ELIZA BLEU AND THE PERPETUAL TRAUMA MACHINE—PART 2

US Knows Location Of Most Iranian Sleeper Cells Inside America, Trump Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump said on March 11 that his administration knows the location of most Iranian sleeper cells in the United States. President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on March 11, 2026. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Joint U.S.–Israeli strikes killed many top leaders in Iran, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and denigrated the country’s military, prompting concerns that Iranian undercover terrorist cells, or sleeper...

China's Debt Surpasses Europe For The First Time China’s government debt has surpassed the European Union’s for the first time, marking a major shift in the global debt landscape. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S., China, and Europe have followed very different borrowing paths. While Europe kept debt growth relatively constrained, both the U.S. and China expanded rapidly—especially after 2020. The chart below, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, visualizes annual government debt totals for the U.S., EU, and China from 1995 to 2025 in current U.S. dollars (not adjusted for inflation),...

Virginia Governor Signs Law Banning 'Ghost Guns' Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill to ban so-called “ghost guns,” another making it easier to sue gunmakers and sellers, and two other bills concerning possession of firearms by persons under court orders. The bills - signed on April 10 - are among more than two dozen gun control and gun safety bills that the Virginia General Assembly sent to Spanberger after its regular session ended on March 24. “Preventing gun violence is an issue of public...