Supreme Court Shuts Down Activist Judge, Lets Trump Cut $250 Million In DEI Training For Teachers The Supreme Court on Friday overruled an activist judge in Boston, allowing the Trump administration to slash $250 million for more than 100 teacher training grants for DEI and other woke programs. In a 5-4 decision nine days after the request, the Supremes sided with the Trump administration’s emergency request to stay the court […]

Trump Extends TikTok Deadline By 75 Days As Trade War With Beijing Erupts   In the hours before President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz on Wednesday afternoon, several corporate media outlets reported that a TikTok deal was nearly finalized ahead of the weekend deadline. One report even claimed the new U.S. entity set to acquire TikTok’s algorithm from Chinese parent company ByteDance would be named “TikTok America.” […]

‘Do You See The Pattern?’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, You Wouldn’t Want to Be Him on That Dreadful Day “Perhaps history is teaching us that today’s popular leaders like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are not the people’s last chance. They are the globalist’s last chance.”  – Kurt Schlichter Do you see the pattern?  Populist party leaders all over Western Civ getting undone by the law courts — Călin […]

Female Fencer Expelled For Refusing To Compete Against Male Opponent Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A college female fencer in Maryland refused to compete against an opponent who is a biological male and has been expelled as a result. Stephanie Turner refused to compete against transgender fencer Redmond Sullivan at the Cherry Blossom Open, opting to take a knee at the start of the match, consequently being […]

Have You Said “Thankyou” Once? By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at rabobank US equities tanked yesterday in their most savage one-day selloff since the early days of Covid in 2020. The NASDAQ was hardest hit, down 5.97%, while the S&P500 and DOW gave up 4.84% and 3.98% respectively. European stocks were also savaged. The CAC40 fell 3.31% and the DAX was down 3.01%. The sharp fall in stock prices leaves US equities […]

Copper Posts Biggest Weekly Drop Since Covid Crash As Tariff War Hammers Commodities President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz—centered on reciprocal tariffs—followed by China’s retaliatory bazooka has triggered a growth scare in markets. Commodities are tumbling, reflecting concerns over deteriorating macroeconomic conditions as the tariff war escalates.  “Commodities taking a cue from the macro with WTI -9% to $61 […]

Republicans May Override Senate’s Nonpartisan Referee To Pass Trump’s Agenda: What To Know Authored by Joseph Lord and Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, Republicans have set the stage to potentially override the Senate parliamentarian as they move ahead with President Donald Trump’s policy proposals. Republicans are seeking to pass Trump’s entire agenda—including tax cuts, energy policy, border policy, defense, and […]

JPM’s Longtime Mega Tesla Bear Warns About Brand Damage JPMorgan analyst Ryan Brinkman has earned the crown as Tesla’s most stubborn bear. For nearly a decade, his coverage has been a broken record of bearish calls—and as the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Just before Tesla shares went parabolic in 2019—ultimately soaring 1,700% over the next several years—Brinkman still pounded the table with […]

“It’s Un-American” – 19 Democratic State AGs Sue To Stop Trump Blocking Non-Citizen Voting Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on April 3 disputing President Donald Trump’s executive order that requires voters to verify they are U.S. citizens and prevents states from counting mail-in ballots they receive after Election Day. Filed in Boston federal court, […]

“Who’s The President Of Syria Right Now, Roy?” Horton Blasts Regime-Change Narrative In the Biden Administration’s dying breath, they managed to help overthrow one last country in the Middle East: Syria, another notch in the neocon “7 country” wet dream General Wesley Clark revealed long ago. On December 8th of 2024, Assad was ousted. The new leader is Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, head of the Al Nusra Front which, as Horton […]

Princeton Says Trump Administration Has Suspended Dozens Of Research Grants Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has suspended several dozen federally funded research grants to Princeton University as part of its investigation into campus anti-Semitism, according to a Princeton University email published by the Daily Princetonian student newspaper. The Princeton University campus […]

Russell Brand Charged With Rape, Sexual Assault British comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault over claims made by four women spanning 1999 – 2005. The move follows a September 2023 investigation by the Sunday Times, after which Brand was interviewed multiple times by police. The 49-year-old has previously denied all allegations, calling them “very, very hurtful,” and insisting that […]

Trump Admin Sued Over Chinese Import Tariffs Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration was sued by a nonprofit civil rights group on April 3, with the organization saying that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he imposed tariffs on Chinese imports. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), alleges that Trump lacked the legal […]

