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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000 France Is Latest EU Country To Ban & Sanction Israel's Finance Minister
France Is Latest EU Country To Ban & Sanction Israel's Finance Minister
A growing list of Western countries have imposed individual sanctions and travel bans on two Israeli hardline ministers who advocate for Jewish supremacy over t
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France Is Latest EU Country To Ban & Sanction Israel's Finance Minister
A growing list of Western countries have imposed individual sanctions and travel bans on two Israeli hardline ministers who advocate for Jewish supremacy over the Middle East, evidenced in their expansionist policies from the West Bank to Gaza to Syria.
The two in question are Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. France is the latest country to ban Smotrich, after the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway already did the same .
via EPA
Spain, Slovenia and most recently Ireland have also banned both, citing that they call for violence against Palestinians on the basis of their ethnic identity .
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot this week explained that France is banning Smotrich because he "actively promotes the annexation of the West Bank , which he openly claims, the creation of new settlements in the West Bank, the re-colonization of Gaza, the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority and its harmful consequences for the Palestinian population."
"This is a policy that the overwhelming majority of the international community, firmly committed to the two-state solution, cannot accept," Barrot wrote on X.
The legal action targets "those responsible for the escalation of settlement activity and violence in the West Bank," Barrot said.
As expected, Israel's foreign ministry in turn quickly condemned the sanctions as "disgraceful."
The Israeli "government has condemned some settler violence, but that rings hollow when there is scant accountability" - the UK had earlier said of similar measures it adopted.
Smotrich as national finance minister bluntly stated last year that the Gaza Strip is a "real estate bonanza ." Further he claimed at the time that he was talks with the Americans on how to divide the enclave up once the Palestinians are kicked out.
There is "a real estate bonanza" in Gaza that "pays for itself" and he had "already started negotiations with the Americans," he said at a past conference in Tel Aviv, according to local media.
"We have poured a lot of money into this war. We have to see how we are dividing up the land in percentages," Smotrich said, explaining that "the demolition, the first stage in the city’s renewal, we have already done. Now we just need to build."
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Fri, 06/12/2026 - 04:15 Close
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:30:00 +0000 CJ Hopkins: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The New Normal Reich
CJ Hopkins: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The New Normal Reich
CJ Hopkins: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The New Normal Reich
Authored by CJ Hopkins via ConsentFactory.org,
So the German Supreme Court has ruled on my case. Their ruling is that they will not rule on my case. They sent my attorney a letter to that effect. It literally says:
“The constitutional complaint will not be accepted for a ruling. No explanation is provided. This ruling is incontestable.”
So I am now officially a “hate criminal” in Germany. I was already pretty much a “hate criminal” in Germany, but now it’s official. This is Germany’s supreme court. There is no higher court to appeal to.
OK, sure, there’s the European Court of Human Rights, the international court of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, but it doesn’t have the power to enforce its rulings, and the German authorities and courts have made it clear that they couldn’t care less about anyone’s opinion of their paranoid and authoritarian behavior.
So I’ll be going back to Berlin District Court for sentencing.
I was originally acquitted by the Berlin District Court, but the district prosecutor wasn’t happy with that verdict, so the prosecutor appealed to the Berlin Appellate Court, which overturned my acquittal, which prompted me to appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court (i.e., the Bundesverfassungsgericht , Germany’s supreme court) which has now basically told me to go fuck myself, so now I have to go back to the court that acquitted me to be sentenced for the crime I didn’t commit.
I assume that most people reading this column are familiar with my case by now, but, if you’re not, here are a few of my previous columns and some press coverage that will bring you up to speed.
