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[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

What a depressing future when the government bans being rich.

Everyone has to be poor by law. If you are too successful they will just start taking stuff from you.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

One thing you need to understand about senior generals is that many of them are effectively socialist.

Think about it. They don’t have the market discipline to require them to be productive. What they produce is pleasing their senior officers, therefore, rising in rank. There’s no bottom line because they have an endless supply of money. Do you think any corporation would keep CEOs who didn’t win a war for 30 years? But look at the Pentagon. Look at the generals who are complaining. That’s them.

Now, reserve generals are a little different because they actually have to operate in the real world as civilians. I had generals who were corporate CEOs. And they were awesome. Still, if you are a senior general, you have spent 30 years in a government command environment. When you don’t like something, you give a command to change it. That’s how they think problems get solved. They don’t understand capitalism or entrepreneurialism – it’s against everything they’ve ever worked for. They want a rigid hierarchy with themselves at the top, making all the decisions. That’s why they’re inevitably for Democrats and such policies as gun control.

They also protect the club. And that means rejecting any kind of accountability. You can do that when you’re in a rigid hierarchy. Why do you think no one ever got fired for the Kabul disaster? And why do you think they are so very upset that Pete Hegseth is picking his generals under his own criteria and not theirs?

You have no idea how it grates upon them that a major is their boss. The last thing they’ll do is look in the mirror and ask why. That’s because they never had to look in the mirror to ask why before now.

Some of them can actually fight – certainly not all of them, as the disasters of the last 30 years have shown – but on any other subject, their views are not only wrong, but actively wrong. They have a child’s view of politics and civilian life. They want to govern by tantrum. But here’s their problem – we civilians are not in their chain of command.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Not wrong to say this is where the party is going, but Newsom is a follower, not a leader on policy (with the exception of redistricting), and doesn't really have any fresh political ideas. Very much like Harris, here's a weathervane for the party.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

The America First Monetary Revolt: Trump’s Vision, Bessent’s Framework.

Scott Bessent’s remarks at the New York Economic Club were not merely about “economic statecraft.” They outlined a domestic political economy shift: restore private credit creation, revive the American System, and reduce the Federal Reserve’s outsized role. The throughline is clear, an America First alternative to the post-2008 regime of dominant central banks, constrained commercial banks, and asset-market dependency.

The Hamiltonian parallel is unmistakable. Alexander Hamilton did not view credit as neutral plumbing; he saw it as a tool of national development, directing private capital toward industry, production, and state power. Bessent’s framework echoes that tradition: align policy to reward domestic production, rebuild productive lending, and reorient capital toward manufacturing, supply chains, and strategic sectors rather than perpetual financial engineering.

It also points toward a more deliberate use of public balance sheets and quasi-public institutions to catalyze investment in reindustrialization, advanced manufacturing, and strategic capacity.

This makes his critique of the post-crisis order more consequential than routine debates about rates. Since the global financial crisis, the Fed has evolved from lender of last resort into the de facto manager of growth, market psychology, and risk pricing.

At the same time, post-Dodd-Frank regulation placed traditional banks in a structural constraint, while private credit expanded largely as regulatory arbitrage rather than as the natural expression of a healthy financial system.

Bessent’s prescription is not the elimination of the Fed, but its downsizing. He has endorsed reducing forward guidance and scrapping the dot plot, a direct challenge to the assumption that markets require constant signaling from central bankers. Yes, Warsh echoes this thesis, and yes it’s not hawkish.

His comments on the discount window are especially important. If regulators properly recognized capped, pre-positioned borrowing capacity, banks could reduce sterile liquidity buffers and expand real-economy lending. This is a serious institutional proposal: shift the system away from centralized monetary management and back toward decentralized private credit creation. Notably, Bessent also implies the U.S. should maintain relatively lower rates, reinforcing this credit expansion dynamic.

There is also a Jacksonian undertone. Trump’s America First framework, like Andrew Jackson’s campaign against the Second Bank, reflects a deep skepticism of concentrated financial power insulated from democratic accountability. In this view, expanding channels of credit, public and private alike, becomes a way to outflank entrenched financial intermediaries and redirect capital toward national priorities.

The target is a broader regime shift: one where credit creation, channeled through both markets and institutions, supports productive capital formation rather than asset inflation, and where growth is driven less by financial engineering than by innovation, industrial capacity, and technological progress.

The wager from Trump and Bessent is straightforward, America will be stronger when the Fed does less and the country builds more.

Private credit for productive investment. That sounds a lot like Hamilton.

