Brave New Autonomous World Takes Shape On America’s Highways Wall Street remains hyper-focused on whether the hyperscalers’ AI-driven data center buildout, now approaching $700 billion and roughly 10 times 2020 levels, will ultimately generate enough returns to justify the massive spending boom. Goldman analysts, led by Mark Delaney, focused on the “impact of AI on profit pools” and, more specifically, on the incremental profit […]

“Depraved Evil”: Gay Couple Mocks Baby’s Cry For ‘Mama’ In Viral Surrogacy Video Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Two gay men in Nashville recorded themselves taunting the baby they obtained through surrogacy as he cried desperately for his mother. The now viral clip has ignited fury across X. The clip opens with one man asking the infant, “Who do you want, Dada or Pop?” The baby responds, “Mama.” The man […]

Xi Jinping Refocuses On Taiwan With Renewed Political Outreach China hosted a high-profile meeting between Xi Jinping and a senior Taiwanese opposition figure from the Kuomintang (KMT), marking a notable resumption of party-to-party engagement after years of limited direct contact, according to Nikkei Asia. The meeting was tightly choreographed, featuring an extended handshake, formal seating arrangements, and controlled media […]

More Young Men Than Young Women Now Say Religion Is ‘Very Important’ To Them, Gallup Finds Authored by Mark A. Kellner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Young men in the United States are more religious than young women for the first time in 25 years, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday. A man reads scripture while viewing the casket of Reverend Billy Graham in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on Feb. 28, […]

Trump Turns The Screws On Israel In Biggest Pressure Move To Reign In Bibi Yet The Lebanon ceasefire appears to be legitimate and holding, and the biggest evidence of this is that Lebanese citizens themselves are pouring back into the war-ravaged south of the country, seeking to recover to their homes which are in some cases ‘unlivable’. “Thousands of families displaced by weeks of fighting filled the main highway to southern […]

Is America On The Verge Of A Nuclear Renaissance? Authored by Duggan Flanakin via WattsUpWithThat.com, It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law – and it has taken all seven years (including four during the Biden Administration) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a final rule implementing its provisions. Even […]

Google’s Stake In SpaceX Could Be Worth $122 Billion At IPO A long-held investment by Alphabet Inc. in SpaceX could become one of its most valuable bets if the rocket company moves ahead with a public listing, according to Bloomberg. Regulatory filings indicate Google owned about 6.11% of SpaceX at the end of 2025. At a projected $2 trillion IPO valuation, that stake would be worth roughly $122 billion. After SpaceX’s merger with […]

The Latest On The Redistricting Battles Authored by Jackson Richman & Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Despite the midterm season underway, the lines of congressional maps have not been finalized as redistricting battles continue nationwide. Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in the Hillsboro Old Stone School in Hillsboro, Va., on Nov. 4, 2025 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Since Texas’s opening […]

Unpaid Trash Company Empties Dumpster Rental Load On Customer’s Front Lawn A Bay Area dumpster company decided to skip collections and go straight to… lawn delivery. Express Rental Dumpster said a San Pablo customer rented a bin while moving out, but the payment situation was, generously, fictional. The owner, Martin Perez, said the card kept getting declined while the customer kept promising “later”, according to Fox News. […]

“F**k It…Just Do It”: Carville Lays Out Democratic Plan To Add States And Pack The Court To Retain Power Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose power again. Democratic strategist James Carville has been one of the most vocal and returned to the subject this week in laying out how they will make D.C. […]

Meta To Unleash First Wave Of Mass Layoffs May 20 As It Eliminates 10% Of Its Workers The FaceBook currently known as Meta for one failed venture that incinerated nearly $100 billion in cash for its failed transformation to a virtual reality hub while laying off thousands, is at it again. As we previewed a few weeks ago, Meta – which inexplicably hasn’t changed its name to AIbook yet – will proceed with the first wave of mass […]

No SAVE Act? Congress Still Holds The Trump Card Authored by Scott Yenor via American Greatness, The failure of the United States Senate to pass the SAVE America Act is as regrettable as it is predictable. Noncitizen voting is already a federal crime in America. SAVE would have required voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote. States would have to purge noncitizens from voting rolls, too. […]

Former Congressman Blows The Whistle On Blackmail And Honeypots In Congress In a candid interview with Human Events editor Jack Posobiec, former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) alleged that blackmail and sexual honeypot operations are far more prevalent than the American public is aware of. Cawthorn, who was elected to represent North Carolina’s 11th congressional district at just 25 years old in 2020, described the typical path […]

