LGBT Activist Judge Faces Felony Charges For Wrongfully Detaining A Defense Attorney A Texas LGBT judge with a history of clashing with authorities over her activism has been arrested and charged after she allegedly handcuffed and held a defense attorney captive in her jury box for the crime of arguing for the right to confer with her client during a probation hearing.     Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez was indicted […]

Ryan Routh To Be Sentenced For Trump Assassination Attempt Today Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, A federal judge is set to sentence Ryan Routh on Feb. 4 for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence while the defense is arguing for leniency. The sentencing hearing is scheduled just months after Routh, 59, attempted to stab himself in U.S. District Judge Aileen […]

‘Nearly Indestructible’ Fuel: Nano Nuclear CEO Talks ‘Laser Enrichment’ On Shawn Ryan Show 2025 was a watershed moment for the US nuclear industry: enthusiasm for a global nuclear renaissance gripped the investment community as the valuations for publicly traded companies were pushed into the stratosphere. Tickers associated with nuclear reactors were pushed up several hundred percentage points, with Nano Nuclear one of the best […]

WTI Holds Losses As Freezing Temps Sparked Massive Drop In US Production Crude oil prices (WTI) are trending moderately lower this morning as traders weigh geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a report of sharply lower US stockpiles reported by API overnight. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff will hold indirect negotiations in Oman on Friday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim reported, adding […]

What The Hell Happened To Don Lemon? From “Racism Is Over” To White Christian-Hating Radical Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In one of his most revealing moments years ago, Don Lemon sat down with Morgan Freeman and admitted exhaustion with the race narrative. “Sometimes, I get so tired of talking about it,” Lemon said. “I wanna just go, ‘This is over. Can we move on?’” Don Lemon once told Morgan […]

Speculation US May Announce New Nuclear Plant During Korea Trade Negotiations At a time when China, which is now leaps and bounds ahead of the US in energy generation, is building 29 nuclear power plants compared to zero for the US… Since the last update, Russia has added one additional nuclear reactor under construction (up to 5). China is still at 29; the US is still at 0 https://t.co/u9SnLCeFkI pic.twitter.com/2lUIFnXtOL — […]

Tom Homan Announces 700-Agent Drawdown As Minnesota Counties Begin Cooperating With ICE Border czar Tom Homan revealed moments ago at a press conference in Minneapolis that an unprecedented number of counties are now coordinating with federal authorities and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they reach the streets. As a result, Homan noted, fewer federal agents are needed in the metro area. “We currently have an […]

US Services Sector Surveys Signal Solid Growth In January, But… Following the dramatic rebound in US Manufacturing survey data – driven by a surge in new orders – ‘Soft’ data has bounced back dramatically from its post-government shutdown lows (which is ironically occurring as the hard data – which was so resilient through the shutdown – has started to roll over)… …and this morning’s Services Sector survey data builds on […]

Putin ‘Kept His Word’ On Ceasefire, Trump Says, As Large Attacks On Kiev Resume President Trump has praised his Russian counterpart for keeping his word on the brief winter freeze ceasefire. Last week Trump had picked up the phone and urged President Putin to refrain from attacking Kiev and other major cities. Trump said of the surprise pause that Putin had agreed to halt strikes for one week. Trump has newly told reporters that […]

New York To Deploy Legal Observers From AG James’ Office To Monitor Federal Immigration Agents Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, New York is launching a new initiative to monitor immigration enforcement in the state, Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday. Her announcement comes amid heightened tensions and increasing protests, threats, and violence against federal agents carrying out arrests of illegal aliens. […]

No Surprises In Treasury Refunding Statement: No Auction Size Increases For “Next Several Quarters” Ahead of today’s much-anticipated quarterly refunding announcement by the US Treasury, some were hopeful that Bessent could pull an anti-Yellen and forecast a gradual decline in long-term issuance in coming quarters, sending yields lower. None of the happened, however, and instead the Treasury did not surprise markets, announcing that […]

Trump Warns Of ‘Bad Things’ If No Iran Deal Reached As Venue Moves To Oman Trump had kicked off the week by warning Iran that “bad things” would probably happen if a deal could not be reached. “We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones – the biggest and the best – and we have talks going on with Iran and we’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “If we can work something out, that would be […]

ADP Employment Report Confirms ‘No Hire, No Fire’ Labor Market While we will not be getting the payrolls report this week (due to a very brief govt shutdown), ADP’s Employment report paints a poor picture for hiring (even if jobless claims paints a healthy picture for ‘not firing’) adding just 22k jobs (well below the 45k expected). Goods producing firms added just 1k jobs (Construction +9k, Manufacturing -8k – which has lost […]

