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Here's a random excerpt from 1984 btw pic.twitter.com/zlFJ1XwGQA — Taki (@TakiVan1) April 14, 2026
I built http://CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually …
This video contains a presentation on Palantir’s Maven platform, an artificial intelligence system used to analyze large volumes of operational and sensor data. A platform used to track humans and perform Kill-Chain Tasks. The demonstration shown here highlights one component of the broader Maven ecosystem, providing a glimpse into how analysts interact with machine learning …
The website StopICE.net, one of the largest platforms used to track U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity, has been hacked. Hackers wiped its database, replaced the site with an image of former ICE director Tom Homan, and claimed they handed user data to federal authorities. A digital battleground has emerged, and a key tool …
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through …
📢 Breaking news: Another "#China shock" pic.twitter.com/5uMWrStZgn — Chinese Embassy in US (@ChineseEmbinUS) January 7, 2026 h/t dr0id
Santa rally turning into Santa chop — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) December 29, 2025 From @SubuTrade : pic.twitter.com/w6KfyMZwDf — Barchart (@Barchart) December 29, 2025 THE S&P500 7,000 MIRAGE Wall Street is not telling you this. The equity risk premium just inverted to negative 0.69 percent. Stocks are now mathematically expected to underperform risk free Treasuries. This has …
If you’re still banking on access to your local branch, don’t count on it. Major US banks have announced plans to shut 311 branches since late August — a pre-Christmas wipeout that puts 2025 on track to be the worst year ever for walk-in banking. JPMorgan Chase led the pre-Christmas cull with 66 closures, followed …
BREAKING: U.S. layoffs set to surpass the Great Recession levels, on track to be worst since Great Depression. — Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 7, 2025 US layoffs soar past 1.1M in 2025, highest level since the pandemic November saw 71,321 job cuts announced, down 53% from October but pushing yearly total up 54% Layoffs announced by …
US grocery prices have never been more expensive: The average cost of groceries for a family of 4 is now up to a record $1,030/month. This marks a +$280 increase since January 2017, when the average family spent $750 a month. In 2021-2022 alone, grocery costs surged by +$150. To put this differently, a family …
CANADA TO H-1B HOLDERS: “TIRED OF U.S. VISA DRAMA? EH, COME ON UP.” While the U.S. hikes H-1B fees and clogs green card pipelines, Canada just rolled out the welcome mat… and threw in CA $1.7 billion to sweeten the deal. A new fast-track pathway invites H-1B holders to ditch the red tape and bring …
Nvidia's losses accelerate to -5% on the day, now down -16% since Monday's high. That marks a drop of -$800 BILLION since Monday byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts U.S. stocks rebounded from session lows on Friday as hope for an end to the monthlong government shutdown offset continued weakness in tech stocks. Still, all three major indexes snapped …
I have a question. OpenAI is supposedly on the hook to pay the circle jerk crew $1,300,000,000,000 over the next few years. Meanwhile, their operating revenue is negative $8,000,000,000. How do they even cover that gap? Here is the breakdown of the big fantasy-level deals people are talking about: Oracle, $300 billion: 4.5 gigawatts of …
Stop lying. Priscilla is dying and the track doesn't take it within a 1,000 miles of Arizona. pic.twitter.com/UkIpbLbC9X — @CharlesleeTX1911 (@Charles07788205) October 14, 2025 Based on the severity of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Priscilla’s remnants, there is no clear justification for Speaker Mike Johnson to be contacted or to intervene directly. Here’s why: …
Mark Carney said shovels for high speed rail could be in the ground in 4 years. The govt has already handed over $3.9B and not a single meter of track has been laid. This thing will end up costing Canada hundreds of billions and will never be completed. pic.twitter.com/RzU6Kha3Le — govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) September …
