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Netanyahu Rejects Gaza Plan: Israel Won't Withdraw Until Hamas Is 'Genuinely Disarmed'

Netanyahu Rejects Gaza Plan: Israel Won't Withdraw Until Hamas Is 'Genuinely Disarmed' Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated on Aug. 9 that Israel has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace's plan for Gaza and will not withdraw until Hamas is fully disarmed. Palestinians walk past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during the war, at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Aug. 5, 2026. Mahmoud I...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

"Narco-Socialist Rats Better Start Running": Colombia's Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Launches Major Offensive Against FARC

"Narco-Socialist Rats Better Start Running": Colombia's Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Launches Major Offensive Against FARC Trump-backed Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella wasted no time putting his law-and-order agenda into high gear, launching a major military offensive against Marxist FARC dissidents days after taking office on Friday.  "The new government's kinetic approach is already underway in southwestern Colombia," local outlet Colombia One wrote on Sunday.  The repor...

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Arizona, California Score Separate Court Wins Over Election Rules

Arizona, California Score Separate Court Wins Over Election Rules Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Election officials in Arizona and California won separate court victories Friday in disputes over voting rules, with a federal appeals court upholding key provisions of an Arizona voter-registration law and a California judge temporarily blocking a local election overhaul. Arizona Voter Registration Law In Arizona, an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals fo...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

Your Tax Dollars At Work: 20 Port Authority Workers, 17 Cops, Make Over $400,000

Your Tax Dollars At Work: 20 Port Authority Workers, 17 Cops, Make Over $400,000 Apparently, one of the best ways to make $400,000 a year in the New York area is to work for the Port Authority, according to the NY Post. Twenty Port Authority employees, including 17 cops, cleared $400,000 in total compensation last year as the agency's payroll sailed past $1.2 billion. And much of the magic came from everyone's favorite government money fountain: overtime. According to payroll data...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

No Hikes For You

No Hikes For You By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Much of the country is facing extreme heat and humidity this weekend. It makes it difficult to read and get ready for the week, let alone write something for this week, so we will keep this one short and focus on charts. The markets started and ended the week with a bang. We continue to keep a close eye on the stocks and sectors most affected by Situational UnAwareness (last weekend’s T-Report). The Nasdaq 100 had an insanely s...

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Watch: 'Privileged Idiot' DSA Co-Chair Has Absolute Porridge For Brains

Watch: 'Privileged Idiot' DSA Co-Chair Has Absolute Porridge For Brains The Democrat party has been freaking out about the Democratic Socialists of late - despite striking similarities between their policies - because while Democrats are happy to sweet talk voters into socialist ideas that signal maximum virtue, they don't actually want to enact policies that would make blue-city budgets even more dire than they are.  In short, the party is panicking because the voters they radical...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Don Lemon Seeks Dismissal Of Federal Charges Over Minnesota Church Protest

Don Lemon Seeks Dismissal Of Federal Charges Over Minnesota Church Protest Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, Former CNN host Don Lemon has asked a federal judge to dismiss the charges brought against him in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a Minnesota church. The January protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations interrupted a worship service at the church. Lemon, who was charged with violating federal ci...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Harris Renews Calls To Pack The Court Despite Poll Showing Most Americans Agree With Its Decisions

Harris Renews Calls To Pack The Court Despite Poll Showing Most Americans Agree With Its Decisions Authored by Jonathan Turley, Kamala Harris is again promising the radical wing of her party that she will pack the Supreme Court. Pete Buttigieg and others have done the same to pander to the extreme left. These calls are increasing among Democratic leaders despite a recent poll showing that the Court remains the more popular institution vis-à-vis Congress, and that the majority of Am...

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Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45

TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 helps turn workflows, networks, floor plans, and other complicated ideas into polished diagrams. Get a lifetime Windows license for $44.97 (reg. $579.99). Some ideas are much easier to understand once you stop trying to explain them in a wall of text.  Read the rest The post Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Trump Says "We Are Low Keying It" With Iran As Options For Walking Away Have Drastically Narrowed

Trump Says "We Are Low Keying It" With Iran As Options For Walking Away Have Drastically Narrowed Iran's IRGC is holding the line, reiterating that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen to international shipping only after the United States accepts all of its conditions, which we outlined previously. Also, on Saturday Iran's army spokesman Amir Akraminia stated that Iran's new protocols in the Strait of Hormuz are "irreversible" and shall not be thwarted by the US. "The United States has...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

"Lie To People Who Want To Be Lied To": How To Make A Political Fortune As A Far-Left Democrat

"Lie To People Who Want To Be Lied To": How To Make A Political Fortune As A Far-Left Democrat Authored by Jonathan Turley, A financial journalist once offered simple advice: “Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich…Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.” That axiom appears to have been taken to heart by radical Democratic candidates who this week issued transparent denials of past outrageous comments. Their calculus is clearly tha...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Senate Moves Major Crypto Regulation Bill Toward Vote

Senate Moves Major Crypto Regulation Bill Toward Vote Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) took a procedural step Saturday to bring the CLARITY Act to the Senate floor, setting up a vote on whether to consider the bill when lawmakers return from their August recess. The CLARITY Act would establish a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets, spelling out how the industry would be regulated and whic...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

Rich-Kid Mamdani Ally Wants To "Abolish Rent"; Could Hawley Reform Bill Stop College Indoctrination?

