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Fri, 08 May 2026 04:08:17 +0000 BlackRock Private Credit Fund Cuts Asset Values By 5%, As Golub Gates After 8.5% Redemptions
BlackRock Private Credit Fund Cuts Asset Values By 5%, As Golub Gates After 8.5% Redemptions
Just another day in private credit paradise... er, hell.
One day after Gundlach repeated his warning that the private credit crisi
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BlackRock Private Credit Fund Cuts Asset Values By 5%, As Golub Gates After 8.5% Redemptions
Just another day in private credit paradise... er, hell.
One day after Gundlach repeated his warning that the private credit crisis will end in tears for bagholders, Blackrock cut the value of its publicly-traded private credit fund by about 5%, as it - like most of its peers - struggled under the weight of troubled loans, markdowns and lower returns.
BlackRock TCP Capital Corp., a publicly traded middle-market lending fund, said markdowns totaled $35 million in the quarter ended March 31, according to a statement on Thursday. Amusingly, and in hopes of redirecting attention, the $1.5 billion fund highlighted “improving credit quality,” and said it invested more in senior debt and strengthened its balance sheet. The fund said its dividend, which was cut to 17 cents a share last quarter, would remain flat.
The fund has been a challenge for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with about $14 trillion in assets, which is expanding aggressively into private credit. BlackRock acquired specialist manager HPS Investment Partners last year for about $12 billion, aiming to significantly expand its existing capabilities and legacy funds, including TCPC.
The TCPC fund said in January that it cut the net asset value of its assets by 19%, which sent shares tumbling. The fund has struggled in part due to exposure to e-commerce aggregators - companies that buy and manage Amazon.com Inc. sellers - as well as troubled home improvement company Renovo Home Partners, which filed for bankruptcy. Back in March, we reported that Blackrock slashed the value of one of its private loans from par to 0 in just months, Infinite Commerce Holdings, sparking a selloff in the shares as the market was stunned by how quickly a loan from the world's most iconic asset manager can go from par to 0 in just days.
“While we have made meaningful progress, we recognize there is more work to do and we remain focused on disciplined execution,” Chief Executive Officer Phil Tseng said on a call with analysts.
Loans on non-accrual status - typically meaning borrowers have missed their debt payments - declined to 7.6% on a cost basis, compared with 9.7% in the prior quarter. That's because one of its portfolio loans was sold, and two were restructured. Investments in 13 portfolio companies were on non-accrual status.
Tseng said the largest driver of the markdowns was an investment in Job and Talent, a staffing and recruitment company that suffered from weak performance in the quarter. Almost a third of the markdowns came from software-related investments, he said.
Lenders in the $1.8 trillion private credit market have been under scrutiny as advancements in artificial intelligence threaten to upend their bets on software, an industry that makes up a significant portion of lenders’ portfolios.
Elsewhere, the last big private credit fund we were waiting to report its redemption gates, did just that: Golub Capital announced it was capping withdrawals from its private credit fund after investors sought to pull 8.5% of shares, the latest instance of a money manager restricting outflows amid a wave of redemption requests.
Golub Capital Private Credit Fund, or GCRED, plans to enforce the quarterly withdrawal limit of 5% of common shares outstanding, according to a letter to shareholders on Thursday. The roughly $9.9 billion fund intends to fulfill repurchase requests for 8,891,200 shares.
The credit manager told investors that the redemption requests “were concentrated in a small subset representing approximately 5% of GCRED’s more than 12,000 shareholders.” Golub also cited roughly 14 million in new share subscriptions this year through the end of April.
GCRED has a liquidity cushion of approximately $4.1 billion and its portfolio consists of nearly $10 billion in total investments at fair value, the firm said. As of the end of the first quarter, less than 0.1% of GCRED’s investment portfolio was on non-accrual status.
None of that mattered in the, and Golub has now joined every single one of its BDC peers in gating its investors. The silver lining, unlike such disasters as the two big Blue Owl BDCs (OTIC and OCIC), which saw investors try to pull 41% and 22% of their capital respectively - and were obviously gated - Golub's tally was only 8.5%, which in this age where double digit redemptions requests are the normal, is downright respectable.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 03:31:54 +0000 Court Strikes Down Trump's Replacement Tariffs; A Minor, Temporary Setback, With Sec 301 Tariffs Coming
Court Strikes Down Trump's Replacement Tariffs; A Minor, Temporary Setback, With Sec 301 Tariffs Coming
After the close on Thursday, the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled to invalidate Trump's latest set of universal 10% tari
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Court Strikes Down Trump's Replacement Tariffs; A Minor, Temporary Setback, With Sec 301 Tariffs Coming
After the close on Thursday, the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled to invalidate Trump's latest set of universal 10% tariff imposed two months ago under Sec. 122. The administration will quickly appeal this decision before it takes effect May 12. If the case follows the same pattern as the challenge to the IEEPA tariffs last year, a higher court might soon stay this ruling and leave the tariffs in place pending a longer review.
As the tariffs are due to expire July 24, even if the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) eventually rules against these tariffs, there is a good chance a full judicial review will take long enough that the tariffs will remain in effect until the administration replaces them with new tariffs under Sec. 301 (unfair trade practices) and Sec. 232 (national security).
As a reminder, Section 122 tariffs were always a stopgap: by statute, they can only be in place for 150 days, so they’ll expire on July 24, 2026. Investigations by the US Trade Representative under Section 301 are widely expected to wrap up before then, clearing the way for permanent replacement tariffs.
That said, if the ruling survives appeal, the government will likely have to refund unlawfully collected duties, adding to the nearly $170 billion already owed as a result of the Feb. 20 decision.
