New drivers get lied to about $150k years while real first-year pay barely hits $60k after fuel and feesThe backbone of the economy is snapping one exhausted driver at a time.

Man they deregulated trucking calling it freedom then built a broker parasite class that eats the profit before the wheel even turns.

Keep grinding these men into the dirt with fake promises and the next empty shelf at Walmart will be the least of our problems when the real supply shock hits.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0jT_0sbmNU

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 Economists’ Greatest Fear Is Almost Here

  In my view, the deeper issue is not simply a disagreement between presidents, prime ministers or parties. It is a disagreement over sovereignty.

A growing number of European leaders appear far more comfortable with centralized authority – over borders, speech, energy policy and economic regulation – than many American citizens are willing to accept. That divide helps explain why U.S.-Europe tensions have become sharper than a normal diplomatic disagreement. European governments aren’t accustomed to a citizenry that stand up and resist infringements on their liberties.

Americans like me, who favor national sovereignty, border enforcement, domestic energy production and smaller government find ourselves sharply at odds with Europe’s governing consensus. That is a real philosophical as well as a political divide. But it is also an economic one – because the policies at stake affect energy supply, trade flows, fiscal pressure and long-term financial stability.

First, it’s important to outline how we got to this point so that we can better understand why the conflict is escalating so rapidly.

A transatlantic alliance under pressureOne of Europe’s most divisive debates since 2014 has been immigration. Progressive supporters argue that migration can help offset aging populations and labor shortages. Note the “can” in that statement – it’s not a certainty.

Conservative critics argue that the scale and speed of migration have strained public services – everything from housing to social programs, wages and schools. Although the left considers it “bad taste” to discuss the issue of national culture and identity, conservatives worry that mass immigration threatens their nation’s cultural identity. More practically, they ask whether immigration is a net economic benefit or not?

The economic question is legitimate and should be answerable: Has Europe’s immigration model strengthened its labor markets, or added pressure to already fragile welfare systems?

That is where the discussion belongs – not in slogans, but in measurable outcomes: Employment, productivity and economic gains vs. welfare costs, housing demand and the like.

Two arguments have been used repeatedly to justify Europe’s migration policies:

First, that wealthy Western nations have a moral obligation to absorb large numbers of migrants (because of historical colonialism).

Second, that immigration is economically necessary because Europe’s native-born populations are aging and its labor force is shrinking.

 (WE DON'T NEED THOSE IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE MANY OF THEM DO NOT WORK APART FROM ROBBERY AND BECAUSE AI AND ROBOTICS

WILL REPLACE UNSKILLED WORKERS.)

https://citizenwatchreport.com/economists-greatest-fear-is-almost-here/

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Grid Operator Floats Power Cutbacks for New Data Centers Amid Rising Electricity Demand

 PJM Interconnection, which oversees the transmission grid serving more than 67 million people across multiple states, warned that rapid growth in electricity consumption combined with generation retirements and development delays is creating mounting reliability concerns across its service territory.

In its “Powering Reliability Through Market Design” paper, PJM identified “unprecedented surge in demand driven by the rapid expansion of large-load data centers and broader economy-wide electrification” as a central factor contributing to grid pressure. The operator also cited “the accelerated retirement of dispatchable generation due to environmental policy and economics” along with supply chain bottlenecks and permitting delays that have slowed the deployment of new energy infrastructure.

 https://yournews.com/2026/05/10/6928100/grid-operator-floats-power-cutbacks-for-new-data-centers-amid/

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Muslim group's 'grand deal' with the Greens to 'redraw the political landscape of the UK' would 'divide up the country', report says

A growing 'Islamopopulist movement' has been plotting with Zack Polanski to 'redraw the political landscape of the UK' in an alliance of the far-Left and Muslim agitators.

The Greens' move to the hard Left under Mr Polanski has brought the party 'much closer to the Islamopopulist worldview', authors behind the report from think-tank Policy Exchange explained.

They added that campaign group The Muslim Vote (TMV) said it has a 'five-election plan spanning 25 years' which will see it exert 'real power' as 'kingmakers' in future contests.

 https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15806343/Muslim-group-grand-deal-Green-Party-report.html

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Spanish police fear Islamist terrorists are taking advantage of left-wing PM's decision to open the door to 500,000 migrants and creating fake identities

 Spanish police have warned that Islamist terrorists could exploit the government's mass migrant legalisation programme, as reports of lost passports and identity documents surge among applicants.

 https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15807205/Spanish-police-fear-Islamist-terrorists-taking-advantage-left-wing-PMs-decision-open-door-500-000-migrants-creating-fake-identities.html

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Stop Using Microsoft Edge Right Now? Password Security Issue Explained

 A security researcher recently discovered that Microsoft Edge stores saved passwords in computer memory in plain text.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn8FytznrZY

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France just broke their own digital ID system

