February 2026

ICE Buys Warehouse Network To Support Ramped Up Deportation Operations The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to convert 23 e-commerce warehouses across the country, primarily in the eastern U.S., into a large-scale network of immigration detention centers aimed at expanding capacity to fulfill the mandate the American people gave President Trump to deport […]

Bifurcation Nation & The TINA Economy’s Freefall Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, The term “The K-Shaped Economy” has entered the lexicon to describe the divergence of the top tier of earners and owners of capital from the lower tiers, as the trajectory of the first is up and that of the second is down. While the

Convicted Terrorist Who Plotted To Bomb British Consulate Now Standing For Election In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Shahid Butt, a 60-year-old Muslim activist with a conviction for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, is now gunning for a seat on Birmingham City Council.  Yes, really. Convicted in 1999 and sentenced

UBS CIO Americas: AI Remains “Underhyped And Underappreciated” Building on Goldman analyst Brian Singer’s comparison of the AI data-center buildout to the U.S. shale boom, where AI remains in the early “appraisal phase” of the innovation cycle, a stage historically most bullish for infrastructure spending and equity multiple expansion, fresh commentary earlier this week from

Brussels Versus Washington Authored by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness. Instead of becoming a technological powerhouse, it produced rules, many rules, with effects now extending far beyond its own borders. In 2026, those