Key Points:
1. The CIT ruling was a split decision, with two Democratic-appointed judges granting summary judgment against the administration’s position and one Republican-appointed judge dissenting, favoring a full review of the case instead. This is in contrast to the CIT’s earlier ruling last year, in which a panel of one Democratic- and two Republican-appointed judges unanimously granted summary judgment against the IEEPA tariffs.
2. The CIT ruling gives the administration 5 days to rescind the tariffs, and requires that importers be paid refunds plus interest. We expect the administration to immediately appeal the ruling to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), as it did following the CIT’s IEEPA ruling. In that instance, the CAFC stayed the CIT ruling within a day, leaving the tariffs in effect, and then took 3 months to rule on the case. That ruling was then appealed to SCOTUS, which took another 6 months to rule. As the Sec. 122 tariffs expire July 24 and cannot be extended without an act of Congress, an eventual SCOTUS ruling against these tariffs looks unlikely to come before expiration. That said, if courts ultimately rule against the use of Sec. 122 to impose these tariffs after they have expired, importers could collect refunds beyond IEEPA refunds they will start to receive in coming days.
3. The Sec. 122 tariffs are worth slightly more than 4% on the effective tariff rate (this is lower than the 10% headline rate due to exemptions for products and most imports from Canada and Mexico), and account for slightly less than half of the new tariffs since the start of 2025 that remain in effect. They are likely generating customs duty collections of around $11-12bn per month (not annualized), or around $55-60bn total if they remain in effect for the full 5 months.
4. Regardless of how courts ultimately decide this case, the ruling should have no bearing on the administration’s longer-term ability to impose tariffs under Sec. 232 (national security) or Sec. 301 (unfair trade practices), which the White House has signaled will replace the Sec. 122 tariffs. The authority to impose tariffs under those laws is well-tested, unlike the IEEPA and Sec. 122 tariffs, and customs duties have been collected continuously under both authorities since the first Trump administration.
5. The US Trade Representative is currently conducting investigations under the Section 301 trade enforcement authority. These investigations are widely seen as setting the stage for permanent replacement levies that will largely replicate the tariff rates in place before the Feb. 20 court ruling.
6. The court limited relief to three plaintiffs representing a small fraction of total US imports. Other importers may now bring suit, but we expect the administration to quickly appeal and seek a stay of the ruling. The split decision invalidating the tariffs is relatively narrow.
If the ruling stands, relief is limited to the importers who brought suit — two private firms and Washington State. The court dismissed claims from other non-importer parties for lack of standing. Additional importers could — and likely will — seek relief with their own lawsuits.
The court also sidestepped the broader question of whether the US currently faces a “fundamental international payments problem”, the authorized purpose of Section 122. Instead, it found the administration’s stated justification — trade and current account deficits — was not an appropriate stand-in.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/07/2026 - 23:31 Close
Fri, 08 May 2026 03:25:00 +0000 When Global Order Begins To Fracture
When Global Order Begins To Fracture
When Global Order Begins To Fracture
Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup blog,
There are moments in history when the world changes with noise — sirens, speeches, falling statues. And then there are moments when it changes so quietly that almost nobody realizes it is happening. We are living through the second kind. No formal announcement marked the transition. No historic summit collapsed on live television. No leader stepped forward to say: the old rules no longer apply .
And yet, somewhere between the war in Ukraine , the tightening strategic alignment between Russia and China , and the silent expiration of the New START in February 2026, the global system that kept great-power rivalry inside predictable boundaries began to dissolve. Not explode. Dissolve.
For decades, the world’s stability did not come from trust. It came from limits. From inspection regimes. From numbers written into treaties. From the strange comfort of knowing exactly how dangerous your adversary was allowed to be. Military planners in Moscow and Washington worked with ceilings. Diplomats worked with verification schedules. Leaders worked with red lines that had legal meaning. Those ceilings are now gone, and most of the public has not noticed because nothing dramatic happened the day they disappeared.
The Strategic Triangle That No Longer Moves
For years, American strategists believed the triangle between Washington, Moscow, and Beijing could be manipulated. If relations with one deteriorated, the other could be courted. It was the logic behind the Cold War opening to China and the repeated attempts to “reset” relations with Moscow. There was a quiet confidence that Russia, culturally tied to Europe and historically wary of China, would never fully lean toward Beijing.
That confidence now looks misplaced.
Today, the United States faces not two separate rivals but two powers whose interests increasingly overlap:
Both view American sanctions as a weapon of political coercion
Both seek to dilute U.S. influence in global institutions
Both advocate a “multipolar” order where Washington’s dominance fades
Both benefit from closer economic and strategic coordination
This is not a formal alliance, which paradoxically makes it more durable. It is not built on ideology or treaty obligations but on a shared reading of the world. Even a future change in leadership after Vladimir Putin may not reverse this direction. Years of sanctions, NATO expansion, and the war in Ukraine have reshaped Russian political psychology. The turn toward China is no longer tactical. It is structural.
The Day the Guardrails Disappeared
On February 5, 2026, New START expired. There was no emergency summit. No dramatic breakdown in negotiations. It simply ended.
For the first time since the early 1970s, there is no binding agreement limiting how many deployed strategic nuclear weapons the U.S. and Russia can field. Together, they hold the overwhelming majority of the world’s nuclear warheads. During the Cold War, even at moments of extreme tension, both sides maintained arms control agreements because they served a critical purpose: they made the enemy measurable. You could count warheads. You could inspect launchers. You could verify data.
Now, you cannot.
Russia suggested informally that both sides observe the old limits for another year to allow time for talks. Washington did not formally accept. No replacement treaty emerged. No urgent negotiations dominated the news cycle. The expiration passed like a date on a calendar, but inside defense ministries, the conversation shifted. Without legal ceilings, planners no longer ask what are we allowed to deploy? but what can we deploy? That is how arms races begin — quietly, through planning assumptions rather than political declarations.