Rich-Kid Mamdani Ally Wants To "Abolish Rent"; Could Hawley Reform Bill Stop College Indoctrination? Tracy Rosenthal, co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, has emerged as an influential far-left star in the Democratic Socialists of America's tenant-organizing 'squatting' movement, promoting rent strikes and aggressive pressure campaigns to bankrupt landlords.   While the article focuses largely on New York City, Rosenthal’s influence extends far beyond it. She has built an ...

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Drug Kingpin Gets Life After 3-Year-Old Found With Backpack Full Of Drugs

Drug Kingpin Gets Life After 3-Year-Old Found With Backpack Full Of Drugs A decade-long drug empire that prosecutors say pumped cocaine and fentanyl through Mobile has ended with its alleged mastermind headed to federal prison for the rest of his life, according to WSFA. McGee, 42, received life sentences after being convicted of running a large-scale narcotics operation involving drugs, firearms and minors. U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer also imposed another life term stemming f...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Seattle Mayor Targets 'Surveillance Pricing' At Grocery Stores

Seattle Mayor Targets 'Surveillance Pricing' At Grocery Stores Seattle leaders are moving forward with a first-of-its-kind proposal aimed at preventing grocery retailers from using consumers' personal data to charge different prices for the same products. The ordinance, backed by Mayor Katie Wilson and City Councilmembers Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Dionne Foster, would prohibit large grocery chains from using information such as browsing history, social media activity, employment st...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

UK Police Literally Have An 'Elite Squad' To Flag Spicy Social Media Posts...

UK Police Literally Have An 'Elite Squad' To Flag Spicy Social Media Posts... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain's latest free speech assault is underway. An elite police unit set up by the Labour government has already flagged more than 100 social media posts to local forces, monitoring online "protest related activity" in a move critics brand a sinister step toward state control of speech. The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, created in th...

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Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level On Record Amid Decade-Long Western Drought

Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level On Record Amid Decade-Long Western Drought Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir by storage capacity, has fallen to its lowest level on record as a drought throughout western states continues. Bureau of Reclamation data indicate that the reservoir’s surface elevation rose to 1,040.50 feet above sea level on Thursday, below the previous low of 1,040.58 feet set in July 2022, when the lake first fell to a low following years of drought. Hoover Dam...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

The Democrat Embrace Of Islamo-Socialism Is Party Suicide

The Democrat Embrace Of Islamo-Socialism Is Party Suicide Authored by David Sultzer via AmericanThinker.com, The Democrat party leadership—sensing its mortal danger from a very well-organized and radicalized Islamo-socialist movement—is trying to stay afloat, claiming that the Democrat Party is a “big tent” where the socialists can find a welcome home: Senator Chuck Schumer thinks Democrat Socialists who want to oust him as Leader make the Democrat party stronger. REPORTER: “Is t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips As Supply Crunch Pushes PC Giants Toward CXMT

Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips As Supply Crunch Pushes PC Giants Toward CXMT After months of lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to purchase Chinese memory chips, Apple appears to be nearing the point where it can tap China's domestic chip market. The push follows what the iPhone maker has described as "unsustainable" pricing from the memory "cartel," namely SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, and SanDisk, whose production has been soaked up by unprecedented demand from hypersc...

Alt - Boing Boing - 13 hours ago

This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50

TL;DR: Ask questions about PDFs, generate summaries, edit documents, and convert files without juggling multiple apps. PDNob Pro is $49.99 for life (reg. $349.95). AI has finally made its way into one of the internet's least cooperative file formats: PDFs. PDNob Pro PDF Editor can summarize, translate, and answer questions about your documents while handling all the editing tools you'd expect, and right now, you can get lifetime access for $49.99 (reg. Read the rest The post This AI PDF editor ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

UN Sounds Alarm As Iran Steps Up Executions To Silence Dissent

UN Sounds Alarm As Iran Steps Up Executions To Silence Dissent Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The United Nations human rights chief has expressed alarm over a sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran, warning that authorities are using capital punishment to intimidate the population and suppress dissent. “I am alarmed by the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March, and that capital punishment continues to be used to instill fe...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Turkish FM Affirms Defense Pact With Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Is Same As NATO's Article 5

Turkish FM Affirms Defense Pact With Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Is Same As NATO's Article 5 World leaders have been reacting to the Friday signing of a major defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan in the Saudi city of Makkah among their heads of state. It seeks to strengthen joint deterrence and expanding defense cooperation, the Saudi Press Agency said. As we reported, it essentially a NATO-style agreement for the 'Muslim world' - given that it stipulates and form...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

Europe Bets Billions On North Africa's Clean Energy Potential

Europe Bets Billions On North Africa's Clean Energy Potential Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, The EU’s T-MED initiative aims to mobilize billions of euros for renewable energy, hydrogen, clean technology, and electricity networks across the Mediterranean. Morocco and Egypt are emerging as important partners as Europe invests in renewable generation, grid infrastructure, and potential subsea electricity connections. Greater Mediterranean interconnection ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

Fire Erupts At Saudi Aramco's Jazan Refinery As Iran-Backed Houthis Claim Drone Strike

Fire Erupts At Saudi Aramco's Jazan Refinery As Iran-Backed Houthis Claim Drone Strike Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Saudi Aramco's $21 billion Jazan refinery, located on Saudi Arabia's southwestern Red Sea coast, roughly 44 miles from the Yemeni border. The facility is strategically important because it allows Aramco to export refined products through the Red Sea without transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The attack also signals the growing ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

From "Designed Viruses" To "Digital Telepathy" – AI Panic Kicks Into Overdrive

From "Designed Viruses" To "Digital Telepathy" – AI Panic Kicks Into Overdrive Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Two days ago, I wrote an article detailing the sudden rash of “rogue AI agents” allegedly  besetting the tech community, and how that may be used to bring in new regulations, notionally targeting AI, but actually limiting or monitoring how ordinary people use the internet. In the 48 hours since, that blatant fear-mongering has gone WILD. Within a few hou...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

The Trojan Horse Inside Your Head: How Government Propaganda Is Quietly Dismantling Free Thought

The Trojan Horse Inside Your Head: How Government Propaganda Is Quietly Dismantling Free Thought Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Ignore the bureaucrats; listen to the free thinkers... If the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s city gates.  They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies on social media and wait for the Trojan people to fight each other.  Such is the powe...