 On april 15th, 2026, a french government agency called ANTS was breached. 18 million records were stolen and offered for sale on hacker forums. that's roughly one third of every adult in the country. on may 4th, french authorities announced they had detained the suspect: a 15-year-old. the 'secure' national identity infrastructure of a G7 country was broken into by a teenager. but this isn't a french story. france is one of the countries currently rolling out the EU Digital Identity Wallet, scheduled for full launch in 2027. the same government that couldn't keep its existing ID database away from a high schooler is the one being trusted to build the unified digital identity infrastructure for hundreds of millions of europeans. and the pattern is global: the UK, india, the US, every country pushing mandatory digital ID is using the same kind of infrastructure that just demonstrably faile

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1Vr5yymjg

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  These Are The World's Deadliest Countries For Journalists

At least 60 media professionals were killed in 2025 due to their journalistic activities, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) database.

As Statista's Valentine Fourreau detsils below, by far the deadliest place for journalists was in the Palestinian territories, where 25 deaths were officially recorded last year. Palestine also topped the list in 2024, with 21 recorded deaths that year.

You will find more infographics at Statista

Following some way behind are Mexico with nine deaths, Peru with four, Ecuador and Ukraine with three, as well as Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan with two.

A single journalist was also killed in each of the following countries: Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe.

Meanwhile, 140 journalists and media professionals were listed as “disappeared” last year, with the highest numbers recorded in Syria (37), Mexico (28) and Iraq (12).

Reporters Without Borders emphasizes that media professionals’ deaths are only listed in their database if the NGO can confirm it as being linked to their journalistic work.

This explains why these figures seem low and that they are subject to change as fact-checking is carried out.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/these-are-worlds-deadliest-countries-journalists

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Singapore Remains The World's Most Powerful Passport In 2026

 Your passport shapes how much of the world you can access. In 2026, the gap between the strongest and weakest passports spans nearly 170 destinations.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalists' Gabriel Cohen, ranks global passport strength using data from the Henley Passport Index, based on how many destinations citizens can enter without a visa.

 Singapore leads with access to 192 destinations. That’s nearly five times the access available to citizens of the lowest-ranked countries. Meanwhile, the weakest passports allow entry to fewer than 50 destinations. The disparity highlights how geography, diplomacy, and stability influence global mobility.

The Top Passports of Asia and EuropeFollowing Singapore, there is a three-way tie for the second-strongest passports, with Japan, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates each offering access to 187 destinations without a visa.

The UAE has the strongest passport outside of East or Southeast Asia, though with a notable caveat: Emiratis lack visa-free access to the United States, unlike their peers in Singapore, Japan, or South Korea.

  From there, Europeans hold many of the strongest passports by visa-free access, led by Northern and Western European countries like Norway and Switzerland (both 185).

While the 27-member European Union has a unified passport system, individual member countries still vary in visa-free access, ranging from 177 destinations for Bulgaria and Romania to 186 for Sweden.

Taking the average across this range, the EU’s overall passport strength stands at 183 visa-free destinations, tied with countries like Malaysia and the United Kingdom and slightly ahead of North American counterparts like Canada (182) and the United States (179).

The World’s Weakest PassportsAt the bottom of the ranking, mobility drops off dramatically. The weakest passports offer access to fewer than 50 destinations, less than a quarter of what top-ranked countries enjoy.

These countries often face political instability, high emigration, or recent conflict, which can limit access to many developed regions.

African countries like Nigeria (44), Somalia (32), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (43) also rank low. Fast-growing populations and large diasporas have contributed to tighter visa restrictions for these nationalities.

A Tale of Two PassportsTaken together, passport rankings reveal more than travel convenience—they map global inequality. Where you’re born can shape where you’re allowed to go, making passport power one of the clearest indicators of opportunity in a connected world.

African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian passports tend to rank lower than their European or Western Hemisphere counterparts. Even higher-ranking exceptions like Malaysia or the UAE can still face limits on visa-free access to major destinations, particularly the United States.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/singapore-remains-worlds-most-powerful-passport-2026

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More States Enact New Laws Curbing Teachers Unions

The Teacher Freedom Alliance says more than 272,000 teachers have opted out of union membership..

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/more-states-enact-new-laws-curbing-teachers-unions

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Meanwhile In Scotland...

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A trans Tamil immigrant on a temporary student visa has just been ELECTED as a Green Party MSP to Holyrood in Scotland – despite having no British citizenship, no permanent residency and no right to full-time work.

 Where else would this be allowed to happen? It’s insane.

The candidate, Dr Q Manivannan (they/them), arrived in the UK a few years ago as a PhD student and was selected for the Green list in Edinburgh and the Lothians East. Scotland’s rules – relaxed under the SNP – explicitly allow non-citizens to stand for election and take office.

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It's all a lie

Participation Trophies for Thugs? Exposing Chicago's "Teen Takeover" Nightmare

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 A school shooting you won't see on your evening news.