A Pattern of Pressure in Unlikely Places
While most attention remains on Ukraine and nuclear policy, Moscow has been testing American reactions in places that rarely make front pages.
The Western Hemisphere
Near Venezuela , a U.S. Coast Guard seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker suspected of sanctions violations brought American and Russian forces into unusual proximity. Russian naval assets, reportedly including a submarine, were operating nearby. Moscow denounced the move as piracy. The incident did not escalate, but it revealed a willingness to challenge U.S. authority in its own neighborhood through presence and ambiguity rather than confrontation.
The High North
In the Arctic , melting ice is opening the Northern Sea Route into a viable trade corridor between Europe and Asia. Russia controls much of this passage and positions itself as its gatekeeper. China’s interest in what it calls a Polar Silk Road adds another layer of leverage for Moscow without a single shot being fired.
The Middle East
In crises involving Iran , Russia has condemned Western actions but avoided direct military involvement, constrained by the demands of the war in Ukraine. Even so, Moscow continues to present itself diplomatically as an alternative power center to Washington, choosing its moments carefully.
Multipolarity as a Strategic Weapon
In international forums, Moscow and Beijing repeat the same phrase: multipolar world . It sounds abstract and even reasonable, but strategically it signals a shift away from the system in which the United States could enforce rules through economic and institutional power. In a multipolar system, sanctions lose effectiveness, institutions become arenas of gridlock, and regional powers gain more freedom to challenge established norms without immediate consequences.
There is no secret pact binding Russia and China into a military bloc. But patterns are visible. China purchases discounted Russian energy. Russia benefits from China’s refusal to isolate it diplomatically. Joint exercises occur. Messaging aligns in international institutions. This is not conspiracy. It is convergence, and over time, convergence reshapes the balance of power as effectively as formal alliances.
A World Without Clear Edges
For American policymakers, the problem is new and uncomfortable. Deterring one nuclear peer was the central challenge of the Cold War. Deterring two, at the same time, is a strategic puzzle without historical precedent. How do you prepare for simultaneous crises in Europe and the Pacific? How do you distribute forces without weakening credibility in either theater?
The answers are unclear, and that uncertainty is itself destabilizing. What makes this period unsettling is not the presence of immediate crisis but the absence of clear boundaries. No arms control limits. No clean separation between economic and military rivalry. No reliable assumptions about how far competitors are willing to go.
Speak privately with diplomats or analysts, and you hear the same quiet phrase repeated: this feels different . Not louder. Different. The stabilizing mechanisms built over fifty years are eroding faster than new ones can replace them, and the world is drifting into a phase where miscalculation becomes more likely simply because the rules that once structured rivalry no longer exist.
The Geography of Escalation
What makes the current geopolitical shift so difficult to grasp is that its most consequential developments are not unfolding in spectacular acts of confrontation, but through a slow accumulation of pressure points that, taken together, redraw the strategic map of the world. The new contest for power is no longer concentrated in obvious flashpoints alone; it is spreading across trade routes, technological infrastructure, energy corridors, and regions once treated as peripheral to great-power rivalry.
Its defining characteristics are becoming increasingly clear:
Strategic competition is expanding into spaces once considered neutral , from Arctic maritime corridors and orbital infrastructure to undersea cables and semiconductor supply chains that now carry the weight of national security.
Economic interdependence is no longer viewed primarily as stabilizing , but increasingly as vulnerability — something states seek to weaponize, shield against, or strategically reduce.
Military deterrence is becoming more diffuse and unpredictable , shaped not only by nuclear arsenals, but by cyber capabilities, autonomous systems, and the ability to cripple critical infrastructure without firing a conventional shot.
Political fragmentation inside democracies has become an external strategic variable , as rivals increasingly calculate not only military strength, but institutional resilience, public fatigue, and the ability of societies to sustain prolonged competition.
This is what makes the moment historically unusual: the architecture of confrontation is becoming broader than war itself. Power is now projected through disruption, ambiguity, and exhaustion as much as through force, creating a landscape where crises may emerge not as singular explosions, but as overlapping pressures that slowly weaken the coherence of entire systems.
Where Stability Used to Live
For decades, global order depended on mechanisms that reduced uncertainty even when hostility remained intense. What held rivalry in check was not goodwill, but structure — the confidence that opponents understood thresholds, recognized consequences, and operated within a strategic grammar both sides could read. That grammar is now eroding, and with it disappears the predictability that once made dangerous competition manageable.
Several pillars have quietly weakened at once:
Arms-control architecture is fading faster than replacement frameworks can emerge , removing the legal and psychological ceilings that once constrained escalation.
Diplomatic channels remain open, but increasingly hollow , producing language of cooperation while substantive trust continues to deteriorate beneath the surface.
Alliance systems are strengthening militarily while becoming politically more complex , forcing governments to balance deterrence abroad with growing strain at home.
Strategic planning is increasingly dominated by worst-case assumptions , and once governments begin budgeting, deploying, and preparing around pessimistic scenarios, those scenarios begin shaping reality regardless of original intent.
This is how history often changes — not when one pillar falls, but when several begin cracking at once under accumulated weight.
The Century’s Harder Question
The central issue facing the world is no longer whether tension between major powers will define the coming decades; that much is already visible. The deeper question is what kind of competition is now being born, and whether political leadership is capable of understanding its scale before events begin dictating terms on their own.
What increasingly worries strategic analysts is a convergence of destabilizing trends:
Two nuclear peer competitors confronting Washington simultaneously , creating deterrence challenges without modern precedent.
