Tick, Tick , Tick: Study Shows California Losing A Taxpayer Every Minute Authored by Jonathan Turley, California is facing a perfect storm in finances, with a crippling deficit and a declining tax base. Now, a study of IRS data by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation found that California is losing a taxpayer roughly every minute, as states like Florida, Texas, and North Carolina attract new residents due to lower taxes and […]

‘Vote By Phone?” – Swalwell’s Plan To Modernize Voting Could Put Election Integrity at Risk Nationwide Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) launched his bid for governor of California this week, and he wasted no time floating a plan that could reshape elections far beyond the state’s borders. He told CNN’s Elex Michaelson on Saturday that he wants Californians to vote by phone, a proposal that fits neatly with the left’s push to […]

‘I Refuse To Be A Battered Wife’ – Marjorie Taylor Green Abandoning House Seat One week after President Trump withdrew his “support and endorsement” of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the establishment-bucking Georgia congresswoman stunned supporters and foes alike by announcing she will resign from Congress. The move also comes shortly after Greene helped push Trump into a major political reversal that saw him suddenly encouraging Congress […]

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Placing Conditions On Federal Disaster Funds Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge on Nov. 21 temporarily blocked the Trump administration from conditioning and withholding federal disaster preparedness funds that were allocated to local governments. The city landscape of Los Angeles, on Oct. 9, 2025. Mike Blake /Reuters U.S. District Judge William Orrick in […]

House Votes To Denounce Socialism Despite Widespread Dem Opposition The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution condemning socialism on Friday. The resolution, introduced about a month ago by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), explicitly denounces socialism in all its forms and rejects the implementation of socialist policies in America. The bill cites “more than 100 million deaths at the hands of socialist […]

Is The pAIn Over? The End Of “Free” Money? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Last weekend we published Rotation, pAIn, or Smooth Sailing? following up on the prior week’s report: pAIn Ahead??? The pAIn did in fact continue with the Nasdaq 100 leading the way down over 3%. There was some further “rotation” as the S&P 500 dropped only 2% and our favorite way of expressing rotation, the S&P 500 Equal Weight, dropped […]

Rubio Confirms Ukraine Peace Plan Authored By US As Leaders Meet In Geneva Officials from the United States, Europe, and Ukraine met in Geneva on Nov. 23 to discuss Washington’s draft plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. President Trump said on Nov. 21 that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had until Thursday to approve the 28-point plan, which would compel Ukraine to renounce ambitions to join NATO, accept limits on its […]

Cracker Barrel Marketing ‘Expert’ Resigns From Board After Failed Rebrand Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, A board member who was part of Cracker Barrel’s controversial and short-lived rebrand has resigned. Multicultural marketing expert Gilbert Dávila stepped down from his seat on the board of directors for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. on Nov. 20 as shareholders voted to shrink the governing body from […]

Trump Reportedly Preparing To Designate Muslim Brotherhood As Foreign Terrorist Org John Solomon’s Just The News reports, in an exclusive interview with President Trump on Sunday morning, that the president will formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a foreign terrorist organization. Trump explained that the MB’s FTO designation will be imminent and drafted “in the strongest and most powerful terms,” adding, “Final […]

Federal Agents Seize 20 Pounds Of Meth Stuffed In Frozen Meat At Arizona Border Stop Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents intercepted methamphetamine hidden inside packages of meat at an Arizona checkpoint just days ago.  A U.S. Customs and Border Protection patch on the arm of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Mission, Texas, on July 1, 2019. Loren […]

Trump Era Sparks Biggest U.S. Gas Pipeline Boom Since 2008 A massive pipeline buildout is sweeping across Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, marking the largest expansion of Gulf Coast natural-gas capacity since the 2008 shale boom, according to Bloomberg. As many as a dozen projects are slated for completion next year, enough to boost the region’s gas-shipping capacity by 13%, or about the equivalent of Canada’s total consumption, […]

In Charts: The Rise And Fall Of The Thanksgiving Turkey Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Americans will eat nearly 30 million turkeys this Thanksgiving, the National Turkey Federation estimates. A flock of white turkeys in a shelter as part of an effort to prevent exposure to avian influenza on a farm in Townsend, Del., on Nov. 14, 2022. Nathan Howard/Getty Images That’s almost as many turkeys as there […]

