In making the announcement, FOX News Media said, “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter.”
Maria Bartiromo became increasingly popular amid the MAGA base during the research and revelations surrounding the ‘Spygate’ and ‘Russiagate’ storyline. Bartiromo often had several guests on her Sunday Morning Futures program that highlighted evidence of the corruption in the DOJ, FBI and U.S Intelligence Community. However, it also became more visible that Bartiromo was navigating between sensitive topics that often ran counter to the professional republican class interests in Washington DC.
Over the past few years Bartiromo softened her focus toward corrupt endeavors and began staying away from the most controversial aspects of how the structures of government operate. In a time when nearly all U.S. institutional credibility has crumbled, Bartiromo found herself in that awkward spot where you try to act like you’re not noticing the moment in the show when the marionette strings become visible.
[…] “Bartiromo had fallen out of favor at Fox News due to the legal headaches caused by statements made on her programs. But the breaking point may have been her sharing of a company e-mail with President Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Fox News representative did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Bartiromo, who was earning around $6 million a year, was anchor of the daily Fox Business Network program “Mornings with Maria,” which starting Friday will be called “Mornings with Fox Business.” Her weekend program “Sunday Morning Futures” will continue with fill-in hosts until a permanent replacement is named.” (source)
There is always that moment of choice, that time when your influence and affluence no longer run in alignment with uncomfortable truth. It’s a strange dynamic to watch unfold and even more strange when your proximity to the person gives you a different perspective than the average.
Bartiromo did as much as she could, until she couldn’t.
It will be interesting, or not, to see what comes next.
NEW: The Maria Bartiromo backstory, per multiple sources familiar….
Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies… a major sensitivity for the network given its Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits.
A Fox Business executive sent a text to Fox Business producers informing them that that story could not go to air.
Bartiromo took a screen shot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials.
Fox News leadership learned about that after receiving a call from the White House, which they viewed as a fireable offense.
Fox pulled Bartiromo from air after Aug. 9. She was fired today. I have also learned that her executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was also fired after the annoucnement.
Maria had resigned her contract with Fox last February. (source)
Posted originally on the CTH on September 3, 2026 | Sundance |
We either reindustrialize our national economy, moving completely away from the ‘service driven’ narrative of years past, or we will forever consign ourselves to economic servitude. This is also the American ideological perspective that undeniably affirms our baseline reason for cutting ties with Canada.
[TRANSCRIPT] – SECRETARY RUBIO: “Thank you. Thank you, all of you, first of all, for being here today. Thank you – Jacob Helberg’s doing a phenomenal job. Everybody at our department is doing a great job, and I’m very proud of the work the State Department is putting in into these and other initiatives.
One of the things we really wanted to do in our time here, and one of the reasons behind many of the reforms we undertook, is to allow us to have a State Department that could move at the speed of relevance, which is something we used to say all the time. Now it’s become almost a cliche, but it really is important – because world affairs are moving so quickly, economic developments are moving so quickly, and so much of that is internationalized, and it involves what we do around the world as well.
And so, I’m very proud of everybody at the Department of State and all the work that they’re doing to be a part of this initiative, along with our partners in the other agencies, because this truly is an interagency challenge that we’re facing.
What is the challenge that we’re here to talk about today? Let me put it to you this way: I think we made a terrible mistake in this country – not – many years ago, under people that were in charge at the time, especially at the end of the Cold War. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. And no matter – it didn’t matter any longer where things were made. They were to be made in the most efficient place at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for the company, lower costs for the consumers, and that was the way the world would work. There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become a free enterprise, democracies, and that everyone would look us.”
“That ran into reality – the reality that that is not how human events have ever worked, that the nation-state still does matter, nationalism is still real, national borders still matter, and that countries are going to always act in their best interest. But the result of it is that it deindustrialized America. We lost our ability and our capacity to make things, and not just big things – not just the kinds of big machinery and things that we normally identify with industry – but even some of the most basic components that are necessary, that underpin economic life, especially in the 21st century.
And we woke up to the reality just a few years ago that we are suddenly, as a nation, dangerously dependent – dangerously dependent – on other nations for all sorts of things that we need, not simply for our economic vibrancy but, in many cases, for our national security and our very survival as a prosperous nation-state. And so now we are involved in this endeavor across the board to try to reverse those mistakes. And it will be the work of multiple administrations, but it starts here and it starts now with this one that is receiving attention at its highest level.
