Russia Confirms It Has Attacked Over 80 Vessels In The Black Sea In July Alone We’ve been detailing the escalating ‘southern front’ war in the Black and Caspian Seas, as Russia and Ukraine take aim at each other’s maritime and energy and cargo transit and trade. Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, such as at Odessa, had by and large not been focus of large-scale Russian strikes in the opening years of the war, but it seems this is fast […]

New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times, California, the most populous U.S. state and the one with the largest economy, ranked as the 35th best state in a new ranking published by U.S. News on July 28. South Orange County communities near Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 15, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Utah ranked as the best state, followed by South […]

The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working Authored by Noah Wall via The American Mind, On July 14, the State Leadership Initiative was honored to host the Florida DOGE team and their tech partners, Vulcan, Echelon, and DigiBuild, for the Florida DOGE Showcase in Washington, D.C. Spearheaded by Governor Ron DeSantis, the state has become the leader for providing accountable and efficient governance to its citizens. Since its […]

“Pure Case Of Vandalism”: Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian Update (1245ET): President Trump has not taken kindly to the DoJ dropping their case against the former Olympian for vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, exclaiming his displeasure in a post on X: I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? […]

Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Two Chinese men have been identified as suspects in the shooting and kidnapping of a Chino Hills resident who was later found mortally wounded in the trunk of their vehicle after one suspect fired into it during a police stop, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a July 31 […]

Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again There were no Friday night into Saturday morning US attacks on Iran, after President Trump warned he has given an order to hit Iran ‘hard’ – though didn’t disclose a timeline. Friday reports in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Axios strongly suggested that large US strikes would commence at some point this weekend, as the region remains on […]

22 EU Leaders Demand “Immediate Action” As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare Summary: 22 EU Leaders Demand “Immediate Action” Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion Spain’s Border Invasion Is An Optics Disaster For Open-Border Democrats Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain 22 EU Leaders Demand “Immediate Action” To Spanish […]

The Real Threat To Young Americans’ Jobs Isn’t AI. It’s The National Debt… Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence and supercomputing technologies has many Americans worried about the future of their careers. In a survey last month, more than half of U.S. workers expressed concern that AI could take their job or the job of a family member. Another survey in December found that […]

Verizon Blames ‘Human Error’ For Burying A Jack Smith Subpoena From Congress Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and fifteen colleagues sent a letter to Verizon on Thursday demanding the telecom giant explain how a 2023 grand jury subpoena tied to Jack Smith’s “Arctic Frost” investigation vanished from its own paperwork for more than two years – only to resurface after the company chalked the omission up to “human […]

Leftists Now Claim US And Israel Behind The Migrant Invasion Of Spain A clear pattern is emerging:  When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the “right wing” or blame those devious Israelis.  Why do they do this?  Because it works.  Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge […]

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Short Seller Fairy Tale Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, stuffed like the ass of a Thanksgiving turkey with every trendy AI name you could throw a dart at, reportedly suffered one of the most spectacular drawdowns of recent memory, losing roughly 67% in July after a series of heavily leveraged bets went violently against it. According to the Wall Street Journal, the […]

“I’ve Been Doxed”: Lefty Podcaster Scott Galloway Rips Mamdani After Landing On Socialist’s Rich Target List Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway, who can only be described as a “useful idiot” for helping legitimize far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, appears to be awakening from his political delusion. Galloway now says he has been “doxed” after realizing that the socialist movement he helped […]

Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed “El Tigre” Takes Power Details remain limited, but initial reports and footage on X suggest that one or more vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), commonly known as car or truck bombs, detonated near a police station in Cúcuta, Colombia, close to the Venezuelan border. The apparent VBIED attack occurred just six days before President-elect Abelardo de la […]

