Interviews To Replace Fed Chair To Start After Labor Day, Bessent Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Potential candidate interviews for the post of the new Federal Reserve chairman will be happening soon, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an Aug. 19 interview with CNBC. “In terms of the interview process, we’ve announced 11 very strong candidates,“ Bessent said, without providing any more […]

Visualizing Federal Layoffs Under Trump Does cutting government headcount make it work more effectively? From firing inspectors-general, to mass layoffs in the Department of Education, the federal workforce is being scaled back. So far, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of 12 of these terminations, while scores of workers are leaving voluntarily. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows Trump’s federal […]

Alcohol Consumption In The U.S. Falls To Record Low A new Gallup poll shows only 54 percent of U.S. adults now drink alcohol — the lowest level in the survey’s 90-year history. Those who do drink also report consuming less, according to the NY Times. Drinking had remained at or above 60 percent for decades but dropped to 58 percent in 2024 before hitting this year’s record low. Gallup also found, for the first time, that most […]

The Germans Are Invading Poland (This Time With Real Estate Investment Capital) Via Remix News, Polish media outlets and some citizens are lamenting German real estate investors who are swooping into the Polish city of Wrocław and buying up 1,486 apartments, after an agreement was signed on Aug. 16 of this year. However, Wrocław is only one city, and across the country, these same German investors are buying up 5,300 parents in […]

Switzerland Says It Won’t Arrest Putin If He Enters For Peace Summit Switzerland would offer diplomatic immunity to Russian President Vladimir Putin if he were to travel there for potential peace negotiations with Ukraine, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis announced Tuesday. “We have always expressed our willingness, but of course it depends on the major powers’ willingness to engage,” Cassis stated, after Monday’s White House […]

Watch: Man Arrested In UK For Saying “We Love Bacon” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A British man has been arrested for saying “we love bacon” while protesting the building of a proposed giant mosque. The Telegraph reports that the protest occurred at the site of planned super mosque in the Lake District, which is populated by an almost 100% white population. The report further notes that the 23-year-old man, […]

While MSM Screamed “Climate Crisis”, Arctic Ice Loss Actually Slowed  What the globalist corporate media once smeared as “conspiracy theory” and branded “misinformation” has turned out to be true: the climate crisis was merely an imaginary problem and an informational war on the minds of the taxpayer. Why all the propaganda? Give Democrats cover for a massive heist of the U.S. Treasury, laundering taxpayer dollars through […]

Tusk Ridiculously Blamed Putin For A Bandera Flag Scandal In Poland’s Largest Stadium Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Many military-aged Ukrainian men in Poland are anti-Polish extremists who pose a latent security threat… Poles were furious after the flag of Stepan Bandera’s “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” was recently flown in a Warsaw stadium, the country’s largest, during a Belarusian rapper’s concert. After […]

Sen. Klobuchar Denies Saying Sydney Sweeney Has ‘Perfect Titties’ Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has taken to the NY Times to slam “deepfakes” – after a video emerged in which she appears to declare that Sydney Sweeney has ‘perfect titties.’ (also, definitely don’t go on X and search for “perfect titties”)…  “The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect t-tties’ and lamenting that Democrats were “too fat to […]

We Need To Rethink AI Before It Destroys What It Means To Be Human Authored by Jeff Dornik via American Greatness, America was built on the foundational belief that every man is created in the image of God with purpose, responsibility, and the liberty to chart his own course. We were not made to be managed. We were not made to be obsolete. But that is exactly the future Big Tech is building under the banner of Artificial […]

From Fiat Everything To Real Everything Authored by Josh Stylman via Substack, Why Old-World Values Are the Ultimate Modern Rebellion The infrastructure is now visible to those willing to see it. The systematic replacement of natural systems with artificial ones has reached into every domain—money, food, health, education, information. What began as isolated changes has revealed itself as a coordinated operation: the complete […]

“First True Taste Of Fall”: Might Need A Jacket Next Week Hurricane Erin dominates today’s weather headlines, bringing rough surf and tropical conditions from the Outer Banks to the Mid-Atlantic. Looking ahead, fall may arrive earlier -or at least the first taste – than expected as August winds down and kids head back to school. “Abnormally strong trough expected to move through the Great Lakes as we go into next week… first time […]

