Eric Wistrand

I think I'll just leave this here. stopice.net

Marhelm:

I hope folks realize this Bab al-Mandab situation will be much worse than the Strait of Hormuz if it’s not sorted out quickly. And it doesn’t currently look like it will be sorted out quickly.

Hillary Clinton: "I love Israel, and I hate Netanyahu's government and his policies. I love America, and I hate Trump's government and policies ... if the Israelis want to vote for that again, then I think the United States has to take a very tough position."

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀

I love this so much.

* The Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

LOL

footage of the aftermath of a B-52 Stratofortress crash at Edwards Air Force Base in California

Thanks to the heroic action of Mike Lee in the middle of the night, Trump might be about to overrule Hegseth and decree that Mormons are Christians. Another crisis averted.

Doing this at The Villages in Florida elevates it to high art

We should say what Trump always says: “A lot of people are saying it. I’m not saying it, but a lot of people are, ok?”

So there's still no actual "Trump phone" or release date, all promises of this being "made in the U.S." are gone, and the device has already seen a steep price hike. Also the phone, should it ever be released, appears to be a lazy rebrand of the two-year old HTC U24 Pro. Very on brand.

“Thank God for the good Samaritans who alerted us as soon as they noticed him standing up straight and watching the musicians perform—this could have gotten ugly fast." theonion.com/coachella-me...

The Athletic | Tiger Woods was arrested for a DUI at 1 o'clock in the afternoon after flipping his SUV. Could he be a future candidate for Secretary of War?

Vigeland: We talk about how, oh no, they just hate us for our freedom. No, they hate us because we bomb girls schools.

HANNITY: “I left NYC because I would walk into restaurants and see disdain and disgust on people’s faces just because I was in the room.”

Trump on troop deployments: I seem to have great support. CNN came out with a poll today that I'm at 100%. They said they have never seen a poll like that. The CNN poll said I'm at 100%.

> @yahoofinance.com

Trump: "No other president can do some of this shit I'm doing"

From @theathletic.com: Five players have defected from the Iranian women’s soccer team and are being cared for in a safe house operated by the Australian Federal Police.

He’s also sending Witkoff and Kushner to Israel on Tuesday. Probably nothing to do with global markets cratering and oil going parabolic

Jesus, Japan’s Nikkei index is down over 4,000 points, over 7% South Korea’s KOSPI is down 8% and hit a circuit breaker. Tomorrow is gonna be brutal, but it will probably also eventually make Trump TACO.

Weird how 1. He calls all these outlets fake news but has them on speed dial 2. The reporters he bashes salivate over getting phone calls from Daddy

Let’s talk Iranian war. You’ve probably seen a lot of hand-wringing over missile interceptor quantities. Are we running out? Can we fight for years? As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle. Bottom line up front: interceptors are a finite resource. That’s a fact.

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

"Golden Age"? Bloomberg Eco forecasting that the monthly jobs report for January due tomorrow will show that the number of jobs created ending in 2025 will be lowered by some 1 MILLION as part of the BLS's annual benchmarking process:

Translatation: the jobs report sucks.

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people. Trumpism is fascism.

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

How big is Greenland? Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn

Grocery. An old-fashioned word. But a beautiful word.

TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation? NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency. T: What you said is not what happened N: It absolutely is what happened

WELKER: Has the president crossed the line of impeachment? CHRIS MURPHY: I have common sense. I know this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first. He's stealing from the American people.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"

Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"

#NFP 🇺🇸

Trump on his wife's legislative initiative: "I just heard about that for the first time. The only thing I can tell you, I know one thing for sure, it's going to be great for children. I don't know what it is she's doing. She loves children. She's got a wonderful boy. And she's very proud of her boy"