by Michael We are facing a global energy crisis, a global debt crisis and a global inflation crisis all at the same time. In all my years, I have never seen anything like this. Two of China’s largest shipping companies just decided to stop sending their oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and the … Read more
BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the DOJ will be sending 1,000 election monitors to polling locations for the midterms. “[The DOJ] has sent monitors to election hot spots, polling places to increase voter confidence to troubleshoot problems and we are doing that now,” she said. https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/anchor-twitter Dhillon also said … Read more
Google wants to buy a dead airline’s internal messages for $10 million. Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May, and now Google wants roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and millions of employee records going back decades. Customer data is excluded, but employee data isn’t. A third party would strip identifying information before Google … Read more
A viral campaign is urging Americans to turn Halloween into “De-Flock America” night and target controversial surveillance cameras while crowds and costumes provide cover. Posts promoting the campaign have spread rapidly across Instagram and X, calling for Flock Safety cameras to be disabled, covered or destroyed on October 31, 2026. The idea is that Halloween gives participants … Read more
A US Navy guided-missile destroyer spent four days last month without working toilets, galley services and air conditioning in the blistering heat of the South China Sea after the warship lost power. The incident was due to an engineering failure aboard the warship, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement to CNN, another setback … Read more
The entire world is repricing long-term debt at the same time. Bloomberg's Global Treasury 20+ Year yield just hit ~4.3%, the highest since 2015 and roughly double its 2020 low. Real yields are driving this and breakevens are anchored. The market wants more to fund the… pic.twitter.com/tohkFuNjRt — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 18, … Read more
by Michael This has been one of the craziest years in any of our lifetimes. World War III is literally playing out right in front of our eyes, this has been the worst year for wildfires that the western half of the country has experienced, severe hunger is on the rise all over the globe, … Read more
After President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, administration officials fanned out to build support for an agreement they hoped would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and start winding down the war. Iran’s hard-line leaders huddled in Tehran and came up with a different plan, according to Iranian and Arab officials. … Read more
It is difficult to overstate how completely the loss of the grid would disrupt life as we know it. In that first hushed moment after the lights went out, we wouldn’t even know that this outage was different from any other. Maybe we would lose power for a few hours. Maybe the ice cream would … Read more
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/Current/ Investors see the combination of rising money supply and ongoing supply hits as the setup for prices that stay high even if activity slows. That mismatch is what stagflation looks like in real time. US M2 money supply is rising at the fastest pace in five years. The last time money supply accelerated this … Read more
https://t.co/mytuql0bzk — Common Sense Investor (CSI) (@commonsenseplay) August 18, 2026 🔥JUST IN: Ray Dalio warns the stock market bubble now rivals 1929, and could become the BIGGEST in American history. The Bridgewater founder says AI euphoria has produced "classic signs" of a bubble, pointing to record IPOs and trillion dollar valuations. Markets now trade at… … Read more
Just quietly leaving this here. pic.twitter.com/NMjmDh4dIb — Uncle Milty’s Ghost (@his_eminence_j) August 18, 2026
“People don’t want to work anymore.” Okay. Offer someone $15 an hour for a difficult job. Then offer that same person $45 an hour. Watch how quickly the “work ethic problem” disappears. The latest data makes this harder to dismiss. Average hourly earnings rose 3.2% over the past year in July, while inflation was 3.4%. … Read more
That is all there is – and even the illusion is weak, tedious and tiresome. I’m seeing people in my personal sphere fucked over every which way you look. Victims of the healthcare industry. Victims of our justice system. These institutions are not just lacking – on the contrary – they seem purposefully designed to … Read more
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering a new proposal to protect local police officers from potential financial fallout if they face allegations of misconduct while executing immigration arrests. A planning document released Friday shows the agency intends to subsidize liability insurance for state and local officers who are trained and authorized to enforce federal … Read more
Key takeaways Incident Details: A Grade 9 student brought a pistol and rifle to Ateneo de Zamboanga University campus, killed a Grade 10 student, and then took his own life. Two others were injured. Live-Stream & Online Activity: The suspect reportedly wore a body camera and live-streamed the attack; he was described as a Roblox … Read more
And Pelosi knew it and kept him on the committee. She’s as guilty as him. Maybe more. He’s just not too bright. — Michael B (@MdTerp79) August 17, 2026
An egg recall linked to a salmonella outbreak was upgraded to the highest possible risk level by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday. Nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs were labeled “Class I,” which the agency defines as “a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure … Read more
This is what the latest numbers are starting to show. Inflation is supposedly cooling. July CPI was up 3.4% from a year earlier, down slightly from 3.5% in June. But look at the bills people actually have to pay. Energy was still 14.7% higher than a year ago. Gasoline was up 24.6%. Electricity was up … Read more
Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson lament that young Americans were denied the chance to read Osama bin Laden's Letter to America. Greenwald calls it "this history that they had never been told." He lists three grievances from the letter:– sanctions on Iraq– US troops in… pic.twitter.com/hXBtZ9UReO — Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 16, 2026