“Overwhelming Puke-Stream”: It’s All Going To Come Out Now… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Showdown “Everything that’s wrong is staring us right in the face, and half this country simply will not join us in fighting and fixing it. It’s infuriating and depressing and maddening.” – James Woods on X The closer this Iran war comes to a favorable resolution, the more garishly negative the puling Lefty-left gets, […]

Does Trump Know Something We Don’t About Potential SCOTUS Vacancies? Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia,com, The midterm elections are coming up in November, and Democrats are generally favored to win the House, while the Senate is kind of a coin flip. While it would suck for Democrats to win the House because they’ll almost certainly find some bogus pretext to impeach President Donald Trump, there’s potentially more at […]

A “Bulging Lobe” Of Polar Vortex Madness Headed For U.S. East Mother Nature across the Mid-Atlantic can only be described by the Katy Perry lyric, “You’re hot, then you’re cold,” as a meteorologist warns that a “tropospheric polar vortex” will sweep across the Lower 48 this weekend into early next week, abruptly ending the summer-like conditions in Washington, D.C. “A bulging lobe of the tropospheric ‘polar vortex’ will be […]

The End Of Oil Volatility As A Weapon Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, This is the only chart that matters right now…not borrowing costs (@lukegromen). It’s the weekly chart of Brent Crude. I’ve been telling my patrons for three weeks in the Market Reports that the Brent Crude chart has all the earmarks of a market being manipulated UP to support a narrative… That narrative is Donald Trump is a […]

Tanker Armada Races For Hormuz After Iran Says Strait Is Open An armada of at least eight oil tankers set off toward the Strait of Hormuz immediately after Iran’s foreign minister said the vital waterway was fully open to shipping. Five of the carriers, which had been anchored north of Dubai, were moving into the waterway on Friday afternoon, soon after Iran’s foreign minister said it was completely open, vessel tracking […]

Charles Schwab To Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading For Retail Clients Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, Charles Schwab announced further details and plans in their attempt to launch direct spot bitcoin trading through its new platform, Schwab Crypto™, signaling a major step by one of the country’s largest brokerage firms into the digital asset market.  The feature will roll out in phases over the coming weeks […]

Record Share Of Home Sellers Cut Listing Prices In February: Report A record share of home sellers cut their listing prices in February as competition for homebuyers necessitated steep price reductions, an April 9 report by real estate platform Redfin said. About 34.2 percent of sellers reduced their listing prices in February, up from 31.5 percent in the same month a year earlier, according to Redfin’s analysis of MLS data. […]

FIFA Rebukes NJ’s Lefty Governor In Transportation Dispute Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Leaders behind the 2026 FIFA World Cup rebuked New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill after she launched what appeared to be a social media campaign complaining that the state would be stuck footing the bill for public transportation tied to the event. The 2026 World Cup is set to span multiple days, including eight matches at […]

Critical Metals Shares Surge 40% After Expanding Rare Earth Mining Position In Greenland Critical Metals Corp. shares have surged as much as 45% in trading today after the company significantly expanded its position in Greenland’s Tanbreez rare earth project, tightening its grip on a resource it sees as central to a US-friendly supply chain, according to Bloomberg. It marks the biggest intraday gain in half a year and lifting […]

Senate Votes To Repeal Biden-Era Mining Ban In Minnesota, Sending Bill To Trump Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Senate narrowly voted on April 16 to overturn a 20-year mining ban imposed by the former Biden administration on a national forest in northeastern Minnesota. The measure, which passed 50–49 and will now advance to President Donald Trump’s desk, will reverse the previous administration’s […]

Iran Bats Down ‘Baseless’ Trump Claim On Handing Over Enriched Uranium To US, As He Declares Hormuz ‘Never Again’ Closed Summary Trump Praises Iran for Fully Reopening Hormuz Chokepoint; Crude Tanks, Yields Dump, Equity Futs Up; Follows by claiming Iran will ‘never again’ close it; FARS soon after contradicts in fresh threat. Iran’s Aragchi says “Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open”. However, Iranian official tells […]

Microsoft Triples-Down On Data Centers, As Half Of Planned Projects Face Cancelations, Delays Microsoft unveiled plans to triple its data center footprint in Cheyenne, Wyoming, snapping up roughly 3,200 acres on the city’s south edge.  The deal covers a 200-acre parcel in Bison Business Park plus an adjacent 3,000-acre tract, turning what is already one of the company’s longstanding hubs into a sprawling complex.  With 11 data […]