Chart of tanker transits through Hormuz, 2020-current
FWIW: two tankers have transited Hormuz (in either direction, this counts both; this is also crude, products, LNG) over the past week. Two.
For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is:
A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans.
Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.
The US Administration has embarked on a large, unprecedented program of excluding lawful, highly-skilled workers and students from the United States.
I talked with the brilliant @gracesegers.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com about the broad economic ripple effects.
newrepublic.com/article/2073...
He’s wearing his branded baseball cap.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
This war deserves nothing more and nothing less than Comic Sans.
Maybe if Platner wins he goes Fetterman, but that really isn't the issue. I don't care if he gets up there and votes reliable party line. He's still a damned nazi and if you aren't willing to draw a hard moral line at that, if you make excuses and whataboutisms for it, you've fallen into the abyss.
www.ft.com/content/84ea... The former African minister in ICE detention
called my critters
Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-a...
Wow
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
text saying that doj was in the freedman's savings bank created after the civil war to guard the savings of freepeople
Today's history find, weighted with symbolism: DOJ used to be housed in the building of the Freedman's Savings Bank
Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.
Hannibal but in a universe where Kash Patel is in charge of the FBI
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
I can only speak for my own views on court packing, but this is a really gross misrepresentation.
I want to pack it w 99 people, not 21, on chaotically rotating panels of 10, so there’s no median vote on the panel and impossible to know in advance who to bribe.
Intraday charts of the 2s30s UST curve, S&P 500, and Bloomberg USD index
market reaction: steepener (more UST supply because so much $ is going to be refunded to the private sector), stonks a bit confused, dollar weaker.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, strikes down Trump’s tariffs as not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Roberts writes the court’s opinion.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Naming the policeman Officer X, Welles addressed him directly. "Wash your hands, Officer X. Wash them well. Scrub and scour, you won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran," Welles said. "Go on, suckle your anonymous moment while it lasts. You're going to be uncovered. We will blast out your name! We'll give the world your given name, Officer X. Yes, and your so-called Christian name. It's going to rise out of the filthy deep like the dead thing it is."
When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.
Yes!
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
Anyone else getting tired of these Stanley Tucci Italy instructional videos at the Olympics? Buddy, I know you are supposed to wear pants at a restaurant. I learned that one the hard way.
When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
Tales from the Finance Domain: Bond Markets Are Now Battlefields www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/tale...
