Judge (Partly) Rejects Minnesota Bid To Block Trump Admin Title IX Rules On Trans Students Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Monday largely dismissed Minnesota’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX, the 1972 law that bars sex discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities. U.S. District Chief Judge Eric Tostrud of the District of […]

Putin Pardons Ailing Former US Marine After Years In Russian Prison A Marine veteran who had been held in Russian prisons since his arrest in January 2022 has been released back to US custody, reportedly after a consistent pressure campaign from Trump administration officials and global advocacy groups. 32-year old Robert Gilman, a former US Marine and English teacher imprisoned in Russia, is said to have received direct pardon […]

Hormuz Traffic Sank To Just Six Vessels Monday Vessel traffic at the Strait of Hormuz continues to decline as last week’s hopes of negotiations of a U.S.-Iran deal began to fade, yet again. As OilPrice notes, on Monday, only six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz in either direction, down from 11 ships in the latest 10-day average, according to shipping data from Kpler cited by Reuters on Tuesday. Four commodity […]

A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America’s Next 50 Years Authored by Lance Christensen via The Epoch Times, In July, as America turned 250, a reactor the size of a minivan went critical in the red-rock desert of Emery County, Utah. The company that built it, Valar Atomics, isn’t a Utah company at all. It’s based in El Segundo, California, in the shadow of the aerospace giants that once made […]

Even Lefty Joe Scarborough Goes Nuclear On Dems For Refusing To Disavow Democratic Socialists “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough went absolutely nuclear on elected Democrats Monday morning for refusing to denounce the party’s rising far-left wing. He specifically cited far-left types such as Hasan Piker, a self-described Marxist who is the unofficial spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America. Some DSA leaders have said in […]

Solid 3Y Auction Stops Through Ahead Of Tomorrow’s CPI Report Ahead of tomorrow’s CPI report (which will come in tame thanks to continued housing disinflation), moments ago the US Treasury sold its first refunding auction, which came in very strong, stopping through the When Issued, and with above par metrics. Pricing at a high yield of 4.291%, up from 4.179% in July and the highest since Feb 2025, the auction stopped through the […]

Syria’s Hardline Sunni Regime Sentences Bashar al-Assad To Death In Absentia The new government in Damascus has tried to press Moscow to return to Syria the former longtime President Bashar al-Assad. He’s reportedly lived in a posh area of the Russian capital, under heavy security, since he was ousted in December 2024 and forced to flee. Perhaps realizing they will never apprehend him, a Syrian court under the new hardline Sunni […]

Despite Record Surge In Subprime Car Loan Originations, US Household Debt Dropped In Q2: First Since COVID Something unprecedented happened in the second quarter: aggregate household debt balances declined by $13 billion, a 0.1% decline from Q1. Balances stood at $18.8 trillion, up $4.6 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession. But the reason why we say it was unprecedented, is that the Q2 drop was the […]

Trump Weighs Federal Challenge To Mamdani’s Socialist Tax “Experiment,” Warns It Will Doom NYC Summary: Trump Weighs Federal Challenge to New York Pied-à-Terre Tax Judge Temporarily Blocks Mamdani’s Socialist Tax Scheme Trump Weighs Federal Challenge to New York Pied-à-Terre Tax President Trump said in a Truth Social post around lunchtime that his administration is examining whether the federal government has the legal […]

Iran’s Military Command Reshuffle Digs In For ‘Hardline’ Confrontation: US Must Meet All Demands For Hormuz Opening Summary Iran rejects peace push narrative: Tehran says Hormuz stays closed until the US accepts all its conditions. Hardliners take control: Iran reshuffles top military leadership, signaling a tougher stance. Pakistan pushes talks: Interior Minister arrives in Tehran for mediation efforts. US enforces blockade: […]

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Is Betting Its Future On Quantum Security And AI Authored by Jason Nelson via Decrypt.co, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted security have become greater priorities for Ethereum since he published his 2023 roadmap. In a post on X on Monday, Buterin said he updated his 2023 roadmap to compare its original goals with Ethereum’s current […]

Strategic Autonomy Is Running Dry By Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Yesterday, my road cycling took me along the Lek River, which branches off from the Rhine. I frequently ride the path along this river, but the Lek was almost unrecognisable in the distance and what is normally part of the riverbed has now run dry. It’s a very tangible reminder of numbers we’ve recently been watching on our screens: […]

