Data Centers Were Responsible For 46% Of PJM’s Last Four Capacity Auction Costs By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive Data centers are responsible for $6.3 billion, or 38%, of the $16.4 billion in charges from the PJM Interconnection’s just-held capacity auction, Joseph Bowring, president of Monitoring Analytics, said in an email to Utility Dive. Monitoring Analytics is the grid operator’s independent market monitor. In PJM’s […]

CIA Distances Itself From Trump’s Iran War With Media Leak It seems that CIA and other US intelligence officials hope to distance themselves from Trump’s Iran war, now with the US-initiated conflict having dragged on for nearly five months (with no end in sight), after White House officials had in the opening days touted a swift, limited military excursion.  They are leaking intelligence to the press which shows they have assessed […]

DOJ Probing Harvard Over Financial Aid Programs Linked To China-Based Sources Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Justice Department (DOJ) said on July 20 that it was investigating whether Harvard University violated Title VI by excluding American students from financial aid programs funded by China-based sources. Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times The DOJ announced […]

Oklo, X-Energy Join $200 Million Federal Nuclear Push For AI: Bloomberg Bloomberg reports that reactor developers Oklo and X-energy are joining a $200 million Trump administration-led program designed to speed new nuclear power plants for artificial intelligence data centers. Details could be announced Wednesday at a Department of Energy AI energy summit. Microsoft and Nvidia are also involved in the previously announced […]

India Keeps Buying Russian Oil At Near-Record Pace Despite Expired Waiver Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India’s crude oil imports have remained close to record-high levels in July despite the end of the U.S. waiver the previous month. The U.S. quietly let the waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil loaded on tankers expire on June 17, just as the U.S. and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding to […]

Ukraine’s Army Chief Latest To Fall Victim To Zelensky’s Risky Reshuffle  Zelensky strikes again in another major military firing, amid his promised big cabinet and military ‘reshuffle’.  The Ukrainian president announced Tuesday that he was dismissing Oleksandr Syrsky, commander-in-chief of country’s army, and appointing joint forces commander Mykhailo Drapaty in his place. Syrsky was in the post for nearly two-and-a-half […]

Thousands Of Noncitizens Registered To Vote In New Jersey, Governor Admits Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission system resulted in roughly 6,600 people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens being registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024. New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), […]

‘I See Dead People’: Treasury Blocks $99 Million In Federal Payments To Deceased Americans The Treasury Department announced Tuesday morning that it has successfully implemented new safeguards to prevent government payments to dead people in an effort to reduce waste and fraud. The verification system includes screening 885 million federal payments against expanded death records, effectively auditing payments totaling nearly $2.7 […]

“Who The F**k Is This?”: Jon Stewart Thinks He Discovered Trump’s Body Double Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Jon Stewart spent a chunk of Monday’s Daily Show convinced America had just unlocked a secret presidential spare after spotting a mysterious figure strolling behind President Donald Trump on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. The late-night comic was already deep into his usual routine of roasting Trump when […]

“Safeguard Our Homeland”: FCC Moves To Ban Foreign Military-Grade Drone Imports A little more than a week after we exposed military-grade interceptor drones being openly marketed on Facebook as dual-use technology by a Hong Kong-based company, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced a proposal to prohibit the importation and sale of foreign-produced military-grade drones in the U.S. “Today, the FCC took additional action to safeguard […]

Cuban President Warns “McCarthyism Is Back” As US Begins Fight Against Marxist Subversion Networks One day after the US government convened delegations from 65 countries at the Harry S Truman Building in Washington to coordinate action against far-left extremism and Marxist subversion networks across the West, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel responded sharply in a post on X, signaling grave concern that the Trump administration […]

This Sex Robot Is Going To ‘Teach’ Your Kids In Schools Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A rural New York school district on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to become one of the first in the United States to place a lifelike humanoid robot in front of high school students. Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will introduce “Sally,” an M-Series robot built by Realbotix, to assist in coding, robotics, and […]

Democrats Are Fighting A Civil War, And Bernie Sanders Started It Democrats desperately want to retake the House in November, not just to thwart President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, but to launch countless investigations under the guise of oversight. However, their most stubborn obstacle to achieving this goal isn’t President Trump or the Republican Party. The biggest obstacle actually sits inside their own party. Sen. […]

