If You Really Want To Sell This Property, You’re Gonna Accept A Lower Price
A report from the Washington Post. “At the beginning of February, Daniel Leckie, 36, was living his best life. He was a new dad, a new homeowner and had his dream job as a historic preservation specialist for the General Services Administration. He was even a few payments away from having $80,000 in student loans forgiven after a decade of working as a public servant. Then came the email. He was just days away from being off probation and months away from loan forgiveness. ‘I was so close,’ Leckie said. ‘My performance review was great and yet I was crumpled up and thrown out like a piece of trash.’ For now, Leckie’s biggest concern is finding employment to cover the next mortgage payment and help care for his 6-month-old son. ‘I’m a proud public servant, and I think that the work we do is incredibly valuable. But I would be lying if I said that part of the reason I felt compelled to stay in public service for this long wasn’t because of the promise of loan forgiveness,’ Leckie said. ‘It’s not my number one priority, but it’s still very dismaying.'”
“Public Service Loan Forgiveness is a critical benefit that nonprofits, states and the federal government use to attract talent. After being laid off from her position as the student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in February, Julia Barnard wrote a blog post on her union’s website to help other fired federal workers navigate their student loans. ‘I immediately felt that the question of what to do about [Public Service Loan Forgiveness] was going to be top of mind for many people,’ Barnard said. ‘People plan their careers based on the promise of student loan forgiveness.'”
From NBC News. “One of President Donald Trump’s first actions upon entering the White House was to order federal employees to return to the office. A worker told of colleagues attempting to quickly sell their homes to move closer to a train stop, while others were struggling to find extended hours of day care to cover the extra time for commuting. Some — including those who were exclusively hired to work remotely — will likely be forced to quit. ‘Everyone built their lives around these remote positions,’ said a Veterans Affairs employee who is on leave with a newborn. ‘My supervisor lives in [Florida] and was hired as a remote employee. She can’t relocate.'”
The Washington Post. “Olek Chmura, a former probationary employee at Yellowstone National Park, hardly bothered to check his email Friday after two judges ordered his bosses to offer him his job back. ‘The government hates us,’ said Chmura, 28, who cleaned toilets and emptied trash cans at Yellowstone until the Trump administration fired him on Valentine’s Day. Shernice Mundell, 47, said she has spent the past month applying for unemployment benefits in D.C., scanning the internet for jobs and updating her résumé to attract private-sector employers after losing her job in the Office of Personnel Management. In her first few months, Mundell felt confident in her decision. Three months after she started, she was promoted to a job that paid her $69,000 per year, a $15,000 raise. Now her next mortgage payment is scheduled for April 1, and she is running out of savings.”
“‘Lucky for me, my daughter said she would help me pay the bills,’ said Mundell, who is a member of the chapter of American Federation of Government Employees that represents OPM employees. ‘But it’s my responsibility. I don’t want to put that on anybody else.'”
Yahoo Finance. “Florida’s pandemic-era housing boom is finally starting to fade. For-sale inventory in the state has reached the highest levels on record, and homes are staying on the market longer even as peak homebuying season kicks off. In many parts of the state, prices are starting to fall. While the state’s condo market has been in correction ever since new building laws took effect in the aftermath of the 2021 condo collapse in Surfside, Fla., the market for single-family homes is also starting to soften. ‘Inventory and time on market has been dramatically increasing,’ said Ben Grieco, a real estate agent in the southwestern city of Port Charlotte. ‘It’s not like buyers have left by any means, but there’s just so much to choose from that it’s really pushing prices down.'”
“As of January, single-family home prices were falling the fastest in a cluster of cities on the southern Gulf Coast. Prices in Punta Gorda are down nearly 8% since January 2024, according to Zillow. Thirty miles south, in Cape Coral, home prices have dropped 5.6% year over year. Memories of Hurricane Ian still loom large with today’s buyers and sellers, said Rick Harrison, a Fort Myers-based real estate agent. ‘Everybody at this point has been educated enough to know that hurricanes had a huge impact on our area,’ Harrison said. ‘On both sides, people are worried.'”
“There are deals to be found in new construction too, after several years of aggressive development have left many builders sitting on unsold homes. Builders are often willing to buy down mortgage rates to below 5%, cover closing costs, and offer credits toward upgrades. Some are cutting prices on homes entirely, something they typically avoid doing because it hurts existing owners in their communities.”
Flathead Beacon. “After this commentary is published, I am going share it with as many Canadian media outlets as I can find. Why? Because our long-time friends on the other side of the Montana border need a reminder that we Americans relish our enduring, special relationship and hope that it’s resilient enough to continue through the current chaos. I’ve also just returned from visiting relatives for a month at a retirement community in Arizona with a heavy population of Canadian snowbirds. I talked to several Canadians who are selling their longtime winter homes and vowing to never spend another penny in America.”
The Fresno Bee. “Architect Ubaldo Garcia recently finished designing two projects that will add extra homes to single-family lots. ‘On one, I was able to fit six,’ Garcia told The Bee. ‘On another one, I was able to fit eight total units.’ He is doing this in the city of Madera with accessory dwelling units, known as ADUs. In recent years, the number of ADUs has skyrocketed across California. About one-fifth of all home building permits issued in 2023 were for this type of home. In the Central Valley, the trend is evident in Clovis and Fresno — two cities that have encouraged ADU construction by providing builders with pre-approved designs and streamlining the permitting process.”
“‘We have received no applications for a true affordable housing project in the last three years,’ Will Tackett, the city’s director of community development, told The Bee in December. ‘What we’re trying to do is incentivize affordable investments in our city.’ That’s why the Madera City Council approved zoning code changes in January aiming to encourage homeowners to become developers. In order to qualify for a bonus unit in Madera, an ADU on a single-family lot must be reserved through a legal deed as affordable to either ‘very low-income and low-income households’ for no less than 10 years, or ‘moderate income households” for no less than 15 years.’ Madera modeled its initiative after San Diego’s bonus ADU program, which launched in 2020. Researchers have found that San Diego’s program produced a substantial amount of new construction proposals: About 1,300 ADUs were proposed under the program by February of last year, with half being pitched as affordable.”
Your Tango on California. “For many travelers, short-term rentals like Airbnb, have been a blessing, providing flexible accommodations at a reasonable price point. However, rentals that are a blessing to travelers, are often a curse for homeowners and neighbors. It’s easy to forget that unlike hotels and motels, Airbnbs are often located in residential neighborhoods. One woman recently shared her experience on Reddit, describing how her peaceful San Diego neighborhood is being ‘terrorized’ by an Airbnb property across the street. Despite multiple attempts to address the issue, it has only escalated, leaving her and her neighbors feeling powerless.”
“Everything started when a family bought a foreclosed property across the street from the woman’s home and spent over a year rebuilding it into a luxurious new house. At four times the size of the original home, it featured upscale amenities, including a pool and hot tub. However, things took a turn when, starting in December, the woman noticed people frequently coming and going from the property. Her suspicions were confirmed when she discovered the house was listed on Airbnb as a four bedroom rental, capable of sleeping up to 14 people.”
