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The mayor of a wealthy Southern California city has resigned after admitting she secretly acted as an agent for the Chinese government, according to a federal plea agreement unsealed on Monday. Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang, 58, agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of acting as an illegal foreign agent for the People’s …
Kinda wild seeing Nawfal completely flip tone today. He spent weeks talking like some truce was right around the corner, now suddenly he’s posting that the Gulf situation looks like “permanent war” territory after the Saudi airspace stuff. People in the replies noticed it fast because he was sounding way more hopeful before this. Mario …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Isn’t Radical Enough for Graham Platner and the ‘New’ Democratic Party. The Democrats are doubling down on crazy, and they show no sign of moderating their radical social and cultural agenda any time soon. Last week, 78-year-old Maine Gov. Janet Mills bowed out of the primary contest for senator. Mills used traditional Democratic …
Amazon Meta Microsoft Google earnings keep climbing on paper while real cash gets vaporized on AI buildouts. ⚠️ Private Credit woes won’t help this either… https://t.co/jjd0dvp99o — Kap (@AustrianEcon201) May 7, 2026
An image of an IDF soldier in southern Lebanon smashing the head of a Jesus statue with a sledgehammer recently went viral, and the IDF later confirmed the photo was authentic — although some pro-Israeli commentators like Max Abrams initially dismissed the image as an “AI job.” Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger argue that …
Powell gets shown the door in May while Trump lines up the softest replacement possible. Markets bet hard on rate cuts like 2021 never happened. Oil pushes higher on actual shortages and the Fed inherits an even weaker leader picked purely for loyalty. This follows the exact 1970s route with fresher memes attached. Politics wins …
As robotaxis and other AI-based technologies proliferate, so does the myth that these systems are fully autonomous. During a recent Senate hearing, industry leader Waymo provided the latest reminder that AI relies on human labor – often low-paid – more than people realize. Waymo’s chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, recently noted that when the company’s …
A female pastor in Missouri has been suspended after her ties to Jeffrey Epstein were brought to light. Reverend Stephanie L Remington was placed on leave for 90 days last Thursday by Bishop Robert Farr of the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church. Remington worked as Epstein’s administrative assistant and property manager on Little …
They were in India for a peaceful navy demonstration with other countries. These weren’t deployed soldiers. pic.twitter.com/En9sKHc5Hn — Brattani (@Bratt_world) March 5, 2026 If a military strike really happened in international waters, the implications are serious. Under maritime law and the UN Charter, actions against vessels outside an active war zone raise major questions about …
Bombshell report here: https://t.co/ceEApnKTjW — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 21, 2026 Jamie Dimon has implied that debanking Trump was the result of government regulatory pressure. That would be an interesting avenue of inquiry to pursue. If the biggest bank can shut down President Trump’s account, then Susan Rice is right: the Democrats can weaponize corporations. …
CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Former Project Veritas Board Member Matthew Tyrmand Admits To Being An FBI/SDNY Informant Against Conservative Organizations, James O’Keefe, Threatens to Murder O’Keefe, And Puts Rifle Bullets In O’Keefe’s Heart On The Front Of His Book “Breakthrough”. Tyrmand Shared He Can Lose His Brokerage License And Face Criminal Civil Torts For Violating …
🚨BREAKING: HOWARD LUTNICK ADMITS HE WENT TO EPSTEIN ISLAND pic.twitter.com/1dGm450PX7 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) February 10, 2026
White House Posts, Then Deletes, Image Falsely Accusing Man of Sex Crimes The White House posted a photo on X of an immigrant, linking him to crimes he has not been accused of. The White House falsely labeled a man as having committed child sex crimes in one of several erroneous graphics posted Jan. 26 …
James O’Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII Caught On Hidden Camera: FBI Official Admits Minnesota Fraud Investigations Will Result In Zero Arrests “I don’t think anybody [Daycare Fraud Criminals] would ever go to prison.” “We’re [DOJ/FBI] just going to point somebody.” “By the time that case is done even being looked at, and ready to go to court, Trump …
“Private credit exposure to AI disruption high, not priced in – UBS” No kidding. “…We estimate that 25–35% of private credit portfolios face elevated AI disruption risk. Using BDC portfolios as a proxy (AUM of ~$450 billion, $350 billion of which is public), exposure to high disruption risk subsectors is most acute in technology (~24% …