One way is just the basic ingredients that go into all this, and it’s why you’ve seen such a focus on access to not just critical minerals as raw material but also to the ability to process them. But the other is – has to be the ability to actually make things once again. And we have to understand that re-industrialization, that 21st century industrial activity is going to look different than it did in the 20th century. It’s going to involve far more skills. It’s going to involve – not just are our workers going to have to be better educated in what they’re doing, but in many cases, given the evolution and the rapidly changing dynamics of the modern world, they may have to be retrained multiple times in their career.
One of the crown jewels that have powered American innovation and, ultimately, powered American economic influence and power around the world has been our system of higher education. It has produced extraordinary research; it has produced extraordinary breakthroughs. I think the sad part about it is the number of things we have innovated or created, but then they’re made somewhere else. And so, I think in the 21st century, this partnership with higher education is important, and it’s important for two reasons.
First of all, why build it when – why build a new wheel when we already have a wheel? We just need to repurpose that wheel to become the place where 21st century American workers go to become empowered with the skills they need to succeed. But I also think it’s important for higher education, and we’ve got some great partners here today that are already part of this initiative, and, of course, we want this partnership to grow to include other schools as well.
But I think it’s also important for higher education because, increasingly, young Americans are asking: Is the college degree worth it? Is the college route worth it? Because we have to borrow money or we have to spend money or we have to do all these sorts of things and, in the end, I get a degree, and all that degree does is either a) qualify me to get another degree or b) it may not even really lead to a job necessarily that’s different from the one I could have gotten otherwise.
And I think this speaks to that, because it also – in addition to being good for our country – is an opportunity to say to students: If you come here and you go to school and you follow this curriculum, you will leave here not just with a paper credential but with the skills that make you immediately employable in a high-paying job, in a good-paying job with long-term stability. And so this partnership is critical because what I hope it means, what I hope it symbolizes – and not just symbolizes but what I hope it is evidence of – is how government partnering with non-government entities like our higher education system and the private sector, the combination of those three pillars – the private sector that needs the workers and knows what they need from the workers; the higher education system that can equip young Americans with the skills they need to fill those jobs; and government that ensures not just that it’s acting as a convening body, but ensures that our national policies reflect these priorities. These three pillars working together drive us towards this outcome that we want, and it’s very important.
So, I think today is a great way to kick this off. We have great partners on board already. We hope to attract more. I want to thank all of you for being a part of it. And I – the last thing I want to say about this is that we understand that for this to work, this is not a two-year project. This is not a two-and-a-half-year project. This is a project that will involve sustainment for the long term. Multiple American administrations are going to have to make this a priority, which is why it’s so important that you see evidence that, at the highest levels of our government, now and for the future, you have that commitment.
And it’s why it’s exciting for us to have the Vice President here today to speak about it, because I think the evidence is not just the importance this administration gives it, but our acknowledgement that this is an issue that’s going to require long-term and sustained attention. This has to be an endeavor that goes on beyond the next two years. It has to go on for a generation. And I think having the Vice President here today with us is evidence of that commitment.
And so now I want to introduce and welcome to the stage here at the Institute of Peace, a beautiful building that the State Department’s using a lot – and we thank you all for coming – the Vice President of the United States of America, JD Vance.” (Applause.)
Posted originally on the CTH on September 3, 2026 | Sundance |
For those waiting patiently for the USMCA termination announcement, this is a potential indication and/or signal of pendency.
When President Trump and USTR Jamieson Greer send the official notification, a six-month countdown clock begins running. As of right now there are no official statements that indicate the likely triggering, it’s a guess. However, there are datapoints aligning in that direction.
No one outside our assembly has contemplated the termination of the USMCA (CUSMA) or what would occur in the aftermath; however, the Bank of Canada has gamed out the financial consequences, briefly in their forward guidance. The ramifications are significant, perhaps more significant than any other global trade announcement.
[…] “it more likely that a new shock or a combination of shocks could cause several vulnerabilities to crystalize at once. If this were to happen, these vulnerabilities could interact and reinforce each other.