Press coverage:
What Happens Where Free Speech is Unprotected, The Atlantic
Where “hate speech” censorship is worse than on U.S. campuses, Washington Post
Satirist C.J. Hopkins Sentenced in German Speech Case, Racket News
Der Provokateur, Die Zeit
Meinungsfreiheit in Gefahr durch Strafjustiz in Deutschland, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Autor C.J. Hopkins verurteilt, Berliner Zeitung
Der kafkaese Prozess gegen C.J. Hopkins, Multipolar
The American Author Living An Orwellian Nightmare, Discourse Magazine
Scandalous verdict: US author C.J. Hopkins found guilty, Aya Velázquez
„Das ist verrückt,“ Multipolar
The Thought Police Are Here, Crisis Magazine
My columns:
The Global Crackdown on Dissent Modern Book Burning in New Normal Germany A Visit by the German Thought Police Fear and Loathing in New Normal Germany The People’s Court of New Normal Germany The Verdict The Criminalization of Dissent (Revisited)
The short version is, back in 2022, I posted two tweets protesting the Covid mask mandates, and I put the cover art of my book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich , in those tweets. The German authorities didn’t appreciate that, so they censored the tweets, banned my book, and prosecuted me for “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization.” I would include an image of the cover of my book, but, if I did, the German police would probably raid my house again and steal my new computer.
However, here’s the cover of an issue of Der Spiegel …
My book cover art is more or less exactly like that, except the swastika on my book is behind a medical-looking mask, instead of a German flag, as on the Spiegel cover.
It goes without saying that the German authorities are not prosecuting Der Spiegel for “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization.”
If you’re wondering why the German supreme court decided not to rule on my case, and why the judges refused to provide any explanation for their decision … well, just imagine if they had been forced to explain, in writing, for the record, why the Spiegel cover is legal, but the cover of my book is a “hate crime.”
That might have been a bit embarrassing, professionally.
I don’t want to antagonize the supreme court, or the Berlin district prosecutor, or any other German authorities, or they’ll send the police to raid my home again, but, if you happen to be a journalist, and you want to ask them to explain the difference between the Spiegel cover and the cover of my book, the judge you want to talk to is Professor Doctor Stephan Harbarth, LL.M. (Yale). He’s the big honcho at the German supreme court, and is the one who was in charge of reviewing my appeal.
And you could also ask Stephan about my second appeal, or constitutional complaint, as they call it here in Germany. That one is regarding the police raid of my home , and the confiscation of my computer, and the German authorities’ attempt to force me to stop distributing my book worldwide. As I noted, they already banned it in Germany.
That appeal, or complaint, is still pending at the supreme court. I’m certain, after he reads this column, the professor will make sure that it receives proper consideration according to the German constitution, and the rule of law, and basic democratic principles, which the Federal Republic of Germany holds in the highest regard.
Oh, and, if you live in Germany, and want to read more about my prosecution, and other adventures with the New Normal authorities, you can buy my book, Fear and Loathing in the New Normal Reich , which was published by Skyhorse Publishing last year. The Germans haven’t banned that one yet.
I imagine they’ll get around to it eventually.
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Fri, 06/12/2026 - 03:30 Close
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:45:00 +0000 New Pakistani Strikes On Afghanistan Kill 13 Civilians, Taliban Says
New Pakistani Strikes On Afghanistan Kill 13 Civilians, Taliban Says
Several months ago, close in time to when the US-Iran war started, a separate conflict had erupted further east, along the Af-Pak border and even reaching as deep
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New Pakistani Strikes On Afghanistan Kill 13 Civilians, Taliban Says
Several months ago, close in time to when the US-Iran war started, a separate conflict had erupted further east, along the Af-Pak border and even reaching as deep into Afghanistan as far as Kabul (where Pakistani airstrikes rained down).
Hostilities have abruptly flared up again along the Afghan-Pakistan border overnight as cross-border airstrikes launched by the Pakistani military killed 13 civilians , according to Afghan Taliban officials.
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The aerial attacks impacted the Afghan border provinces of Kunar, Khost, and Paktika, stated Zabihullah Mujahid, according to Afghan officials.
There has been relative calm in the situation as a months-long ceasefire largely held, but the new bombardment marks the deadliest single episode in several weeks .
