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Regular readers of Brownstone Journal have been graced with insight provided by many authors of diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a physician, I have found those authored by Dr. Joseph Varon to be exceptionally helpful in their insight into the state of medicine today. In particular, his essay, “When Physicians are Replaced With a Protocol,” struck a chord with me. Perhaps it was my conscience, as I probably bear some responsibility for furthering this viewpoint, at least on a local level. You see, I once was a True Believer. It was plausible. It seemed so believable, so “scientific,” so simple. But it was…

Elon Musk bashed Oppenheimer Director Christopher Nolan over the casting for his upcoming film, The Odyssey, saying the director tapped Lupita Nyong’o to play Helen of Troy because “he wants the awards.” “Q: Why is Christopher Nolan like many other directors so keen to race swap white characters? A: Quotas and awards,” one X user wrote in a Tuesday post, to which Musk replied by taking to the comment section to assert, “He wants the awards.” The SpaceX CEO also commented on an X post from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, who wrote, “Not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has confirmed to Breitbart Texas that two fugitives from Mexico have been arrested recently as a result of intense international collaboration with authorities in Mexico. In two separate sting operations, Border Patrol agents from the San Diego Sector nabbed the pair of fugitives who were wanted in Mexico for serious criminal offenses, including kidnapping, extortion, and homicide. According to CBP, the arrests are a testament to robust international collaboration between law enforcement agencies in Mexico and the U.S. Border Patrol agents operating in the San Diego area. The pair of arrests of foreign fugitives…

Kuwait on Tuesday arrested four alleged members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and accused them of attempting to infiltrate Bubiyan Island, a Kuwaiti territory close to shipping lanes and oil fields that has a port under construction with Chinese funding. Bubiyan is the largest island under Kuwait’s control in the northern Persian Gulf, close to the border with Iraq. It is sparsely inhabited at the moment, but will change with the completion of the Mubarak al-Kabeer Port, a massive project under construction with Chinese assistance as part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The ambitious $4.1 billion…

Democrat-run California is increasing national costs by blocking pipelines and transition lines and, ironically, served as the only state dependent on oil from the Strait of Hormuz, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Monday during an event covering AI and energy with Breitbart News. Energy policies vary significantly in blue states compared to red states, Burgum said, noting that there are just a few pro-energy governors running blue or purple states. “We’re going to see this trillion dollars of CapEx that’s coming that’s going to get distributed. It’s going to get distributed very differently, and it’s not going to California,”…

Sen. John Kennedy said Wednesday that he plans to vote for landmark cryptocurrency legislation in the Senate Banking Committee this week, clearing the way for the bill to advance whether it wins bipartisan backing or not. “This is not a perfect bill,” the Louisiana Republican told reporters Wednesday. “But it’s a good bill, and it’s a good start.” Kennedy has been a major question mark for months on the crypto bill, as he has raised concerns about both the substance and the process surrounding the legislation. But he said Wednesday that he secured several changes to the new text —…

The conflict has cost Washington around $29 billion, US Defense Department’s top budget official told Congress The Pentagon has raised its estimate of the cost of the Iran war to $29 billion, though the figure remains well below projections from several think tanks.In late April, acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst told lawmakers in Congress that the war had cost Washington around $25 billion.Testifying in a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Hurst revised the assessment, attributing most of the costs to US munition stockpiles used against Iran.However, according to journalist and Security Policy Reform Institute co-founder Stephen Semler, Washington spent…

There’s an AI Shock Story Lurking Under the Hood of the April Producer Price Report Producer prices came in far hotter than expected in April, with the headline Producer Price Index rising 1.4 percent for the month—nearly triple Wall Street’s forecast—and six percent from a year earlier. Services prices rose 1.2 percent, and goods prices climbed two percent. Energy prices have understandably captured most of the attention. Final demand energy prices jumped 7.8 percent in April. Gasoline alone surged 15.6 percent. Diesel fuel, jet fuel, and residual fuels also rose. Not surprisingly, energy-adjacent services—especially trucking services—also rose sharply. This was,…

Emergency services were called to Brighton Beach early Wednesday morning over concern for a person in the water, leading to three bodies being recovered. Police are working to identify three females found in the English Channel off Brighton seafront and the public have been warned against speculating on the circumstances of their deaths. While the search for any other people in the water has now concluded, Brighton seafront remains choked by police and coastguard vehicles, and the beach is to remain closed for the rest of the day. A police statement said the emergency services were alerted over “concerns for…

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 12. Also testifying will be newly sworn-in ATF Director Robert Cekada, U.S. Marshal’s Director Gadyaces S. Serralta, and DEA Administrator Terry Cole. Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins sat down for an exclusive interview with Cekada just hours after he was sworn in last week: Read the full article here