Air Cargo Faces $22BN Revenue Hit When China Tariff Exemption Ends By Eric Kulisch of FreightWaves U.S. plans next month to cancel tariff-free access for low-value parcel shipments from China and Hong Kong, coupled with a new 145% tariff rate on Chinese imports, could bleed more than $22 billion in revenue from the air cargo sector over three years and put thousands of online sellers with direct-to-consumer fulfillment models out […]

Mississippi Supreme Court Shuts Down Teen’s Bid For Masculine Name Amid Gender Transition The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled this week that a 16-year-old biological female undergoing gender transition procedures cannot legally change her name to a more masculine one. In an 8–1 decision issued April 17, the state’s highest court sided with a lower court judge who previously denied the teen’s request, concluding that Mississippi […]

Former State Department Official Warns Of Deep State’s ‘Undeclared Second Cold War’ On Populism Mike Benz, the former State Department official who would later shed light on the Government-Big Tech censorship complex, has now accused the U.S. intelligence community of attempting to wage what he describes is an “undeclared second Cold War” against populism at home and abroad. “They said communism was a threat to democracy […]

Congressman Visits Ukraine Frontlines, Filmed Firing Heavy Weapon Apparently trying to out-hawk the late John McCain, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick has described that he recently traveled to Ukraine and spent several days at the front lines. The 51-year old Republican rep from Pennsylvania spent a total of a week inside the war-ravaged country, visiting soldiers while making declarations that Ukraine and the US will defeat the […]

Protectionism Is Good Authored by Josiah Lippincott via American Greatness, Independence is freedom. Dependence is slavery. The more independence you have, the more choices you can make and the freer you are. The more you need things from other people, the fewer choices you have, and the more you must obey the whims of others. If you are poor, then you must work in order to live. You must trade your time and energy for […]

Kremlin Hails US Proposal To Deny NATO Membership To Ukraine, Awaits Official Word On Crimea The Kremlin has belatedly reacted to Washington proposals toward ending the war in Ukraine, by praising and welcoming the Trump administration’s ruling out Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); however, as The Wall Street Journal reports in the wake of high-level meetings in Europe last week, Moscow “showed no […]

Drugged Into Oblivion: More Than 60% Of US Adults Admit That They Are Taking Pharmaceutical Drugs Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Americans watch more television than anyone else in the world, and as we watch television we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from pharmaceutical companies.  As I discussed in a previous article, pharmaceutical companies spend more than 15 billion dollars on […]

Chinese Plastics Factories Face Mass Closure As US Ethane Disappears Previously we explained that the US-China trade war has been unique in that the US was hit fast and hard, mostly through capital markets and financial linkages, which travel instantaneously with acute consequences (the recent dump of US treasuries by China and subsequent purchases of the yuan and perhaps gold took effect in milliseconds, and prompted a cottage […]

Why More People Are Testing Their Blood Without A Doctor Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The scale doesn’t lie—but it doesn’t tell the whole story. You might be eating better, exercising more, and still seeing the same number each morning. It’s frustrating, discouraging, and, as it turns out, possibly misleading. For decades, weight has been treated as a primary marker of health. But a number […]

What American Hardline Retailers Are Saying about Tariff Fallout Goldman analysts met with management and investor relations teams from specialty hardline retailers (BBY, BJ, DG, DKS, FL, OLLI, RH, TGT, ULTA, WMT, WOOF) to assess tariff exposure, consumer behavior, and macroeconomic challenges amid 145% tariffs on Chinese goods and the average US tariff rate at its highest since the 1930s.  Here are the conversations Kate […]

Do Elite Universities Really Wish To Fight The Federal Government? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Harvard has refused to accept the orders of a Trump administration commission concerning its chronic problems with anti-Semitism, campus violence, and racial tribalism, bias, and segregation. Yet, unlike some conservative campuses that distrust an overbearing Washington, Harvard and most elite schools like […]

“It’s Time For A Change”: Canadian Youth Fed Up, Turn To Conservative Poilievre As Liberal Boomers Go Full Carney It was a rainy March evening in British Columbia, but that didn’t stop 29-year-old Giancarlo Zorrilla from attending his first political rally. Like many young Canadians, Zorrilla is fed up – and he’s placing his hopes in Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, while the Liberal Party is seeking a fourth term after […]

Vatican Countdown: Here Are The Candidates For New Pope Update (1628ET):  Pope Francis’ death earlier this morning triggered centuries-old traditions and rules within the Roman Catholic Church, including mourning and the selection of a new leader.  Here are the key steps in selecting the new pope:  Vacancy of the Papal See: The process begins when the papacy becomes vacant, typically due to the death of the reigning pope […]

