But you can see it here.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
David Brooks: When it comes to fueling rage, it's all on ICE because they are incendiary, unrestrained, acting like thugs
... As to the events of what actually happened, I'm not going to render a
judgment on what happened, because we're going to have an investigation.
I will leave it to them. And I hope Minnesota has full information to
do the investigation.
But what Jonathan said is absolutely correct, that the atmosphere that
ICE has created is incendiary, that people who have power and have guns
are supposed to exercise restraint, and they are doing the opposite. And
the crust of civilization is thin. And once people with guns and with
power begin acting like thugs, well, then things are going to spiral.
And that's what we have seen. ...
More.
Trump's mortgage bond proposal imitates his own "stupid" Jerome Powell on the financing side to reduce interest rates, which is what helped make homes 50% more unaffordable in the first place
The perfect storm of government MBS purchases and sub-3% mortgages through ZIRP in 2021 combined to rocket housing values by 50%.
Housing reached record low affordability a year later, falling to 17.22%.
Yeah, let's do more of that.
Back in the 1990s, before Bill Clinton and the Uniparty got a hold of it and turned it into a commodity, housing was stable and affordable as median income bought 25% of a home.
Trump hasn't gotta clue what to do.
... In the first two months of the Covid pandemic, as markets reeled, the Federal Reserve purchased $580 billion in agency MBS. It then continued buying more throughout the year. From March 2020 through June 2021, the Federal Reserve increased its agency MBS holdings from $1.4 trillion to $2.3 trillion, according to the Dallas Fed.
The Federal Reserve also lowered its own lending rate to zero. The combination brought the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage to record lows, hitting just 2.75% at the start of 2021, according to Mortgage News Daily. ...
... But Zelman also points out that in the broader home market it’s not just the mortgage rate, but overall affordability that is keeping buyers sidelined. Consumers are stretched, and home prices are close to 50% higher than they were pre-pandemic, ironically because of those record-low mortgage rates brought on by MBS purchases. ...
Friday, January 9, 2026
Federal employment in Dec 2025 is about what it was in 2014 under Obama, despite 277,000 employees sent packing since January 2025
Trump has cut the federal workforce by about 9.2%, but federal employment has actually grown a little since October. Year over year in December federal employment is down 274,000.
Year over year in December local government employment in the United States has grown by 170,000, while state government employment nationwide is down 45,000.
The three categories yield a net cut in government employment at all levels nationwide year over year of 149,000.
Donald Trump has so far done nothing to boost manufacturing employment, which is down 208,000 since Feb 2023 through Dec 2025
Trump's peak average was 12.779 million manufacturing employees in 2019.
We're at 12.732 million on average in 2025.
The 2023 average was 12.873 million, the post-Great Recession peak.
More people than ever are NOT in the labor force under Donald Trump in Dec 2025, 104.094 million, worse than COVID!, and 37.57% on average in 2025 were eating but not working
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| The Rush Limbaugh-Donald Trump Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate Dec 2025 spiked to 37.87% |
The unemployment rate in 2025 averaged 4.26% for 11 months of data even as initial claims for unemployment averaged an historically low, if not the lowest, 224k per week
The low but rising unemployment rate on a monthly basis since 2023 seems out of whack with a relatively flat initial claims average on an annual basis since 2021.
Just 49.02% had a full time job in December 2025
The October data remains missing, so the average for 11 months of 2025 comes in at 49.3%, down from 49.65% in 2024.
Full time has been trending lower on a monthly basis since the recent period peak in Jun 2023 at 50.92%
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Why not both?
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.
-- RFK
WaPo: ICE agent was able to move out of the way because victim steered car to the right to flee, and fired shots two and three from the side of the vehicle through the open window
Here:
ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired the fatal shots, video shows
... The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis. ... The SUV quickly pulls forward, and then veers to the right, in the correct direction of traffic on the one-way street.
As the vehicle moves forward, video shows, the agent moves out of the way and at nearly the same time fires his first shot. The footage shows that his other two shots were fired from the side of the vehicle.
Videos examined by The Post, including one shared on Truth Social by Trump, do not clearly show whether the agent is struck or how close the front of the vehicle comes to striking him. ...
Video shows the agent walking around the scene for more than a minute after the shooting. ...
In November we get to remind Stephen Miller that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, whose duty it is to alter or abolish government when it attacks life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, abroad or at home
Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman’s View of the World
... “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper of CNN on Monday, during a combative appearance in which he was pressed on Mr. Trump’s long-held desire to control Greenland. ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
The Federalist goes full-on Orwell: Intervention in Venezuela was a win for Anti-Interventionism
We had to intervene in Venezuela to preserve the policy of anti-interventionism.
We had to destroy the village to save it.
We had to abandon free-market principles to save the free market system.
We had to attack the Confederacy in order to preserve the Union.
As usual Trump puts the cart before the horse: If you don't already have total access, you're not in charge
And you don't put protective tariffs on trade when you have nothing to protect.
“We’re in charge,” he told reporters. “We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country.”
More.
The dopes around Trump thought the Cartel de los Soles was a real entity, including Marco Rubio to this day
Pam Bondi forced to admit Trump's Maduro claim is a complete fiction
... Cartel de los Soles is actually a slang term invented by Venezuelan media in the 1990s to describe officials who take drug money as bribes.
The revised indictment against Maduro now concedes that point against the now deposed dictator.
The old indictment refers to the Cartel de los Soles 32 times and claims Maduro is the leader of the organization. The revised document now only claims Maduro upheld the patronage system along with his predecessor and mentor, President Hugo Chávez. ...
Marco Rubio continued referring to Cartel de los Soles as an actual organization during a Sunday interview on NBC's show Meet the Press.
'We will continue to reserve the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs toward the United States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de los Soles,' Rubio claimed.
'Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel, is now in U.S. custody and facing US justice in the Southern District of New York. And that's Nicolas Maduro.' ...
The GOP grip on the U.S. House remains tenuous with the sudden death of Doug LaMalfa, CA-1, at 65
The Erinyes keep pursuing the Republicans for their crimes.
Sudden death of Republican lawmaker shaves GOP House margin to three votes
... [Doug] LaMalfa's death imperils the Republican House majority, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with just a three-vote margin after the formal resignation of Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Monday.
House makeup is presently 218 Republicans to 213 Democrats, leaving Republicans able to lose no more than two votes on any party-line measure, assuming full attendance and participation.
It was also revealed Tuesday that Indiana Republican Congressman Jim Baird, aged 80, has been hospitalized after a car accident.
Democrats are set to gain one additional vote in their caucus after a runoff election in Texas later this month to replace Congressman Sylvester Turner, who passed away last March, taking the Republican margin down to two votes.
Another special election will take place to replace former New Jersey Democratic Congresswoman Mikie Sherill in April after she was elected the state's governor in November. ...
Texas' Tyrant Governor, Republican Greg Abbott, has deliberately denied representation in the US House to the residents of TX-18 since March 2025.
Monday, January 5, 2026
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