THE BIG PICTURE

Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America – “Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray. Unmarked vehicles. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Racial profiling. Children traumatized. Families terrorized. Journalists targeted. Citizens detained. Disabled individuals, minors, the elderly, pregnant women, military veterans—snatched off the streets. Private property destroyed. This is not a war zone. This is America. This is what now passes for law-and-order policing by ICE agents in Trump’s America—and it is not making America safer or greater.” – John & Nisha Whitehead  – DIFFERING VIEWS AND SEVERAL GOOD READS FROM JOHN, BRANDON AND THE JUDGE!!!!

Joe Rogan Criticizes The Harsh Tactics Of ICE: Here’s Why He’s Wrong – “This is a war between utterly disparate enemies with completely different moral positions. Diplomacy is a pipe dream and playing nice is a death sentence. It’s time to stop pretending that our national relationship can be mended. It’s over. In fact, it was over many years ago and only now are conservatives actually beginning to fight back. We’re done worrying about political optics. Either we change things dramatically right now, or we’ll never get another chance. In terms of the optics of the arrests, illegals are criminals. All of them. Trump never promised to only arrest migrants that commit crimes after they cross the border. He promised the opposite. If the concern is “brutality”, then I have to say that ICE Is going easy on these criminals. I also have no sympathy for woke activists who try to interfere with perfectly lawful arrests. If they get their asses kicked in the process of sabotaging deportations, then all the better. Illegal migrants do NOT have the same due process rights under federal law as native citizens.” – Brandon Smith

A Constitution of No Authority – “What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to establish and to limit the federal government? What if Congress’s 16 enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limit Congress but are actually used as a justification to extend Congress’s authority over nearly every aspect of human life? What if Congress bribes the states with cash, the rich with bailouts, the middle class with tax cuts and the poor with wealth transfers? ​What if the president, meant to be an equal to Congress, has instead become a democratically elected, term-limited, monarch? What if the president claims that everything he did was legal, just because he’s the president? What if he could declare war on his own? What if he could read your emails and your texts without a search warrant? What if he could kill you without due process or warning? ​What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Framers? What if our once revered Bill of Rights has become a bill of temporary privileges?” – Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

States Go It Alone on ‘Forever Chemicals’ as EPA Delays Federal Action – ” Activists and landowners say a lack of consistent research and regulation is allowing dangerous chemicals to permeate the soil, endangering the public. Although Maine and Connecticut ban biosolids, the treated sewage sludge is still commonly used on farm fields around the country.” – Michael Clements

Memo to USDA Chief: Hey Brooke Rollins, wake up! Americans are finding out not all organic food is organic! – Jon Rappoport

Raising Potassium Levels Protects Heart Patients – “A simple dietary adjustment could be a game-changer for heart patients. Increasing potassium levels cuts the risk of dangerous heart rhythms by nearly a quarter, according to new research.” – George Citroner

The Plant-Based Meat Boom Is Dead. Consumers Killed It – “Those of us who love steak and pork chops (and freedom) can be forgiven for savoring the fall of an industry propped up by dubious ethics and government coercion. And yet …” – Jon Miltimore

Florida School Caught Promoting Witchcraft – “In a massive scandal, Orange County students were forced to endure the teaching of satanic witchcraft every week. This is the result of planned indoctrination in public schools, which must be stopped.” – Alex Newman

 

 

 

NEWS

Wars and Rumors of Wars – “There is no question that we are being psychologically prepped for a great and terrible war. Whether you are a civilian, veteran, or active service member, you surely have heard over the last ten years at least one commanding officer describe publicly the likelihood of a U.S.-China war or wider WWIII in the near future. European politicians have been instructing their citizens to prepare for a full-on military conflict with Russian forces since the current war in Ukraine began.” – J.B. Shurk