A world economy fragmenting into competing technological and industrial blocs , where efficiency is sacrificed for resilience and security.
Critical infrastructure becoming a battlefield , from ports and power grids to satellite systems and digital finance architecture.
A widening gap between strategic reality and public perception , with governments quietly preparing for long-term confrontation while much of society still assumes the turbulence is temporary.
That disconnect may prove more dangerous than any single military crisis, because nations are often least prepared for transformation when they mistake structural change for passing instability. By the time reality becomes obvious, the balance of power has usually already shifted.
The Illusion of Distance
One of the most persistent misconceptions in periods of strategic transition is the belief that major geopolitical change remains distant until it becomes visible through unmistakable crisis. That assumption is comforting, but history rarely moves according to the emotional timelines societies prefer. By the time structural change becomes obvious to the public, it has usually been unfolding for years beneath the surface — inside defense budgets, industrial policy, intelligence assessments, shipping patterns, alliance planning, and the quiet recalibration of what states believe they may soon be forced to do. What appears sudden is often only the first moment ordinary people notice what governments have already spent years preparing for.
Several developments suggest that this deeper transition is no longer theoretical:
Military-industrial production is being reconsidered as a strategic necessity rather than an economic burden , with governments increasingly prioritizing ammunition stockpiles, shipbuilding capacity, rare-earth access, semiconductor sovereignty, and resilient supply chains that can withstand prolonged confrontation.
Energy has fully returned as an instrument of power , no longer merely a commodity traded on markets but a geopolitical lever capable of rewarding alignment, punishing dependence, and reshaping regional influence through pipelines, shipping routes, and long-term infrastructure partnerships.
Technology is being absorbed into national-security doctrine at unprecedented speed , turning artificial intelligence, quantum computing, satellite networks, cyber offense, and digital infrastructure into strategic assets whose control may define power as decisively as oil fields or naval fleets once did.
Neutral space is shrinking , as regions and states once able to balance relations between competing blocs increasingly face pressure to choose economic, technological, and strategic alignment in a world becoming less tolerant of ambiguity.
The cumulative effect is profound: global competition is no longer being organized around isolated disputes, but around a broader contest over who will shape the operating rules of the twenty-first century. That makes nearly every crisis larger than it first appears, because behind each confrontation sits a wider struggle over influence, leverage, and strategic endurance.
The Pressure That Does Not Break — Until It Does
What makes this era particularly dangerous is that it is not defined by one overwhelming shock, but by the gradual layering of tensions that, individually manageable, collectively create systemic strain. International order does not always fail because of catastrophic singular events; often it weakens because too many pressures build simultaneously until institutions lose the capacity to absorb them. That is the pattern increasingly visible today.
Among the most destabilizing pressures now converging are:
Persistent military confrontation in Europe , where the war in Ukraine has transformed from regional conflict into a long-term strategic contest reshaping NATO posture, Russian doctrine, European defense spending, and the broader military balance on the continent.
Rising strategic friction in the Indo-Pacific , where Taiwan, the South China Sea, maritime chokepoints, and expanding naval competition increasingly place the world’s economic center of gravity inside an active security dilemma.
Intensifying competition over critical resources , including rare earth minerals, industrial metals, advanced chips, and logistical infrastructure that underpin both civilian economies and modern military capability.
Growing vulnerability of interconnected systems , where attacks on communications networks, financial systems, power grids, satellite constellations, or maritime infrastructure could generate cascading disruption without a single formal declaration of war.
This is what gives the current moment its unusual gravity: escalation no longer needs to be deliberate to become real. It can emerge through overlap, accident, misreading, or exhaustion. A cyber disruption during a regional military standoff, an industrial blockade disguised as regulation, a maritime collision in contested waters, a sanctions spiral that unexpectedly fractures global markets — these are no longer improbable scenarios imagined in think-tank exercises. They are increasingly plausible outcomes in a world where strategic friction exists across too many domains at once.
The Cost of Misreading the Moment
Perhaps the greatest strategic danger is not aggression itself, but complacency — the tendency of societies, markets, and political systems to interpret structural instability as temporary turbulence rather than historic transition. The modern world is deeply conditioned to believe that shocks are disruptions to normality, after which normality returns. Yet some periods are not interruptions; they are turning points, moments when the previous equilibrium quietly expires and a harder reality begins taking shape.
The signs of that transition are already visible:
Governments are preparing for resilience rather than efficiency , favoring redundancy, domestic production, and strategic reserves over the economic logic that dominated globalization’s peak decades.
Defense planning horizons are expanding , with states investing not for immediate conflict alone, but for prolonged competition measured in decades rather than election cycles.
Strategic alliances are being reinforced not simply for deterrence, but for endurance , reflecting growing recognition that the defining challenge ahead may be sustained geopolitical pressure rather than singular confrontation.
Public awareness remains significantly behind elite strategic assessment , creating a dangerous disconnect between the scale of transformation underway and the political urgency with which societies respond to it.
History is often shaped not by the crises leaders expect, but by the ones they underestimate because the early warning signs appear too gradual to command attention. That is what makes this moment so consequential. The old order is not collapsing in spectacle, but in slow motion — treaty by treaty, assumption by assumption, safeguard by safeguard — while a more unstable world quietly assembles itself in its place, piece by piece, beneath the comforting appearance of continuity.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Pastor: U.S. Intel Warned Christian Leaders That Trump's "Alien Files" Release Could Shatter Beliefs
Pastor: U.S. Intel Warned Christian Leaders That Trump's "Alien Files" Release Could Shatter Beliefs
Zero-Point energy? Hologram theory? Consciousness is actually remote controlling our bodies via quantum microtubules in our squishy
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Pastor: U.S. Intel Warned Christian Leaders That Trump's "Alien Files" Release Could Shatter Beliefs
Zero-Point energy? Hologram theory? Consciousness is actually remote controlling our bodies via quantum microtubules in our squishy brains? How about all those dead scientists ? Whatever reality is , the steady drumbeat of UFO 'disclosures' now apparently includes religious leaders , who are being 'read in' on some plan for a 2027 disclosure. Maybe project Blue Beam is ready for prime time...
