• The Trump administration is deepening its effort to sever U.S. reliance on Chinese rare earth supplies, committing $400 million in equity financing to MP Materials Corp. as part of a broader plan to expand domestic production of rare earth magnets used in advanced weapons systems and industrial technologies.

• The deal also includes a 10-year commitment by the U.S. government to support pricing and demand for domestically produced rare earth magnets. The Defense Department has guaranteed the purchase of 100 percent of the output from a planned magnet manufacturing facility—dubbed the “10X” plant—at a minimum price of $110 per kilogram for neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr), a key rare earth alloy used in missile guidance systems, fighter jets, and electric motors.
• The U.S. imported roughly 70 percent of its rare earths from China in 2023, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The push to reshore the supply chain gained urgency during the trade war launched by President Trump, when Beijing threatened to restrict rare earth exports.

• less than 100 building permits have been issued in Los Angeles, six months after the destructive wildfires that destroyed entire neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades.
• Now California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced $101 million in funding for new ‘multifamily rental housing’ as a solution for housing displaced residents in the area. It almost seems like this was the goal all along.

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From the governor’s website:

No one seems very surprised by this.

People just want to rebuild their homes. No one asked for multi-family apartment buildings.

• CONFIRMED: Jeffrey Epstein was housed in Cell 220 on the UPPER-LEVEL L TIER — not the lower level, as falsely reported by legacy media. This official DOJ image proves L Tier is an elevated cell block accessible only by the stairway behind Door 46.
• Jeffrey Epstein was housed in the M Tier until after he was attacked in prison. Epstein was then put on suicide watch in July. Epstein was later moved to the L Tier, the upper tier. He was found dead in his cell number 220 on August 10.
• the video that was missing a full minute (specifically, 61 seconds), spliced out at exactly 11:59 PM the night before Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell roughly six and a half hours later.

Bondi said the prison told her that the cameras reset, so that means all videos will have the splice going back in time.

• But now, a devastating revelation obliterates the mainstream narrative: Epstein’s cell was located in L Tier — a secure, upper-level corridor — not on the lower level as widely and falsely reported across corporate media outlets.
• OFFICIAL DOJ SCHEMATIC: Confirms Epstein’s Cell (L Tier) Was Located on the Upper-Level Tier of MCC’s Special Housing Unit — Not the Lower Level as Widely Reported.
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• The exact number of cells in L Tier of the 10 South Special Housing Unit (SHU) at MCC New York has never been officially published, but according to multiple prison review reports and testimonies, it appears there were between 6 to 8 individual cells in Epstein’s L Tier.

• The surveillance footage you will see was taken from a Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) system, also known as a closed system DVR (Digital Video Recorder) setup. The camera angle is positioned outside of Epstein’s L Tier, the camera is facing down at Tier M.
• At precisely 4:16:22 (Video timestamp) / 11:59:00 PM (Overlay clock time), the surveillance footage suddenly skips forward exactly 61 seconds — entirely bypassing the embedded overlay minute of 11:59 PM. The break jumps from 11:58:59 PM directly to 12:00:00 AM.

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• The exits come as part of a bold push by the Trump White House to downsize a bloated and politicized federal bureaucracy.
• These GS-13 to GS-15 employees—many of whom wield enormous behind-the-scenes influence over NASA’s billion-dollar programs—represent the backbone of the agency’s managerial and technical power structure, making their exit a potential turning point in U.S. space policy.

Below are some of the numbers of staff who are leaving:

• Goddard Space Flight Center (MD): 607 staff gone
• Johnson Space Center (TX): 366 staff
• Kennedy Space Center (FL): 311 staff
• NASA HQ (DC): 307 staff
• Langley (VA): 281
• Marshall (AL): 279
• Glenn (OH): 191

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• Now, in the EU, the game is it’s Ursula von der Leyen versus Viktor Orbán.
• Von der Leyen survived calls to have her ousted – for now.
• It’s open war in the European Union, with its powerful but politically wounded Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen (VDL) facing increasingly strong opposition from the emboldened right-wing forces.
• And no one encapsulates the opposition to liberal/Globalist VDL like conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who defiantly posted a meme of the German politician saying that it was ‘time to go’.
• While VDL did survive today’s (10) no-confidence vote in the European Parliament that was tabled by rightwing MEPs, she comes out weakened by the ordeal, and facing ever-stronger opposition by the patriotic forces in the continent.
• Result of today’s vote: 175 for the censure motion, 360 against/ source: social media.

Reuters reported:

• In a landmark 6-3 decision on June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that parents have a constitutional right to opt their children out of public-school lessons involving LGBTQ-themed storybooks on religious grounds.
• Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito held that Montgomery County, Maryland’s policy of requiring elementary students to participate in instruction featuring these books without allowing religious exemptions violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.
• feel affirmed. The left appears committed to forced inclusion, regardless of whose rights are trampled in the process.

Six Secret Service Agents Suspended from 10 to 42 Days for Failures in Butler, PA and Failed Assassination Attempt on President Trump

• headlines read that six secret service agents were suspended last month. However, a more fulsome review of the disciplinary action highlights a slight slap on the wrist as the suspensions were from 10 to 42 days.
• The disciplinary action follows an internal review of the failures of the Secret Service during President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that almost cost him his life.
• WASHINGTON – Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year’s attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.
• The positions of those suspended ranged from supervisory level to line agent level, a source familiar with the agency’s decision told ABC News. (read more)