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Inflation moved up in June, but tariffs weren’t the trigger.

The Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% month-over-month, matching forecasts and doubling May’s 0.1% print. Year-over-year, CPI hit 2.7%, the highest since January. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, climbed 0.2% on the month and 2.9% on the year. That’s three straight months of acceleration. The Federal Reserve’s target is 2%. We’re above it. Energy …

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Smear tactics weren’t working, so now it’s all about damage control for the network.

This isn’t about newfound respect or a shift in ideology; it’s about recognizing that the relentless negativity isn’t doing what they hoped. In the end, it’s all about strategy, not some sudden change of heart. CNN Boss Warns Star Hosts to Avoid Trashing Trump’s Record. CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President …

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Ukraine had to recall 100,000 artillery shells amid complaints they’d get stuck in launchers and weren’t exploding

Ukraine’s defense ministry issued a recall of 120mm artillery shells this week, citing defects in a recently delivered batch of rounds. In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said it was investigating incidents of “abnormal activation” of the shells from the last three weeks. Officials didn’t say exactly how many rounds were affected, but Ukrainian …

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Just in Case You Weren’t Already Worried About the Future, Here’s a Few Ways Society Could Collapse in 2024

A worldwide collapse of civilization could be triggered by what are called existential risks. Existential risks have been studied extensively by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom, who created the graphic above of qualitative existential risk categories. Bostrom now runs the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, which specializes in the study of existential risks. Bostrom defines existential risks as a …

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The J6 Committee coverup unraveling. “Even though they tried to delete the information, it looks like they weren’t smart enough to do it right. According to the report, the forensics team recovered all 117 deleted and encrypted files.”

via redstate: We saw how the Jan. 6 Committee wasn’t particularly interested in the truth. Rather, their whole purpose seemed to be about how they could spin things to smear former President Donald Trump and the Republicans prior to the 2022 midterms. They didn’t care about things that might deviate from or blow up their …

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