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BREAKING: Fox News is reporting that Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards applied to Jeffrey Epstein victims were also applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. In other words, they redacted politician names, except… pic.twitter.com/MmUQEUF1mn — Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 19, 2025 No joke: pic.twitter.com/LU4L0bgzPq — ovoono (@OvoOnoETH) December 19, …
Absurd that there is funding stress from such a small amount of quantitative tightening. It’s already over, and we are still well above 2019 balance sheet levels. Shows you how broken the market has become. pic.twitter.com/TaxwfBBtYj — Illiquid Insights (@IlliquidInsight) December 16, 2025 🚨FEDERAL RESERVE INJECTS $5.2 BILLION INTO U.S. BANKING SYSTEM VIA OVERNIGHT REPOS …
Over 1 million stolen identities of Americans were used to make false Medicare claims, stealing $14.6 billion dollars from American taxpayers – $14.6 billion in false claims – Pakistani executives charged in Illinois for $703 million scheme using stolen Medicare data – DOJ charged 324 defendants including 96 licensed medical professionals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists – …
Josh Sigurdson talks with Mark Gonzales about the recent news of UBS liquidating funds and facing $500 million exposure to First Brands Fracas. UBS is winding down an investment vehicle with a massive debt exposure following some serious corruption issues and what this means for not just the bank but the industry could shock you. …
‘It’s surprising that one thing affected their network, because usually there’s backup, and redundant systems all running at the same time. One particular system going down is very, very surprising.’ Knight admitted he was puzzled by the outage which, he noted, will have cost Amazon hundreds of millions of dollars. It began at 3:11am ET. …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the continued bombing of Gaza as Israel claims the ceasefire still holds. Apparently, bombing the people you have a ceasefire with doesn’t go against the ceasefire. This comes after Israel claims Hamas was killing Israelis. It turns out, it was an unexploded Israeli ordnance that went off when an Israeli bulldozer …
Girl Scout Cookies. Synonymous with childhood, community, and trust. An annual tradition where young girls sell boxes to fund their activities. A new investigation has ripped away the facade. Here is what they found inside these iconic cookies: • 100% contained Glyphosate, the controversial herbicide in Roundup. • 88% contained toxic heavy metals: Arsenic, Lead, …
Household savings collapsed from a 32% pandemic peak to near 3%, leaving consumption far more exposed to wages and credit. byu/MonetaryCommentary inEconomyCharts The U.S. personal saving rate hovered around 7% during the 2010-2020 period, as households maintained a steady buffer of disposable income. But the sudden shock of Covid‑19 and accompanying shutdowns sent the rate …
Newly uncovered documents reveal the Biden Administration tracked over 30 million phone records to build a secret “MAGA MAP,” targeting conservatives from Turning Point to sitting U.S. Senators.
BERLIN — Germany’s new military procurement plan, obtained by POLITICO, shows that Berlin will steer its massive rearmament drive primarily to European industry, with only 8 percent going for American weapons. That’s a blow for Donald Trump, who has been putting pressure on European countries to continue buying U.S. arms despite the geopolitical turmoil emanating …
The official narrative collapsed before it even hardened. Within three days of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the storyline lurched from a lone gunman to a digital subculture breeding an ideological militia. Tyler Robinson did not act in isolation or in a storm of private madness. He moved inside a culture of radicalization, identity politics, and militant …
How did Code Pink know Trump’s schedule and slip past the Secret Service? This ain't just a screw-up it's a goddamn security nightmare. Trump getting ambushed by Code Pink protesters at a D.C. restaurant? That's a failure so blatant it screams betrayal. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's right to demand an investigation into how these clowns …
Here it is: One minute and forty-nine seconds of treasonous conspiracy captured on videotape: The Director of National Intelligence: @DNIGabbard The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly points to Barack Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact: …
