Fear Is Overwhelming Us Authored by Guy de la Bédoyère via DailySceptic.org, Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannise in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. Samuel Johnson in the Rambler (1761) No-one’s disputing that very hot […]

World’s Largest Chipmaker, Taiwan Semi, Accelerates Local DRAM Supply Chain With Winbond Collaboration In a time of heightened scrutiny on the memory supply chain, overnight the world’s largest chipmaker, Taiwan’s TSMC, is reportedly building out a domestic DRAM supply chain in Taiwan amid a severe global memory shortage, bringing in Winbond as a partner, UDN reported. TSMC and Winbond are collaborating on a localized DRAM supply […]

China Imposes Export Curbs On 40 Japanese Firms As Tensions With Tokyo Rise China imposed new export controls Monday on 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to the country’s “remilitarization,” as tensions with Tokyo rise. China’s Commerce Ministry on Monday placed 20 Japanese entities, including the National Institute for Defense Studies and research centers for ground, naval, and air systems, as well […]

The US Economy In A Nutshell: Privatize The Gains, Socialize The Costs Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Correspondent Simons Chase insightfully summarized this dynamic: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs. In my post Five Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World, #3 is the distribution of risk, costs and consequences to a diffused populace while concentrating the gains into the pockets of […]

Supergirl Movie A “Girl Boss” Bomb With Disastrous Opening Weekend There’s no more excuses.  Filming for James Gunn’s Supergirl summer blockbuster started in January of 2025, with most of the US celebrating the defeat of woke politics and the downfall of DEI.  There was no confusion in 2025; woke is dead.  Gunn was well aware and decided to make an insufferable feminist “girl boss” movie anyway.  In other words, his failure is […]

LA Does Not Love LA Authored by Arthur Schaper via American Greatness, Rolling down Imperial Highway Sweet Nasty Redhead on my side Santa Ana winds blowing hot from the north We were born to ride. I love Randy Newman, and I love his signature song “I Love LA.” When he won the mayor’s race in 2001, James Hahn played that anthem to celebrate his victory. From city attorney to mayor, Hahn worked to ensure some decency and […]

“Unbelievable Damage”: 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota An early morning storm ripped through Highmore, South Dakota, about 220 miles east of Rapid City, producing a reported 131 mph wind gust that, if sustained, would fall within Category 4 hurricane strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The South Dakota Mesonet station at Highmore has reported winds of 76 gusting to 131 mph at 6:25 am. NWS has […]

Philippines Becomes World’s Top Solar Panel Buyer By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com People in the Philippines are flocking to install solar power ​on rooftops and escape the burden of soaring electricity prices, making it the world’s biggest spender on solar panels since ‌the war in Iran started.  Top Philippines power distributor Meralco has raised prices by 10% since the Middle East conflict began in late February. Now, a […]

John Fetterman Warns Mamdani About Defying SCOTUS Immigration Order The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a pair of clean immigration wins last week, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded by announcing he would ignore them. Now Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is sounding the alarm. The Court ruled 6-3 Thursday in Mullin v. Doe to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds […]

Alaska Judge Overrules Election Officials, Lets ‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Stay On Ballot A retired elementary school teacher from Petersburg just punched his ticket back onto Alaska’s Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot after he was accused of being a deliberate spoiler and struck from the ballot. Dan Sullivan of Petersburg announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate on May 29 to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan. (Photo […]

RFK Jr. Says 1 Million Obamacare Enrollees Lacked Social Security Numbers Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said 1 million people were enrolled in Obamacare health plans without Social Security numbers, as the Trump administration pledged to intensify efforts to combat fraud in federal health care programs. Kennedy disclosed the figure in a video posted to […]

Venezuelan Housing Projects Collapsed “Like Sandcastles” As Twin Quakes Expose Socialist Rot Spanish daily newspaper ABC.es reports that some of the worst quake damage in Venezuela is concentrated in Caraballeda and Catia La Mar, where high-rise towers built under the Great Housing Mission Venezuela, or Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela (GMVV), were reduced to rubble. The Chávez-era socialist housing program is now facing scrutiny […]

