U.S. Marines Deploying to Florida, Louisiana and Texas to support ICE Deportation Raids
July 4th, 2025Via: New York Post:
The Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to provide support for ICE deportation raids across the Sunshine State, military officials announced Thursday.
The mobilization of Marines was revealed by US Northern Command and came in response to a May request for military assistance from the Department of Homeland Security.
The Marines will aid the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “interior immigration enforcement mission,” according to a statement from US Northern Command.
Other deployments are expected in Louisiana and Texas, officials revealed.
They will be “prohibited from direct contact with individuals in ICE custody or involved in any aspect of the custody chain,” US Northern Command said.
U.S. Dollar Down Over 7% in 2025
July 4th, 2025Via: Semafor:
The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history and may not be done falling yet. The greenback is down more than 7% this year and Morgan Stanley predicts it could fall another 10%. A weaker dollar could make US exports more competitive, boosting Trump’s plan to rebalance US trade, but makes imports more expensive, adding to the sting of tariffs.
House Passes Trump’s Budget, Will Create Trillions of Dollars of Additional Debt
July 3rd, 2025Although there were some conservative wins in the budget reconciliation bill (OBBBA), I voted No on final passage because it will significantly increase U.S. budget deficits in the near term, negatively impacting all Americans through sustained inflation and high interest rates. pic.twitter.com/rjcRc8t0ay
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 3, 2025
Via: USA Today:
The fight is over: Republicans’ sweeping bill to cut taxes and slash benefit programs like Medicaid has passed out of Congress and is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law during a July 4 ceremony at the White House.
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It is estimated to increase deficits by around $3.4 trillion over the next ten years.
Shortest Day in History
July 2nd, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
A scientist has warned that Earth’s rotation is unexpectedly accelerating, leading to the shortest day in history in just a few weeks.
Graham Jones, an astrophysicist at the University of London, says Earth’s rotation could speed up noticeably on one of three dates this summer, either July 9, July 22, or August 5.
On those days, time is predicted to drop by 1.30, 1.38, or 1.51 milliseconds, respectively.
Researchers say that although this change will be tiny, it can affect everything from satellite systems and GPS accuracy to how we measure time itself.
Leonid Zotov, a scientist at Moscow State University, said: ‘Nobody expected this, the cause of this acceleration is not explained.’
Since 2020, scientists have noticed that Earth has been spinning slightly faster than usual, but the cause remains a mystery to this day..
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Verdict: Acquitted on Sex Trafficking Charges, Convicted on Prostitution Counts
July 2nd, 2025Some Diddy associates: Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Eric Adams.
Via: New York Post:
Hip-hop icon Sean Combs was stunningly acquitted Wednesday on federal charges of forcing his former lovers to live out his degrading sexual fantasies — but found guilty of lesser prostitution raps.
Combs, better known by his stage name Diddy, dodged charges that carried a possible life sentence after a two-month trial that revealed twisted details about the mogul, including his preference for “freak-offs” — watching his girlfriends have grueling, drug-fueled sex romps with male escorts.
Australians to Face Age Checks from Search Engines
July 1st, 2025“Age checks,” means, identity checks.
Via: Information Age:
Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner.
Search engines operating in Australia will need to implement age assurance technologies for logged-in users in “no later than six months”, under new rules published on Monday.
Google Offers to Buy Half the Output from Upcoming Fusion Power Plant
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC:
Google on Monday announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which marks the tech giant?s first commercial commitment to fusion.
The company unveiled plans to buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant, known as ARC, based in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
ARC is expected to come online and generate 400 megawatts of clean, zero-carbon power in the early 2030s, which is enough energy to power large industrial sites or roughly 150,000 homes, according to CFS. The agreement also gives Google the option to purchase power from additional ARC plants.
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10 Billion
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC:
XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said.
Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said Monday.
The funding gives xAI more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its Grok AI chatbot as it looks to compete with bitter rival OpenAI, as well as with a swathe of other players including Amazon-backed Anthropic.
Related: Zuckerberg Offering Top AI Researchers $100 Million Signing Bonus
Trump Asked Candace Owens to Stop Talking About Macron’s “Wife”
July 1st, 2025[???]
Via: Candace Owens:
Big Beautiful Bill, “Effectively Dooms the U.S. to Debt Collapse”
June 30th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
The Senate version of President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) will add nearly $3.3 trillion to US deficits over a decade, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, half a trillion more than the $2.8 trillion in deficit expansion under the House version of the same bill. That’s from a starting point with debt to GDP already in excess of 120% and the fiscal deficit sitting close to a peacetime record.
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The CBO score for the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill reflects a $4.5 trillion decrease in revenues (i.e. tax cuts relative to the pre-TCJA baseline) and a $1.2 trillion decrease in spending through 2034, relative to a current law baseline.
The Senate bill, by Republican request, was also scored as saving $508 billion over a decade relative to a current policy baseline. The party’s lawmakers have sought to use the accounting maneuver to permanently extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 income-tax cuts, and score them as costing nothing.
While this approach is expected to pass, it effectively dooms the US to debt collapse as every subsequent administration will use the same tactic from now on and pretend that trillions in incremental spending every 4 years are really just an extension of the baseline. Meanwhile, the US is set to hit $40 trillion in debt in less than 2 years.
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All accounting gimicks aside, at the end of the day just one number matters, and it’s pretty clear: the House version of the BBB seeks to add $4 trillion to the debt ceiling, pushing it to $40 trillion. The Senate version: $5 trillion.