Stephen Miller is directing a federal campaign to militarize Washington, and the public sees only carefully curated silence. The Army extended deployment orders through November 30 without warning, concealing the fact that accountability has been suspended. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=125266247 Brig. Gen. Leland D. Blanchard II said, “Our mission is not complete… I’ve made the decision to extend …
📰TransUnion Discloses Data Breach Impacting 4.4 Million Customers Data Breach Notification: https://t.co/UfL3KybPfZ pic.twitter.com/ugWKMre0pt — Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) August 28, 2025 Three companies – Equifax, Experian, TransUnion – hoard your financial data. They've been hacked (147 million records stolen), sued for errors, and lobbied Congress with millions in spending. Yet they face zero competition. That's …
It was never a mistake. It was never a misunderstanding. It was a plan. CIA Director John Brennan allegedly handed foreign allies a list of 26 Trump associates to “bump” into. Not investigate. Not watch. Bump. Intelligence engineered casual encounters to trigger surveillance. link The Five Eyes alliance, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, …
Trump has bought at least $103.7 million in bonds while in office, including debt from Meta, Qualcomm, Home Depot, and T-Mobile, according to a White House disclosure dated August 12, 2025: “Trump reported no sales.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-embarks-on-104-million-bond-buying-spree-while-in-office/ar-AA1KPNzK 👀 pic.twitter.com/lQtyLDsbQ3 — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) August 20, 2025 Unlike every modern president before him, Trump didn’t divest …
Germany’s Bundesbank is eyeing a shortcut for small and medium-sized banks. Basel capital rules could be scrapped in favor of a single leverage ratio. No risk-weighting. No buffers. Just raw exposure. https://finanz-szene.de/banking/bundesbank-erwaegt-verzicht-auf-basel-anforderungen-fuer-kleinbanken/ The leverage ratio was never meant to stand alone. It’s a backstop, not a blueprint. “Before a small commercial bank would breach a …
The carefully maintained silence around Gloriavale is unraveling. On Tuesday, Howard Temple, the leader of the secretive New Zealand Christian commune, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of indecent assault and perverting the course of justice. The courtroom didn’t just hear about criminal acts. It heard about a system built on isolation, control and decades of …
JP MORGAN PAID $290M TO EPSTEIN VICTIMS – FOR NOTHING? The bank settled a class-action suit accusing it of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Big number for a hoax, right? And if there were victims… there were abusers. You don’t settle for $290 million unless there’s something to settle. Victims were real. So were the …
A rant: Tipping culture is out of control. I'm a generous tipper. But 20% for someone to make eye contact & hand me a muffin is crazy. Restaurants widely suggesting people tip 30% now is kookoo bananas. At this rate we'll soon be tipping the price of the meal. Make it stop. — Billy Binion …
U.S. leads world in red tape over real treatment. There are literally more people working for for-profit insurance than there are doctors and nurses working to save your lives. Do you even understand how sick that is? We pay more people to deny you coverage than we pay to SAVE YOUR LIVES. — Tennesseine (@Tennesseine) …
New reports reveal AOC misled the public about her upbringing—her real childhood story paints a very different picture.
Google had the lead. DeepMind was years ahead in language modeling. They had the architecture. They had the data. They had the compute. But they didn’t launch. Not because they couldn’t. Because they wouldn’t. According to a senior insider, Google shelved its early LLMs to avoid cannibalizing its own ad business. A direct-answer model would …
*I am not saying she was the only one. There surely were other "Neera Tandens" in on the Biden shadow presidency — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 25, 2025 The real scandal is the unchecked power of unelected bureaucrats who operate in the shadows, dictating policy without accountability. Tanden’s influence under Biden epitomizes the swamp Trump …
“Tariffs are making hiring harder.” That’s cute. Hiring was already broken. Ghosting. 20-step interviews. I’m not pointing out anything we don’t already know. Now 61% of HR leaders are sweating about talent? No – I’m sorry, but I’m calling it like it is – they’re exposed. This isn’t policy fallout. It’s bad hiring strategies and …
Portland Oregon Homeless Industrial Complex scam EXPOSED – Large homeless encampments are given brand new tents by the city – The city then goes and post these legal notices a few days later at the areas – They remove the tents – They then hand out new tents “I’m about to explain to you the …
