It was deliberate; the only question is why

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Border agents record shockingly-low number of illegal crossings, one week into second Trump presidency

Less [sic] than 600 people crossed illegally into the U.S. from Mexico on Sunday – a stunningly low number since President Donald Trump took office.

Sources tell Fox News that not a single one of the nine sectors received more than 200 crossings on Jan. 26, and the number of daily encounters only reached 582 in total. The Del Rio sector – which is the same sector that would sustain over 4,000 crossings per day during the height of the border crisis in December 2023 – only recorded 60 crossings.

For comparison, the daily number of border encounters during the final days of the Biden White House teetered between 1,200 to 1,400 per day. 

There was never any problem with securing our borders, it was merely Biden’s handlers’ deliberate decision to open them to the world. And as the criminals and terrorists swarmed in to mingle with our new welfare state “citizens”, those same handlers chose to let them stay. Again, why?

ICE Knew Where the Criminal Aliens Were--and Mayorkas/Biden Kept Them Free

David Strom:

The progress is remarkable, the resistance from local government officials notable, and the Pravda Media propaganda appalling as always. 

But one thing stands out to me as ICE sweeps up pedos, rapists, and other well-vetted model citizens: they are apprehending hundreds every day with the efficiency of an atomic clock ticking off milliseconds. 

Strom: As the leftists whine about invading schools (not happening) and mamacitas being terrorized by Tom Homan chasing them with cattle prods (not happening), the real story is that ICE and law enforcement knew all along where so many of these bad hombres were. 

Mayorkas, NGOs and churches, and local government officials were actively protecting the worst of the worst just because they preferred helping illegal aliens to protecting Americans. 

Think about that and let it sink in: ICE isn't grabbing up these guys in large-scale dragnets, sorting the wheat from the chaff. They are making targeted raids on specific, known bad guys, and yet the people weeping and whining claim the mantle of decency and compassion. 

Child rapists. Selena Gomez is crying because child rapists are being deported. Governor Pritzker is promising to impede ICE because murderers and terrorists will be kicked out of his state. Pritzker is actively lying in order to cover for violent illegal aliens, making it seem like Tom Homan is raiding elementary schools. He isn't. He has more important fish to fry. 

I have often said that Alejandro Mayorkas is not just or even incompetent; he is evil. Local, state, and the federal government knew where these people were and left them on the streets to terrorize people. We paid for their food, housing, and medical care in many cases, and in sanctuary jurisdictions, they rushed them out the back doors to prevent ICE from picking them up. 

…. Seeing how quickly border crossings have slowed and deportations have picked up, you can't escape the conclusion (not that we didn't already know this) that the border crisis AND the illegal alien crime spree was intended. Mayorkas knew exactly how to stop both. 

He simply chose not to. 

Who needs spikes when you have a penis?

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Trans Athlete Crushes Competition, Even After Nearly Losing Spikes On First Turn Of 400-Meter Dash

Two more contracts reported

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81 Hendrie Avenue, Riverside, $4.1 million. Nine days, which suggests that it will be selling for more.

And this will come as a relief to its builder: 543 Stanwich Road, currently priced at $17.495 million, is finally reported pending. It began in April ‘21 at $17.5 million, had dropped to $16.995 by the time in expired in August 2023, and has been languishing at $17.495 since it came back on the market last June.

Eggsperts and Democrats (UPDATED)

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The Media Discovers Higher Prices, And Guess Who They’re Blaming!

Egs! What about eggs!

I was puzzled to receive a text on Saturday the 25th from someone dear to me but whose politics are diametrically opposed to mine, berating me for voting for Trump and asking whether I was embarrassed by his failure to lower the price of eggs. Eggs? What does the price of eggs have to do with anything? It turns out, my friend had just received the latest talking point of the Democrats and their slavish idiots, and the message had to be dutifully disseminated. Sad.

If you’d like to read an article written by a real reporter, check out this one from Taryn Phaneuf, writing for something called “NerdWallet”; an organization I’d never heard of, but will now check out from time to time. Phaneuf does what reporters were once routinely expected to, but no longer do: outline the issue, then present the facts behind the issue, all without injecting personal politics into the discussion.

