‘Theft Is Theft’: Disney, NBC Go After AI Firm Midjourney For ‘Blatant’ Piracy Two of Hollywood’s biggest players – Disney and NBCUniversal – have teamed up to launch a legal assault on the AI world, suing image generator Midjourney for what they call blatant copyright infringement. via Disney/NBCU According to a federal complaint filed in California and obtained by Axios, the entertainment giants accuse Midjourney of illegally […]

Images Emerge Of Tehran Destruction After Major Israeli ‘Preemptive Attack’; IRGC Chief Killed LIVE FEED from Al Jazeera: * * *  Update2330ET: It appears there were at least two waves of Israeli attacks, with smoke still seen over Iranian military sites and areas of Tehran in the daylight morning hours. ISRAEL PREPARING FOR IRANIAN RESPONSE IN COMING HOURS: KAN NEWS IRAN STATE MEDIA: MULTIPLE MILITARY SITES IN TEHRAN […]

Trump Can And Should Fire Fed Boss Over Economy Authored by Christian Whiton via RealClearPolitics, Federal Reserve kingpin Jerome Powell is busy doing what he does best: sabotaging a prosperous economy so that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans lose popularity. He’s also ignoring Trump, whom voters will judge for the economy’s performance and whom the Constitution says runs the executive branch of which the Fed […]

GOP Lawmakers Reiterate Asks For Clean Energy Credit Tweaks In Reconciliation Bill By Lamar Johnson of Utility Dive Kiggans and a nearly identical group of House Republicans wrote to their House colleagues last month seeking positive changes to the clean energy tax credit phaseout plan that came out of committee work on the reconciliation bill. Instead, the House-passed version of the bill imposes a faster phaseout timeline, […]

Democrat Judge Rules Against Trump Over Use Of National Guard In California Riots A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles, and has directed Trump to ‘return control of the California National Guard to Governor Newsom.’ BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. […]

Senators To Propose Ban On Big Pharma Ads As TV Networks Stand To Get Wrecked Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, both independents, on Thursday will introduce legislation that would ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs directly to consumers – including through television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media, the WSJ reports. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said […]

Russia Relocates Strategic Bombers To Protect From Ukraine Drone Swarms Following Ukraine’s long-range drone assault on June 1st which was dubbed ‘Operation Spider’s Web’ – and which resulted in the destruction of at least several aircraft, including strategic bombers – Russia has relocated dozens of strategic bombers to remote airbases, new satellite imagery shows. Ukraine had claimed that during the daring operation airbases […]

Watch: Polish MEP Destroys LGBTQ Exhibition, Gets Banned From Polish Parliament Building Via Remix News, Prominent right-wing Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun destroyed a pro-LGBT exhibition on Wednesday in the Polish parliament. Screencap via modernity.news The organization “Tęczowe Opole” had created the exhibit to present photos and accounts of young homosexual, bisexual, and transgender people from the Opole region, and […]

Smartmatic Accused Of Deleting Evidence In $2.7B Fox News Defamation Case: Court Docs Executives at voting software firm Smartmatic ordered the deletion and doctoring of key evidence tied to the company’s $2.7 billion defamation case against Fox News, according to claims in a bombshell court filing made Wednesday in New York. In a new legal memorandum filed with the New York Supreme Court, Fox News accused Smartmatic executives […]

Left In The Lurch: Are PA Partisans Flipping Sides On Fetterman? Authored by Christopher Nicholas via RealClearPennsylvania, Are the party positions on always-newsy senior U.S. Sen. John Fetterman flipping here in Pennsylvania? Fetterman continues to dominate the state’s “political attention” economy, as he has for a long time. Last week in Boston, he and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick participated in a debate sponsored […]

“No Thrust”: Over 260 Dead And One Survivor After Air India Crash Latest… 242 passengers are dead with one survivor after an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed moments after takeoff Thursday in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The plane was headed for London Gatwick Airport. In total, 269 bodies have been taken to the main hospital so far, after the plane crashed into a medical college about a mile southwest of the […]

