SpaceX In Advanced Talks To Combine With xAI: Report First Reuters and Bloomberg last week, and now Bloomberg reports again early Monday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in advanced talks to combine with his artificial intelligence firm xAI. The move appears to be a consolidation, positioning Musk’s empire for the “data centers in space” theme as Starship approaches commercialization. The financial media outlet says the potential […]

FAA To Allow 44 SpaceX Starship Launches From Kennedy Space Center Per Year Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will allow SpaceX to launch its behemoth Starship from Kennedy Space Center in Florida 44 times per year. SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on May 26, 2025. AP Photo/Eric Gay That decision was released on […]

Light At The End Of The Tunnel Emerges For US East After Weeks Of Winter Madness A sharp reversal in US natural gas futures was seen early Monday after skyrocketing prices in the second half of January, when dangerously cold air and a major winter storm triggered freeze-offs across critical NatGas infrastructure. The weather-driven supply disruptions coincided with a spike in heating demand, unleashing stress on power grids across […]

Waste Of The Day: NYC Healthcare Fund Is Out Of Cash Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander claims one of the city’s health insurance funds has “no path to solvency” after labor unions used it to cover pay raises, Weight Watchers and more. Key facts: New York’s taxpayer-funded Health Insurance Stabilization Fund owes $3.1 billion to outside vendors […]

“Never Seen Risk Like This Before In My Career”, Ed Dowd Warns Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com warned in December we were “At the Beginning of Credit Destruction Cycle.”  Renowned hedge fund BlackRock was the latest victim of credit destruction with this week’s headline that said, “BlackRock cuts value of private debt fund […]

FTC Warns 42 Law Firms Over DEI Hiring The Trump administration is still going after DEI – or ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ (i.e. white people are the scourge of the earth) – this time, in Big Law.  The office of the law firm Perkins Coie is seen in Washington, on April 10, 2025. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent letters to 42 law firms warning them about “potentially […]

US Approves New Massive Arms Deals For Israel, Saudis – Bypasses Congressional Review Via The Cradle On Friday, the US government authorized significant arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia, amounting to approximately $15.7 billion, as the White House continues to escalate threats of war against Iran. The US State Department approved four arms packages for Israel totaling $6.67 billion, which includes a $3.8 billion deal for 30 […]

Hero British Bus Driver Fired For Stopping Thief And Protecting Passenger Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a nation where self-defense is apparently a fireable offense, Mark Hehir, a dedicated London bus driver, has been hailed as a hero by the public but sacked by his employer for daring to chase down a thief who snatched a passenger’s necklace. This absurdity highlights how the UK’s bureaucratic overlords […]

How Arctic Ice Loss Is Reshaping Global Shipping Not only does the Arctic hold significant oil and rare earth resources, thawing ice means that shipping routes can be reduced drastically. Since 1980, the Arctic’s minimal ice extent, its smallest point, has shrunk by 39%. At the same time, the Arctic is a strategic priority for Russia, both for freight transport and military security. More recently, President Trump has argued […]

“Energy Suicide”: Slovak PM Fico To Sue After Brussels Issues Total Ban On Russian Gas Via Remix News, Slovakia is obliged to stop taking over Russian gas by Nov. 1, 2027, at the latest, and according to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the EU decision to ban all gas from member states amounts to “energy suicide.” As a result, Bratislava will file a lawsuit at the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) against the newly […]

A Panicking Oracle Plans To Raise Up To $50 Billion, As Its Stock And Bonds Crater Just over a month ago, on Dec 17, alongside the news that Abu Dhabi was set to invest billions in OpenAI thus preventing a year-end tech rout, we said that ORCL CDS – which on that day hit the widest level since the 2008 financial crisis at 156bps – “may have gone a bit too far”… ORCL CDS limit down tomorrow (of course, there is no limit down in […]

San Francisco Ends $5M-A-Year Program That Supplied Alcohol To Homeless Addicts Sigh. It’s not parody. It’s San Francisco. The city is shutting down a controversial program that used millions in taxpayer funds to provide alcohol to homeless residents struggling with addiction, according to the NY Post. Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city will end the Managed Alcohol Program, which cost about $5 million each year and began during the […]