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Diarrhea-Gate: One Sinaloa Farm, 345 Sick, And Two Restaurant Chains Down Double Digits

Diarrhea-Gate: One Sinaloa Farm, 345 Sick, And Two Restaurant Chains Down Double Digits The FDA has finished tracing a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Javiana back to its source - a single grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, which entered the U.S. through Coast Citrus Distributors, a California importer that supplies restaurant customers. In this file photo, a shopper checks the firmness of a fresh jalapeño pepper at a produce stand in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (AP Photo...

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Iran's Mehr Releases Video Of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei For 'First Time' - Except It's Old

Iran's Mehr Releases Video Of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei For 'First Time' - Except It's Old Update(2210ET): Iran's state Mehr has purported to release video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei for the 'first time' since the start of the war, and since he was wounded in a US-Israeli airstrike in the opening days of the attacks of over five months ago. The state-released footage is titled "First Images of the Leader" - and shows the Ayatollah addressing students, after months of s...

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The Rarest Asset In A Fourth Turning: The Freedom To Act

The Rarest Asset In A Fourth Turning: The Freedom To Act Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, The Fourth Turning does not end with a return to the prior equilibrium. It ends with a new order - better or worse, depending on which forces prevail in the decisive battles of the crisis era. Those battles are being fought now, across domains: monetary (the BRICS challenge to dollar hegemony, the rise of non-dollar settlement, the emergence of digital currencies), geopol...

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Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power In Colombia As Right-Wing Wave Sweeps Americas

Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power In Colombia As Right-Wing Wave Sweeps Americas Colombia entered a new political chapter as Trump-backed President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn into office Friday, pledging to reverse much of former President Gustavo Petro's nation-killing socialist agenda and to restore law and order, a free market economy, and relations with the United States. 🔥 AWESOME! New Trump-endorsed Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella is GOING OFF after hi...

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WNBA To Hold 'Listening Sessions' After Second Former NBA Star Says He's A Woman, Declares For Draft

WNBA To Hold 'Listening Sessions' After Second Former NBA Star Says He's A Woman, Declares For Draft Update (1800ET): WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women's basketball. "I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women's basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention," Engelbert wrote in the mem...

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'Busted': Female Bicyclists 'Bulk Up'

'Busted': Female Bicyclists 'Bulk Up' Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, I’ve been a bicyclist all my life, but because I came to serious road racing late in life, I never had the opportunity to be competitive. Oh, I had a few good bikes and wore the required attire, but I was never going to make the medal stand. I did ride with enough serious riders to understand their compulsions. Among them was doing whatever was necessary to shave every gram of weight possible ...

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Hunter Biden Says Father's Cancer Has Spread Further: "Very Painful And Very Debilitating"

Hunter Biden Says Father's Cancer Has Spread Further: "Very Painful And Very Debilitating" Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer has progressed and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter said in a BBC interview broadcast Friday night. Former President Joe Biden's office announced in May 2025 that he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images file "The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones an...

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Jeftovic: The "Bitcoin Only" Era Is Over...

Jeftovic: The "Bitcoin Only" Era Is Over... Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower .com, (From The Sovereign Capitalist Letter #65. I was traveling at the time of the Coinkite vulnerability, surfacing a recurring theme around how to safely balance cold storage and emergency access when on the road). Just when I thought the sentiment couldn’t get any worse, on July 29-30 reports began to emerge of “certain” Coldcards (which were supposed to be the industry standard of self-custo...

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Another Sign Of The Times: 'F**k ICE'

Another Sign Of The Times: 'F**k ICE' Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via American Greatness, Strolling through a major American urban metropolis, I noticed that the tightly packed homes and squat tri-level apartments and condos had tiny, browning “natural gardens” pocked with the usual virtue-signaling lawn signs setting forth their progressive secular creed’s commandments: “kindness always,” “hate has no home here,” etc. Yet amidst this self-proclaimed bastion of love and tolera...

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From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229)

TL;DR: Save big on tools you'll actually use with this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows license, now only $19.97 (MSRP $229). From building a budget to crafting the perfect presentation to get your point across and drafting documents, it's pretty rare to find a suite of apps that can help you tackle a full workday. Read the rest The post From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229) appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Student Loan Payments Are Spiking: What Changed On July 1 And What Borrowers Over 50 Should Do

Student Loan Payments Are Spiking: What Changed On July 1 And What Borrowers Over 50 Should Do Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times, If you carry federal student loans, July 1, 2026, redrew your map. With last year's tax law changes taking effect on that date, the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan was dismantled, and servicers began notifying millions of borrowers to pick a new repayment plan or have one picked for them. The end of the SAVE plan could raise your...

