Jeremiah Cushman
@jdcushman45.bsky.social
Defense journalist, Europeanist (🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪), metalhead, not necessarily in that order...
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I cannot emphasize enough that increasing foreign investment in the US and shrinking US trade deficits are in direct, irreconcilable tension w/ one another.
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that increasing foreign investment in the US and shrinking US trade deficits are in direct, irreconcilable tension w/ one another.
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
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It's quite funny, as someone who grew up with "returning to the 1970s" being treated as a massive boogeyman to see we've reached this point
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It's quite funny, as someone who grew up with "returning to the 1970s" being treated as a massive boogeyman to see we've reached this point
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No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
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@bloomberg.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Can never have too much fuel right?
🇧🇷 F-39E #Gripen air to air refuelling while carrying three drop tanks, two bombs and two IRIS-T missiles.
Photo: Saab AB www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
🇧🇷 F-39E #Gripen air to air refuelling while carrying three drop tanks, two bombs and two IRIS-T missiles.
Photo: Saab AB www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Can never have too much fuel right?
🇧🇷 F-39E #Gripen air to air refuelling while carrying three drop tanks, two bombs and two IRIS-T missiles.
Photo: Saab AB www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
🇧🇷 F-39E #Gripen air to air refuelling while carrying three drop tanks, two bombs and two IRIS-T missiles.
Photo: Saab AB www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
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⚡️ German parliament's budget committee supports hiking Ukraine aid to 11.5 billion euros in 2026.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also announced that Berlin has agreed to allocate an additional 150 million euros ($175 million) in military aid to Kyiv under the PURL program.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also announced that Berlin has agreed to allocate an additional 150 million euros ($175 million) in military aid to Kyiv under the PURL program.
German parliament's budget committee supports hiking Ukraine aid to 11.5 billion euros in 2026
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also announced that Berlin has agreed to allocate an additional 150 million euros ($175 million) in military aid to Kyiv under the Prioritized Ukraine Requireme...
kyivindependent.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
⚡️ German parliament's budget committee supports hiking Ukraine aid to 11.5 billion euros in 2026.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also announced that Berlin has agreed to allocate an additional 150 million euros ($175 million) in military aid to Kyiv under the PURL program.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also announced that Berlin has agreed to allocate an additional 150 million euros ($175 million) in military aid to Kyiv under the PURL program.
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Indonesian Navy Makassar-class landing platform dock KRI Banda Aceh (593) coming into Dumai, Riau, Indonesia - November 13, 2025 SRC: TW-@Jatosint
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Indonesian Navy Makassar-class landing platform dock KRI Banda Aceh (593) coming into Dumai, Riau, Indonesia - November 13, 2025 SRC: TW-@Jatosint
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The Global War on Cartels will supercharge all the worst practices of GWOT in places near or along US borders where America's adversaries can directly attack American coastal and border towns
“I was like, wait a minute, enemy KIA, what war are we talking about here? What declared conflict am I missing?” - Zack Cohen with a superb piece tracking the use of GWOT tactics in Latin America www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...
‘Enemy KIA’: Trump revives playbook from Afghanistan for campaign targeting alleged drug boats | CNN Politics
Deep below the US Capitol, in a secure room meant to protect discussions of American secrets, a wave of sarcastic laughter spread among lawmakers and staff members who were assembled to receive a brie...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Global War on Cartels will supercharge all the worst practices of GWOT in places near or along US borders where America's adversaries can directly attack American coastal and border towns
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🇧🇷 "...successfully completed the certification flight test campaign for in-flight refuelling of the F-39E #Gripen fighter by the KC-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft.
Saab press release: www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
Saab press release: www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
Gripen E and KC-390 Millennium complete refuelling certification flights
Partnership between Saab and Embraer strengthens technological and operational integration between two strategic assets of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB).
www.saab.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🇧🇷 "...successfully completed the certification flight test campaign for in-flight refuelling of the F-39E #Gripen fighter by the KC-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft.