Meta Freezes Hiring In AI Division Weeks after reports that Meta was offering $100 million signing bonuses to poach OpenAI talent, it turns out the social media giant’s chatbot ambitions aren’t panning out so well – as the company has frozen hiring in its artificial intelligence division, according to the Wall Street Journal.  The freeze, which began last week, is part of a broader restructuring within the AI group – and […]

Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists Ahead Of Gaza City Takeover Israeli media is reporting that around 60,000 Israeli reservists are set to receive call-up orders on Wednesday as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gear up for a major assault on Gaza City. A report in Times of Israel notes that reservists will have up to two weeks before going to their duty stations, but not all will be directly involved in the Gaza City offensive, as […]

​​​​​​​Rogue Leftist Group Creates Target List Of Trump-Linked Billionaires For Its Foot Soldiers   ​​​​​​​ Submitted by Forward Observer,  The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the U.S. Their stated goal is not financial transparency, but political warfare: to document billionaire ties to […]

Court Upholds Nearly $1 Million Fine Against Restaurant That Ignored Pandemic Indoor Dining Ban A Washington state restaurant that ignored a 2020 state COVID-19 pandemic order must pay a fine of $936,000 – $18,000 per day, for each day it remained in operation while the state’s emergency order banning indoor dining was in place, an appeals court has ruled. Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to reporters in Seattle on March […]

Woman Arrested, Charged After Threatening To Kill Trump Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A woman who threatened to kill President Donald Trump has been arrested and charged, federal prosecutors announced on Aug. 18. U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times “I literally told FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this […]

Death Cycle Of The Democratic Party Accelerates With Massive Voter Exodus  A new analysis of voter registration data has sparked warning signs among Democratic Party leaders. This is because the party of leftist radicals has effectively alienated working-class voters, pushing all things woke, embracing socialism (with a sprinkle of Marxism), calling for the collapse of capitalism, defending criminal illegal aliens, and the list […]

Texas Dem Has ‘Oh Sh*t’ Moment After ‘Felony’ Bathroom Call A Texas Democratic lawmaker who fled the state earlier this month abruptly hung up on a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other top party leaders on Wednesday, after she says she was warned that she was committing a felony. Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on July 29, 2021. Rod Lamkey / CNP […]

You Won’t Believe What They’re Calling “Nazi Propaganda” Now… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The US Department of Labor and the National Guard have just released motivational ads drawing on American patriotism, so cue disturbed America-hating leftists calling it all fascist. The USDL ad is vintage ‘your country needs you’ type ad featuring a young blue collar worker. Here it is: We need YOU to help unleash […]

Trump, Netanyahu: War Heroes? Should they be getting military medals pinned on them? …Not quite (imagined ‘battlefields’ and self-delusions notwithstanding), but President Trump in an interview which aired Tuesday with Mark Levin hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war hero” for ordering his military to launch a surprise attack on Iran in June. Trump then quickly followed by saying that the same label should […]

Biden-Era USPS Fleet Contract For EVs Has Failed To Deliver, Time To Pull The Plug? Via American Greatness, A $10 billion contract awarded by the Biden administration for the production of 35,000 electric vehicles (EVs) to replace the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) aging fleet has produced only 250 new vehicles in more than 2 years. Despite receiving billion of dollars in contracts and government subsidies and building a new […]

Amid Mortgage Fraud Allegations, Fed Governor Cook Says Won’t Be “Bullied” To Step Down Update (1730ET): It took all day but Fed Governor Lisa Cook finally offered a response to allegations that she committed mortgage fraud (in order to get better rates, ironically!). Of course, she played the victim card immediately and offered up future ‘facts’… “I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of […]

Kremlin Makes Clear There Are No Zelensky-Putin Talks On Horizon The Trump administration has, coming off the Friday and Monday Ukraine-related important summits, been touting that a direct Putin-Zelensky meeting will happen soon, likely in the coming days or weeks, but the Kremlin is now downplaying and contradicting this.  No, there is no Putin-Zelensky meeting on the immediate horizon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has […]

Trump Orders Review Of ‘Woke’ Content In US Museums Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has instructed legal experts to review “woke” installations in museums nationwide. According to an Aug. 19 post on Truth Social, the president believes that museums are the “last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,’” and he wants to address the issue the same way his administration has treated […]