FedEx is suing for a refund of Trump tariffs (duties): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

Enjoyed chatting with Jane Coaston of Crooked Media about the latest tariff news youtu.be/K1P3sKaZyJw?...

I Trusted Jeff Bezos. The Joke’s on Me. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

JD Vance Booed at Olympic Opening Ceremony in Milan www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

the federal government is arresting journalists not only without a warrant but after being explicitly denied a warrant i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this

Hmmmmm maybe they were making that up too

U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/b...

“The World’s Worst Bet” is a “complex, probing assessment” of globalization, says Nature magazine, including it in a list of five best books… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This surprises me not at all

and not even just investors. many businesses and their groups — often loud about the things in Washington that displease them — have tread carefully under Trump even while acknowledging privately the risks of Fed meddling. this will test them, too.

Anti-ICE protest in NYC today

Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

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Europe is finally waking the F up to the fact that they have leverage too.

George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...

By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

The 92-Year-Old Judge in the Maduro Case Must Step Aside www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

I have a reason: because someday, in a peer war with China, we may need allies, or at least countries that don't want to see us lose.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Was able to catch up on some reading over the holidays & picked up “The World’s Worst Bet” by @davidjlynch.bsky.social. I'm sure I'll be returning to this regularly. A thorough account of globalization's rise, replete with timely lessons for the incoming AI labor shock (& a reflective Bill Clinton)

“If our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors will spread through office parks and home offices — and the grief long borne by the working class may soon be borne by us all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

Trump in 2024: "I will end the Ukraine-Russia war on day one." Trump now: "This is not a one day process deal."

He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...

A 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Apocalypse www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

The Quiet, Fateful Shift in Who’s Buying America’s Debt www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

This kind of rhetoric on race may play well to the extremists in that audience, but normies voting in presidential elections are going to see clips like this as very weird.

The Post examined the bright skyline around Reagan National Airport and whether it may have been a factor in the January plane crash, which killed 67 people. To see the full reconstruction, watch the video on this page:

“.. based on the data we have to date; it looks like manufacturing is experiencing more of a slump than is generally recognized ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

It’s irritating regardless. All US citizens are equally American. There is no place for classes of citizenship or belonging in our country.

The World Bank’s Paschal Donohoe calls “The World’s Worst Bet” one of the best non-fiction books of 2025. He says Lynch’s “style and expertise is really evident in this book. It’s so clearly written about what actually is the really big question of our time” 09:58 open.spotify.com/episode/5hdY...

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

Rubio Meets (and Meets, and Meets … ) the Press www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...