Saab press release: www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
Saab press release: www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
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one of the funnier bits about moving from a blue state to a red state is that red states still need money to run things and will often just collect it via fees instead
so you pay less in taxes but everything else is more expensive and you don’t actually come out much better
so you pay less in taxes but everything else is more expensive and you don’t actually come out much better
Decent number of the California conservative transplants to Texas have been surprised to find 1: it's not actually that much cheaper, 2: our services suck, 3: they will still be treated like blue haired hippies just for being from California
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
one of the funnier bits about moving from a blue state to a red state is that red states still need money to run things and will often just collect it via fees instead
so you pay less in taxes but everything else is more expensive and you don’t actually come out much better
so you pay less in taxes but everything else is more expensive and you don’t actually come out much better
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German parliament approves €7.8 bln for F126 alternative planning. Sound move to maintain pressure on Damen not drawing out current review in trying to resolve & salvage the effort.
However, it will also motivate increased TKMS positioning on MEKO A200.
www.hartpunkt.de/bundestag-st...
However, it will also motivate increased TKMS positioning on MEKO A200.
www.hartpunkt.de/bundestag-st...
Bundestag stellt 7,8 Milliarden Euro für F126-Alternative bereit
Dem Vernehmen nach stehen den Verteidigungspolitikern der Regierungsfraktionen mit den heute gebilligten Titeln für eine Alternative zur F126 alle Optionen
www.hartpunkt.de
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
German parliament approves €7.8 bln for F126 alternative planning. Sound move to maintain pressure on Damen not drawing out current review in trying to resolve & salvage the effort.
However, it will also motivate increased TKMS positioning on MEKO A200.
www.hartpunkt.de/bundestag-st...
However, it will also motivate increased TKMS positioning on MEKO A200.
www.hartpunkt.de/bundestag-st...
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
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Night all
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Night all
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JUST IN: U.S. will lift tariffs on some coffee from Latin America
U.S. will lift tariffs on some coffee from Latin America
The price of coffee has skyrocketed this year, as tariffs piled up on top of other factors.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
JUST IN: U.S. will lift tariffs on some coffee from Latin America
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NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
MOAR SNOW SOCCER!
Don Garber is not my favorite, but I guess this is not all on him. Even though this aligns better with the global calendar it's not a great experience for fans or players in half the cities and I'm sure MLS ain't putting rooves on stadiums
Don Garber deflects a question about what kind of pushback they got from northern markets on this move. He admits that northern markets will suffer from this, but suggests that this is balanced by southern markets having suffered for years in the summer heat.
#MNUFC
#MNUFC
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
MOAR SNOW SOCCER!
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I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
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#BoringCentrism would double the size of PBS, rather than shredding it.
😔 WETA in Washington, D.C., and its subsidiary News Hour Productions are ending broadcasts of PBS News Weekend, closing News Hour West bureau, because of Congressional Republicans gutting of federal funding for public media:
current.org/2025/11/weta...
current.org/2025/11/weta...
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
#BoringCentrism would double the size of PBS, rather than shredding it.
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If Disney wants short form content on their platform, why not put more of the classic Disney cartoons on the platform instead… not this A.I. garbage.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If Disney wants short form content on their platform, why not put more of the classic Disney cartoons on the platform instead… not this A.I. garbage.
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"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"
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Striking Boeing defense workers vote on new contract
Striking Boeing defense workers vote on new contract
Boeing's 3,200 defense unit workers voted on a new contract on Thursday.
cnb.cx
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Striking Boeing defense workers vote on new contract
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Future USS Massachusetts (SSN 798) Virginia-class Block IV nuclear-powered attack submarine coming into Norfolk, Virginia - November 13, 2025 SRC: TW-@johnmorgan726
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Future USS Massachusetts (SSN 798) Virginia-class Block IV nuclear-powered attack submarine coming into Norfolk, Virginia - November 13, 2025 SRC: TW-@johnmorgan726