Thursday, February 12, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Private Jobs Jump, Federal Jobs Fall

Sundance at CTH reports Economy Adds 130,000 Jobs in January, Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.3 Percent. Unexpectedly! Of course. Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "This is insane… The number of federal government employees is now at it’s lowest level in 50+ years. Dropped off a cliff after Trump was elected." Karoline Leavitt @PressSec, "This fact alone deserves the attention of every mainstream media reporter today:" Quote E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni "THIS is the real story out of today's jobs report - Trump was handed an economy that was losing private sector jobs and adding gov't payrolls, but he successfully flipped the script, and one year later it's all private sector growth while cutting gov't jobs:" From Ace, Unexpectedly, January Job Creation Numbers Double Expectations. "In January, we created 172,000 non-farm jobs while eliminating 42,000 government jobs. "The stats subtract that 42,000 from the 172,000 to say we created 130,000 net jobs, but to me... um, I feel like adding those "lost" jobs into the "created" column because we want to reduce government "employment." It's a waste that drags down the productive sector of the economy. BTW, "Biden's Miracle Economy" counted on an exploding government sector to make job "growth" look good in the statistics. Oh, and most of the non-government jobs "created" went to literal foreigners." Ace also catches this Real Axios Headline: "Crime Plunges In Major Cities Despite Trump's Crackdown Rhetoric" "You mean, despite his rhetoric calling for a crime crackdown followed by a genuine crackdown?" Capt. Ed at Hat Hair asks Today's Deep Question: Why Is Violent Crime Plummeting in the US?

Sundance hosts Attorney General Pam Bondi Testifies to House Judiciary Committee. At Twitchy, Pass the Popcorn! Enjoy a Few Clips of AG Pam Bondi Giving Dem Rep. Jamie Raskin Brutal Verbal Wedgies. In a vid at Hat Hair, Larry notices Jerry Nadler Caught Snoozing As Pam Bondi Testimony Gets Fiery. At TownHall Dmitri Bolt likes how Pam Bondi Goes Toe-to-Toe With Democrats in Explosive House Judiciary Hearing and Matt Vespa has She Stormed Off? Watch AG Pam Bondi Trigger the Hell Out of This House Dem. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Democrat Rep. Balint storms out in rage after AG Pam Bondi flips script and exposes her coverup of Bill Clinton's involvement with Epstein: Balint: "This not a game Secretary" Bondi: " I am Attorney General" Balint: " My apologies I couldn't tell." Bondi: "I was curious if you Congresswoman asked Bill Clinton that... I didn't see one tweet... not one when Joe Biden was in office about Bill Clinton. You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein. Not once."" Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber, "wild find, how the media first introduced Jeffrey Epstein 25 years ago" Quote Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty, "Full 2001 VH1 segment, glorifying Jeffrey Epstein while showing Epstein's allegiance with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey. They also point out he has his own chemistry lab in the basement and world class scientists which he pays "20 Million dollars a year to perform WHATEVER experiments they want with Harvard professor!"What could he possibly need a chemistry lab and Harvard professors for at $20 million a year, right there in Manhattan New York? Something to be distributed to elites in New York?" Sundance, Thirty Years Later Thomas Massie Discovers Victoria’s Secret Founder Les Wexner Was Business Associate of Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon Text Messages About Trump Included in the Epstein File Release. At En.Haberler, Dark allegations in the Epstein files: Celebrities chasing immortality are also in the files.

At JTN, GOP lawmakers pushing 3 federal election security bills "“I think we can trust the outcome of the election, but what I will tell you is that there is still a great concern that in certain pockets of the country, that there’s not strict enforcement of the laws,” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters Tuesday." Sundance, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski Vows to Defeat the SAVE Act, Voter ID and Election Bill.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair has a Shock: WaPo Praises EPA for Repealing Greenhouse Gas 'Endangerment' Finding. Roger Kimball at Am Great Trump’s Senior Appointments Are Making Government Great Again "Trump 2.0 isn’t just governing—it’s assembling an all-star Cabinet whose wit, discipline, and seriousness rival any administration since the founding."

