US Military Races To Harden Strategic Nuclear Bases With Counter-Drone AI Shield Defense company AeroVironment has won an $80.5 million order from the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 for its Titan MS counter-drone system, expanding the Department of War’s efforts to secure critical defense infrastructure and other homeland sites from AI drone swarm attacks. The award falls under a previously announced $500 million sole-source […]

US Navy Backs 3,800 MPH-Speeding Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile With First Contract Authored by Sujita Sinha via Interesting Engineering, The U.S. Navy has awarded defense technology startup Castelion its first production contract for the Blackbeard hypersonic missile. This $23.4 million deal includes 50 pre-production missiles and shows the Navy is ready to move the program past development and testing. The U.S. Navy awarded […]

Leaked Memo Shows ‘Pro-Cuba’ NGO Network Preparing To Target ICE, US Bases, Federal Buildings Independent Cuban news outlet ADN Cuba has revealed that a US-based Cuba solidarity coalition circulated a memo instructing far-left activists to prepare rapid-response protests at US federal buildings, military bases, recruitment centers, and ICE facilities in the event of a military confrontation between the US military and the communist […]

James Talarico Says He Supports The Second Amendment – His Record Says Otherwise Authored by Leigh Gibson, Texas State Director – Gun Owners of America, The Second Amendment protects more than the right to own a firearm. It protects the natural right of every law-abiding American to defend themselves and their family. But it also serves a broader purpose: preserving the liberty of a free people by ensuring that ultimate power […]

Iran Hits Back, Launching Missiles On Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar – Ignoring Trump’s Warning Of “Much Worse” Bombing Summary Iran retaliates: air defenses reportedly active over Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait. Trump threatens “it will get much worse” after Wednesday night US attack wave commences along Iran’s coast. Trump tells NATO summit that Iran wants to assassinate him: “on every single one of their list.” Iran threatens to reclose the […]

Current State Of Physical AI: Everything You Need To Know Citi’s Robotics & Physical AI Leadership Conference wrapped up on Tuesday. The annual Citi Research event brings together robotics founders, investors, operators, and industry executives to assess the state of “physical AI.” Analyst Heath Terry summarized the key takeaways Wednesday morning, painting a picture of the robotics industry moving from proof of concept to […]

“We’re Gonna Win Someday”: Graham Platner Suspends His Senate Campaign Update: Graham Platner, the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, announced Wednesday that he’s suspending his campaign. The move comes two days after Politico reported allegations of rape against him by a former girlfriend. He posted an emotional video explaining his decision. “And I just want to make it clear this is all false,” Platner said. […]

Canada Considered Suing Citizens Over “False And Misleading” Social Media Posts Authored by Cindy Harper via ReclaimTheNet.org, The Canadian government drew up a plan to take individual citizens to court over what they post online. That plan sat inside a 35-page internal memo from the Department of Industry, most of it blacked out before the public could see it. Blacklock’s Reporter pried the document loose through an Access to […]

Nuclear Power Capacity To Jump 44% By 2036 As China Surpasses US Global nuclear capacity is set to surge by 44% over the next decade as China topples the United States as the biggest nuclear power capacity holder and India will hike its capacity to boost energy security. These are the estimates in a new report by BloombergNEF, which sees total global nuclear capacity at 535 gigawatts (GW) by 2036, up from the 372 GW of installed […]

DOJ Warns State Election Officials Can Be Charged Over Noncitizen Voting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent letters to election officials across the country, warning them that they could be charged if they let noncitizens receive ballots or vote in elections. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in […]

Watch: Fireworks At UN As Cuba Disrupts US Ambassador’s Speech: “You’re A Liar, Mr Waltz!” A UN General Assembly this week devolved into a high-charged shouting match amid procedural disruptions and chaos, after US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told the global forum on Tuesday that there is no American blockade on Cuba. Havana didn’t take the bait quietly, given Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez immediately shot back at […]

“It’s Some Bullsh*t”: Green River, Wyoming Considered License Plate Readers To “Protect Against Terrorist Attacks” Green River officials are weighing whether to accept a $111,956 federal grant to install automatic license plate readers at key entrances to the city, a proposal that has sparked backlash from some residents over privacy and government surveillance, according to Cowboy State Daily. The grant, funded through the United […]