[U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs @US_SrAdvisorAF]

Today, the United States sanctioned eight individuals and entities involved in perpetuating the devastating violence in Sudan in support of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, as well as additional sanctions against the government for its chemical weapons use. External military support must cease; the Sudanese people deserve peace. The belligerents must accept the humanitarian truce and allow unhindered humanitarian access. The United States will continue to champion an inclusive and civilian-led political dialogue process, which is critical for achieving a durable end to Sudan’s terrible conflict.

[Lydia Moynihan @LydiaMoynihan]

The fundamental political divide of today is whether the American government should prioritize the safety, prosperity, culture, and way of life of its own citizens — including their ability to afford the American Dream — or should it treat the needs of people from anywhere in the world as equally important?

As President Trump stated in his State of the Union address, the right believes “the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”

Many on the left (and some Republicans) take the opposing view: that the government has just as much responsibility to foreigners as to its own people, and that anyone from anywhere should be free to come here at any time, for any reason, without consequence. Their view is that America must absorb whoever arrives, regardless of the cost to schools, hospitals, housing, public safety or social cohesion.

Increasingly, this position is interetwined with open hostility to America and Western civilization and is seen as a tool for cultural transformation.

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

The Supreme Court just issued two good 6-3 decisions on immigration (TPS and asylum).

Don't let the timing fool anyone.

Soon, the Court will likely issue an egregiously wrong ruling.

The Court will pretend Chinese birth tourists, Tren de Aragua terrorists, Islamist invaders, and other illegals get automatic birthright citizenship.

We The People, the sovereign citizens of America, never agreed to this.

Not at our founding, not after the Civil War, not in any subsequent Congress.

Never.

This will serve as the most serious violation of our most crucial sovereign power:

Controlling who comes and goes--and who becomes one of us.

We The People never agreed to this judicially sanctioned invasion and replacement.

[Mwebaze Charles🧳🇺🇬☕️ @MwebazeCharles7]

@JanetMuseveni @MKAMUGIRA1 ❤️

[Flávio Bolsonaro @FlavioBolsonaro]

Sou casado há 16 anos, pai de duas filhas maravilhosas e nunca desrespeitei, maltratei ou humilhei uma mulher na minha vida. Jamais o faria com a esposa do meu próprio pai.

Tenho 45 anos de idade, 24 anos de vida pública e sou reconhecido pelo meu equilíbrio, educação e respeito com todos, até com meus adversários políticos.

Em nenhum momento ofendi ou tive a intenção de ofender a Michelle. Se o fiz em algum momento, mais uma vez, peço desculpas. Tenho por ela respeito e reconhecimento pelo trabalho no PL Mulher, pelo cuidado com meu pai e por tudo o que representa para o Brasil.

Toda nossa família está passando por um momento muito difícil. E entendo a angústia da Michelle vendo meu pai, todos os dias, sofrendo com tamanha injustiça.

Eu também sofro, mas sigo firme! Viajando o Brasil carregando o manto que meu pai me deu, passando dias longe de casa, da minha esposa, das minhas filhas, sem poder orar e dar um beijo nelas antes de dormir, sofrendo ameaças de morte e, mesmo, sigo focado na missão. Pois acredito que é um projeto de Deus para o nosso país! Não reclamo do cansaço ou da ausência sentida pela minha família, apenas peço a Deus sabedoria, saúde, força e coragem para fazer a Sua vontade!

Tenho absoluta convicção de que todos nós temos o mesmo objetivo: o melhor para o Brasil e nos livrar da esquerda. É natural que, em determinados momentos, pessoas comprometidas com o mesmo propósito enxerguem caminhos diferentes para chegar ao melhor resultado. Isso acontece nas famílias, nas empresas e também na vida pública. Divergências de estratégia não significam divergências de princípios.

Estou cumprindo uma missão designada por Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Todas as minhas decisões sempre são tomadas com o respaldo dele. Sempre!

O Brasil precisa se livrar de Lula e do PT . Precisamos ter foco nisso!

Ontem (terça) liguei para a Senadora Damares Alves e pedi que organizasse uma reunião, na próxima quarta-feira, com lideranças femininas conservadoras para que eu pudesse aprender, ouvi-las e me ajudassem a construir o melhor plano de país para as mulheres de todo o Brasil.

Ainda ontem pela manhã, também escrevi à Damares: “Se vc achar que é o caso de convidar a Michelle tb, eu tô de coração aberto! Bjs!”

Hoje (quarta) pela manhã, eu mesmo fiz questão de ligar para Michelle e convidá-la, pessoalmente. Fiz mais um gesto não correspondido. Não atendeu. Deixei mensagem. Também não retornou.

Para minha surpresa, na tarde de hoje ela publicou o vídeo.