The Great Consternation Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Due process is when only one side has to follow the law and if you point out that this is a suicidal standard you’re a fascist” – Auron MacIntyre A great consternation boils and bubbles across the land as the sinister forces of Jacobin lawfare keep up their legalistic battery against the nation. You better believe that the country will not stand for much more of […]

Aerial Images Of Tesla’s Giga Texas Hint At Cybercab Prototype Production Monday’s spotlight was on Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who issued another warning to clients about a “code red” situation unfolding at Tesla if CEO Elon Musk continued devoting time to DOGE-related efforts in Washington. Tesla shares fell 7% by late afternoon. However, one bright spot emerged on X around midday: aerial images show that Cybercab prototype […]

Bill Maher Tells Charlie Kirk What’s Really Destroying The Democratic Party Via The Vigilant Fox, On the latest episode of Club Random, Bill Maher sat down with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for what many expected to be a clash of political opposites. But what unfolded was something far more surprising: a candid, wide-ranging conversation that revealed just how much common ground these two actually […]

“China Will Never Accept It”: Beijing Warns Countries Against Trade Deal With Trump At China’s Expense It’s starting to smell like a real trade war. Just days after the WSJ reported that Scott Bessent’s grand trade war strategy was to force more than 70 US trade partners to sign bilateral deals while aligning against China, Beijing has warned it will retaliate against countries that negotiate trade deals with the US “at the […]

“That’s Creepy AF”: Whose Hand Is This? Why has public confidence in the Democratic Party collapsed to record lows? In short, the party that champions illegal alien terrorists and cultural Marxism lost its authenticity a long time ago. Voters see right through the bullshit of lies, non-sense identity politics, performative accents, and teleprompter-scripted speeches. The American people became outraged last week after […]

The Death Cross And Market Bottoms Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In financial markets, few technical patterns generate as much attention and anxiety as the death cross. This ominous-sounding term refers to a crossover on a price chart when a short-term moving average, most commonly the 50-day moving average (50-DMA), drops below a long-term moving average, usually the 200-day moving average […]

Jury Convicts Renovaro Biosciences Founder Of Orchestrating Murder-For-Hire Of His Former Business Partner A federal jury on Friday convicted former Enochian Biosciences (now Renovaro) “scientific founder”, “inventor” and former largest shareholder Serhat Gumrukcu of orchestrating the 2018 murder-for-hire of his former business partner in Vermont, according to VTDigger.com.  The jury found Gumrukcu – who was brought to the […]

This One Weird Trick Let D.C. Judges Stage A Coup Authored by Daniel Greenfield, The Supreme Court’s ruling in J.G.G. v. Donald J. Trump was not an unqualified triumph for the Trump administration’s deportations of foreign gang members, but it was a definite rebuke not just to Judge Boasberg, but to the entire D.C. Circuit Court shadow government. The ACLU filed J.G.G. v. Trump in defense of five Venezuelan inmates in New […]

Miami Housing Market Hit By “Breathtaking” Collapse In Demand Nick Gerli, CEO and Founder of real estate analytics firm Reventure Consulting, has issued another troubling update on Florida’s housing market—this time sounding the alarm about a collapse in demand across the Miami metro area. He described the plunge in sales as “breathtaking.” For the last few years, we’ve tracked the post-Covid surge in inventory hitting Sun Belt […]

Democrat Judge Caught Harboring Suspected Tren de Aragua Gang Member Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, A county judge in New Mexico has reportedly resigned after Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member and other illegal aliens at his home. The resignation of Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano comes after HSI agents executed a search warrant at his home on Feb. […]

El Salvador Offers To Swap Venezuelans Deported From US For Political Prisoners Held By Venezuela El Salvaror’s President Nayib Bukele has offered to swap 252 Venezuelans deported to his country for “political prisoners” held by Venezuela. Bukele has agreed to hold deportees from the US in a maximum-security prison known as CECOT in exchange for payment – currently reported at around $6 million and growing. The Trump […]

China’s Oil Supertankers Slammed With $5.2 Million Fee Per U.S. Port Call Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The U.S. is introducing fees on operators of China-built vessels calling at U.S. ports. These fees could reach up to $5.2 million per call for large supertankers. The U.S. Trade Representative states the move aims to address Chinese dominance and bolster the U.S. shipbuilding industry. The U.S. move […]