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Source: thegatewaypundit One part of this story made me stop. Gavin Newsom mapped out what he thinks is the conservative media ecosystem. He described a pipeline from the Daily Wire to the New York Post to Fox News and eventually into the White House. Fair enough. Political media absolutely influences politicians. Then he said he …
After the 2008 financial crisis, regulators cracked down on banks. Credit did not disappear. It simply moved. Today, private markets have grown into a financial system that dwarfs the subprime mortgage market that helped trigger the last crisis. The numbers are staggering. Private equity now manages roughly $4 trillion to $6 trillion in assets globally. …
This is a perfect example of a useful idiot interviewing a political grifter. Together they create a false narrative; a narrative used by these demagogues to exploit the inexperience-driven optimism of our youth. Their exploitation of the death of innocents sickens me. — Wynn Brobdingnagian (@Sroneous) June 21, 2026
A world-renowned reporter is sounding the alarm after embedding herself in the upper echelons of the artificial intelligence industry and discovering that Silicon Valley elites are desperately scrambling to develop a digital “God.” Karen Hao, a former reporter for MIT Technology Review, is raising red flags about the artificial intelligence industry after spending years investigating …
Stephen Miller drops the bomb hundreds of billions already funneled into trillions for illegals… This system democrats rigged keeps taxpayers bleeding cash while locking in future voters… People demand arrests and prison time after years of this open grift… Working families watch their money vanish into the endless migrant pipeline… Trump insiders finally name the …
Clash Report drops Ossoff calling out Mar a Lago mafia but admits corruption runs way deeper… He flat out says american politics runs on money in favors out… Wealthy buy bigger share of power every single day… Regular citizens get treated with pure contempt… This spills from a sitting senator not some outsider… DC admits …
Muckraker caught the whole Dominican pipeline red-handed in Lawrence. Free food stamps and charity hauls stuffed into barrels and shipped straight to DR bodegas for cash. They’ve been running this scam wide open while we foot the bill. Vance just got tagged, this better light a fire under real investigators. Enough of our money getting …
Layoff wave that everyone pretended wasn’t coming just printed its ugliest chart yetThe tech dream is quietly hemorrhaging real human bodies behind the AI hype curtain. layoffs in the Information sector (which includes much of tech) jumped in March, to their highest level on record outside the pandemic spike. Notable because the earlier wave of …
This just like the Detroit auto plants that kept shedding shifts until the whole industry ghosted the city. Quixote Studios Lays Off 70, Winds Down L.A. Locations Amid Production Slump. Hudson Pacific Properties bought the company in 2022 for $360 million, but has since had to write down the entire value of its Quixote unit …
via notayesmanseconomics Over the past few days the media seems to have been catching up with a theme we have been running for some time.The Chinese export push. We can start with this at the weekend from the BBC economics editor Faisal Islam. As a Chinese made car hits number 1 in UK, and so …
Here's a random excerpt from 1984 btw pic.twitter.com/zlFJ1XwGQA — Taki (@TakiVan1) April 14, 2026
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wall-street-builds-new-tool-to-bet-against-private-credit-bdf8bafa A report just dropped that should have everyone be more cautious. Major banks (Goldman, BofA, Barclays) are teaming up with S&P Global to launch a Credit-Default Swap (CDS) Index for Private Credit. If you aren’t familiar with 2008 history, this is essentially the “Big Short” alarm bell. Here’s the breakdown of why this is …
🇨🇳 China is testing robot dogs with mounted machine guns, pushing warfare closer to a Terminator-like reality.pic.twitter.com/1H2IKZxibu — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 1, 2026
BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full offline survival computer with AI, Wikipedia, and maps built in. Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Self-contained. Zero internet required after install. Zero telemetry. Everything runs locally on your hardware. What it includes: → Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix → Offline maps via OpenStreetMap → Local AI …
Both parties whore themselves out to the war machine. We should have listened to Ron Paul byu/AbolishtheDraft inLibertarian
A West Point study found that military networks are flooded with corporate trackers, including some linked to foreign entities. U.S. Army personnel may be training for cyberwar, but their own web browsing is quietly feeding the surveillance economy. According to a recent study by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, corporate surveillance has deeply …