"Rent is throwing money away!" Meanwhile she pays $5,155 a month for a mortgage and $3,241 of it VANISHES into interest and taxes.pic.twitter.com/NZq2A4SX1P — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 23, 2026 There is no such thing as home price appreciation outside of inflation. Its a wealth transfer from young to old via interest rates.pic.twitter.com/GrK2AVg8LM — Darth …
In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs. No object is marketed with a greater sense of messianic promise than the electric vehicle. Here, we are told, is the corrective to centuries of environmental catastrophe as the price of material gain. Here …
🚨WOW! Fox Business ADMITS we are in RECESSION. pic.twitter.com/nQ1JrcOdJc — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) January 5, 2026 Repo operations at the Fed on the last day of 2025 signal growing stress in the financial system, similar to the setup we saw in 2019. Banks and other financial institutions borrowed $74.6 billion from the New York Fed’s …
Funny how democracy always lives on top of oil. The reason why Venezuela is under attack U.S. Southern Command chief General Laura Richardson just said the truth out loud: the U.S. focus in Latin America isn’t “democracy” — it’s controlling oil, lithium, gold, and rare earth minerals. Venezuela, with the largest oil reserves and key …
President Trump, during an interview with The Wall Street Journal, expressed uncertainty about whether his economic policies would translate into political gains for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. Despite touting efforts to secure multibillion-dollar investments in the U.S., he acknowledged the unpredictability of these measures affecting voter sentiment.The news comes after weeks of outlets …
https://t.co/0ixVWy974N https://t.co/ftEJ0Te2T5 — Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 9, 2025 🇺🇦🇬🇧 BREAKING: BRITISH SOLDIERS HAVE BOOTS ON THE GROUND! Russians hit him, they just came up with a lame excuse. First official casualty in Britain. pic.twitter.com/YvGJOezIBz — Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 9, 2025 🇺🇦 Lights go out during the anthem … very symbolic for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/NlgFGY6ujL …
Why is crypto crashing? https://t.co/8eHuDd6Hsy — Dividend Hero (@HeroDividend) December 1, 2025 JUST IN: Strategy says they will sell their #Bitcoin if its stock falls below mNAV and fresh capital dries up. Remember when Saylor lied and said they would never sell? It’s not even been 6 months and they’re already prepping to sell as …
.@VP: "This economy was not harmed in 10 months. It took a deliberate 4-year administration that was making life harder for everyday Americans, that was importing foreign workers… over regulating, overtaxing… As much progress as we've made, it's going to take a little bit of… pic.twitter.com/ycgvkBPftW — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 20, 2025 And …
Two months ago Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stood side by side in San Jose, California, to announce a historic agreement between the two leaders in artificial intelligence. Nvidia would invest $100 billion over a number of years, starting in 2026, as OpenAI’s AI supercomputing facilities come online, the duo said. …
Crazy to think that money supply is expanding this aggressively even as global central bank balance sheets have been contracting. We’ve seen a $10T increase in global money supply in just the past 12 months. Now imagine what happens once central banks inevitably need to expand their balance sheets again — which, in my view, …
“They’ll [DOJ] redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have a very slanted version of it come out… without really seeing any of their bad behavior,” admitted Joseph Schnitt, Acting Deputy Chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations for the U.S. Department of …
by David Haggith This is rich: After months of everyone in the Trump administration—including the president—saying tariffs do not cause inflation, they just admitted (including the president) they KNOW that tariffs do cause inflation and a lot of it. The president and his team were happy to announce they have helped with the “affordability” problem in the US by curbing …
BREAKNG: In an unbelievable moment, Trump Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says Americans will never know what the October unemployment rate was, but “We’ll be able to concoct something.” They are admitting to the deception out loud. There are independent companies that will report the factual data. You will not be able to hide behind …
BBC says sorry to Donald Trump over doctored Panorama video scandal – after White House accused corporation chiefs of '100 per cent fake news' | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/MqFlTwwdsK — Enlightening Matters (@EnlightenMatter) November 9, 2025 The BBC is set to apologise over a Panorama episode that used an edited clip of Donald Trump’s speech …
Wonder why Germany is heading towards a crisis similar to Greece 13 years ago? Because the real government debt is 130% of GDP not 65% During the weekend a friend of mine claimed how German debt is still “low” and the country has room for to absorb ~900bn$ of spending that will mostly be channeled …