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Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife Susan are donating $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for 25 million American children. "It's designed to help families feel supported from the start and encourage them to keep saving and investing as their children grow," Michael said. "We know that when children have accounts like this, they're much more likely to graduate from high school, from college, buy a home, start a business and less likely to be incarcerated." Their donation will be coordinated with a new federal government program that allows parents to open tax-advantaged investment accounts...

Donald Trump Jr. made some not so surprising allegations against Ukraine at the Doha Forum in December. Donald Trump, Jr. recently made some noise about the ongoing Ukrainian War with Russia. Earlier this month Don Jr. unloaded on Ukrainian aid, telling fitness trainer and author, Jillian Michaels, that when he went to Monaco with his girlfriend, half of the super cars he saw on the street had Ukrainian plates. Via Chief Nerd. 🚨 Don Jr Goes Off on the Ukraine War“I was actually in Monaco earlier this summer … and every other car there was an Italian supercar, like a...

Newsdump Alert: Israeli Attacks Continue In Gaza An Israeli quadcopter drone strike killed two... Newsdump Alert: Russian Drone And Missile Attacks In Eight Ukrainian Regions 653 drones and 51 missiles used in Russian attacks on Ukraine... "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" Isaiah 9:6 NIV Bible... During the week there is talk of peace it helps keep stock market prices up but then after the markets close on Friday... "You see...

President Emmanuel Macron in China for a three-day visit a friendly smile and handshake with President Xi Jinping. But underlying the talk of greater cooperation and 'rebalanced trade' between China and France Mr. Macron using the Ukraine War as a launch pad to demand... The drone drama being linked to Russia with various drone sightings over Europe came to France on Thursday evening. Five mini-drones spotted over a French naval base where nuclear missile submarine are based... The afternoon in Paris the "Historic Yellow Vests" gathering a live video stream...

Exchanges of fire between Afghan and Pakistani forces... US President Donald Trump's popularity 55 percent disapproval to 43 percent approval in... "We did talk about the Epstein Files and he was extremely angry at me...he said that it was going to hurt people"...Marjorie Taylor Greene... "The American Childhood Vaccine Schedule long required 72 'jabs', for perfectly healthy babies..."...President Trump tonight endorsing the decision of the CDC Vaccine Panel... The European Union fining social media platform "X"... Explosions reported in Kiev and other... The US Supreme Court will hear a legal challenge to President Trump's executive order... In Florida a federal...

Shortly after Christmas, the oldest baby boomer will turn 80. The 75 million people born between 1946 and 1964 who have dominated the American political imagination since the Eisenhower administration are starting to fade from the scene. Anyone who has felt oppressed by the baby boom – and this includes virtually every non-senior citizen in the country – will complain that it’s about frickin’ time. If the boomers are only now losing their influence, they long ago lost their marbles. What was the archetypal boomer moment of recent years? Probably Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. But maybe it was the...

Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino and the company's new Terms of Service sparks major concerns in the open source community over privacy and terms of service. What will happen to the Arduino open hardware and how does this effect Linux users? We'll do a dive in today. RIP Arduino & Open Hardware.. thanks to Qualcomm | 14:14 SavvyNik | 89.1K subscribers | 66,659 views | November 30, 2025 00:00 Arduino the Maker Board 01:03 Qualcomm's Aquistion of Arduino 03:21 Will Ardunio Remain Open? 04:34 Adafruit enters.. 07:45 Death of Arduino 08:28 Qualcomm's Reponse to backlash 13:27 My exp with Ardunio

Looks like CNN Democrat political commentator Bakari Sellers’ push of a leftist campaign to boycott businesses that supported President Trump in any way fell harder than Kamala’s poll numbers on Election Day. CNN NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip concluded her November 28 roundtable by questioning panelists on what they would “be willing to wait in line and risk the absolute chaos and madness” for? Sellers, acting like he was the wokest of the group, pivoted to promote a daffy campaign spearheaded by George Soros-backed activist and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown dubbed “We Ain’t Buying It” to punish any stores...

Sometimes leftist media outlets try to out-dumb themselves like it’s some sort of prestigious competition for who can churn out the most ignoramus hot take of the year. The Washington Post is definitely in the running for first place with its latest stupidity about inflation. Post reporter Julie Zauzmer Weil published a piece of propaganda with a headline that defied any modicum of common sense: “Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.” Her sub-headline was just as bad: “Though Americans might be clamoring for relief on groceries, housing and energy costs, economists say...

They were promised lucrative and stable careers if they “learned to code” and earned a degree in software engineering. Instead, many Americans in the tech industry have been left disillusioned as they face mass layoffs and chronic unemployment — a crisis they say stems from an addiction to cheap foreign labor pipelines that are made accessible through programs like H-1B, and are touted by companies as a way to hire the “best and brightest.” “At this point, I’m doing something else,” Jonathan, a cybersecurity professional who is leaving the industry entirely out of frustration, told the Daily Caller News Foundation....

