Shipping just officially got more expensive. Introducing the “War Risk Surcharge”. www.hapag-lloyd.com/en/services-...

There's a volcano in Iceland called Svartsengi. For the last few years it has rattled away. It occasionally (and suddenly) erupts into life firing molton rock far into the air before dying down again. Which makes it the closest analogy I can think of for US policy in the Middle East

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has been killed and his body has been recovered per Israeli media outlets

Epstein Pictures Implicate Commander

never look at your phone when you get up to take a leak. someone might have started an idiot war

I think most people have a favourite Wikipedia page. I love this biography of Tom Crean, come back to it whenever I need something inspiring to read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cre...

Pulp poetry.

Bear in mind, this guarantee of sledgehammering food safety is coming at the exact same time they have already shot food safety in the face via DOGE cuts and such. Like, last *April* they killed tracing salmonella levels in poultry. Last *August* the CDC stopped tracking 6 foodbourne pathogens.

KREMLIN: THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IS ENSURED

2. Congress can't block the replacements for the illegal tariffs BUT they can harry the administration with public hearings & constant criticism. 3. The grandstanding justices at Scotus deserve MUCH less credit than the true heroes at the Court of International Trade, who kicked all this off. 2/2

New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine. Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot. This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare. 👉 ft.com/kill-zone

These words by Supreme Justice Gorsuch should be printed, in full, on tomorrow’s front pages.

Things may be grim right now but at least they’re also spectacularly stupid

ECB updates repo facility to provide standing access to nearly all monetary authorities www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

Policy vs implementation problem about to hit Irish air traffic, as illustrated on RTE news website this evening

*laughs awkwardly* this is, like, fine, right? guys?

not sure this the slam dunk that Tricie McLaughlin seems to think it is... www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

The comments section of this article provides evidence for the issues examined in the article. www.ft.com/content/e1a7...

Popular calculations of average tariff rates overlook an economic fact: Higher #tariffs create exponentially more economic distortion. Improved "Trade Restrictiveness Index" from Mike Waugh, Minneapolis Fed monetary advisor, takes account, and comes in much higher: 21%. https://bit.ly/4kpmOqK

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

My favourite winter olympic performance so far is for whoever is flying the drone following the competitors in the luge

If some random MP's can meme Al Carns to leader on the basis, essentially, he was in the military we can meme Yuan Yang leadership from Bluesky on the basis of her dog.

Cc @katie0martin.ft.com

Heh

in which ... I summarise me and @himself.bsky.social 's paper for the @britishacademy.bsky.social on the global dollar system, suggesting that it explains the fascination with the digital Euro (a set of EU payment rails that's independent of the US and can't be acquired). www.ft.com/content/5b9a...

An AN26 just flew over here (so loud even the dog looked up). That plane hss got by far the largest number of entrants in the "accidents and incidents" section of any aircraft wiki page I have ever seen

Or as the pirates of yore used to say when they were hiding something, “X Spots The Mark.”

As my old maths teacher used to say "solve for x" (And, as my old maths teacher used to often gind out, I have no idea what the answer is)

Well, it's definitely not the first time she's dealt with a disappointing flop

Shorter Powell: the economy looks more boring and so we want to be boring too. Please, for the love of god, let us be boring.

Apropos of everything, this absolute banger of tune came to mind today www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWM...

gilet jaune

42. Get your own towel

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www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee... Historic speech!

Hasn't he got a plane to catch?

Trump shows mugshot of someone to the press saying "killed somebody" The pic shows the charge as "driving under the influence"

Dutch far-right PVV falls apart as 7 MPs leave to form new party

Lovely

Protection Racket🤝Projection Racket

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Joint statement of EU Commission president and European Council president ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Now it's really done: the liberals of Renew Europe joins the EPP and the Socialists to delay the ratification of the EU-US trade deal. The three centrist parties have a majority in the chamber to make it happen. The European Parliament is NOT voting this deal.

Any MEP waivering on supporting the Mercosur trade deal in parliament probably just had their mind made up for them

No. This is a de-escalation in that he is no longer threatening violence. The lesson is that when the EU shows a bit of resolve and muscle bullies back off.