TikTok To Pay Alabama At Least $100 Million, Add Teen Limits Before First State Trial Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, TikTok and its creator ByteDance struck a deal Friday with Alabama that will pay the state at least $100 million and force changes in how teenagers use the app, days before what would have been the first state trial over claims the platform was built to addict minors. TikTok is so powerful its logo […]

Beyond The SPR: Stifel Spots Another Depleted Strategic Stockpile In Urgent Need Of Rebuilding Stifel’s “own the bottlenecks” theme favors producers that can supply Western markets with conflict-free critical materials today. China’s tightening export controls will collide with a looming multiyear rearmament cycle and reinforce the urgency of finding stable production outside China. The Trump administration’s big push to rebuild […]

Failing Lesbian Bar Faces Angry Leftist Mob After Finally Ending Mask Mandate When your business model’s foundation is catering to mentally ill lunatics, don’t surprised when the most common sense changes evoke insane responses.   One day, probably in the very near future, there will be a hailstorm of studies done on the Covid pandemic era and the absolute hysteria that surrounded it.  The virus was essentially a non-issue with […]

Homan Says 157,000 Missing Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Located Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Around 157,000 children who crossed the border as unaccompanied minors have been found since the start of the Trump administration while many are still missing, White House border czar Tom Homan told The Epoch Times. White House border czar Tom Homan after an interview with “American Thought […]

“Looking To Do Big Damage”: Trump Says Suspected UK Airbase Plotters Had Been Under Surveillance Summary: Reuters Says Possible Iranian-Linked Motive Likely  Trump Says Suspects “Looking to do Big Damage” Against Airbase  US Stealth Bomber Base In UK On “Delta” Alert As Counter-Terror Police Make Arrests, Deploy Bomb Squad Search Of Vans Trump Says Suspects “Looking to do Big Damage”  Reuters reported that an Iranian-linked […]

Supreme Court Again Rejects Missouri Congressional Map Backed By Republicans The Supreme Court on Friday refused to let Missouri Republicans run November’s House races on the 2025 map that would have given them a 7-1 edge in the state’s delegation, leaving in place the 2022 lines, which split the eight seats 6-2. The Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 14, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe court’s unsigned, five-page […]

Almost Half Of Americans Now Hold Positive Views Of Socialism Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Karl Marx believed that “Democracy is the road to socialism.” Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left. Like […]

Xi Will Return And Put His Foot On The Pedal To Develop Better Chips, Better Models, And The Energy To Drive That Compute We came into this week with a list of things to think about with the Fed Behind Us, and a SITREP focusing on the Houthis vs Saudi Arabia. We also kicked off the week with a preview on CNBC. Our “official scoring” was stocks did well, Bessent faced setbacks on bonds and the yen, and for the world, well, […]

Iran ‘Fully Prepared’ To Resume War, We Don’t Trust Trump: Iran FM The two big weekend Iran war developments are 1) President Trump has rejected Tehran’s seven day ceasefire roadmap proposal, and reportedly plans to resume bombing Iran – likely after the November midterm elections; 2) the Iranian government announced Sunday its forces have struck 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two nights, per Fars News Agency. The […]

Tech CEO Found Guilty In $2 Million Ponzi Scheme Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Michelle Bisnoff, the CEO of wearable tech company Esos Rings Inc., was convicted of running a nearly $2 million Ponzi scheme. Michelle BisnoffBisnoff tricked investors into believing she owned patents for “smart rings” payment technology that rightfully belonged to her former employer, according to a statement by the Department of […]

The DOE Demands Faster Uranium Enrichment Buildout. Who’s Answering The Call? DOE officials told Reuters they are pressing Centrus Energy, General Matter, and France’s Orano to accelerate their new build programs. The start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022 sent prices soaring across the nuclear fuel chain, as the start of the war was also followed by the US implementing a ban on importing Russian enriched uranium. The panic of […]

The Easy Money Fairy Tale Is About To End…Violently Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance For the better part of the last couple years, I have wondered whether financial markets are permanently broken. Not simply overvalued or temporarily irrational, but actually broken at the mechanical level and permanently distorted. I’ve written about it. The basic process that is supposed to make capitalism work goes like this. Capital […]