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Iran Insists US Must Meet Stringent List Of Demands Before Hormuz Opens

Iran Insists US Must Meet Stringent List Of Demands Before Hormuz Opens As expected, Iran is pressing hard to extract from Washington everything it can get - at a moment the Trump White House seems to be backing down from a heighted war over the Strait of Hormuz, given the serious risk of settling into a another years-long quagmire in the Middle East. The US administration, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has appeared to back the Iran-Oman deal for the opening of the St...

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How The UAE Has Kept Its Oil Flowing Through Hormuz

How The UAE Has Kept Its Oil Flowing Through Hormuz By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The United Arab Emirates has managed to boost its oil exports to pre-crisis levels as early as June, as it has kept pushing crude through the Strait of Hormuz and outside it.   The UAE, which left OPEC on May 1, has found workarounds to the blockage at the Strait of Hormuz. It has been shuttling crude through the chokepoint to load it on larger vessels outside the Strait, maximizing the use o...

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Judge Denies Southern Poverty Law Center's Bid To Dismiss DOJ Indictment

Judge Denies Southern Poverty Law Center's Bid To Dismiss DOJ Indictment Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Aug. 7 rejected the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) bid to dismiss charges brought by the Justice Department, saying the nonprofit failed to show that the prosecution against it was vindictive. The department indicted the SPLC in April on 11 counts of wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to comm...

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"We're Here To Destroy The White Race": Democratic Socialist Of America Hero Declares War On West

"We're Here To Destroy The White Race": Democratic Socialist Of America Hero Declares War On West Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has emerged as an increasingly visible, if unofficial, spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America's rapidly expanding political action network. He campaigned for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong while cultivating close ties with socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Fr...

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Existing Power Plants Are "Bedrock" In Supplying Data Centers: Constellation CEO

Existing Power Plants Are "Bedrock" In Supplying Data Centers: Constellation CEO By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive.com Despite the Ratepayer Protection Pledge’s call for planned data centers to supply their own new generation, existing power plants will play a major role in supplying them with power, according to Joseph Dominguez, Constellation president and CEO. “We’re never going to build this economy if … we have to wait for new power plants to be built before we can connect any ...

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A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay

A metal that has never been recorded before turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay. Writing in Science Advances, Luca Bindi, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Mario Wannier, and Teresa Salvatici report the discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast, sealed inside a glassy bead that formed during the airburst of 6 August 1945. Read the rest The post A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico

A medevac flight that should have taken half an hour ended on the side of a mountain in New Mexico, killing all four aboard. Jeff Wise reports for Wired that a military GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away is part of the reason. Read the rest The post Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Iran's Economy Is In Shambles As War Takes Its Toll

Iran's Economy Is In Shambles As War Takes Its Toll Despite the bluster from Iranian officials on social media, it should come as no surprise that the country is not doing well economically. From the beginning of the conflict to current day, Iran has been dealt an estimated $270 billion to $300 billion in total damage due to a steady barrage of strikes, including numerous infrastructure targets from bridges, highways, railways, airports, etc.  The three-month-long US blockade on Ir...

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The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling

The surface of the Sun has been photographed in more detail than ever before, and it turns out to be covered in whirlpools. Victoria Gill reports for BBC News on the most detailed images of the Sun yet, taken by the Inouye Solar Telescope on a high peak in Hawaii and published in the journal Nature. Read the rest The post The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals

NASA created a Martian Dust Limit Working Group this year to figure out how much Mars dust a person can safely breathe, and Leonard David reports for Space.com on the dust hazard and how future astronauts might deal with it. Read the rest The post Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump Urges Pirro To 'Revisit' Decision To Drop Charges Against Accused Reflecting Pool Vandal After New Photos Emerge

Trump Urges Pirro To 'Revisit' Decision To Drop Charges Against Accused Reflecting Pool Vandal After New Photos Emerge Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, President Trump on Friday urged U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “revisit” her decision to drop charges against an accused Reflecting Pool vandal after new photos shared on social media, showed clear signs of vandalism. The Department of Justice dismissed the case on August 1 after the Department of the Interior had con...

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Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel

Now you can immerse yourself completely in the uncanny valley by watching Fairgound, a new 24/7 AI slop channel available on Roku. It offers "series, films, and shorts from the world's best AI storytellers" across a variety of genres. [via Cord Cutters] Fairground AI stands out as a pioneering offering dedicated entirely to AI-generated content. Read the rest The post Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Hillary Clinton Warns Dems: GOP's Anti-Communist Messaging "Very Effective" As Marxist Hijack Party

Hillary Clinton Warns Dems: GOP's Anti-Communist Messaging "Very Effective" As Marxist Hijack Party Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Kara Swisher on the "Pivot" podcast that Republicans are deploying what she called a "very effective" anti-communist attack against the Democratic Party's rising class of far-left candidates, who are increasingly defeating establishment Democrats in primary races. Clinton told Swisher that Abdul El-Sayed's narrow victory in Michigan's De...