A cascading series of events could cause a sharp loss of investor confidence and lead to a spike in demand for liquidity or rapid asset sales. Funding markets could come under pressure, and stress could spread more broadly.” [SOURCE]
I suggest we keep a close eye on all U.S-Mexico discussions, as well as geopolitical leverage points that might surface in the U.S-Mexico relationship. My best guess is that once the U.S. and Mexico come to renewed terms on the ‘USMCA’ as a potential bilateral free trade agreement, that will be the moment when the planets are aligned for the termination notification.
The financial markets in Canada are tied directly to the independent strength of the Canadian economy. Which is to say, the financial system in Canada is dependent on historic ties to the United States. Pull out all of the dependencies within the economy, a result of a fracturing of the “geopolitical relationship,” and suddenly the Bank of Canada faces a “cascading series of events” they have not previously had to entertain.
A significant number of multinational corporations within Canada are geographically centered due to American proximity and the dependency that has historically been considered a partnership. That relationship has now changed, and despite Mark Carney saying that Canada can be stronger standing alone, there is no economic model for Canada to retain its wealth position without the inherent subsidy that proximity to America provides.
There is no ‘partnership’ with Europe and/or China, or a combination of partnerships, that can replace the one-way nature of the subsidies from the U.S. economy that Canada enjoys.
If the Canadian people, workers and companies therein, have to rely on their own domestic economic activity to fund their GDP, their lifestyle will have to modify in very significant ways.
The Dutch central bank (DNB) has transferred approximately 86 metric tons of gold out of the U.S. and Canada to the U.K., seeking to shore up its contingency planning in view of “increasing geopolitical unrest.”
Just over one-quarter of the central bank’s gold reserves held in New York and Ottawa had been shifted to London between March and August, DNB said Wednesday. [SOURCE]
Posted originally on the CTH on September 3, 2026 | Sundance
This morning the Trump administration launched the Foundry School, a national program to train the entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders needed to rebuild American manufacturing. [Press Release Here]
“President Trump’s reindustrialization agenda has already brought trillions of dollars in industrial investment to American soil. Foundry School will focus on turning that investment into jobs. American manufacturers will need an estimated 3.8 million skilled workers by 2033 in semiconductors, defense, energy, and beyond, and Foundry School exists to make sure Americans fill those jobs. The program will put American workers first by equipping them with the skills needed to bring manufacturing jobs home and build careers in industries critical to our nation’s economic security.”
This critically important initiative launched today with the full support of the administration including remarks by both Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ‘Industrial Security Is National Security’, noted Vance. ‘We Lost Our Ability to Make Things’ Rubio warned as both explain the importance of the objective. WATCH:
Posted originally on the CTH on September 2, 2026 | Sundance |
Many of us are watching the story of a woman, Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of murdering her three young children in 2023 in their Massachusetts home. The widely discussed case is being tried in Plymouth Superior Court, and after five days of jury deliberations the jury has again told the judge they are hopelessly deadlocked.
Clancy killed her three children [Cora (5), Callan (8 months), and Dawson (3)], that aspect is not in question; she strangled them with an exercise band. However, the defense has argued that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis, and she is not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argued Clancy knew right from wrong and acted deliberately, pointing to evidence of her planning, and the fact she hid her thoughts of harming the children from doctors because she knew they were wrong.
The jury is made up of nine women and three men. The jury cannot decide if Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her children. The jury has deliberated for five days and has reported twice before they are deadlocked. Superior Court Judge William Sullivan responded with a Tuey-Rodriguez charge, an instruction that urges deadlocked jurors to keep working toward a verdict while reminding them not to abandon their own honestly held views.
Rather than declaring a mistrial, the judge allowed the jurors to go home for the day. It looks like tomorrow a mistrial will be declared.
(Via Fox News) – The instruction that Judge William Sullivan gave to the Lindsay Clancy jury on Wednesday takes its name from two Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decisions.
In Commonwealth v. Tuey (1851), the court approved an instruction encouraging deadlocked jurors to re-examine their views with an open mind. More than a century later, in Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1973), the state’s highest court revised that language to remove pressure on minority or holdout jurors, creating a neutral instruction that asks all jurors to carefully consider one another’s views while maintaining their own honestly held convictions.