Bull Theory @BullTheoryio 🚨THE $2 TRILLION PRIVATE CREDIT MARKET COULD BE FACING ITS FIRST MAJOR BANKRUPTCY. Blue Owl manages about $273 billion in assets. It is one of the biggest lenders behind the AI data center buildout. When companies like Meta, CoreWeave, or Crusoe need billions to build large data center campuses, they often go …
The exploit allows full root and shell access to your machine. It doesnt even need the user to interact with anything or do anything. Simply landing on a website allows the exploit to be used. It allows any executable function to be run without the users knowledge, and with no trace on the computer. Firefox …
For the past three months, we've received a flood of questions about Candace Owens and her claims attacking Charlie's closest friends. For three months, we preferred to remain silent, but the attacks have not stopped. Today, I delivered this response. pic.twitter.com/JvlL0XP997 — Blake Neff (@BlakeSNeff) December 3, 2025
The US is officially in a debt spiral, the government refuses to stop spending because it can't without causing a massive depression (capitalism). Life feels worse because it IS worse.pic.twitter.com/LDXHs9efGZ — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) November 24, 2025 Government spending has stolen 28.42% of your purchasing power since 2020 https://t.co/zALRP7G1ST pic.twitter.com/87bqJb8564 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) November …
One week after Trump pardoned Binance’s owner (for a stunning array of crimes related to terrorist and sex predator financing), Binance starts promoting Trump crypto. The White House is a full time, 24/7 corruption machine. https://t.co/vfFqJ9Jvhq — Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 28, 2025 Even Rasmussen has Trump down by 8. He’s overreached. Americans didn’t …
Rage against the machine by inEconomyCharts https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/10/13/can-ai-replace-junior-workers Not hiring junior devs because you can replace them with AI looks like a great strategy now, but then in 20-30 years, there’ll be a severe lack of senior devs, and it’ll take another 20-30 years to get them back because you can’t just create senior devs out …
First Brands BANKRUPTCY shakes credit markets: The collapse WIPED OUT $4 billion in leveraged loans held across ~80 CLOs from PGIM, Franklin Templeton, Blackstone, and others. The sudden failure is a major warning for the broader credit market and leveraged loan sector… More corporate failures to come? ⚠️First Brands BANKRUPTCY shakes credit markets: The collapse …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, A Nobel Prize economist argues against extreme hype in both directions. The Real AI Risk While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility. Bloomberg reports The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and …
$NVDA owns stakes in: OpenAI Arm Intel Databricks CoreWeave xAI Nebius Hugging Face Perplexity Scale AI WeRide Lambda Labs Together AI Applied Digital World Labs Quantinuum TerraPower Runway ML Synthesia Hippocratic AI Abridge PassiveLogic Carbon Robotics Unstructured Recursion Pharmaceuticals + dozens of others. Jensen Huang is the literal Godfather of AI. NVIDIA is the best …
The alarms aren’t just blinking anymore. They’re blaring. America’s debt-fueled consumer economy is starting to crack. Families who used to keep the stores and car dealers busy are now falling behind on payments. This isn’t some slow leak. It looks and feels like the early days of 2008, only deeper and faster. Car loans are …
Corporate America has turned into a machine that exists only to feed itself. It is built on greed, layoffs, and fake values, and it is starting to eat itself alive. The serious question is how did it get this bad. How did corporate America become so openly repulsive. The formula is simple. Fire as many …
AI data centers and their supercomputers are consuming rural America. by David Haggith As retail stock investors continue to gush over AI stocks (while insiders start to flee them), AI is taking over small communities in ways that are a more proximate threat than the possibility of rogue AIs banding together to use control over …
Julian Brown turned grocery bags into diesel. He filmed it. Posted it. Called it Plastoline. Said it could scale with funding. Four working prototypes. He burned himself testing it. Kept going. Then stopped. His last post was July 9. Said he was under attack. Mentioned helicopters. Told followers to record everything. His license leaked online. …
The numbers are out. They’re not buried in footnotes or buried in spin. They’re sitting in plain view. Between October 1 and May 31, ICE arrested 752 individuals convicted of homicide. That’s out of 13,099 known to the agency. The math is blunt. Just 6% of known immigrant murderers have been detained. The same data …