I'm long on this cause I have a sneaky suspicion that once Robin gets used to the 'vodcast' thing he's not gonna want to stop talking about money!

Also, guests are going to be ace.

Great administration you've got there

This is a very Kubilius idea and it's a good one: create a mechanism through which Ukraine can export its wartime expertise to 🇪🇺 countries to help them integrate into the modern ways of war/defence

A lot of the people who said the failure to do anything to intervene in Aleppo is a stain on the western world seem pretty quiet about all this.

Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

There’s some striking similarities between Führerprinzip and unitary executive theory in that they are the same

Maybe that's how Zelenskyy knew what intelligence Russia gave Iran

If you weren't able to attend or want to revisit some of the insights shared during our annual conference Integrated Air and Missile Defence, you can now watch the first session 'Confronting the Evolving Missile Threat in Europe'.

Watch the first session here: https://bit.ly/4sPN14n

'seems to have been following what he thought was agreed procedure' - so much in this that needs further scrutiny at the level of process not people.
The higher up you get the bigger the danger of not exercising caution (double and tripple checking, run it past your boss, seek legal opinion, etc)

Great article. Made me think that Biden team not only didn't do hardball properly but also had its anti-hardball reforms fail.

Also, even broader, given the anniversary, don't think framers saw US just as experiment in overrating elegant design (anti-hardball reform), they were up for hardball too

Also how many people just ignore the macro stuff? Like sure, we can try working longer hours and cut a bit of red tape, but that won't fix the double digit price gap between EU and Chinese products.

It always shocks me how easy it is for people to form a very confident but very wrong opinion about macro stuff.

But maybe the problem is that I'm assuming good faith and what's happening is that macro is the easiest to butcher (and present simple narratives) and weaponise politically

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

Actually you can add an Economy major: understanding supply and demand, know your customers (sort of), usp

www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

Karthik gets right at the heart of the issue.

It might be that Magyar, the former EU diplomat understands how power works inside the EU. But in this case the empire reference was not needed and is his major mistake.

Or he's aiming for 🇭🇺 kin-state nationalism with Habsburg aesthetics, on steroids!

FEN estimated at 15.9 mil tonnes of rare earth oxides

Yes, Rare Earths Norway is still only targeting late 2031 for start of production & ~800 tonnes of NdPr by 2032 (~5% of EU demand) but permitting is usually the chokepoint.

Not an immediate fix, but a very important step: Norway 🇳🇴brings planning for the FEN rare earths deposit at the state (rather than local) level. Still have consultation & public review but not the usual objection & appeal route on the final zoning decision

www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/s...

Ok last post

Good reminder that Black, Asian, and Hispanic voters big part of Virginia Dem coalition

Another election showing a shift from 2024

Also reason why Yes won

Also mailers invoking Jim Crow for No didn’t work and probably backfired

CIA pulling off another regime change with the underhanded dirty trick of all living and voting there.

madam fucking president right here

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING

ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE

GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY

CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW

RESTORE DETTERENCE

If this isn't your baseline state of existence you've got no business being in the admin that's going to be inaugurated at 1200 20 Jan 29

Dutch central bank chooses Lidl for European Cloud De Nederlandsche Bank will sign a major contract tomorrow with Schwarz Digits, the IT arm of Lidl owner Schwarz Group. DNB aims to reduce its dependence

Well, DNB is going with Schwarz Digits, the IT arm of Lidl owner Schwarz Group

www.techzine.eu/news/infrast...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

I’ve seen enough. There’s only so much Steve Kornacki one can watch in a single sitting.

When Trump began pressuring Texas and other red states to re-gerrymander their maps, the immediate consensus was that Democratic-led states could do little or nothing to counter it. But it turned out that Democrats were anything but helpless.

Any surprises for you in the details (counties, towns, racial/ethnic, county type, etc)?

Have to disagree with Quinn here. It's why Musk moved on from Tesla/pivoted to space a long time ago.

What's current is Musk pivoting to AI/data centers/chips and this process started about 2y ago.

Same reason as before: first mover advantage diminishing

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

Judgment: C-769/22 Commission v Hungary Can a Member State prohibit or restrict access to content portraying or promoting gender identities that differ from the sex assigned at birth, sex reassignment, or homosexuality, allegedly in order t...

Koen Lenaerts, President of the EU Court of Justice, quite passionate in this 8 min!! explainer about today's decision in the Commission vs Hungary case.

Is this the court upgrading coms/pr?

curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/p1...

But there are other issues, people, institutions, processes that won't disappear when he goes and they need sorting.