#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

So after all the “controversy” over absolutely nothing, the halftime show was really fantastic. I don’t know what all the words were but I caught a few things and I caught the gist. It was a celebration of his roots. It felt like visiting Puerto Rico. The horns, the cameos, the sets. A+++++

Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

What Hess said: “There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t. … Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.” Trump, the actual president, has insulted Dems repeatedly. wapo.st/46eFns3

The paradigm has shifted. Time to update your priors.

Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phase 1: Fuck Your Feelings Phase 2: Both Sides Tho Phase 3: Show Me Grace

BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

Another 10% down and he’ll move from pounding the table to backing up the truck.

Bitcoin's return over past 5 years now lags the S&P 500, while Gold has trounced both of them.

Economy putting up numbers we haven’t seen in years. A+++

A+++ economy

At what point does a misrepresentation become a lie?

Pet Iguana Assumed He’d Move Out Of Starter Tank By Now https://theonion.com/pet-iguana-assumed-hed-move-out-of-starter-tank-by-now/

The number of stocks on the S&P 500 hitting new highs reached triple-digits today, posting the best reading since late-2024. The index has cooled off, but breadth is not backing down.

I've often argued that only human beings can be moral actors, not the State. But although the State cannot replace human compassion and kindness, this is in no way an excuse for human beings aiding and abetting the State in acts of cruelty or immorality.

A+++ work here.

US JOB MARKET IS WEAKENING BENEATH THE HEADLINES. Involuntary part-time employment (people working part-time because they can’t find full-time jobs) has climbed to 5.34 million, the second-highest level since 2021, and well above levels seen during the 2001 recession.

So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever “ahead” or “behind” until the counting is over.

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

His president’s approval rating is near 40%. Maybe not such a “rare” misstep.

Sounds like he doesn’t want to cede his Board of Governors position to Trump’s Fed Chair in waiting. If Powell doesn’t leave in May, either Miran or Warsh doesn’t have a seat at the table in the Eccles building.

Seriously, I’d like to know what verses he’s claiming to back up his “the bible says when we welcome you in, you have to assimilate.” And also which verses are like “if we don’t feel like welcoming you in anymore we’ll ship you back to a country you’ve never known to be killed.”

I don’t see arguing with the pope over scripture as a winning strategy.

Cato has now put out a statement in my name responding to Donald Trump's latest "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.’ We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” Online at: www.cato.org/news-release...

American culture is a grown man physically assaulting high school girls.

Trump: [Trevor Noah] said I spent time on Jeffrey’s— Jeffrey Epstein's island. I didn't. He's a lightweight, this guy, I think he's terrible.

“Joking”

Donald Trump is suing the federal government for $10 billion. That is your money. Never in our history have we seen something like this. The billionaire President always has a new plan to make himself richer, but never a plan to make your bills more affordable.

Progress is being able to be down 8% on a Saturday afternoon.

Warsh cannot serve as Chairman of the Fed without also having a spot on the Board of Governors. If Powell sticks around as a Governor once his term as Chair concludes, Warsh would have to take Miran's spot on the Board.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

85% of ACWI markets finished January at new monthly highs - that’s the highest level (broadest participation) we have seen in at least 30 years.

My son’s attempt to quote Robert Frost: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and you took the wrong one.”

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

Reminder that whoever is going to be the next Fed Chair first needs to be on the Board of Governors.

5PM sunset in Milwaukee today and dusk is starting to linger. The sun won't set prior to 5pm again until November. We are getting more than 2 minutes a day of additional daylight every day. The days are getting longer - soon they'll even get warmer. Love this time of year.

“AI is likely to increase the productivity and wages of many of these roles long before it eliminates them. Task automation typically reorganizes work well before it destroys jobs, if it does the latter at all.” www.wsj.com/opinion/were...

Sox versus rocks?

Will Powell stay on the Fed board or go? He won’t say. The silence is a bit awkward—and strategic. It’s the last card he’s got, and the DOJ probe illustrates why he hasn’t played it. (It’s also making his decision harder than it had to be.) www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Greenspan would “almost certainly” have stayed at the Fed if Clinton hadn’t reappointed him as chair in 1996, per Woodward’s 2000 biography. “If he had to move down the table out of the chairman’s seat, he felt that there was enough respect for his views that he could still have some influence.”

Rand Paul: "There has to be an investigation. I don't know who trusts an investigation done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an 'assassin,' a 'domestic terrorist,' saying he was assaulting police. How can they be in charge of an independent investigation? Something's got to happen."

Rand Paul: "When people watch that video and the government tells them, 'Well, he was assaulting the police officers,' nobody with any objectivity believes that. No American believes he was assaulting the officers. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. So we have to get some rules of the game."

Conference Board: confidence has fallen to its lowest level in 12 years. Trump: They tell me, “Sir, confidence is at levels we haven’t seen in over a decade.”

The II bull-bear spread climbed to a new cycle high and is above 45% for the first time since December 2024. The risk to equities is not elevated optimism itself, but the shift from elevated optimism to outright pessimism. It takes bulls to have a bull market. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

Administration tells us dollar is strong, just like the economy is strong and Trump’s approval ratings are strong.

Dangerous domestic terrorist vs patriotic 2A enthusiast

He will simultaneously keep them high for current owners while also lowering them for new buyers.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.