Harmless Christmas Card Pulled From Shelves And “Destroyed” After One Trans-Activist Offended Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a stunning display of overreach, British supermarket Sainsbury’s is frantically pulling a humorous Christmas card from its shelves after a single woke campaigner branded it “transphobic”. The Dr. Seuss-themed card ironically features the Grinch character with the caption: “This […]

Russian Border Guards Breach Estonian Territory, Ambassador Summoned Estonia’s foreign ministry said Thursday that it would summon Russia’s ambassador to “demand an explanation” after Russian border guards allegedly breached the sovereign territory of Estonia. Government officials described that three Russian border guards briefly crossed into Estonian territory the previous day, with CCTV footage having captured the incursion […]

Broken Britain Authored by Andrew Ash via The Gatestone Institute, There is a curious sense of minority entitlement which seems to have grown exponentially in recent years. It was absent when my father migrated from Egypt to England in the last century and met my mother. Although he considered himself a Muslim, he had a somewhat lackadaisical approach to his inherited faith – as did many Westernised Muslims of the time. He was […]

Ghislaine Maxwell Asks Court To Overturn Convictions, Citing ‘Newly Discovered Evidence’ Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell on Wednesday asked a federal court to toss out her sex trafficking convictions and resulting 20-year prison sentence, citing “newly discovered evidence.”  Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a news conference at the United Nations in New York on […]

The C5 Would Be A Pragmatic Format For Managing The Global Systemic Transition Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Regular consultations between the US, China, Russia, India, and Japan on the emerging world order would help jointly manage issues as they arise and therefore reduce the chances of uncontrollable systemic instability during this sensitive moment when one wrong move could unleash global chaos. Defense One was […]

China Begins Granting General Licenses For Rare Earths As Trade Tensions Cool The tit-for-tat trade war between the US and China earlier this year cooled by late October after President Trump and President Xi agreed to a trade truce that, so far, appears to be holding. There are early signs that the truce is beginning to restore rare earth trade between China and the West, as Beijing has started approving some rare earth export […]

Amid Retirement Challenges, Younger Generations Show Hope Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Americans of all ages increasingly view a comfortable retirement as a challenge, according to recent studies. From baby boomers nearing their final paycheck, Gen X being late to the savings game, and millennials with employment-sponsored plans to Gen Z grappling with artificial intelligence (AI) on the first rungs of the […]

“Largest Ever Retail Theft Ring” In Queens Busted After Stealing $2.2 Million From Home Depot Prosecutors in Queens say they have dismantled what they describe as the largest organized retail theft ring ever prosecuted in the borough, after a crew allegedly stole more than $2.2 million worth of merchandise from Home Depot stores across nine states, according to ABC.  Thirteen people were charged in a sweeping 780-count indictment […]

Suspect In Brown University Attack Found Dead, Was A Non-US Citizen Update (2150ET): Local station Boston 25 News reports that the suspect in the Brown University attack was found dead at the Extra Space Storage facility on Hampshire Road in Salem, New Hampshire. Boston 25 is reporting the Brown University shooting suspect is dead Waiting for news conference. — Ted Daniel (@TedDanielnews) December 19, 2025 “A law enforcement […]

Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue Over Safer Alternatives Authored by Roger Bate via The Brownstone Institute, In December 2024, Congress did something unusual: it introduced a bill that openly acknowledges tobacco harm reduction. The POUCH Act of 2024, sponsored by Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) and co-sponsored by Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), aims to prevent states and cities from banning or restricting FDA–authorized lower-risk […]

Tennessee Christmas Parade Blocks Participation Of Gay Pride Group The culture war in the US is far from over, but it’s probably safe to say that most Americans are fed up with gay pride.  Without the flood of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to leftist NGOs from institutions like USAID, the prevalence of LGBT propaganda has gone into decline compared to the past five years.  In 2025 “Pride Month” was barely a blip on […]

US & China Are Headed For An AI Collision Authored by Oren Etzioni via American Greatness, President Trump spoke by phone to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Monday, November 24, and later posted on Truth Social, “Our relationship with China is extremely strong!” The warm feelings from Washington came on the heels of the two leaders holding a productive meeting in Korea recently and scheduling several more […]

