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Just four days after suffering a gruesome injury, Jarred Vanderbilt was available to play again.

The battle for the Hudson River at UFC 328 belongs to New Jersey – to the elation of a partisan crowd and the fighter’s teenage son fresh off a successful battle against cancer.

The off-field antics of Bill Belichick's players at North Carolina have started to raise some alarms at the university.

We're down to the final two episodes of Season 51!

"Exponentially Deteriorating": Baltimore's Lawlessness Spreads Into Suburbs As Democrats Lose Control

Maryland is one of many blue states that have transformed into a failed progressive experiment, where net migration flows are negative as productive, working-class taxpayers flee the state, not just because of high taxes and the power bill crisis, but also because they've had enough of left-wing politicians and their failed criminal justice and social reforms that have fueled a decade of violent crime chaos.

We've extensively covered more than a decade of violent crime, riots, population collapse, and the exodus of taxpayers and businesses from imploding Baltimore City, which has been hit hard by a commercial real estate crisis in parts of the downtown area. But rarely have we focused on Baltimore County, just north of the city, where, yet again, left-wing politicians who masquerade as competent managers but are merely DEI activists have unleashed years of lawlessness through failed policies.

FOX45 News spoke with Mickey Hoppert, a retired sergeant with the Baltimore County Police Department who has spent more than two decades on the force, warned about the lawlessness of juveniles in the Towson metro area:

I wouldn't say that it's out of control, but it's getting there. Baltimore County is slowly, actually it's not slowly, it's exponentially deteriorating, and there are more and more pockets of bad elements coming into the county and wreaking havoc.

"I wouldn't say that it's out of control, but it's getting there. Baltimore County is slowly, actually it's not slowly, it's exponentially deteriorating," Mickey Hoppert, retired sergeant with the Baltimore County Police Department, said. "There are more and more pockets of bad… pic.twitter.com/oc7hizFsdt

— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) May 5, 2026

Hoppert identified Towson as a major hub for juveniles to meet up and cause chaos over the last ten years.

"It's easy access here," he said. "Bus lines come here. Friends and family can bring them here."

He pointed out that current juvenile laws in the deeply blue county do not support officers and have been nothing but demotivating towards the department.

"When I say nobody supporting them, I mean the judicial system, the judges, they're not supporting them because the laws don't allow them to. The newer laws that have been enacted by lawmakers," Hoppert said. "Revamp the laws. Go back in and look at the laws and see what they can do to change them and make them more, more beneficial to the public and actually make it so that there is a consequence for the action that the juvenile commits."

The current reading of population data in Baltimore County indicates it has lost population since 2020. The decline is modest, but it shows that population growth is quickly losing momentum as residents flee not just the county, but the state, seeking common-sense politicians in red states that offer low taxes and law and order.

At the state level, the failures are piling up for left-wing Gov. Wes Moore, whose polling data has sunk and alarmed the Democratic Party. The governor faces an ongoing trust issue with voters as Sinclair Broadcasting's David Smith wages an informational war on the unhinged leftist in the state.

Since Gov. Wes Moore took office in January 2023, Maryland's fiscal profile has deteriorated sharply. The state entered Moore's first term with a roughly $5 billion surplus, but by 2025, it was facing a $3.3 billion deficit. This swing from surplus to deficit only suggests how Democratic leftists in Annapolis spent taxpayer funds on failed progressive experiments.  

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The pair welcomed an infant son in November before splitting in February.

The pair welcomed an infant son in November before splitting in February.

Freeman smiled often Saturday as he told stories of his first MLB manager, Bobby Cox, whose death was announced earlier in the day by the Braves.

No arrests have been made.

The biggest Yankees workhorse over the past two seasons is ready to get back in the saddle. 

The Stefon Diggs and Cardi B saga continues.

Brown used the regular season to experiment — a major departure from his predecessor, Tom Thibodeau — and it is paying major dividends in the postseason.

CBS released its full interview with Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt hours after the candidate implored them to go beyond the digital article they released about him.

From Civilian To Military Economy: This Is What A Declining Empire's Economy Looks Like

Authored by Bryan Lutz via DollarCollapse.com,

“A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy.”

~ Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912)

Empires don’t announce their decline.

They reveal it in the data…

And on Monday, the U.S. Census Bureau quietly published the latest installment.

Rome elevated the military as the empire decayed.

Britain did the same after 1914.

And after 1971, when Nixon severed the dollar from gold, America began the same process.

The factory floor is where it shows up first…

So let’s look at it.

March 2026 defense capital goods orders: up 18 percent month-over-month.

But, year-over-year, it’s a much larger number: up 80 percent.

Non-defense capital goods? Down 1.2 percent, which makes it the sixth contraction in seven months.

Strip out defense production, and the headline factory number moves negative.

Now, the United States isn’t exactly in full-on war economy yet. It’s what a peacetime empire economy looks like in late stage.

Here’s what the transition looks like on the chart, defense versus non-defense aircraft orders, last 24 months:

One of those lines is paid for by the Pentagon writing a check. The other is paid for by airlines and freight companies deciding they want to expand. Guess which kind of order an empire prioritizes when it’s running out of money.

And here’s where it gets interesting.

Ludwig von Mises wrote in 1912:

“A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy.”

You see, a Federal government has three ways to pay its bills.

1. It can tax.

2. It can borrow.

3. Or it can print.

If the US government were to tax citizens for $2.5 trillion in defense spending they’d revolt by Tuesday.

If they were to borrow it from foreigners who are already net sellers of Treasuries? Good luck.

That leaves the printer.

Every empire elevates the military as the civilian economy decays. Rome did it under Diocletian. The British did it after 1914. America started in 1971.

The Vietnam-era proof is the cleanest.

After the war ended, federal spending kept rising. The 1969 federal surplus of $3 billion turned into a $23 billion deficit by 1972, with the war winding down.

America didn’t exactly demobilize after that. Instead, they redirected attention.

In fact, look at where the redirection is going right now.

The Pentagon’s 2027 national security request will exceed $2.5 trillion. The cost of the Iran war isn’t even in that budget.

And the money supply just surged to a multi-year high. The Fed has quietly restarted QE.

So, the Pentagon gets more airplanes.

You can see what that printing looks like in the chart, below. Federal interest expense just crossed $1 trillion trailing twelve months, and M2 is heading vertical:

Mises predicted this curve. The Census Bureau is now reporting it.

And that’s why every empire’s late-stage transition ends the same way.

Eventually, the currency thins out, military thickens up, and the middle class evaporates between them.

Weimar Germany. Late-stage Rome. The Soviet Union in its last decade.

Each time, the people who held the State’s paper got wiped.

Each time, the people who held gold got out.

This week, the Fed will move closer to the cut. The Treasury will sell another half-trillion next week. Defense will keep ordering. And Civilian CapEx will keep contracting…

This is what a declining empire’s economy looks like. There just hasn’t been an announcement yet.

Tyler Durden Sat, 05/09/2026 - 19:50

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was blasted for backing out of an upcoming mayoral forum just days after she took a beating in a LA mayoral debate, with Spencer Pratt being declared the winner.

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Olympic athletes are required to log daily whereabouts – including a one-hour testing window – during the off-season and any three missed tests or filing failures in a year count as a doping violation, officials said.

James Harden hit three clutch shots in the final two minutes.

Los Angeles became comedy central this week as Netflix flooded the city with nearly 500 events for its third annual Netflix Is a Joke Fest, but one over-the-top photo and an exclusive brunch stole the spotlight.