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Home flipping flopped hard across the country in 2025, delivering investors their lowest profit margins in nearly 20 years.

Investors paid a median price of just over $259,000 for a home last year, flipping them for around $325,000, according to a new report from ATTOM (1), a nationwide real estate data firm. That resulted in average gross profits of $65,981, or a return on investment of 25.5%.

That ROI, the report noted, is the lowest since the Great Recession in 2008, and a 58% drop from the 2012 ROI high of 61.1%.

Joel Berner, senior economist at Realtor.com, also noted price concerns when it comes to house flipping.

“Affordability is what is keeping people out of the market, so they are not very responsive to paying more for a home that someone else has chosen the finishings for,” he said. “They prefer to buy fixer-uppers and put in the sweat equity themselves.”

The average U.S. home price in 2025 ranged between $508,000 and a post-pandemic high of $534,000.

https://moneywise.com/real-estate/home-flipping-profits-are-cratering

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-fighter-jet-shot-down-over-iran-search-underway-crew-us-official-says-2026-04-03/
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. fighter jet has been shot down over Iran and search-and-rescue efforts have so far recovered one of two crew members who ejected, a U.S. official told Reuters, in the first known incident of its kind in the nearly five-week-old war.
The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command did not respond to requests for comment.
The prospect of a U.S. pilot being alive and on the run inside Iran raises the stakes for the U.S. in a conflict that, according to opinion polls, has struggled to win popular support among Americans.
It also presents a challenge to the U.S. military, which faces the twin goals of trying to save the life of an American behind enemy lines while safeguarding anyone involved in perilous rescue missions.
The incident comes over a week after U.S. President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office that Iran's military had been defeated to the point that "we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can't do a thing about it."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had been briefed, without confirming any details of the incident.
Iranian officials called on civilians to be on the lookout for survivors and have flooded social media with images that purport to show wreckage from the aircraft.
Two U.S. officials said the aircraft was an F-15E fighter jet, which has two seats: one for a pilot and the second for a weapons systems officer. It was unclear which of the two was recovered, and the U.S. official who confirmed the recovery did not offer any details on how it took place.
U.S. air crews undergo training for what to do if they go down behind enemy lines, called Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training, or SERE, but few airmen are fluent in Persian and staying undetected while seeking rescue will be a challenge.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/trump-to-declare-iran-war-is-winding-down-and-others-need-to-resolve-hormuz-00854265
President Donald Trump will use a primetime address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly dismal poll numbers.

The president has telegraphed that message in interviews, social media posts and public comments over the past 24 hours, laying the groundwork for a speech that is expected to claim that all military objectives have been met, according to six people familiar with the planning and granted anonymity to speak candidly. He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House chief strategist, said the president will essentially declare victory, laying out what he’s achieved in Iran and what he will do before the U.S. leaves along with “dumping on the NATO allies – it’s their issue.”

“Two, three weeks, definable objectives. ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ — and we are hanging around a couple of weeks to conquer some more — maybe even then a ceasefire, while reiterating that the Hormuz situation is the Gulf Emirates’ and the Europeans’ to solve, and declare victory,” he added.

The president’s decision to deliver a major address about the war’s endgame, coming as an additional 2,500 U.S. Marines make their way to the region, may be primarily an attempt to assuage voters’ concerns and Wall Street’s unease about energy markets and the knock-on effects of the strait closure.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi is leaving her position, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, amid reports that he was frustrated with her handling of some of his key priorities.

"We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future," he said in a Truth Social post, adding that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would take over as the department's acting attorney general.

A senior administration official and a source familiar with the matter told NBC News that Bondi was fired.

Trump had grown “more and more frustrated” with Bondi in recent days, a person familiar with White House deliberations said, adding that while he likes her as a person, he doesn’t think she has “executed on his vision” in the way that he wants.

Blanche, who was formerly one of Trump's personal lawyers, thanked the president in a post on X.

"Pam Bondi led this Department with strength and conviction and I’m grateful for her leadership and friendship," he said. "Thank you to President Trump for the trust and the opportunity to serve as Acting Attorney General. We will continue backing the blue, enforcing the law, and doing everything in our power to keep America safe."

Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be axed by the president.Kristi Noem was fired last month as homeland security secretaryin a descent that mirrored Bondi’s. NBC News reported that Trump grew increasingly frustrated with Noem but that her performance at two congressional hearings is what finally cost her the job.

>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/bondi-fired-attorney-general-trump-rcna266378

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https://newrepublic.com/post/208460/fema-official-gregg-phillips-teleportation

>As CNN reported in late March, Phillips has spoken on multiple podcasts about his teleportation activities, which include having gone to a church and to the breakfast restaurant chain. On one of the podcasts, Phillips, who serves as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Association, said, “Teleporting is no fun. It was real.” But a follow-up CNN report reveals that Phillips has since doubled down, posting repeatedly on social media that the experience is real and connected to his religious beliefs.