The Pakistani side has made no mention of civilians, but instead says its operation killed over two dozen armed militants :
Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group were killed in the attacks .
"In the aftermath of recent terrorist incidents in Pakistan .... precise and calibrated Strikes were carried out along Pakistan Afghanistan border areas on hideouts and safe havens," Pakistan's information minister Attaullah Tarar posted on X.
He did not comment on any civilian casualties after Afghan authorities, who have denied Afghanistan is used for militancy, said at least 12 people, including children, were left dead in the strikes.
An AFP correspondent has offered a vastly differing account, with on report saying: "An AFP journalist saw a house completely destroyed in the southeastern province of Khost, where residents were digging graves to bury those killed in the overnight attack."
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stated in the aftermath that "11 children, one woman, and one elderly man were killed" in strikes on Khost, Kunar and Paktika provinces .
Pakistan's military released footage and its own counter-narrative:
Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which share the disputed 1,600-mile Durand Line, have shifted from cautious engagement to open hostility.
The history has been marked by shifting from one-time allies to on-and-off again enemies. Many analysts are pointing to 'blowback' for Pakistan after sponsoring the Taliban's rise in the first place, decades ago (which also had the help of the CIA in 'Operation Cyclone'). Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of sheltering Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants who carry out cross-border attacks .
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Fri, 06/12/2026 - 02:45 Close
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 'Full Force Of The Law': British PM Threatens Belfast Anti-Immigration Rioters While Lowe Says 'Millions Must Go'
'Full Force Of The Law': British PM Threatens Belfast Anti-Immigration Rioters While Lowe Says 'Millions Must Go'
'Full Force Of The Law': British PM Threatens Belfast Anti-Immigration Rioters While Lowe Says 'Millions Must Go'
Via Remix News,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has threatened Belfast’s nighttime rioters with the “full force of the law” after they conducted arson attacks on cars and homes on Tuesday night after a brutal video went viral featuring a Sudanese man trying to behead a disabled Scottish victim.
“The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable. There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere. It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it. Those responsible will feel the full force of the law,” wrote Starmer on X.
On the other end of the spectrum, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe says “millions must go ” in response to the attack on disabled 44-year-old Scottish victim Stephen Ogilvie.
Lowe went even further, stating that “civil servants, judges, and politicians” must be “held to account for what has been done to this country.”
“If they have knowingly placed unvetted dangerous third world savages in our communities, near our children, then a Restore Britain Government will aim to prosecute them. If that includes Reform’s Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, then so be it. When they held the power – they welcomed that Sudanese monster into our country and handed him a visa. An attempted beheading followed their decision,” he continued.
Starmer’s Labour Party has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of fueling the nighttime riots in Belfast. Protests turned violent on Tuesday evening after a shocking video showed a Sudanese man violently attacking Ogilvie with a knife before he was saved by locals who beat the perpetrator.
Yesterday evening, dozens of masked men gathered in residential areas and set fire to several houses, a shop, and numerous vehicles.
Labour Party leader Anna Turley partly blamed Musk and his news platform X for the riots after Musk shared several posts on Tuesday that had called for protests. Turley told Times Radio: “I think we need to acknowledge and see that social media plays a role in this. And I think there are actors with evil intentions who are often sitting many, many kilometers away.”
The knife attack follows a range of other heinous attacks and high-profile incidents involving foreign nationals in Great Britain. Numerous people shared calls for demonstrations, which were also picked up and further disseminated by Elon Musk.
While rallies in London, for example, were peaceful, groups of masked rioters gathered in Belfast before sunset and began setting fire to cars and buses. In the later hours, they directed their anger at houses where migrants also lived. A Middle Eastern supermarket was also set on fire.
Read more here...
