The Day Civilization Runs Out Of Bread Will Not Feel Like Fiction Authored by Madge Waggy, For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion that humanity had stepped away from the edge permanently, as if the terrifying balance that defined the Cold War had dissolved together with old […]

The Rise Of AI Writing And The Decline Of Human Voice Artificial intelligence has become a powerful writing assistant, helping people draft emails, essays, marketing copy, and social media posts in seconds. But as these tools grow more popular, researchers are raising concerns about an unintended consequence: AI may be changing not just what we write, but how we communicate altogether, according to Axios. New research suggests that […]

Gold, Debt And The Inevitable Global Housing Market Crash Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Maybe the most prominent economic discussion circulating today is the fear that the vast majority of people have been priced out of housing markets for the rest of their lives, regardless of the country they live. Gen Z and even Gen Alpha teens are already planning for a future in which buying a home is impossible. Those that are […]

DOE’s NNSA Removes Enriched Uranium From Venezuela And Japan The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has coordinated with Japan and Venezuela to remove enriched uranium from both countries.  The U.S. has secured its largest-ever HALEU fuel shipment, working in partnership with Japan. This significant transfer advances President Trump’s strategy to restore America’s energy dominance and power […]

Global Jet Fuel Exports Hit 10-Year Seasonal Low in April Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Global seaborne jet fuel exports crashed to a seasonal low in April as supplies remained trapped in the Middle East and Asian refiners slashed run rates amid lower crude availability, energy flows analytics firm Vortexa said in a report on Friday. Global seaborne exports of jet/kerosene fuels slumped to as low as 1.1 million […]

Is Marco Rubio The New Heir Apparent To Trump? For months, the conventional wisdom inside Republican circles has been settled and simple: JD Vance is next. The vice president has led 2028 Republican presidential nomination polling by a country mile, averaging nearly 45.5 points in the RealClearPolitics aggregate — more than 30 points ahead of Donald Trump Jr. at 14.8% and Marco Rubio at 14%. And yet, something shifted this […]

Is There More Risk Than Reward In The US–China Summit? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Do the advantages of the U.S.–China summit still outweigh the disadvantages? Perhaps, but the negative risks are high. President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo […]

What The Indiana Primaries Tell Us About Trump’s Grip On The GOP Tuesday night’s primaries in Indiana were not subtle. Five of seven Republican state senators who had blocked a congressional redistricting map favored by President Donald Trump lost their primary races to Trump-backed challengers. The message, delivered cleanly through the ballot box, couldn’t have been clearer. Twenty-one Republicans in the Indiana Senate […]

Nick Shirley Went To Cuba… He Almost Didn’t Make It Home Authored by Sarah Anderson via PJMedia.com, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio often accuse the Cuban regime of rolling out the red carpet for our adversaries. They’re not wrong. It actively welcomes those working against United States interests, and I’m not just talking about China, Russian, and Iran.  If you’ll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the […]

UCLA Med School Illegally Using Race In Admissions: DOJ A DOJ investigation into the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) found its medial school allegedly used applicants’ race to discriminate against white and asian candidates.  Royce Hall on University of California, Los Angeles, campus is seen in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2024. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File In a seven-page letter released on Wednesday, the […]

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Rules DOGE’s Terminations Of Humanities Grants Unlawful Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled on May 7 that the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) termination of hundreds of humanities grants last year was unconstitutional and involved “blatant” discrimination. In April 2025, the Trump administration axed more than 1,400 grants, amounting to more […]

Thailand Emerges As Possible Hub In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Channel To Alibaba New details have emerged in the alleged AI chip diversion scheme involving the co-founder of Super Micro Computer. Bloomberg reports that some of the $2.5 billion worth of servers containing advanced AI chips were allegedly routed through a Bangkok-based company before reaching Chinese AI leader Alibaba. The Bloomberg report noted: US prosecutors this […]

We’re “Ending The Days Of Hiding Fraud”: Bessent Goes After Dark Money In Nonprofits Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness, On April 23, the US Treasury Department announced that the IRS plans to revise Form 990—the annual information return filed by tax-exempt organizations—to improve transparency and strengthen oversight, specifically targeting reporting on government contracts, government grants, and fiscal […]