For decades, people have fretted about the financial sustainability of America's bedrock retirement income program. Now, Social Security's precarious fiscal state is an issue for the here and now. * How to fix it is set to be a defining political fight of the next several years, with millions of Americans' benefits and the fiscal future of the United States at stake. Why it matters: There is a tug-of-war between the benefits future retirees receive and the taxes that working-age people pay. Something has to give, and surprisingly soon. The big picture: The Social Security retirement fund is set to...

A group of over 400 Minnesota Department of Human Services employees has turned the spotlight on Governor Tim Walz, charging that his administration turned a blind eye to rampant fraud draining the state’s coffers. In a blunt statement on X, the workers declared, “We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.” Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of...

After last week's shock speech from France's Chief of Staff speaking about France faltering if it is not willing to 'accept the loss of its children' President Emmanuel Macron appearing at a military base Thursday to announce phased-in military service for French youth... Political polling this week showing Jordan Bardella the man to beat in the April 2027 Presidential Election. The President of the National Rally (RN) and European Parliament member is the back-up candidate of the RN since the conviction of Marine Le Pen for misusing European Parliament funds disqualifies her from being a candidate for President. Bardella is...

The debate over expiring Obamacare subsidies has dominated national political discourse, but some experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Republicans could capitalize on growing momentum around price transparency to help lower healthcare costs for Americans. The record-setting government shutdown was driven by Democrats’ refusal to budge on the expiring Obamacare premium subsidies, which they passed in 2021 without GOP support and set to expire at the end of 2025. Republicans are still debating their healthcare proposal, including whether to back a limited extension of those subsidies. Even without a resolution on the subsidies in sight, some experts note...

"They will make great citizens over time"...Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina regarding Afghans... The US Immigration and Naturalization Service deciding to suspend all asylum decisions... US President Donald Trump with a message aimed at Honduras where voters select a new president... leaked news is that US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike...kill two crew members who survived... President Trump on social media this afternoon saying... An oil tanker heading towards southern Russia in the Black Sea exploded... Three Israel soliders detained for questioning...deaths of two Palestinian terror suspects... A recall of 6,000 European Airbus A320 airliners......

Chat, how cooked are we? October's Interest payment on US debt was a record $104.4 billion.This is how empires fall. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vOhQYdFDJC— Jesse Cohen (@JesseCohenInv) November 26, 2025That's $104.4 BILLION for a single month. My Q4 tax payment fighting financial apocalypse: In the very near and immediate future, our interest payments (that's the key word here) will be so large that they will even eclipse all military spending. The only item we'll be spending more on is Social Security, which only makes things even worse! At this pace FY26 interest payments alone will top $1 trillion — more than the...

A Texas activist who has become a leading critic of Chinese-linked energy technology urged Fannin County officials this week to immediately enjoin construction on a battery energy storage facility, citing a new investigation that the Texas Attorney General claims involves components tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Nancy White, president of the Legislative Energy Action Foundation, told The Dallas Express in an email interview that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s November 24 investigation into Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) raises direct implications for the ENGIE-owned battery facility under development near Savoy. Paxton claimed a press release that Texas “must not...

Los Angles Mayor Karen Bass recently did a little victory dance about the ‘first rebuild’ of a house in the Pacific Palisades after the wildfires. Hey, it has only been almost a year, right? There is one little problem with the house that Bass is celebrating, however. It was a developer project that was in the works before the fires even happened. That’s right, this house wasn’t even one of the average homes destroyed by fires and her incompetence. What a surprise. The New York Post reports: LA Mayor Karen Bass called out for ‘phony’ Palisades rebuild after devastating wildfire...

Allstate Insurance is running three TV ads that depict white males as psychos or fools. Meanwhile, everyone who isn't a white male is depicted in a favorable light. The good news is that there are a few ways to make sure Allstate takes a hit for such racism. I'll get to that in a minute. The three ads are: - "Check First Bark" (has a white male barking at his boss, contrasted with a well-behaved black male in the background): youtube.com/watch?v=YRSG3o749Ms - "Check First Jumbotron" (contrasts a white male *stealing candy from a kid* with a black male who stops...

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows had the audacity to dedicate segments to the weather without mentioning that the hurricane “stormpocalypse” the media prophesied would happen this year never materialized. ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News spent 609 seconds collectively sounding the alarm on a bevy of thunderstorms ripping through the U.S. just in time for the Thanksgiving Day festivities and complicating air travel. That's standard fare for the season. But the timing of this reporting was nothing short of incredible. Axios came out with a climate change narrative-wrecking report Sunday admitting that...