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Fri, 06/12/2026 - 02:00 Close
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:25:00 +0000 Why China's Population Decline Is Irreversible
Why China's Population Decline Is Irreversible
Why China's Population Decline Is Irreversible
Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times,
China’s demographic collapse is so advanced that even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent a massive population decline because there are simply too few women of childbearing age.
The ageing crisis facing China is well documented and widely reported . The crisis stems from a combination of longer life expectancies and a reduction in births below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. The result is a smaller workforce, a smaller pool of taxpayers, a smaller group of consumers driving the economy, and a growing population of retirees who need financial and medical support.
China’s ageing crisis, however, is so acute that this framing misses a crucial structural issue.
Currently, the pool of women capable of bearing children is so depleted that even an overnight return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent substantial population decline.
China has approximately 190 million women of childbearing age. Even if the fertility rate immediately rose to 2.1, the population would still decline by more than 40 percent by the end of the century. The demographic pyramid has already determined the outcome. The trajectory is irreversible.
China’s population has contracted for four consecutive years. According to the National Bureau of Statistics’ 2025 Statistical Communiqué, the total population stood at 1.40489 billion at the end of 2025, a net decrease of 3.39 million people. Births numbered 7.92 million against 11.31 million deaths, yielding a natural growth rate of negative 2.41 per thousand, the steepest annual loss on record outside of the 1959–61 famine caused by Mao’s misguided policies.
The 2024 uptick, driven by the auspicious Year of the Dragon, proved to be an outlier. Births fell 17 percent in 2025, reaching the lowest level since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.
Rhodium Group’s April 20 26 analysis projects that even if births remain at 2025 levels for the next decade, the annual population decline will widen to 7.6 million by 2035, implying a cumulative loss of nearly 60 million people between 2026 and 2035, roughly equivalent to the population of France.
By mid-century, RAND projects that China could lose 250 million people from its current population of 1.4 billion. The United Nations’ longer-range estimate puts China’s population as low as 663 million by 2100 if current trends persist.
The crude birth rate of 5.63 per thousand in 2025, confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics , was the lowest since 1949. China’s total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen to approximately 1.0, less than half the replacement level of 2.1, placing it among what demographers classify as “lowest-low” fertility societies , alongside South Korea and Singapore.
The one-child policy, which began in 1980 , prevented hundreds of millions of births, reducing the average number of children per family from six to fewer than two. As the CCP became aware of the looming demographic collapse, the policy was relaxed to allow two children in 2016 and then expanded to three children in 2021.
However, the shift to a two-child policy resulted in only a brief uptick in births, while the expansion to three children had almost no meaningful impact.
The cohorts now entering peak childbearing age are the children of the one-child generation, already a reduced cohort, and are now themselves having fewer children than their parents did. Each generation compounds the deficit of the last.
In major cities, the situation is worse still. Beijing’s population aged 20 to 29 fell from 4.6 million in 2015 to 2.5 million in 2024, a drop of more than 2.1 million, while residents aged 60 and above rose by more than 1.7 million during the same period. Shanghai recorded approximately 107,000 births against 164,000 deaths in 2025, a natural decrease of 57,000, offset only by net in-migration of more than 100,000. Rhodium Group notes that China’s most-developed coastal provinces are growing solely through internal migration , not reproduction.
The number of women of childbearing age has been further reduced by sex-selective births. China’s sex ratio stands at 1.04 males per female overall, with the imbalance more pronounced in younger cohorts. The population of women in their twenties fell by 35 million between 2010 and 2021. Those women were never born. They cannot be incentivized, legislated, or subsidized into existence.
On current decline projections, China’s elderly population aged 65 and over stands at 211 million, while the 50 to 64 age cohorts add another 325 million. Those cohorts will die before a new generation reaches maturity. United Nations projections estimate that China’s population will fall from 1.4 billion to 633 million by 2100 under current trajectories, the largest absolute population loss of any nation over that period. Even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility would not reverse the trend.
