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Pope Leo XIV just dropped a 200-page encyclical that declared autonomous weapons morally impermissible, retired 1,700 years of just war doctrine, and buried the first-ever institutional Church apology for legally authorizing the transatlantic slave trade — all in the same document being marketed as the Vatican's AI manifesto. The slavery apology is not a footnote: Leo is arguing that cobalt mines,...

Trump posted that Maryland's Democratic governor rigged a primary by sending out 500,000 illegal ballots — except the governor doesn't run elections in Maryland, the mix-up was a printing vendor's mistake, and the two parties don't even compete against each other in the same primary, making fraud structurally impossible. The real story isn't the post itself — it's that after a year of election exe...

Trump sued the federal government over a tax return leak, his own Justice Department settled the case, and the result is a 1.776 billion dollar fund — administered by commissioners appointed by his former personal attorney — that pardoned January 6th rioters are already lining up to collect from. The officers who were beaten in that Capitol tunnel just filed suit to kill it, arguing a president li...

Bill Cassidy just lost his Senate seat specifically because he voted to convict Trump over January 6th, spent nearly 22 million dollars trying to survive it, and still came in third. His first move back in the Capitol was to flag a 1.8 billion dollar federal fund, created through a Trump IRS lawsuit settlement, that could end up cutting checks to the people who stormed the building that cost him h...

Trump just told reporters he's still deciding whether to move forward on 25 billion dollars in Taiwan arms sales — after sitting alone with Xi Jinping for three hours inside Zhongnanhai. That posture alone may have already violated a 44-year-old U.S. policy document written specifically to stop Beijing from getting any say in what weapons Washington sells Taipei. One administrative act — whether t...

Iran's new Supreme Leader hasn't been seen in public in two months, his own president had to go on state TV just to confirm he's alive, and right now the U.S. is negotiating the end of an active war with him through two separate middlemen carrying a single one-page document with the dollar amounts still blank. The military operation meant to force open the Strait of Hormuz collapsed in 48 hours af...

The UAW president is quietly engineering what could be the first general strike in 80 years by aligning major union contract expirations to a single date: May 1, 2028. Today's 3,500 May Day events, the school closures, the Amazon march, the bridge blockades, were not the protest, they were the dress rehearsal, what organizers are literally calling a structure test. The thing to watch is not the ra...

Pete Hegseth literally told Congress under oath that Iran's nuclear facilities were already obliterated from last summer's strikes, then had to sit there while lawmakers pointed out that the entire justification for the new war, which started just sixty days ago, was a threat his own administration said it already destroyed. The official cost is twenty-five billion, but analysts say that number ca...

The Senate just voted at 3:36 a.m. to give ICE and Border Patrol up to 70 billion dollars for the next three and a half years using reconciliation—a budget trick that bypasses the filibuster and skips the normal appropriations process where Congress reviews agencies every year. This is the first time anyone's used reconciliation to replace annual funding with multi-year autopilot money, and it set...

Trump just issued shoot-and-kill orders for Iranian boats allegedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz—where 20% of the world's oil passes through—but there's zero photographic proof mines are actually being deployed. The U.S. claims no ship has evaded its blockade while intelligence reports show eleven Iranian tankers slipping through since April 13th, because choking off that much oil would cr...

At least ten American scientists working on nuclear weapons and advanced aerospace research have vanished or died under mysterious circumstances since last July, and the White House only acknowledged it in mid-April saying they'll "look into it." Multiple researchers left their homes on foot without phones or wallets and never came back—Anthony Chavez walked out leaving his car locked with everyth...

The U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican skipped Pope Leo XIV's peace vigil while Trump posted—then deleted—an image of himself as Christ and called the first American pope in history weak and captive to the Radical Left. This is the first time an American president has openly gone to war with an American pope, and it's happening while the U.S. bombs Iran and Catholic voters are starting to split betwee...