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Own Headway for life for $69.99 and finally make waiting in line productive

TL;DR: Headway Premium now includes a growing selection of fiction summaries alongside its huge nonfiction library. Get lifetime access for $69.99 (reg. $299.95). Big news for anyone who loves books but never seems to finish them: Headway now includes fiction summaries alongside its popular nonfiction library. Read the rest The post Own Headway for life for $69.99 and finally make waiting in line productive appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Joint Chiefs Chair Pushing For Iran War Off-Ramp, Warning Escalation Will Backfire

Joint Chiefs Chair Pushing For Iran War Off-Ramp, Warning Escalation Will Backfire In another sign of mounting pressure on President Trump to disengage the US armed forces from his failing, five-month war on Iran, America's top general has been carefully working with other Trump advisers to communicate that continued depletion of the Pentagon's arsenal is unlikely to alter Iran's stance, while escalation is likely to backfire, CNN reported on Friday evening, citing "sources familiar...

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Oxford Union Debate Stunt Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain

Oxford Union Debate Stunt Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In the heart of the Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic. Commentator Laurence Fox stood to argue that the West is right to be suspicious of Islam. He held up the envelope and indicated it contained a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. The chamber erupted in frantic attempts to stop him opening it. Ru...

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Oxford Union Debate Debacle Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain

Oxford Union Debate Debacle Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In the heart of the Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic. Commentator Laurence Fox stood to argue that the West is right to be suspicious of Islam. He held up the envelope and indicated it contained a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. The chamber erupted in frantic attempts to stop him opening it. ...

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US Army's $400 Million Laser Deal Accelerates Race To Harden Bases From Kamikaze Swarms

US Army's $400 Million Laser Deal Accelerates Race To Harden Bases From Kamikaze Swarms Building on our investment theme that the US military is racing to harden its bases with counter-drone systems capable of defeating Group 1-3 drones, and potentially Group 4 threats, Bloomberg reported late in Friday's US cash session that the Army plans to purchase at least $400 million of AeroVironment's counter-drone laser systems, citing a person familiar with the deal. The source told the o...

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US Army's 400 Million Laser Deal Accelerates Race To Harden Bases From Kamikaze Swarms

US Army's 400 Million Laser Deal Accelerates Race To Harden Bases From Kamikaze Swarms Building on our investment theme that the US military is racing to harden its bases with counter-drone systems capable of defeating Group 1-3 drones, and potentially Group 4 threats, Bloomberg reported late in Friday's US cash session that the Army plans to purchase at least $400 million of AeroVironment's counter-drone laser systems, citing a person familiar with the deal. The source told the ou...

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Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities

Osaka ranked seventh and Tokyo tenth in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2026 Global Liveability Index. Japan was the only Asian country with two cities in the top 10. BBC Travel asked residents and planners why, and their answers came down to four rules. Read the rest The post Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities appeared first on Boing Boing.

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EU Cohesion Breaks: Madrid Socialists Impose Border Protections Against Italians After Third World Invasion

EU Cohesion Breaks: Madrid Socialists Impose Border Protections Against Italians After Third World Invasion Update: Spain is to impose new border controls for flights and ships from Italy as the two countries' row over the influx of migrants into Ceuta intensifies. Sky News reports that the Spanish government has confirmed that passport, nationality and visa checks would be conducted for Italian passengers and visitors from other countries arriving from Italy from midnight ​on Sat...

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Kids In Tiny British Village Beg The Government Not To Force Illegal Migrants On Their Home

Kids In Tiny British Village Beg The Government Not To Force Illegal Migrants On Their Home Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The children of a quiet Oxfordshire village have been forced to put pen to paper and plead with the Prime Minister himself. Their message is simple and heartbreaking: leave our home alone. Piddington is a tiny English settlement of roughly 350 people - around 250 adults and just 46 children. The Home Office and Labour government under Andy Burn...

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Pillagers Vs Producers: There's Only Two Ways To Save The Western World

Pillagers Vs Producers: There's Only Two Ways To Save The Western World Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us For the past couple of weeks I have been closely tracking the migrant surge in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and taking notes on the behavior of the extremely liberal Spanish government. One of the most important things to note about the event is that European officials quickly took to the media to admonish the OPTICS of the crisis, but not the migrants. In other word...

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Digging Deeper Inside Physical AI's Hardware Stack Powering Humanoids

Digging Deeper Inside Physical AI's Hardware Stack Powering Humanoids Building on our "Physical AI Faces One Critical Chokepoint, and Here's How to Profit" report earlier this week, Barclays analysts are closing out the week with a comprehensive map of the humanoid value chain. As readers look beyond flashy Chinese Unitree robot demonstrations, attention is shifting toward the critical hardware stack, including motors, actuators, sensors, and batteries, and the deep supply-chain pl...

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ADNOC Reports 15 Vessel Attacks As Hormuz Risks Mount

ADNOC Reports 15 Vessel Attacks As Hormuz Risks Mount Submitted by Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said attacks on its vessels and employees are having a significant impact on operations as the company tries to keep crude, gas and refined products moving through the Strait of Hormuz. Fifteen ADNOC vessels have been hit by missiles or drones since the war began, including three this week, the company said Friday. One crew member has been killed and ...

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DHS Hiring "Bounty Hunters" For Overseas Tracking Of Deported Migrants

DHS Hiring "Bounty Hunters" For Overseas Tracking Of Deported Migrants The Trump administration is planning to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants in their home countries, verify where they live, and deliver notices seeking payment of U.S. immigration fines, according to Wired. The proposed program, budgeted at up to $9 million over two years, would cover countries including Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Rather than collecting money directly, contractor...

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Trump To Announce $180 Million Grants For Mining Industry

Trump To Announce $180 Million Grants For Mining Industry Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is set to host a major mining industry roundtable on Friday at the State Department, bringing together nearly 200 business leaders, educators, and government officials to strengthen domestic mining companies. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at General Motors proving ground, Monday, July 27, 2026, in Milford, Mich. AP Photo/Alex Brandon At...