With only 190 million women of childbearing age, there are simply not enough potential mothers to offset the mortality burden of the older generations. The 40 percent decline estimate is conservative relative to the UN baseline because it assumes fertility immediately and permanently returns to 2.1, a scenario no demographer currently projects.
The CCP is not unaware of the crisis. Xi Jinping has publicly called for a new culture of marriage and childbearing. The government has extended maternity leave, offered cash bonuses for newborns, and eliminated tax incentives on contraceptives. None of these measures have worked. In fact, they have all been tried before and failed. South Korea, facing a similar ageing crisis, spent roughly $280 billion on pro-natalist programs over two decades, more per capita than any country in history, and still watched its fertility rate fall from 1.08 in 2006 to 0.68 by 2024.
Money and incentives cannot manufacture women who were never born. The demographic collapse is now mathematically guaranteed. The CCP may have finally defeated China.
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Thu, 06/11/2026 - 23:25 Close
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Black Activism In America Has Become Cultural Poison
Black Activism In America Has Become Cultural Poison
Much like the feminist movement (or any leftist movement), black rights activism in America has mutated from its original form into something bizarre and monstrous Read more.....
Black Activism In America Has Become Cultural Poison
Much like the feminist movement (or any leftist movement), black rights activism in America has mutated from its original form into something bizarre and monstrous . Civil rights conflicts tend to be born from legitimate grievances if a society's intention is to create general "equality" under the law. But this is only the surface view, the lipstick, the young and naive version of what these movements are all about.
They appeal to the western sense of honor, reason and fairness. However, there is such a thing as suicidal empathy . The western world has become so infatuated with the idea of total equality that many people are willing to overlook the undeniable and sometimes dangerous differences between ethnic groups and their subcultures.
Lacking the ability to discern and yes, discriminate to a logical degree, is not something the west can afford to do. What happens when civil rights become a license for cultural elimination? White people, a minority in decline with 11% of the global population, have to stop exercising empathy and start exercising caution.
The Karmelo Anthony case is just one of many examples of expansive minority violence against white Americans being justified in the name of civil rights. To be sure, there are many black conservatives out there who do not agree and they are being targeted by left-wing activists for speaking out. But sadly, a vast majority of blacks in the US are captured by the far-left plantation.
They don't want to leave, because woke ideology tells them they are perpetual victims. And in the mind of perpetual victims everything is permissible. All behavior is justified, including murder and the destruction of the host civilization. Even Austin Metcalf's family, the true victims in this situation, are not safe.
The interesting thing about the political left and minority movements in general is that they reveal their hand every time they suffer a loss, as much as when they celebrate a win. These are frothing and rabidly emotional groups and they cannot control themselves in the slightest. With the sentencing of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, the "champions" of civil rights are out in force threatening mob violence, attacks on innocent white bystanders and they are calling for more murders.
In other words, they want revenge for Karmelo Anthony being rightfully punished. They believe they are above punishment. They believe they are beyond the law. They think they should be allowed to do whatever they want to white people because they see themselves as victims of white society. This kind of mentality only ever leads to one thing: Tragedy.
Walking away is exactly what Karmelo Anthony should have done. It's what any sane person with half a brain would do. But, in a weak ghetto culture where pride is inflated and misplaced, if someone "disrespects" you, it's the same as if they tried to kill you. Therefore, killing them is not only reasonable, it's applauded by your peers.
Reverse the skin colors of the people involved in this scenario and see if people like this woman make the same argument. If it was Austin Metcalf that stabbed Karmelo Anthony over a shove, they would be calling for Metcalf's head. They would be calling Metcalf a coward and a psychopath. If Metcalf was exonerated for murder by the court system, there would be riots in the streets.
There is no reasoning with such people, because they don't want justice, they want power.
Punishment for crime, for black activists, is an act of war. And once again they claim to be the victims, the defenders, the righteous rebellion. And so, there's nothing to be done. The violence will simply continue - A new "fiery but mostly peaceful" summer is on the horizon. And, the only thing that will stop it is an immovable mountain of consequences.
When the reaction from civilized society against black activists is swift and merciless, this is when their culture of chaos will end.
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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:35:00 +0000 US Investigating Iran War Critic Trita Parsi, Co-Founder Of Non-Interventionist Think Tank
US Investigating Iran War Critic Trita Parsi, Co-Founder Of Non-Interventionist Think Tank
US Investigating Iran War Critic Trita Parsi, Co-Founder Of Non-Interventionist Think Tank
Via Middle East Eye
The Trump administration has launched an investigation into prominent Iran war critic Trita Parsi , according to a report in the Free Press.
According to US officials and documents reviewed by the pro-Trump outlet, officials are looking into the possibility of deporting Parsi, who holds both Iranian and Swedish citizenship .
via the Quincy Institute
Parsi, who is co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and co-founded the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), has been a vocal opponent of the ongoing US attacks on Iran .
A Trump official told the Free Press that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been "very clear" in his intentions to tackle “people who support adversaries of ours and whose work furthers their agenda and undermines our security .
“Anyone who seeks to undermine the US, we're taking a hard look at ," the official said.
Since the beginning of the US-Israeli attack on Iran in February, the Trump administration has increasingly targeted figures of Iranian descent in the US .
In April, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina were detained and had their residency permits rescinded after they were – incorrectly – identified as relatives of former Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by far-right influencer Laura Loomer.
Despite denying their links to Soleimani, the pair remain in custody in Texas .
The US also detained and revoked the green cards of relatives of former Iranian minister Masoumeh Ebtekar in April.
Parsi is a critic of the Islamic Republic whose family fled to Sweden to escape persecution in Iran. He has faced attacks from Iranian monarchists and pro-Trump figures over his opposition to the conflict .
He has also been highly critical of US backing for what many call Israel's genocide in Gaza and its attacks on Lebanon .
Speaking to Middle East Eye in May, Parsi warned that the US's ability to secure a deal with Iran would ultimately come down to its ability to restrain Israeli attacks in the region.
"If Trump either cannot or will not do so, then the value of any agreement with Washington comes sharply into question," he said.
"A ceasefire that leaves Israel free to reignite hostilities at will – while the United States remains unable to prevent itself from being dragged back into conflict – offers little assurance of stability . Under such circumstances, the utility of a deal with Washington diminishes dramatically ."
MEE contacted the US State Department and the Department of Homeland Security for comment, but had received no response from either at time of publication.
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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:10:00 +0000 JPM Call With Axon Reveals Race To Fortify U.S. Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drone Swarms
JPM Call With Axon Reveals Race To Fortify U.S. Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drone Swarms
Axon Enterprise is moving beyond its legacy police body-camera and TASER products and rapidly expanding into drones, robotics, and counter-dr
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JPM Call With Axon Reveals Race To Fortify U.S. Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drone Swarms
Axon Enterprise is moving beyond its legacy police body-camera and TASER products and rapidly expanding into drones, robotics, and counter-drone systems, positioning itself as a top supplier in the public safety sector, according to JPMorgan analysts.
In a note on Wednesday, JPM analysts led by Joseph Cardoso said recent FAA rule changes regarding beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone operations have removed a key barrier to scaling drones for first-responder programs, while expanding demand for counter-drone threat technology across law enforcement, critical infrastructure, and large public venues.
