Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.
You can tell the slaves in Plato’s Man-Cave whatever fantasies you want, to make them hand over the precious metal ores that they are mining.
But if you try to describe what real female humans are like outside of the cave, they won’t accept it.
In the 21st century, Russia will be China’s Israel — its laboratory for practicing and advancing actual military-operational doctrines — just as the US had Israel in the 20th c. 🗺️
‘Republicans have built a small structural advantage in the monthslong redistricting war being waged across the country as both parties seek an edge in their efforts to win control of Congress in the midterm elections. …’ 🗺️
Is this Green Populism? 🌱
Solar: still overperforming globally. 🔌💡
I don’t think we’ve heard the last from potential advocates of a US oil embargo / export ban.
DOJ is being weaponized against our elections AND Trump's opponents. They are just getting started.
2. … pump.
Repeat, until you spend all credibility, and are reputationally bankrupt.
1. Dump, and then…
Signing up to the WTO with its associated obligations was also a deal, and if the EU goes ahead with this illegal deal it breaks the much more important WTO deal.
Have you heard any reflection from the edgy, endless amplifiers of the unreal critics of the JCPOA?
It’s the world’s worst puppet show. 🗺️ (14/n)
Electrification is not a hoax.
How many more own-goals are 🇺🇸 going to score? 🔌💡 (22/n)
“Sea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling. And to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere are subsiding faster than anyone realized — often many times faster than the seas are rising. …” 🌱
“…Financial markets remain complacent on the headlines, without thinking through the implications of the dangerous waters yet to come.” (6/n)
“16 bets made $100,000 each accurately predicting the timing of the 🇺🇸 airstrikes against 🇮🇷 on 27 Feb. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces…” (7/n)
And yet the markets still get up to dance as soon as anything vaguely musical starts playing.
(6/n)
The Supreme Court is a key pillar of the #CarbonOligarchy. (19/n)
Much of this story details that the Irish government provides stopover status for SU deportation flights, underlining that the US govt relies on other govts to facilitate its immigration enforcement
At least we are not even pretending ethanol mandates are climate policy any more. Just a pure subsidy from US consumers to the ag industry.
Between 2015 and 2025, academic freedom declined in 50 countries, whereas only 9 countries experienced improvements.
In the period 2015–2025, several countries have experienced substantial and significant declines in all dimensions of academic freedom.
‘This could be a nothing burger.’
Ya think??
If Araghchi somehow managed to tie the hands of the IRGC by tweet, THAT would be more than a nothing burger.
But I guess the market adage for our postmodern times is “Buy the Nothing Burger, Sell the Genocidal Threat.” 🗺️
Looting taxpayer funds to pay off his criminal cronies - literally happening right in front of us
The Grift of Resentment Politics. 🗺️ (24/n)
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