Hysterical Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Declares Trump Larger Threat Than Islamic Terrorism The Democrat Party has taken a break from comparing President Donald Trump to Adof Hitler to warn that the president is a larger threat to the United States than Islamic jihad. The hysterical remarks came during a Tuesday appearance on NewsNation’s “On Balance,” where host Leland Vittert asked Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) whether […]

China Sues Sen. Schmitt And Others For Defamation Over COVID-19 Lawsuit Authored by Jonathan Turley, Years ago, I called the pandemic arguably the greatest case of negligence in the history of torts. However, with millions dead and hundreds of billions expended, it was unlikely that China would ever be truly held accountable for its actions. Those failures include not only the alleged release of the virus from the Wuhan lab but […]

Did Abu Dhabi Just Deliver A Santa Rally: OpenAI To Raise $100BN From Sovereign Wealth Funds While the broader stock market has meandered both higher and lower in the subsequent two months, the Mag 7 trade peaked on Oct 31 and has been drifting sideways – and lower – ever since. What happened on that date? That was the day of the infamous All Things podcast, in which Brad Gerstner (an OpenAi investor) pointed out that the emperor […]

Peak Wokeism & More: Doug Casey On 2025’s Defining Events And What Comes Next Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: As we step back and look at 2025—politically, economically, technologically, and culturally—which developments mattered the most? Doug Casey: Politically, and in every other way, it’s all about Trump. As Shakespeare said of Julius Caesar, “he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus, and […]

Dan Bongino to Resign As FBI Deputy Director After less than a year on the job, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced his resignation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino leaves after a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,” he said in a Wednesday post on X.  “I want to thank President Trump, […]

America’s Rapidly Growing Happiness Deficit Authored by Michael Snyder, We possess technology that would have been unimaginable to people living 100 years ago, we have access to more entertainment than any other generation in human history, and we have been enjoying an artificially-inflated standard of living that has been fueled by an unprecedented debt binge for decades. So why are so many of us so miserable? One out of every […]

“Children Are NOT Experiments”: House-Passes Bill Criminalizing Transgender Treatments For Minors The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize transgender-related treatments for minors, which includes surgical procedures and puberty blockers.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) presides over a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The bill, […]

Police Investigate Leftist Who Harassed Elderly Target Worker Over Charlie Kirk Shirt Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a swift turn toward justice, police have opened an investigation into Michelea Ponce, the leftist agitator caught on video berating an elderly Target employee named Jeanie for daring to wear a Charlie Kirk “FREEDOM” shirt. The harassment, which exploded across social media, highlights the […]

U.S. Freezes Korea Trade Talks After Seoul Ignores Warnings Over Big Tech Shakedown One month after it looked like South Korea was backing off Big Tech with an ongoing shakedown of fines for violating arbitrary laws, the Trump administration just left the chat – canceling a key bilateral trade meeting and signaling that continued regulatory pressure on American technology firms will carry immediate consequences. Seoul now gets […]

Tether CEO Warns AI Bubble Is Bitcoin’s Biggest Risk In 2026 Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, has raised concerns about how a potential AI bubble could affect Bitcoin by 2026. Ardoino shared his outlook on Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry on Thursday during the Bitcoin Capital podcast, co-hosted by Bitfinex Securities and […]

Court Axes Trevor Milton Lawsuit, Awards Attorney’s Fees To CNBC And Hindenburg A New Jersey appellate court on Monday threw out Trevor Milton’s lawsuit against CNBC and short-seller Hindenburg Research, ruling that the case was time-barred and improperly framed. In a unanimous opinion, the Appellate Division held that Milton’s claims—styled as “trade libel”—were, in substance, ordinary defamation claims subject to New […]

Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality? Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), first published in Britain in 1949, has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Yet, closer inspection – which means avoiding […]

Watch: Presidential ‘Wall Of Fame’ Gets A Savage Upgrade… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump has seemingly taken his trolling to new heights by installing brutal plaques beneath key presidential portraits at the White House, exposing the failures of his leftist predecessors. The inscriptions lay waste to the deep state’s darlings—detailing Obama’s foreign policy debacles, Clinton’s globalist […]