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...marine insurers have halted coverage for any voyages in the area, leaving transporters exposed to massive risk premiums or outright refusal.
Many survivors attempted to return home only to discover their belongings had been stolen and their properties vandalized or sold, effectively erasing their existence from their neighborhoods.
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The economic persecution being enacted against Iranian heritage communities and businesses and Iranian communities throughout the US in the coming months could bring the same annihilation to them as those visited on US Japantowns in WWII.
If you visit Japantown in San Francisco, there's a memorial with a placard that explains that Japantowns were once as prevalent in American cities as Chinatowns, but that they were mostly destroyed in WWII by government policies targeting Japanese Americans.
Ignore the fear-hype headline.
Good info here: How contemporary military action meets the financial system, how it effects Iranian students (up to 10,000) and thousands more with Iranian surnames or any tangential financial contact with Iran.
Price of oil on Monday?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGiS...
Well, shit.
Kitchen staff got leftover cake to take home to the families. Put away the guillotines.
Basically Trump’s Davos speech is just a thousand Twitter comments in a trench coat.
It's always a good time for a fox in the snow, rendered lovely (corrected from lovingly, but I suspect lovingly is true too).
He says something and all I hear is the rapey subtext: "I bought you an expensive dinner and now you won't put out? No I won't unlock the car door."
The Guardian knows how to write about Donald Trump:
"Trump is now banging on about how green energy is a fraud."
Also ➡️: "And lurching into language popularised by England’s football fans, Trump tells WEF..." He's the human personification of a fucking lurch.
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
Upside: Pay back your expensive debt with newly cheap money.
When dollars are only worth 25 cents of what they were when you took out the loan, well, fuck those guys.
Damn.
BP/ICE aren't cops or soldiers.
They're federal govt. CIVIL enforcement agents vested with limited policing powers for the purpose of enforcing customs & immigration laws
Harassment of, attacks on & kidnapping of citizens isn't their purpose nor charge. Neither are street executions for disrespect
A USPS mailbox in New York City
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
"This is swing voters responding to chaos. This is the suburbs recoiling. This is not the MAGA base defecting."
Yep.
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"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
Stacked line plot illustrating estimates of how many SNAP participants should have received benefits by each day in November 2025. Each state is shown with a different color, illustrating how different states use different distribution schedules for SNAP.
By today, nearly 11 million SNAP participants should have received *full* benefits for November. They haven't.
By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million.
(estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS)
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Scott Jennings melted down on CNN over Zohran Mamdani’s likely win — ranting about “socialists” and tossing out a bizarre new slur, “Islamo-Marxist”
Then David Hogg calmly torched the whole charade:
“People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country.”
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“As we’re seeing our world warm and water vapor in the atmosphere increase … it activates something that doesn’t look like anything most humans have seen before.”
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Taps the sign...
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"The inflation report was delayed due to the government shutdown and the White House said there will likely be no report next month..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsA3...
From August. The trouble with Argentina.
www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...
$40 billion isn't enough.
Trump will have to keep pouring US tax dollars into Argentina to keep it afloat.
www.digitaljournal.com/business/arg...
“You don’t have to squint hard to see that extreme weather events are […] affecting labor markets, supply chains, insurance markets, and inflation dynamics in ways that are pronounced, prolonged, and pervasive.”
Senior Fellow Sarah Bloom Raskin, in @bloomberg.com