“She wrote, ‘We are being terrorized by noise and constant activity at all hours of the day and night. There will be as many as a dozen cars, Ubers coming and going around the clock, people congregating in the front yard/street, playing music, talking and yelling. We are woken up in the middle of the night multiple nights a week. Today a party bus was parked in front of our house, blaring music, unloading drunk girls for a bachelorette party.'”
CBC News in Canada. “The association that represents almost 2,000 real estate agents in Nova Scotia is calling on the Houston government to rethink its plans to double the deed transfer tax for non-residents buying homes in the province. The Financial Measures Act, up for public comment at Monday’s meeting of the newly created public bills committee, calls for the non-resident deed transfer tax to increase from five per cent to 10 per cent on April 1. Suzanne Gravel, incoming president of the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors, said the measure will send the wrong message to would-be investors in the province. ‘It instantly gives a person [a] ‘they don’t want us to come there’ feeling,’ Gravel told CBC News recently. ‘It’s a big tax, it’s a big tariff.'”
“That sentiment is shared by John Duckworth of Duckworth Real Estate in Chester, N.S., whose primary business is selling to non-resident clients who want to have a second home in Nova Scotia. Duckworth said the proposed tax hike will discourage people from moving to the province. ‘It’s a ‘don’t come here’ tax,’ said Duckworth. ‘I don’t know what the premier’s trying to do with this, but the whole thing is just totally negative.'”
“He said the measure would also affect Nova Scotians selling their properties, forcing would-be home sellers to lower their price to shoulder some or all of the increase being proposed. Dalhousie University economist Lars Osberg agreed. ‘In the jargon of economics, that’s called the price elasticity of demand or the price elasticity of supply, but the plain English of it is that if you really want to sell this property, you’re gonna accept a lower price,’ said Osberg. James Wooder, a Cape Breton resident with property on the South Shore he may one day want to develop, worries the increase could depress real estate prices in rural communities. ‘Somebody thought it was a good idea, but they didn’t think about the knock on and unintended consequences of this, which could be disastrous,’ said Wooder. ‘What does it mean for municipalities if the overall [tax] base for the municipality takes a hit over the long run?'”
ABC News in Australia. “As Queenslanders in the south-east grapple with the damage bill from ex-tropical cyclone Alfred, in a quiet, far-flung corner in the state’s west a different insurance battle is brewing. Six councils in south-west Queensland have banded together to protest an eye-watering increase in insurance premiums of up to 300 per cent. ‘If I pay my insurance premiums I can’t afford to pay my house payments,’ Charleville resident Sonya Johnstone said. ‘We are living pay week to pay week.'”
“After their annual insurance premium tripled from $3,500 to $13,500 in the past two years, Mrs Johnstone and husband Michael Johnstone this year decided to forgo flood insurance and ‘pray to goodness’ they avoid flooding in the next 12 months. And they are not alone. ‘There’s a significant amount of elderly people in Charleville that don’t have insurance because they just can’t afford it,’ Mrs Johnstone said.”
‘We are being terrorized by noise and constant activity at all hours of the day and night. There will be as many as a dozen cars, Ubers coming and going around the clock, people congregating in the front yard/street, playing music, talking and yelling. We are woken up in the middle of the night multiple nights a week. Today a party bus was parked in front of our house, blaring music, unloading drunk girls for a bachelorette party’
Drunk girls in San Diego? Say it ain’t so!
Whoopsie-daisy. Better study the load-bearing capacity of those balconies and roofs before you pile onto them, frat party attendees.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1900955400285094277
I can’t imagine living through that nightmare! Our HOA…of 100 homes in my hood came out with a addendum last year prohibiting short term rentals. I was glad to see that!
“unloading drunk girls for a bachelorette party.’”
What other kind of girls would you unload for a bachelorize party?
Neighbors found a woman passed out surrounded by wine bottles in front of my Encinitas property years ago.
Realtors are liars.
‘On one, I was able to fit six,’ Garcia told The Bee. ‘On another one, I was able to fit eight total units’…In order to qualify for a bonus unit in Madera, an ADU on a single-family lot must be reserved through a legal deed as affordable to either ‘very low-income and low-income households’ for no less than 10 years, or ‘moderate income households” for no less than 15 years.’ Madera modeled its initiative after San Diego’s bonus ADU program’
So on one hand you got 14 drunk people partying in one shack, and down the street yer cramming 8 sheds on a lot for ‘very low income’ families. Central planning!
He was even a few payments away from having $80,000 in student loans forgiven after a decade of working as a public servant.
Translation: his financial obligations would be transferred to taxpayers. Pay your own debts, parasite.
‘‘People plan their careers based on the promise of student loan forgiveness’…‘Everyone built their lives around these remote positions’
One thing remains constant: the loans were sound, at the time.
At least it was cheaper than renting.
Im kinda torn between a contract is a contract, and with the original intent was to lure people to far away place like north Dakota or Indian reservations, to compensate those who would move for 10 years. and work for far lower pay .
Those that remotely work, seem to have drawn the biggest straw, living where they want and still getting the deal.
to compensate those who would move for 10 years. and work for far lower pay .
I believe salaries are higher for the Govt as are bennies compared to the Normal” private jobs.
“Work for far lower pay “
What and where are these high paying jobs in North Dakota and on Indian reservations they are rejecting for these low paying jobs far away? Also, how many of these people had to already relocate to attend college?
Ten years ago only 15% of private sector employees had pensions. No doubt that skewed to the older workers and it’s very likely that it’s less than 15% now, as most companies have done away them.
These people without pensions and guaranteed job stability (until now) are paying for the high government pay, gold-plated pensions and student loan forgiveness.
Ten years ago only 15% of private sector employees had pensions. No doubt that skewed to the older workers and it’s very likely that it’s less than 15% now, as most companies have done away them.
And many don’t match any 401K contributions, and when they do it’s often a paltry 3%.
The Rural Iowa Primary Care Loan Repayment Program was established to address critical doctor shortages in rural Iowa communities. The program provides loan repayment incentives to individuals that practice in specified locations for up to five years. The maximum award for this program is $200,000
https://educate.iowa.gov/higher-ed/financial-aid/loan-repayment/rural-iowa-primary-care-loan-repayment-program
‘As of January, single-family home prices were falling the fastest in a cluster of cities on the southern Gulf Coast. Prices in Punta Gorda are down nearly 8% since January 2024, according to Zillow’
The steaming pile is so far behind, is it any wonder they lost billion$ flipping shanties? Even the local UHS are saying Sarasota/Bradenton single family is off 100k. Which is closer to 20%. These are normal shacks. Not storm damaged, not condos with yuuge assessments.
Even applying my Common Core maff skills, I can’t figure out how this is building muh generational wealth.