Zelensky Claims North Korea Sending Up To 50K Troops To Russia, Presses Seoul To Send Missiles Ukraine’s President Zelensky has in fresh remarks warned North Korea against its deepening involvement with Russian in executing the war against Ukraine. Zelensky’s late Monday words alleged that Russia recently received additional ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and is preparing to deploy more North Korean troops, after already […]

Wheat Futures Volatile As Black Sea Crisis And Hormuz Chokepoint Spark Concerns Chicago wheat futures are coiling for a breakout (one way or another) as ongoing Russia-Ukraine attacks on Black Sea grain infrastructure and bulk carriers threaten exports from one of the world’s most important breadbaskets. Most-active Chicago wheat has been choppy in the last few days… Hard red winter wheat gained as much as 2.7% to $7.505 a […]

“Niceness As Whiteness”: Professors Denounce Politeness As Privilege Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed how many professors seem to compete in finding new forms of racism in every facet of society and education. Astrophysics, math, runoffs, science, statistics, and meritocracy have all been denounced as racist. In this academic cottage industry, professors secure publications and speaking […]

US Existing Home Sales Disappoint (Again) In July, Hover Near Record Lows With mortgage rates rising and the ‘low hire, no fire’ economy leaving many anxious about their household finances, the ugly spring selling season has not been followed by a consistent rebound in existing home sales in the US. After falling 1.4% MoM in June (revised up from a 2.4% MoM decline), US existing home sales fell again -1.7% MoM in July (worse than […]

A Modest Proposal: Performance Reviews For Senators Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It seems as though only one thing motivates Congress to act – the threat of elections. That’s why both the House and Senate have moved to pass a continuing resolution to keep funding the government until December. Originally funding was going to run out on Oct. 1, the date that was decided during the last shutdown crisis. But with […]

Residents Storm City Council In Texas Over Islamic Center Approval Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Outrage is boiling in North Texas after the McKinney City Council voted 7-0 to greenlight a major new Islamic center complex, brushing aside hours of public testimony that included a direct warning from an Iranian Christian who fled Sharia law. Citizens packed City Hall for a marathon session that stretched past […]

Ex-DSA Member Blows Whistle Over “Mob Tactics” Used On Dissenters, Debates Over Levels-of-Leninism Via RealClearPolitics, Former Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organizer Jake Altman argues that over the past 10-15 years, the organization has transformed from a relatively pragmatic working-class social-democratic group into a much more radical movement driven by younger activists and open to more extreme ideas. He […]

Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’ Newly disclosed text messages show Dr. Anthony Fauci privately entertained the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could trigger first-trimester miscarriages, months before he told the public there was no risk. The messages come from a trove that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released, containing more than […]

Futures Jump, Oil Tumbles As Well-Timed Comments Spark Latest Round Of Hormuz Optimism US equity futures were trading near session lows with bond yields at August highs of 4.74% and Brent rising above $90 for the first time in two weeks when – with just hours until the market open – we had the now standard double-whammy of well-timed “imminent deal optimism” thanks first to the Qatar foreign ministry, followed less than an hour […]

South America Just Rejected Socialism. So Why Is North America Buying It? Authored by Kaizen Asiedu of Clear Thinker Academy,  I’ve been in Colombia for the last three months. Yesterday, right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella, aka “The Tiger,” was sworn into office, succeeding left-wing self-proclaimed socialist Gustavo Petro. This is what the streets of Medellín looked like when The Tiger won in June. Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, […]

Democrats Shocked By The Cancel Culture They Built Authored by Sasha Stone via SashaStone.com, I’ve heard the new talking point on the Left trying to explain away Hasan Piker’s truly vile comments on 9/11. Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Abdul Sayed have all used the term. The memo went out, and now they’re repeating it like parrots. You can see for yourself in these videos [click on SashaStone’s blog above to see a montage]. CNN: […]

China’s Unitree Robotics IPO 5,526 Times Oversubscribed By Retail Investors Unitree Robotics’ initial public offering was heavily oversubscribed (5,526 times) by retail investors as China’s first publicly traded humanoid robotics company prepares to enter the public markets. The IPO will help usher in physical AI to the equity market. The Hangzhou-based humanoid robot maker raised about 6.1 billion yuan, or $904 million, after […]

Everything You Wanted To Know About Building A Cheap AI Setup (That Still Works) But Were Afraid To Ask Authored by Christopher Penn via ‘Almost Timely News’ substack, I’ve been putting together a new course for Trust Insights, AI for Writing (and Writers), which will be coming out August 25th, and during the process of creating that course, I realized I’ve never walked through setting up a discount agentic AI system. For a […]