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Your Tax Dollars At Work: NJ Cops Dress Up As Bushes To Hand Out Cell Phone Violations

Your Tax Dollars At Work: NJ Cops Dress Up As Bushes To Hand Out Cell Phone Violations If you thought speed traps were getting creative, New Jersey police have officially entered the landscaping business. Officers in Dunellen spent part of the week hiding in full ghillie suits, essentially dressing up as oversized shrubs, to catch drivers using their phones behind the wheel, according to Newser. While unsuspecting motorists scrolled through texts and notifications, a camouflaged o...

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What Else Are They Hiding?

What Else Are They Hiding? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, This past couples of weeks was a wild ride. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released many thousands of pages of documentation concerning the strange world of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) while Dr. Anthony Fauci was at the height of his power as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci’s wife headed the ethics department for the entire agency. His tenure there came to an e...

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Iran Launches Battlefield Trophy Propaganda Campaign With Captured US Reaper Drone

Iran Launches Battlefield Trophy Propaganda Campaign With Captured US Reaper Drone The off-ramp narrative is growing louder. With the US midterm elections quickly approaching, the Trump administration may have reached its "declare victory and leave" moment, shifting from military operations toward a negotiated peace deal, one that must last more than one month. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reinforced that possibility earlier, saying the Strait of Hormuz could reopen "today or to...

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Texas Energy Giant Oncor Supports Governor's Data Center Freeze

Texas Energy Giant Oncor Supports Governor's Data Center Freeze By Emma Penrod of UtilityDive.com About 44 GW of large load projects slated for Oncor’s service territory qualified for ERCOT’s new “Batch Zero” interconnection process for large loads, company executives told analysts during a Thursday earnings call. But the timeline for that process is uncertain following an order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that paused new data center interconnection approvals pending a state-wide aud...

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Both Iranian and Israeli Officials Call Out 'Paper Tiger' Saudi Arabia

Both Iranian and Israeli Officials Call Out 'Paper Tiger' Saudi Arabia Regional rivals and enemies are calling out Saudi Arabia as a "paper tiger" which must rely on others for protection and defense needs. Criticisms of Riyadh are being issued on the same day the kingdom signed a major security pact with the other major Muslim-dominant nations of Pakistan and Turkey. Formally called the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement, it is essentially a NATO-style agreement for the 'Muslim world'...

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The WNBA Is At War With Its Biggest Stars

The WNBA Is At War With Its Biggest Stars Via The Daily Signal, This is a lightly edited transcript of an Aug. 6 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast... Jack Fowler: And the whole trans issue is coming up in the WNBA, and various coaches are like, “I don’t know. Should a she - I can’t say who should be playing.” They will not say that a biological woman should be playing in the WNBA. It’s this absurdity. Victor Davis Hanson: But they know. I think Clay ...

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Visualizing 75 Years Of America's Electricity Transition

Visualizing 75 Years Of America's Electricity Transition Over the past 75 years, the U.S. electricity system has shifted from one dominated by coal to one in which natural gas and renewables supply nearly two-thirds of generation. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, shows annual U.S. electricity generation by source from 1950 to 2025 using data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It tracks output in billions of kilowatt-hours and each source’s sh...

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Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis

Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis Authored by Rachel Chiu via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s “blood quantum” requirement. To be eligible for a homestead lease—long-...

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US Official: Hormuz Deal Is Imminent, Upon Which US Will Lift Blockade Of Iranian Ports

US Official: Hormuz Deal Is Imminent, Upon Which US Will Lift Blockade Of Iranian Ports Summary US official tells Reuters that US will lift blockade upon Omani deal announcement. Bessent: Hormuz could reopen under a 30-60 day ceasefire as soon as "today or tomorrow." Iran asserts that US and Israeli vessels remain barred until sanctions are lifted and compensation is paid. Trump says the conflict could "end pretty soon," signaling a possible final US exit. Iran remains defiant,...

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Bessent's 'Yentervention' Does Not Fix Japan's Underlying Structural Issues

Bessent's 'Yentervention' Does Not Fix Japan's Underlying Structural Issues Authored by Ed Dowd via 'Beyond The Narrative' substack, ...a delicate meal to cook before Midterms... My conclusions on the Bessent yen intervention: The move is a temporary Band-Aid at best and sharp yen strength can historically trigger carry-trade unwinds and risk-asset volatility, but it does not fix Japan’s structural debt or rate differentials. The Fed, BOJ and Treasury are walking a tightrope....

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Reality Bites: Socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani Turns To Capitalist Bankers For Help

Reality Bites: Socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani Turns To Capitalist Bankers For Help After socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani went after Citadel's Ken Griffin, created a property database of wealthy homeowners that makes the list easily accessible to "Luigi-worshipping leftist thugs," and endlessly bashed America and capitalism, all while his friend, Democratic Socialists of America's unofficial spokesperson Hasan Piker, called on his followers to "kill capitalists in the streets" a...

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This $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud

TL;DR: If you regularly bank, shop, and manage your finances online, this discounted 15-month subscription offers an affordable way to monitor your identity and respond quickly if fraud occurs—grab it now for just $99.99 (reg. $187.35). With LifeLock Core Identity Theft Protection, you don't have to be a cybersecurity expert to protect your identity thanks to this all-in-one fraud defense software. Read the rest The post This $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial ...