Banksters suing other banksters on CRE losses as the epic wipeout of Yellen Bux “value” continues apace. Got popcorn?
https://www.bankingdive.com/news/wells-fargo-sues-jpmorgan-481m-cre-loan/742138/
‘‘Lucky for me, my daughter said she would help me pay the bills…‘But it’s my responsibility. I don’t want to put that on anybody else’
You just did Shernice.
“There’s never been a better time to buy real estate in Sanaa.” — Yemen NAR
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14504085/dead-US-strikes-Yemen.html
‘It’s not like buyers have left by any means, but there’s just so much to choose from that it’s really pushing prices down.’”
Get to sawin’ and slashin’ like you mean it, greedheads. Those lowball offers are as good as it gets.
“Architect Ubaldo Garcia recently finished designing two projects that will add extra homes to single-family lots. ‘On one, I was able to fit six,’ Garcia told The Bee. ‘On another one, I was able to fit eight total units.’ He is doing this in the city of Madera with accessory dwelling units, known as ADUs.
The Tijuanification of the People’s Republic of California continues apace.
‘It instantly gives a person [a] ‘they don’t want us to come there’ feeling,’ Gravel told CBC News recently. ‘It’s a big tax, it’s a big tariff.’”
Communities need to disincentivize the speculator scum by any means necessary.
British Colombia has more populists and nationalists who aren’t on board with the WEF agenda being pushed by the globalist quislings in Ottawa.
https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1901104497197269412
Future voters for the 51st state.
I would rather see BC secede and become its own sovereign country.
Even if they were to secede and join the US, they would probably start off as a territory. Statehood would be a long ways off.
Sugar daddies ghosting their hoes is a leading indicator of a recession.
https://x.com/InvariantPersp1/status/1901144184180142363/photo/1
leading indicator
I would say lagging indicator as the wealthy are more economically resilient.
Who keeps track of that? The Department of Mistresses? Or does Only Fans or some “dating” website compile numbers?
The M2 money supply is expanding again, which means the Fed’s mythical “battle to contain inflation” has always been comprehensively lost. Got gold? Got silver?
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1901036222677385639
Piddly 1.2% cuts on insanely overvalued shacks aren’t going to cut it, greedheads.
https://x.com/NipseyHoussle/status/1900888616932434299
I never understand stuff like that. 10k cut on 865k house? why bother, it’s just silly.
Get down to the next obvious point so you get more searches. Obv that house was 875, at least take it down to 849 so you catch something. (more likely 799)
10k is just insulting
New York Post — Texas nonprofit housing migrant kids took $3B in grants from Biden admin — and boosted executive salaries up to 139% (3/16/2025):
“Anselmo Villarreal, who became the group’s president and CEO in February 2021, was paid $491,642 over the course of that first fiscal year — but saw his compensation skyrocket to $1,174,551 by fiscal year 2023.
Other Southwest Key executives — including chief human resources official Jose Arroyo Davila and its chief information officer Andy Harper — saw their salaries doubled, to the $600,000 range.
Eric Marin, the organization’s CFO, earned $349,232 in fiscal year 2021, but his successor, Roberto Flores, took down $583,139 two years later.
Another good earner, Geraldo Rivera, the senior VP of immigration services and later chief program officer, surged from $312,791 to $555,998 the year before Biden left office.
On average, the top five executive salaries recorded in forms filed with the IRS spiked from $420,000 to $720,000 between 2021 and 2023 — even as its finances were in the red by millions of dollars for two of those three fiscal years.
The Justice Department sued Southwest Key Programs last July, accusing some supervisors and employees of “severe” and “pervasive” rape and sex abuse of the kids between 2015 and 2023.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/us-news/texas-nonprofit-housing-migrant-kids-took-3b-in-grants-from-biden-admin-before-trump-pulled-plug/
Asset confiscation and perp walks when?
Also note that the Post is not allowing comments on the article, because it is Murdoch owned, controlled opposition.
US housing affordability has never been worse. Heckova job, Zimbabwe Ben Bernanke, Yellen the Felon, & BlackRock Jay.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1901016186294288544
“Hard-Line” what does that even mean? New York Times you are globalist scum media.
New York Times — How Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down Migration (3/16/2025):
“Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers.
The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around the world were crossing into the United States every month in scenes of chaos and upheaval.
Now, Mr. Trump has choked off the flow of migrants even more drastically, solidifying a sweeping turn in U.S. policy with measures that many critics, especially those on the left, have long considered politically unpalatable, legally untenable and ultimately ineffective because they don’t tackle the root causes of migration.”
https://archive.ph/CLivS
“Ultimately ineffective” translation: if Democrat Party ever takes power again, your replacement will resume, the numbers will accelerate, and illegals will have more rights than U.S. citizens.
And just like that, tapped-out Murican debt donkeys stopped going on vacation. Be afraid, STR speculator scum. Be very afraid.
https://x.com/texasrunnerDFW/status/1900664256804073843
Washington Post — Judge blocks Trump after he invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations (3/15/2025):
“A federal judge barred President Donald Trump on Saturday from using a wartime powers act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing, ordering the administration to turn around any planes that had already taken off after the Alien Enemies Act quietly went into effect.
Trump signed a proclamation Friday to deploy the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II to swiftly remove Venezuelans allegedly involved in the transnational gang known as Tren de Aragua. The act has been used only three times to bar citizens of hostile enemy governments from the United States, and only during a declared war.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge in the District of Columbia, quickly blocked officials from deporting Venezuelans under the proclamation after civil rights groups filed a challenge earlier Saturday.
He said the immigrants clearly face irreparable harm, “given that these folks will be deported and many or the vast majority to prisons in other countries or sent back to Venezuela, where they face persecution, or worse.
The top Democrats on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees sent a letter to Trump this month, calling on him to rescind his Jan. 20 proclamation declaring an “invasion” at the southern border.
“The United States is not being invaded, it is not at war with migrants, and you must uphold our duly-enacted immigration laws,” they wrote. “We have full faith that the courts will stand firm in the face of your attacks on the separation of powers.”
https://archive.ph/Agoou
Democrat Party: illegals have more rights than U.S. citizens, and taxpayers are on the hook paying for ALL of it.
“U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge in the District of Columbia, quickly blocked officials from deporting Venezuelans”
Jan. 29, 2021, 12:59 PM EST
By Pete Williams
A former FBI lawyer was sentenced Friday to probation, avoiding a prison sentence, for falsifying a claim made to sustain government surveillance on a key figure in the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg said that while Clinesmith’s actions were serious, the warrant application probably would have been approved anyway without his misstatement. Boasberg also serves as the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The FBI’s submissions to the court made assertions that were “inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation,” the report said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-fbi-lawyer-gets-probation-falsifying-carter-page-surveillance-application-n1256179
Globalists gonna globe.
‘My supervisor lives in [Florida] and was hired as a remote employee. She can’t relocate.’”
Yes she can. My first mortgage/bank job lasted about 3 months at the initial hiring site before we were informed they were closing the office and moving everyone about 90 miles away. Yep, I relocated.