The article was published, by the way, on January 15th, the day that the Decmber egg prices that have the Democrats so (supposedly) upset were published, and five days before Trump took office.

Egg Prices Are Rising Again. Here’s Why They’re So High

Why are eggs so expensive?

The pandemic and inflation play a role in rising egg prices, but the real culprit is an outbreak of H5N1, a highly transmissible and fatal strain of avian influenza, or bird flu. The outbreak started in early 2022 and quickly grew into the largest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history. As of Jan. 14, the virus has affected more than 134 million birds in the U.S. since January 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More specifically, it has affected more than 102.6 million egg-laying hens, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. When an outbreak occurs, egg producers are forced to cull their flocks, which impacts the supply of eggs headed for grocery stores.

Generally, as supplies tighten, egg prices rise. That’s for at least two reasons: First, consumer demand for eggs has held steady despite persistently high prices. The mismatch between supply and demand tends to drive prices up.

Second, the tight supply of eggs has led grocery stores to change the way they price eggs altogether. Previously, it was common for retailers to keep egg prices low — sometimes even pricing them below what the store paid for them wholesale — because eggs effectively draw shoppers into the store. They’d come for cheap eggs and leave with a cart full of groceries.

But now, pricing eggs too low could mean selling out, which would increase the chances that shoppers encounter empty shelves and abandon their carts. Retailers will keep prices at levels that help them avoid that situation as much as possible.

When will egg prices settle down?

Prices will remain volatile until producers can rebuild their flocks and recover egg production levels. But that’s hard to do when the virus remains out of control. Major U.S. egg producers continue to report new bird flu cases affecting flocks around the country.

Since October, when the latest spate of outbreaks began, reports of bird flu spanning eight states, including Arizona, California, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Utah and Washington, have affected more than 25 million egg-laying hens. There are roughly 312 million egg-laying hens in the U.S. population, according to the USDA. That means nearly 8% of all U.S. egg layers were lost in the past four months.

[I was particularly struck by this bit: the crunchies who mandated cage-free eggs are especially suffering]

Why you might be seeing cage-free egg shortages

In 2025, eight states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon and Washington — have laws in place that ban the production and sale of conventional eggs for animal welfare reasons. National retailers like Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods have made similar commitments.

Many of those states recently experienced major outbreaks of bird flu. In fact, bird flu had a disproportionate impact on cage-free egg layers in 2024. About a third of U.S. egg layers are cage-free hens, but they contributed nearly 60% of all bird flu cases for the year.

Not only does that mean the supply of cage-free eggs is down everywhere — which, as explained above, leads to higher prices — but it also has implications for how quickly supplies can recover, which are unique to cage-free eggs.

Already there are fewer sources for cage-free eggs. On top of that, in places where cage-free egg rules are in place, it can be tricky for retailers to find new suppliers that comply with whatever regulations the stores are required to follow.

As a result, grocery shoppers living in states or shopping in stores that restrict the sale of conventional eggs are especially likely to face higher prices, quantity restrictions and temporary egg shortages.

UPDATE: These people are such lackies; idiots repeating what their masters tell them to write, and palming it off as journalism. Remember “The adults are back in the room”? Kmalla’s Joy campaign? “JD Vance is weird?” All picked up by the flying monkey chorus and recited in unison, before events made each phrase/theme “no longer operable”. Here’s the latest:

Old Greenwich Contract

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137 Sound Beach Avenue, $1.950 million, 10 days. 1955 construction and just 1,724 sq. ft. with no central air, but that’s probably no matter if, as I suspect, the house is doomed to be replaced. That said, it’s a perfectly nice house and not so long ago it would have just continued to be an “affordable” home*; maybe it will, who knows?

The driveway exits onto Potter Drive, by the way, and that’s a good thing: makes egress onto busy Sound Beach much easier.

*I usually pay no attention to Zillow estimates because they’re so rarely close to actual value, but in this case, I think they have it about right: