We were told by Trump that the United States was a sucker for being part of military alliances and for involving itself so heavily in foreign affairs.
Now…diving head first into being the permanent Straight of Hormuz policeman willing to pick up most of the tab.
Regarding that King Charles retort to Trump, “if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French”…the real reason why the British Colonies beat the French in North American was the massive population advantage - 1.5M vs 60,000 by 1756. Why the advantage? A much more liberal immigration policy!
The BLS showed a jobs report of +130K for January 2026 but…..
….revised all of 2025 downward by 403K.
This shows an important distinction between cults and grifters. When cults are riding high, grifters shamelessly support the cult as part of their grift.
When cults start losing steam, grifters sense a market opportunity and break away - while cult members stay for the ride, however unpopular.
Good piece about the limitations of data on autonomous vehicle safety and the challenges of comparing apples to apples with human drivers.
Maybe there would be less of a tariff mess to clean up if SCOTUS had bothered to rule on this in a timely fashion instead of taking a year. That was a choice.
The aversion to ruling quickly against Trump will now - paradoxically - create a litigation nightmare for the administration.
Historian will marvel at how United States traded global political and economic leadership to be a petty, regional bully in the northern half of the Western Hemisphere.
In case people tell you the solution is more drilling: Drilling more in the U.S. cannot stop a price shock like this. Oil prices are set globally, and U.S. producers cannot make up this lost supply. They also have no incentive to develop or maintain spare capacity when prices are low.
Biting and hilarious. Get your daily dose of healing schadenfreude. 👇
People care about their local things. Try closing an elementary school / hospital / bus route / park (especially to allow for a for-profit project) and telling people that there’s another one two miles down the road and that they’re not going to live in a desert. Guaranteed pushback. Not surprising.