Berkeley Gives Back Corn, Peas, & Seeds To Tribes As Protected Items Of “Cultural Patronage” Authored by Jonathan Turley, The University of California (Berkeley) has ordered the return of new displays to native American tribes under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act  (NAGPRA). That is hardly news except that the items were not human remains or relics, but corn, corn cobs, peas, beans, and other […]

Modular Reactors To Solve Data Center Hysteria? For the nuclear energy nerds, last night Erik Townsend joined ZH to host a panel with the founders of modular nuclear reactor startup Aalo Atomics, Matt Loszak and Yasir Arafat.  Townsend is a committed nuclear energy bull and has invested in many nuclear energy startups, his largest allocation being Aalo, a company that hopes to pump out small modular reactors on a mass scale to […]

Dear Trump: Time To Flood America’s Weigh Stations With ICE And CBP Agents Submitted by American Truckers United, We, the truckers who keep America moving, have had enough.  An analysis of crash data and English proficiency violations reveals that drivers from just a handful of states are largely responsible for the epidemic of illegal alien truck and bus drivers terrorizing our highways. These preventable tragedies must end […]

Waymo Robotaxi “Snitches” On Two 15-Year-Olds Drinking & Shooting Orbeez Guns In Bay Area Two 15-year-old boys were detained in San Mateo Monday afternoon after the Waymo robotaxi they were riding in reported them to police – for drinking alcohol and firing a gel-bead blaster out of the moving car – then pulled itself over so officers could collect them. Waymo’s remote monitors spotted the behavior on the vehicle’s interior […]

Some College Students Are Testing At The Level Of 10-Year-Olds Via Futurism, Are you smarter than a 4th grader? Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.” According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by […]

Socialism Is Targeting The Foundations That Made America Great Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times, This is a lightly edited transcript of a July 6 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast. One question that came up constantly during this 250th anniversary Fourth of July celebration was whether we were gonna make it another 250 years, 500 years. We could be longer than the Roman Republic. Longer […]

Consumer Credit Unexpectedly Shrinks For The First Time Since 2024 As Credit Card Rates Jump After two consecutive outsized jumps in consumer credit in the months of March and April, when gas prices surged and inflation resumed its track higher, lifting most prices as a result of the war in Iran, moments ago the Fed published its latest consumer credit (G.19) report for the month of May and it was a doozy: instead of the expected […]

Brown University Prof Bans Take-Home Exams After Mass-Cheating Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, A Brown University professor says he will no longer allow students to take exams at home after he caught a large chunk of his class cheating on a test. Economics Professor Roberto Serrano said he allowed students to take a midterm at home, and 40 students, nearly half the class, earned a perfect 100; among the 86 […]

Coffee Lovers, Take Note: Lavazza Sounds Alarm, Suggest It May Be Time To Stock Up Following the largest daily surge in Arabica coffee futures since the Dot-Com bubble, the head of Italian coffee giant Lavazza Group warned that prices are unlikely to fall over the next two years. Giuseppe Lavazza, chairman of the Italian roaster, was quoted by Bloomberg as saying, “The market needs to have stability before it’s time to think about […]

Are Flattening Curves And Style Rotations Deceptive Omens? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Bond market pundits often warn that bear yield curve flatteners or inverted yield curves ultimately lead to recessions. Similarly, some equity experts caution that periods of violent back-and-forth rotations among stock sectors and/or style factors are precursors to a market top.  Additionally, the combination of a […]

FOMC Minutes Show ‘A Few’ Fed Members Wanted To Hike In June, ‘Majority’ Fear Higher Inflation Tl;dr: The minutes underscored a more hawkish tone on inflation. UBS traders noted that most participants cited scenarios in which price pressures could remain elevated, including stronger AI-related demand, the ongoing Middle East conflict and tariffs. In those cases, nearly all of those officials said some additional policy tightening […]

Bezos’ Blue Origin Seeks $10 Billion In First-Ever Outside Funding Round Fresh off Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO, it appears that, for the first time, Blue Origin is preparing to raise outside capital in a deal that would value Jeff Bezos’ rocket company at about $130 billion. Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box, wrote in a DealBook report, “I’ve got a scoop on Blue Origin […]

The Great Migration: What The Dow-To-Gold Ratio Is Telling Us Authored by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com, It takes about 13 ounces of gold to buy the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow-to-gold ratio prices the entire American stock market. And it does it in the one currency no central bank can print. Over the past century, it tells the same story. It measures when the US stock market is overvalued… when it’s […]