Builders Vs. Gatekeepers Authored by Monty Donohew via American Thinker, A viral X post by @r0ck3t23 featuring Marc Andreessen hopes to ignite fresh debate in tech and political circles. In the clip, Andreessen articulates a blunt frustration familiar to anyone who has tried to build anything substantial in modern America: “Right now, in many cases in many places, no you can’t.” The target is regulatory gridlock preventing […]

Rate On China’s New Overnight Liquidity Tool Comes Below Estimates, Hints At Imminent Easing Last week we showed four China-linked charts which made it very clear that, laughable flatlined 5% GDP notwithstanding, China’s economy appears to be on the verge of yet another collapse (explaining the unprecedented drop in both Chinese oil imports and refining output): between autos, real estate, banks and overall consumption, the economy […]

The Party Of ‘Our Democracy’ Has Nothing Left But Chaos Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” – Sasha Stone on Substack A punishing heat-dome creeps over the eastern half of the country just in time for the gala Fourth of July week. The days are brutal, but […]

“Thanks For The Mammaries”: Hooters Shutters Every Location In Four Blue States Iconic chicken-wing chain Hooters, famous for buxom waitresses wearing skimpy orange and white uniforms, appears to be throwing in the towel on its 35-year struggle to stay politically incorrect. As Ben Sellers writes for HeadlineUSA.com, while some restaurants, like Cracker Barrel, have successfully fought off the takeover of corporate wokeness, […]

DOJ Sues States Over Alleged Failure To Turn Over Food Stamp Data Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has sued four states, accusing them of withholding crucial data on food stamp applicants. Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania refused to turn over information to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that would let federal officials identify fraud, Trump administration […]

Johnson Says Reconciliation Is The Only Path For The SAVE Act Speaker Mike Johnson returned to the Capitol this afternoon after several hours at the White House, telling reporters that the only viable path to enact the SAVE Act is to attach it to a reconciliation bill – and that work is already underway. “The only way to get the SAVE Act to the president’s desk, we’ve been shown many times, is to put it on a reconciliation bill, […]

Citizen Vigilante Should Terrify Western Governments Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, This movie is a warning to globalists… Director Uwe Boll just released a movie that is ticking off all the right people.  Called Citizen Vigilante, it is an unapologetic rejection of globalism, mass migration, Islamic conquest, and “woke” leftism.  The movie bashes politicians, judges, NGOs, and law enforcement […]

Hormuz Tanker Traffic Plunges After Fresh US-Iran Strikes Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz tumbled since late last week, as ship owners and operators froze up amid the renewed hostilities between Iran and the US over the weekend. The Thursday attack on the container ship Ever Lovely prompted some shipowners to pull back and wait for additional information about how safe transiting the Strait is. The U.S. military on […]

“You’re Next!”: Democrats Discover The Mob Has A Mind Of Its Own Authored by Jonathan Turley, “You’re next!” This chant, at the victory celebration of the Democratic Socialists this week, was a message not for the oligarchs or the billionaires, but for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic establishment. They were threatening that Jeffries would be the next to lose his House seat to a socialist […]

Supreme Court: Lisa Cook Keeps Job – For Now, Lets Trump Fire FTC Commissioners The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Trump a significant defeat – ruling 5-4 that his attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook was procedurally invalid and that the Fed’s century-old independence from presidential removal-at-will remains constitutionally intact. That said, it isn’t over for Cook – as the Court said she can stay in her […]

Mega Heat Dome Inbound For Washington, DC A massive heat dome is set to descend on the eastern half of the U.S., stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast and putting more than 230 million people in the crosshairs of temperatures above 90F, while millions will experience triple-digit temperatures during the Fourth of July holiday week and into weekend festivities. The Midwest will be the epicenter of the heat dome early in the […]

Oil Markets Are Pricing A Supply Surge That Isn’t Guaranteed Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Oil prices are tumbling as tankers stream out of the Strait of Hormuz, but most of that traffic is stranded vessels finally allowed to leave, not new supply heading in. Iran struck a commercial ship near Oman this week even as the 60-day U.S.-Iran ceasefire holds and markets keep pricing in a supply glut. The U.S. […]

Meta Restricts Engineers’ Use of Claude Code And Codex Over Model ‘Distillation’ Concerns Meta Platforms has instructed engineers in its Applied AI division to limit or restrict their use of Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex coding and agent tools, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. The policy, driven by concerns over inadvertent model distillation, aims to prevent outputs from rival AI systems […]