Perry Stone, an influential pastor and author based in Tennessee, claimed that U.S. intelligence officials told Christian leaders to brace their congregations for the federal government’s imminent disclosures regarding extraterrestrial beings, warning that the shocking findings could shake the foundation of their faith.
In a recent video, Stone alleged that the pastors were briefed on unidentified flying objects and so-called “reptilians” in the possession of the government. The claim follows President Trump’s order directing the Pentagon and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to release all information the government possesses on aliens.
"You're going to have people who are going to say if there are galaxies and there are allegedly other creations in the galaxies, then the whole creation story is a myth , and you're going to have people that's going to apostatize and turn from the Christian faith because they have no answer for what they're about to hear,’ Stone said.
Stone added that non-believers could be so shaken by the findings that religious leaders will see a flood of people coming to them seeking answers.
"They're going to freak out and they're going to come to pastors, ministers, and teachers and say, 'What is this? Is this really real?”’ he said.
Then there's this guy:
Despite Trump’s order to release files on aliens, some of the highest-ranking government officials remain skeptics.
Vice President JD Vance told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson in March that the most likely explanation for aliens is that they are actually “demons.”
"When I hear about extra natural phenomenon, that’s where I go: The Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also evil out there," Vance said. "I think that one of the devil’s great is to convince people that he never existed.”
Still, some in Congress appear to disagree Vance's dismissed stance towards UFOs, including Rep. Tim Burchet (R-TN)
"I've been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is ,” Burchet told Newsmax. And, I'll just say this, if they were to release the things that I've seen, you'd be up at night, worrying about, thinking about this stuff.”
VIDEO
"This country would've come unglued, I think, if they [the public] would've heard all that I heard. They would demand answers,” the lawmaker added.
And just in case all of this is true - here's stoned Alex Jones going off...
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Fri, 08 May 2026 02:35:00 +0000 Saudi Arabia's $1Tn Wealth Fund Opens Shanghai Office As China Ties Deepen
Saudi Arabia's $1Tn Wealth Fund Opens Shanghai Office As China Ties Deepen
Saudi Arabia's $1Tn Wealth Fund Opens Shanghai Office As China Ties Deepen
Via The Cradle
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) opened a second office in mainland China earlier this year, establishing a Shanghai branch to expand dealmaking and attract more Chinese investment into the kingdom , Bloomberg reports .
The office was registered last year, falls under PIF’s Beijing branch, and is led by Lily Cong, a former chief representative of Fidelity International in China’s capital.
Source: Britannica
The Shanghai outpost was reportedly created to strengthen the $1 trillion fund’s ability to pursue outbound deals in China, while officials are also seeking to bring more Chinese companies into Saudi Arabia .
This move strengthens Riyadh’s investment relationship with Beijing, while the US continues to be a major market for the kingdom. The Shanghai office expands PIF’s global presence, which already features offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
Saudi Arabia and China already maintain strategic and financial links across sectors, including energy and finance, while other Gulf wealth funds are also looking to expand their exposure to China.
Abu Dhabi is also considering placing Chinese assets held by two of its wealth funds into a new entity, according to earlier reports, a move that could pave the way for a broader shift in its investment strategy .
The Gulf investment push comes amid major shifts in West Asian markets following the US war on Iran, triggering regional disruptions that have put pressure on Gulf economies and accelerated moves away from dollar-dominated energy trade.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Gulf states have deepened yuan-based financial links with China, while disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz have further exposed the fragility of the “petrodollar order ”.
According to a report by Fortune , Riyadh did not formally renew its 2024 commitment to price oil exclusively in US dollars, a year after signing a $7 billion currency swap agreement with Beijing.
The Saudi central bank is also a key participant in the mBridge digital payment platform, which enables direct currency exchanges via blockchain technology.
Economists cited by Fortune say the shift reflects China's growing weight in Saudi trade, as Beijing has displaced the US as the kingdom’s largest oil customer.
"The economic gravity pointed toward yuan while the currency arrangement pointed toward dollars," EBC Financial Group analyst Michael Harris wrote.
Saudi Arabia still conducts most deals in US dollars, but expanding financial ties with Beijing signal a broader effort to diversify trade and investment channels as China positions the yuan as a possible alternative in global energy markets.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 01:45:00 +0000 Chief Justice Roberts Says US Supreme Court Is Not Political
Chief Justice Roberts Says US Supreme Court Is Not Political
Chief Justice Roberts Says US Supreme Court Is Not Political
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
Chief Justice John Roberts said on May 6 that U.S. Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.”
Roberts’s comments came at a conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania, attended by judges and attorneys from the jurisdictions covered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. That circuit encompasses Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Although some of the high court’s decisions may be unpopular, they are based exclusively on the law, he said at the gathering.
“I think, at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy decisions, we’re saying we think this is how things should be, as opposed to what the law provides,” said the jurist, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005.
“I think they view us as purely political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do.”
Roberts’s speech came at a time when public confidence in the Supreme Court is at a low ebb, and a week after the court issued a ruling that changed how the federal Voting Rights Act is interpreted.
