Biden FBI Targeted Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media, FBI Director Kash Patel faces questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning, during which Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed that whistleblower revelations showed that Joe Biden’s FBI targeted not just Donald Trump, but a wide swath of Republican organizations — including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. […]

EU Delays New Sanctions On Russia After Trump’s Oil Warning The European Union has put its next round of sanctions against Russia on hold, with no new timeline for when the measures will move forward, according to a report by Politico citing EU officials. Politico correspondent Sarah Wheaton writes Tuesday, “The next sanctions package against Russia — the 19th since Moscow began its war against Ukraine — is no longer expected […]

News Anchor Resigns After Being Suspended Over On-Air Charlie Kirk Tribute Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A WICS-ABC20 News anchor in Springfield, Illinois, has announced that she is resigning from her position after her employer suspended her for paying tribute to the late Charlie Kirk on air. Beni Harmony paid an impassioned tribute to Kirk, whom she knew personally, during a Sept. 12 segment on ABC20’s […]

Fani’s Final Push Stopped Up After Georgia Supremes Wipe Her From Trump Case The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed Fulton County DA Fani Willis from her criminal prosecution against President Trump and his allies. In a 4-3 decision, the state supremes declined to review a lower court’s ruling disqualifying Willis over a “significant appearance of impropriety” based on her romantic relationship with a top prosecutor she […]

NY Judge Tosses Terrorism Charges Against Luigi Mangione, Murder Count Stands; Democrats Cheer In Streets A New York state judge just moments ago dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in the state’s case over the late 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but kept second-degree murder charges in place.  Luigi Mangione has arrived for his New York State Court Hearing. pic.twitter.com/xoOhziXAhb — […]

Hanged, Drawn, And Quartered By Michael Every of Rabobank From a “because markets” perspective, the key story today is President Trump saying he would like the US to shift from quarterly to biannual corporate reporting: “This will save money, and allow managers to focus on properly running their companies… Did you ever hear the statement that, ‘China has a 50 to 100 year view on management of a company, whereas we run our […]

Full Israeli Ground Offensive In Gaza City Begins: ‘We Will Not Relent Until Mission Complete’ “Gaza is burning,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared Tuesday. “We will not relent and we will not go back – until the completion of the mission.” The Israeli military launched the mainstay of its ground offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, advancing slowly into the densely populated urban center, which has already suffered […]

ICE Requests Removal Of Cuban Illegal Alien Charged With Murder In Texas Beheading Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer for an illegal immigrant from Cuba who was accused of beheading a victim in Texas with a machete. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain an illegal immigrant near Washington in May 2025. Courtesy of U.S. […]

Did US Industrial Production Data Just Expose A Weak Spot In The AI Boom Narrative? US Industrial production rose 0.1% MoM in August (better than the small 0.1% MoM decline expected) and a modest rebound from July’s weakness. YoY growth in production dipped to 0.9%… Source: Bloomberg On the Manufacturing side, data also surprised to the upside with a 0.2% MoM gain versus expectations of a 0.2% decline. Source: Bloomberg […]

Ukrainian Kamikaze Drone Attacks Slash Russian Refining Capacity Ukraine has ramped up its use of long-range drones against Russian oil refineries, export terminals, and storage facilities in an effort to erode Moscow’s revenue streams and weaken its war financing ability, with the latest kamikaze drone attacks in August and September taking an estimated 300,000 barrels per day of refining capacity offline, according to a […]

JD Vance: No ‘Unity’ With Groups That Wanted Conservatives Dead Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Vice President JD Vance expressed a lack of interest in reconciling with radical leftist groups who celebrated the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Vance specifically rejected calls for “unity” with those celebrating Kirk’s death while guest-hosting The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday.  […]

‘Real’ Retail Sales Rise For 11th Straight Month In August ‘Brace yourself for a big beat’ is the message from BofA’s almost omniscient analysts ahead of this morning’s retail sales print for August with the GDP-driving Control Group expected to be particularly hot… …and once again they nailed it with headline retail sales rising 0.6% MoM (+0.2% MoM exp) – the third strong monthly rise in a row (with July’s print revised […]

US Futures Set For Another Record, Nasdaq On Pace For 10th Straight Gain US equity futures are higher (duh) outperforming global counterparts, while the Nasdaq is on pace for a historic 10th day of gains. As of  8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures were higher by 0.2% with Oracle rising more than 5% in premarket trading on news it may soon be handed control of TikTok. S&P 500 contracts edged higher after the US benchmark […]

