Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum

“It is clear what Trump wants, but all migrants in the United States have due process rights under federal law. Specifically, Somali migrants have the right to appear before an immigration judge and seek asylum based on a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, political views, or another protected category. This is a particular risk in Somalia, where al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. The Trump administration, however, appears to be manipulating the judicial process to dramatically reduce the chance that Somali immigrants are granted asylum.” (02/09/26)

https://popular.info/p/how-trump-is-rigging-immigration

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“If you peer through the constructal lens, you can set aside partisan binaries and begin to diagnose the West’s decline in terms of physics.” (02/09/26)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/civilizational-schlerosis

Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser

Cartoon. (02/09/26)

https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2574

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Matthew Williams

“The pricing of prescription drugs is often the subject of debate. Many forget that pharmaceuticals and drug development form a market like any other, but circumstances and the human condition make it admittedly more complicated. Medicine is unique in that it grapples with human life amid unavoidable scarcity. Scarcity forces tough trade-offs and costs, and when lives of our loved ones hang in the balance, emotions can overwhelm rational judgment. Politicians eagerly exploit these situations.” (02/09/26)

https://fee.org/articles/pricing-information-and-risk-in-pharma/

Source: Fox News
by Howard Kurtz

“The first time I spoke to Jeff Bezos, he had founded Amazon as an online bookstore and made himself available to all kinds of journalists — a ‘political genius,’ said The New York Times Magazine, a ‘brilliant, charming, hyper, and misleadingly goofy mastermind.’ In 1999, having blown past the naysayers who scoffed at the strange notion of online retailing, the 35-year-old businessman was named Time’s Person of the Year. Nearly a decade-and-a-half later, as one of the world’s richest men, Bezos spent $250 million of his personal fortune to buy the Washington Post from Katharine Graham’s family. And now he should fold his cards and sell it. It’s a different era for the industry and a very different Bezos, one who is comfortable slashing a third of the paper’s staff.” (02/09/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/how-jeff-bezos-ruined-washington-post-why-he-should-sell