Roberts was part of the court’s majority on April 29 when it ruled 6–3 in Louisiana v. Callais that race may only be a minor factor in redistricting rationales, and may not be the predominant, overriding reason for how congressional district lines are drawn.
The justices struck down a federal district judge’s decision that created a second black-majority congressional district in Louisiana. The judge had ruled the electoral district was needed to comply with anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
The ruling has spurred a new round of mid-decade redistricting efforts, largely in Republican-dominated state legislatures around the country.
In the past few years, the Supreme Court has also issued rulings striking down the constitutional right to abortion, strengthening gun rights, weakening the powers of federal agencies, and getting rid of affirmative action in higher education admissions.
Roberts avoided mentioning any specific rulings in his presentation, but stressed that the court is “simply not part of the political process.”
He said the court’s formal, written opinions are based on the Constitution.
“One thing we have to do is make decisions that are unpopular,” Roberts said.
The chief justice said criticism should be aimed at rulings, instead of individuals in the form of personal attacks.
He denounced the rhetorical targeting of lower court judges.
“That’s not appropriate, and it can lead to very serious problems,” Roberts said.
Weeks ago, Roberts said that personal criticism of federal judges imperils the judiciary.
Although criticism of judicial opinions “comes with the territory” and can be healthy, “personally directed hostility is dangerous and it’s got to stop,” he told an audience at Rice University in Houston, Texas, on March 17.
As the chief justice of the United States, Roberts presides over Supreme Court oral arguments and oversees the entire federal judiciary.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 01:20:00 +0000 Uber Says AI Is Writing More Code and Slowing Hiring Growth
Uber Says AI Is Writing More Code and Slowing Hiring Growth
Uber Technologies, Inc. is expanding its use of AI tools and using some of those efficiency gains to slow the pace of hiring, according to Read more.....
Uber Says AI Is Writing More Code and Slowing Hiring Growth
Uber Technologies, Inc. is expanding its use of AI tools and using some of those efficiency gains to slow the pace of hiring, according to Business Insider .
Speaking on the company’s first quarter earnings call, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said autonomous coding agents now account for about 10% of Uber’s code updates. Engineers still review that output before it is committed to internal repositories, but he said the shift offers an early glimpse of how AI can accelerate software development.
Business Insider writes that Uber has long relied on machine learning for customer facing functions such as setting ride prices and pairing drivers with riders. Now the company is rolling out similar tools across internal teams. “We’re seeing uptake of these tools, whether it’s our legal team or marketing team or developers,” Khosrowshahi said. “We think it’s creating kind of employees with superpowers.”
That broader adoption is influencing hiring plans. CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said executives did not fully anticipate how quickly AI tools would improve productivity when they mapped out their 2026 budget.
He said on the call, per Goldman: “One last comment on AI. I would say, candidly, when we set up budgets for 2026 in November, we underestimated the amount of impact the AI tools could have,” he said. After a new wave of models arrived in December, Uber “re-upped our investment here,” while also reducing “incremental headcount growth.”
The spending ramp has been significant. Last month, CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said Uber had already used its entire 2026 budget for Anthropic’s Claude Code, underscoring how quickly demand for AI tools is growing inside the company.
Khosrowshahi said the strategy makes sense if those tools continue improving employee output. “If every person at this company can increase their throughput by 20%, 30%, 50%, 100%, then I think metering headcount growth and leaning in on AI investment is going to be well worth it,” he said.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 00:55:00 +0000 California Insurance Regulators Say State Farm Mishandled Wildfire Claims
California Insurance Regulators Say State Farm Mishandled Wildfire Claims
California Insurance Regulators Say State Farm Mishandled Wildfire Claims
Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times,
The California Department of Insurance announced on May 4 it filed an enforcement action against State Farm, alleging the company significantly mishandled claims from survivors of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
“Wildfire survivors came to us for help, and we followed the facts,” Insurance Department Commissioner Ricardo Lara said.
“Our investigation found that State Farm delayed, underpaid, and buried policyholders in red tape at the worst moment of their lives. That is unacceptable, and we are taking decisive action to hold them accountable.”
The Palisades Fire and the nearby Eaton Fire, which ignited in Altadena, California, on Jan. 7, 2025, claimed around 30 lives and destroyed more than 12,000 structures.
The Insurance Department said that State Farm received approximately 11,300 of the nearly 39,000 claims related to the Los Angeles wildfires filed across all insurers, and that Lara launched an investigation into the insurance company in June 2025 after the department heard many complaints.
According to the department, it examined 220 of the claims filed with State Farm and found a total of 398 violations in 114 of those claims.
These violations consisted of “slow and inadequate investigation” through failing to meet deadlines in investigating claims, accepting or denying claims, and providing notice for additional time.
The Insurance Department also alleged that State Farm made unreasonably low settlement offers and underpaid claims.
This enforcement action seeks millions of dollars in penalties, which the department said is the largest amount pursued this century relating to a wildfire disaster.
The department also wants State Farm to speed up payments and settle outstanding claims.
The property lines of homes burned during the Palisades Fire are visible in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
State Farm denied any mishandling or intentional underpaying of wildfire claims and said the violations the Insurance Department identified require only about $40,000 in additional payments beyond the more than $5.7 billion it has paid to those affected by the fires.
“California’s homeowners insurance market is the most dysfunctional in the country ... the state is facing an availability and affordability crisis, and the California Department of Insurance should take responsibility for regulatory delays and uncertainty that have contributed to fewer choices and higher costs for consumers,” the company said in its statement.
State Farm said it strongly disagrees with the department’s characterization of the company, and that any prospect or threat to suspend its licensing over “primarily administrative and procedural errors” is a reckless and politically motivated attack.
