Bad Bunny Halftime Show Versus Turning Point USA Alternative Highlights A Divided Nation Last night was the biggest television event of the year: the Super Bowl. Yet the NFL decided that Puerto Rican native “Bad Bunny” was the best fit for the halftime show, performing his entire set in Spanish and leaving tens of millions of English-speaking Americans in the dark. Some even tuned into an alternative halftime show produced by […]

Dems Melting Down Over Voter ID As DHS Shutdown Talks Hit Wall Update on the latest negotiations to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded beyond next Friday, which requires at least 60 votes to pass unless the filibuster is done away with.  Recall: Congress passed five out of six appropriations packages on Feb. 3, ending a brief partial government shutdown that began on Jan. 31 – while giving DHS, which controls ICE, a […]

Chipotle CEO Reveals Customers Have Money, Sets Stage For Price Hikes Chipotle Mexican Grill shares chopped around last week after the fast-casual chain delivered an underwhelming outlook for annual comparable sales forecast. But by week’s end, it was not the earnings print making the rounds on social media; it was a snippet from the CEO’s remarks on the earnings call that went viral on X. *CHIPOTLE SEES 2026 COMP SALES ABOUT 0%, […]

Europe’s Chemical Sector ‘Will Disappear’ Under Weight Of EU Green Deal, CEOs Sound Alarm Via Remix News, The visible decline in production in Europe’s chemical sector could soon have far more serious consequences. Production capacity is disappearing, and the further consequences will be alarming, warn leaders of the largest companies in an industry that recently experienced a period of prosperity. They are calling for swift and […]

Visualizing The Changing Political Affiliation By Generation In The US Political identity in the U.S. is changing, and the divide is increasingly generational. Younger Americans are stepping away from traditional party labels, while older generations remain more closely tied to the two-party system. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows how political affiliation varies across generations, highlighting […]

Spain’s Prime Minister Tries To Cover Up Corruption With Censorship Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared at a summit along with autocratic and undemocratic leaders from Georgia and Burundi to talk about protecting citizens and democracy. Fascinating. It is very revealing. The president talks about protecting minors from the harms of social networks and launches tirades against […]

Humanoid Robot Nails Perfect Backflip As Mobility Progress Accelerates At Scary Pace Boston Dynamics has released new footage of its flagship humanoid robot program, “Atlas,” showcasing next-level mobility and reinforcing our greatest fears that when these bots are paired with “brains,” adoption can quickly move from factory floors to offensive defense missions. “Now that the Atlas enterprise platform is getting to work, the […]

Germany Rejects Billion-Euro Data Center: Bureaucracy Wins Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In Groß-Gerau, Hesse, a billion-euro project has been blocked by citizen opposition and the local council’s majority. The town now seems the epitome of Germany’s decline: backward-looking, stubborn, and hopelessly lost in an era that leaves no room for passive solipsism. With roughly 27,000 residents, Groß-Gerau benefits from direct […]

Epstein’s Gates To Pandemonium Authored by Jordi Pigem via the Brownstone Institute, “We are going to have fun,” writes Jeffrey Epstein on December 7, 2009. This phrase is his reply to an email by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Science Advisor (and Scientific Advisor to Bill Gates), Boris Nikolic, who is making a list of “raising stars,” many of them scientists, that they “should visit together.” By then, […]

Loeffler: SBA Suspends Over 100,000 California Borrowers In Pandemic-Loan Fraud Sweep The U.S. Small Business Administration said Friday it has suspended more than 100,000 California borrowers amid suspected fraud tied to pandemic-era relief programs, a move the agency said represents one of the largest enforcement actions since Covid-19 aid was rolled out. Kelly Loeffler, administrator of the Small Business Administration, during a […]

What’s The Likelihood Of A Global Nuclear Arms Race? Authored by Andrew Korybko, Russia and China are expected to reciprocally respond to the US’ potential development of new nukes and/or new nuke tests after it just let the New START lapse, which could be exploited by European and East Asian countries to develop their own nukes, thus emboldening some Muslim ones to follow suit. RT reported on German politician Sahra […]

The Idiocracy That Is California Politics Authored by William Andersen via The Mises Institute, After having lived in California the past four years, I can attest to the near-insanity of progressive politics in this state, yet California’s very progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, is considered a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2028. Given how the Trump administration has helped to tank the […]

