Tonight’s PBS News Hour ended with this segment about Boston’s singular significance in the Revolutionary War. Then it “goes woke” with a discussion of another revolt; the desegregation busing crisis of fifty years ago.
Revolting Beantown
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
ICE Are Not Police
I have a niece who is a practicing physician at a Minneapolis hospital.
The Stroke of Midnight
He’s been sundowning then staying up late into the night, posting unhinged screeds and sharing offensive fake videos. In the Oval Office he’s always sitting at his desk. His speech patterns have become so odd. Something is very wrong, even by his bizarre standard.
From the bruising on his hands it’s obvious he’s on a blood thinner, and it isn’t just aspirin. A mini-stroke must have been suspected, so he had an MRI. The CT scan was a cover-up story, or perhaps he was given one of those too.
DOGE Ball Hits Jobs
Notice that in January, AI only accounts for 7% of the 108,435 announced layoffs. For all of 2025, the share is only 4.5%. For comparison, DOGE actions accounted for 24.4% (293,753) of total layoffs in 2025.
https://econbrowser.com/archives/2026/02/announced-job-layoffs-attributed-to-ai
Taking T
Somebody in the Trump organization must have noticed something I pointed out last month:
The Trump phone, assuming it ever actually becomes available, will not sport a tall “T” on back of the case.
The executives also said that while the phone will retain its golden finish and the American flag on the back, the large T1 logo would be removed from the final phone.
https://www.androidauthority.com/trump-phone-first-look-specifications-3638938/
Night of the Living Debt
A home equity line of credit is a type of second mortgage. I took one out 25 years ago to do some remodeling.
The HELOC and the mortgage on this place were paid off long ago. The property is now in a real estate trust that is untouchable to any outsider — unless the property tax doesn’t get paid.
The seemingly endless consequences of the Great Recession include foreclosures that are issued without prior notice. Zombie mortgages live!