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Overall Consumer Confidence Index up 0.6 points to 91.2. Present Situation Index down 3.0 points to 116.4. Expectations Index up 3.0 points to 74.4. Data from Conference Board survey released today. Expectations still low and below key recession threshold. Slight improvement but mixed signals on current vs future views. Oil price relief mentioned as one …
Katy Perry released a music video for a new song “Watch It Burn” where she’s sitting inside of a church talking about burning it down. “I light a match, throw it hard behind my back and watch it burn.” When Justin Trudeau was Prime Minister over 100 churches in Canada were… pic.twitter.com/TONvK0WsOI — Harrison Faulkner …
Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals driving around Austin pic.twitter.com/Oo7uPoOjhp — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2026 Cybercab will change the look of the road. Millions on the road, driving safer than humans and saving lives. pic.twitter.com/gjTrOggZfg — Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) June 30, 2026 TESLA Cybercabs: Houston, TX, 6-27-2026 78 Cybercabs counted …
In the UK, Police officers would have special "cop nights" run by the Pakistani rape gangs where they were allowed to gang rape grooming gang victims as a "Thankyou" for turning the other way. Bring back capital punishment 😡 pic.twitter.com/QObbm7pbol — Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 (@TruthFairy131) June 29, 2026 Factcheck: The grooming gang scandals are real. …
South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms. That ambitious goal was announced as the South Korean military seeks to maintain a technological edge in its 70-year border standoff with the larger military of a hostile North Korea. The goal …
Something about the AI race keeps bothering me. Every earnings season, the spending gets bigger. The timeline for earning it back stays fuzzy. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Google are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, building data centers, buying GPUs, expanding power capacity, and upgrading networks at a pace the industry has …
The first talks were between Iran and Oman, then between Oman and Qatar, followed by Iran and Saudi Arabia, and finally, Qatar and Saudi Arabia – all aimed at hammering out what regional co-existence would look like once the war dust settled. Such dizzying diplomatic activity is just getting started, with more meetings expected, as …
The southwest border is “more secure than at any point in history,” but Americans are still paying an enormous price for the Biden administration’s unprecedented illegal immigration crisis, including a new multi-million-dollar investment to support the influx of underage migrants still living in the United States. The government calls them Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), though …
“A U.S. Coast Guard officer was stopped at gunpoint and held for hours after a dealership mistakenly reported the truck he had just purchased as stolen. This video provides a legal and tactical analysis of body-worn camera footage from July 1, 2025, in Tamarac, Broward County, Florida. The footage was obtained through public records” “Legal …
Supposedly rated for 160mph winds, collapsed in 120mph gusts… All that is left is an expensive pile of garbage that cannot be recycled. SO GREEN! The Affected Wind Farm The damaged facility is the South Dakota Wind Energy Center (also known as the Highmore Wind Energy Project or Highmore Wind Farm), located approximately 10 miles …
Congressional Globe 1866 debate on 14th Amendment (Jacob Howard quote): https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcg.html (search May 30, 1866) Ignoring the clear words of the man who introduced it turns the Constitution into whatever judges want it to be. Fixing birthright citizenship requires Congress or a new amendment because courts keep expanding it beyond original intent. Official transcript from …
This rule was supposed to change healthcare. It didn’t. Back in January 2021, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule went into effect. The idea was simple: Hospitals had to show their prices upfront. That included negotiated insurance rates, cash prices, and costs for common “shoppable” services before patients received care. Sounds obvious. So why are people …
Something unusual is happening in Japan. The yen just hit a 40 year low and Japan may need another $100 billion to fight back Japan is running into a problem money alone cannot easily fix. The USD/JPY pushed above 162.66, sending the yen to its weakest level since 1986. Japanese Yen just broke! 🚨 It …
This is the uncomfortable question people are starting to ask. Trump is facing a familiar political problem. If his party controls everything, voters can blame him for everything. The economy slows? Energy prices rise? Inflation stays painful? The White House owns the results. But if the opposition takes control of Congress, the political game changes. …
Is he wrong? Would you really let some illegal alien with spotty certifications work on you? If you you must be really dumb — HoosierMAGA (@MAGA_Hoosier) June 30, 2026
Trump’s first quarter stock purchase disclosure highlights his breathtaking levels of corruption. byu/Snapdragon_4U ininflation
Income by Race in America byu/charliehu1226 inEconomyCharts White non-Hispanic next in line. Hispanic households lower than White. Black households lowest among main groups. Chart from recent US data. Differences stay consistent over years. Factors like education, family structure, and location play role. Asians often include high-earning subgroups like Indian Americans.
High-profile political murder case moves forward with hearing next week.
One of the biggest winners in the AI boom isn’t an AI company. It’s memory. Every new AI data center needs enormous amounts of high-performance server RAM, and manufacturers are pouring more production into supplying those customers because that’s where the profits are. That has real consequences outside the AI industry. Gamers, PC builders, and …
This tip is so simple that it’s easy to dismiss. Most people try to quit a bad habit by telling themselves, “Don’t do it.” That works… until it doesn’t. A popular Reddit post suggests a different approach. Instead of fighting the urge, change the last physical action your hands make. If your habit is grabbing …
The obesity drug market is booming. But the stock market is treating these two companies very differently. Eli Lilly is now worth roughly $1.08 trillion. Novo Nordisk sits around $199 billion. That’s an $881 billion gap between two companies leading one of the fastest-growing drug markets in history. The obvious question is why. Eli Lilly …
Supreme Court upholds state bans on biological males in girls and womens school sports. Decision says Title IX sex means biological sex not gender identity. Justice Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion. Kavanaugh is longtime girls basketball coach which fits the ruling. Allows states to protect fair competition for biological females. Ruling gives states power to …
“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving …
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States. In a decision by Chief Justice John Roberts, in Trump v. Barbara, the justices agreed with the challengers, as well as …
Trump just opened the door to cheaper car repairs with a new “Freedom to Fix” fight This one is about something almost every driver understands. A repair bill. On June 29, 2026, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum called “Lowering the Cost of Living by Promoting the Freedom to Fix.” The order directs the EPA …
Office CMBS delinquency rate hit 12.3-12.34% in early 2026, new all-time high. This beats previous 2008 GFC peak of around 10.7%. Rate surged from roughly 1.6% in mid-2022, more than 7x increase in under 4 years. Downtown offices suffer most due to hybrid work and high vacancies around 20%. Many loans from low-rate pandemic era …
The market is still climbing. But underneath the surface, multiple warning signs are flashing at the same time. Here are the numbers investors are watching. 1. Margin debt hits $1.42 trillion Investors have borrowed a record $1.42 trillion to buy stocks. The bigger warning is the speed. Margin debt surged 53.7% year over year, reaching …
One video is spreading across social media for a reason. Venezuela 🇻🇪 “They Changed My Daughter’s Last Name and Now She’s Gone” “They are stealing the children… they are taking the children who are found alone.” A desperate mother says her daughter was rescued after the earthquake, but when she went to claim her, she …
