Elon Musk: The FDNY Veteran Who Worked 9/11 and Covid Isn’t Qualified to Lead the Department www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

Trump’s Kennedy Center is now threatening to sue artists who won’t play the venue due to name change. Via Rolling Stone

Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

At Least 15 People Have Died in Tesla Crashes Due to Faulty Electric Doors www.autoblog.com/news/at-leas...

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

Elon Musk drops ‘sustainable’ from Tesla’s mission as he completes his villain arc electrek.co/2025/12/26/e...

Based on this metric, this is the most overbought Silver has ever been. Current silver price is now 77% above its 200 Day Moving Average

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

'The wills shed further light on the ties that both Staley and Summers had with the deceased sex offender in the years between Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea in Florida for charges including procurement of minors to engage in prostitution.' www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically .. “.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There’s some openness on the Fed to going for a inflation target range at some point but officials don’t want to do this until they hit 2% lest they be seen moving goal posts and eroding credibility.

US to begin garnishing wages for student debt next year www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Despite Trump’s best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs fortune.com/2025/11/25/j...

My take on GDP: the Trump Administration has to decide which storyline makes sense, a strong economy that doesn’t need rate cuts or a weak one that needs jumbo cuts. As for people’s lived experiences, for so many people, it’s the latter. For equity markets it’s the former.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department released a new trove of documents on Tuesday from its investigation into .. Jeffrey Epstein, including an email from a prosecutor indicating President Trump had traveled aboard his private jet "many more times than previously has been reported". @reuters.com

On GDP: So you have GDP supposedly growing at a 4.3% annualized rate and a Fed member calling for jumbo rate cuts. That makes no sense to me.

Trump’s poll numbers are underwater on every important metric including immigration www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion...

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

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‘I Hereby Give Myself $1 Billion.’ President Donald Trump bragged about his demand that the U.S. government give him a huge payout, and said he would be the ultimate arbiter of whether he will receive the money.

New Fox News poll shows Trump's approval on: Border Security: +2 Crime and public safety: -5 Immigration: -10 Foreign Policy: -15 Economy: -22 Healthcare: -25 Spending: -25 Tariffs: -28 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...

Juries keep pushing back against immigration cops.

“.. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/rele...

This Epstein files "release" is the most disgusting cover up in American history

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me If Romney is writing opeds like this, it’s a clear sign that a revolutionary backlash is coming. The repeal of ACA subsidies will be a big part of that www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

“A February 2025 report from RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, written by Carter C. Price found that if the system in place before 1975 had stayed in place, the bottom 90% of Americans would have had almost $80 trillion more in 2023 than they did.”

Fox News Poll: Forty-one percent are satisfied with direction of the country, up 10 points since last December Trump's job approval now 44% 72% rate the economy negatively www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

*KENNEDY CENTER TO BE RENAMED TRUMP-KENNEDY CENTER: LEAVITT Bloomberg Terminal headline

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

The early reviews for #CPI are rough. @wsj.com @nicktimiraos.bsky.social

How long will the downward bias remain in place from zero'ing out October data? Reminds me of the seasonal factor adjustments from the pandemic which were distorted for months by the shutdown before they had to re-do the adjustments

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

CPI came in at the lowest since 2021. Are the figures believable though? Skepticism is warranted

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

"Among those granted clemency was Jared Wise, a former FBI agent himself. According to bodycam footage submitted in court, Wise urged rioters to kill police during the Capitol siege. Wise now serves in the Trump administration." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Gonna say it again: Trump peaked in October. The shutdown sent him into a political death spiral. He doesn't know how to regain control.

Trump's economic approval hits a new low at 36%, poll finds www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...

Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board. Now they have asked for discovery to see his tax returns, medical and/or psychological health records, and history of prescription meds for the last ten years lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

Does Waller still have a shot as the next Fed Chair?

Just coming back to yesterday's US jobs report. In many ways it was poor. This stat is one of the more revealing ones

This could be explosive: "Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions" "Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

McKinsey is cutting thousands of workers as it increases its use of AI www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"There are lots of ways of valuing stocks, and pretty much all of them make U.S. shares look the most expensive since the dot-com bubble. The forward price-to-earnings ratio, price to cash flow..." www.wsj.com/finance/stoc... via @jmackin2.bsky.social

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

A SpaceX IPO would make Elon Musk a trillionaire www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Something markets are not going to like: Trump tells WSJ he’s leaning toward Hassett or Warsh for Fed chair. Both men raise concern among many observers over credibility, competence and independence.

DOJ is suing to obtain voting materials from the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia — the same county where President Trump was criminally charged in connection with a scheme to overturn the state’s election results.