Trump Admin Refuses To Comply With Immigration Court Order The Trump administration has drawn a line in the sand. It will not comply with a federal court order demanding due process for 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last March under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department made that position clear in a new filing, setting up a collision course with U.S. District Judge […]

NIH Allocates $10 Million For Research In East Palestine Three Years After Toxic Train Crash Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Three years have passed since a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, an eastern Ohio village near the Pennsylvania border. A neighborhood near the train wreck where vinyl chloride from derailed tank cars was vented and burnt […]

Raskin: Voter ID Law Violates The 19th Amendment In Denying The Vote To Women Authored by Jonathan Turley, With polling showing over 80 percent of Americans in favor of voter ID laws, it is hard to come up with reasons why you need an ID to board a plane but not vote in a federal election. That was particularly glaring this week when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) required people to show an ID to attend his campaign events after opposing […]

At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East: ‘Desert Storm Levels’  An eye-opening and massive number of C-17 Globemaster military transport and cargo planes have been observed heading to Europe and the Middle East, in what some monitors have forewarned looks like the build-up to major war in Iran. One regional watcher and pundit commented in response: “112 C-17s are in or on their way to the Middle East. Guys, […]

David Sacks Exposes New York Times For Shielding Reid Hoffman In Epstein Files Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Venture capitalist David Sacks has slammed The New York Times for its glaring failure to scrutinize Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder emerging as the top Silicon Valley figure in the explosive Jeffrey Epstein files. In a scathing segment on the All-In Podcast, Sacks highlighted how the establishment […]

If You’re Free To Complain About Fascism, You Don’t Live In A Fascist Country Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side, Many, many years ago—we’re talking decades—I got into a fight with a boy I’d been dating for (thankfully) not very long. I can’t even recall what the argument was about, but I’ll never forget his very last words to me: “God, you’re so stupid.” “There are plenty of insults you could fling […]

Musk: “Time To Go Back To Moon At Scale” A little more than a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk had rejiggered SpaceX’s near-term space roadmap, pivoting from a Mars-first to now prioritizing the Moon, Musk has now effectively confirmed the reporting. “Time to go back to the Moon at scale,” Musk wrote on X early Sunday morning. Time to go back to the Moon at scale https://t.co/rFjaenmQZd — Elon Musk […]

Nearly 2,000 Truckers Deemed Unfit Are Removed From American Roads Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Almost 2,000 truckers deemed to be unqualified to drive on U.S. roads have been removed, with several arrested and many vehicles put out of service, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a Feb. 6 statement. Trucks line up next to the border wall before crossing to the United States at Otay […]

San Fran’s Tenderloin District Stores Double As “Secret Casinos” And “Sleazy Drug Dens” San Francisco officials say they have shut down or taken legal action against nine convenience stores in the Tenderloin after uncovering illegal gambling rooms, drug operations, and fencing schemes, according to the NY Post. City Attorney David Chiu said the shops had become centers of “drug-driven lawlessness” and helped sell stolen goods to […]

Pentagon To Cut Academic Ties With Harvard, Hegseth Says Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Feb. 6 that the Pentagon will cut all academic ties with Harvard University as the institution “no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services.” Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times Hegseth said the […]

Russia Accused Of Intercepting, Shadowing European Satellites For Signals Intelligence Russian spacecraft have reportedly been intercepting the communications of at least a dozen high-value European satellites, according to EU security officials, in the latest Ukraine-related ‘scare’ by Moscow. However, any information gleaned would be from communications that the satellite operators failed to encrypt.  Officials told the […]

Foreign Meddling? Brussels-Funded German NGO Sues X For Access To Data On Hungary’s Upcoming Election Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A German non-governmental organization that receives substantial funding from the European Union, as well as the German and Dutch governments, has filed a lawsuit seeking access to social media platform X’s data related to Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections. Berlin-based […]

Humanoid Robots Get “Brains” As Dual-Use Fears Mount Chinese humanoid robotics firms are laser-focused on advancing “robot brains” for next-gen platforms already entering series production and headed to factory floors this year. Once these intelligent models push beyond scripted video stunts – we’ve all seen in promotional videos – into real-world autonomy, the systems become battlefield-ready, dual-use robots. The Shanghai […]

