Thursday, April 23, 2026

As if ICE doesn't have enough money already from the Big Ugly Bill to murder Americans in our own streets, the bloodthirsty GOP Senate has voted to give them MORE intending to use the budget reconciliation trick

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    U.S. Senate votes to advance $70 billion funding plan for ICE, Border Patrol ... Lawmakers voted 50-48 in the predawn ​hours to adopt th...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The incredible shrinking U.S. House of Represenatives in April 2026

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Does anyone remember The Bedford Incident?

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 "If they fire one, we'll fire one". With the United States blockading all supply coming in to Iran and seizing some vessels, ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

New narrative alert as Trump tanks in the polls: Iran War was about 6 weeks as Trump said it would be!

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I mean, that's true right? We are in week 8, and the two week ceasefire which expires tomorrow has been extended indefinitely because Tr...

Buffett Indicator in the news

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 Wall Street on red alert as Warren Buffett’s favorite stock market gauge hits the worst reading EVER ...  The so-called Buffett indicator ...

Well, at least he didn't say two weeks

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 ðŸ¤£  Trump extends ceasefire in Iran, citing ‘seriously fractured’ Iranian government  

WTI has been more or less $90 since March 6th, mostly more

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Speaking of whiplash

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  Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns, third House member to quit this month    

More whiplash, ouch

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  Vance trip to Pakistan for Iran talks is on hold, NYT reports

Speaking of Rome . . .

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JMIC Update 035 for the Middle East maritime region is confusing

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 The data boxes cover April 14-20 but are entitled April 12-18. And what is "2BAM Total" lol? Only The Sweet know for sure. Anyway...

Hear ye, hear ye, all ye who voted thrice for Nixon and thrice for Reagan, twice for Clinton and twice for W, twice for Obama and thrice for Trump

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 The Roman people were grossly gulled twice or thrice over, and as often enslaved in one century, and under the same pretence of reformation...
Monday, April 20, 2026

WaPo thinks Nick Fuentes has grifted roughly $900k from poor, gullible people since the beginning of 2025

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WASH POST: We calculated how much Fuentes earns from live-streaming...

The MAGA tariff unwind begins lol

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HUMILIATION: Administration to Begin Refunding $166 Billion in Tariffs...   Businesses can claim refunds for Trump tariffs ruled unconstitut...

Lori Chavez-Deremer fired before she could be grilled in an upcoming congressional hearing, same as Pam Bondi

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Trump is tired of the bad PR episodes like the one he got from Kristi Noem.   Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer leaves Trump cabinet, Keit...

SPX rallied 10% after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but ended the year down 19%

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SPX is up almost 12% since March 30th.   Investors are misreading news about the Iran war, analysts say as markets whipsaw ... The resumptio...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Well of course

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The U.S. Navy has intercepted, disabled, and taken possession of Iranian cargo ship Touska

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Through yesterday, KGRR Michigan precipitation is 7.03 inches above normal for 2026 year to date

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 Wish the rest of you could have some of it. Our rivers are flooding.    

JMIC update 034 for the Middle East maritime region shows Strait of Hormuz combined cargo and tanker transits averaging 7.5 vessels per day April 12-18 vs. 138 normally

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 But tankers exiting the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz average just 2 per day April 12-18. After the 13th, just 10 tankers have ...