Not sure what Trump would mean by such. He alone can not stop elections. “Trump Keeps Saying We Won’t Have Meaningful Midterms” Bad Crow Review Plus “missionary lizards” and JD Vance, plus homicidally stupid press tricks, plus music. Not in those exact words, of course; even our self-mutilated institutional press would have to report that. But he […]
A piece by Robert Reich is posted earlier today. Robert reports on Minnesota’s reaction to ICE’s efforts in Minneapolis to take control. ICE aggression and harassment of the citizenry is not going over well. People are angry and are pushing back. The citizenry are calling for a shutdown of the state. Given the nature and […]
– by New Deal democrat The news from this morning’s personal income and spending report for October and November was almost all good – with one major exception. To cut to the chase, real income rose slightly, but real spending rose substantially. Which, if you are following basic math, means that consumers dipped into their […]
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There are no Benefits to Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan” – Public Citizen Public Citizen Health Care Policy Advocate Eagan Kemp issued the following statement: “Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan is impressive only in the fact that it isn’t great, would not substantively improve healthcare. It is not even detailed enough to be considered a plan. “Trump and his […]
My dad, an MIT-trained chemical engineer, was a practical man. He was scornful of efforts to rescue cats out of trees. His response was: “Look around; how many cat skeletons do you see in trees.” Setting aside the merits of the cat rescue argument, the larger point is to use critical thinking to assess whether […]
– by New Deal democrat We will get the very important personal income and spending updates for the government shutdown months later this morning, which should finally tell us whether or not there was a mini-recession during that time. In the meantime, let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims, as to which, to reiterate, […]
Another interesting piece by Federal Tax Policy Vice President Erica York at the Tax Foundation. One premise . . . “an analysis suggests the administration could replace 56% to 73% of IEEPA revenue using Section 122 tariffs.” Over the past week, we received final tariff collections data for 2025 from the Treasury Department, a new Beige Book from the Fed, and a […]
“Leaders realize they will not be able to ‘manage’ Trump for the remainder of his term. Reckoning with the fact that the systems of international order that the US helped craft are crumbling as a result” of his controlling personality. “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,” Davos Switzerland The full text of a speech by the […]
RFK Jr sounds weird. I don’t mean his ideas about vaccines and contagious disease. I mean that when he vocalizes, it sounds . . . creaky. RFK Jr has a condition called “spasmodic dysphonia.” It’s known to have a genetic component. But this is RFK Jr, so of course he blames vaccines. “In an interview […]