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Economics, housing policy, American & European politics, foreign policy, and anything else that catches my eye
Proud bureaucrat and cat guy
Economics, housing policy, American & European politics, foreign policy, and anything else that catches my eye
Proud bureaucrat and cat guy
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DOGE’s cuts have put vital gov't data at risk. Amid the chaos of Trump’s second term, it’s easy to miss—but the federal surveys we use to understand everything from the economy to maternal mortality to healthcare costs are under threat. My piece this week: www.economist.com/united-state...
April 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
DOGE’s cuts have put vital gov't data at risk. Amid the chaos of Trump’s second term, it’s easy to miss—but the federal surveys we use to understand everything from the economy to maternal mortality to healthcare costs are under threat. My piece this week: www.economist.com/united-state...
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Screwing tiny screws! Truly the labor of a Golden Age.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Screwing tiny screws! Truly the labor of a Golden Age.
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“If you failed to spot America being looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far or it being cruelly denied a turn to prosper, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States.” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
But the rest of the world can limit the damage
www.economist.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“If you failed to spot America being looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far or it being cruelly denied a turn to prosper, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States.” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
There’s no gaining the lost market share back when this is your competition
economist.com/business/202...
economist.com/business/202...
March 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There’s no gaining the lost market share back when this is your competition
economist.com/business/202...
economist.com/business/202...
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Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one
March 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one
I blame YouTubers making an “explained” video for every single movie that comes out for this trend www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
www.newyorker.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I blame YouTubers making an “explained” video for every single movie that comes out for this trend www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The interactive charts in this were fun to play around with but also incredibly concerning on.ft.com/3Rdt2w4
The costly end of Europe’s ‘peace dividend’
Defence spending at 3.5% of GDP would have cost EU an extra $387bn a year since finish of cold war
on.ft.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The interactive charts in this were fun to play around with but also incredibly concerning on.ft.com/3Rdt2w4
Getting arrested by a guy in a Marvel shirt
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Getting arrested by a guy in a Marvel shirt
This is just embarrassing www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
March 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is just embarrassing www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Just brazenly cynical to call a war fund an “election gift.” on.ft.com/4hvYPDa
March 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Just brazenly cynical to call a war fund an “election gift.” on.ft.com/4hvYPDa
“Let’s cut cancer and education research while spending more money than ever”
-The Department of Government Efficiency
on.ft.com/4ht1TzV
-The Department of Government Efficiency
on.ft.com/4ht1TzV
Elon Musk’s cuts fail to stop US federal spending hitting new record
Government spending rose to $603bn in February despite hyperactive efficiency drive, data shows
on.ft.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Let’s cut cancer and education research while spending more money than ever”
-The Department of Government Efficiency
on.ft.com/4ht1TzV
-The Department of Government Efficiency
on.ft.com/4ht1TzV
This is a stunning stat to have in the largest city in America. Historic preservation is unfortunately one of the most obnoxiously sticky hurdles to ramping up development in this country. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
March 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is a stunning stat to have in the largest city in America. Historic preservation is unfortunately one of the most obnoxiously sticky hurdles to ramping up development in this country. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
“Frying food in beef fat specifically will make us healthier” is an argument that sounds like a parody of the American political debate
March 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Frying food in beef fat specifically will make us healthier” is an argument that sounds like a parody of the American political debate
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March 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hierbei geht es nicht darum, was gut für unser Land ist. Hier geht es um Ihre kleinkarierten politischen Missstände. on.ft.com/3DDI379
Germany’s Greens vow to block Friedrich Merz’s flagship spending package
Party officials reject €500bn infrastructure fund plan and change to debt borrowing rules to fund defence spending
on.ft.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hierbei geht es nicht darum, was gut für unser Land ist. Hier geht es um Ihre kleinkarierten politischen Missstände. on.ft.com/3DDI379
This more than anything else could start a trend of brain drain out of America over the next four years. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
www.newyorker.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This more than anything else could start a trend of brain drain out of America over the next four years. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Lech Wałęsa, along with other former political prisoners in Poland, made a statement: "Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values of the Free World. They are the ones who have been dying on the front lines." apnews.com/article/pola...
Polish democracy hero Wałęsa says Trump's treatment of Zelenskyy filled him with 'horror'
Poland’s democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners in Poland have told President Donald Trump that his treatment of Ukraine’s president at the Oval Office last week filled the...
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Lech Wałęsa, along with other former political prisoners in Poland, made a statement: "Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values of the Free World. They are the ones who have been dying on the front lines." apnews.com/article/pola...
I hope the 2020s proves Poland to be a pillar in Europe the same way France and Germany have been on.ft.com/4bx7Me2
Poland must look at acquiring nuclear weapons, says Donald Tusk
Prime minister also open to exploring how French atomic weapons can protect whole continent
on.ft.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I hope the 2020s proves Poland to be a pillar in Europe the same way France and Germany have been on.ft.com/4bx7Me2
I get very envious watching other countries prosecute the extremists trying to overthrow their governments
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Vereinte Patrioten: Mehrjährige Haftstrafen im Prozess um geplante Lauterbach-Entführung
Die Vereinten Patrioten wollten Karl Lauterbach aus einer Talkshow entführen und einen Putsch verüben. Dafür müssen vier von ihnen mehr als fünf Jahre ins Gefängnis.
www.zeit.de
March 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I get very envious watching other countries prosecute the extremists trying to overthrow their governments
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
The HHS Secretary is talking about miracle cures for Measles like a TV Doctor
What I will never understand about antivaxxers is their combination of extreme skepticism about the extensive research on the measles vaccine with utter credulity about e.g. cod liver oil.
Discussing measles outbreak
HHS Secy Kennedy said he had spoken with Texas doctors Richard Bartlett and Ed Benjamin using budesonide, clarithryomycin, cod liver oil
"they’re seeing what they describe as almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
HHS Secy Kennedy said he had spoken with Texas doctors Richard Bartlett and Ed Benjamin using budesonide, clarithryomycin, cod liver oil
"they’re seeing what they describe as almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
March 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The HHS Secretary is talking about miracle cures for Measles like a TV Doctor
The constant framing of Trump throwing Europe under the bus as a pivot towards Asia was always wrong. Everyone from Australia to Japan should be worried
economist.com/asia/2025/03...
economist.com/asia/2025/03...
Asian allies fear being dumped by Trump
America’s friends in the Indo-Pacific live in dread of being abandoned like Ukraine
economist.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The constant framing of Trump throwing Europe under the bus as a pivot towards Asia was always wrong. Everyone from Australia to Japan should be worried
economist.com/asia/2025/03...
economist.com/asia/2025/03...
I feel like The White Lotus miscast Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon
I keep thinking Skyler Gisondo would be knocking it out of the park in every scene, unfortunately.
I keep thinking Skyler Gisondo would be knocking it out of the park in every scene, unfortunately.
March 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I feel like The White Lotus miscast Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon
I keep thinking Skyler Gisondo would be knocking it out of the park in every scene, unfortunately.
I keep thinking Skyler Gisondo would be knocking it out of the park in every scene, unfortunately.
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To those who celebrate
Casimir Pulaski Day
open.spotify.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
To those who celebrate
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The SCMP reports: "Japan’s conservatives have change of heart about Trump over his ‘disastrous’ policies" www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The SCMP reports: "Japan’s conservatives have change of heart about Trump over his ‘disastrous’ policies" www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...