Cardoso and his team hosted Axon's Jeff Kunins, Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer, on a call earlier this week and focused on the evolving U.S. drone market, industry trends, and Axon's positioning:
1. Regulation finally catches up, driving inflection point for DFR and CUAS. The past year represents an inflection for drone-as-first-responder (DFR) and counter-drone (C-UAS), anchored by regulatory changes, including: 1) FAA/TSA rule changes in Aug-25 related to Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), which removed the requirement for human observers, a prerequisite that had been a barrier to scaling, since prior rules mandated a oneto-one human observer per drone, undermining the core value proposition of faster and cheaper response times relative to human responders; and 2) the Safer Skies Act, passed in Dec-25, extending drone mitigation authority to select state & local agencies, an important milestone with standalone detection only functional in nuanced situations. While still early, changes have been characterized as seminal rather than incremental, reflecting regulation catching up to the technology, with the SFPD, for example, already conducting DFR missions in dense urban corridors and overall deployments expanding rapidly
2. Counter-drone mitigation boasts an expansive toolkit, albeit with no "winner" to date. The mitigation technology landscape was characterized as a land rush, with heavy investment underway and no settled winners to date. For example, a wide range of tools is available in the market today, including RF jamming, cyber takeover, directed energy lasers, interceptor drones, and kinetics (both destructive and non-destructive), none of which have demonstrated a high success rate across both mitigation effectiveness and cost, particularly against the backdrop of what can be safely deployed in crowded civilian environments . As a result, the market is expected to undergo a rapid iterate-and-fail evolution over an extended period , making it a critical decision for companies to determine where to focus.
3. Highlights tale of two stacks with integrated DFR and open counterdrone. Relative to DFR, the importance of a vertically integrated stack was emphasized, particularly given the need for the operating experience to be tightly coupled with the drone itself, which drove Axon's decision to closely align and partner with Skydio. By contrast, counter-drone will likely remain an open ecosystem for some time, given the unknowns around which cocktail of sensors and effectors will deliver the best results related to producing superior detection and mitigation outcomes from any arbitrary hardware mix.
4. Made in America expected to be a durable tailwind. The durability of American-made policy tailwinds was underscored, as Axon highlighted: 1) companies like Skydio have surpassed Asia-based alternatives on price-performance and product-market fit for law enforcement use cases; and 2) restrictions on foreign drone and camera suppliers due to data-security concerns, have broad bipartisan support
5. Beyond blue lights, drone opportunity expected to be sizeable across enterprise use cases . The enterprise opportunity for drones was characterized as large, immediate, and growing fast off a small base. Use cases highlighted include perimeter security for data centers, logistics networks, and corporate campuses, as well as operational applications such as automated indoor inventory checks, with Axon noting hourly drone patrols at its HQ and inventory checks at its warehouses. On the counter-drone side, demand is already concrete in corrections (contraband drops) and increasing for critical infrastructure, with recent Middle East drone attacks on data centers cited as a motivator for U.S. operators to seek prophylactic capabilities . Importantly, security adoption is expected to come first, followed by operational use cases that broaden the TAM over time.
6. Axon is participating across multiple drone opportunity fronts . Axon is participating across three areas related to drones: 1) outdoor DFR, with Skydio integrated into Fusus real-time crime center (RTCC), Axon Evidence, and the rest of the portfolio, such as body cameras (request button) and 911 solutions; 2) indoor tactical drones for SWAT-type use cases; and 3) counter-drone via Dedrone, which combines first-party hardware (RF sensors, RF mitigation) and software with third-party hardware (additional sensors and effectors), an area where Axon noted its leadership across state & local as well as FedCiv markets, including deployment in every NFL stadium.
Recall that we have been tracking Axon's drone deals with Ukrainian companies and observing how the company is positioning itself as a key importer of battlefield-tested drone and counter-drone technology.
In late January, we noted that the global data center buildout, power grid modernization wave, and broader AI infrastructure boom were missing a critical layer of low-altitude air defense against small drones. One month later, multiple data centers in the Gulf region were hit by Iranian one-way attack drones, underscoring how quickly that threat moved from scenario to reality (read here ).
Our view is that the U.S. has major air-defense gaps across data centers, power assets, logistics hubs, and other critical infrastructure. Those vulnerabilities could be exploited by bad actors, creating massive demand for counter-UAS systems to fill gaps in air defense.
