The Rise And Fall Of Synthetic Food Dyes Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In 1856, 18-year-old chemist William Henry Perkin was experimenting with coal tar-derived compounds in a crude laboratory in his attic. His teacher, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, had published a hypothesis on how it might be possible to make a prized malaria drug using chemicals from coal tar, and as his assistant, Perkin was […]

Biden-Hur Tape Drops, And Boy Is It Rough A segment of former President Joe Biden’s October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur just dropped, and boy is it rough. Biden couldn’t remember details such as when his son Beau died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected, and why he had classified documents in his possession that he shouldn’t have had. According to Axios, which released the […]

Mississippi Has The Lowest Average Salaries In The US, D.C. The Highest While wages in the U.S. have grown in recent years, many families are still feeling the squeeze of high inflation. Pay levels vary widely not just by profession, but also by geography. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, maps the average salary by U.S. state using the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of March 2025. The […]

Will Nuclear Fusion Soon Be The “Norm?” Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClearEnergy, The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time when humans with a single language decided to build a city with a tower that reached the heavens. For such a people, “nothing they plan will be impossible to them,” it is recorded. For at least the same time frame, […]

Trump Fumes After Supreme Court Rules Venezuelan Illegals Can’t Be Deported (For Now) Update (1715ET): President Trump took to TruthSocial to issue his brief but terse statement: “THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!” *  *  * The Supreme Court ruled this afternoon to keep in place its block on President Trump’s deportations of (alleged) Venezuelan gang members under a 1798 law historically […]

Bees Are Behind Our Food And Natural Medicines – And They’re Disappearing Authored by Emma Suttie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Bees are dying—and at an alarming rate. Between 2023 and 2024, US beekeepers lost an estimated 55.1 percent of their colonies—the worst loss in more than a decade and nearly 15 percent higher than the previous 13-year average. Lisa Schaetzle/Getty Images Bees pollinate three-quarters of the […]

Hapag-Lloyd Sees 50% Surge In Container Bookings From China To The US Bt Stuart Chirls of Freightwaves Hapag-Lloyd saw container bookings from China to the United States jump by 50% following the break in the tariff battle between the trading partners.  In comments during an earnings call, Chief Executive Rolf Habben Jansen explained that while recent bookings were down 20%-30%, there has been “a surge of over 50% in recent […]

America’s Next Top Migrant: White House Denies Noem Backing DHS Citizenship Game Show The White House has denied a report that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is backing a proposal for a reality TV series that pits immigrants against each other for the grand prize: a fast-track to U.S. citizenship. According to a 35-page pitch obtained by DailyMail.com, the Department of Homeland Security has been in contact with reality TV producer […]

US Drug Overdose Deaths Fall Nearly 27 Percent To Lowest Level In 5 Years Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Drug overdose deaths in the United States dropped sharply in 2024, falling to their lowest level since before the pandemic, according to provisional data released on May 14 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Packets of fentanyl and methamphetamine seized from a truck crossing […]

Moody’s Downgrades USA Credit Rating From Aaa Earlier this week, we noted that short-dated USA sovereign CDS were trading wider than China and Greece as trade policy uncertainty and the debt ceiling ‘X-date’ loomed… …well, it appears Moody’s Rating Agency noted it too… because they just downgraded the Government of United States of America’s (US) long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to Aa1 from Aaa and changed the […]

Trump Tax Bill Fails To Advance As Conservative Holdouts Double Down On ‘No’ Update (1210ET): The House Budget Committee has voted down the reconciliation bill by a vote of 16-21 – with GOP Reps. Clyde, Roy, Breechen, Norman and Smucker (who flipped his vote) all voting “no”. Speaker Mike Johnson (L), President Donald Trump, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) “This bill falls profoundly short. It does not do what we say it does with respect to […]

“There Will Be Consequences” For Those Govt Officials Who Waged War Against The People Of This Land Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Cool? “I’m very concerned for [the president’s] life. And James Comey, in my view, should be held accountable and put behind bars for this.” – DNI Tulsi Gabbard “Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Jim Comey, former FBI Director wrote on Instagram about the message “86 47” laid […]