A Circular Economy & The Four Archetypes Of Bitcoiners Authored by Fernando Motolese via BitcoinMagazine.com, Trying to build a Bitcoin circular economy in Brazil and lobbying politicians led me to uncovering four archetypes of Bitcoiners: the coordinators, the market pragmatists, the monetary purists, and the Bitcoin minimalists. Here’s what I’ve learned… A few years ago, I made an unlikely bet: to build a Bitcoin […]

“Most Degenerate Newspaper In History” – Trump Slaps NYT With $15 Billion Defamation Lawsuit In a late-night Truth Social post, President Trump announced a federal lawsuit against The New York Times, seeking $15 billion for alleged defamation and libel, calling it “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the history of our country, a virtual mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party.” “Today, I have the Great Honor […]

What We Saw At Britain’s ‘Unite The Kingdom’ Rally Authored by Philip Patrick via DailySceptic.org, 100,000, 150,000, 500,000, a million, three million? An estimate of the size of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in central London on Saturday is evidently challenging, perhaps impossible. (All these figures have been claimed somewhere.) The drone footage looks like a CGI representation of a massed army from Lord of the Rings. […]

“Be Warned, We Are Hunting You”: Trump Unleashes Second Attack On ‘Narcoterrorists’ Near Venezuela With Venezuela President Maduro stating the country is readying for an “armed struggle”, President Trump has unleashed hell on a second vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela, confirming his determination to proceed with attacks. US forces “conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent […]

Ground Beef Inflation Sizzles, Egg Prices Cool Off The best bang for the buck in the grocery store protein aisle this year hasn’t been beef, it’s been eggs. Prices have plummeted thanks to President Trump’s swift action to fix the Biden-Harris regime’s botched bird flu culling disaster. By contrast, ground beef has surged to a record $6.32 per pound, squeezed by the smallest US cattle herd in decades, with a bleak outlook despite […]

Speculation Is Swirling About The Future Of Turkiye’s S-400s Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Turkish media recently claimed that Russia offered to buy back their country’s S-400s that it received in 2019 in order to then resell them to other clients, which Turkiye is supposedly receptive to since it wants to end its spat with the US over this and is also developing a domestic analogue that can replace them.  Polish […]

How Much Metal Can $10K Buy? The prices of metals reflect a contrast between rarity, utility, and value. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, breaks down how much of each metal you could purchase with $10,000, showing their respective weights in kilograms. At one end of the scale, $10,000 barely buys a handful of gold dust. On the other, it secures literal tons of industrial metals like aluminum and zinc. […]

Risk In France Is Not Quite Gone Or Forgotten Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Risk spreads in France have continued to ease back on a trend basis, even after Fitch’s downgrade on Friday. However, some spreads remain elevated in absolute terms, indicating the market continues to price in structural problems. As a reminder that agencies’ ratings changes are lagging, French bond spreads and asset swap […]

Netanyahu Admits Economic Isolation As More European Leaders Talk Arms Embargo On Monday a group of 325 former EU ambassadors and senior officials have submitted a letter calling on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to impose sanctions on Israel, reported by Euronews. This is in response to the devasting civilian casualties in Gaza and expansionist policies in the West Bank. The letter urges the UNSC “to adopt sanctions […]

Influence Operation? The EU Paid-Off €600,000 To Friendly Media Outlets Right After European Elections Via Remix News, While the European Union likes to throw out terms like “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “influence campaigns,” the reality is that the EU is pumping millions into influencing public opinion itself. The difference is just that when Brussels does it, it is not supposed to be propaganda. One […]

Western Countries Downing Russian Drones Over Ukraine Will Mean War With NATO: Medvedev Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has once again issued a firm warning to the Western military alliance backing Kiev, saying that if NATO countries begin shooting down Russian drones over Ukraine during the ‘special military operation’, this will put Moscow at war with NATO. The words come dangerously after the last week has seen […]

“I’ve Never Experienced Crime Of This Magnitude Before”: 20-Year Veteran Austrian Police Spox Via Remix News, More than 30 victims of a Syrian youth gang, known as “505,” have been recorded n the cities of Graz and Vienna. The suspects range in age from 17 to 20, with police reporting they dealt a “severe blow” to the group with mass arrests. “I’ve never experienced a dimension (of crime) of this magnitude before, […]