China Takes Step Towards ‘Starlink Killer’, Could Be Game-Changer In Ukraine Via Remix News, A new, compact, high-power microwave weapon, the TPG1000Cs, has been developed at a Shanghai Nuclear Technology Institute, which could become one of the most serious threats to the Starlink satellite network. The device can deliver 20 gigawatts of energy for up to a full minute, the South China Morning Post reported, cited by Portfolio. […]

Will Falling Birth Rates Mean A More Conservative World? Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago—the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth […]

Trump Imposes Secondary Tariffs, Reaching 25%, On Countries Still Importing From Iran US and Iranian delegations conducted eight-hours of indirect negotiations mediated by the Omani government in Muscat on Friday, but it was merely minutes after the close of the talks that the US Department of State announced yet more sanctions on Iran. The punitive measures target 15 entities, two individuals and 14 vessels, charging them of being […]

Thousands Of Iraqis Volunteer To Defend Iran Against US Attack Via Middle East Eye Thousands of Iraqis have signed a pledge to help defend Iran in the event of a US attack on the Islamic Republic. According to a statement, almost 5,000 people in Iraq’s Diyala province gathered to declare their intent to defend both Iraq and its eastern neighbor, as well as Iran-backed armed groups, “without any compensation”. “We announce […]

Fifth Circuit Upholds Policy That Illegal Immigrants Can Be Detained Without Bond Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court has sided with the Trump administration in upholding a policy that mandates detention without bond hearings for illegal immigrants in the United States who entered without inspection. President President Donald Trump (2L), Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (L), and […]

Washington Post CEO And Publisher Quits As Newspaper Implodes In Epic Chaos How the mighty have fallen. In a “poetic ending” plot twist, that even jaded conspiracy theorists would have had trouble scripting, Washington Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis has abruptly and unexpectedly stepped down from his perch atop Jeff Bezos’s crumbling media empire. Well, maybe not that unexpectedly… Will Lewis, the chief executive and publisher […]

AI ‘Kill Chains’ And Rise Of Skynet-Like Weapons Offer Glimpse Of 2030s Battlefield Ukraine has become the proving ground for 2030s warfare, where Western weaponry, Russian weaponry, and anyone else’s “next gen” weaponry collide on a modern battlefield that’s already providing a sneak peek of what conflict will look like: weaponized AI, ground robots, FPV swarms, and automated kill chains, with humanoid robo-killers that could enter […]

Why This Crash Is Bitcoin’s Biggest Test Yet Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Bitcoin has a way of faking its own death, and this past week delivered another such instance with theatrical flair. After flirting with the once-unthinkable level of $120,000, the world’s most famous digital asset promptly face-planted to around $62,000 at its recent lows on Thursday. Even for crypto, a 50% drawdown in months isn’t just a bad […]

Young America’s Affordability Crisis Has Political Consequences Authored by Micky Horstman via RealClearPolitics, One and a half million more young adults live with their parents today than a decade ago. They’re losers … economically.  Since the pandemic, fair market rents have increased as much as 40% in Chicago, the cost of owning a car is up more than 40%, and car insurance and health care prices have spiked. Student […]

Uber Ordered To Pay $8.5 Million In Trial Over Driver Sex Assault Claims A U.S. jury ordered Uber on Thursday to pay $8.5 million to a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a driver, a verdict that could shape the course of thousands of similar lawsuits pending against the ride-hailing company. The Uber logo is shown on the building in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 14, 2024. Mike Blake/Reuters The case, brought by Jaylynn […]

Newsom’s ‘Train To Nowhere’: Californians Burn Billions For Political Boondoggle Authored by Jonathan Turley, In the dystopian novel 1984,  George Orwell wrote, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” The true meaning of that line was never more clear than watching the truly bizarre photo op of California governor Gavin Newsom heralding the success of the […]

All Is Well… Or Is It? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “If you depreciate the money, it makes everything look like it’s going up.” – Ray Dalio “People don’t realize how hard it is to speak the truth to a world full of people who don’t realize they’re living a lie” – Edward Snowden My government overlords and their legacy media propaganda outlets tell me the economy is booming […]