Socialism’s track record: 100% failure rate. Mamdani’s confidence level: Still 100%. Math was never their strong suit. — so what, now what? (@_sowhatnowwhat) August 13, 2025 Sun Fresh Market at Linwood and Prospect closed this week Taxpayer investment: nearly $29 million https://www.kmbc.com/article/sun-fresh-market-linwood-prospect-closes-taxpayer-funding/65669833 Store struggled for months to keep shelves stocked Security costs surged Sign now …
Nearly 90% of economists doubt U.S. economic data. At the heart of every economic conversation, from rate cuts to retiree checks is one number: The Consumer Price Index (CPI). It tracks inflation by measuring how much prices change over time for things like rent, food, clothes, and transportation. It sounds simple but it’s not. — …
Traders dump greenback ahead of Fed moves Dollar Heads for Sharp Weekly Decline The dollar index hovered around 97.5 on Friday but remained on track for a steep weekly loss as traders weighed evolving trade developments and looked ahead to next week’s Fede… More here: https://t.co/A99AbiWHBz pic.twitter.com/4pczqmceSS — TRADING ECONOMICS (@tEconomics) July 25, 2025
U.S. Customs and Border Protection San Diego Sector Border Patrol uncovers sophisticated cross-border drug smuggling tunnel U.S. Border Patrol agents have uncovered and disabled a large-scale narcotics smuggling tunnel linking Tijuana to the San Diego area. The uncompleted tunnel extended more than 1,000 feet inside the U.S. and was highly sophisticated. In early April, Border …
Gold on track for an inflow of $75 Billion this year, the largest in history 🚨📈 pic.twitter.com/BKefFRlPqu — Barchart (@Barchart) June 9, 2025 Money Market Funds are on track to see an inflow of $972 Billion this year, the 3rd largest inflow in history 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/keBcoSUPyy — Barchart (@Barchart) June 9, 2025 This is truly …
$TLT on track for lowest closing price since November 2023 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/DRfs04Lu5I — Barchart (@Barchart) May 14, 2025
Issuing debt that the Fed then buys with created out of thin air funny money is so Zimbabwe 2.0. The fed is already sitting on over $1.5 trillion in bonds. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAS10Y The train is out of control… The first 7 months of FY 2025 produced a deficit of $1.1 Trillion. That’s $196 Billion more than …
“Are you optimistic, then, that this situation will change, and we’ll see a resurgence in big particle physics discoveries? That’s a very good question because it looks as if there’s nothing we can do. If the situation proceeds in such a way that every new breakthrough requires a 10-fold, or even larger, increase in the …
https://twitter.com/PhilipSoos/status/1903314836970410442 With this kind of spending, many Australians are beginning to feel the strain. The cost of living is rising, wages are stagnating, and housing affordability is becoming a distant dream for many. The government’s focus on these costly projects, while essential in their eyes, leaves citizens questioning how much more they will be forced …
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The house of cards is trembling. For decades, the same incestuous circle of “nonprofits” and “humanitarian organizations” have operated in the shadows, laundering taxpayer money into global influence campaigns. Elections, protests, coups, regime changes—follow the cash, and you’ll see the same names popping up again and again. But now? The game has changed. This tool …
Chinese researchers have found an innovative way to use SpaceX Starlink satellite constellations to detect aircraft, like stealth fighters, passively. According to Chinese media, this was achieved by effectively detecting the “shadow” of an object between the detector and the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the satellites. The team behind the discovery reportedly used a DJI …
One of our most legendary @MacroEdgeRes calls to date was our global employment forecast for Canada from March of 2023. — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) December 10, 2024 Canada is in a silent depression. 🤫🇨🇦 Pay attention to all the clues. 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/LfpreO8ZnI — EconomicWoes 🤖 (@ManyBeenRinsed) September 14, 2024 Imagine dropping 1.8M on a house …
Everyone sees the problems, but solutions are few and far between. Brandon Smith of alt-market.com thinks we shouldn’t give up yet. He cuts through the hand-wringing and proposes a radical plan to put the U.S. economy back on track… Photo by ThisisEngineering From Brandon Smith Alternative economists have been predicting a list of specific instabilities in the …
