self-ruled island of Taiwan. Taiwan’s military is currently on high alert, having on Tuesday dispatched ships and fighter […]

‘Giant Turd’: Progressive Dems Continue To Rage At DNC 2024 Autopsy Authored by Corbin Trent via Common Dreams This past week the DNC released its autopsy of the 2024 election. DNC chair Ken Martin sat on it for months, assured us there was no smoking gun, promised he’d already been sharing the lessons, and then finally dropped the 48,000 words on a Thursday with a note on the front saying the findings don’t reflect the […]

Condo Prices Already Dropped By Up To 33% In 24 Bigger Markets Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street, The price drops are getting relentlessly steeper: In 24 bigger markets, prices of mid-tier condos through April have dropped by 15% to 33% from their respective peaks between 2021 and 2024. Each of the markets is shown in a chart below: 24 mindboggling charts, depicting breath-taking price explosions, especially from mid-2020 […]

Hezbollah Chief Naim Qassem Targeted Twice In Recent Israeli Assassination Ops The single biggest, and most historic development out of Lebanon in recent years was the Israeli assassination of longtime Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, 2024, via massive bunker-busting airstrikes on his underground location in south Beirut. Since then, Hezbollah’s leadership has been greatly degraded, also given the […]

Does Demand Create Supply? Authored by Frank Shostak via Mises Institute, By popular thinking, increases in demand cause economic growth. According to such thought, whenever the economy falls into a recession what is required is to strengthen demand. Since government is seen as an important part of total demand, what is then required is to increase government outlays, thereby lifting overall demand and hence increasing economic […]

Homeowners Face Eminent Domain Bulldozers As Data Centers Demand Ever More Power Georgia Power isn’t negotiating anymore. The Southern Company subsidiary is seizing dozens of homes and hundreds of easements across Coweta and Fayette counties to ram through a 35-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line that will feed at least four massive AI data centers. Project Wansley is just the latest flashpoint in a backlash that has been […]

Showcase Of Socialism: New York, Europe, And The Rise Of The New Left Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Supporters of bourgeois-conservative or libertarian politics have had little reason to celebrate over the past decades. One could also say that the interim balance sheet of the 21st century will go down in history as a complete failure for patriots, sovereigntists, and friends of liberty. The sparks of hope remain largely confined to a […]

Hasan Piker Says Quiet Part Out Loud, Maps Radical Left NGO Network To China-Based Marxist Financier Far-left Turkish-American millionaire and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker appears to have committed an operational-security mistake by publicly identifying American Marxist tech financier Neville Roy Singham, who has reportedly been living in China and has been linked by The New York Times to CCP-aligned propaganda networks, as a major […]

Iraq’s Oil Collapse Sparks Race For New Export Routes Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Iraq’s oil production has collapsed to just 1.39 million bpd after the Strait of Hormuz blockade stranded exports. Baghdad is urgently trying to revive northern export routes through Turkey, including the Kirkuk-Ceyhan system and a new Kirkuk-Nineveh pipeline. China is re-emerging as a major strategic player in Iraq’s […]

Reuters Peddles Fake News After Defense Contractor Misuses Civilian Starlink Terminals Reuters dropped another misleading article today – this time attempting to manufacture drama between the Pentagon and SpaceX over Starlink usage during the Iran conflict. The story framed routine commercial contract discussions and terms-of-service enforcement as major “tensions” and growing Pentagon reliance giving Elon Musk undue leverage. […]

Defending The Fourth Amendment To Protect Gun Owners Authored by John Velleco via Gun Owners of America, All gun owners fully understand the vital importance of preserving the Second Amendment. But right behind that Constitutional Amendment in importance is the need to uphold the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. After all, without robust Fourth Amendment rights, we will never have much […]

Lavrov Warns Rubio: Get Diplomats & Americans Out Of Kiev Ahead Of ‘Systematic Strikes’ Russia has again warned Washington to evacuate embassy staff in Kiev as it prepares to launch “systematic strikes” against the Ukrainian capital, in apparent retribution for last week’s deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Starobelsk, in Russian-controlled Luhansk Oblast. It is further and more broadly warning all foreign […]

NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Housing Plan Sparks Property-Rights Alarm Over Forced Transfers To Nonprofits Mamdani Releases “Block by Block: The Housing Plan for A New Era” NYC socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani released “Block by Block: The Housing Plan for a New Era,” which presents a sweeping, deeply troubling blueprint to tackle the metro area’s deepening housing crisis. Mamdani told the crowd: When necessary, we will take aggressive […]

Elon Musk Welcomes American Airlines To The Starlink Family American Airlines shares jumped on Tuesday after the carrier announced a sweeping modernization of its narrow-body in-flight experience, with plans to install Starlink satellite internet terminals across 500 of its narrow-body jets in Q1 2027. The modernization effort signals the end of slow, unreliable internet for a large portion of American’s domestic and short-haul […]

Can Spencer Pratt Win? Authored by Mike McDaniel Via AmericanThinker.com, The Los Angeles mayoral race provides illuminates Democrat party thinking. There is non-politician, normal American Spencer Pratt running against Communist, Castro-admiring, current Mayor and black woman, Karen Bass, and Indian – the country – woman, and LA Council member, Nithya Raman. Graphic: X Post The only debate thus far was a self-inflicted […]

Private Equity To Be Blocked From Buying Homes? Authored by Matt Stoller via BIG, Based on a vote last week, it seems very likely Congress will ban corporate ownership of most existing single family homes. “People live in homes,” said Trump in January. “Not corporations.” While Trump has sometimes talked a big game on constraining Wall Street, he generally hasn’t followed through. In this case, though, he did. And somehow, a very […]

Mediocre 2Y Auction Prices At Highest Yield Since Feb 2025 With Treasury yields sliding 4 days in a row, today’s 2Y auction was not seen as especially concerning (certainly not as much as a week ago, when the 10Y was knocking on 4.70%’s door, vs 4.50% where it trades today). Still, while the auction did have it strong sides, it was hardly stellar. Starting at the top, the $69BN sale of 2Y paper priced at a high yield of 4.071%, up […]

Strait Talk By Michael Every of Rabobank Strait Talk Despite many false dawns, markets remain upbeat on prospects for peace between the United States and Iran. Secretary of State Rubio indicated that the US side had thought it would have something to announce on Sunday night, or “maybe today” given that the Sunday deadline has now passed, and it is actually Tuesday. Striking a more cautionary tone, Iranian President Pezeshkian […]

Iran Vows ‘Swift, Decisive’ Revenge After Overnight US Port Attack, As Sides Seek Deal Allowing Each To ‘Sell Their Narrative’ Summary CENTCOM denies that US Navy has officially restarted guiding ships through Hormuz Strait amid fresh tanker explosion and fuel leak incident. IRGC says its military shot down an MQ-9 drone and forced an F-35 jet out of Iranian airspace. Tehran formally accuses Washington of “ceasefire violation” […]

“Warning Signs Flashing Red”: Ebola Outbreak Spreading Faster Than Response, Aid Group Says Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Ebola outbreak in Africa could become the deadliest in history because it is spreading faster than responders can deal with it, an aid group said on May 26. Officials failed to initially detect the outbreak due to a lack of testing sufficient to identify the Bundibugyo virus, a rarer […]

Why Oil Markets Could Face A Generational Shock This Summer If US-Iran Talks Fail President Trump is signaling “make a good deal” or walk away with no deal at all. Overnight hostilities around the Hormuz maritime chokepoint highlight just how fragile the ceasefire remains as Washington and Tehran try to solidify a peace deal to end the conflict. The timing of a peace deal is very important because, as we have warned readers, a […]

The Fed Should Be Concerned: Job Market Vibes Vs Data Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, The Job Market – Vibes vs Data It seems like we are on the cusp of an agreement with Iran. We will help analyze the market implications in a SITREP if and when the details are released. In the meantime, the one question that seems to puzzle everyone, is what is the state of the job market? Yes, there are all sorts of […]

NANO Nuclear Soars As It Turns Revenue-Generating With Strategic Acquisition NANO Nuclear announced the acquisition of Secured Transportation Services, instantly converting itself from a pre-revenue developer into a revenue-generating business with in-house secure transport capabilities for nuclear materials. With the $13 million acquisition of Secured Transportation Services – a nuclear logistics, transportation and services […]