The latest defense of the Trump tariffs is that the impending Trump recession will build character. What are a few months or years of unemployment compared to a glorious someday-soon future manufacturing hinges and knobs -or stitching t-shirts and athletic shoes?

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Maybe Elon can ask Putin to hold a car sale in front of the Kremlin.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

MASSIVE FISCAL PACKAGE OUT OF BERLIN: 12-20%+ of GDP. - 500 billion fund for public investment - All defence spending above 1% of GDP not counted for debt brake. - Federal states can borrow 0.35% p.y. for investment. Germany is back - economically and militarily. 1/x

audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game

The new iconic photo that i predicted ultimately destroys the relationship:

We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.

No rest for Russia's Ryazan oil refinery as another swarm of Ukrainian drones targets the already burning facility, the 3rd largest refinery in Russia. Russian air defenses have crumbled.

Best thing our allies can remember: if you stand up to Trump you intimidate him and he will back down. If you crawl to him (like his sycophantic politicians) he will not respect you and will eventually throw you under the bus.

A supermassive black hole that existed only 570 myr after the Big Bang, and caught by JWST lurking in CEERS field. It weighs 9 million solar masses. 🔭 🧪

Your turn, Doctor