Traders Puzzled As Physical Oil Prices Tumble Amid Surging Chinese Crude Sales, Plunging Imports Yesterday when discussing China’s unexpected flip-flopping on its decision to order local banks to ignore the latest US sanctions on Chinese, followed days later by a demand that they pause loans to sanctions refiners, we highlighted something remarkable: in the aftermath of the Strait of Hormuz blockade, which throttled the transit of […]

US To Revoke Passports Of People Who Owe ‘Significant’ Child Support Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of State announced on May 7 that it would revoke the U.S. passports of parents who are significantly behind on child support payments. The department said it would work with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to revoke passports of individuals who owe “significant […]

NJ Transit Cuts World Cup Train Fare After Backlash Over $150 Ticket Price After getting roasted over its $150 World Cup train fare, NJ Transit is backing off, lowering the roundtrip ticket to $105 for rides between Penn Station and MetLife Stadium, according to Bloomberg. The agency had defended the original price as necessary to handle massive game-day crowds, with roughly 40,000 extra riders expected per match. That explanation […]

Redistricting Battles Heat Up After Supreme Court Ruling Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling on redistricting has prompted lawmakers in multiple states to reconsider their electoral maps ahead of the 2026 midterms. The decision, issued on April 29, focused on a congressional map that Louisiana drew after a lower court stated that a prior map violated the Voting […]

Massive Oil Slick Spotted Off Iran’s Kharg Island, Cause Unknown  An apparent large oil spill spanning dozens of square miles of sea has been spotted off of Iran’s main oil hub of Kharg Island, according to open source satellite imagery and reporting in both the NY Times and Reuters on Friday. The reports cite images from Copernicus’s Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 satellites taken from monitoring May 6 through 8 which […]

‘An Epic Madness Burns In The Minds of Californians…’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The California Death Trip “History records no pity for parties that choose purity over competence, vengeance over vision, pathology over pragmatism. The long night is not coming. It is here. . . . ” – LHGrey on X The Pacific Palisades fire ignited on January 7, 2025, in the very last days of the “Joe Biden” fake presidency. […]

Toyota And Honda See Sharp Declines In Profit Amidst Iran War Pressures, Spiking EV Costs Toyota expects a sharp decline in profit as rising material and shipping costs tied to the Iran conflict pressure its business, according to Bloomberg.  The automaker projected operating income of ¥3 trillion for the fiscal year ending March 2027, well below both analyst expectations of ¥4.6 trillion and last year’s ¥3.8 trillion. The […]

Trump Gets Diplomatic Win In Ukraine War, 3-Day Ceasefire Declared For Russia’s V-Day President Trump announced Friday that the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and a major prisoner swap. He hailed in a Truth Social post that this could be the “beginning of the end” of the long war between them. He specified that the ceasefire would run Saturday through Monday – with Saturday […]

Minnesota Democrats Unanimously Vote To Protect Rep. Ilhan Omar… And Dead Voters Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com, Minnesota Senate Democrats recently voted – unaminously – against removing deceased persons from the state’s voter rolls. This tracks with the fact that almost 100% of dead people vote for Democrats, making them Democrats’ most loyal voting bloc, even surpassing that of serial killers. (This […]

Another Wall Street Giant Is Plotting Its Escape From Mamdani’s New York City: Report It looks like Citadel isn’t the only Wall Street giant looking for the exits as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) continues his commie Robinhood thing on the city’s richest. Fox Business Network’s Charles Gasparino reported Wednesday that the Manhattan-headquartered private equity giant Apollo is preparing to establish what insiders […]

Taiwan Semiconductor April Sales Grow At Slowest Pace In 6 Months Taiwan Semiconductor, world’s largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, posted its slowest pace of monthly revenue expansion since October, highlighting the challenges of sustaining torrid AI-fueled pace of growth. Sales in April rose 17.5% to NT$410.7 billion ($13.1 billion), their smallest rise in about six months. While the rise reflects just 30 days […]

Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filings Increase 42% Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There were 644 commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in April 2026, a 42 percent yearly increase, according to a May 6 statement from the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). A Chapter 11 bankruptcy seeks to reorganize a company’s debts, with the aim of keeping the business operational and, eventually, becoming solvent. This is the […]