interesting on the tariffs www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2025...

One of the great things about being forced to be familiar with the great American novel is that it’s all about middle-age straight men, importance, and their oncoming death.

"why doesn't Bluesky have its own Grok" well because the human users already bring up completely unrelated human rights atrocities in your mentions for no reason

I don’t mean to sound Woke or partisan but this upset me a bit

You can never go wrong if you treat an unhealthy preoccupation with IQ / general intelligence as a measurable, ordinal quality as a massive intellectual and ethical red flag

The thing is, while they're not right about a lot of things, vegans are actually correct that our industrial food system is wildly exploitative and unsustainable. But their weird black and white thinking helps keep better practices from being widely adopted.

Forty years ago the US eradicated a flesh-eating parasite that targeted livestock with the help of science, government funding, and international cooperation. Now the threat is returning and the country's defenses are down. (Yes, it's an allegory for measles.) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

as a parent I am begging you please give the doll quote a rest, my child does NOT need 30 dolls but she definitely wants that many

Maybe you prefer sitting in front of a screen all day having most of the product of your labour going towards billionaires' yachts and a militarized police state over working with your hands to plant or build things that help your community, but I've done both and I know which I prefer

* US STOCKS OFF TO WORST START AGAINST GLOBAL PEERS IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f3a7...

i laughed so hard at S2Ep2 of Andor. now THESE are writers who understand The Left

Andor is great because it understands what Star Wars is fundamentally about: someone pressing a button and the thing they wanted the button to do not happening

one big problem here: this is NOT what Mr Market looked like in my covid-era stress dreams

If it contains a chip, it’s okay to ship.

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

Winding it down for the night but lol, the Nikkei is currently +6.3% in Tokyo with 10y JGB yields up 12.6 bps and 10y ACGB yields up more than 15 bps. Europe is going to be mighty confused when they roll out of bed in a few hours.

Meanwhile, Reuters is blaming “a CNBC report” in its official copy. I can tell you that’s false. CNBC on air didn’t say one word about this until markets had rallied into positive territory and they were initially baffled about it. Flippin chaos out there. www.reuters.com/markets/us/f...

I'm not an expert guys does Asia make a lot of stuff

Farmers Brace for Significant Losses in a New Trade War China is the third-biggest buyer of U.S. agricultural products. Now that it has punched back with tariffs on American goods, farmers can expect to feel the pain. W/ insights from #DavidLOrtega www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

Scene: a nightmare <phone rings> Assistant: Sir, Isaac Chotiner is on the line Me: Shit, shit, okay don't panic we can still beat this <phone rings> Assistant: Sir it's worse Me: How? Assistant: Derek Guy has found your merch page. Me, loading a single bullet into a revolver: Understood

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

most men simply cannot handle the cutthroat world of email jobs. it requires a level of discipline and self control they're not emotionally equipped for. i work in an email job environment that's 80%+ women (heaven) and each & every man still around is tough as nails, by which i mean cool + normal

Simone Weil did this!! (nb she also died young)

my papa? he had an email job. 24/7, screens all day. blood pressure high, fights with all them backstabbin’ strivers. tough life. his papa? [dreamily] he had a big sunflower garden. did a good 8hr day, went home. built and painted birdhouses for fun. built his sister-in-law a porch — no blueprint.

the original post they’re QTing is stupid (subsistence farming obv not great!) but sorry, the “no one wants to do farm chores” thing sounds like a personal thing? like. it’s fine to not like that work. but how do we build resilient & sustainable food systems without local smallhold farmers??

I would like to say that I can't believe this is an actual quote from a Democratic member of Congress but www.thecut.com/article/demo...

Good lord would it be great if more of us guys discovered humility and self-reflection as positive masculine traits.

can we all decide that we can be decently successful humans like this today

SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Did we not see this exact liquidation happen in ‘16 with the oil price collapse?

Very quick progression from “there has been no innovation in greenhouses since the 1600s” (that’s not true??) to “we spent 50 million on a greenhouse and we can’t get the roof to stay on”

Look ma I'm in FT Alphaville! on.ft.com/3D6pMze

Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

old enough to remember when it was a cliche to quote “lies, damned lies and statistics” - Benjamin Disraeli v Mark Twain REOPEN THE SCHOOLS

people on here talking about pRo-hUmAn Ai & dRoNeS. that’s like saying you work in public relations to help make the news better. you’re not fooling anybody but yourselves

Having to do this in a reply to Elon bullshitting about the latest update to his anti-woke chatbot… bleak

more egg pls No not that egg!!!!!

this is so real

oh come on. these people are the absolute worst but wanting to reduce the amount of chronic illness in the US is not “eugenics”. asthma and autoimmune disorders are not identities!!

Go birds

Everything is insane right now but one little ray of sunlight is that I just got a new gig trying to use public policy to create as many local journalism jobs as humanly possible. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/ive-got-a-...

Berries,……. Parents down bad yet again

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

I’m still processing the implications of Trump cancelling the customs de minimus exception for all CA/MX/CN shipments but it feels like no-one’s noticed this yet? All those Temu users about to discover the joy we know in Canada all too well: $20-50+ customs brokerage fees on $20 packages 😬