Will Democrats Pull The Plug On The Filibuster? Authored by J.T. Young via RealClearPolitics,The Senate filibuster will be the canary in Democrats’ congressional coal mine. It will show how far Democrats are willing to go in using their new majority to pursue their agenda – and just how far they intend that agenda to go.Following November’s blue wave, Democrats will have their largest congressional majorities in years. In the House, […]

This Enclave’s Insane All-Cash Bidding Wars Are Out Of Control Despite Pending Home Sale Collapse The housing market is in a deep freeze as pending home sales have plunging to record lows. And yet, one corner of the East coast is experiencing the exact opposite nightmare, where bidding wars have become so vicious that even buyers armed with cold, hard cash can’t secure a home.Long Island, New York, has emerged as one of the nation’s […]

Elon Musk’s ‘Mechazilla’ Catches Starship Rocket In Historic First, Brings Full Reusability Closer Summary: The Path Towards Full Reusability Of Mega Rocket Full Steam Ahead Super Heavy And Starship Have Been Caught By Chopsticks In Separate Test Flights Saturday: Starship Caught By Chopsticks For First Time Friday: Super Heavy Booster Splashdown In Gulf of AmericaFriday: SpaceX Aborts Starship/Booster ‘Double Chopsticks’ […]

Social Media Isn’t The Problem; We Are… Authored by Nick Kossovan via The Epoch Times,There’s more truth to the hatred, taboo beliefs, and raw emotions expressed on social media than we’re willing to admit.From morning to night, you and I practice the exhausting routine of self-control. We force a smile when our boss moves the goalposts. We stay silent when an acquaintance spews absurd conspiracy theories. We put up with rudeness, […]

Your Shopping Bag Runs Through Hormuz Authored by Larry C. Johnson via Sonar21,Every morning the cable networks put up the price of Brent and a graphic of a tanker, and every evening the experts reassure us that the oil is still flowing, more or less. Crude is the scoreboard everyone watches. It is also the wrong scoreboard.Iran has hit roughly fifty ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz since September 1, most of them tankers. […]

Tesla Opens Cybercab Orders To “Select Customers” For Personal Use Late Friday night, Tesla began inviting “select customers” to purchase its Cybercab for personal use. The driverless vehicle, which has no steering wheel or pedals, costs $29,990 and requires a $299-a-month “Autonomy Subscription.””Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use,” Tesla’s Robotaxi X account said.Select customers are now […]

The ‘Pikers’: 1 In 5 College Students Believe US “Deserved” 9/11 & Roughly Half Favor Socialism Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley,It appears that Hasan Piker is not alone in saying that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. As the New York Post reported, a new poll shows that one in five college students say the U.S. deserved the attack that killed nearly 3000 fellow Americans. […]

The Spectacular End Of The Diamond Cartel Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times,An astonishing collapse is happening right now, one that was easily foreseen five years ago but which still defies belief. The world’s longest-running industrial resource cartel has fallen apart due to technological innovation. The resource is diamonds, the company is De Beers, and the reason for the upheaval is lab-created diamonds which are […]

Amazon Returns To Fermi As Reactor Timelines Slip Further Away Fermi’s mystery customer from Thursday’s announcement finally has a name.On Thursday, the Project Matador developer said an unnamed “investment-grade hyperscaler” committed to an initial 600 MW starting in 2027, backed by a $200 million prepayment and a $15 million early construction deal.On Friday, the Financial Times named Amazon as the customer, and the stock went […]

‘They’re Coming For The Rest Of Us’: Jon Stewart Nods Along As Maddow Comes Unglued Over Trump ‘Mega-Prisons’ MS NOW host Rachel Maddow told Jon Stewart on Monday’s The Daily Show that if President Trump gets the giant warehouse prisons his administration has sought for immigrants, they won’t stay immigrant-only for long.”With a president like this, if you give him seven to ten prisons around the country that hold 10,000 people […]

‘You’re A F***ing Liar!”: The DSA Is Out For Blood, Targets Jeffries, Schumer, & Others A protester heckled House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in Denver on Friday, as he campaigns to become speaker of the House when the new Democratic majority takes over in January. Hakeem Jeffries speaks during the \”What’s Next\” conference by the Democratic Party in Denver, CO (Reuters) The man interrupted Jeffries while he spoke […]

As Dems Take Congress, Alito Warns They Can “Turn Off The Lights” At Supreme Court Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Thursday that he is concerned Congress could make decisions that affect the high court’s funding.”Congress can turn off the lights at the Supreme Court and stop everything from happening if they want to defund their activities. And there are many, many, many other […]

