every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Setting aside the unconstitutionality issue (which this would clearly be): Only about half of American citizens have a passport - are the rest supposed to walk around with their Real ID and a birth certificate? Raise your hand if you even know exactly where your birth certificate is right now.

Holy wow - some actual good news.

Shrewd move, Nobel committee.

Cymbolic moment in diplomacy @cullenhendrix.bsky.social youtu.be/Qvu6Nh8bJq0

This is wonderful. Takaichi also drives a Mk3 Supra and looked like a member of the Runaways in the 80s. Coolest head of state by miles.

Tell me you don't understand that this would kill the golden goose that is central bank independence without telling me this would kill the golden goose that is central bank independence.

Getting harder and harder to avoid the conclusion that the most relevant constraints on administration behavior are (fear of) equities and bond markets and (fear of) mass mobilization. The only reason you are seeing this is because the Fed affects the former directly and latter indirectly.

This must be more of that people-first populism I've been hearing so much about.

I'd like to think respectability politics would be superseded by a dead mother, but evidently I am quite naive.

Renee Good should still be here. She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth. She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.

I want to highlight this important story by my friends @nbcnews.com - www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne... "The Internet Watch Foundation said it found topless images of girls that dark web forum users attributed to xAI’s Grok Imagine." <-- the AI generated CSAM / NCII immediately escapes containment

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Europe’s recent modification of its restrictions on genetically engineered crops is a step towards freeing poorer countries to make their own science-based choices & accelerate crop innovation where it is most needed. @cullenhendrix.bsky.social explains:

The video is worth watching if you can stomach it - to see what is being done with your money and in your name.

The EU easing restrictions on new genomic techniques for food is an important break from the precautionary reflex that has long shaped EU policy & may also have large, positive effects for low- & mid-income countries dealing with rising food insecurity. By @cullenhendrix.bsky.social:

Attempting to refute the administration's Greenland ambitions by pointing this out is accepting the premise - one I don't think is worth granting.

Religious people usually use "we" when talking about religious people.

#Hunger is rising while advanced economies — especially the US — pull back on humanitarian and agricultural aid. A new #EU policy on gene-edited crops could help strengthen global food security, especially in developing countries. My latest for @piie.com.

If the non- response to the Iran strike didn't convince you, this might. It's a whole new ballgame with diversified supply and the rapid rise of renewables.

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

I don't know what definition of "great again" this could be consistent with.

I realize this guy is not a sympathetic character, but think about what this guy is putting himself through to conform to beauty standards. Women do the equivalent in droves. Deeper issue is why performative masculinity makes this seem worth it at this point in time.

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People have no idea what a premium we have enjoyed and what losing it will cost us

Calm down: they're probably just talking about Trump.

The future of globalisation - a new podcast discussion on how geopolitics and trade profoundly changes Europe's role, how countries will adjust to this new normal – and whether the changes we have seen will ever be unwound with #Voxtalks_economics cepr.org/multimedia/f... via CEPR_EU

Chasing balanced agricultural trade in a high-income, high-consumption economy is chasing a white rabbit. My latest (ungated) for @barrons.com. Now enjoy your hot cocoa (grown in Côte d'Ivoire) and ginger snaps (India, China, Nigeria).

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Ditto.

Strong choice - sending an emissary from one of the poorest, most polluted states in the union to tout the virtues of the American way. "Hi, I represent Cancer Alley. You guys want in?"

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --

This should call down the conspirscy theorists apnews.com/article/rele...

From someone just as qualified to comment: please get your kids vaccinated.

I feel sorry for all the Andrews who resemble this guy but are not this guy. You might need to see a dentist soon.

Absolutely.

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

The lyrics are embarrassing in the best way possible, but make no mistake: the VH brothers are both prodigious talents and Michael Anthony was very underrated.

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Few people know this territory as well as @veron.bsky.social - and good for Europe.

This is not foreordained. It's on us.

Any student complaint is an automatic suspension? Exit, voice, and loyalty. Those are the options. I am increasingly concerned by how many are tacitly choosing number 3. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

So I guess the firing hasn't really ceased.

*SOME ORACLE DATA CENTERS FOR OPENAI DELAYED TO 2028 FROM 2027 *ORACLE DELAYS LARGELY DUE TO LABOR AND MATERIAL SHORTAGES Could become a common theme--you can't build w/o workers. Construction workers are mostly immigrants. Tariffs also increase materials costs...hard to have your cake & eat it too

"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

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Competitive authoritarian regimes emerged in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Erdogan’s Turkey, Orban’s Hungary, and Modi’s India. Not only did the United States follow a similar path under Trump in 2025, but its authoritarian turn was faster and farther-reaching. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

This administration is spending more time on Diet Versailles than on anything else and a sans serif font is wasteful?

Highly, highly recommended listen.