Receiving a Tuey-Rodriguez charge does not mean a verdict is imminent. The instruction is generally considered a necessary step before a judge declares a mistrial because of a hung jury, although it often results in jurors reaching a unanimous verdict after further deliberations. (read more)
The trial has gathered considerable national attention because a remarkably large number of women support Ms. Clancy and claim that many women suffer from extreme hormone imbalances and are not responsible for their conduct or behavior. The supporter group has a lot of commonalities with the women who previously wore genitalia on their heads.
Many American men are, for the first time, looking at the hormonal claims of the Clancy defenders and asking themselves some very serious questions about the mental stability of a large swath of American women. Meanwhile another significant group of American men remind them this is not new.
The ramifications of a “not guilty” decision are considerable.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp and former Ukraine Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov have been collaborating jointly for over 5 years, according to the statement made by Karp. That means the Palantir-Ukraine relationship pre-dates the Russian military advance into Eastern Ukraine.
Given the nature of U.S. involvement in Ukraine, and understanding the shady and sketchy background that has been in place for quite some time, the detail of the length of time Palantir and Ukraine military have been working together is worth noting.
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio first mentioned in March 2025, …” frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers – the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia – and it needs to come to an end.” {source}
It’s also worth remembering in June 2022, the New York Times published an article saying the CIA and Pentagon special forces were organizing and conducting the NATO war effort from a secret operation center in Kyiv.
KYIV, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Palantir CEO Alex Karp will become the first major investor in a new defence technology company launched by Mykhailo Fedorov, the tech-savvy former Ukrainian defence minister who was dismissed in July.
“The new company will build on Fedorov’s experience in modern technological warfare, with its primary mission to strengthen Ukraine and develop defense technologies that can help build a safer future for the entire world,” a press release from Fedorov’s team said on Tuesday.
The dismissal of Fedorov, a longtime advocate of drone warfare and artificial intelligence, sparked protests that later subsided after he publicly called for wartime elections, an issue that splits Ukrainians.
Since leaving office, Fedorov has said he plans to launch several ventures, including a defence investment fund and a think-tank. “You and your colleagues are launching a company that I think will be defining for the world,” Karp told Fedorov in a video posted on the former minister’s Telegram channel.
Karp said he and Fedorov had worked together for “half a decade.” Palantir has provided software to Ukraine to support its war effort against Russia and government operations.
The statement said the two men met at Palantir’s Washington, D.C. office on Monday. (source)
War is a very lucrative business.
Within Ukraine Fedorov has a lot of support. However, one can look at his decisions recently as driven more by the affluence opportunity than anything else. As always, when given ideology or money as two options, most choose the money.
Posted originally on the CTH onSeptember 2, 2026 | Sundance |
Palantir CEO Alex Karp and former Ukraine Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov have been collaborating jointly for over 5 years, according to the statement made by Karp. That means the Palantir-Ukraine relationship pre-dates the Russian military advance into Eastern Ukraine.
Given the nature of U.S. involvement in Ukraine, and understanding the shady and sketchy background that has been in place for quite some time, the detail of the length of time Palantir and Ukraine military have been working together is worth noting.
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio first mentioned in March 2025, …” frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers – the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia – and it needs to come to an end.” {source}
It’s also worth remembering in June 2022, the New York Times published an article saying the CIA and Pentagon special forces were organizing and conducting the NATO war effort from a secret operation center in Kyiv.
KYIV, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Palantir CEO Alex Karp will become the first major investor in a new defence technology company launched by Mykhailo Fedorov, the tech-savvy former Ukrainian defence minister who was dismissed in July.
“The new company will build on Fedorov’s experience in modern technological warfare, with its primary mission to strengthen Ukraine and develop defense technologies that can help build a safer future for the entire world,” a press release from Fedorov’s team said on Tuesday.
The dismissal of Fedorov, a longtime advocate of drone warfare and artificial intelligence, sparked protests that later subsided after he publicly called for wartime elections, an issue that splits Ukrainians.
Since leaving office, Fedorov has said he plans to launch several ventures, including a defence investment fund and a think-tank. “You and your colleagues are launching a company that I think will be defining for the world,” Karp told Fedorov in a video posted on the former minister’s Telegram channel.