Data Center Boom May Turn Into Long-Term Glut Risk, Goldman Warns In a note to clients earlier this week, Goldman analyst Vinay Viswanathan provided an update on the U.S. data center securitization market for their clients. He noted that the market, driven by massive investments in facilities equipped with thousands of GPUs that power large language models, is on track to hit a record this year. However, the analysts cautioned that […]

House Approves Bill To Codify $9.4 Billion In DOGE Cuts To Foreign Aid, Public Media Authored by Jackson Richman & Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The House of Representatives passed a bill on June 12 to rescind $9.4 billion in federal spending. Introduced by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), it passed 214–212. The U.S. Capitol on June 3, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times It now goes to […]

Putin Reminds West That Russia Has World’s Most Advanced Nuclear Weapons Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Wednesday meeting of government ministers and military leaders took the opportunity to remind all other nations, especially the West, that Russia possesses the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons. He introduced in the public statements that “special attention” must be paid to the continued development of the […]

The Case For Saying I’m Sorry Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary Elon Musk and Donald Trump had a blowup last week that grew unusually sharp, thus hitting headlines the world over. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shake hands while attending the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 22, 2025. Kayla […]

White House Fears Iranian Response To An Attack Could Overwhelm Israel’s Air Defenses Iran’s military says it’s ready for anything at a moment President Trump has reiterated that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites could be imminent. Such a strike “could very well happen,” the president said Thursday. But…”We are ready for any scenario and have a military strategy,” commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary […]

Locked Out Of The Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around The World Authored by Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox via RealClearInvestigations, The first in a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home sales were down 5% from last year’s dismal numbers. Record numbers of […]

The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic, It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison. -Harvard Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen When the story of the great turn-of-the-millennium climate science fraud comes to be written by future historians, the central role […]

Widespread Google Outage Hits Services With “Intermittent Failures” Google Cloud is experiencing widespread outages late this afternoon, according to the outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. While Google has yet to issue an official statement, users on X have begun reporting disruptions across multiple services: There appears to be a massive outage going on… Twitch, Discord, Google Cloud, Google, Google Meet, Google Nest, […]

“I Am Senator Alex Padilla!”: Democrat Lawmaker Deported From DHS Press Conference, Placed In Handcuffs Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was physically removed from a DHS press conference and placed in handcuffs on Thursday, after reportedly lunging at Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference in Los Angeles. Watch: BREAKING: California Democratic Senator @AlexPadilla4CA just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s […]

LA Riots Hand Republicans Script For Midterms Authored by Philip Wegmann & Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons.  Republicans will replay the clip again and again in campaign ads ahead of the […]

Trump Administration Launches Website For ‘Gold Card’ Visas Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has launched a new website for people interested in so-called gold card visas, which the president has said would grant citizenship in exchange for millions of dollars. President Donald Trump arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 20, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The […]

FBI Arrests Suspected NGO Face-Shield Foot Soldier In L.A. Riots One day after FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News, “The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots” in Los Angeles.  United States Attorney Bill Essayli, a top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, announced on X that Alejandro Theodoro Orellana was arrested by FBI agents “on an allegation of Conspiracy to Commit Civil […]

Trump Calls Musk A “Friend” While Discussing EV Mandates Update (1338ET):  After The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times pushed out headlines on Wednesday suggesting a possible end to the Musk-Trump feud, President Trump confirmed the cooling of tensions by calling Elon Musk a “friend” while speaking to reporters ahead of plans to abolish California’s vehicle emissions standards.  Trump praised Musk for not demanding […]

Stellar 30Y Auction Stops Through Amid Jump In Foreign Demand After a medicore 3Y auction to start the week, a solid 10Y auction yesterday, jittery traders were left with just one Treasury sale this week, arguably the most challenging one: today’s $25BN 30Y auction. In retrospect, there was no reason to worry because demand for today’s paper – especially among foreign buyers – was stellar any way you look at it.  Let’s take a […]