FDA Commissioner Nominee Says Every Vaccine On US Market Is Safe, Effective The doctor nominated by President Trump to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told senators this week that vaccines available in the United States are safe and effective. Dr. Heidi Overton, the nominee, said that if confirmed, she could use her scientific training and clinical background to describe to the American public what is currently known […]

Consumer Credit Stress: What The Data Really Shows Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A viral stat claims credit card delinquencies just hit their worst level since 2008. However, the New York Fed’s own data shows the opposite, and the real consumer credit stress is hiding exactly where the headlines aren’t looking. A number has been making the rounds all year, and it’s misleading. The claim: roughly […]

DHS Ends Biden-Era Solicitation Of Donations For Illegal Aliens In Custody Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJ Media, Under the Biden administration, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was asking for and accepting private donations for illegal aliens in federal custody. The Trump administration just realized it had never officially ended that directive, so it did so this week to remove any lingering confusion. CBP Commissioner […]

“Coming Monday”: Trump To Roll Back Costly ‘Green’ Rules To Drive Down Car Prices All this “green” technology embedded in vehicles over the last two decades, such as automatic stop-start, cylinder deactivation, turbocharging, advanced transmissions, hybrid systems, and other forms of electric assistance designed to reduce fuel consumption and improve miles per gallon, has made the upfront cost of purchasing a new vehicle […]

Mamdani: Socialism “Will Absolutely Translate” Nationwide Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment. On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left – and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the […]

Hormuz Oil Flows Rebound To Two-Thirds Prewar Level As Iran’s Grip Erodes, Attacks 19 Ships Rory Johnston, a Toronto-based oil analyst and the founder of Commodity Context, an independent oil market research firm, wrote on X this weekend that oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have recovered to roughly two-thirds of prewar levels, driven by a surge in Saudi exports. This suggests that Tehran’s leverage over the critical […]

How Many Ministries Of Truth Does One Country Need How many Ministries of Truth does one country need? With Andy Burnham announcing yet another, Prof Michael Rainsborough points out that Britain’s “narratives of decline” arise because the country is, in fact, declining… Authored by Michael Rainsborough via The Daily Sceptic In previous essays I have sought to describe the political condition into which Britain and other […]

Saudi Arabia Could Use Trump Deal To Get A Nuke: Intel Assessment A classified US intelligence assessment’s conclusions have been reported in The Washington Post at the end of this week, and the report says that Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons. The report comes as Congress is scrutinizing President Trump’s controversial nuclear cooperation agreement with Riyadh, which was signed by Energy Secretary Chris […]

Is Putin Caught In An “Escalation Trap”? The Long War In Eastern Europe Authored by Larry Johnson via Sonar21.com Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism has flagged a recent interview that Professor Robert Pape did with Mario Nawfal. During the interview, Pape argued that Vladimir Putin is caught in an “escalation trap.” In his telling, Russia launched a preventive war in February 2022 to seize Kyiv and roughly 60 percent of Ukraine. That […]

The Socialist Indoctrination Machine: Schools Are Teaching Young People To Embrace Big Government, Hate Capitalism Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, A recent headline from a well-respected news outlet caught my attention: “Could socialism make America happy again?” Surely, the article must be satirical, I thought. Who in their right mind would believe that the most oppressive form of government, responsible for hundreds […]

California Has Highest Personal Income Tax Rate, 8 States Have None… Where you live can make a major difference in the state income tax rate applied to your earnings, with systems ranging from no individual income tax to top marginal rates above 10%. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, compares U.S. states based on their top marginal individual income tax rate in 2026 using Tax Foundation data. Both local and federal […]

USAF More Than Doubles Ondas’ ULTRA Drone Contract As Potential MQ-9 Reaper Alternative Emerges Thursday’s Department of War contract update signals increased US Air Force investment in long-endurance surveillance drones that could complement the MQ-9 Reaper and help fill intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission gaps following reported heavy losses in the US-Iran conflict. The USAF more than doubled the value of its […]

Southeast Asia Keeps Building Gas Plants Despite Hormuz LNG Shock Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Countries in Southeast Asia are still building natural gas-fired power plants despite the price inflation in gas caused by the Middle East war. Asian countries are also building more LNG import capacity, Global Energy Monitor reported. The net-zero think tank said there was some 100 GW in new gas-fired power generation […]