>On Truth Social late last month, Phillips wrote, “I know what I’ve experienced, I know Who I serve.” Replying to another detractor, Phillips posted, “I have no regrets for my words nor my faith in my Savior, Jesus Christ. The Bible has many examples of the power of God.” In still another post, Phillips cited a passage from the New Testament’s Book of Acts where the Holy Spirit “snatched” away the apostle Philip after a baptism on a road between Jerusalem and Gaza, and Philip is then described as showing up in the city of Azotus, miles away.

>On a podcast in January 2025, Phillips said of the Waffle House experience, “I was with my boys one time, and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House—this was in Georgia, and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was.”

>Phillips’s job at FEMA has a lot of responsibility, dealing with emergency aid, restoring infrastructure, search and rescue operations, and distributing disaster assistance amounting to billions of dollars. At least one high-ranking official at the agency has praised his efforts, calling him “FEMA’s best hope at this moment” when he was hired back in December.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-john-eastman-00851127

Long before John Eastman helped devise Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, he had another pet cause: ending birthright citizenship.

The idea was once relegated to obscure articles in right-wing journals and little-noticed debates before conservative groups. But Trump ushered it into the limelight on his first day back in office last year by issuing an executive order purporting to upend the well-established understanding that virtually everyone born on U.S. soil gets American citizenship.

Now, Eastman is about to realize a decades-long dream: getting the Supreme Court to consider his radical theory that the Constitution doesn’t automatically confer citizenship on those born in the U.S. The justices are set to hear oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of Trump’s policy.

Yet, when Trump signed his order on the subject last year, he made no mention of the former law school dean and Supreme Court clerk’s long advocacy for the cause. And while the Justice Department’s public briefs closely track Eastman’s arguments, they don’t cite his writings or acknowledge his role as the theory’s leading evangelist.

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https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-considering-pulling-out-of-nato/
President Donald Trump rattled NATO allies on Wednesday morning, as he strongly suggested that the U.S. was weighing whether to pull out of the transatlantic military alliance.

"I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration,” Trump told the Telegraph newspaper, when asked if he would think twice about the U.S.’s membership of the alliance after the Middle East conflict is over.

NATO allies have infuriated Trump by uniformly resisting joining the U.S. and Israeli assault on Iran, and rebuffed calls from the president for them to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical energy waterway that Tehran has effectively blocked in retaliation for the bombardment.

“I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” Trump added.

His remarks were published hours after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington may need to reconsider its relationship with NATO once the war against Iran is over, sharply escalating pressure on European allies that America accuses of withholding support.

Still, Trump cannot legally exit NATO unilaterally. Under a 2023 law passed under former President Joe Biden, a withdrawal would require backing from two-thirds of the Senate or an Act of Congress.

Trump also slammed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer again for Britain's refusal to back America in its war with Iran, and belittled the U.K.'s military.


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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/police-said-to-arrest-14-trying-to-smuggle-sacrificial-goat-onto-temple-mount/

The far-right legal aid organization Honenu says that 14 Jewish men and boys have been arrested by police for trying to smuggle sacrificial goats onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

In ancient times, Passover provided another chance for those who had not been able to bring the Passover sacrifice to the Jerusalem Temple to fulfill the religious commandment.

Past years have seen similar attempts around the religious festival to smuggle in goats for sacrifice on the Temple Mount, an ultra-sensitive site holy to both Jews and Muslims.

video: https://www.fcebook.com/aljazeera/videos/israelis-filmed-themselves-attempting-to-bring-goats-into-the-al-aqsa-mosque-com/918262201122330/

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https://nypost.com/2026/03/31/us-news/pictures-of-kristi-noems-husband-cross-dressing-raise-grave-security-concerns/
These are the photos that allegedly show Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon wearing comically oversized, lopsided breasts – complete with fake protruding nipples – to female members of an online fetish community. The Daily Mail obtained “hundreds” of messages purportedly sent between the former Secretary of Homeland Security’s husband and three women who are involved in the so-called “bimbofication” fetish scene.

The kinky community involves people injecting their busts with freakishly large amounts of saline in pursuit of a “Barbie-doll”-like appearance.

The pictures show the South Dakota insurance mogul, who has three children with Noem, clad in pink hotpants and a skin-tight, flesh-colored crop-top stuffed with enormous balloons made to resemble massive cockeyed breasts.

His face is clearly visible in several of the photos, including one in which his expression is so mundane it could be from a driver’s license photo.

“Damaging information like this can be a tantalizing lead for a hostile intelligence service,” former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos told the outlet.

