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    Silicon Fever Dream: Apple’s Cash Avalanche, Intel’s Resurrection, and the Tech Stock Mania

    ByJustin Jest

    Apple’s Cash Avalanche: A Love Letter to Capitalism Apple has done it again. The Cupertino cash-printing machine reported a record-smashing $124.3 billion in revenue for its October–December quarter, proving once more that there’s no limit to how many shiny, overpriced rectangles the world is willing to buy. While iPhone sales took a microscopic 1% dip, the Mac (+16%), iPad (+15%), and services (+14%) divisions stepped up to fill the…

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    Bullish, Barely: The Market’s High-Wire Act

    ByJustin Jest

    Ladies and gentlemen, gather ‘round for the greatest show on Earth, the Wall Street tightrope, where the market’s drunken acrobat wobbles between euphoria and existential dread, balancing precariously on the frayed thread of economic reality. The S&P 500, that fickle beast, slithered its way into record territory with all the fanfare of a washed-up rock star hitting a high note at a county fair. The Dow? The Nasdaq? Also…

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    Press Freedom in Freefall: Journalists Jailed as Authoritarians Tighten Their Grip

    ByJustin Jest

    Across Eurasia, being a journalist in 2025 is starting to feel less like a profession and more like a prison sentence waiting to happen. In Turkey, Azerbaijan, and beyond, governments are locking up reporters, raiding newsrooms, and using vague laws to silence dissent, because when reality is inconvenient, the easiest fix is to throw the truth-tellers behind bars. Turkey: Erdoğan’s War on Journalism Hits Overdrive Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip…

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    Journalists in Handcuffs: Press Freedom Becomes Another Casualty of War

    ByJustin Jest

    War has many victims, but one of the first to fall is the truth, and right behind it are the journalists trying to report it. As of February 17, at least 39 journalists remain locked up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, caught in the crossfire of military crackdowns, censorship, and paranoia. ✔ Since October 2023, at least 75 journalists have been arrested in the region, according to the Committee to…

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    Trump and Musk vs. Reuters: When Facts Are Inconvenient, Just Yell “Fake News”

    ByJustin Jest

    On February 13, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of online outrage, teamed up for their latest hobby: publicly attacking journalists. Their target of the week? Reuters. What sparked the outrage? A completely misrepresented Pentagon contract from 2018. ✔ The reality: A Reuters-owned analytics division (TRSS) once had a $9 million Pentagon contract to test cybersecurity threats, completely separate from Reuters’ journalism division.✔ The…

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    Trump’s Economic Genius Plan: Taxing China to Pay for Tax Cuts (What Could Go Wrong?)

    ByJustin Jest

    Donald Trump has once again redefined economic policy, not by cutting spending, reforming tax laws, or balancing the budget, but by threatening to slap tariffs on foreign imports and then using that revenue to finance tax cuts. Because, as we all know, when you need money, the best thing to do is start a trade war and hope for the best. The Plan: Fund Tax Cuts with Tariff Money,…

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    Trump Declares Border Emergency: Because Who Needs Congress When You Have a Sharpie?

    ByJustin Jest

    In a move that surprised absolutely no one, Trump has once again bypassed Congress like a driver ignoring a “Do Not Enter” sign, declaring a national emergency at the southern border and ordering the military to start building his beloved border wall, because what’s democracy without a little executive power flexing? The Plan: Walls, Troops, and Executive Overreach Rather than go through Congress like a regular president, Trump decided…

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    Trump’s “America First” Aid Cuts: Who Needs Global Stability Anyway?

    ByJustin Jest

    In a move that stunned career diplomats, enraged humanitarian groups, and likely made Vladimir Putin giggle, Trump has officially gone nuclear on foreign aid. Not satisfied with just trimming the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Trump went straight for the jugular, ordering mass layoffs and attempting to shut the agency down entirely. Because if there’s one thing the world definitely doesn’t need right now, it’s stability, humanitarian assistance,…

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    Trump’s “Maximum Pressure” 2.0: Because The First Time Went So Well

    ByJustin Jest

    If there’s one thing Trump loves more than a signature steak, it’s recycling his greatest hits, and this month, he’s reviving his favorite geopolitical mixtape: Sanction Iran Until Something Breaks. On February 4, just ahead of a cozy sit-down with Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump announced that his administration was reinstating the full “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran, because nothing says “diplomacy” like economic strangulation with a side of oil price…

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    Trump and Modi: Weapons, Trade, and the Mutual Love of Selective Democracy

    ByJustin Jest

    On February 13, the White House rolled out the red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where Trump and Modi engaged in a warm, back-slapping display of strategic friendship, the kind of “partnership” that thrives on trade deals, military pacts, and a shared indifference toward human rights. Because when two strongman-style leaders get together, who has time for pesky things like freedom of the press and minority rights?…

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