Trump Lifts Biden-Era Restrictions On Commercial Fishing In Atlantic Marine Monument Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump revoked a prohibition on commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on Friday, restoring rules that allow regulated harvesting in the protected Atlantic waters while citing existing federal laws as adequate safeguards for […]

America’s Record Health Spending Explained In 5 Charts Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, U.S. health care spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, according to recently released data from the Department of Health and Human Services. That includes all health spending through federal and state health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, money paid by individuals to health insurers and providers, spending by […]

ICE Urges Newsom Not To Release 33,179 Criminal Illegal Immigrants Into Communities Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have requested the state of California and Gov. Gavin Newsom not to release over 33,000 criminal illegal immigrants with ICE detainers back into the streets, ICE said in a Feb. 6 statement. ICE detainers […]

Gambling Stocks Slide Ahead Of Super Bowl As Prediction Markets Shine The rise of prediction markets ahead of Super Bowl weekend has become a major overhang for legacy sportsbooks, prompting investors to de-risk their equity positions and sending shares of Flutter Entertainment (owner of FanDuel) and rival DraftKings sharply lower year to date. Today’s matchup between Seattle and New England at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara is […]

Molotov Cocktails, Volatility, Stability, And Faux Liquidity By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Markets have experienced high levels of volatility over the past few weeks. From silver, to software stocks, to cryptocurrency, we have seen violent price swings on almost a daily basis. We have political risks, geopolitical risks, as well as the implications of a rapidly evolving technological shift. We touched on Non-Standard […]

Trump Admin Refuses To Comply With Immigration Court Order The Trump administration has drawn a line in the sand. It will not comply with a federal court order demanding due process for 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last March under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department made that position clear in a new filing, setting up a collision course with U.S. District Judge […]

NIH Allocates $10 Million For Research In East Palestine Three Years After Toxic Train Crash Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Three years have passed since a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, an eastern Ohio village near the Pennsylvania border. A neighborhood near the train wreck where vinyl chloride from derailed tank cars was vented and burnt […]

Raskin: Voter ID Law Violates The 19th Amendment In Denying The Vote To Women Authored by Jonathan Turley, With polling showing over 80 percent of Americans in favor of voter ID laws, it is hard to come up with reasons why you need an ID to board a plane but not vote in a federal election. That was particularly glaring this week when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) required people to show an ID to attend his campaign events after opposing […]

At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East: ‘Desert Storm Levels’ An eye-opening and massive number of C-17 Globemaster military transport and cargo planes have been observed heading to Europe and the Middle East, in what some monitors have forewarned looks like the build-up to major war in Iran. One regional watcher and pundit commented in response: “112 C-17s are in or on their way to the Middle East. Guys, that’s […]

David Sacks Exposes New York Times For Shielding Reid Hoffman In Epstein Files Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Venture capitalist David Sacks has slammed The New York Times for its glaring failure to scrutinize Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder emerging as the top Silicon Valley figure in the explosive Jeffrey Epstein files. In a scathing segment on the All-In Podcast, Sacks highlighted how the establishment […]

If You’re Free To Complain About Fascism, You Don’t Live In A Fascist Country Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side, Many, many years ago—we’re talking decades—I got into a fight with a boy I’d been dating for (thankfully) not very long. I can’t even recall what the argument was about, but I’ll never forget his very last words to me: “God, you’re so stupid.” “There are plenty of insults you could fling […]

Musk: “Time To Go Back To Moon At Scale” A little more than a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk had rejiggered SpaceX’s near-term space roadmap, pivoting from a Mars-first to now prioritizing the Moon, Musk has now effectively confirmed the reporting. “Time to go back to the Moon at scale,” Musk wrote on X early Sunday morning. Time to go back to the Moon at scale https://t.co/rFjaenmQZd — Elon Musk […]

Nearly 2,000 Truckers Deemed Unfit Are Removed From American Roads Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Almost 2,000 truckers deemed to be unqualified to drive on U.S. roads have been removed, with several arrested and many vehicles put out of service, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a Feb. 6 statement. Trucks line up next to the border wall before crossing to the United States at Otay […]