“They approach the person and say, if you work with us we won’t expose this, and if you don’t, we will. That’s espionage 101.”

Kristi Noem was ousted from her role at DHS on March 5 after a pair of disastrous congressional hearings, including fumbling a question about whether she was having an affair with married top aide Corey Lewandowski.


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https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order

President Trump on Tuesday escalated his efforts to reshape American elections, signing an executive order that seeks to create lists of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state, and instructing the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to verified voters.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he believes the order is legally "foolproof." But election experts said the order was unconstitutional, and voting rights advocates and Democratic state officials quickly pledged to sue to block the order from going into effect.

A previous executive order on elections, signed about a year ago, has been blocked by federal judges who said the president lacked the constitutional authority to set voting policy.

The Constitution says the "Times, Places and Manner" of federal elections are determined by individual states, with Congress able to enact changes.

"This Executive Order is a disgusting overreach from the federal government and shows how little the Trump Administration understands about election administration," Adrian Fontes, the Democratic secretary of state of Arizona, said in a statement Tuesday. "We will not let this order stand without a fight and will meet the federal government in court," he added.

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Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15692625/Tyler-Robinson-bullet-rifle-match-Charlie-Kirk.html
The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk may not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients
Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed — watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles and wheeling herself down the hallways of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit.

Coulson had been admitted to Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January 2016, after Parkinson’s disease left her at risk of choking when she swallowed. That April, the facility’s operations were taken over by Skyline Healthcare, a New Jersey-based company that was buying up nursing homes across the country.

Medical records for the retired cardiac nurse, then 71, were marked “NPO” — nothing by mouth.

Then that September, a nursing assistant found Coulson unresponsive and hanging off the side of her bed, her skin ashy and her breathing shallow. She was taken to a hospital in a coma and died several days later. The chief cause of death was aspiration pneumonia, according to her death certificate.

“The doctors said they found scrambled eggs in her lungs,” said her daughter Melissa Coulson.

Coulson’s death and the circumstances surrounding it led her family to file a lawsuit against Skyline and its owner, the New Jersey businessman Joseph Schwartz, alleging that cost-cutting at Hillview left Coulson without the care she needed. It was one of several lawsuits tied to patient outcomes as Schwartz’s empire expanded and then unraveled, with much of the chain collapsing by 2018.

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An indicator linked to Walmart, one that's preceded the last 4 economic downturns, is flashing a recession warning, according to Wall Street economists.

Jim Paulsen — a longtime economist and the former chief investment strategist — maintains the Walmart Recession Signal (WRS), which measures Walmart's stock price against a basket of luxury stocks. The general idea is that the higher the gauge goes, the more risk there is of a sharp economic downturn.

As the chart shows, the WRS is the highest since the Global Financial Crisis nearly two decades ago.

Given the string of bad job data, consumer credit increases, rising inflation and now gas price increases a major recession is a certainty.

https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-indicator-outlook-walmart-stock-price-us-economy-outlook-2026-3

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8d47vzz13o
The average price of gas at the pump has topped $4 in the US for the first time in nearly four years as the Iran war continues to push up fuel prices.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now $4.02, more than a dollar higher than when the war began, according to the AAA motoring organisation. The price of diesel is also around $1.70 higher.

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway, for the past month has meant the production and transportation of energy across the Middle East has slowed or stopped entirely.

The cost of crude oil, a vital ingredient in gas and diesel, has surged as a result.

Before the conflict began on 28 February, gas in the US averaged about $2.98 a gallon.

Diesel, which is key to goods transport, was about $3.76. The average price is now $5.45, a rise expected to feed into higher food costs.

In addition to high crude oil prices, last week the AAA also pointed to high demand for gas from spring break season as another factor in rising pump prices.


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> 3/30/2026
Happy Birthday to the Drudge Report Headline Rundown! It began late March 2025 because of the Liberation Day Protests (I thought they were proTrump but still made the thread anyway.)

Trump approval -33 (usually Drudge has it at 36%)
> https://www.umass.edu/news/article/president-trumps-approval-sinks-33-new-umass-poll
Baaaaaaad thing to do…: White House rejects Pope’s warning…
> https://www.barrons.com/news/after-pope-s-remark-white-house-defends-praying-for-us-troops-bcfceba0
Iran sets toll for Strait of Hormuz…
> https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-iran-approves-plan-impose-36945921
Houthis pressured on Red Sea.
> https://archive.is/jQGyn
US airlines could run out of fuel in weeks?
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jet-fuel-spikes-airlines-warn-supplies-could-run-dry-within-weeks
Oil at high.
> https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/30/oil-price-today-wti-brent-yemen-houthis-israel-iran-war.html

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