They lost their federal jobs and now can’t get jobless benefits
Jim Frederick is getting an up-close look at government bureaucracy that he never wanted to see.
It’s been more than a month since he filed for jobless benefits after resigning from a position in the Biden administration in January. The benefits haven’t started yet.
Frederick has supplied paystubs, wage statements and other documents to Washington, D.C.’s unemployment office. He’s waited on hold at least 45 minutes four separate times to talk to staff. Each worker is “incredibly helpful,” he said, but they tell him the claim will be resolved “soon” rather than by a certain date.
“I think this delay seems 99% bureaucratic. I don’t blame anyone that works at D.C. Unemployment at all,” Frederick said. “The system is just a mess.”
The delays could have broader economic impacts. High prices and longer average stretches of unemployment make it hard to go without income in this economy.
“You’re left watching your bank account slowly bleed. It’s stressful,” said Jonathan Curry, who worked for the Internal Revenue Service until last month, when he was one of the more than 7,000 probationary employees fired under the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce. Curry, 35, was three weeks away from getting past the one-year probationary mark on his job. Now it’s been almost three weeks since he filed for unemployment.
Curry hopes to get back to work as soon as possible, but benefits would help with his peace of mind right now. “You kind of feel like you’re tossed in the ocean and left to flounder a little bit,” he said
For now, Frederick, the former Labor Department employee, is waiting and cutting back his costs. He has vision-insurance coverage from a past job to help cover some of the cost of new eyeglass frames — but to mind his budget now, he’s not buying new glasses yet. There’s also an upcoming family event in Florida, but he’s not going to take the flight. He’s just one of many consumers pulling back on travel spending in the wake of greater economic uncertainty.
Frederick has savings, a pension and contract consulting work that will pay at the end of the project. “I’ve been scrambling a bit,” he said — but he notes that other former federal workers may be in even tougher straits now.
“I worry there are so many people in higher need than I am for the payments,” he said. “How are they getting by?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/they-lost-their-federal-jobs-and-now-can-t-get-jobless-benefits-you-re-left-watching-your-bank-account-slowly-bleed/ar-AA1AYHZr
When did globalist sc*m media care about mass firings for refusal to get injected with deadly mRNA poison?
Oh, wait. They never did.
For now, Frederick, the former Labor Department employee
Who can’t get unemployment. Now that’s Irony.
It’s been more than a month since he filed for jobless benefits after resigning from a position in the Biden administration in January.
I don’t think unemployment covers resignations.
awwwwwwwwwwwwww fired government employees find out why everyone hates government employees
welcome to the $hitshow.
Mount Spurr that’s 75 miles from Anchorage Alaska is starting to blow. It erupted in 1953 and 1992.
Tons of Co2 will spew if you get a big event.
So much for CO2 zero emissions programs when you have natural events like volcanic activity.
Why some Democrats are warm to Trump’s tariffs
President Trump’s tariffs are rattling the economy and drawing attacks from Democrats. But some key party members are largely backing his approach — arguing that Democrats need their own pro-tariff agenda to win back working-class voters.
Instead of warning about tariffs hiking prices, they say, Democrats should be talking about how they’d use tariffs more effectively — even if that means using them against allies, including Canada and Mexico.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine introduced legislation to put a 10% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. He told Axios: “The world is changing, and some Democrats haven’t quite caught up to that fact.”
Golden, whose largely rural district voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024, added: “I think Trump did identify the problem. In many ways, Democrats are doubling down [on free trade] in reaction to him.”
“Some have said that we have really healthy trade with Canada, and I don’t agree,” Golden added. “I’m not arguing we should embrace tariffs as part of a campaign strategy. I’m arguing we should do it based on the merits of the policy and what is good for working-class Americans.”
The United Auto Workers union, which endorsed then-President Biden last year, said this month: “We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class.”
Faiz Shakir, a close adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who ran his 2020 presidential campaign, told Axios: “I disagree with the Democrats who live in the framework that we just need cheap goods from China and Mexico, and their message is: ‘Washing machines and avocados are going to get more expensive.'”
Shakir said he believed Trump was implementing tariffs poorly, but added: “There’s a desire for tariffs for a reason. Voters hear that Trump is making these corporations pay a price for shipping jobs overseas.”
Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) has criticized Trump’s “chaotic” implementation of tariffs, but argued that “the answer isn’t to condemn tariffs across the board.”
“Democrats need to break free from the wrong-for-decades zombie horde of neoliberal economists who think tariffs are always bad,” he wrote in a New York Times op-ed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-some-democrats-are-warm-to-trump-s-tariffs/ar-AA1B1aaS
Colorado Sun — Arrest made in second round of vandalism at Colorado Tesla dealership (3/15/2025):
” A second person suspected of using an “incendiary device” following a string of vandalism at a Colorado Tesla dealership has been arrested, police said Friday.
The 29-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of second-degree arson, criminal mischief and other crimes at the dealership in Loveland, Colorado, on March 7, police said in a news release. Several vehicles and the dealership building were also damaged by rocks, police said. They did not release a possible motive.”
Possible motive? A Soros paycheck.
“Another person has been charged in both federal and state court for allegedly igniting Molotov cocktails at the same dealership earlier this year.”
https://coloradosun.com/2025/03/15/colorado-tesla-dealership-vandalism-arrest/
“Fiery, but mostly peaceful” — Globalist Scum Media
The 29-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of second-degree arson
Violence is the leftist way.
Never forget that iconic photo of the woman about to be shot in the back of her head by a bloodthirsty commie.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Ilhan Omar who are co-CEOs of SpaceX, oh wait that’s right, they don’t build, employ or save anyone or anything.
Astronaut crew docks with space station to replace ‘Butch and Suni’
By Joey Roulette
March 16, 20259:55 AM EDT
Updated 2 hours ago
The crew-swap mission became entangled in politics as Trump and his adviser Elon Musk, who is also SpaceX’s CEO, urged a quicker Crew-10 launch. They claimed, without evidence, that Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden had abandoned Wilmore and Williams on the station for political reasons.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/astronaut-crew-docks-with-space-station-replace-butch-suni-2025-03-16/
PS
“NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, initially planned for an 8-day stay, have been at the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly 10 months due to issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft,”
No evidence here move along.
SpaceX is also in charge of making sure that when the ISS is decommissioned that it will have a controlled re-entry and crash into the ocean,
AOC and Bernie are co-hosting two rallies on the same day here later this week, one in Greeley one in Denver.
Japan on red alert as Trump rocks international alliances
Tokyo’s Plan A includes politely reminding Trump of Japan’s role in countering a militarily aggressive China, bolstering Tokyo’s own defense capabilities, and buying more from — and investing more in — America. All this along with hefty doses of flattery.
Tightening ties with Europe and Asian partners while maintaining dialogue with Beijing are also on the menu, diplomatic experts say.
If those efforts fail, however, any long-term Plan B could eventually involve breaking a self-imposed taboo and starting to seriously consider acquiring nuclear weapons, a drastic step for the only nation to suffer atomic bombings.
