Jack, Trade Dawg
@tradenerd.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, trade compliance and export controls expert, consultant-ish. Geek of the liberal and illiberal arts, Damn (almost) Good Dawg. My clients don't know I'm here. 🛃📦🚢✈⛟💸
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Outing my Real Name™️, but I am working on a project about how many $billions of weapons (and other high tech stuff) the US exports, because regardless if you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, we have a right to know what our government is allowing!
public.tableau.com/views/USExpo...
public.tableau.com/views/USExpo...
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
I listen to a horrifying number of podcasts- 5 of these are tolerable, 5 are totally unlistenable, and I'm baffled by the rest.
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I listen to a horrifying number of podcasts- 5 of these are tolerable, 5 are totally unlistenable, and I'm baffled by the rest.
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
Announcing the Nuzzi-Voce Flash Fiction Contest! Write your own prose in the signature style of Today's Main Character and quote this post. First prize is a Cadillac, second prize is steak knives, third prize is you can block anyone you like. My inaugural entry:
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Announcing the Nuzzi-Voce Flash Fiction Contest! Write your own prose in the signature style of Today's Main Character and quote this post. First prize is a Cadillac, second prize is steak knives, third prize is you can block anyone you like. My inaugural entry:
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The most obvious thing to say about the Court's IEEPA decision is that Trump will continue tariffs no matter the outcome, but that alone misses that each possible tariff authority has its own scope and constraints which means that different tariffs behave very differently with different impacts.
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The most obvious thing to say about the Court's IEEPA decision is that Trump will continue tariffs no matter the outcome, but that alone misses that each possible tariff authority has its own scope and constraints which means that different tariffs behave very differently with different impacts.
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All the journalists I've ever known or met are interesting, talented, and decidedly normal people trying to do their jobs amidst dicey to very difficult circumstances, and yet there is also this class of journalists who are making CHOICES
these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
All the journalists I've ever known or met are interesting, talented, and decidedly normal people trying to do their jobs amidst dicey to very difficult circumstances, and yet there is also this class of journalists who are making CHOICES
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FORTUNE says Musk’s Boring Co. (currently drilling a Teslas hole in NASHVILLE) got penalties for Chemical burns of firefighters… then pressured NEVADA officials to drop them🤔
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
FORTUNE says Musk’s Boring Co. (currently drilling a Teslas hole in NASHVILLE) got penalties for Chemical burns of firefighters… then pressured NEVADA officials to drop them🤔
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
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Hey @GovBillLee do you have any concerns about your buddy Elon covering up firefighters and workers getting burned by chemicals in his tunnel?
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hey @GovBillLee do you have any concerns about your buddy Elon covering up firefighters and workers getting burned by chemicals in his tunnel?
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
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Kirby does not respect Sark
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Kirby does not respect Sark
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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it’s a memo, tell them to fuck off
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
it’s a memo, tell them to fuck off
This is my breaking point, I am invoking the Butlerian Jihad
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This is my breaking point, I am invoking the Butlerian Jihad
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Trump's tariffs are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government. They're also costing consumers, frustrating businesses and hurting the factories they're supposed to help. n.pr/49lJgOf
Yes, Trump's tariffs are raising billions -- but at a steep economic cost
Trump's tariffs are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government. They're also costing consumers, frustrating businesses and hurting the factories they're supposed to help.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Trump's tariffs are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government. They're also costing consumers, frustrating businesses and hurting the factories they're supposed to help. n.pr/49lJgOf
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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I was at Manuel’s Tavern tonight and when Mamdani was announced as the winner the people erupted like it was game 7 of the World Series when this was announced
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I was at Manuel’s Tavern tonight and when Mamdani was announced as the winner the people erupted like it was game 7 of the World Series when this was announced
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I take no pleasure to report that the reciprocal tariffs costume is sold out
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I take no pleasure to report that the reciprocal tariffs costume is sold out
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"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
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Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."
September 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."
Georgia man wakes up in Switzerland and checks his group chats
a man in a suit is carrying a box of pizza into a doorway .
ALT: a man in a suit is carrying a box of pizza into a doorway .
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Georgia man wakes up in Switzerland and checks his group chats
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They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.
But they want us to think they do.
But they want us to think they do.
September 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.
But they want us to think they do.
But they want us to think they do.
In personal news, I'm apparently having regular night terrors now, which are loud enough to wake my wife but I wake up in the morning with no memory of the actual event 🤠
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In personal news, I'm apparently having regular night terrors now, which are loud enough to wake my wife but I wake up in the morning with no memory of the actual event 🤠
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FOIA alert 🚨🚨🚨
USAID (like DOE some months ago), is due to publish a notice that claims to mass cancel all #FOIAs submitted before Jan 20, unless the requester emails them.
This is, once again, wildly illegal.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17820.pdf
H/T Michael Ravnitzky
USAID (like DOE some months ago), is due to publish a notice that claims to mass cancel all #FOIAs submitted before Jan 20, unless the requester emails them.
This is, once again, wildly illegal.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17820.pdf
H/T Michael Ravnitzky
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
FOIA alert 🚨🚨🚨
USAID (like DOE some months ago), is due to publish a notice that claims to mass cancel all #FOIAs submitted before Jan 20, unless the requester emails them.
This is, once again, wildly illegal.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17820.pdf
H/T Michael Ravnitzky
USAID (like DOE some months ago), is due to publish a notice that claims to mass cancel all #FOIAs submitted before Jan 20, unless the requester emails them.
This is, once again, wildly illegal.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17820.pdf
H/T Michael Ravnitzky