congratulations to rogue bus guy on the new job

almost every center-right or center-left european politician could go with Carney’s anti-Trump playbook, so that’s a +

checking in on the president:

i think that people really underestimate reality that 1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man 2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually 3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas

We're like a week away from Trump getting mad at the cognitive tests and ordering every giraffe in the U.S. summarily executed

Every single day i ask "who is this for" and increasingly the answer seems to be "no one but the demons that live in Trumps head"

Indictments failed, Garcia was released, and Indiana is pushing back lol. How many more hands does he have to shake before one of his projects succeeds?

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Given how Trump’s other pardons have gone, I expect Gobble to be arrested for sex crimes in a few weeks, and Waddle will try to assassinate a prominent elected Democrat.

New MRI, please.

à la lumière du jour

When internal polling's going great

Newsom: "Right outside, at this exact moment, are dozens and dozens of ICE agents. Do you think it's coincidental? ... people are scared ... you have a US Senator thrown on the ground. JD Vance -- his name is Alex Padilla, not Jose Padilla ... wake up, America."

Right! The rise of the far right really is a societal reaction to the end of the cold war turbocharged by successive crises (9/11, 2008, Eurozone, Syria, Ukraine, Covid, online and state actors.

Oh I just know the WSJ is about to drop the most insane story known to man

Politico, in particular, could get an affidavit from God, witnessed by the Archangel Gabriel, that the EU did something right and they’d complain about the quality of the Almighty’s penmanship in the signature.

After a certain point a lot of trade analysts might want to consider that the EU and Japanese investment pledges are 1980s New York property development style made up numbers designed to keep Trump happy that will have very little connection to economic reality

Loving the ‘Trump wins’ narrative. The thing is, Trump getting what he wants isn’t the same as Trump ‘winning’. What he wants is self-destructive. By winning, he loses.

The only "genius" Trump possesses is being able to enthrall this big mass of loathsome social detritus and amoral billionaires into a momentarily cohesive movement

What's the difference between Georgia and Germany? It only took one Sherman to go through Georgia.

I would qualify this to add that the lawyers and the law have been quickly and clearly backed by sufficient elite, mid-level bureaucratic and popular opposition to Trump's agenda to make it too costly for him to suspend the rule of law and indefinitely defy court orders. 🧵

I like how people with no idea of how these things work are mocking this meanwhile 2 battalions of sea otters, 17 grizzly bears and 19 bison have started marching towards DC

Bears repeating but the admin has no real plan here, it's all just doubling down on doubling down. it's posting really

calling it now, the thing that breaks the spell is when trump eventually falls on live tv as it almost happened during the campaign

really bager right now

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

Gronk is this true?

Rejecting almost every value your party holds in order to chase after your opponent's voters so you can win elections to pass a bunch of center-left technocratic reforms alongside right-wing bills is exactly what Starmer has been doing and Labour is currently polling 3rd behind Reform and the Tories

Too much energy is expended by analysts debating the accuracy of Russian drone and missile strikes whose primary purpose seems more to terrorise the Ukrainian populace than achieve any kind of decisive impact on Ukraine's military or economic infrastructure.

calling it now, the thing that breaks the spell is when trump eventually falls on live tv as it almost happened during the campaign

EU source: “Can he not just f*** off and let us have a Friday” #Trumptariffs

The Economist cover when we get to 361 days to go

Everyone who hitched their ride to him instead of just waiting and seeing looks absolutely dumb now, and it was entirely predictable

was in ny and dc just last november, excellent piece

the duality of naptime and tariff otaku

If Trump undermines the US's reputation as a safe haven to the extent that other states and businesses start thinking of alternatives to US bonds or even just selling off and hoping for the best then US Treasuries go from a US strength to leverage others can exert over the US

if you really believe that forcing the laziest and most entitled people on earth into diet juche has no political consequences you might as well just believe trump is an immortal chaos demon and consult an exorcist

Hot take: Europe is extremely well-served that its two main economic policy-making institutions are run by two highly skilled women who can keep a cool head.

Calling it now : soc-dem wave in France in 2027 as the far right burned when their populist mentor goes down into flames, and the so-called republican right-center right can't create Macron's heir

The most enraging but also weirdly the only encouraging thing about that latest Once In A Generation (if only) crash is this one is so fixable. There’s no Covid, no subprime lending, just a dumb move that could be undone tomorrow. One man’s ego is the only obstacle.