“I think there are discussions happening very quietly but these are not going to break out in the open unless the U.S. does something that makes it unavoidable,” Tobias Harris, founder of risk consultancy Japan Foresight, said in Tokyo recently.
But Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, seemingly wary of antagonizing Trump, was low key in commenting on the U.S. leader’s heated Oval Office row with Zelenskyy. “We have no intention of taking sides, but I think it is most important that the G7 remains united,” Ishiba said in parliament.
Some former Japanese officials were less circumspect. “What Japan has learned from the Ukraine war is that the era when we could rely entirely on the U.S. is over,” Nobukatsu Kanehara, a former senior security official, told Nikkei.
Since Ishiba’s chummy Feb. 7 meeting with Trump in Washington, the U.S. president has warned Tokyo against weakening its currency to promote exports, adding to jitters over additional tariffs. Elbridge Colby, the nominee for U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, has repeated his call for Japan to raise its defense spending to 3% of GDP, a leap from Tokyo’s existing target of 2% by 2027.
Trump has also renewed his criticism of the U.S.-Japan security treaty. “We have a great relationship with Japan, but we have an interesting deal with Japan that we have to protect them, but they don’t have to protect us. You know that? That’s the way the deal reads,” Trump told reporters. “And by the way, they make a fortune with us economically. … Who makes these deals?”
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japan-on-red-alert-as-Trump-rocks-international-alliances
Canadian cold shoulder: Trump’s antics anger our otherwise polite neighbor
Canadians are learning to “Buy Beaver” instead of U.S.-made products. They’re jeering our national anthem at hockey games. And tourists appear to be heeding their prime minister’s suggestion that they skip vacations to Florida and other stateside vacation spots.
“Honestly, it’s top of mind for everyone in Canada. It’s what everyone is talking about,” said Christopher Dip, 29, an app developer in Montreal. “But as Canadians, we’re also very polite so we’re maybe not saying ‘F.U.'”
In Moab, a popular late-winter destination for Canadians, several tour operators said they’ve seen multiple cancellations worth tens of thousands of dollars.
“They’re writing in, saying ‘I can no longer in good conscience do business with American businesses,'” said Lorenzo McGregor, 45, the co-owner of Tex’s Riverways boat shuttle service here. “And then we’ve just had some angry responses (saying) ‘you probably voted for this, so this is what you get.'”
McGregor said he’s seen about $10,000 in cancellations from Canadians, whose presence is so notably absent that his company hasn’t started shuttling passengers down the Colorado River into Canyonlands National Park, as it normally would this time of year.
Not everyone has cancelled their trips. Mountain biker Stephen Krause, 51, a retired oil industry tech worker from Edmonton, said he his wife stuck with their planned two-month road trip around the American southwest. “It’s warmer here than Canada and there’s no snow.”
In Montreal, in response to the outrage, Dip, the app developer, did what app developers do, and built an app with colleague Alexandre Hamila that helps Canadians identify Canadian-made products. The app is called “Buy Beaver,” after the country’s national animal.
“You actually see people crouching down in the aisles, people checking products one by one, checking the labels, seeing where they’re made,” Hamila said. “People are trying to find solutions to hit the U.S. economy.”
Dip said a small number of young Canadians he knows are open to the concept of becoming part of the United States, but said older Canadians are more patriotic.
“The people who seem most pissed are the older ones,” he said. “The feeling we’re getting, the messages we’re getting, is that they’re never going to support Americans again. For them, it seems irreversible.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-cold-shoulder-trumps-antics-anger-our-otherwise-polite-neighbor/ar-AA1AY6Kd
“Buy Beaver,”
Never heard that.
I have heard eat a Beaver save a tree.
If anyone wants me to explain my Beaver post…
https://youtu.be/HblPucwN-m0?si=mHBouiw01MDjqg0w
Our “polite neighbors” are flooding the North American continent with unassimilable 3rd World Great Replacement benefits spongers, Islamic extremists, and ethnic gang members, countless numbers of whom have entered the U.S. via our unguarded northern border. Not very neighborly, if you ask me.
and put big old tariffs on a lot of american goods coming into Canada.
almost like tariffs are good for me, but no thee.
What is CBP app, which Indian student used to self-deport from the US
Rajani Srinivasan became one of the first people to access the newly added self-deportation feature on the CBP Home App following the revocation of her visa. By using this app, she avoided having to go through a formal deportation process and opted for a voluntary exit from the country.
Hailing from India, Srinivasan entered the US several years ago on an F-1 student visa to pursue her doctorate in Urban Planning at Columbia University. On March 5, 2025, her visa was revoked, as she was accused of “advocating for violence and terrorism.”
As cited by Homeland Security, “Srinivasan was involved in activities supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization.”
The CBP Home App is crafted by the Department of Homeland Security. The app is created for people who are living illegally and want self-deportation from the US.
The Trump administration introduced the CBP Home App as an initiative to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the country.
This self-deportation tool is part of a broader $200 million campaign designed to encourage illegal immigrants simply to “Stay Out and Leave Now,” as cited by India Today.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/what-is-cbp-app-which-indian-student-used-to-self-deport-from-the-us/ar-AA1B1qYD
Solar feed-in tariffs plunge up to 99.93pc in 15 years as market saturates
It seems hard to believe now, but in the not-so-distant past, Australians installing solar panels on their roofs were once handsomely rewarded.
From 60 cents for every kilowatt hour of output your solar panels exported to the grid, to 60 cents for every kilowatt they produced regardless of how much you used yourself, times were heady.
How different it all is these days, as returns for exports to the grid have been all but wiped out.
For more than half a decade now, payments for solar exports — or feed-in tariffs, as they are known — have been on a downhill slide.
New South Wales’ economic watchdog recently dashed hopes for consumers holding on to the idea that their solar exports could be worth much at all.
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal said that, from July, consumers could expect to be paid as little as 4.9 cents for every kilowatt-hour of solar they sent to the grid, and no more than 7.4 cents.
Following it was an even more miserly determination from Victoria’s Essential Services Commission (ESC), which set a flat payment of just 0.04 cents/kWh for the next financial year.
Finn Peacock, the founder of comparison website Solar Quotes, said the reasons were simple, and very much as Mr Yergin diagnosed.
“It’s supply and demand,” Mr Peacock said. “It’s what happens when you’ve got too much of something and not enough demand.”
How different it all is from 15 years ago.
Back then, state governments were falling over themselves to shower more and more generous subsidies on rooftop solar in a bid to encourage uptake.
Mr Peacock said Victoria, for example, once offered feed-in tariffs as high as 60 cents/kWh. New South Wales went one step further. It offered a 60-cent gross feed-in tariff, meaning people were paid generous incentives even for the solar power they used themselves.
At the time, he said the incentives were needed to make the maths “add up” for solar panels, which used to be far more expensive to produce.
But he said those days were long gone.
