Mollie Hemingway just wrote a book fanning the flames she decries at the Supreme Court

Zero self-awareness.

 

Collegiality of SCOTUS Is Under Attack - and It's Dangerous

Mollie Hemingway, NYP

 

... Recently, however, the court’s famed collegiality has been strained by justices wondering out loud about how their colleagues got there. ... 

 

 

 

Yeah, but what Trump saved with military spending cuts to Ukraine he's blowing on the Iran war, which is why he's asking for $1.5 trillion in defense spending next year

 Europe’s rearmament push drives global military spending to record $2.9 trillion despite U.S. pullback

The U.S. national debt is up $3.069 trillion to date since November 1, 2024, an annual rate of deficit spending of $2.2 trillion after seventeen months of Donald Trump. 

... Global military spending as a share of GDP climbed to 2.5%, its highest level since 2009, the report showed. Europe was the main driver of the increase in global spending, with spending rising 14% to $864 billion. ...

While global defense spending continued to grow, the growth rate slowed to 2.9% in 2025, markedly lower than the 9.7% rise in 2024. This was largely due to a 7.5% reduction in U.S. military expenditure after no new financial assistance for Ukraine was approved during the year. The U.S. remained the world’s largest defense spender at $954 billion. ...

The Pentagon has requested about $1.5 trillion in defense spending for fiscal 2027, which would mark the largest request in history. ...

JMIC Update 37 for tanker traffic in the Straits of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb 19-25 April 2026

 SoH E: 2.4/day

SoH W: 1.0/day (ZERO 23-25 Apr)

Normal 2022: 70

Down 95% 

 

BAM SE: 7.1/day

BAM NW: 8.4/day

Normal 2022: 30 

Down 48% 

Well, that's what ugly does doesn't it?

 Forgotten no more: Generation X is driving beauty sales

Yes, I'm in a   m o o d   today. 

I wonder how many of the groceries are still alive

 36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4

Just in time for the future convicts of the Trump administration

 I thought it was liberals who were infamous for the death wish?

DOJ says it will use firing squads, electrocution again for federal executions 

 

 

That spineless weasel so-called spending hawk Chip Roy (TX-21) is so desperate to win his attorney general race in Texas that he's proposing DHS pay for Trump's ballroom now

 

Newt Gingrich is in the media so much because he's still $4.86 million in the hole for his 2012 run against Romney for the GOP presidential nomination

Gotta pay the bills somehow.

 

Vanguard Energy Fund VGENX is up 21.05% year to date

 That's down from +24.06% ytd through March 31, 2026.

Per annum over 5 years as of March 31: 20.71%. 

Year to date gold and silver are beating the S&P 500

 

As an inflation fighter, Jerome Powell turned out to be twice as bad as Arthur Burns

Under Powell core pce inflation exceeded 10Y yield for 4 consecutive years (2020-2023).

Under Burns it was for only 2 (1974-1975).

The Bernank was Fed chair in 2012 when inflation only just barely outran 10Y yield.

 

Well, Trump did promise to triple the mine sweepers in the Strait of Hormuz lol

 

Because socialism is expensive

 Scarborough: How Did We Spend Trillions On Defense—And We're Running Out Of Munitions After A One-Month War?

Late stage casino

 Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account

When the going gets tough, cave lol

 DOJ drops criminal probe of Fed Chair Powell, removes hurdle for Warsh confirmation

Strait of Hormuz/Bab-el-Mandeb Strait JMIC Update 036 for 16-22 April 2026 tanker traffic

SoH E tankers: 2.57 per day April 16-22

SoH W tankers: 2.00 per day

Normal (2022): ~70.00 total per day

Down 93% 

BAM tankers SE: 6.57 per day April 16-22

BAM tankers NW: 6.28 per day 

Normal (2022): ~30.00 total per day

Down 57% 

 

Trump approval makes another new low in Real Clear Average, disapproval makes another new high

 

Ruh roh, he didn't say "two weeks"

 Trump says Americans should expect higher gas prices for ‘a little while’

Adjusted for inflation from 1995, the average mortgage payment in 2025 was 37% higher than it might have been

 

 In June 1995 the average mortgage payment in the United States was roughly $773.

Adjusted for inflation to June 2025 that's $1,635.

The actual average mortgage payment in 2025 was about $2,235.

Bill Clinton teeming up with Republicans in 1997 to turn our homes into mere commodities has really worked out great, hasn't it?

Especially for young people. 

The median age of a first time home buyer in 1995 was 29. 

In 2025 it's 39.

But your GOP-controlled U.S. Senate couldn't care less.

It stayed up late last night to scheme for more money for ICE even though ICE is completely incompetent to deport illegal aliens, but it never stays up to solve the most pressing problems of America's younger generations.

The blindness is mind-boggling.

Study finds that female liberals believe words can harm, tend to be emotionally less stable, see themselves as victims, experience higher levels of anxiety and depression, support laws which make you stfu

... “People higher in the belief that words can harm tended to be younger, female, non-White, and politically liberal.”

... restricting speech feels like protection as opposed to censorship.

... mental health appears to influence political ideology more than political ideology influences mental health, with increases in psychological distress predicting a subsequent shift toward political liberalism. 

... the most empathic people support the least tolerant policies. ... 

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