I think about this a lot.

when i grow up, i want to be @alanbeattie.bsky.social. Or at least be allowed to write like him. www.ft.com/content/57d9...

It's cool how the Trump administration keeps filling roles that require the trust and respect of the American people with total cranks who no one in their right mind would even want to sit next to on a bus.

Chart of the day - from a column by @katie0martin.ft.com on the death of the Trump trade. Chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cfdc...

"We're still trying to reproduce IEEPA. We could replace it in the aggregate." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gpb...

I adore Sinclair Lewis's *It Can't Happen Here*, not least for naming the protagonist Berzelius. But this manifesto from the good candidate just sends me every time, esp today.

Apologies, but have to share this letter from Sen. Cantwell to Bessent re: refunds. She put so much more care and rigor into this letter than they did into the tariffs in the first place that it makes you laugh. www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

I am told that "grit your teeth" is apretar los dientes. I can say that falls short of the mark. Agrietar, maybe. Violentar, absolutely.

I 1000% guarantee you, there is a market for the over-50-crowd which is like massage porn only they genuinely focus on the backrubs.

They label Petri as humor, but that is too narrow. This is the best take on this administration. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

From having been the party of free markets and rule of law, the GOP has now gone to be the party of a pedophilia mafia, tariffs and protectionism and racism. Do you really believe that you can win elections with such a program?

Cool. Now do Russia's shadow fleet. It's been over a year since you lifted a finger, and that wasn't even your finger. www.state.gov/releases/off...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What do they teach at Wharton

A lot of people may have thought that Jerome Powell only did good hostage videos, but he is also a stone-cold killer. Reiterating the dual mandate, underscoring the SCOTUS importance [Cook], and highlighting that the dollar is Bessent's problem is curb-stomping.

I say this as a PSA: If you are arguing before the Supreme Court and can't hold my attention, you are not winning over the justices.

“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China”

Ackshually, 30-year yields are spiking.

There is nothing people in Davos are more interested in than Macron's glasses and U.S. new housing builds. (There aren't, because of the lumber and steel tariffs and all but whatever.) ((Also, there was a plan for housing but she lost *in a landslide* which was one of the closest contests ever.))

The battleship slobbering is fun. This, though, is the definitive piece on the insanity of wrong-making the USN. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/21/t...

China's installed wind power is 16 percent of nameplate power qazinform.com/news/chinas-...

The North Sea oil and gas patch is dead. www.upliftuk.org/post/the-dec...

gasoline is not $2

Trump tried to slight Europe's industrial might. He did not -- not for the first time -- bring receipts. @sandertordoir.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/e...

There are only 57,000 people in Greenland. Percentage-wise, this is wild. bsky.app/profile/noth...

It's all about Section 4 of the 25th amendment. The fallback option is not ideal, but also not ridden with dementia.

Apropos of nothing, I really feel like the EU's ACI big weapon should be called a "Panzerfaust" and not a "bazooka."

The thing I don't get about Greenland is that there's nothing there really (apols, Greenlanders) at all worth even getting out of bed for. Not rare earths. Not critical minerals. Not Chinese ships, nor Russian. Just pure fever dream.

Since we're going to be talking about Cuba this week, as well as Greenland, I humbly suggest this book to understand it all. We been at this for absolutely ages. www.pulitzer.org/winners/ada-...

Sorry to keep everyone waiting. Here it is. @thepolycrisis.bsky.social take on venezuela. Ofc it’s about oil. No, not like that @katemac.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Live your life in a way that they not only don't set off fireworks at your funeral, but also that every move you make somehow doesn't make Noam Chomsky right.

At the risk of self-promotion, the degree of wow lawlessness compels me to re-up. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...

This seems like an industry one would want to dominate. Luckily @christinalu.bsky.social does. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/c...

The actual US tariff revenue so far this year is $200 billion, with a 'b'. Weird there would be a falsehood, from him, on this topic. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Not premature; prescient. foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/11/u...

Ground beef costs as much, or more, in many parts of Europe as in the Colluding monopolistic Meat Packing America, and that to me is of particular concern because I will, by God, make Old El Paso tacos tomorrow.

Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Wow, I just aced another IQ test. Best results ever.

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

This is what a Secretary of War looked like, when that was an actual thing. He could actually do a pull-up, and play a mean game of golf. Also, he retired to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, because he was not a drunk TV failure/skateboard target.

There he goes again

Is this okay, Reagan Foundation? Quoting his actual words? The ones in public domain? “Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers, or restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take….Over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker, and consumer.”

Russia is facing huge fiscal challenges to finance the war in Ukraine • Rise in military and social (to support social stability) expenses has fuelled widening of fiscal deficit • Liquid reserves of sovereign wealth fund are dropping fast and external borrowing is not an option

Beyond the insane lies about paid protesters, the crime here is the illiteracy on display. 'To beg the question' does not mean to ask the question; it is a rhetorical fallacy that presupposes the answer. It does beg the question, though. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Dear Mr. President, I want you to know Those are not windmills, nor covered in snow They are wind turbines, which turn quite differently And make good things glow. Please stop calling them windmills, we beg you on knees.

Kings are sometimes beheaded. Charles I was. We were in the National Gallery this weekend, and the first thing my boy said was, that horse is misshapen. And the second thing was, wow, that was right before he died.

We are three years away from a Michael Lewis book. bsky.app/profile/tech...

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

I guess the tacit no-attacks-on Ukrainian gas facilities observed by Russia in the past is now a thing of the past. That energy back-and-forth is getting more intense. www.naftogaz.com/en/news/voro...