Joe Rogan Defines Chaos In Minneapolis As “Color Revolution” Left-wing unrest in Minneapolis and elsewhere across the country – whether protests or riots over the past few weeks or over the last decade targeting President Trump and the America First agenda – is being framed as a color revolution operation fueled by dark-money-funded NGOs, and that narrative is now reaching a wider audience. Democrats are uneasy that this framing […]

Democrat Wins Texas Special Election, Eroding GOP’s Slim House Majority Republicans’ thin majority in the US House grew slimmer still on Saturday, as a special election in Texas has filled a long-vacant seat with a Democrat who’s vowed to “tear ICE up from the roots.”  Progressive leftist Christian Menefee will represent Texas’s 18th Congressional District, after beating fellow Democrat Amanda Edwards in a runoff election for a […]

Is An Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust Right For You? Are You Super Rich? Authored by Javier Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) can allow affluent individuals to pass on wealth to heirs while keeping it outside of their taxable estate. This could help them reduce or avoid the estate tax upon death, which can be as high as 40 percent. Photo Smoothies/Shutterstock It also can help […]

Hollywood Celebrities Are Losing Their Minds And Calling For “Revolution” As the information age barrels forward the age of the celebrity is coming to a close.  Largely because Hollywood elites do not understand how to navigate social media and their true personalities always bubble to the surface.  With no agents or managers to filter their impulsive opinions, narcissistic celebrities readily expose themselves and their […]

Isaacman: NASA Aims To Build ‘Martian Outpost’ On Mars With Nuclear Propulsion Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced his agency’s commitment to developing a nuclear propulsion system for missions to Mars within the next three years. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (L) speaks at a press conference at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Jan. 17, 2026. (T.J. […]

How Easy Is It To Open A Daycare In Minnesota? Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Minnesota is facing heavy scrutiny after the Trump administration accused bad actors in the state of exploiting federal funds from child-focused programs for personal gain. The Minneapolis skyline, on Jan. 11, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Dec. 29, 2025, that 98 people—85 of […]

Trump Says Federal Authorities Won’t Respond To Protests In Democrat-Led Cities Unless Asked Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump on Saturday announced federal authorities will not intervene in protests in Democrat-led jurisdictions, but will continue to forcefully protect federal property. Federal officers in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 9, […]

House Speaker Says He Has Votes To End Government Shutdown This Week House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that he is confident that the House will end the partial government shutdown that was initiated on Saturday after Congress failed to approve a measure to keep the government funded. “We’ll get this done by Tuesday, I’m convinced,” Speaker Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We do have to do it by a rule […]

The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like An Economic Boom Authored by Matt Stoller via The BIG Newsletter, The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That’s why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad. On Friday, Donald Trump nominated candidate Kevin Walsh to become Chair of the Federal Reserve. Warsh is mostly an orthodox Wall […]

Lutnick Too? New Epstein Files Reveal Trip To Pedo Island After He Said He Cut Ties We’re gonna need a bigger cork board.  As far as massive distractions go, the latest Epstein files release seems to be all anyone is talking about. Not only do they mix random and salacious claims called into the FBI tip line (which could have been lodged by anyone for any reason – so you should assign low value to those), there are tons of […]

The Fed, Electricity, And Affordability By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Fed, Electricity, And Affordability Three distinct topics, but at the same time, they are almost (kind of) the same topic, or at least interconnected. A Warsh Fed We discussed Warsh on Friday (along with gold, Bitcoin, and the flippant use of “debasement”). Dismissing the “Warsh is a Hawk” narrative: We are looking for 3 rate cuts by […]

Trump Concedes Iran ‘Seriously Talking To Us’ As Ayatollah Says ‘We Don’t Seek To Attack Any Country’ President Donald Trump made a big admission to Fox News on Saturday. He said Iran is currently talking to US negotiators, and he offered it as a positive sign that attacks on Iran could be averted. “You could make a negotiated deal that would be satisfactory with no nuclear weapons,” Trump said. “They should do that, but I don’t […]

More Than 1 Million Bots Have Joined A New AI-Only Social Network Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots are posting, commenting, joking, debating, and questioning existence, philosophical ideas, website errors, problems humans have tasked them with fixing, and more on a new Reddit-style platform designed solely for AI participation. Moltbook.com was created and launched on Jan. 28 by human […]