The costs of manufacturing solar had plummeted more than 90 per cent, he said, and the carrot of lucrative export payments was no longer necessary.
As the costs of solar have fallen, demand has risen to extraordinary highs.
From practically no installations barely 15 years ago, there are now more than 4 million solar systems on household and business rooftops across the country.
In Victoria alone, the number of solar installations has jumped from fewer than 450,000 in 2019 to almost 800,000 by the end of November last year.
IPART, in its draft report, said the abundance of solar in NSW had pushed daytime spot power prices into negative territory — where generators pay someone to take their output — at least 50 per cent of the time in October.
t was even more pronounced in Victoria, where there were seven months “in which at least 50 per cent of daytime spot prices were negative”.
Mr Peacock said it had long been true that the value of solar was not in the feed-in tariffs that might be available but in the freedom they gave their owners from the grid.
“In the cold arithmetic of buying a solar system, it’s less and less relevant,” he said. “But it really does have an emotional hit when people say that, you know, my solar energy is worth nothing.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/australian-solar-feed-in-tariffs-have-plunged-99-per-cent/104986534
In the cold arithmetic of buying a solar system, it’s less and less relevant
I have been patiently waiting for the price of solar to fall, much like how you can now buy a 70″ TV for $500.
What happened instead is that prices have gone up.
“I have been patiently waiting for the price of solar to fall, much like how you can now buy a 70″ TV for $500.
What happened instead is that prices have gone up”
When silver finally breaks free of the fraudster’s manipulation
and reaches true price discovery, solar panel prices will soar. Trump is going to bring energy prices way down, making the solar value proposition even less attractive.
Voice of America, Radio Free Asia budgets cut, after US president slashes government media funding
US President Donald Trump has slashed funding to multiple media organisations including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe, in another round of funding cuts one critic labelled “reckless and haphazard”.
As details of impact of the funding reductions continue to emerge, nearly 1300 VOA staff have been placed on “leave” and one US Congress representative warned the move would be detrimental to US influence in authoritarian-ruled countries.
That included the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which houses Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and Radio Marti.
USAGM employed roughly 3,500 people and had an $US886 million budget in 2024, according to the agency’s latest report to Congress.
“For the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced,” said VOA director Michael Abramowitz, adding nearly his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants had been put on administrative leave.
On Saturday, Mr Musk made light of the cuts to USAGM.
“While winding down this global government propaganda agency, it has temporarily been renamed the Department of Propaganda Everywhere (DOPE),” he wrote on X.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/voice-of-america-radio-free-asia-us-funding-cut/105058080
1300 people to make a half arsed radio show. You could do it with 12.
1300 people to make a half arsed radio show. You could do it with 12.
Much like how NASA, which can’t seem to get anything done and is utterly dependent on SpaceX to launch anything and ferry astronauts to the ISS, the VOA is another government jobs program.
“For the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced,” said VOA director Michael Abramowitz, adding nearly his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants had been put on administrative leave.”
Anyone old enough to remember Monday Night Football from 1970 to 1984 are old enough to remember Dandy Don Meredith and the song he would sing when it became obvious one team had lost the game…
https://youtu.be/70nSXALxHUo?si=m-w0MjV9HllIJJV8
Hopefully when it’s over, tomorrow doesn’t start the same old thing.
VOA is a globalist propaganda outlet – which the MSM has rendered redundant. Hit the bricks, Real Journalists.
Radio Free Asia
Why do need to pay for that. You tube is available in even the remote regions if your buy a local Simm card. Also, many American TV shows are available in even in more rural areas including Mission Impossible and the $6 Million Dollar man. Classics from the 60’s.
Westword — Denver Arrest Warrant Raises Stakes for Controversial Aurora Property Manager (3/14/2025):
“The owners of CBZ Management, a controversial property management firm, have a warrant out for their arrests for failing to appear in Denver court on March 10, to resolve fines for property code violations.
An arrest warrant issued by a Denver County judge raises the stakes for the Brooklyn-based property owners, who triggered a media storm in Aurora after they blamed the abysmal conditions at their apartment complexes on a violent Venezuelan gang takeover.
The warrant was issued for Zev and Shmaryahu Baumgarten after the two failed to appear for a deposition hearing as the owners of CBZ Management, which operates apartment complexes across Colorado and in Brooklyn, New York …
the City of Aurora has been chasing Zev Baumgarten to try and serve him with a court summons. Aurora prosecutors said they couldn’t find him at his address in Lone Tree, nor at a handful of other addresses while searching from August to December. Aurora keeps pushing back trial dates to resolve outstanding code violations at the Edge and Whispering Pines, 1357 Helena Street, but it has since succeeded in serving Zev’s attorneys.”
https://www.westword.com/news/denver-arrest-warrant-raises-stakes-aurora-apartment-owner-24006992
‘Three months after she started, she was promoted to a job that paid her $69,000 per year, a $15,000 raise. Now her next mortgage payment is scheduled for April 1, and she is running out of savings’
These guberment workers talk a lot about stability, but they have no savings.
If she’s running out of savings after a $15,000 raise, I would like to know where her savings came from?
Settlement from a slip and fall?
She might have inherited some cash from her Aunt Matilda.
NY Times – We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives.
https://archive.ph/bysgH#selection-757.0-757.59
[some snips]
Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology — research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world — no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.
We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratory’s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions may have been terrifyingly lax.
Or take the real story behind two very influential publications that quite early in the pandemic cast the lab leak theory as baseless.
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The first was a March 2020 paper in the journal Nature Medicine, which was written by five prominent scientists, and which declared that no “laboratory-based scenario” for the pandemic virus was plausible. But we later learned through congressional subpoenas of their Slack conversations that while the scientists publicly said the scenario was implausible, privately, many of its authors considered the scenario to be not just plausible but likely. One of the authors of that paper, the evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen, wrote in the Slack messages, “The lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”
Spooked, the co-authors reached out for advice to Jeremy Farrar, now the chief scientist at the World Health Organization. In his own book, Farrar reveals he acquired a burner phone and arranged meetings for them with high-ranking officials, including Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, and Anthony Fauci. Documents obtained through public records requests by the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know show that the scientists ultimately decided to move ahead with a paper on the topic.
Operating behind the scenes, Farrar reviewed their draft and suggested to the authors that they rule out the lab leak even more directly. They complied. Andersen later testified to Congress that he had simply become convinced that a lab leak, while theoretically possible, was not plausible. Later chat logs obtained by Congress show the paper’s lead authors discussing how to mislead Donald G. McNeil Jr., who was reporting on the pandemic’s origin for The Times, so as to throw him off track about the plausibility of a lab leak.
The second influential publication to dismiss the possibility of a lab leak was a letter published in early 2020 in The Lancet. The letter, which described the idea as a conspiracy theory, appeared to be the work of a group of independent scientists. It was anything but. Thanks to public document requests by U.S. Right to Know, the public later learned that behind the scenes, Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s president, had drafted and circulated the letter, while strategizing on how to hide his tracks and telling the signatories that it “will not be identifiable as coming from any one organization or person.” The Lancet later published an addendum disclosing Daszak’s conflict of interest as a collaborator of the Wuhan lab, but the journal did not retract the letter.