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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:45:00 +0000 Florida Supreme Court Allows New GOP Congressional Map To Remain In Place
Florida Supreme Court Allows New GOP Congressional Map To Remain In Place
Florida Supreme Court Allows New GOP Congressional Map To Remain In Place
Via American Greatness,
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block a new congressional map approved by Republican lawmakers earlier this year.
The map allows the districts to remain in place as the state prepares for upcoming elections.
The decision marks a victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican leaders who advanced the mid-decade redistricting effort following a US Supreme Court ruling involving Louisiana’s congressional map.
DeSantis signed the revised map into law in May after the nation’s highest court ruled that Louisiana’s congressional plan, which included an additional majority-Black district, violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
The new Florida map could strengthen Republicans’ position in the state’s congressional delegation.
Republicans currently hold a 20-8 advantage in Florida’s US House seats, and the revised districts could potentially expand that margin to as much as 24-4.
The legal challenge was brought by several Democratic groups that sued the state shortly after the map was enacted.
A Florida judge previously rejected efforts to stop the map from taking effect.
On Wednesday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld that decision in a 6-1 ruling, according to The Hill, refusing a request for a temporary injunction against the new districts.
The ruling means the map will remain in place while other legal challenges continue.
Opponents of the map wanted the court to require Florida election officials to continue using the congressional districts from the previous election cycle during the state’s August primaries.
The court declined that request.
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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:20:00 +0000 Fed Up With Food Delivery App Fees & Tips? Barclays Has Terrific News
Fed Up With Food Delivery App Fees & Tips? Barclays Has Terrific News
Whether consumers are ordering from Uber Eats or DoorDash, delivery costs before tips now average roughly $8 to $10 per order. Add in the tip, and the basic meal
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Fed Up With Food Delivery App Fees & Tips? Barclays Has Terrific News
Whether consumers are ordering from Uber Eats or DoorDash, delivery costs before tips now average roughly $8 to $10 per order. Add in the tip, and the basic meal for one at Chipotle, such as a burrito bowl, moves into unaffordable territory for many working-class folks. The result is that food delivery, once pitched as a mass-market convenience, is increasingly looking like a discretionary luxury.
Barclays internet equity analyst Ross Sandler penned a note on Wednesday titled "Autonomous Food Delivery Likely Hits Critical Mass By 2030," covering how automation in last-mile delivery could push delivery costs down to as little as $1 per order.
"The promise of autonomous food delivery is still a few years out, but showing very positive signals in markets that have been quick to embrace it. AVs should reduce the cost of delivery for both marketplaces (currently $8-$10 per order) and for consumers (tipping, $5 per order) down to as low as $1 per order," Sandler wrote in the note.
He continued, "As witnessed already in select APAC geos with low delivery costs, when this kind of improvement happens to the cost curve, consumer adoption should go through the roof. China's online food delivery penetration is 40% of orders in tier one cities, well ahead of the US, with cost being the biggest delta.
"UBER and DASH have a number of strategies in place in both SDR (sidewalk delivery robotics) and drones, but claim that these efforts are not likely to hit a material percentage of orders until 2030 and beyond."
The analyst sees "sidewalk delivery robots as the nearer-term opportunity. Current costs are around $5 to $7 per drop, but could fall toward $1 over time as utilization improves. Drones offer faster delivery and a larger "wow" factor, but regulatory hurdles, battery limitations and airspace approvals make the path more complicated."
Automated last-mile food delivery will certaintly improve the economics, and the added benefit is no tip.
Once delivery costs plummet, likely by the end of the decade, improved affordability should drive more people to order restaurant meals at home.
All of this is welcome news from Sandler's team at Barclays, but delivery costs are unlikely to decline meaningfully until automation is added to the last-mile process. Even then, the path to $1 delivery fees with no tip won't be frictionless. Local politicians and regulators could slow the adoption of automation with policies because voters will revolt over job displacement. Still, the benefit is obvious: cheaper delivery and no tip required, something almost everyone can agree on.
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