This coming out the same day Lutnick is on the record saying that the United States won’t defend Taiwan unless they move 50% of chip production to America shows how everyone in the administration is just out running their own foreign policies in their fiefdoms

I believe Schumer lol

I think this misreads the extent to which an increasingly addled Trump is in control of his own administration and underestimates how much some of his courtiers will blow up the country because they believe in the cleansing power of blowing up the country

WSJ: “.. Lutnick also told meeting attendees that the administration would discuss ‘suspending’ all other green card categories so the gold card path would represent the only way to immigrate permanently.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

Fresh off the back of driving one of Australia's large hospital networks off a cliff, the gang at Brookfield are at it again.

Albanese announces A$2b for Clean Energy Finance Corp.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

The disaster at Jena-Austerlaut was the formative experience for Clausewitz. How the armies and state built by Frederick the Great crumpled like a house of cards bothered him for many years. When he wrote about years later, many of the problems he diagnosed eerily parallel 2025 America. My latest ⬇️

‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 All eyes are on Trump's second state visit to the UK, yet a far more important development is unfolding in Brussels, where senior EU officials are closing in on a plan to use the roughly €200 billion in frozen Russian assets in Euroclear to support Ukraine

All the worst dynamics of social media in the developing world coming home to roost in the developed world.

A vain, immoderate faith in these institutions made it possible to overlook the fact that their vitality was gone. The machine could still be heard clattering along, so no one asked if it was still doing its job” - Carl von Clausewitz on Prussia in 1806

A very Shklarian day, I’m afraid.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

This is the owner of X actively campaigning to take down the elected government of a country he is neither a resident nor a citizen of - and using threats of violence in the streets to further his aims www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Does anyone have experience with the Spanish corporate filing portal? I'm trying to access filings in the Registradores de Espana and going around in circles. I seem to need a digital certificate but am unable to apply for one. Any help greatly appreciated.

Americans are careening towards a 'years of lead' scenario, in some cases willingly, and none of them seem to understand just how horrific that will be.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.

Striking how far the Russian drones penetrated into Poland. These were no mere trespasses near Polish borders. Map from @thestudyofwar.bsky.social

Which is why I’m a history fanatic because I think people might be slightly more cautious about political violence if they were actually aware of history (delusion)

The Trump administration is opposed to the rule of both at home and abroad.

Meanwhile a very important story - The top US markets regulator has threatened to ban overseas companies from using accounting rules from the International Financial Reporting Standards if its rulemakers continue to pursue sustainability and climate issues. www.ft.com/content/e4fb...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

In this scary moment, it matters for each of us to affirm that political violence is wrong and will destroy our democracy.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet. 🧵

Bill earning the discount part infinity and beyond

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

I don't know why I'm even going to bother, but no it wasn't. It was hardly even brought up in the Federalist papers. The people who created the United States were almost pathologically fixated on the Roman Republic and Enlightenment-era Liberalism.

Americans clearly don’t understand that this line of argument is entirely lost for at least a generation. Talk about the US as representing “democracy” or “the free world” will be met with scorn everywhere. The world has converged to Latin America in that regard.

The possibility that the Trump administration becomes so consumed by escalating armed conflict around the Western Hemisphere and in America itself that the US can no longer operate as a functional actor on the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific needs to be taken seriously

I still tend to believe Trump really has no overarching beliefs outside of vague impulses. His advisors this for his second term, however, are consciously fully ideologically committed to right wing autocratic governance

the faster and more comprehensively societies begin to bring reality together into one supposedly coherent picture, the more insecure and unstable it looks and the more fearful societies become.[24] Reality, in this sense, "dies out."[25]

Jesus Christ.

Number one rule of finance (Nobody reads anything) - interdisciplinary edition.

The executive threatening the Fed that it can only remain independent if it makes the choices it wants, is equivalent to eliminating Fed independence.

EXCLUSIVE, from me: Mystery of former Federal Reserve Governor Kugler's resignation deepens: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...

Vulgar

i'm not kidding. again, old enough to know folks crippled by polio, old enough to have been quarantined w/ rubella as a child bc of pregnant women in my parents' neighborhood, old enough to have had chicken pox (scars to prove it). the last two are not rarely fatal - the others might kill you

"When asked by a reporter whether the U.S. planned to continue placing troops in Poland, Trump said the U.S. would and that “we’ll put more there if they want.” “We’ll be staying in Poland. We’re very much aligned with Poland,” Trump said." apnews.com/article/trum...

David Tait, chief executive of the World Gold Council, an industry body representing gold miners, said the new format would create the ability to 'pass gold digitally around the gold ecosystem, as collateral, for the first time' on.ft.com/4mL0Xur

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

The foundations of American global economic and military hegemony are based on assumptions about the stability of the US political system that look increasingly out of date