NO SECRET POLICE IN AMERICA. That’s what we want.

I thought deporting immigrants was supposed to raise jobs numbers.

1/11 SCMP: "China’s potential growth rate could fall to about 2.5 per cent in the coming years unless action is taken, prominent Chinese economist Zhou Tianyong has warned." sc.mp/itwrt?utm_so...

1/5 Reuters: "The EU should consider either an unprecedented 30% across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods or a 30% depreciation of the euro against the renminbi to counter a flood of cheap imports, a French government strategy report said on Monday." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

JPM: “.. Software has undergone the largest non-recessionary 12M drawdown in over 30 years (-34%) .. Given the positioning flush, .. we believe the balance of risks is increasingly skewed towards a rebound .. we recommend investors add exposure ..” #$IGV

Good morning Bloomberg has published a piece about an “asset” that’s lost 94% of its value in its under one year of existence. The theme of the piece? It’s holding up surprisingly well! I can’t

🤡 @reuters.com www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Take the vaccine, please.” 🤡 @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...

“.. Chapter 12 bankruptcies increased for the second year in a row .. a 46% increase from 2024.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.fb.org/market-intel...

From The Wall Street Journal on the US to the ROW stock rotation: "After years making outsize bets on the largest U.S. companies, investors are moving more money into international markets.... 1 of 2

The anniversary of Liberation Day is fast approaching. And we're still promising trade deals in a "couple of weeks."

an open and shut quid pro quo in which this guy bought a pardon and the Trumps raked >$1b staggering corruption

ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations reut.rs/46wwn1j

“.. The programs slated to be cut are in California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Worst retail sales since May.

Don’t be a Panican, though. 🤡

James Comer spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying and failing to prove that there was a policy connection between Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014 and his VP dad. But Comer won’t spend a day or a dollar investigating this.

Gee, can someone remind me who is responsible for this antagonism?

Trump has repeatedly claimed ICE targets the “worst of the worst.”

Serious national issues being discussed on Fox with serious experts.

There’s no war. The US wasn’t attacked, and isn’t under imminent threat. Congress didn’t authorize it. Treaties don’t allow it. Drugs aren’t armaments. Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists. Even with all that, we don’t know these were all drug traffickers. And even if they were, they’re low level.

For context:

Had enough of this shit yet, Michigan?

Literally searching for outgroups to scare people about "That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Last thing, on wages. Quarterly employment cost index data (controls for composition changes) showed core wages up 3.3% annualized. That's consistent with solidly positive real wage growth even with still above-target inflation and suggests productivity is being passed to wages at the margin.

I'd expect December/January consumer spending numbers to be pretty soft, but 1) evidence suggests we've already bounced back from flu/storms impact 2) this was pretty easy to see coming down the pike. I'll be worried about consumer spending if high frequency indicators rollover/don't bounce into Feb

there's just enough acumen sprinkled around Trump's economic team to comprehend jobs growth is structurally challenged for the next 6 months and they're trying to lower the bar

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Yes. This is why you should beware of people who speak of the lessons or verdict of history as if future students of evil will always judge it harshly rather than glorify and aspire to it. If history teaches anything it is that history will not conform to your pleasant delusions at some later date.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Capital is winning labor is losing. That's it -- the whole story. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

BREAKING: KIMBAL MUSK SAYS KIMBAL MUSK IS INNOCENT #$TSLA #$TSLAQ #SPACEX

WSJ: Trump on track to blow a huge hole in attempts to keep climate change from destroying life on the earth: “This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.”

Listed Real Estate returns pre-COVID vs post-COVID

NEW: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to dramatically restrict mail-in voting nationwide and asking the justices to rule that ballots arriving after Election Day — even if mailed on time under state law — should not be counted.

REITs

Math is hard.

“.. it is far from clear that Johnson will actually have the necessary votes. .. as few as two Republicans could derail the effort.” @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

It’s bizarre that we felt we had to trot out ICE at the Olympics. What did they think would happen?

Perfect

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

An Irishman living in the U.S. for over 20 years who has been detained by ICE since last September describes the experience as “torture.” “I don’t know how much more I can take,” Seamus Culleton said, calling for Prime Minister Micheál Martin to raise his case with Trump during his upcoming visit.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

More than half of the world’s new electric cars are now plugging into Chinese sockets instead of lining up at gas stations. By 2024, it is estimated that China’s EV sales were growing about 40% year on year, even as some Western markets stumbled. www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...

Holy crap, put this old heffer out to pasture already.