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Meet The Lab-Leak Proponent Set To Take Fauci's Old Job

Meet The Lab-Leak Proponent Set To Take Fauci's Old Job Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, Politico reported that physician-scientist Steven Quay is going through final vetting to take over Tony Fauci's job at the NIH, reporting that aligns with rumors I've been hearing from sources inside the administration for several months. Quay sat for an interview with me on the DisInformation Chronicle podcast last June to talk about changes NIH should make to ensu...

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"Fire Is... Beautiful": Suspect In Spokane Wildfire Confesses He Planned Arson For Weeks

"Fire Is... Beautiful": Suspect In Spokane Wildfire Confesses He Planned Arson For Weeks The suspect charged on Aug. 3 with starting the Old Trails fire in Spokane, Washington, that forced more than 60,000 people to evacuate told police he had planned the attack for weeks. The suspect, Aaron Farinacci, told police in an interview that “fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of rebirth,” according to Spokane County Detective Michael Drape...

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The Democratic Party's Four-Way Squeeze

The Democratic Party's Four-Way Squeeze Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . . it’s subversion and nothing about it is accidental. it’s a well worn playbook to use the democratic institutions of a high trust state to destroy a civilization.”  - El Gato Malo on Substack The days might still be long, but this is a dark season in our country’s politics. Everybody’s nervous and many are furious, and yet all that emotion goes nowhere, just eats you up while you watch and wait for...

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Vance: Federal Government Has Identified $230 Billion In Fraud Since March

Vance: Federal Government Has Identified $230 Billion In Fraud Since March Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, Vice President JD Vance said on Aug. 5 that the Trump administration has identified $230 billion in fraud and prevented $56 billion in fraudulent payments since the president’s Fraud Task Force was established in March. Vance discussed the task force’s initiatives at a roundtable in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building attended by more than a dozen Republican...

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Consumer Credit Jumps More Than Expected In June As Credit Card Debt Spikes

Consumer Credit Jumps More Than Expected In June As Credit Card Debt Spikes One month after the May consumer credit posting a shocking decline - the first since late 2024 - driven by a plunge in revolving credit, things are mostly back to normal, with the Fed reporting in its latest G.19 report that in June, US consumer credit posted a healthy $14.17BN bounce - a full reversal of the May drop of $1.1 billion - and above the $11.9 billion median estimate.  The rebound was driven b...

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Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center

Google has a difficult engineering problem at its enormous Fort Wayne data center: some of the land it wants to build on is protected wetlands. The search giant's solution is simple: build anyway. In the permitting documents for the not-evil-mastermind-sounding "Project Zodiac," Google's developer, Hatchworks, claims "meeting the project purpose and completely avoiding water resources was not feasible." Read the rest The post Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a...

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Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?

Los Angeles' stiffest self-proclaimed superhero is fighting a branding problem of his own devising. Based on the name alone, I had already imagined an incredible origin story involving the ever-popular fateful tumble into a vat of chemicals. His crackling electric baton was named either the Magic Wand or the Rabbit, and Rock Hard's sidekick could only be Rock Steady. Read the rest The post Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem? appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Uncertainty Rules!

Uncertainty Rules! By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank US Treasury yields drifted higher yesterday after the Financial Times reported, citing people close to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, that he would be prepared to raise rates as early as September if incoming inflation data surprise to the upside and markets themselves begin pricing a more hawkish path. Yet the market reaction was not confined to the front end suggesting investors were not interpreting the story in a ...

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Trump Threatens To Jail Arms Shortage 'Leakers'

Trump Threatens To Jail Arms Shortage 'Leakers' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Thursday threatened "leakers" with jail time over reports about dwindling US military stockpiles as a result of the Iran war, and claimed the US had plenty of munitions available. "The US has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the US as needed," Trump wrote on Truth Social. Official W...

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Saudi Arabia's $5 Oil Detour Is Expensive... But Worth It

Saudi Arabia's $5 Oil Detour Is Expensive... But Worth It Authored by Leon Stille via OilPrice.com, Rerouting Saudi crude to Asia via Yanbu, Egypt’s SUMED pipeline and the Cape of Good Hope may add around $5 per barrel and up to four weeks to a voyage. That premium is small compared with the economic damage caused by losing access to Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb altogether. Saudi Arabia’s alternative export infrastructure is not a temporary workaround but a strategic asset—a...

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5th Small Modular Reactor Validated Since June, Poised For Mass Production

5th Small Modular Reactor Validated Since June, Poised For Mass Production Another small nuclear reactor has achieved “criticality,” marking the fifth new reactor type to be certified as operationally viable in the United States since June, after none were certified for more than a half-century, as the nation’s “nuclear renaissance” quickly advances to commercial mass-production. Santa Clara, California-based Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor reached criticality on Aug. 5 at the...

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Exit Narrative Grows: Bessent Says New Deal and Ceasefire Will Open Hormuz 'Today Or Tomorrow'

Exit Narrative Grows: Bessent Says New Deal and Ceasefire Will Open Hormuz 'Today Or Tomorrow' Summary Bessent: Hormuz could reopen under a 30-60 day ceasefire as soon as "today or tomorrow." Iran asserts that US and Israeli vessels remain barred until sanctions are lifted and compensation is paid. Trump says the conflict could "end pretty soon," signaling a possible final US exit. Iran remains defiant, pointing out it still has the leverage and can threaten Hormuz. However, th...

