Swalwell Pledges To Arrest ICE Agents And Take Away Their Driver’s Licenses Authored by Jonathan Turley, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Cal.) will not be outdone again. Recently, Swalwell was outvoted in Congress by a colleague who had died months earlier.  Now, he is ensuring that, when it comes to violating the Constitution, no one is even close. This week, Swalwell pledged that, if elected California governor, he will arrest ICE […]

Iran Protesters Try To Break Into Govt Building In 4th Consecutive Night Of Unrest Update(1440ET): Al Jazeera is reporting that groups of Iranian protesters have been observed trying to breaking into government buildings, a trend which could grow to various places: Iranian protesters demonstrating over economic hardship and a plummeting currency attempted to break into a local government building, state media reported, as the […]

Russia Presents Its Evidence Of Ukrainian Drone Attack On Putin’s Residence “We’re going to see some escalation now,” Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt has said amid allegations Ukraine targeted Putin’s residence. “The Russians have made up their minds and made declarations about who they believe tried to strike the Valdai mansion that’s owned by President Putin, and they’re going to change their negotiable posture.” For […]

Moore: Economists Got 2025 All Wrong Authored by Stephen Moore via DailyCaller.com, Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The “chumps” in this case were the “blue chip” academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was for high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts. As you’ve probably heard, the GDP growth for Q3 came in at a red hot 4.3% […]

2025 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead One year ago, when looking at the 20 most popular stories of 2024, we said that “while 2024 had a seemingly endless variety of social, economic, political, geopolitical and of course, financial and market, drama, the unprecedented onslaught of 2022 and 2023 – which saw both the deadliest and most consequential global war since WWII and a historic […]

The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, The panic and outrage were palpable last February when President Trump announced plans to trim reimbursement rates for government-funded scientific research. “This is going to decimate U.S. scientific biomedical research,” Northwestern University biologist Carole Labonne told Bloomberg. “The lights will go out, […]

DOJ’s Inventory Of Unreleased Epstein Files Soars To 5.2 Million Pages Already in violation of a statutory deadline and accused of engaging in rampant, unlawful redactions, it’s been revealed that the US Department of Justice has about 5.2 million pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that still need to be reviewed, according to a document reviewed by Reuters and inside sources cited by the New York […]

“This Is A Perfect Storm”: Martin Armstrong Warns ‘War Is Coming’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says everywhere you look there is big trouble bubbling out of control.   Armstrong sees the perfect storm closing in from all sides.  Let’s start with the war in Ukraine.  It looks like peace was possible until Russia claimed Ukraine attacked Putin’s […]

Crew Paints Russian Flag On Iran-Linked Tanker To Avoid US Seizure The weird saga of the US-sought third tanker off Venezuela which was nearly boarded by US forces before fleeing into the Atlantic continues, after US officials have newly revealed more information. US attempts to intercept the oil tanker Bella 1 in the Atlantic have been complicated after the ship’s crew painted a Russian flag on its hull. It has avoided and […]

High Electricity Prices Are A Choice Blue States Make Every Day Authored by Isaac Orr & Tom Pyle via RealClearEnergy, Americans are anxious about their utility bills – and with good reason. Three quarters of U.S. residents are concerned about their electricity and gas bills rising this year, and 80% feel powerless over how much they are charged for utilities. For nearly two-thirds of U.S. billpayers, simply keeping the lights […]

“Regulatory Theater”: Meta Created ‘Playbook’ To Obscure Scam Ads From Regulators, Avoid Forced Verification Last month Reuters revealed that roughly 10% of Meta’s annual revenue, or $16 billion, comes from advertising scams and banned goods – as the company only bans advertisers when its systems detect a 95% probability of fraud, while charging higher ad fees to suspicious buyers – a system critics describe as “pay to […]

Newsom’s Massive Fraud Scandal No One Is Talking About Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Everybody’s buzzing about that Minnesota Medicaid mess with Gov. Tim Walz. Some are even calling it the largest fraud scandal ever. If only. Blue-state fraud is undoubtedly a problem, and Walz should be held accountable if he did indeed look the other way. But what happened in the land of 10,000 lakes is tiny compared to the fraud in […]

Oil Heads For Worst Annual Loss Since COVID As US Crude Production Hits Record High Oil futures are gaining in early U.S. trade, but on track to end the year substantially lower. As Dow Jones reports, the unwinding of OPEC+ output cuts, along with higher non-OPEC production, fueled oversupply concerns in 2025, while U.S. sanctions and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, Russia-Ukraine and more recently Venezuela led to […]

