a moveable beast…

Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims

“Research published on Thursday by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Columbia University suggests that, through November 2025, 90 percent of the economic burden of the president’s tariffs fell on U.S. companies and consumers.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

Presidents have limited tools to address affordability issues. Unfortunately Trump isn’t even interested in availing himself of those few options.

Instead he has exactly one play: promise people cash, with no ability to deliver it or intention of doing so.

🚨 This is another win for Big Oil and other big polluters at the expense of everyone else.

Instead of giving polluters a free ride, we should pass my Polluters Pay bill to make them — not all of us — pay the bill for the huge amount of damage they’ve caused.

What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval! Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?

so, full disclosure, I feel like you will get something slightly different than you expect when you click on this!

I welcomed @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social to Virginia with @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social @repvindman.bsky.social @beyer.house.gov for a field hearing on the impact of Trump’s federal worker firings and loyalty tests.

Voucher supporters say Empowerment Scholarship fraud is 1%. New records peg misspending closer to 20%. 12News obtained Education Department records showing that one in five ESA purchases—such as cellphones, TVs, and diamond rings—were on the "unallowable" list.

Holy crap. New investigative reporting out of Arizona finds voucher fraud is 20x worse than the voucher lobby claims.
www.12news.com/article/news...

“.. Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane ..”

@wsj.com
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NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each.

Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

COOK POLITICAL: “.. Trump is hemorrhaging support from the coalition of voters that propelled him to victory in 2024 ..

“.. white voters without a college degree .. Trump’s huge advantage with these voters has all but evaporated..”

@cookpolitical.com
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...

MAGA continues to gin up violent threats against judges. Trump U.S. Attorneys were just asked to investigate judges for impeachment.* MAGA DOJ still refuses to confirm it will investigate orchestration of threats.

Why the FDA Blocked Moderna’s New Flu Shot The head of the agency’s vaccine division, Vinay Prasad, has overruled pushback from career staffers.

The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s application to sell a new flu shot is part of a pattern of regulatory U-turns and overruling of FDA staff by Vinay Prasad, head of the agency’s vaccine division www.wsj.com/health/healt... via @wsj.com

CATO: “.. The whole idea that Trump tariffs would ‘protect US manufacturing jobs’ was all lies then, and it is all lies now.”

@cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

This is everyone’s favorite chart now.

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

(AXIOS) - President Trump has become so politically toxic that voters now say Joe Biden — whose unpopularity forced him into early retirement — did a better job as president, according to three new polls.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t...

BlackRock.
PIMCO.
Amundi.

Anyone else wanna sell US?

this captures just how maniacal, corrupt and embarrassingly stupid Pam Bondi's appearance on Capitol Hill was yesrerday x.com/aprilajoyr/s...

Looks like those “high knowledge*” voters weren’t so high knowledge after all…

Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024 The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Low-engagement voters exist, & what little they did hear in 2024 was <totally detached> from the actual realities of the 2 parties & the stakes of 🇺🇸 politics. But you don’t have to follow politics closely in 2026 to have heard that awful crazy stuff is happening every day:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Mass detaining and sorting by race —- tell me this is not Nazi Germany

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman says he has not gone to see the newly-unredacted Epstein Files and hasn't "decided yet" if he plans to. "I've got a lot of stuff going on," he says to @premthakker.bsky.social

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in all 50 states by imposing new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements. But it faces a daunting path in the Senate.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Vote was 218-213 with one Dem, Cuellar TX. DINO VOTE HIM OUT..
Now to the Senate

(imho) this BAD BILL SAVE ACT will never get 60 votes needed in the Senate

The DOJ was spying on lawmakers searches on the redacted Epstein files. This is in violation of the separation of powers and as @raskin.house.gov says, it’s Orwellian. The DOJ everyday violates laws and Pam Bondi must be impeached, disbarred, and sent to prison.

Jobs report shows a historic stall in hiring last year • Missouri Independent U.S. jobs increased by 130,000 in January, buoyed by hires in health care, social assistance and construction. But in another sign of anemic hiring last year during President Donald Trump's second ter...

Jobs report shows a historic stall in hiring last year missouriindependent.com/2026/02/11/r...

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor Soaring profits and stocks funnel more of GDP toward companies, their top employees and shareholders. AI will intensify this trend.

This is all very bad www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

The CBO is estimating that 95% of the burden from Trump's tariffs is borne by American consumers.