“Using a thin sample of claims to justify sweeping allegations turns regulatory oversight into a political weapon, creating headlines instead of delivering facts and real consumer protection. [The department’s examination] was based on a sample of 220 files, and most of the issues cited were administrative or process-related,” State Farm said.
The insurance company said every issue identified has already been, or is being addressed through claim reviews, and that it will provide supplemental payments when appropriate.
The same day, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement warning insurance companies they may be subject to state enforcement actions if they unlawfully delay or deny claims from survivors of the Los Angeles fires.
In November 2025, Los Angeles County launched its own investigation into State Farm’s handling of insurance claims.
“The County has heard loud and clear from wildfire survivors that State Farm’s delays are standing in the way of rebuilding. Fair and timely insurance payments aren’t a privilege; they’re a right,” Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Kathryn Barger said.
On March 31, President Donald Trump also weighed in on the situation, saying State Farm and other insurers should “get their act together” after meeting with California politicians and hearing about the difficulties the wildfire victims faced in their insurance claims.
“It was brought to my attention that the Insurance Companies, in particular, State Farm, have been absolutely horrible to people that have been paying them large premiums for years, only to find that when tragedy struck, these horrendous Companies were not there to help!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 00:30:00 +0000 Hochul Targets NYC's Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes In $268 Billion Budget Framework
Hochul Targets NYC's Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes In $268 Billion Budget Framework
New York is taking direct aim at the city’s ultra-wealthy absentee owners. In a major policy shift announced Thursday, Governor
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Hochul Targets NYC's Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes In $268 Billion Budget Framework
New York is taking direct aim at the city’s ultra-wealthy absentee owners. In a major policy shift announced Thursday, Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders reached a framework agreement on a $268 billion state budget that includes a new annual tax on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City - a move designed to generate roughly $500 million a year to help close the city’s projected $5.4 billion budget deficit.
The proposal, often called a “pied-à-terre” tax (French for “foot on the ground”), would apply to luxury properties valued at $5 million or more that are owned by people whose primary residence is outside New York City . These high-end apartments and townhouses - frequently used only a few weeks a year by global elites, celebrities, and finance executives - have long been criticized as under-taxed symbols of inequality in one of the world’s most expensive housing markets.
“This is a tax on properties worth more than $5 million that are owned by people who do not reside in New York City - the super wealthy who can purchase properties and use them to store their wealth, ” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in support of the plan. “If you can afford a $5 million second home that sits empty most of the year, you can afford to contribute like every other New Yorker.”
Hochul’s Political Pivot
The tax represents a notable evolution for Governor Hochul. For years she resisted aggressive wealth taxes, warning they could drive businesses and high-net-worth residents out of the state. But after Zohran Mamdani - a 34-year-old democratic socialist and state assemblymember - won the New York City mayoral race in November 2025 in a stunning upset, the political math changed.
With Mamdani pushing an ambitious progressive agenda (including universal pre-K and 3-K) and with federal funding cuts looming under the Trump administration, Hochul agreed to the second-home surcharge as part of a broader budget deal. The revenue would flow directly to New York City, according to the NY Times .
Hochul framed the tax as both fiscally necessary and morally fair:
“If you can afford a multi-million dollar second home in New York City, you can afford to pay your fair share.”
Details Still Being Finalized
While the framework has been agreed to in principle, key specifics remain under negotiation. Hochul said she would release more details “soon,” including exact rates, exemptions, and how many of the roughly 13,000 eligible properties would actually be taxed. Legislative leaders cautioned that the governor’s announcement was premature.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Thursday that no final deal had been reached and that “there is no budget deal.” Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy described the agreement as covering only “big concepts.”
Carl Heastie, the Assembly speaker, cautioned that no deal had been finalized, calling the governor’s announcement premature.Credit...Cindy Schultz for The New York Times
Still, the direction is clear: New York is joining a growing number of jurisdictions (including parts of Europe and several U.S. cities) that are experimenting with higher taxes on non-primary residences to fund public services amid housing shortages and affordability crises.
The second-home tax is just one piece of a wide-ranging budget that also includes:
$4.5 billion to expand child care statewide - a key priority for Mayor Mamdani.
Delays to the state’s aggressive climate targets under the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (pushing full implementation to 2028 and adjusting methane calculations).
New restrictions on federal immigration enforcement , including barring ICE agents from wearing masks and limiting cooperation between local police and federal agents.
A cap on certain auto insurance payouts and speed-limiting devices for chronic “super-speeders” in New York City school zones.
A state-level exemption on up to $25,000 in tips for many workers (mirroring federal changes) and $1 billion in utility bill rebates.
Political and Economic Stakes
Republicans immediately attacked the package. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman , Hochul’s likely Republican opponent in November’s gubernatorial race, called the budget a “triple threat to your wallet: more taxes, record spending, and a utility bill crisis.”
Environmental groups criticized the climate deadline extensions as a retreat, while trial lawyers and consumer advocates expressed concern that auto insurance changes could limit compensation for crash victims.
For Hochul - who is seeking re-election - the deal allows her to claim credit for delivering on affordability and child care while showing political flexibility in partnering with the city’s new progressive mayor. For Mamdani, it marks an early victory in his effort to make the ultra-wealthy “pay their fair share.”
The budget must still be finalized and passed by the Legislature. Details on the second-home tax rates and implementation are expected in the coming days.
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Fri, 08 May 2026 00:05:00 +0000 What To Know About Trump's Presidential Fitness Test Award Revival
What To Know About Trump's Presidential Fitness Test Award Revival
What To Know About Trump's Presidential Fitness Test Award Revival
Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times,
In the coming academic year, old-fashioned calisthenics, timed runs, and the spirit of competition could return to many public schools.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a proclamation restoring the Presidential Fitness Test Awards, which date to the mid-20th century but ended under President Barack Obama’s administration. The May 5 White House action is a follow-up to the July executive order re-establishing the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
This proclamation, which also recognizes May as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, affirms the nation’s commitment to fitness and competition ahead of America’s 250th birthday and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which the United States is cohosting with Canada and Mexico.