Israel Waited For Trump To Depart Gulf Before Launching Biggest Anti-Houthi Strikes Yet Following more Houthi ballistic missile attacks targeting Israel in recent days, the IDF conducted a wave of new airstrikes in Yemen on Friday, and crucially as the US military has stepped back amid the Trump-declared ceasefire. The IDF announced that its airstrikes destroyed infrastructure at the Houthi-controlled ports of Hodeidah and Salif, […]

Trump’s Trade War Lit A Fire Under YETI Coolers Our previous supply chain analysis revealed a list of major US brands that remained heavily exposed to China. The ongoing trade war has lit a fire under U.S. management teams, accelerating efforts to shift production—either through friend-shoring or reshoring—as it appears likely that some level of tariffs on Chinese goods will remain through the second half of the year.  […]

New College Grads Not Working Out, Most Hiring Managers Say: Survey Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Inappropriate attire, excessive use of cell phones, poor quality of work, and foul language are just a few of the reasons 65 percent of U.S. hiring managers gave for firing college graduates who had recently started their first job. A Pollfish survey of 1,000 managers across America, reported by Resume.com, revealed […]

UMich Survey Suggests Women, Democrats, & Low-Income Americans Are Out Of Their TDS-Addled Minds Having embarrassed themselves with their TDS-driven cognitive dissonance over the past few months, Democrat-voting UMich respondents (and women, and low income Americans) in the preliminary May survey (a month after Liberation Day and also post-Pause and the massive meltup in stocks) turned the TDS-terror dial to ’11’. Consumer […]

Nightmare New Jersey Transit Strike Cripples Rail Service New Jersey was hit by its first statewide transit strike in over 40 years early Friday morning, as 450 unionized locomotive engineers walked off the job amid a contract dispute about pay. The strike brought NJ Transit’s rail network to a halt and disrupted service for 350,000 commuters. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) announced the strike late […]

Democrats Are Digging Their Political Graves… And Trump Is Selling Them The Shovel Authored by Larry Kudlow via RealClearPolitics.com, While Democrats are busy defending criminal gang members and terrorists from Tren De Aragua and MS-13, President Trump is putting on a command performance in the Middle East. In a blockbuster speech yesterday at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mr. Trump said this: “Before our eyes, a new generation […]

Macron, Starmer Blast ‘Unacceptable’ Russian Stance In Talks, Zelensky Urges More Sanctions Update(11:30ET): Zelensky in a phone call with President Trump soon on the heels of the Istanbul meeting, which lasted just under two hours, touted that he’s willing to “take the fastest possible steps to bring real peace” – but the West needs to hold “a strong stance”. Also on the group call were the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and […]

A Fraction Of Proposed Data Centers Will Get Built: Utilities Are Wising Up By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive The U.S. grid is flooded with data center proposals that will never get built. That’s making it much more difficult for utilities and grid operators to plan for the future. “Conservatively, you’re seeing five to 10 times more interconnection requests than data centers actually being built,” said Astrid Atkinson, a […]

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Illegal Immigrants Accused Of Crossing Into Military Zone Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in New Mexico has dismissed the charges against dozens of illegal immigrants who were accused of violating security regulations by trespassing on a military zone along the U.S.–Mexico border, according to court documents filed this week. Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory […]

RFK Jr. Defends His Comments On Vaccines: “I’m Going To Tell The Truth” Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his recent statements about vaccines during a congressional hearing on May 14. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 14, 2025. Madalina […]

Boeing Set To Avoid Prosecution In Twin Fatal 737 Max Crashes Boeing has tentatively reached a nonprosecution agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid a June 23 trial over allegations it misled federal regulators about a flight control system tied to two fatal 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, according to Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter.  Sources said the deal requires a […]

Rickards To Bannon: Petrodollar 2.0 Is Coming Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Our friend and colleague Jim Rickards was on Steve Bannon’s War Room show Tuesday, and it may be the most important interview Jim has done this year. In this fascinating discussion, Jim starts with the history of the original petrodollar system. And he knows the subject well, having helped create it. The premise of the 1974 […]

Trump Still Pressing Forward On Meeting Putin ‘As Soon As We Can’ President Donald Trump said Friday as he wrapped up his four-day visit to the Middle East that the White House is still moving forward on setting up direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that this will happen as soon as possible. “I think it’s time for us to just do it,” Trump told reporters, addressing whether an in-person meeting will still […]