@proptermalone.bsky.social Elon's got competition. www.wsj.com/us-news/los-...

Back from vacation! Let’s stat with an easy one: what to make of Trump’s tariff threats against Brazil because of the Bolsonaro prosecution. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-ways-...

Thank you for the article on Drezner's World! I thought of your when I noticed Trump is using tariffs punitively and granularly to target the flow of goods the same way sanctions target the flow of currency. Brazil is the most glaring example, but the coercion targeted at Canada to become the .../1

Hey, @dandrezner.bsky.social - have you written anything about how Trump is basically treating tariffs like sanctions for behavior or conditions of which he disapproves?

Pandora's Box has been opened. There is no way to know whether Iran's nuclear program has been destroyed unless and until: 1. Ground troops secure and account for all enriched uranium & centrifuges (impossible); or 2. A fission or dirty bomb is used. Which makes paranoia the most likely outcome🧵

Support for any law decreases as its enforcement approaches 100%.

Right now, it seems like Ds are divided between those who have read *and* understood Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free," and those who haven't and think they can outsmart Rs.

Lately I find it difficult to reconcile a maximalist defense of free speech with the phenomenon Dante identified in the 9th bolgia of the 8th circle of Hell: sowers of discord. The "paradox of tolerance" is a common framing of this conflict.

"I'm just wielding my ignorance like a gun because I'm desperate." youtu.be/Ah9do8LNIjs?...

This film is probably the most accurate distillation of 47's psychology. youtu.be/w_MSFkZHNi4?...

Why, of all the Black Mirror episodes, did The Waldo Moment have to be the one that came true?