“If America is strong and others pay, we win.”

Simplistic powerful rhetoric, but institutionally dangerous
Leading to long-term inefficiency and inflation?

#CapitalismOkay
But #MetaNationals are like overly specific AI, brilliant at maximizing #ShortTerm #MktCap & #GDP, but blind to context
Risk Mickeys acceleration problem with brooms
youtu.be/xHEMkbyXFxs
#Woke tries to broaden reward loop
#Equilibrium more compatible measurable substantive consensual

Is the problem that America can’t afford to care for its citizens — or that the powerful believe it shouldn't ?

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 2h

“Western Civilization is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival.”

America founded to escape tyrannical tax!
My biased read is that most if not all #SCOTUS Justices have concerns about this president.
But here we are at Supreme Court trying to place a very small limit on a rogue president, and hanging by fine legal threads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtd...

Listening to US democracy hanging on a few words.
Alito and Thomas will vote for the government.
The rest except possibly Kavanaugh will find for the plaintiffs.
My guess is a 2 or 3, against 7 or 6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtd...

An era of #Pomposity masquerading as #Patriotism?
The U.S. drifts from democracy toward presidential revenge—a politics of punitivity and pride.
Doesn't sound so great :-(

#Power wielded by #Pride #PresumptivePretension
#Pique #Pettiness
#Payback #PersonalProsecutions
#PunitivePolicy

Trump threatens to tax #NewYork 7 BILLION $ if they elect #Mamdani . Is that legal ?
#TrumpTaxTyranny goes on...without restraint;
tariffs, taxes...all paid for by tax payers.
It's not HIS money, is it ? 🤔
What will #SCOTUS say this week about Canadian revenge tariffs
bbc.com/news/article...

“Rep. McBride”, who “got fact checked on CNN after falsely blaming Republicans for the Democrat Shutdown.” I was unable to locate a credible source that confirms
Much more inaccurate than the Reagan advertisement that made Trump end tariff talks with Canada ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDa9...

Supreme Court decision #NEA #IEEPA Are tariffs legit tools ? Or Trump
-Retaliatory motive, not genuine NE ?
-Pattern of overreach, not isolated error ?
-Contrived connection between the fentanyl threat & trade policy ?
US Senate voted against Trump tariffs on Canada ?
apnews.com/article/trum...

John Rieti

Trey Yesavage walked Ohtani to begin 7th inning.

And then more genius defence from Guerrero.

He grabs a ground ball, fires to second and retreats to the bag to get Freeman on the return throw. Textbook stuff from the Jays first baseman there.

Accept collective action for war, never for welfare
Industrial weapons guaranteed-contracts are patriotic
Universal healthcare & income makes morals decay
Subsidize & insure capitalism for coercion,but not for compassion
Invest in might & power, not the diverse human soul
Peace is a no-profit game

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
follow@shorterbrooks.bsky.social

Typically 80–90% of Americans express a favorable opinion of Canada — higher than for any other nation except perhaps the UK.

Americans often describe Canada as friendly, safe, polite, peaceful, and well-governed.🤔😄

#CanadaTradeSurplus with US is hydrocarbons; entirely oil & natural gas
US runs surplus with Canada on everything else
US benefits handsomely from price & processing the 4 MMbbl/d
Canada bears environmental cost of digging up; US profits by marking it up
#RareEarthMinerals #TrumpDependencyRage ?

#RareEarth
substack.com/@tanviratna/...
Dr Taylor-Kale authored DOD's first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy. If Taylor-Kale could have continued her work uninterrupted through 2025, U.S. would be 6–12 months further ahead in securing domestic RE capacity & allied processing partnerships.

David Brooks hosts conversations with @WinsomeSears 🏃‍♀️for #VirginiaGov & @jamestalarico.bsky.social 🏃for #TexasSenate. Faith, Freedom and Conscience @shorterbrooks.bsky.social

A conversation illustrating #Moral-Imagination, rather than #PoliticalSpectacle. Simulation:
chatgpt.com/share/690104...

#ThinkAboutThis
All 8 billion humans on earth today, descended from fewer than 1,280 individuals, due to severe climate? bottleneck 800,000 years ago.
@radiolab.bsky.social

Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition
Wangjie Hu et al. 2023

Fire took perhaps a million years to move from curiosity to universal necessity.
The bow took tens of thousands.
Printing, hundreds.
Electricity, a few generations.
The Internet, one generation.
And “AI”? Barely a decade.