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The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance race with a twist: The cars cost less than $500, and costumes are unlimited. A recent race saw a Toyota Yaris painted like a snail, and a team dressed as bees.
Race car drivers turn lemons (and $500) into an endurance contest like no other
The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance race with a twist: The cars cost less than $500, and costumes are unlimited. A recent race saw a Toyota Yaris painted like a snail, and a team dressed as bees.
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May 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance race with a twist: The cars cost less than $500, and costumes are unlimited. A recent race saw a Toyota Yaris painted like a snail, and a team dressed as bees.
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Hi I'm here from the 1970s to tell you about the coming Trump stagflation. Latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Coming Economic Nightmare
Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.
www.theatlantic.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hi I'm here from the 1970s to tell you about the coming Trump stagflation. Latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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This is what we need to do today -- Rebuilding from the rubble rappler.com/plus-members... via
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Rebuilding from the rubble
Exploring technology for social good
rappler.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is what we need to do today -- Rebuilding from the rubble rappler.com/plus-members... via
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Sorry, here's a gift linked one on.ft.com/4j9lo22
Trump is halfway to making America a police state
[FREE TO READ] The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
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April 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Sorry, here's a gift linked one on.ft.com/4j9lo22
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“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u
The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump
[FREE TO READ] Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?
on.ft.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u
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"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
www.theatlantic.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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On Musk's old-fashioned, backwards-looking futurist/techno-authoritarian ideas, all borrowed from failed thinkers of the 20th century
from Jill Lepore
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
from Jill Lepore
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk (Gift Article)
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On Musk's old-fashioned, backwards-looking futurist/techno-authoritarian ideas, all borrowed from failed thinkers of the 20th century
from Jill Lepore
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
from Jill Lepore
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
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8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER
From the newsletter. Subscribe here. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
From the newsletter. Subscribe here. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER
From the newsletter. Subscribe here. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
From the newsletter. Subscribe here. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
and here's a gift link version on.ft.com/4iCU3Vz
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this, at least, is clear: "Trump is genuinely bored of the war. He doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t know why it started. He doesn’t know how to stop it. He wants to change the channel and watch something else."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
this, at least, is clear: "Trump is genuinely bored of the war. He doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t know why it started. He doesn’t know how to stop it. He wants to change the channel and watch something else."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Three years ago, Russia launched an attack across the borders of #Ukraine. As Russian troops drove down roads in the hope of a short war & a victory parade in Kyiv, they received a mighty surprise. Reflections on 3 years of this full scale war.
mickryan.substack.com/p/three-year...
mickryan.substack.com/p/three-year...
Three years of sacrifice and courage
Reflections on the meaning of three years of war in a much longer Ukrainian struggle against Russia.
mickryan.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Three years ago, Russia launched an attack across the borders of #Ukraine. As Russian troops drove down roads in the hope of a short war & a victory parade in Kyiv, they received a mighty surprise. Reflections on 3 years of this full scale war.
mickryan.substack.com/p/three-year...
mickryan.substack.com/p/three-year...
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this is it
Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better.
But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
January 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
this is it
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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Balanced, serious assessment. There has been consensus on areas where Ukraine needs to improve for some time - mobilization, organization, command. More progress in these areas urgently needed in 2025.
A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was the most difficult period since spring 2022. There were positive developments, and bright spots, but the current trajectory is negative. 1/
January 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Balanced, serious assessment. There has been consensus on areas where Ukraine needs to improve for some time - mobilization, organization, command. More progress in these areas urgently needed in 2025.
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How did Bashar al-Assad get to Moscow? We look at a few possibilities and analyze the raw ADS-B data from *that* Syrian Air IL-76 flight. www.flightradar24.com/blog/assad-p...
Assad’s possible paths to Moscow | Flightradar24 Blog
We explore some of the possible flight paths from Damascus to Moscow for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
www.flightradar24.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:53 PM
How did Bashar al-Assad get to Moscow? We look at a few possibilities and analyze the raw ADS-B data from *that* Syrian Air IL-76 flight. www.flightradar24.com/blog/assad-p...
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A man with a wife and two children was murdered in cold blood. He was a human being.
But you would hardly know that from watching the explosive reaction, including among folks who allegedly pride themselves on their humanity, tolerance, and decency.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/desperatel...
But you would hardly know that from watching the explosive reaction, including among folks who allegedly pride themselves on their humanity, tolerance, and decency.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/desperatel...
Desperately Seeking a Coalition of the Decent
Now more than ever.
charliesykes.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 PM
A man with a wife and two children was murdered in cold blood. He was a human being.
But you would hardly know that from watching the explosive reaction, including among folks who allegedly pride themselves on their humanity, tolerance, and decency.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/desperatel...
But you would hardly know that from watching the explosive reaction, including among folks who allegedly pride themselves on their humanity, tolerance, and decency.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/desperatel...
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"Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you’ve never lived anything close to a precarious life." Strong essay by @rossbarkan.bsky.social rosselliotbarkan.com/p/twilight-o...
Twilight of the Liberal Left
An era decisively ends
rosselliotbarkan.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:34 PM
"Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you’ve never lived anything close to a precarious life." Strong essay by @rossbarkan.bsky.social rosselliotbarkan.com/p/twilight-o...
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U.S. Navy's Afloat Accident Rate Hits Decade High, Led by MSC
"The accident rate afloat has been above average for the last three years: there were eight incidents in 2022, eight in 2023 and a decade-high 10 incidents in 2024."
maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...
"The accident rate afloat has been above average for the last three years: there were eight incidents in 2022, eight in 2023 and a decade-high 10 incidents in 2024."
maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...
U.S. Navy's Afloat Accident Rate Hits Decade High, Led by MSC
The U.S. Naval Safety Command has released its accident numbers for FY2024, and the report shows a rising rate of serious mishaps in the fleet. The n...
maritime-executive.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 AM
U.S. Navy's Afloat Accident Rate Hits Decade High, Led by MSC
"The accident rate afloat has been above average for the last three years: there were eight incidents in 2022, eight in 2023 and a decade-high 10 incidents in 2024."
maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...
"The accident rate afloat has been above average for the last three years: there were eight incidents in 2022, eight in 2023 and a decade-high 10 incidents in 2024."
maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...