Anyone who pledges to do whatever it takes to backstop Argentina's currency and economy has not quite internalized what that job entails.

The “American Dream” has long held the U.S. back from developing a more equal and fair society. So, its decline is good news.

BREAKING Trump accuses Xi, Kim and Putin of conspiring against US at Beijing meeting

This headline feels very December 2022, which is a problem when we’re 100s of billions of dollars in investments later.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

The threatened US tariffs on Cambodia seem particularly devastating even though its trade negotiator calls 36 percent a "huge victory"

Yes there is the "TRAIN WRECK", but Trump's response to Musk's third party gambit is still pretty measured and Musk seems to know that.

❗️NEW: VDL appears to step back from her proposal to lower oil price cap: “In the last days, we’ve seen the price has risen so the oil price cap does serve its function…At the moment, there’s little pressure” on lowering it, she told AFP, EFE & me @ G7 + our Live: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Five days after the Musk clash, Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks is alive and well and carrying out his official functions. He just spoke at the AWS summit in DC

Europe begins a long walk to a minimum age on social media law @afp.com

Turned on local news here in DC and it's just playing Swan Lake over and over?

Redpanda's CEO and founder, @emaxerrno.bsky.social, recently took Centre Stage at @websummit.bsky.social Vancouver with David Shim and @alexrpigman.bsky.social to dissect the age of #AI agents. 🤖 They dove deep into defining agents, tackling #data infrastructure hurdles, & the enterprise impact. 🧠

21st century Elvis… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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What’s interesting/ignorant about this is that we *do do the big things here - the AI and the weapons systems. And we don’t do T shirts and textiles at scale. Once again, he has no idea how any of this works.

Seriously build some fucking houses blue states.

Ad spot this morning on a local DC radio station extolling the virtues of glyphosate.

The social safety net of the college educated American is their job and 401k so everything is tied to Wall Street - number must go up. The idea of collective or national welfare is historical artefact, the stuff of legend.

You know who pointed me to learn what I could about Cardinal Prevost? The @chicago.suntimes.com Robert Herguth, who knows all the things. chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

Related/unrelated: Would the British be more welcoming than Canadians of becoming 51st state?

“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.” (h/t FreightWaves)

#BREAKING TikTok fined 530 million euros ($600 million) over China data transfer: EU watchdog

The EU’s much hated GDPR doing to TikTok what the divest or get banned law in the U.S. can’t quite seem to do.

Breaking: Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting for the EU, fined TikTok a huge 530 million euro for failing to ensure European users' personal data is shielded from access by Chinese authorities TikTok admitted hosting European data in China www.barrons.com/news/tiktok-...

These geniuses built themselves a smoke-filled room without cigars and booze www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

It's not clear to me why like-minded elites engaging in a robust back-channel via messaging is inherently novel www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

It's the government bond market--particularly, how close it gets to the line that separates wild price volatility from market malfunctioning. #economy #markets

The bond market always wins...

he 39-year-old Russian icon smashed in a long-range shot with 12:34 remaining in the second period to spark wild celebrations at the UBS Arena.

dems should have pranked corey booker and formed a long line to the bathroom

If you're a foreign adversary who's been gifted live access to US power (through errors on security from DOGE and WH), you probably do nothing too crazy for now right? Better to have this ace up your sleeve for when you need to get this crew back in office.

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites. Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

RALLY FOR UKRAINE. Sunday, March 2nd, 2:00 pm, Chicago Water Tower, 806 N Michigan. Organized by Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, IL Division. Justice for Ukraine!

Yes, the Builders are the ones who will have to fix the mess they create. And we're all Builders, we're all Team 18F, and we're all getting ready to clean up after these children. ✊🏼 🔗 www.wethebuilders.org #altgov #altusds #govtech #techforgood @team18f.bsky.social

The only bright light in that press avail was how Marco Rubio was willing his soul to leave his body. Maybe he was thinking about the fact that in 2022 he told Andrea Mitchell: "I don’t know why we won’t openly say that we will support them as long as they are willing to fight"

The tech oligarchs really do move in packs (an ideological Courchevel if you will)

Maybe Roman Abramovich will buy DC United!

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

Europeans need to stop freaking out over every Trump brainfart about foreign policy and start freaking out about how he is enabling the domestic torching of the American state

Correct. They bought nothing with their capitulation except disdain from their users.

This —>“The secondary lesson here is that the more excited people are about LLMs, the more I wonder how carefully they have examined the output.” AI hype is a devil’s handshake between CEOs too busy to care too much and the department delivering the goods. The band must play on.

the ultimate Tesla insider: I'm selling all my shares

AMAZON NEW ALEXA LAUNCH POSTPONED ONCE MORE: WASHINGTON POST

hakeem jeffries' wife packing up to go stay at her parents because she asked him to wash the dishes and he stood in front of the sink throwing his hands in the air and saying "what can i do, the water isn't even on"

On the same day Macron says the Maastricht criteria are "obsolete", Ursula von der Leyen says she will activate the "escape clause" in EU debt/deficit rules for defense spending and calls for European funding for big EU projects like air defense. Merz listening in the front row.

American eggs are *almost* as expensive as French eggs and they've already gone mental

One echo from history when it comes to Elon Musk's DOGE and its outsize role in government would be the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution, when the group of 12 men led by Robespierre, nominally a parliamentary body, ran the country.

The US dominance of tech has always been implicit, even under Trump 1.0, which suited the giants well as they could slip into world pretty much as nation-less utilities quietly disrupting society. J.D. Vance's speech at the AI summit in Paris changes all that. ChatGPT is America.

Taking down USAID is an ideal target for a government pursuing a far-right agenda. Its beneficiaries are non-American and, except for Ukraine, people of color. For Ukraine, helping the weaker side makes no sense when the strong man is always right.