“They’ve Totally Lost Control”; Trump Threatens ‘Agitators’ As Civil Unrest Soars In Minnesota Update: President Trump escalated his threat to use the Insurrection Act (as we detailed here) earlier today, warning that state and city officials “have totally lost control.” The origin of the chaos appears to be mostly manufactured and began hours after the legal observer was shot and killed last Wednesday: Minneapolis ICE […]

Rashida Tlaib Melts Down Over America  Democratic Socialist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was triggered this week by a Homeland Security post on X featuring a B-2 stealth bomber overhead and a cowboy below, accompanied by the text in the center of the image that read: “We’ll Have Our Home Again.” “What does it evoke in you when you see this? Literally, when I see it, as a Muslim, as a Palestinian, as a child of immigrants, I see it as […]

US Foreclosures Up 14% In 2025; Florida Tops States Authored by  Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Home foreclosures across America were on the rise in 2025, increasing by 14 percent from 2024, with Florida experiencing the highest numbers in the nation. In its Jan. 15 report, property data and analytics provider ATTOM, said that 367,460 U.S. properties were involved with default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank […]

Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Move To Withhold Minnesota Food Stamp Funds A federal judge on Jan. 14 stopped the Trump administration from withholding $80 million in administrative costs for Minnesota’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), ruling that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s tight deadline for reviewing the eligibility of 100,000 households was likely illegal. U.S. District Judge […]

To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here and here. The driving ethos of academia, “publish or perish,” is fighting for its life.  The requirement that scholars constantly publish or face academic ruin has been considered […]

New York Scammers Plead Guilty In $68M Adult Day Care Fraud Scheme Two scammers in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding the state’s controversial Medicaid home care program to the tune of $60 million.  Google Maps Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao, both 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Their scheme involved referring Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day care centers and a […]

Trump, Schumer Hold Rare Meeting At White House To Discuss Gateway Tunnel Project Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) held a rare meeting at the White House on Thursday to discuss an array of issues. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 14, 2025. Madalina […]

Yoon Becomes First Sitting S.Korean President To Be Arrested, Convicted & Sentenced Once a sitting head of state, and now a convicted felon – and potentially much worse still to come: former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, after his dramatic fall from power and attempt to stay in office by declaring martial law in December 2024 – a move that plunged one of Asia’s most stable democracies into a brief period of chaos – is […]

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Denies DOJ Bid To Access California Voter Registration Rolls Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Jan. 15 dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) bid to access California’s voter registration databases, ruling that the demand for voter data from California Secretary of State Shirley Weber was “unprecedented and illegal.” In a 33-page decision, […]

Trump ‘Convinced’ Himself Not To Attack Iran, After Tehran Allegedly Canceled 800 Executions Update(1658ET): President Trump issued another somewhat bizarre Iran statement on Truth Social on Friday. He repeated the White House line that 800 executions that were scheduled and supposed to take place yesterday were halted in Iran. He even ‘thanked’ the Iranians for not carry out the supposed mass execution plan: “I greatly respect […]

Qatar Hired UK PR Firm To Edit Wikipedia Page: Report Amid ongoing US probes into Wikipedia over alleged bias and foreign manipulation, sometimes framed as “Wikilaundering,” a new report has found that a PR company linked to Keir Starmer’s communications chief has been accused of secretly manipulating Wikipedia pages to improve or neutralize clients’ public images. The allegations add another thorn in the side for Wikipedia as […]

Their “Democracy” Is Nothing More Than A Gigantic Engine Of Grift Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Act Now! “The more contradiction you carry, the more reality resists you. Because you’re fracturing the signal with every step.” – SightBringer on “X” Don’t be too surprised if sometime later this day, Friday, the president invokes the Insurrection Act to tranquilize the city of Minneapolis, since aerial spraying of […]

Dave Smith: “America First Means Non-Interventionism”; Republicans Debate GOP Schism Yesterday, in a special ZeroHedge debate on What Is America First?, libertarian comedian Dave Smith and conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza clashed over whether the slogan implies non-intervention abroad or a more assertive, national interest-driven foreign policy. Moderated by Judge Andrew Napolitano, the exchange cut directly to the fault lines […]