The Religious Right Is A Blight – “Yes, I saw all of this coming for a long time. But I honestly could never have guessed how bad it would get, because no one (at least not me) could foresee the arrival of Donald Trump. I foolishly thought that G.W. Bush was the worst it would be. And by worst, I’m not talking about Bush himself; I’m talking about the fawning actions and attitudes of the Religious Right toward Bush. The power elite that control both political parties have completely mastered the Hegelian Dialectic. They have advanced architectural and engineering degrees in the designing and building of the phony left-right paradigm. They are professional propagandists and experts in political manipulation. Tokyo Rose and Joseph Goebbels were rank amateurs compared to these monsters. And Donald Trump is their greatest achievement. He is the Frankenstein who the Religious Right believes is Cinderella. ” – Chuck Baldwin

America is at war against itself over illegal immigration – “The colorful fabric of the United States is beginning to tear apart as Democrats and Republicans attempt to address the immigration crisis in their own separate and very different ways.” – Robert Bridge

America Needs a Political Party that Represents Americans – “Today the Democrat Party, once a party that represented the working class against the Republican Party that represented business, has become an ideological party whose agenda is a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel. The Democrats have been convinced by critical race theory and aversive racism that white ethnicities are racist against people of color and historically have subjected them to exploitation and abuse. Other than the organized material interests, who do Republicans represent? The obvious answer is Israel.” – Paul Craig Roberts

Cook County, IL, Slides Toward Full-Blown Insurrection As Judges Try to Stop Immigration Enforcement – streiff

‘You don’t hold shutting the government down as a hostage’: Sen. John Fetterman (VIDEO) – “I GREW UP IN A CONSERVATIVE PART OF PENNSYLVANIA AND I GREW UP AND I KNOW AND I LOVE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. BUT THEY ARE NOT FASCISTS, THEY ARE NOT NAZIS, THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION AND THOSE THINGS. THAT IS PART OF ANOTHER THING. I REFUSE TO CALL PEOPLE NAZIS OR FASCISTS. I WOULD NEVER COMPARE ANYBODY, ANYBODY TO HITLER OR THOSE THINGS. THAT KIND OF EXTREME RHETORIC IS GOING TO CONTINUE AND WE ARE GOING TO BE MORE LIKELY IN RESULTING IN EXTREME OUTCOMES AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND DOING ALL THESE KINDS OF THINGS, LIKE CHARLIE KIRK.” – NewsNation  – NOT A BIG FAN OF CHRIS CUOMO, BUT THIS IS A GOOD INTERVIEW WITH  FETTERMAN!!!

Trump Says He’s Mulling Land Strikes On Venezuela, Confirms CIA Covert Ops – Tyler Durden

Investigation Exposes Israel’s Fake 3D Models – “An investigation by Israeli online +972 Magazine with others has found that Israel embellished, exaggerated or entirely fabricated its 3D models of Hamas and Iranian bunkers. Israel lies and fakes by default. Find out what the investigation discovered.” – Makia Freeman

If full-blown economic warfare breaks out between U.S. and China, which country is better positioned to survive? And how long before economic warfare turns into military warfare? – “Trump threatens 500% tariffs on Chinese goods coming into U.S. while his Treasury secretary talks about ‘decoupling’ from China, a country millions of Americans depend on for cheap goods and medicines” – Leo Hohmann

Hate groups kill over 7,000 blacks in 2025 – “Legacy media silent. While mainstream American media fixates on sensationalized scandals like “racist” chats among Young Republicans, it largely ignores the brutal massacres of black Christians by Islamist hate groups in Nigeria. Meanwhile, back in America, blacks are enduring travesties of their own. Tennis legend and presumed multimillionaire Serena Williams—whose net worth is estimated at around $350 million in 2025, per recent reports—appears to have taken umbrage at a cotton plant decoration in her hotel. Lawd have mercy” – Kenn Gividen

Talk Of Secession By Blue States Rises As Incidents Of Violent Civil Conflict Become More Common In Major U.S. Cities – Michael Snyder – THE LEFT INCITES THE VIOLENCE AND NOW THEY WANT TO LEAVE. LET THEM!!!

Ill. Gov. JB Pritzker’s Tax Docs Show $10.3M Income, $1.4M In “Gambling” Gains – “Five months before Democratic primary voters hit the polls, Gov. JB Pritzker — Illinois’ billionaire governor and Hyatt heir — dropped partial tax records…As usual, the release came with big numbers and small transparency: Pritzker’s campaign shared only the top pages of his returns, leaving the juicy details of his fortune (and those famously murky trusts) safely out of view.” – Tyler Durden

While His Henchmen Clam Up, Jack Smith Speaks Up – “The famously elusive special counsel is defending himself and attacking the Trump Department of Justice in public as various investigations into Smith’s misconduct heat up.” – Julie Kelly

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be In a Depression – Charles Hugh Smith

Powell Proves (Again) That He Ignores The Data – “The Same Deteriorating Jobs Trends We’ve Seen For Months Now Are Worthy Of A Rate Cut” – Peter Nayland Kust

U.S. economy has lost momentum over the past 2 months, Fed’s ‘beige book’ finds – “Only three of 12 Federal Reserve districts report growth” – Greg Robb Follow

Silver Clears $50, Breakout Confirmed – “Over the past week, I’ve been emphasizing the significance of the $50 level in silver and monitoring whether it would break above it. On Monday, COMEX silver futures finally broke through $50, only to be temporarily slammed back below it on Tuesday morning in what I believe was an intentional act of price suppression by the bullion banks. Hot 2024 1 oz American Silver Eagle Coin (.999 Pure) 2024 1 oz American Silver Eagle Coin (.999 Pure) Price & Buy Fortunately, silver shook off that manipulation and rebounded strongly.” – Jesse Colombo

38 Percent of Home Builders Cutting Prices, 68 Percent Offer Incentives – “But incentives and price cuts are not helping buyer traffic.” – mISH

Market Now More ‘Trigger-Happy’ & Unpredictable Due To Uncertain Liquidity (VIDEO) with Tom McClellan – ” It’s a trigger-happy market and markets get even more trigger-happy when liquidity starts to dry up. You know, if you’re playing musical chairs and there’s a hundred chairs in the room and four people competing,I can find a chair when the music stops playing. When the numbers chairs starts dwindling, then it gets a little bit more panicky and and that’s what it happens when liquidity starts to dry up.Illiquidity makes things more vulnerable to news events. Um when you have a perfectly liquid market with the Fed throwing a trillion dollars uh a month at it as we saw in 2020 right after COVID the market can absorb anything. Uh when when you turn that off and when liquidity starts to dry up then you start to have problems” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Stock Market Leverage Blows Out – “Everyone is talking about the AI bubble – proclaiming it or denying it – but this is what it looks like from the leverage point of view. The additional leverage – borrowed money flowing into the stock market – creates buying pressure and drives stock prices higher. Leverage is the great accelerator on the way up, but it’s also the great accelerator on the way down.” – Wolf Richter

Gain-of-Function Monetary Policy – “Before 2008, the Fed had a tremendous amount of power and influence over the lives of every American. After 2008 their use of ZIRP and QE allowed them to play God with all our lives, unchecked.” – Eric Salzman

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How Being a Gray Man Can Get You Killed – “The idea of the “gray man” has become a go-to strategy in the prepping world. Blend in. Stay unnoticed. Do not draw attention to yourself. In theory, it makes sense. If no one knows you have resources, no one will try to take them. But here is the hard truth: if you rely too heavily on being a gray man, it might cost you your life.” – Matt Wright

The Top 5 Uses for Woodstove or Fireplace Ash – denob

9 Best Calibers to Stockpile – “The world will never forget 2020. One of the many standout things that happened that year was a serious shortage of some of the most popular calibers of ammunition out there. The only thing more contentious than writing about firearms is writing about ammunition. That said, we are not here to talk about which calibers are better than others, but I do think we have to come to realize that The Big 3, if we are to pick 3, will be the most in demand and will be the most used.” – Heidi Hawthorn

How To Start Your Own Apothecary in a Small Space – Michael B

Rebuilding an Old Vehicle as a Daily Driver – Part 3 – Lodge Pole  – THIS CONCLUDES THE 3 PART SERIES!!!

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 19:14   Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

 

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