Somali Americans Face Audits For Potential Immigration Fraud Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is auditing immigration cases involving U.S. citizens of Somali origin to uncover potential fraud that might be grounds for revoking their citizenship, known as denaturalization. “Under U.S. law, if an individual procures citizenship on a fraudulent basis, that is grounds for […]

Trump Media Shares Pop After Announcing Digital Token Distribution With Crypto.com Trump Media shares are volatile this morning, popping before paring gains, after the company announced plans to distribute a new digital token to its shareholders through a partnership with Crypto.com, expanding the company’s push into blockchain-based shareholder engagement. Under the proposal, each ultimate beneficial owner of DJT stock is […]

30 Numbers From 2025 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, 2025 has truly been a historic year. No matter which side of the fence that you are on, nobody can deny that we have witnessed seismic political changes over the last 12 months. Meanwhile, the AI revolution is transforming our lives in ways that we don’t even understand. But despite all of our advanced technology, […]

“Not White Supremacy To Investigate Fraud”: Citizen Journalists Flood Democratic Cities Citizen journalists are descending on corrupt, Democratic-run cities this week to investigate taxpayer-subsidized daycare centers, signaling a new form of crowd-driven oversight. Think of it as a localized DOGE-style effort aimed at investigating alleged welfare fraud linked to Somali communities and others who steal from taxpayers. As we […]

Bondi Vows To Hold Former Officials Accountable For ‘Government Weaponization’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a recent interview that she will continue to investigate officials in the Obama and Biden administrations over “government weaponization” after courts tossed federal charges against two high-profile figures. Attorney General Pam Bondi (C)speaks during a […]

Futures Flat On Last Trading Day Of 2025, Silver Slides Stocks are ending a third straight year of double-digit gains in subdued fashion as an expected seasonal rally fails to gain traction. Silver’s volatile ride extended to another session, with the metal tumbling after the CME hiked margins for the second time in three days. As of 8:15am ET,  S&P 500 futures fell 0.1% and well off session lows, after a stretch of […]

Silver Stumbles On (More) Margin Hikes, Export Restrictions As we detailed earlier in the week, the immediate catalyst for silver’s sudden slump was not a single factor but a multitude that cracked the massively overbought precious metal (including export restrictions, US and China margin hikes, ETF flows, etc). Many, including us, warned that during the holiday period, traders could experience bouts of extreme volatility given […]

Initial Jobless Claims End 2025 Near Record Lows The number of Americans filing for jobless claims for the first time plummeted last week to 199k – the lowest since the Thanksgiving week plunge and pretty much the lowest since Source: Bloomberg Sub-200k levels are rare and go back to 1969 lows… Source: Bloomberg Continuing jobless claims also dipped last week and is below the 1.9 million Maginot Line… Source: […]

Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Reveals He “Is Not Short” Tesla “Big Short” investor Michael Burry revealed on X that he is not shorting Tesla stock, despite calling Elon Musk’s car, robotics, battery storage, and AI company “ridiculously overvalued” in a separate post. Early Wednesday morning, Burry posted on X about a prior credit default swap trade he made with Bill Ackman. In response, an X user asked, “Would you short Tesla here?” […]

ByteDance Plans $14 Billion Nvidia H200 AI Chip Buying Spree As Computing Demand Soars ByteDance plans to purchase 100 billion yuan ($14 billion) in AI chips in 2026, up from 85 billion yuan in 2025, with the bulk of spending directed toward Nvidia hardware, according to the South China Morning Post. The plan hinges on Beijing approving sales of Nvidia’s H200 GPUs in China. If approval is granted, Nvidia would need to scale up […]

DOE Orders Indiana Coal Units Totaling More Than 950 MW To Run Past Retirement Dates By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 23 ordered Northern Indiana Public Service Co., a division of NiSource, and CenterPoint Energy to continue running three coal-fired units in Indiana, totaling more than 950 MW, beyond their planned retirement at the end of the month. DOE contends that portions of the […]

The Brits Want The Poles To Contain Russia In The Baltic Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Polish Defense Minister announced in late November that his country will buy three A26 Blekinge-class diesel-electric submarines from Sweden as part of a deal estimated to be worth a little less than €2.5 billion. This comes just several months after their first joint exercise, which presaged closer cooperation against […]