Althouse find that, shockingly, George Will doesn't approve of JD Vance's background, An early effort in the 2028 presidential fight: it's George Will in the Washington Post against J.D. Vance. "I haven't read this piece yet. I decided to blog it based on the headline and the photograph, which I find ludicrously unsubtle: JD Vance vies for the gold medal in coarseness and flippancy." Also, Why is Gallup suddenly giving up on presidential-approval polling? "I'm reading "Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years/Public opinion polling agency says decision 'solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities'" (The Guardian). The company said on Wednesday that it would stop measuring the favorability rating of individual political figures, which “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership,” after 88 years. “Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people’s lives”.... Do we believe that? I should take a poll, but my polls are not methodologically sound research. Are Gallup's? I can't help suspecting that Gallup has been trying to undermine Trump and it's worried about being called to account."

PJM's Sarah Anderson sees All Cuba’s Allies Have Left? Good Vibes. Dave Strom hears Hamas Floating 'Jewish Space Laser' Theory. At Euro Con, The Great Rebalancing: How Europe Chose Dependence Over Resilience.

From Ace, its No Surprise: The Insurrectionist Left is Being Funded by Foreign Communists (Besides George Soros, Of Course), "I don't imagine many of you will be surprised." A Driscolly post at Insty, LIBERAL AMNESIA IS A SUPERPOWER: We are all familiar with the liberal tap dance whenever we point out that some awful thing, such as chopping the genitals off of children, is happening. It’s commonly described as a four-step process: Step 1: It is not happening. Step 2: Yeah, it’s happening, but it’s not a big deal. Step 3: It’s a good thing, actually, Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem. But actually, it is a five-step process, culminating with the claim that liberals never supported it in the first place. We are approaching that stage among center-left people regarding alphabet ideology, and we are well into step five in the COVID saga. I know many people now arguing that nobody wanted to keep kids out of school, nobody was forced to take the jab, and that nobody was censored for disagreeing with The Science™ .Never happened." Rabbi Mike Barclay at PJM, New York’s Winter Shows That Mamdani Is Not a Socialist, but a Devout Muslim. A Chloe video at Hat Hair, Ilhan Omar's Somalia Lie EXPOSED (With Receipts). VodkaPundit at PJM, FCC to Newsom: Hey, Where'd the $450 Million Go? Sister Toldja at RedState says Yikes: Jennifer Newsom Goes Full Angry AWFL on Female Reporters; Even Gavin Seemed Embarrassed. He's incapable of being embarrassed. Hat Hair's Duane Patterson, Hotel California: Sam Darnold Can Check Out Any Time He Likes, But His Money Can Never Leave

WUWT finds a Waste of the Day: EPA Missed Obvious Payment Inaccuracies. Leslie Eastman at LI, Potomac Sewage 9,900% Error: DC’s DEI‑Focused Water Authority Can’t Count E. coli "In public health, equity slogans don’t compensate for basic competence, when 242,000 MPN/100 mL is misreported as 2,420." I mean, who among us has not lost three orders of magnitude?

Matt Vespa, Bill Maher Reveals Why He Got the COVID Vaccine...and He's Rather Annoyed About It “I had to conform… didn’t want the vaccine at all… But I had to have it. I couldn’t have continued my life. They wouldn’t have let me do the show, and I had to do it here. I did it in this room.”

At Althouse, Was it "remarkable"? I'd like to think it's totally normal — the part about the grand jury. I'm reading "Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes" (NYT). A DC grand jury? Of course. From Fox, Tillis rips 'political lawfare' and praises grand jury after Dems avoid charges in ‘illegal orders’ case. "Sen Thom Tillis praised the decision, called prosecution attempt a move that 'undermines America's criminal justice system'" From News Wax, Bondi Won't Confirm Brennan Indictment, but Says 'Weaponization Has Ended.'

Sundance, DOJ Releases FBI Affidavit Underpinning Seizure and Search Warrant of Fulton County Election Records. Steve Richards and John Solomon, FBI has 'substantiated' irregularities in Georgia 2020 vote counts, probing if they were intentional. "FBI identified to court in a search warrant five categories of confirmed irregularities in Fulton County voting, unsealed affidavit."

More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 02.11.26 (Morning Edition), and who knows, may more later here.

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