“Working alongside world-class professional athletes, major league organizations, teams, schools, and communities across our country, we are ushering in a new Golden Age of physical fitness—expanding access to wellness for every American, promoting the many benefits of exercise and good nutrition, supporting youth sports, and celebrating a culture of strength, vitality, and excellence,” the proclamation reads.
“I call upon public officials, sports educators, athletes, and all the people of the United States to get involved in sports and physical activity, especially our nation’s youth.”
Here’s what to know.
Push-Ups and Pull-Ups
The Presidential Fitness program, which benefits students ages 10 to 17, has changed over the years. It has existed since 1956, beginning with President Dwight Eisenhower, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website.
The test has timed runs to measure endurance, the sit-and-reach challenge to measure lower body flexibility, push-ups and pull-ups or curl-ups to measure upper body strength, and a timed shuttle run challenge that assesses quickness and agility as the participant sprints and pivots in different directions to pick up cones.
The benchmarks vary based on age and sex.
In the past, and with this re-implementation, high performers could be recognized by school district, state, and nationally.
The format of the program changed in recent years to emphasize participation and downplay the competitive aspect, but the test component remained in several states, including New York, for the purpose of assessing whether seventh- and eighth graders were fit enough to safely compete in high school sports.
The benchmarks, along with an image of a certificate of excellence signed by Trump that would be awarded to high performers, were recently posted on the White House website.
A 6-year-old girl, for example, could earn that certificate by remaining in a plank position for 71 seconds, performing two pull-ups or nine push-ups, and running one mile in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.
A 17-year-old boy would need to hold the plank position for 156 seconds, perform 13 pull-ups or 53 push-ups, and run one mile in six minutes and six seconds, according to the chart.
Competition Debate
Obama ended the fitness test in 2012, replacing the competitive elements with a national curriculum for health and the benefits of physical activity. He also called for the inclusion of disabled students and nutrition education and renamed the program the Presidential Youth Fitness Program.
Trump did not restore the test during his first term.
Biden also did not make any changes to Obama’s initiative. His only noted activity for the program was a “One Lacrosse Gathering Celebration” at the National Mall to recognize the Native American roots of lacrosse. Professional players provided a skills clinic to youth participants, who also learned about Native American culture and “indigenous foods and ingredients,” according to the Health and Human Services website.
The program had enjoyed significant growth through the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.
In 1985, President Ronald Regan initiated a data collection system to compare past results. Two decades later, President George W. Bush established the Fitness.gov website and launched the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award, which also recognized sports participation and the health benefits of physical activity.
“I think it’s very unfortunate that President Obama and President Biden abandoned it,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during the May 5 signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
“He said competition is not good for kids, which is not true. If we’re going to be competitive internationally, we need to be competitive with each other. We need to teach people how to win and how to lose, and how to process victory and defeat.”
Added Trump: “We’re bringing it back. My administration is working very hard to defend America’s cherished athletic traditions and pass our values of excellence and competitiveness to the next generation.”
Michigan State University researchers criticized Trump’s initiative, calling the fitness test “demoralizing for many.”
“Kids don’t want to be embarrassed or have negative memories," Spyridoula Vazou, an associate professor in MSU’s kinesiology department, said in a January report on the school’s website. “They don’t want to feel that they’re the worst.”
Obesity in Children
More than 21 percent of American youngsters ages 2 to 19 are obese, a nearly 500 percent increase since the 1970s. Severe obesity rates, meanwhile, have increased sevenfold in the past half century, with 7 percent of children now falling in that category, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An April 28 report from that agency indicated that only five states have mandated federal recommendations for 150 minutes of weekly physical education for students in grades K-5, and 37 states require less than 60 minutes per week.
As for fitness testing, 24 states have no requirements. Eleven states recommend it, but only three require fitness tests annually. Only 16 states require some district oversight for fitness testing, but most don’t provide any enforcement measures, according to the report.
“For the Presidential Fitness Test to provide a meaningful lever for youth public health promotion and surveillance, systematic state policy reform and resulting school-level physical education infrastructure changes are necessary,” the report concludes.
What’s Next
U.S. public schools begin the 2026–2027 academic year in August or September.
Trump’s proclamation and prior executive order on the fitness test strongly encourage state and district participation but stop short of mandating it.
Many states and school districts are still awaiting federal guidance on implementation. Still, some leaders embraced the concept and took their own initiative to bolster fitness in schools.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, for example, issued an Oct. 30 executive order re-establishing the Presidential Fitness Test in schools ahead of the 2026–2027 academic year.
“Students across the country are spending far too much time sitting around looking at screens and eating too much highly processed junk food,” Reeves said in a news release. “We know that obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and poor nutrition lead to more negative health outcomes.
“If we want more healthy adults in our society, it’s important that we encourage students to be physically active and educate them on healthy eating habits. Mississippi will do its part to build a healthier America.”
The Tennessee Legislature and Gov. Bill Lee ratified a similar law earlier this spring. It supplements previous legislation that increased recess time from 15 minutes to 40 minutes per day. More physical activity in schools is needed, lawmakers said, considering that about 40 percent of children in the Volunteer State are overweight.
“Tennessee is setting the standard by helping students become healthier and more successful,” said Rep. Scott Cepicky, a Republican.
“This proposal is a critical component of our continued efforts to improve academic outcomes by promoting active lifestyles and a balanced diet.”
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