Footage Shows Possible Drone Strike On Major Power Station Near Moscow Footage circulating on X shows multiple angles of what appears to be a drone strike on a power plant that plays a critical role in keeping Moscow’s energy grid humming. Visegrád 24 reports that long-range suicide drones struck the Shatura Power Plant in Moscow Oblast, roughly 75 miles east of the capital. The facility is one of the region’s key power […]

Elon Envisions Grokipedia As Humanity’s Cosmic Knowledge Vault Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a far reaching vision for preserving human wisdom against existential threats, Elon Musk described his xAI venture’s Grokipedia as an indestructible archive destined for the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Speaking at the Baron Investment Conference, Musk likened the project to a “modern-day Library of Alexandria,” etched […]

Trump: Democrats Urging Military To “Disobey My Orders” Have Committed A “Serious Crime” President Trump issued new comments overnight about a group of unhinged left-wing lawmakers, including Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Chris DeLuzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), as well as Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who told members of the military and intelligence community last […]

‘Almost Every German City Is Now On The Verge Of Bankruptcy’ Via Remix News, Germany’s cities are on the verge of a massive financial crisis, with the mayor of Essen warning that the data shows that almost every single city in the country is nearly bankrupt. Currently, the total deficit for all German cities in 2025 is €30 billion, which jumped from last year’s deficit of €24 billion. Essen’s Mayor Thomas Kufen […]

What It Takes To Be Rich In Europe The income threshold for being considered rich in Europe varies considerably from country to country. In Luxembourg, wealth begins for a three-person household with an annual net income of 175,000€, while in Turkey, even less than 20,000€ is enough to cross the threshold (higher pane below). Germany ranks in the upper mid-range.  It is also interesting to see how the figures change after […]

Brussels’ Internet Neo-Feudalism: Sledgehammer Or Stiletto? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The European Commission is relentlessly advancing its project to subjugate independent media. Beyond classic censorship, sophisticated technologies like algorithmic search control are being deployed. Alternative outlets such as Tichys Einblick are thus increasingly blocked from public reach. The republican spirit is quietly dying. In recent […]

Is Global Technocracy Inevitable Or Dangerously Delusional? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The bewildering truth behind human technological enslavement is that it is impossible without the voluntary participation of the intended slaves. People must welcome technocracy into their lives in order for it to succeed. The populace has to believe, blindly, that they cannot live without it, or that authoritarianism by […]

These Are The Cities Americans Are Moving To As migration patterns shift across the U.S., some cities are emerging as magnets for new residents. A combination of affordability, climate, and job opportunities continues to draw people to the South and West. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights where Americans are choosing to move, based on new residency data from 2024 compiled by Point2Homes. Sun […]

Central Bankers Disagree About Gold Authored by Vincent Cook via The Mises Institute, With the fiat US dollar price of gold multiplied 2.6x since October of 2022 (as of October 20, 2025 when this was written) and rising exponentially (Figure 1), some people are deeply worried that something is seriously wrong with the dollar and with the global financial system generally. Is the soaring price of gold a sign of monetary instability? […]

US To Launch “New Phase” Of Venezuela Operations, Options Include Overthrowing Maduro: Report One day after the FAA issued a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM), or an alert notifying pilots of potential serious hazards in certain airspace, for the Maiquetía Flight Information Region above Venezula, Reuters reported that the US is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, citing four U.S. […]

The Problem Of Fake Science Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Last week, I was able to generate from artificial intelligence a fake study that proved that eating waffles increases baldness. It was filled with footnotes, citations, and complicated math and models. It was kind of scary to see how credible the results felt. You had to look carefully to see the problems. I shared it with others who immediately said […]

Washington Moves To Soften Penalties For Child-Sex Sting Suspects Washington’s State Sentencing Guidelines Commission has voted 7–2 to recommend lighter penalties for adults caught in online child-sex sting operations, urging lawmakers to create alternatives to incarceration for cases they classify as having “no identifiable victim” , according to Seattle’s 770AM. The category includes “net nanny” investigations where […]

The AI Trade: Opportunity Or Warning? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, AI Trade Lives On As “Santa Rally” Comes Into View The markets experienced another volatile trading week as we head into a shortened trading week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed the week lower, but rallied on Friday as options expiration took hold. The consistent selling pressure in AI and […]