Iran Microwaves Babies! Rep Joe Wilson Concocts Bizarre Justification For Iran War This is a new one, and quite insane in terms of pro-war propaganda coming from elected officials…South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson (R) has bizarrely claimed that Iranians have been putting babies in microwaves. This was his response when pressed this week to offer a justification for the Iran war by independent journalist and longtime Middle East […]

White House Confirms Unprecedented Trump-Xi-Putin Trilateral Summit: Nukes In, Ukraine Out President Trump will sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Shenzhen on Thursday, the White House said Friday, in what US officials described as the first three-way meeting between the leaders of the world’s three largest nuclear powers. According to the NY Post, White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales […]

Who Whacked Jensen Huang? The CIA Wasn’t Convinced – So Rubio Reworked Their Memo The classified memo whose leak set off Jensen Huang’s fall at Nvidia was Marco Rubio’s work, and Rubio built it from a CIA report that he recast “in his own more assertive terms,” according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post for a report published Friday.According to the report, CIA officials are “not yet convinced” […]

Donbas For NATO? Zelensky Says Washington Just Floated A Swap That Crosses Putin’s Reddest Line Volodymyr Zelensky says US negotiators asked for the first time whether Ukraine would pull out of Donbas in exchange for NATO membership, a trade that would hand Moscow the land it has demanded for years while putting Kyiv inside the alliance Vladimir Putin calls a red line.”The Americans raised the question: ‘What if Ukraine joins NATO? […]

Travel Hell Continues: 1000s Still Stranded After Ground Stop As Duffy Demands $50 Billion: ‘This Is An Emergency’ More than 3,000 flights within, into or out of the US had been canceled by Saturday morning, according to FlightAware, as airlines dug out from Friday’s nationwide ground stop, which wiped out more than 9,100 flights that day and left tens of thousands of passengers stuck in airports overnight.As we reported Friday […]

This Is State-Snooping Taken To The Extreme: UK Taxman Wants Your AI Chatbot History Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,The UK government’s tax collectors are pushing for powers that would let HMRC demand the private chatbot conversations ordinary Britons have with AI tools when preparing their returns.Under proposals in the Budget Bill, the definition of what the taxman can force you to hand over expands from computer “records” […]

Britain’s SAS Warns Troops Are Scared To Pull Trigger Over ‘Witch Hunts’ Britain’s Special Air Service soldiers are shying away from missions where they may have to kill, serving SAS officers say, because they fear being accused of war crimes later by a public inquiry that has hung over the regiment for nearly four years.The officers told the Telegraph that there have been no outright refusals to deploy. But some serving members are […]

Africans & Middle Easterners Drive Record ‘Honor’ Abuse & FGM Surge In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,Police in England and Wales recorded 3,145 honor-based abuse offenses in the year ending March 2026 – the highest figure since comparable records began.Female genital mutilation offenses rose 52 percent to 166. The number track the arrival and growth of communities in which family “honor” and control over female […]

FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop After Comms System Crash; Flight Disruptions Could Stretch Into Tomorrow The latest: FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop FAA halts all departures nationwide; flights in the air allowed to continueFirst nationwide ground stop since the January 2023 NOTAM failureDuffy cites a communications failure hitting all Air Route Traffic Control CentersComms failure due to network reboot/crashDHS’s Mullin calls […]

“That’s Terrifying”: Godfather Of AI Takes 18-Month Warning To EU Leaders Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the godfather of AI, was on the program to brief the 27 EU leaders in Dublin on Friday morning, carrying a timeline that he says scares even him: the one he now hears from Paul Christiano, the AI safety researcher OpenAI put on its board in September.”I’ve been going around saying, this stuff’s going to get smarter […]

The Southern African Bi-Oceanic Railway Could Be A Game-Changer In The Sino-US New Cold War Authored by Andrew Korybko via Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter,All of Southern Africa will likely fall under the US’ “sphere of influence” and become the minerals base of the US-led “Global West’s” “Fourth Industrial Revolution”-driven economic competition with China.The run-up to the US’ latest midterms dominated the global news cycle, which is […]

Let The Real Chaos Begin Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic,Buckle up.The same motive power that propelled Donald Trump’s electoral victories in 2016 and 2024 propelled his disastrous midterm repudiation – fear and loathing of government. There is no unconditional love in politics. Trump was elected to upend the ruling caste, which, among his supporters, is even more despised than the government. He didn’t do it, and […]

“It All Comes From The Israelis”: Joe Kent Reveals What Happened When He Told Trump About Iran Intel Former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent says Stephen Miller, now President Trump’s chief of staff, “knew going into the Iran war that this was bad” – and that Miller’s predecessor, Susie Wiles, gave pro-Israel voices time in front of the president over the intelligence community, while anyone who brought him bad […]