Saturday, April 19, 2025

High unemployment, high inflation, and high interest rates 6% or higher all at the same time plagued the country for six years 1975-1982, but we survived

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 There were six years when all three, the unemployment rate, headline inflation, and 10-year US Treasury yield, were at 6% or higher on an a...

Supremes vote 7-2 to pause deportations of Venezuelans

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The Trump administration has been bragging that the Supremes let them deport Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which of cours...

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia told him that he was moved about nine days ago out of El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison

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 From the story here : ... He told me, yesterday, that eight days ago—so nine days ago from today—he was moved to another detention center ...
Friday, April 18, 2025

The Chicoms are helping the Houthis target ships in the Red Sea with satellite imagery

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Appointed 41 years ago by Ronald Reagan, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in an opinion for a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals shreds Trump's contempt of court

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 ... The administration is “asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due proc...

David Brooks calls for strikes

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 My idea from Feb 9 gets amplified.    
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Well, this is wild

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Wanting to capture power is about the least conservative thing about today's right wing

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 More recently, far-right writers like Curtis Yarvin, who’s influenced Vice President   JD Vance , have talked about how to capture power th...

Pete Wehner calls Trump America's mad king, lists twenty examples to date fewer than 90 days in

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    ... He is more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic than in his first term. ... Trump is America’s Mad King. ...  as the second...

LOL: The value of US Treasury securities held by foreigners soared to $8.8172 trillion in February 2025, up $817.9 billion year over year, or 10.2%

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 Oh, but the sky is falling, the 10Y's going to the moon, everyone's dumping their bonds, the dollar will stop being the reserve cur...

Gold sets another new record high soaring to $3,357.40

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  Gold prices eased on Thursday after a sharp rise in the previous session as investors booked profits ahead of a long weekend, although s...

Vice President Vance misleads people when he says immigration courts conduct jury trials, even worse he's defending deporting someone to foreign incarceration without any hearing whatsoever

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This guy is shaping up to be much worse than Donald Trump. Vance must never become president.  

The Golden Age of authoritarianism: Confrontation, corruption, contraction, con-jobs, and contempt

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  Trump again calls for Fed to cut rates, says Powell’s ‘termination cannot come fast enough’   Trump’s tariffs are ‘inviting corruption,’ D...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

LOL Trump tariff revenue, about $7 billion a month, is averaging what came in under Joe Biden in 2024, which was $7.2 billion per month

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  ... The agency said in a statement to CNBC, “Since April 5, CBP has collected over $500 million under the new reciprocal tariffs, contri...

UST 20Y auction: 4.81% vs. 4.632% previously

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Ten foods making new all time high average prices in March 2025 per FRED Economic Data

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Round roast $7.557 per pound Round steak $8.554 Ground chuck $5.854 Ground beef 100% $5.79 Ground beef all $6.137 Beef steaks all $10.98 Egg...

Gold climbs to $3,275.20 per ounce

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  CNBC .

Either everyone has due process, or nobody does

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At around noon on 14 April, 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government

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 On Monday Trump chose to ignore a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to repatriate an illegally deported man. More.

Suits for thee Zelenskyy, but not for me

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