FTC Imposes 5-Year Ban On GM Disclosing Geolocation, Driver Data To Consumer Reporting Agencies Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order banning General Motors (GM) from disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for a period of five years, the agency said in a Jan. 14 statement. The FTC had filed a complaint […]

The Wrong Solution: AI Productivity, Employment, & UBI Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It is expected that AI productivity increases will vastly transform the U.S. economy. Firms are utilizing AI productivity enhancements to automate repetitive tasks, and research and coding functions have already been implemented. The obvious problem is that when machines perform functions once done by humans, what are […]

LIS Technologies Launches $1.4 Billion Laser Uranium Enrichment Project In Tennessee LIS Technologies announced a $1.4 billion uranium enrichment project in Oakridge, Tennessee at the former iconic K-25 site, which until 1987 was a massive gaseous diffusion facility built for the Manhattan Project to enrich uranium-235 for atomic bombs. The company will set up shop on the 206-acre on Duct Island, which will be renamed to LIST […]

Democrats Fight To Keep Insurrection Myth Alive In New J6 Committee Authored by Jonathan Turley, The new J6 Committee has started its hearings and, unlike the prior Committee, Republicans have allowed Democrats to select members to sit in opposition. That has led to sharp exchanges, but one of the more interesting occurred between Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) and Jamie Raskin (D., Md.). After Hageman got a witness to admit that […]

ACLU And Celebs Release Cringe Appeal To Allow Men In Women’s Sports Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The American Civil Liberties Union has rolled out a new campaign pushing for biological males to compete in women’s sports, just as the Supreme Court takes up cases that could finally protect female athletes from unfair competition. Featuring ‘stars’ including Megan Rapinoe and Naomi Watts, the ad frames this […]

EU Mulls Ditching Accession System Used Since Cold War To Fast-Track Ukraine When in doubt, just change the rules – or so goes the thinking in Brussels as it seeks to get creative on ways to allow Ukraine’s quick accession to the European Union, despite it being consistently ranked among the most corrupt governments on earth. EU officials have described that a current plan being taken seriously is a ‘limited’ membership tier, part […]

Shale Pioneer Harold Hamm Steps Back From Bakken After Decades Harold Hamm says low oil prices are forcing a step he hasn’t taken in decades: shutting down drilling in North Dakota’s Bakken, according to Bloomberg. “This will be the first time in over 30 years that Harold Hamm has not had an operation with drilling rigs in North Dakota,” he said. “That tells you a whole lot right there: There’s no need to drill it when […]

Isotopes 101 Submitted by TightSpreads  Many smart investors are catching up to the nuclear story already, but there is another angle to it that is grossly uncovered: isotopes. This educational primer provides a useful starting point for understanding isotope market opportunities and the nuclear equities or advanced materials companies to be featured soon. Why is this timely? Because Oklo management has told the street that […]

Another $3.5 Billion For Gas Power Generation Talen Energy is following in the footsteps of utility peers Vistra and Constellation by spending billions of dollars acquiring gas generation assets to expand their capacity and grow market share in the growing power demand market. After spending about $3.5 billion to acquire gas generation capacity in Pennsylvania and Ohio back in July 2025, the company announced it spent another $3.5 […]

Underwater Auto Trade-Ins Reach Record Highs: Edmunds Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, A record number of automobile owners are carrying negative equity of $10,000 to more than $15,000 into trade-ins on new vehicles, according to online vehicle data analytics website Edmunds. In the fourth quarter of 2025, a record high of 27 percent of vehicle trade-ins involved negative equity of at least $10,000, Edmunds reported on […]

Canada’s PM Carney Praises “New World Order”; Opens Door To Chinese EVs The invasion of Chinese electric vehicles into North America is set to accelerate after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to roll back the triple-digit tariffs previously imposed on Chinese EVs. The move sharply diverges from President Trump’s America First policy, which aims to revitalize the North American auto industry. While Chinese EVs remain […]

Trump Says Wants To Keep “Hassett Where He Is” Sending Warsh Fed Chair Odds Soaring; Gold Slides In a strong hint ahead of Trump’s decision later this month who the next Fed chair will be, the president appears to have hobbled the chances of one of the Kevins when he said that Kevin Hassett was “fantastic on TV today”, and Trump wants to “keep him where he is” since “Fed officials don’t talk much” while Hassett is “good at […]