What is going on???

PASSED: the House just passed the resolution to end Trump's tariffs on Canada. Not many crosses from Republicans, a lot of vulnerable incumbents took a dumb vote here to stick with Trump and GOP leadership. Goes to the Senate, which is likely to pass it. Will share the vote sheet when I have it!

A body made up of CBP/DHS/DOJ is not, in fact, an independent org. CBP is part of DHS, and DOJ has been told to investigate victims of DHS abuse rather than the perpetrators of that abuse.

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

honestly impressive how much military aid Europe sent to Ukraine last year

In my decade working on affordable housing in NYC, I’ve seen SEQRA act as a barrier to housing time and time again. I’m so excited to see @governor.ny.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov working together to finally fix this and proud to stand with them this morning. Onwards!

I think the funniest part is that Dunn may be resigning due to a case of Long COVID. the first Long COVID Congressman is a Republican from Floribama

Oh cool they’re going to try to use the FTC to go after trans kids now. Cool cool cool. www.usajobs.gov/job/856161000

GOP Rep Dunn now giving “no comment” on reports he will resign early in FL02

A PARTY BALLOON www.cbsnews.com/news/airspac...

Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

Given repeated opportunities, AG Bondi repeatedly refuses to apologize for exposing the identities, sensitive information, and photographs of Epstein victims, attacking lawmakers for asking the question.

what these former Republican operatives don’t get about the Democratic Party is that when you are managing a coalition of voters who aren’t predominantly white, Protestant, and male, land acknowledgements or pronouns don’t signal “weakness”, but disavowing minority groups for political gain does

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

This is very funny. "The DNC and candidate are losing the money edge so you definitely should keep doing that and give to my org instead"

All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s kinda funny how the chief defense of “mass deportations now” at the RNC was “oh voters didn’t see that” but they were apparently absolutely dialed into pronouns and land acknowledgments at the DNC

asking jurors in a city occupied for months by the national guard to indict members of congress for telling servicemembers they don't need to obey unlawful orders, under a statute likely unconstitutional under the first amendment. masterful gambit sir

kudos to anyone else who voted in the special elections held in New York last week – it was painfully cold

MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"

Great charts on sectoral impacts of benchmark revisions. Really really big hits to retailers, wholesalers, transportation/warehousing, and finance.

This is what happens when good rail service is so limited. No you don’t. That’s not true.

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The US continues losing blue-collar jobs—year-on-year job losses have hit 170k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction remains low

BOOCKVAR: ".. ALL of the job creation came from the private education/heath care sector which contributed 137k jobs .. Leisure/hospitality added just 1k while professional/biz services hired a net 34k .. retail added only 1k. Jobs were lost in trade/transport, information and financial services."

This is very much the case. The spending of the wealthy is really the only thing propping up the economy at this point.

The regular annual benchmark revisions to jobs data released today cut roughly 1M from US payroll estimates, revealing a slower pace of job growth throughout 2024 and 2025

Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.

would be very interested to know what type of bets people within the administration are placing, but also don’t discount that these people are wildly incompetent and regularly trip all over the rollout of positive news in new and incredible ways

U.S. jobs growth is *entirely* one sector. Last month, growth in private education and health services accounted for +137k of +130k jobs added Over the past three months, it's +246k of +219k Last six months: +367k of +85k Last year: +773k of +359k

Annual benchmark revision -862k vs -825k exp/-911k prelim. Not much to see there at first blush.

Solid number January 2026 (+130k). However, the change in total nonfarm employment for 2025 was revised from +584,000 to +181,000 (seasonally adjusted). So much weaker than initially estimated

CNN aviation reporter

Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits

January Employment Situation Report due at 8:30 ET. Economists expect +65k NFP; I see some downside risk to that. On the unemployment side, rate expected stable at 4.4%; I also see downside risk there given recent continuing claims data. We'll also get the final benchmark revision for March '25.

RULE VOTE FAILS, 217-214. Three Republicans- Thomas Massie, Kevin Kiley, and Don Bacon - buck the party to allow floor consideration of measures to end Trump's tariffs. The first such measure, likely on Canada tariffs, could come up as soon as tomorrow

the thing about AOC 2028 that reminds me of Trump 2016 is that it seems obvious *somebody* will take her down but as soon as you get to individual names you have your doubts anyone actually can

Trump's DOJ tells the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office to block investigations into ICE shootings and prosecute Don Lemon instead ... Joseph Thompson *quits Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office and *represents Don Lemon instead good shit

The framers were wrong about a lot of stuff but they were definitely onto something with juries

how have they not already removed him

Jesus Christ

Team USA takes down Team Canada in DOMINANT fashion as they beat them 5-0 in women’s hockey at the #MilanoCortina2026 Olympic games 🇺🇸🇨🇦

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."