Every word he says further devalues UPenn Economics degrees.

He is going to give a speech every month announcing the end of the war in two weeks.

Donald J. Trump's speech is live. He is starting his Address to the Nation by reciting the Shahada and declaring there is no god but God, and Muhammad is his Prophet, and the Prophet designated his cousin Ali as caliph and imam of the Faithful.

You’re hearing it here first, folks: rocket equals good.

But what's for dessert?

Tariff Grandpa is Baaaack!

Thread with more details on earlier headline.

the liberals in 2026:

This is not surprising. The days of everyone watching mainstream news shows that highlighted inflation reports are dead. So people are just reacting to gasoline and grocery prices. Gasoline prices are not that bad yet in level terms, but the growth rate stinks. And everyone knows that’s on Trump.

Putting up the @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social bat signal for this one *STELLANTIS IN TALKS TO MAKE CHINESE EVS AT IDLED CANADIAN PLANT

just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong

The inclusion of Poland and Ukraine is lol-worthy considering recent NATO-/Ukraine-related headlines.

lol this isn’t even a little bit true

Can’t MP’s have hobbies?

Kerning is my passion.

New article on postal savings banks. open.substack.com/pub/bondecon...

"And global trade... which did NOT die..." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

there is some tension between jamming your subpar AI into every single one of your products and your OS along with making once-in-generation investments into it while specifying in your terms and conditions that it’s a non-essential toy, tbh

Trump raving about his ballroom is infinitely better than any of the alternatives he would plausibly put his mind to.

THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I just find it funny that a guy who two popes have specifically called out for doing catholicism wrong is writing a book about catholicism, nobody has done that since like 15th century italy

Pretty much.

I mean sure, we’ve been hypothesizing a US conflict with Iran for decades and wargaming worst case scenarios involving Straight of Hormuz closure… But did any of those wargamers anticipate we’d start the conflict without all of our necessary warfighting assets in the region? No? Checkmate, libs.

I wish Alberta all the best as they find out about the Clarity Act.

well, here we go

Just Ukrainian railways explaining reason for delays with what translates loosely as ‘fckngrussians’ (which you already know if you’ve been to my Ukrainian swearing sessions) Russians are now more attacking trains and so evacuation protocol is in place, which sometimes causes massive delays

[Does long backwards whistle] Well, mate, the problem here, right, is it says oceans are now battlefields, right? *Oceans*. And what you’ve got here, see, is a *strait*, right? Not under the warranty, then, see? Sorry, mate, can’t be done. Completely different parts. Dear, oh dear. Cowboys…

These are metrics in search of a theory of victory that they can be applied to.

On this day in 1972, the final daily rum ration was issued to sailors in the Royal Canadian Navy. It is known as Black Tot Day. The Royal Navy had ended its daily rum ration in 1970. For special occasions, like the 100th anniversary of the RCN, a rum ration is issued.

Deeper dive and historical framing of the recent no-land decision by Italy. H/t @brianromanchuk.bsky.social

Things going great in enlisting the help of allies for the already won war.

[March 31st, 1946] In accordance with the Potsdam Agreement signed in August 1945, the shipment of dismantled German industrial installations from the western occupation zones to the Soviet Union officially began.

Historical reenactment of Caesar at Alesia.

Is this good?

It’s almost as if there are costs associated with angering allies. Who could possibly have foreseen this?

Trump would be an historically bad poker player. (He also is one of the many people who need to know what “decimated” means, although given his issues with percentages, fractions may not be any better.)

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

The United States has not lost the war. It’s just that the situation in the Persian Gulf has developed not necessarily to President Trump‘s advantage.

I worked in an extremely French environment as a mid-level manager. There’s no excuse for him not picking up enough French while he was CEO to not be able to make a brief statement. There’s a whole industry of French courses for executives here.

we talk a lot about the information diet of the median american voter, but if this is even close to accurate, our median american voter looks like a model informed citizen by comparison

Although I think the R&R paper was debt quackery, this is the correct take. They just provided a factoid to add to the already extensive propaganda for a pre-existing widespread policy preference for austerity.

I saw underground transgender mafia open for Italian Chocolate Heist at the kitkat back in ‘26

or this

Ha ha, this could lead to great discourse.

No Egrets Heidi Holloway c. 2026