DOJ Seeks To Rescind US Citizenship Granted To 10 Individuals Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it has filed to denaturalize 10 individuals charged or convicted with various crimes, including offenses against minors. “Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a naturalized U.S. citizen’s citizenship may be revoked, and certificate of naturalization […]

The Conflicts Brewing In America’s Ten Classes Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What we do know is that things have internal structures with dynamics that operate whether we “like” them or not. Correspondent Manoj S. recommended an essay from the always-insightful John Michael Greer on the dissolution of unproductive classes behind the smokescreen of AI: A Game of Musical Chairs “You can sell Americans on […]

Lockheed Unveils Move Towards Cheaper Patriot Missiles As Interceptor Stockpiles Dwindle With US-Iran tit-for-tat strikes on their ninth day and the Russia-Ukraine war grinding on in Eastern Europe, US inventories of certain air-delivered munitions are being depleted. This has made the rapid procurement of lower-cost missiles and bombs a top priority for the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal reports that defense giant […]

SpaceX Rebounds From Near-50% Rout As Starship Launch Catalyst Nears SpaceX has slipped below its heavily hyped $135 IPO price and has been nearly halved from its all-time high, which was reached during the June 15 gamma squeeze that briefly sent shares above $220 in overnight trading. Last Thursday’s scrub of Starship’s 13th test flight added further downward pressure, with shares touching $119 on Monday. The stock rebounded on […]

Coinbase Exec Says Clarity Act Has ‘Tremendous Momentum’ In The Senate Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Coinbase Vice Chair Ryan VanGrack said the Clarity Act has gained “tremendous momentum” in the Senate, in a CNBC “Squawk Box” appearance that made the case for a federal crypto framework and touched on bitcoin, blockchain, and the industry’s uneasy truce with Wall Street. VanGrack, a former […]

Chaotic Bodycam Video Shows Trans Florida Student Confront Cop Over ‘Misgendering’ Before Arrest Newly released police bodycam video shows a University of Central Florida student confronting a campus officer over pronouns before being pepper-sprayed, tased, and taken away in handcuffs. The footage shows Jarrett Vick, a 27-year-old blue-haired UCF student from Treasure Island, Florida, shouting at an officer who had arrived at a […]

Appeals Court Rejects Biden’s Bid To Block Release Of Bumbling Memoir Audio Tapes Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on July 20 ruled against former President Joe Biden, finding that he was not entitled to an injunction blocking the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with his memoir’s ghostwriter. “Biden has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits,” […]

Convicted Illegal Migrant Murderer Sues Trump Over “Emotional Distress” The entitlement never stops, even when illegal migrants are convicted of murder and thrown in prison, they still expect free stuff and access to the American Dream. Brandon Ortiz-Vite, a Mexican national who was living in the U.S. illegally, was convicted of the 2024 murder of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He pleaded guilty to […]

Meanwhile, In Dearborn, Michigan… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A viral video from inside a Home Depot in Dearborn, Michigan shows department signs for the likes of Appliances, Paint, Plumbing now carrying Arabic script alongside the English. This is not some minor accessibility tweak. It is another clear marker of demographic transformation in a city where Middle Eastern and North African ancestry already […]

These Chips Are Scorching Hot: Utz Soars 90% On Take-Private Deal Chips are scorching hot on Tuesday, but not the kind made by Nvidia, AMD or Intel. Shares of Utz Brands, the Hanover, Pennsylvania-based snack maker known for its potato chips, cheese balls and red-and-white “Little Utz Girl” logo, erupted after European snack giant Intersnack agreed to take the company private. Utz Brands surged 90% after European snack maker […]

Kimi, Crude, & Carney: Rabobank Sums Up The Geopolitical Chaos Authored by Molly Schwartz, Rabobank cross-asset macro strategist, Trading Playbooks The advancement of one of China’s AI models, Kimi, has sharpened attention on the latest US plans to counter China’s growing AI challenge. Kimi is reportedly more powerful than several US flagship models, though not yet as powerful what lies on the frontier. However, Kimi […]

Feds Flagged Daszak As ‘An Extremely High Person Of Interest’ – Then The FBI Told Them To Stand Down Customs officers spent three days building a border examination for the man at the center of the COVID origins fight – until Biden’s FBI put a stop to it with a single email.  On February 2, 2021, a national targeting security specialist at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center circulated a referral to […]