And they had assistance. Thanks to more public records requests and congressional subpoenas, the public learned that David Morens, a senior scientific adviser to Fauci at N.I.H., wrote to Daszak that he had learned how to make “emails disappear,” especially emails about pandemic origins. “We’re all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns, and if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them we’d delete them,” he wrote.
It’s not hard to imagine how the attempt to squelch legitimate debate may have started. Some of the loudest proponents of the lab leak theory weren’t just earnestly making inquiries, they were acting in terrible faith, using the debate over pandemic origins to attack legitimate, beneficial science, to inflame public opinion, to get attention. For scientists and public health officials, circling the wagons and vilifying anyone who dared to dissent might have seemed like a reasonable defense strategy.
That’s also why it might be tempting for those officials, or the organizations they represent, to avoid looking too closely at mistakes they made, at the ways that, while trying to do such a hard job, they may have withheld relevant information and even misled the public. Such self-scrutiny is especially uncomfortable now, as an unvaccinated child has died of measles and anti-vaccine nonsense is being pumped out by the top of the federal government. But a clumsy, misguided effort like this didn’t just fail, it backfired. These half-truths and strategic deceptions made it easier for people with the worst motives to appear trustworthy while discrediting important institutions where many earnestly labor in the public interest.
After a few dogged journalists, a small nonprofit pursuing Freedom of Information requests and an independent group of researchers brought these issues to light, followed by a congressional investigation, the Biden administration finally banned EcoHealth from all federal grants for five years.
That’s a start. The C.I.A. recently updated its assessment of how the Covid pandemic began, judging a lab leak to be the likely origin, albeit with low confidence. The Department of Energy, which runs sophisticated labs, and the F.B.I. had already come to that conclusion in 2023. But there are certainly more questions for governments and researchers across the world to answer. Why did it take until now for the German public to learn that way back in 2020, their Federal Intelligence Service endorsed a lab leak origin with 80 to 95 percent probability? What else is still being kept from us about the pandemic that half a decade ago changed all of our lives?
To this day, there is no strong scientific evidence ruling out a lab leak or proving that the virus arose from human-animal contact in that seafood market. The few papers cited for market origin were written by a small, overlapping group of authors, including those who didn’t tell the public how serious their doubts had been.
Only an honest conversation will lead us forward. Like any field with the potential to inflict harm on a global scale, research with dangerous, potentially super-transmissible pathogens cannot be left to self-regulation or lax and easily dodged rules, as is the case now. The goal should be an international treaty guiding biosafety, but we don’t have to be frozen in place until one appears. Leading journals could refuse to publish research that doesn’t conform to safety standards, the way they already reject research that doesn’t conform to ethical standards. Funders — whether universities or private corporations or public agencies — can favor studies that use research methods like harmless pseudoviruses or computer simulations. These steps alone would help disincentivize such dangerous research, here or in China. If some risky research is truly irreplaceable, it should be held to the highest safety conditions, and conducted far away from cities.
We may not know exactly how the Covid pandemic started, but if research activities were involved, that would mean two out of the last four or five pandemics were caused by our own scientific mishaps. Let’s not make a third.
The message was clear: toe the line or else. Those who refused were punished and labelled as pariahs.
The MSM serves the role of government media, so VOA is redundant.
https://apnews.com/article/voa-government-media-contracts-2bd47cf0c1bbcdc5cbe08eea030c1454
Why were DoD grants going to migrants? Shut it down!
https://x.com/RandoLand_us/status/1901302441632481575
DoE, rather.
Silver, Bitchez!!
https://x.com/BuBarrelBull/status/1901296709541462440
JUST IN: Alleged Gang Members Arrive In El Salvador After Deportation From US Despite Court Order
Forbes Breaking News
45 minutes ago
Alleged Tren de Aragua members arrive in El Salvador after being deported from the United States despite a federal judge ordering for the pause of deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSPzKu3JuNI
50 seconds
“JUST IN: Alleged Gang Members Arrive In El Salvador After Deportation From US Despite Court Order”
Delicious sweet justice. FAFO. CECOT is hell on earth.
“CECOT is hell on earth.”
Locked In Forever: Life Inside El Salvador’s 40,000 Inmate Mega-Prison With No Releases.
The government of El Salvador has unveiled stark photographs from its new mega-prison, CECOT, designed to house top gang members indefinitely.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/locked-in-forever-life-inside-el-salvadors-40-000-inmate-mega-prison-with-no-releases-5883242
“Shockingly, once inmates enter this facility, they are never known to be released.”
Actual consequences?
Delicious sweet justice.
Did you miss the “alleged” part? Or the “despite court order” part?
A show down with these judges has to happen. This is a good example to take to the supreme court.
I don’t have much faith in Roberts or Barrett.
Or the “despite court order” part?
https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1901154963926962556:
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AG Pam Bondi and her team filed with the DC Circuit an emergency motion to pause DC Obama Judge Jeb Boasberg’s illegal order sabotaging the presidency.
He ordered Trump to stop deporting foreign terrorists–and even turn around flights and bring them back to American soil.
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1901321458648781148:
The Supreme Court in 1948 upheld the law and banned federal courts from even reviewing presidential actions undertaken pursuant to the law. Unelected inferior judges have no authority to seize the powers of the presidency or to overturn Supreme Court rulings.
https://x.com/RepBrandonGill/status/1901097856066257071:
I’ll be filing Articles of Impeachment against activist judge James Boasberg this week.
‘I don’t have much faith in Roberts or Barrett’
We have to play the cards as they’re dealt.
Did you miss the “alleged” part?
Do you not understand gang tattoos?
Do you not understand gang tattoos?
Yes. I don’t.
I was not aware that having a gang tattoo was a crime, nor that the people in question have been duly convicted in court of committing this crime, nor that “alleged” is the proper way to refer to such individuals.
They don’t look so tough now. I’d bet 5 pesos a lot of gang members just made their self deportation plans.
+1
“She wrote, ‘We are being terrorized by noise and constant activity at all hours of the day and night. There will be as many as a dozen cars, Ubers coming and going around the clock, people congregating in the front yard/street, playing music, talking and yelling. We are woken up in the middle of the night multiple nights a week. Today a party bus was parked in front of our house, blaring music, unloading drunk girls for a bachelorette party.’”
I’m guessing most legitimate hotels don’t tolerate this kind of behavior in their guests.
But I’m curious why the residents don’t rely on local law enforcement to get rid of the drunken revelers who regularly disturb the peace?
What do you make of the recently reinverted Treasury yield curve?
Economy
Treasury Secretary Bessent says White House is heading off a ‘guaranteed’ financial crisis
Published Sun, Mar 16 2025 11:35 AM EDT
Yun Li
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaking to CNBC on March 13th, 2025.
