Posts by Kim Browne
The Market Met Jerome Powell’s Warning With Deep Denial
Not all the markets were impervious to Powell’s harassment by DOJ goons. The dollar, which is down 8.3 percent over the past year—that is, more or less since Trump took office—dropped steeply Monday morning before rising a bit in the afternoon. The yield on 30-year Treasury bonds, which has been rising since October, spiked Monday…
Read MoreKaroline Leavitt Flips Out Over Anti-ICE Protests in Minneapolis
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt can’t understand why the country is up in arms over the ICE-induced violence taking place in Minneapolis. “It’s striking that all weekend you had agitators and violent citizens in the streets of Minneapolis protesting—protesting what, exactly?” Leavitt asked while addressing reporters outside the White House Monday. Nationwide protests took…
Read More“Stupod B*tch”: GoFundMe for Minnesota ICE Agent Is Chilling
Alpha News, the conservative blog that got first access to Jonathan Ross’s cell phone footage of him killing Renee Good, boosted a fundraiser for the ICE agent that describes the deceased as a “stupod bitch that got what she deserved.” It seems that in exchange for the website’s high-profile scoop—that got shared by the vice…
Read More“WE’RE SCREWED”: Trump Panics Over Looming Supreme Court Tariff Ruling
McCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump’s first term, is now joining the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Last year, McCormick briefly joined Meta’s board of directors before leaving in December. McCormick is married to Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania, who was elected as a Republican to the Senate…
Read MoreMark Kelly Hits Defense Secretary Hegseth With Major Lawsuit
McCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump’s first term, is now joining the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Last year, McCormick briefly joined Meta’s board of directors before leaving in December. McCormick is married to Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania, who was elected as a Republican to the Senate…
Read MoreTrump Sends Dangerously Mixed Messages on Iran Protests
“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today, but Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, will see them over the next week. Everyone is in daily contact. “Today’s…
Read MoreTrump’s Rage Explodes at GOPers as Their Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
The other day, five Senate Republicans helped pass a measure blocking President Trump’s authority to wage war in Venezuela without Congress. That caused Trump to erupt in a crazed fury. He attacked those Republicans by name, fumed that they had weakened his authority, and raged that “they should never be elected to office again.” He…
Read MoreChina battery shares drop on plan to cut export tax rebates
From April, discounts on 22 battery-related goods will be cut from 9% to 6%, with a complete removal planned from 2027 [HONG KONG/SINGAPORE] Chinese battery shares fell after Beijing unveiled a plan to reduce some export tax rebates, while South Korean materials companies advanced. Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL) led the drop with a decline…
Read MoreThe Red-State City That’s Doing Immigration Right
Some of these young women—part of a corps of thousands of young Mormons on assignment around the world, including the church’s own headquarters—sport U.S. flags, but on a recent weekday evening most did not, instead wearing flags from Malaysia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and South Korea, among others. As these international arrivals converge on Salt…
Read MoreTrump calls for one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%
Lawmakers from both the Democratic and Republican Parties have raised concerns about high rates and have called for those to be addressed [WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump said on Friday (Jan 9) that he was calling for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10 per cent starting on Jan 20, but he…
Read MoreTrump, 79, Accidentally Reads Marco Rubio’s Private Note Out Loud
Donald Trump humiliated himself Friday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to slyly pass him a note during a meeting with oil executives, and the president immediately read it aloud. Trump was in the midst of promising “a very nice return” for executives from Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon, Halliburton, Valero, and Marathon—in exchange for a…
Read MoreKatie Miller Loses It at ChatGPT (Yes, Really) for Wildest Reason
Katie Miller, the wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, fumed Friday when ChatGPT didn’t give her the answer she wanted about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Miller shared a post on X from one right-wing commentator that appeared to show an interaction with ChatGPT, in which a user asked the chatbot “who was responsible” for…
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