Futures Rise Despite Software, AMD Rout Ahead Of Google Earnings US stock futures are up small with Tech lagging on rotation fears, though major indices are off their overnight lows. The AI narrative has been flipped upside down, with traders focused on perceived losers, most of which are in the Software sector, where “there’s no floor” according to one investment manager. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.2%, well […]

Gold Investors: Remember 1933 Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Investors have been rightly impressed by the remarkable run of gold, which in dollar terms has doubled in price over the past year. This performance vastly outpaces the stock markets (which are also sitting near all-time highs) and bitcoin (trading sideways to down for months), the cryptocurrency challenger touted as a “digital gold” safe-haven […]

United Nations Warns That It’s Going Broke Without US Financial Support Officials at the United Nations are pleading for relief this week after admitting that the premier globalist organization is going broke because of US cuts and changes to their budgeting rules which require them to pay back some “unspent funds”.  Unpaid dues from member states are also building. As the Trump administration slashes support over criticism that […]

Melinda French Gates Breaks Silence On Explosive Claims About Bill Gates In Epstein Files Melinda French Gates, the philanthropist and ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has broken her silence on the latest release of damning documents tied to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, saying the renewed scrutiny of her ex-husband’s associations evokes “very, very painful” memories from their marriage. In an interview with NPR’s […]

EU vs. Elon Musk: The Battle Over Free Speech Escalates In Paris Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A raid on Elon Musk’s company X in Paris: On Tuesday morning, the French public prosecutor gained access to the company’s offices. The stated purpose of the investigation is the dissemination of child pornography and violations of personal rights through the spread of Deepfakes. X’s offices in Paris, which were searched by investigators […]

EV Bloodbath: Carmakers Suffer Face-Melting Losses As Buyers Flee, Credits End The push into electric vehicles was always bullshit, sold by the left as the move that would future-proof America’s and Europe’s legacy automakers and save the planet – and anyone not buying it was subject to a guilt trip from smug, private-jet-owning elitists. Instead, EVs are now looking like one of the costliest strategic blunders in modern […]

“Big Miss”: Wall Street Disappointed After Dismal Novo Nordisk GLP-1 Sales Outlook, Shares Plunge Update ( Wed): Novo Nordisk shares in Europe opened sharply lower after the company released a disappointing full-year outlook during the middle of the U.S. cash session on Tuesday. Shares in Copenhagen plunged 20%, the steepest drop since last July, as hopes for a bottom after a multi-year bear market faded. Novo’s warning on 2026 […]

The Two Levels Of EU-Sanctions Illegality Submitted by Pascal Lottaz Pascal’s Note: A previous guest on my YouTube Channel, Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños—the international lawyer who, back in the 2000s, forced his native Costa Rica to withdraw from George W. Bush’s Coalition of the Willing—sent me a short assessment of the legality of EU sanctions. He argues that the Eurocrats are, in fact, grossly overstepping their […]

Second Iranian Diplomat In Europe Defects, Seeks Asylum, Amid US Pressure Campaign  Trump’s repeated threats to bomb Iran seem to have resulted in some Iranian officials abandoning ship. There have been reports of two such recent instances. In the latest, Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Vienna, Gholamreza Derikvand, abruptly abandoned his post and is reportedly seeking asylum in Switzerland for himself and his family. […]

The Government Is Obsessed With Making Britain’s Countryside ‘Less White’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The British countryside is under siege from diversity mandates that aim to transform it into a “less white environment,” with officials in areas of natural beauty like the Chilterns and Cotswolds pledging to draw in more ethnic minorities under Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) […]

Saif Gaddafi, Prominent Son Of Ex-Libyan Leader, Assassinated By Unknown Gunmen Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the the most prominent son of Libya’s late long-time ruler, has died, according to his family on Tuesday. His adviser, Abdallah Othman Abdurrahim, also confirmed his death but without giving details. “Seif al-Islam has fallen as a martyr,” his cousin, Hamid Kadhafi, has told Libyan TV. Emerging reports point to what appears an […]

Gold Giant Bundesbank Signals An Open Vote Of No Confidence in Global Monetary Stability Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The German Bundesbank hoards the second-largest gold reserves among central banks. The precious metal serves as an insurance policy for both states and private individuals. Its massive price surge shows that the dice have already been cast: governments will attempt to inflate their debts. Anyone acquiring precious […]