Weigh stations are the perfect chokepoint to catch illegal alien truckers.

 Submitted by American Truckers United,

We, the truckers who keep America moving, have had enough.

An analysis of crash data and English proficiency violations reveals that drivers from just a handful of states are largely responsible for the epidemic of illegal alien truck and bus drivers terrorizing our highways. These preventable tragedies must end now.

We are formally calling on President Donald J. Trump to immediately deploy ICE and CBP officers to commercial weigh stations across the entire country. No more half-measures. No more looking the other way. American families deserve safe roads.

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Some College Students Are Testing At The Level Of 10-Year-Olds

 Via Futurism,

Are you smarter than a 4th grader?

Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”

According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - a forum for 38 high-income, predominantly Western countries - a not insignificant number of adult students enrolled in higher education are now reading and doing math at a level which, in a more functional society, would be alarming for a middle schooler.

  The survey, first spotted by the Economist, tested around 160,000 people of all ages, across all 38 member states. It found that across all OECD member countries, a full 8 percent of college students are reading at the level of a ten-year-old, if not worse. While countries like Germany and France rang in at under 5 percent, countries like Poland, Israel, and the United States blew the curve at 21, 20, and 14 percent, respectively.

  The numbers aren’t much better when it comes to math.

Across OECD countries, 9 percent of college students do math at or below a ten-year-old level. In Italy, the US, and Slovakia, that figure jumps to over 15 percent — only outdone by Israel, where roughly 21 percent of college students were underachieving at the same low benchmark.

It seems there are numerous compounding explanations for these test results: pandemic-era learning gaps leading to lower levels of preparation, declining college enrollment forcing schools to lower admissions standards, and lower levels of public funding for education, to name a few.

The results also coincide with the explosion of large language models like ChatGPT, which by many accounts have carved out a new floor for academic failure in both K-12 and college-level education.

While there’s no denying how complicated the issue is, there is evidence that removing technology from classrooms altogether could offer an immediate boost.

In one classroom in Minneapolis, for example, a literature and English teacher banned phones and laptops, requiring all coursework to be done on pencil and paper.

As the school-year started in September, just 46 percent of the students involved said they felt confident about their reading skills. A few months later in February, that number stood at 95 percent.

Though it’s just one classroom, something is clearly off the rails in the education systems of the richest countries of the world — and the longer it goes unaddressed, the more students will be pushed into the world with the reading skills of 4th graders.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/some-college-students-are-testing-level-10-year-olds

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US oil reserve at 43 year low, Trump ends Iran ceasefire and oil spikes

  Buffer used to cushion war driven prices is nearly exhausted.

“BREAKING: The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve just hit its lowest level since 1983.

Crude oil stocks fell to 319.5 million barrels, down 6.2 million barrels in a single week.

And the timing could not be worse.

Every time oil prices spiked since the Iran war began in February, the US government quietly released oil from the reserve to keep fuel prices from exploding.

That strategy worked because the reserve had enough buffer to absorb the pressure.

 That buffer is now nearly gone.

Since the war started, the US has released so much oil that total inventories have fallen by 120.71 million barrels to their lowest level since 1984.

  Today Trump declared the Iran ceasefire is over and warned of new strikes tonight.

If oil prices spike from here, the US government has almost no reserve left to deploy as a cushion. The tool it used to protect Americans from war-driven inflation for the past five months is essentially exhausted.

The last time the reserve was this low was 1983. Oil was $29 a barrel then. Today it is trading near $70 after already falling significantly from its war highs.

A new escalation with Iran, the world’s 6th largest oil producer and the country that controls the Strait of Hormuz, with a depleted reserve and a Fed that is already dealing with inflation above 4%, is a very different situation than anything the US has faced since the reserve was created.”

https://citizenwatchreport.com/us-oil-reserve-at-43-year-low-trump-ends-iran-ceasefire-and-oil-spikes/#more-227461

 From Brave Browser AI Leo-

  Current Status: As of late 2025 and 2026, the SPR's ability to withdraw oil is already compromised. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report noted that the effective withdrawal capability had fallen to about 61% of its original design capacity, and refill capability was down to 56%, partly due to the physical damage from previous rapid drawdowns and aging infrastructure

In summary, the caverns would not necessarily "collapse" in a catastrophic sinkhole sense if you tried to pull the last barrel, but the well casings would likely fail and the caverns would permanently shrink, rendering them unable to store oil again or making future extraction impossible without costly repairs. The limit is defined by the rate of pressure drop and the minimum safe pressure required to keep the salt from flowing inward, not by a specific volume of oil remaining

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 Indian born leaders run big US tech firms and take jobs from Americans

Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Sundar Pichai at Google and others born in India now run major firms.

Companies move engineering and support roles overseas to cut costs.

H-1B visas bring in foreign workers often at lower wages than US talent.

 Recent layoffs at Microsoft and Xbox paired with new visa filings fuel replacement claims.

Without reforms American middle class in tech keeps shrinking.

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 BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, cuts 4800 jobs.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/indian-born-ceos-dominate-us-tech-leadership-while-offshoring-hollows-out-american-jobs/

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So Many Transgender People Are Moving to Socialist-Run Seattle That it’s Overwhelming the City’s Nonprofits

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/report-so-many-transgender-people-are-moving-socialist/

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Department of Labor Announces Gavin Newsom’s California Owes OVER $22 BILLION to U.S. Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund – The ONLY State Still in Debt, Slamming Businesses with Higher Federal Payroll Taxes

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/report-so-many-transgender-people-are-moving-socialist/

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 Russia Bans Diesel Exports, Assuring Even Higher Prices

Russia banned exports of diesel in order to avoid domestic shortages after a flurry of attacks by Ukrainian drones on the nation’s refineries...

 I think the looming diesel shortage will kill the economy. Refiners can choose between diesel or jet fuel. War burns up a lot of jet fuel.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/russia-bans-diesel-exports-assuring-even-higher-prices

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All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. Its Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes

Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face. Glance at your phone, your kids in the back seat, or the radio for too long, and the car will flash a warning light and sound an alert.[1]

Automakers have known this was coming for years. What they, and EU regulators, have never spelled out is what happens to that footage after the alert goes off.

 https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system

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Sony CEO Sells Over Half His Stock Following PlayStation Disc Announcement

 Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki has sold more than half of his stock in the company. A recent United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing shows that the 61-year-old sold millions of dollars worth of stock just two days after the announcement that PlayStation was going to cease production of physical discs in January 2028.

It also came during a time when the stock saw a slight bump in price after the news broke.

 https://insider-gaming.com/sony-ceo-sells-over-half-his-stock-playstation-disc/

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