CNBC
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the Trump administration is focused on preventing a financial crisis that could be the result of massive government spending over the past few years.
“What I could guarantee is we would have had a financial crisis. I’ve studied it, I’ve taught it, and if we had kept up at these spending levels that — everything was unsustainable,” Bessent said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We are resetting, and we are putting things on a sustainable path.”
President Donald Trump has made getting the government’s fiscal house in order a priority since taking office. He created the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, to spearhead job cuts and early retirement incentives across multiple federal agencies.
Still, the U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark.
Bessent noted that there are “no guarantees” there won’t be a recession.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/16/treasury-secretary-bessent-says-white-house-is-heading-off-financial-crisis.html
The Federal Reserve’s favorite recession indicator is flashing a danger sign again
Published Wed, Feb 26 2025 12:44 PM EST
Updated Wed, Feb 26 20251:57 PM EST
Jeff Cox
Key Points
– The 10-year Treasury yield passed below that of the 3-month note in Wednesday trading. In market lingo, that’s known as an “inverted yield curve,” and it’s had a sterling prediction record.
– While there’s no certainty that growth will turn negative this time around, investors worry that expected growth from an ambitious agenda under President Donald Trump may not happen.
– Yield curve inversions have had a strong but not perfect forecasting history. In fact, the previous inversion happened in October 2022, and there’s still been no recession, 2½ years later.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/26/federal-reserves-favorite-recession-indicator-is-flashing-danger-again.html
“In fact, the previous inversion happened in October 2022, and there’s still been no recession, 2½ years later.”
Clearly whether your stopped-clock prediction comes true depends on for how long your clock has been stopped.
Washington, DC’s economy is headed for a recession as Trump slashes federal workforce
By Bryan Mena, CNN
5 minute read
Published 9:00 AM EDT, Sun March 16, 2025
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/business/washington-dc-economy/index.html
The Motley Fool
This Recession Indicator Hasn’t Been Wrong in 59 Years: Here’s What It Says Happens Next
By Sean Williams – Mar 15, 2025 at 4:06AM
Key Points
– Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have been seemingly unstoppable for more than two years, their phenomenal rally may soon be over.
– A time-tested forecasting tool used by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York spells trouble for the U.S. economy.
– Economic cycles aren’t linear, and that’s music to the ears of patient investors.
Headwinds appear to be mounting for the U.S. economy and stock market.
For the better part of the last two and a half years, the bulls have been in firm control on Wall Street. The mature stock-powered Dow Jones Industrial Average, benchmark S&P 500, and growth-oriented Nasdaq Composite all achieved numerous record-closing highs during the current bull market rally.
The catalysts behind this rally have been abundant and include stock-split euphoria, the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, President Donald Trump’s November victory, and the resilience of the U.S. economy. Unfortunately, the foundation of the U.S. economy may not be as strong as advertised.
At any given moment, there’s bound to be one or more data points, events, or correlative statistics that spell trouble for the U.S. economy and/or stock market. For example, in 2023 we witnessed the first sizable decline in U.S. M2 money supply since the Great Depression. The very few times M2 has dropped by 2% on a year-over-basis, when back-tested more than 150 years, correlate with periods of depression and double-digit unemployment in the U.S.
But M2 money supply doesn’t appear to be signaling imminent trouble for the U.S. economy. The same can’t necessarily be said for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s recession probability tool.
The New York Fed’s recession-forecasting tool takes into account the difference in yield (known as spread) between the 10-year Treasury bond and three-month Treasury bill to decipher how likely it is that the U.S. economy will fall into a recession over the next 12 months.
Typically, the Treasury yield curve, which is a depiction of various bond and bill maturity dates mapped out by yield over time, slopes up and to the right. This is to say, bonds set to mature in 10, 20 or 30 years are going to bear higher yields than Treasury bills maturing in a year or less. Ideally, the longer your money is tied up in an interest-bearing investment vehicle, the higher the yield should be.
Where things get wonky is when the Treasury yield curve inverts. This is where the yield on short-term T-bills is higher than for long-term bonds. Yield-curve inversions typically occur when investors are concerned about the outlook for the U.S. economy. Although not every yield-curve inversion has been followed by a recession, it’s worth pointing out that every recession since World War II has been preceded by a yield-curve inversion.
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https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/03/15/recession-indicator-not-wrong-59-years-what-next/
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
Not housing but engineering fun.
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car? (18m53s)
First comment w/ 50K likes: “making enemies with tesla and with disney with only one video. This is commitment”
IIRC, there is a model of the Space Mountain track in the waiting area for “Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln”. Its layout is hardly a mystery.
I’ve seen the lights on while stuck on the track. There are comments to the video about people having ridden it with the lights on.
I do NOT like the WAY Mark Rober SPEAKS.
Here’s some “engineering”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibp2Gy2CFrY&pp=ygUidGFibGUgc2F3IGJsYWRlIHN0b3BzIHdoZW4gdG91Y2hlZA%3D%3D
I still wouldn’t trust it…
Me neither.
Here’s some “engineering”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibp2Gy2CFrY&pp=ygUidGFibGUgc2F3IGJsYWRlIHN0b3BzIHdoZW4gdG91Y2hlZA%3D%3D
I still wouldn’t trust it…
ichael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
The former head of the UK’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6, told Boris Johnson in early 2020 that the Covid virus escaped from the Wuhan lab. That means that the US, UK, Chinese, & German governments all knew the truth, covered it up, and spread disinformation. Case closed.
10:11 PM · Mar 15, 2025
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https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1901093982374904120
escaped from the Wuhan lab
I still doubt it just “escaped.” The timing was way too convenient.
‘I talked to several Canadians who are selling their longtime winter homes and vowing to never spend another penny in America’
The fat life is over Flathead.
As Ben said, they don’t look too tough now. Amazing video.
Nayib Bukele
@nayibbukele
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.
Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.
On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.
This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.
As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.
May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States
8:13 AM · Mar 16, 2025
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https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1901245427216978290
Amazing video.
No sh!t.
Tattoos at 35s.
‘‘It instantly gives a person [a] ‘they don’t want us to come there’ feeling,’ Gravel told CBC News recently. ‘It’s a big tax, it’s a big tariff’
The T word is taking on a new meaning in K-da.
‘If I pay my insurance premiums I can’t afford to pay my house payments…We are living pay week to pay week’…After their annual insurance premium tripled from $3,500 to $13,500 in the past two years, Mrs Johnstone and husband Michael Johnstone this year decided to forgo flood insurance and ‘pray to goodness’ they avoid flooding in the next 12 months. And they are not alone. ‘There’s a significant amount of elderly people in Charleville that don’t have insurance because they just can’t afford it’
And they are all on a fixed income Sonja, where as the rest of us have new money growing on the trees in the front yard every morning.
Via ZH (no link), Bessent Says Market “Corrections Are Healthy”, Offers “No Guarantees” There Won’t Be A Recession
[An interesting article …]
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/16/alleged-gangs-chile-crime-theft-burglary/