A reunião na próxima quarta-feira está mantida, para tratar justamente das soluções que proporemos para milhões de mulheres brasileiras que acordam cedo, trabalham, cuidam dos filhos e das famílias.

De coração aberto, fiz o convite à Michelle, justamente porque acredito que o diálogo, o respeito e a união sempre serão o melhor caminho.

O convite segue de pé e o coração segue aberto, pois temos um Brasil para tirar das mãos do PT.

O Brasil precisa de maturidade, serenidade e unidade. Vamos concentrar nossas energias naquilo que realmente importa: construir um futuro melhor para todos os brasileiros!

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

The situation in Cuba is devolving as the island’s corrupt, brutal and anti-American Communist regime continues to prioritize its own total control over the freedom, opportunity and basic wellbeing of the Cuban people.

The Cuban military-controlled conglomerate GAESA has persistently served as the main vector for regime elites to steal the island’s few resources, diverting them for repression, anti-American subversion and spying instead of schools, power plants, and basic necessities for the Cuban people. Today, I designated additional GAESA network entities associated with moving both its money and its physical assets, as well as entities responsible for exploiting Cuba’s mineral and metal reserves for ill-gotten profit.

Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of being sanctioned themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities immediately.

[محمد بن عبدالرحمن @MBA_AlThani_]

Live from Lucerne, work continues with @VP & @jaredkushner.

[Mwebaze Charles🧳🇺🇬☕️ @MwebazeCharles7]

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[Mwebaze Charles🧳🇺🇬☕️ @MwebazeCharles7]

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[Mwebaze Charles🧳🇺🇬☕️ @MwebazeCharles7]

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[Mwebaze Charles🧳🇺🇬☕️ @MwebazeCharles7]

@LibbyTard17 @RapidResponse47 You’re a big man

[Swiss MFA @SwissMFA]

We welcome the arrival of the United States delegation in #Switzerland.

The United States delegation is on its way to the Bürgenstock as part of the implementation of the MoU signed between the #UnitedStates and #Iran.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Patriotism is not believing your country is perfect.

Patriotism is refusing to let people who hate it be the only ones willing to fight for its future.

[יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid @yairlapid]

גם אצלנו זה כבר קורה. ובאופן אבסורדי, לא רק בשמאל.
הליכוד, שהתחיל את דרכו כמפלגה שהבינה שצריך לשחרר את המשק הישראלי, הופך בשנים האחרונות למפלגה של קצבאות, מינויים, מקורבים, שליטה ממשלתית בשווקים, ניפוח מנגנונים וחלוקת כסף פוליטית. זו אינה כלכלת שוק. זו כלכלת מקורבים.

הדבר המרכזי שהציל את ישראל עד עכשיו הוא ההיי־טק.
לא מפני שהממשלה ניהלה אותו, אלא מפני שהיא לא ידעה איך להתערב בו יותר מדי. הוא צמח כי היו בו חופש, הון פרטי, חיבור לעולם, תחרות, כישרון וסיכון. אבל גם זה נפגע. כבר ב־ 2023 דיווחה רויטרס, על בסיס סקר של רשות החדשנות, שעד 80% מהסטארט־אפים החדשים בישראל בחרו להירשם בדלאוור, לעומת כ־ 20% בלבד שנה קודם לכן. זו אינה סטטיסטיקה טכנית. זו הצבעת אי אמון של האנשים שבונים את העתיד.

קפיטליזם אינו פוטר את המדינה מאחריות. להפך. מדינה קפיטליסטית טובה צריכה להיות חזקה בדיוק במקומות הנכונים: ביטחון, חוק, חינוך, תשתיות, תחרות, בריאות, רווחה בסיסית, הזדמנות אמיתית לילדים מהפריפריה. אבל היא לא צריכה לנהל כל מפעל, לקבוע כל מחיר, להחליף כל יזם, ולחלק כספים כדי לקנות שקט פוליטי.

הבחירה האמיתית איננה בין שוק חופשי לג׳ונגל. הבחירה היא בין כלכלה שמייצרת ערך ואז משתמשת בו כדי לבנות חברה הגונה, לבין כלכלה שמבטיחה צדק ואז הורגת את התמריצים, מבריחה את היצרנים, ומגלה שאין לה מה לחלק.

אם אתם רוצים לדעת איך זה נגמר, אל תקראו תיאוריה. סעו לקובה

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷White House envoy Steve Witkoff is on his way to Switzerland, where the first round of talks with Iran on a potential nuclear deal is expected to take place, a U.S. official told me. Jared Kushner is already in Switzerland. My story on @axios
https://t.co/suNH9rkVk9