Zelensky Says NATO Membership Still In Ukraine’s Future, Contradicting Trump Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to test President Trump, this time contradicting the US leader on the question of Ukraine’s future membership in NATO. Trump has clearly taken it off the table, as even NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has recently recognized. But Zelensky in fresh comments said he has not given up on Ukraine’s pursuit of […]

Stocks Reverse Plunge, Jump After Trump Says Open To Deal With Vietnam, Tells Powell To Cut Rates Exactly one month ago we reminded readers, and the new generation of traders who may have been in kindergarten during the first trade war of 2017-2018, that a core feature of the market rollercoaster that marked Trump 1.0’s reign is crashing markets… and strategically timed trial balloons meant to push stocks sharply higher, to wit: […]

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell Speaks As Emergency Rate-Cut Odds Rise; Trump Says “Stop Playing Politics!” With markets still in turmoil over tariffs, investors now turn their attention to what Fed Chair Powell says this morning for clues on the state of the US economy and the path for easing.  President Trump has made it clear what he wants: This would be a PERFECT time for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut Interest Rates.  He […]

Hamas Ready To Free All Hostages At Once For Permanent Truce Amid an expanded Israeli military (IDF) ground operation, which has again seen Rafah surrounded, Hamas is signaling that it’s ready to release all remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire. A Thursday Times of Israel report cited a senior Palestinian official who described that Israel has had a “longstanding rejection” of such a deal, which is why […]

Archive Footage Exposes Democrats As The OGs Of DOGE & Tariffs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Archive video has surfaced of Chuck Schumer passionately talking about how government programs like Social Security are riddled with waste and fraud and need to be reined in, exactly what the Department of Government Efficiency he so vehemently opposes is now doing. This footage from 1996 shows Schumer on the Senate […]

US Payrolls Unexpectedly Soar To 228K, Above Highest Estimate After today’s shocking retaliation by China, which hiked tariffs on US goods by 34%, the jobs report was an afterthought. To be honest, it would have been an asymmetric afterhought any way, as any upside would have been viewed as stale and not reflecting the new tariff reality, while any miss would have cemented the recession case. And while the market is certainly far […]

EU Could Fine Musk’s X $1 Billion Over Illicit Content, Disinformation Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, European Union regulators are reportedly mulling a $1 billion fine against Elon Musk’s X, taking into account revenue from his other ventures, including Tesla and SpaceX, according to The New York Times. EU regulators allege that X has violated the Digital Services Act and will use a section of the act to […]

Trump Says China “Played It Wrong” On Retaliatory Tariffs — Now Beijing Faces Three Options Update (0949ET): President Trump wrote on Truth Social that China “played it wrong” after Beijing announced retaliatory tariffs on imported US goods earlier this morning. “They panicked,” Trump said, adding, “The one thing they cannot afford to do!”  And now, cue Trump’s re-retaliatory tariffs this weekend… 100,000% re-retaliatory […]

South Korea’s Top Court Ousts Impeached President Yoon Over Martial Law Declaration In a tensely-awaited but ultimately unanimous decision, South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday finalized the ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol, putting its stamp of approval on his impeachment for having declared martial law on Dec. 3. While some hope the decision will end the country’s biggest political crisis in decades, South Koreans must […]

Everything Is Crashing After China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs On US Goods For a few hours it seemed like we could even stabilize, if only a bit, ahead of today’s scheduled main event: the March jobs report at 8:30am ET. And then all hell broke loose at 6:08am when this Bloomberg headline hit: *CHINA ANNOUNCES EXTRA 34% TARIFFS ON US GOODS In other words, far from seeking concessions, Beijing is now looking to escalate the trade […]

Democrats Want ‘Misgendering’ And ‘Deadnaming’ To Be Considered Child Abuse Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrats in Colorado have introduced legislation that would recognise ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming’ as forms of abuse of children who have decided to identify as transgender. Colorado Newsline reports that the bill, called “The Kelly Loving Act” after a transgender-identifying individual killed […]

Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Iran Nuclear Sites: ‘Catastrophic & Illegal’ Via The Cradle The Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday that US threats of attack against Iran are “unacceptable” and could result in a “catastrophe”. “The use of military force by Iran’s opponents in the context of the settlement is illegal and unacceptable. Threats from outside to bomb Iran’s nuclear infrastructure facilities will […]