Closed Borders Killing Western Union, Earnings Call Transcripts Reveal Western Union CFO Matt Cagwin quietly acknowledged in yesterday’s earnings call that fewer border crossings under the Trump admin are chipping away at the remittance behemoth’s profits: “New migration is the lifeline of our retail business. With borders closed, it is difficult to offset natural attrition… as consumers return home to their native […]

Germany Builds AI ‘Racist Uncle’ Robot To Indoctrinate Kids In Schools Authored by an ‘anonymous German teacher’ via dailysceptic.org, Täteropferumkehr is the German term for “victim blaming” – often hyphenated as Täter-Opfer-Umkehr to make it look slightly less clunky. In recent times, our political and media establishment have turned it into a sharp tool, employed with reference to both foreign and domestic politics. […]

Crude Inventories Have Fallen To “Precariously Low” Levels U.S. crude inventories fell sharply last week as refineries ramped up production to capitalize on higher fuel prices following renewed conflict with Iran, according to Financial Times. Commercial crude stockpiles declined by 7.2 million barrels, while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped another 3.8 million barrels. Refineries operated at 97% of capacity […]

Britain’s Problems Didn’t Begin With Brexit Authored by Jason Sorens via  The Daily Economy, Ten years ago, Britons voted to leave the European Union, launching three and a half years of tumultuous negotiations and domestic political ructions, only subsiding after the UK’s official withdrawal in January 2020. It’s tempting to see Brexit as a watershed moment in Britain’s political economy. Britons themselves now tend […]

Xi Tells PLA TO Build ‘Intelligent Military System’ As Beijing Leans Into Drones And AI China’s Xi Jinping told the People’s Liberation Army this week to intensify the military application of artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, telling a Politburo study session that the force should build toward what the official readout called an “intelligent military system.” The directive landed days before the PLA’s ninety-ninth […]

Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us I think nothing enrages Americans more than a lack of accountability from government officials. Yes, it happens often, and the public hasn’t taken up torches and pitchforks (yet), but I would point out that these incidents are cumulative and they light a growing fire within the collective memory. Eventually, people […]

Wichita Man Sues City To Rip Out Its 200-Camera Flock Dragnet A Wichita machinist, Mason Grimmett, sued his own city this week, arguing that the roughly 200 Flock license-plate readers the police department has bolted around town amount to warrantless dragnet surveillance forbidden by the Kansas Constitution. The complaint, filed in Sedgwick County District Court by the Kansas Justice Institute, does not ask for money – rather, it […]

‘Genetically Altered’ Nuclear Monster Sharks Could Be Eating Whales Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A mysterious predator has been tearing into whales, seals, and giant tuna off the New York coast, leaving bite marks the size of dinner plates and sparking theories of a radioactive “Sharkzilla” spawned by decades of government nuclear waste dumping. Because nothing says summer 2026 like the possibility that Cold War […]

Unitree IPO Finally Puts A Real Price On Profitable Humanoid Robots Chinese robotics maker Unitree formally launched its IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market on Thursday, opening the books on a deal that aims to raise about 4.2 billion yuan (roughly $618 million) at an implied valuation near 42 billion yuan ($5.9 billion). Once the shares start trading, the listing will put a real, daily market price on a profitable humanoid-robot maker […]

Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It’s Effectively ‘Dead’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday said that he still wants compensation for people he said were victimized by a weaponized federal government while acknowledging that a planned $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” after the Department of Justice walked it back amid congressional opposition and court […]

The Strange Reason Scientists Still Need Pre-1945 Steel The world’s most sensitive radiation detectors sometimes rely on low background steel produced before the first atomic bomb test in July 1945, according to a new report from SpaceDaily. Steel manufactured before the nuclear age lacks the tiny traces of radioactive fallout that atmospheric weapons testing later introduced into the environment, making it valuable for experiments […]

Trust In Higher Education Hits Another Low As The Public Rejects Institutional Bias Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. One of the Gallup experts told Fox News that one of the key reasons for the continued slide in public trust is “the perception that there’s a political agenda being […]