When you're writing your out-of-office message, AP Stylebook Online's Ask the Editor says to hyphenate out-of-office as a compound modifier.

So true.

this somehow becomes more spectacular with every passing day.

thank you for your attention to this matter. I appreciate your cooperation.

making polenta. nothing important happen for a bit. i'll be stirring.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

If I were not already of strong opinions concerning the subject of Taiwan 🇹🇼, the last week has only further radicalized me.

What a truly glorious city Taipei and its environs are!

I am old enough to remember when Trump's trade team was ready to upend the NAFTA renegotiations over Canada and Mexico not raising their de minimis thresholds, and now the US is just not going to have de minimis exemption at all...

It’s not war unless it’s from the authorized region of Congress, otherwise it’s just sparkling conflict.

zuck totally could have won that fight…

good for them.

now play this in reverse. (tariffs are back on.)

you saw it here first!

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scott bessent right now (probably)

Not a single Trump appointee on the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit (the court where the tariff case will go), fwiw.

If the tariffs are not based in law, do importers get refunds? Similarly, how long until the bond markets realize that there’s less customs revenue to offset big spending plans? 🤔

it is further ORDERED that within 10 calendar days necessary administrative orders to effectuate the permanent injunction shall issue; and it is further ORDERED that each party shall bear its own costs. By the panel.”

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

and **all modifications and amendments thereto**; be, and hereby are, declared to be invalid as contrary to law; it is further ORDERED that the operation of the Challenged Tariff Orders and all modifications and amendments thereto be, and hereby is, permanently enjoined;…

(Feb. 1, 2025); Executive Order 14257, **Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits**, 90 Fed. Reg. 15041 (Apr. 2, 2025) (collectively, the "Challenged Tariff Orders");…

90 Fed. Reg. 9113 (Feb. 1, 2025); Executive Order 14194, **Imposing Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border**, 90 Fed. Reg. 9117 (Feb. 1, 2025); Executive Order 14195, Imposing Duties To Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China, 90 Fed. Reg. 9121…

Woah. Big stuff. Everything IEEPA looks to be voided.

Opinion:
“Judgment to Slip-Op. 25-66 entered on 5/28/2025: In accordance with the court's opinion of this date, it is hereby ORDERED that **Executive Order 14193, Imposing Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border**…

Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud

The chart depicts another scheme to lessen the effect of tariffs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

A picture of a garage in DC painted with the count from Sesame Street pointing at the number 51 in front of a DC flag

That’s right

SCOTUS lets Trump fire NLRB’s Wilcox and MSRB’s Harris, signals its eagerness to overrule Humphrey’s Executor and destroy independent agencies, and then makes up some reason for why the Fed can retain its independence so as not to fully crash the global economy: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

goddammit sky, you mean to tell me i didn't have to sell my soul to a weird old lady in an alley so i could have a third eye???

The tariffs are, of course, a drag on growth. The tax package, otoh, increases the deficit, so + fiscal impulse. What's the expected net impact? According to GS, it's negative. The tariff drag > than the fiscal boost.

That said, when I look at this AM...