While everyone (fairly) talks about free speech today, in other news, Nvidia has now been presumably pressured to financially support Intel following the government taking a stake in the company. We are rapidly normalizing moves towards state capitalism. nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-...

So I've been reading this book by Michael Luo Couple things 1) This is dark 2) What a timely book 3) 'Economic Anxiety' has a very long history 4) Uniting people across ethnicities into shared labor unions might be the most difficult yet worthwhile of undertakings www.amazon.com/Strangers-La...

Roll Wave imho

When you live under a dictator, your institutions mourn what he mourns, and ignore what he ignores. Everything that’s happening in this regard is a mirror to the state of our democracy.

You will know the robotics movement is serious when they are all quadrupeds. Bipedalism is stupid. Making biped robots is stupid.

Just finished @carlzimmer.com ‘s book ‘Air-Borne’ and would recommend it enthusiastically. A terrific book that documents an incredible history of the scientific thought regarding what’s in the air we breathe. Thank goodness for those working so hard to help us better understand the world around us.

Went to an Underground Railroad museum today in the small town of Flushing, Ohio. Had never really thought about slave auctions taking place just across the Ohio River in Wheeling before. But they did. On the way home, stopped at Salt Fork State Park for a short hike. Made some four-legged friends

Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots. overcast.fm/+AA5AWNdOBV0

To read the headlines today is to know what it is to live in a dictatorship. I hate it.

I went and watched the Paul Skenes show today. He's simply incredible.

I've started listening to the New York Times podcast 'Day X' which was posted back in 2021. If you listen to it, you can't help but see the current situation in the United States staring back at you. It's a lil terrifying tbh www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/p...

Listened to Neil Young sing 'Ohio' live last Friday and worried we were approaching a repeat. Bad feeling right in the chest. Feels real bad, man.

The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane

Reading the news feels a little more like this every day

Exactly - and that’s why a central organizing principle of Trump 2.0 is the dismantling of civil service reform efforts that are 150 years old.

Here’s something you notice at every car event in NE Ohio; approximately nobody under ~55 cares to own, restore, or tinker with classic cars. Those that care largely can’t afford it as a hobby. Minty nice classic cars in the estates of dying boomers are going to be cheap af.

It would be quite fun if the 6 head to head games between the Tigers and Guardians in the second half of September were division-deciding ...

Hey @kairyssdal.bsky.social I just listened to your Friday show and you said it's been 20 years. Congratulations on that anniversary. It's no exaggeration to say that listening to Marketplace changed my life, helping me navigate a move from anthropology to business and finance. I appreciate you.

Austin Hays was on the USS Alabama with Bob Feller

Whom could have foreseen that raising prices on domestic manufacturing inputs (in excess of import tariffs on finished goods!) is not a pro-manufacturing policy agenda "In recent months, Trump has imposed 25 percent tariffs on car parts and 50 percent tariffs on copper, steel, and aluminum."

Hi gentlemen @romanmars.bsky.social and @carlzimmer.com - loved the pod on the drive in this morning. Looking forward to the book as well. Thanks for doing what you do.

Added an electric car to the stable and quite enjoying it!

“These are the times that try men’s soles” - Thomas Paine

Anyone heard from Congress lately?

Unstoppable Cleveland Guardians offense puts up 10 runs against Hunter Brown and Josh Hader... Yeah, that's pretty wild. Baseball!

Without Medicaid, many of these folks will seek emergency room care that they can’t pay for, but won’t be denied receiving. The cost of providing that care gets pushed to everyone with insurance. Health insurance costs rise for employees and employers. The whole healthcare system is less efficient.

Can this guy at least get a better cosmetologist???

The U.S. is imposing a 25% tariff on Korea because of trade deficits that it claims are "engendered by Korea's Tariff and Non Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers." But Korea has a free trade agreement with the U.S. It charges zero tariffs on nearly everything.

Planning vacations with ChatGPT is incredible.

I’m leaning in to my 40s The American history collection at the Thomas household now resides here 😎

Extremely informative video. An economist would call this an equilibrium unravelling -- makes a lot of sense why so much needs to be gated now. If webcrawling turns a non-excludable product into a competitor, then businesses will do their damndest to make it excludable...

Just wait. This will be the official party of Joe Rogan and his ilk soon. These guys are going to be desperate to wash the stink of supporting Trump off them as quickly as possible.

Major League Baseball should celebrate the anniversary of Larry Doby’s 1947 debut, which integrated the American League. His path was hardly an easy one.

An inspirational and essential July 4th interview by @nytimes.com great @jamellebouie.net of @ztameez.bsky.social on his new book about Charles Sumner. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...

Tesla, of course, has not been profitable this year if one utilizes the go-forward pro-forma that lacks regulatory credit income that was just eliminated in the OBBB. The refreshed 3 and Y haven’t moved the needle, the X/S fading/dated, the Cybertruck a total flop. A trillion dollar company? 🤔

Tariffs on steel are going to make US shale less competitive; OPEC sees the vulnerability and will move to reclaim market share.

Do normal people have any idea what kind of deranged nonsense airs on right wing radio? Unfortunately, the Cleveland Guardians air on WTAM 1100 so I sometimes catch a few minutes of it post-game. They were just discussing how crypto was going to help solve the national debt

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

I have seen eight(?) of these films. No Country for Old Men (not memorable?), Interstellar was really good, Oppenheimer and Moneyball were spoiled by having much better books. Wolf of Wall St, O Brother and Her were entertaining. Ocean’s 11 great. The Matrix & Fight Club came out in 99? I’m old.

Ya know, this is a really depressing place to live at the moment.

Sumner offered the most enduringly hopeful sentence for dark times: "Nothing can be settled which is not right" Been on my whiteboard since I read it. Think about it often.

This is the median voter. You may not like it, but that’s who it is.

Could someone please task CW Goodyear (Garfield biographer) with writing a piece on the Trump administrations abrupt roll-back of civil service reform efforts that are 150 years old? It’s one of the most consequential yet non-obvious efforts of this administration.

Extreme 2003 energy

So … what replaces the US Constitution, and how long does it take to get there?

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

The Guardians have kept me up way too damn late to be doing this 😩

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup