Stock investors still don’t get it. It is not just that Trump dropped the market 2% in a day with a tweet. It is that he can do that every day for three years with tariffs, corruption, cancellation of green projects and blue state programs, and abuses of the legal system. Chaos kills investment.

Goldfinger: I lan to destroy Fort Knox with a nuclear weapon, and gold will go up to $4000 an ounce. Bond: Why not just get a narcissist elected President so he can run the economy like an oligarchic squirrel on crack? Same result. G: B: G: This mofo is crazy let’s laser him in half.

I think I figured out why Hesketh hates soldiers with beards

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

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Nexstar and Sinclair, the companies that control local TV stations, have ended their boycott of Kimmel. Not because they suddenly saw the light on free speech, but because enough viewers complained. Turns out boycotts work both ways.

This is the stock price of Ørsted, the company making a nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island that Trump cancelled and a judge later reinstated. This is the kind of chaos that prevents business investment.

Surprised a grand jury indicted Comey. My guess is Bondi and co, knowing GJ proceedings are sealed, fed the GJ a load of BS and don’t care about the prospect of a judge later naming and shaming them for prosecutorial misconduct. Interested to hear from actual GJ experts.

While I oppose pretty much everything RFK has done at HHS, including his bad tan and workouts in jeans, as a Bayesian, I think the decision to approve leucovorin (folic acid) as a treatment for autism makes sense. It also reveals a few things that are wrong with the drug approval process.

Congratulations to GWU Professor @jeffreyding.bsky.social as the winner of the Georgetown University Lepgold Prize for his book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers! He will be giving a book talk on Nov. 19 at the GU Mortara Center; for details follow @mortaracenter.bsky.social

Trump is doing to the military academies what he would like to do to all universities: purging them of faculty who don’t agree with him and censoring the curriculum. I just had a talk canceled at West Point. At least I am in good company with Tom Hanks. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Would be great if Trump executed the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Putin if he does not yield to Ukraine’s demands. US and Turkey are the only NATO members Putin can visit as they are not in the ICC.

There are lies, damned lies, and new BLS head Antoni.

"America’s global classroom is emptying" qz.com/internationa...

Trump is such a terrible negotiator that if I lived in Alaska I would worry about being sold back to Russia as part of any deal on Ukraine.

Bezos’s WP is promoting “personal liberties” by having Scott Walker, who polarized Wisconsin, lost his governorship, and flamed out before the Iowa caucus, advise Texas on how to sell one of the worst gerrymanders in US history. Next up: Trump’s flunkies calling his crony capitalism “free markets.”

Trump put a 39% tariff on Switzerland due to their big trade surplus with the US. In fact, 3/4 of that surplus is for gold mined all over and refined in Switzerland. Goldfinger had a much better understanding of trade and markets. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️

If this happens, at a minimum Putin, a war criminal under ICC warrant for abducting Ukrainian kids, gets a meeting with the US president for nothing, ending 3+ years of isolation from Western leaders. But Putin will be hoping for so much more from Trump.

Three fundamental theories in economics are that trade, property rights, and a reliable currency are good for efficiency, investment, and growth. The US stock market has not yet priced in how badly Trump is trashing trade,the rule of law, and the dollar. Eventually it will.

Republicans have already gerrymandered so much that they hold 19 extra House seats that would be competitive with fair maps. If TX starts a gerrymander war and NY, CA, NJ, and IL retaliate, Republicans lose. They have fewer places left to gerrymander.

The comments on this post are . . . Not happy. Did not read them all but read a lot and did not see a single positive response. Admittedly a sample bias but European media today could be interesting.

Of course Colbert was cancelled for financial reasons. If Paramount does not kiss Trump’s ring he won’t let their merger go through.

It is emblematic of the Democrats weak messaging that they haven’t coined a term for this turd. Let’s help them out: Billionaire bros bill? Billionaire buddies bill? Butt ugly billionaires bill? Other suggestions welcome

The US is losing the competition with China over the clean energy markets of the future. Trump’s bill will accelerate this by raising interest rates, destroying the dollar, and putting the brakes on clean energy in the US. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excellent visual tour through NATO's Eastern Flank countries and what they are doing to prepare for the very real threat Russian aggression poses. Is Europe prepared for war? ig.ft.com/russia-easte... via @financialtimes.com

Stunning piece in the NYT showing how the US and China's embrace of fossil fuels and cleantech respectively suggest converging views on global domination Phenomenal visuals in there too - check out these two charts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Can you imagine the sheer cruelty of looking at America right now and saying we should raise $1.2 billion by raising taxes 27% on people making under $15,000 a year — so that we can cut the taxes of people making over a million by a token 3 percent?! The cruelty astounds.