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Meet The Investors In SpaceX Who Say Their Shares "Disappeared"

Meet The Investors In SpaceX Who Say Their Shares "Disappeared" Some investors who thought they had secured one of Wall Street's hottest trades, owning SpaceX before its blockbuster IPO, say the shares they expected to cash in on simply disappeared, according to the Wall Street Journal. The controversy centers on special purpose vehicles (SPVs), investment funds that promise accredited investors exposure to private companies before they go public. After SpaceX's June IPO, several i...

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Rockstar Founder Builds $300M Celsius Stake, Launches Activist Offense: Management "All Need To Be Fired"

Rockstar Founder Builds $300M Celsius Stake, Launches Activist Offense: Management "All Need To Be Fired" Summary: CELH shares Jump on CNBC Headline  Rockstar Founder Amasses 5.7% CELH stake, Tells CNBC He Wants To Be CEO Thursday: Celsius Shares Crash As Revenue Misses Estimates Rockstar Founder Begins Activist Move  One day after Celsius Holdings crashed 18% following a dismal second-quarter earnings report, Rockstar Energy founder Russ Savage told CNBC that he has amassed a 4...

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US Senate Pushes CLARITY Act Vote To September

US Senate Pushes CLARITY Act Vote To September Authored by Ezra Reguerra via CoinTelegraph.com, Senate Republican leaders are expected to leave for their August recess without voting on crypto market structure legislation, delaying consideration of the bill until at least September, according to a report from Politico.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the chamber would not vote on the legislation before the recess, citing Democratic opposition and saying it woul...

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Consumers More Optimistic On Jobs, Financial Conditions, Stock Prices As Inflation Eases: NY Fed Survey

Consumers More Optimistic On Jobs, Financial Conditions, Stock Prices As Inflation Eases: NY Fed Survey Unlike recent extremely volatile months, consumers expectations for inflation in July barely budged as disclosed today by the latest NY Fed Survey, which showed that inflation expectations in one year fell slightly to 3.6% from 3.7% prior. Estimates for price increases in three and five years remained at 3.3% and 3%, respectively, although the 3Y inflation forecast did dip notably...

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Hours After Murkowski Predictably Sides With Dems, Cassidy Unblocks Blanche AG Nomination

Hours After Murkowski Predictably Sides With Dems, Cassidy Unblocks Blanche AG Nomination Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Friday he will support Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general, clearing the decisive path for confirmation after two other Republican senators opposed the pick. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2026.  Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who had remained undecided amid week...

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Scientists Warn Of Urgent AI Biosecurity Threat

Scientists Warn Of Urgent AI Biosecurity Threat Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, For the first time, artificial intelligence has designed complete, functional viral genomes from scratch. Oh dear. Stanford University and Arc Institute researchers used generative AI models to produce 16 novel bacteriophages that successfully infect and kill bacteria in the lab. Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the first time, raising hopes for medic...

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Never lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker

TL;DR: Never lose your wallet or ID cards again with this Gen 3, 1-pack KeySmart SmartCard for just $31.99 (reg. $39.99). The KeySmart SmartCard is a credit-card-thin, IPX8 waterproof, rechargeable smartcard that works with Apple Find My or Google Find to help you keep track of your belongings. Read the rest The post Never lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Meta Ordered To Pay $567 Million In New Mexico For Children's Mental Health Fund

Meta Ordered To Pay $567 Million In New Mexico For Children's Mental Health Fund A New Mexico state judge on Aug. 6 ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund dedicated to remedying the harm caused to children’s mental health by the company’s social media platforms. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. State judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a 68-page order that most of the total youth mental health fund, or $420 million, would go toward treatment servic...

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Wall Street Crowns First Solar As Clear Winner After Trump's Polysilicon Tariffs Create "Structural Floor" For Industry

Wall Street Crowns First Solar As Clear Winner After Trump's Polysilicon Tariffs Create "Structural Floor" For Industry Solar stocks are shining in premarket trading in New York after the Trump administration announced a new 15% tariff and a price floor on imports of polysilicon derivatives, including silicon wafers, photovoltaic cells, and solar modules. The move is intended to secure the domestic solar supply chain after years of cheap Chinese panels flooding the country, making ...

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Exit Narrative Begins: Trump's Muted Response To Hormuz Deal Suggests The 'Declare Victory and Leave' Moment Is Here

Exit Narrative Begins: Trump's Muted Response To Hormuz Deal Suggests The 'Declare Victory and Leave' Moment Is Here President Trump's latest Iran comments came Thursday night, after a prior day wherein Iran and Oman unveiled their 'finalized' Hormuz management scheme, which most notably includes a ban on all US and Israeli vessels in the energy transit waterway.  As we reviewed earlier, the White House has appeared to genuinely be searching for an exit strategy, but this stipulati...

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Houston, We Have A (Data) Problem...

Houston, We Have A (Data) Problem... Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Normally, you can find some parts of the job report that “fight” against the headline. That somewhere in the details is a potentially different narrative. Maybe it’s because I’m lazy on a summer Friday, but difficult to see what it is in this report. But let’s start with the most important point Instead of worrying about Warsh, what he did or didn’t say, how often he might or might not say thing...

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Islamic Society Sues City Over Rejection Of Mosque Proposal

Islamic Society Sues City Over Rejection Of Mosque Proposal Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The Islamic Society of Tulsa has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and four individual city council members after the city denied its request to build a mosque and Islamic community center. The suit, which was filed on Aug. 3, alleges the denial violated the U.S. Constitution, the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, ...