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Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility – all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom’s California. https://t.co/Z1XoRMtBSN — CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott (@CBPCommissioner) July 11, 2025 These are the juveniles found in the marijuana facility – almost all unaccompanied, …
A federal judge just stepped into the immigration ring and threw a punch at the executive branch. On July 2, Judge Randolph D. Moss issued a ruling that blocks President Trump’s January proclamation suspending asylum access at the southern border. Moss says the president cannot override asylum laws passed by Congress. The ruling runs 128 …
Forced attrition replaces pink slips… Yep. Already know of someone in the DFW suburbs who is moving back to Seattle bc of this — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) June 25, 2025 The company is not issuing mass emails. Instead, the message is being delivered through one-on-one meetings and internal town halls. Some employees have speculated that …
On the evening of June 12, 2025, pizza restaurants near the Pentagon experienced a sharp spike in delivery traffic. The data came from public Google Maps activity, showing locations like Domino’s, We The Pizza, District Pizza Palace, and Extreme Pizza receiving a high volume of orders around 6:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The activity normalized within …
In other words, a sitting member of the House is telling members of the military to disobey CONSTITUTIONAL ORDERS from the Commander-in-Chief? Seriously?! — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 12, 2025 Thats not how this works. No where in the enlistment oath soldiers take does it say obey orders from members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/bpZopCYrb7 — Nikki …
Four senior Biden White House aides have agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee, marking a major development in the investigation into President Biden’s cognitive decline and the use of autopen for official documents. The committee is set to hear from Neera Tanden, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams, and Annie Tomasini, all of whom held …
BREAKING: Keir Starmer announces that he is moving the British military into "war fighting readiness" and says that it is directly under threat by hostile forces and strengthen NATO. pic.twitter.com/n6ZhypaGDm — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) June 2, 2025
A brutal -51% crash just hit, signaling trouble for the U.S. labor market, while political elites are scrambling as a new banking crisis looms, and today’s stock rally? It’s a mirage—I’ll show you why it’s set to fade fast.
Putin: “A decision has been made to create a security buffer zone along the border between Russia and Ukraine.” Putin later specified for which Russian regions a security buffer zone will be created. Ukrainian regions that Russian needs to control: – Kharkov – Sumy – Chernigov To protect the Russian regions: Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod …
BREAKING: Owen McIntire, a 19-year-old UMass Boston student, has been federally charged after allegedly firebombing a Kansas City Tesla dealership with a Molotov cocktail during spring break. The FBI says two Cybertrucks were torched. pic.twitter.com/ZStX4c46Dy — Mass Daily News (@MassDailyNews) April 18, 2025 Judge orders release of UMass student accused of Tesla firebombing so he …
In an ominous harbinger for the ISM manufacturing release later this week, the new order components of the regional Fed PMIs have collapsed deep into recessionary territory. pic.twitter.com/kjt4jiFGYQ — Peter Berezin (@PeterBerezinBCA) April 28, 2025 I speak with many CEOs who prefer not to have their names or companies mentioned, fearing how it could be …
US consumers are getting even more pessimistic about the stock market: A record 12% of Americans see no chance that stocks will increase over the next 12 months, according to a UMich survey. This percentage has tripled over the last 2 months. It has also surpassed previous peaks seen near 2022, 2009, and 2022 market …
Worst Dallas Fed manufacturing survey since 2020: New orders collapse.Prices paid soars. There’s a term for this. It’s called ‘margin compression’, and it’s deflationary for asset prices. pic.twitter.com/5HmmYd57T2 — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) April 28, 2025 Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index down to -35.80 (forecast-17, previous-16.30). 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/isnBK90Tw2 — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) April 28, 2025 …
BREAKING: The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index fell to -8.1 points in April, recording the 3rd negative reading this year. More importantly, 6-month outlook for general business conditions plummeted to -7.4, the lowest in 24 years. Additionally, the 6-month outlook for new orders fell to -6.6, the lowest in history. Not even the 2008 Financial …
Afederal judge in Maryland has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, who was appointed by Trump, issued an order on Wednesday stating that the man’s removal violated a previous court settlement. Why It Matters The …
🇺🇸 Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index 6-month outlook for new orders -26. An all-time record low! Chart: @zerohedge pic.twitter.com/wmKOQNUzGZ — Alex Joosten (@joosteninvestor) April 23, 2025 Goldman Sachs, $GS, says to brace for a bigger stock drawdown, wider credit spreads and recession — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 23, 2025 JPMORGAN: MIGRATION CONCERNS HURTING U.S. TOURISM This is …
The tariff war not only has a significant impact on people’s livelihoods but also delivers a fatal blow to industries that rely heavily on international trade and exports. On April 17, a worker from a factory in Dongguan said the biggest losers of the tariff war might be their own factory.
US District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that “probable cause exists” to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for violating his orders in mid-March halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The judge is still deciding punishment and the next steps he may take, and is giving …
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump has just authorized the military to occupy and TAKE CONTROL of public land along the southern border THIS is the way! 🔥 “Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats. The complexity of the current situation requires that our… pic.twitter.com/aR11PHxkmH — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 11, 2025
🇨🇳 #Amazon cancels inventory orders from China due to tariffs. pic.twitter.com/nFL3679w29 — The Bitcoin Addict (@thebtcaddict) April 9, 2025 BREAKING: Amazon suspends some its inventory orders from China due to the tariffs pic.twitter.com/8It8hPnENi — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 9, 2025 Amazon is canceling orders for multiple products produced in China over the tariffs put in …
CNN: "Trump is not a lame duck, if anything he's a soaring eagle." pic.twitter.com/qIcUTUkc0T — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 8, 2025
A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for millions of dollars in damages to a giant pipeline company in relation to protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners sued Greenpeace for $300 million in 2019, accusing the environmental group of masterminding the protests, spreading misinformation and …
Elon Musk’s attempt to unilaterally dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the United States Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ordered Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to immediately give USAID employees access to their “email, payment, security notification, and all other electronic systems,” and …
Agents from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are accused of breaking into the nonprofit US Institute of Peace on Monday night as it continues to take a chainsaw to waste, fraud and abuse in Washington. The organization’s CEO, George Moose, said, ‘DOGE has broken into our building’ after having been turned away on Friday. …
More bad news for Canada. Looks like we’ll have even cheaper US lumber again! US President Donald Trump is ordering the Commerce Department to launch an investigation into the national security harm posed by lumber imports, laying the legal groundwork for new tariffs he’s pledged. Trump is simultaneously signing an executive order, titled “Freeing our …
State Dept. orders cancellation of news subscriptions around the world Embassies and consulates were told to terminate subscriptions to the New York Times, the Associated Press and others. The State Department has ordered the cancellation of all news subscriptions deemed “non-mission critical,” according to internal email guidance viewed by The Washington Post. The move aligns …
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has scheduled a rare holiday court hearing on Monday, in a case brought by Democratic state attorneys general seeking to protect major federal agencies from Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team known as DOGE. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., on Sunday called the hearing for Monday, …
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