Four astronauts are hurtling back to Earth right now after flying farther from home than anyone since 1970, and they've been doing it with a broken toilet for ten days. Tomorrow afternoon they splash down in the Pacific after looping around the Moon on Artemis II—the first crewed lunar mission in over fifty years—but NASA just cancelled two critical safety tests mid-flight and nobody's explaining...

Someone bet $580 million that oil prices would crash at 6:49 a.m. on March 23rd—exactly fifteen minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil immediately tanked 11 percent, the S&P surged 2.5 percent, and whoever made that trade just became obscenely rich while regulators stay completely silent. This isn't the first time anonymous accounts have made millions correctly predi...

Austin just posted the biggest apartment rent drop in America—down nearly 5% to $1,381 a month—after years of a construction frenzy that flooded the market with units nobody's filling. But here's the weird part: two major real estate firms looked at the same quarter and one says Austin absorbed over 3,100 units while the other says more people moved out than moved in. No one's explaining how both...

A single Republican Senate primary in Texas just burned through nearly 100 million dollars—more than the entire GDP of some small countries—and the guy who spent 71 million barely beat the guy who spent less than 5 million. They're both headed to a runoff now, which means another 12 weeks of this before anyone even gets to the actual election in November. Meanwhile in North Carolina, a Democratic...

Trump just delivered the longest State of the Union in American history—107 minutes of claims that fact-checkers spent all night dismantling. He called the economy he inherited a "dead country" but the actual data shows he took over 4% unemployment and 3% inflation, then added only 181,000 jobs in his first year compared to Biden's 1.2 million in his final year. He claimed 18 trillion in foreign i...

CBS lawyers literally called Stephen Colbert and told him he couldn't air his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico—and then told him he couldn't mention being told not to air it. The network cited an FCC equal-time rule that legal experts say doesn't even apply here, and conveniently this happened right after Colbert called their 16-million-dollar Trump settlement a bribe and days...

A Democrat machinist who spent $70,000 just beat a Republican school board activist who dropped $736,000 in a Texas district Trump won by seventeen points. Taylor Rehmet won by fifteen percentage points despite being outspent ten-to-one, running on lowering costs and protecting jobs while his opponent ran the full culture war playbook with endorsements from Trump and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patric...

A Border Patrol agent shot Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti ten times in five seconds while Pretti held his phone with one hand raised—DHS claimed he violently resisted and planned to massacre law enforcement, but multiple videos show he intervened after agents pushed a woman down, got pepper sprayed, and was shot while face-down. This is the second fatal federal shooting in Minneapolis in three...

Trump just launched a "Board of Peace" at Davos with 19 countries signing on for a billion dollars each, but the charter doesn't mention Gaza once even though this whole thing was originally sold as a Gaza reconstruction plan. The board includes Putin, Lukashenko, and Netanyahu, people literally accused of or actively conducting war crimes, while having zero Palestinian representatives deciding Ga...

The US Treasury Secretary told global leaders in Davos that US-Europe relations have never been closer while the President simultaneously posted AI images of the American flag on Greenland and threatened eight NATO allies with escalating tariffs unless Denmark sells him the island. The tariffs start at ten percent next week and jump to twenty-five percent in June, targeting America's closest frien...

The Justice Department just served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas over a building renovation that went over budget, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell says this is really about Trump trying to control interest rates through criminal prosecution. Markets are freaking out—the dollar is tanking, gold just hit record highs, and investors are genuinely asking what happens if the Fed's independe...

The White House just posted an official webpage calling January 6 a peaceful march disrupted by aggressive police—the same attack where 140 officers were injured and we all watched rioters smash windows and drag cops into crowds on live TV. Trump pardoned roughly 1,600 people convicted through jury trials, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy, and now whitehou...

US Special Forces just raided Venezuela's presidential compound at dawn, captured sitting president Nicolás Maduro, and killed at least 40 people—and Trump's already talking about American oil companies running the country until we decide who gets to lead it. Maduro's now in a Brooklyn jail facing narco-terrorism charges while Venezuela's Supreme Court installed Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as i...