Analysis of how Trump’s tax bill combines the worst of his 2017 tax cuts for the rich with his failed attempt to repeal Obamacare. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

Thou shalt call it the Twelve Day War. No more. No less. Twelve shalt be the number of the war, and the number of the war shalt be twelve. Thou shalt worship it as twice as exalted as the Six Day War. Thirteen days shalt thou not call it, as that is already taken.

Goldfinger: I plan to destroy Fort Knox with a nuclear weapon, and gold will go up to $3500 an ounce. Bond: Why don’t you just convince the President to start a war with Iran and put tariffs on everyone else? Same result. G: B: G: This mofo is crazy let’s laser him in half.

Meh. Putin-Prigozhin did it better.

Wild kicker at the end of this Atlantic article on cloning: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Starting to think Musk named his kid X so that when he does weird stuff like asking X to punch him in the face it will be hard to find all the commentary by googling “Musk X”

It’s like Dr. Evil pardoned Mini-Me. Between this and the trophy wife comments Trump is projecting even more than usual. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Set aside for a minute the corruption that Trump milks for hundreds of millions: the plane, the memecoin, the family deals. The really amazing thing is that with all these cash machines, he still bothers to scam on the trinkets: the bibles, the butt-ugly shoes. No grift too small for this man.

Fourteen years in, Vance discovers and completely misconstrues the replication crisis, trying to use it as a cudgel in Trump’s jihad against any science that disagrees with him. Meanwhile, RFK. Welcome to Lysenkoism 2.0

Only one thing missing from this excellent @michellegoldberg.bsky.social review: a reference to Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead, the book that Republicans and tech bros read in high school for the bad sex and then fetishized for the bad politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

If you didn’t already know why the lettuce won, now you know. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Has anyone checked RFK’s BBQ grill for DNA? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

It was clear from the start that Trump would cave before China did. He has blinked on tariffs over 50 times, enough to spell this in Morse Code: .. _.. _ _ _ _. _ _._ _. _ _ _ ._ _ . _ _ …. ._ _ .. ._ _ _ _.. _ _ _ .. _. _ _. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🧵Ok, I rag on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, for his impeachable conduct on deportations and abandonment of all his prior views. But today he's the one "constantly on the phone" and paying attention to the India-Pakistan crisis. Should we be reassured? Absolutely not. 1/

Trump has sent Bessent off to negotiate with China with a very weak hand. It turns out that when you slap huge tariffs on a country but they can trade with everybody else for nearly free, they trade with everybody else. The US is now the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.

Very saddened to learn that my PhD mentor Joe Nye has passed away. He was a towering intellect and the most graceful man I have known, a prodigious scholar and a role model as a leader in government and academia. He not only coined the term soft power -- he lived it, inspiring by his example.

A statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, and a diplomatic response from a foreign government.

Not only did the conservative leaders in Canada and Australia lose the elections largely due to their association with Trumpism, they lost their own seats. Poilievre had held his since 2004, and Dutton lost the seat he had held since 2001. The Trump brand is toxic on a global scale.

Politico reports Gorka mentioned as one possible replacement for Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor. Would give Hegseth some breathing room as only the second least qualified official on national security.

Goldfinger: I plan to detonate a nuclear weapon in Fort Knox, and the price of gold will go up by 100 times, to $3500 an ounce. Bond: Why don’t you just donate $1 million to the Johnson campaign and tell him to raise tariffs to 145%? G: B: G: This mofo is crazy let’s laser him in half.

Usually causal identification is hard, but it is pretty clear Trump’s initial tariff threat cost 10% of market value, reversal gave back most of that, threat to Powell cost 2.5%, reversal got it back. Every day the man is a regression discontinuity research design.

I have 427 followers on Bluesky and 2700 on Twitter(which I barely use). I recently did a thread critiquing tariffs on both sites. 190 reposts, 433 likes on Bluesky. One like on Twitter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...