Karp said he and Fedorov had worked together for “half a decade.” Palantir has provided software to Ukraine to support its war effort against Russia and government operations.
The statement said the two men met at Palantir’s Washington, D.C. office on Monday. (source)
War is a very lucrative business.
Within Ukraine Fedorov has a lot of support. However, one can look at his decisions recently as driven more by the affluence opportunity than anything else. As always, when given ideology or money as two options, most choose the money.
Posted originally on the CTH on September 2, 2026 | Sundance |
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid today, in a massive show of support for Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. The protests follow weeks of crisis in the region following a border surge from neighboring Morocco.
More than 70,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta during the surge and local authorities estimate that more than 10,000 migrants remain in makeshift camps scattered across the enclave. The residents are dealing with lawlessness, chaos and criminal activity. Protesters in Madrid wave Spanish flags, called for stronger border control and criticize Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over his handling of the crisis. The demonstrations are ongoing as serious clashes and fights between migrants and local residents continue in Ceuta.
CEUTA, Spain, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Residents of Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the handling by Madrid of a migration crisis caused by a deadly border surge in July when at least 72,000 people crossed from Morocco.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of the city of about 80,000 residents in a protest that coincided with the annual Ceuta Day. Waving Spanish flags and blowing whistles, they chanted: “Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta must be defended.”
One placard read: “SOS. Europe, save us from our traitor government” while some demanded that authorities should “expel the invaders” and others called for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to resign as demonstrations also took place in other cities across Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. (read more)
Posted originally on the CTH on September 2, 2026 | Sundance |
The Justice Department has issued an important ruling requiring states to follow the legislated rule of reporting illegal aliens who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). This rule can substantially alter the nature of financial support programs currently taking place with federal funds. [Full Press Release] [Full Opinion]
The Office of Legal Counsel has issued a legal opinion clarifying that when a state chooses to participate in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, all agencies within that state — not only those that administer TANF or SSI benefits — must report individuals known to be not lawfully present in the United States to The Dept of Homeland Security. {citation}
DOJ Press Release: […] “Congress wrote this requirement plainly,” said Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. “When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States. Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”
“Our clarification does not impose new obligations on states,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joshua Craddock of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and author of the opinion. “It simply restores the original meaning of the statute Congress enacted and ensures that DHS receives the information it is legally entitled to. States that accept TANF funding must abide by federal law, and failure to comply may lead to serious consequences, including loss of program funding.”
The Office withdrew a Clinton-era opinion from 1998 that construed the reporting requirement much more narrowly. Under that prior interpretation, only the specific state agencies administering TANF or SSI were required to provide information to federal immigration authorities. All fifty states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. territories currently participate in TANF and SSI, and federal TANF funding grants exceed $16.4 billion annually.
The Office of Legal Counsel’s Sept. 1 opinion explains that Congress defined “State” broadly in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. As a result, when a state accepts federal TANF or SSI funds, the entire state government — including all component agencies — is bound by federal law to share information with DHS about individuals the state knows to be not lawfully present.
The opinion applies prospectively. States will not face retroactive penalties for past reliance on the 1998 interpretation. Federal agencies may rely on OLC’s advice to update TANF and SSI grant agreements and compliance processes to reflect the correct legal standard moving forward. (SOURCE)
Posted originally on the CTH on September 2, 2026 | Sundance |
A rather remarkable statement from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick puts the Canadian government on notice. If Lutnick is accurately outlining what took place, there’s no way Trump is going to give them a trade deal.
When he is questioned about the U.S-Canada trade agreement collapse, Secretary Lutnick quotes the Canadian govt officials. “I said to him, are you trying to blow this up? and he said, and I quote, “I’m not allowed to say that.“” Lutnick then encapsulates what that response meant.
“They decided for political reasons, domestically, domestic Canada, they’d rather fight with Donald Trump; even if it’s bad for the economy of Canada, for their political ambition to get a certain election,” Lutnick noted. He continued, “now remember, Quebec has the sovereign party was in the lead, so that’s why they came up with this French nonsense. You think the American side talked about how people speak in Quebec? We have a deal with France, we have a deal with Italy, we have a deal with Germany, we don’t care about their language; none of that was true.” WATCH (prompted):
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