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“just days before the start of the U.S. export season for soybeans, the world’s top importer doesn’t appear to have bought a single American cargo for the coming year.”

www.agriculture.com/partners-chi...
China Remains Absent From U.S. Soybean Market
“Just days before the start of the U.S. export season for soybeans, the world’s top importer doesn’t appear to have bought a single American cargo for the coming year,” according to one news outlet.
www.agriculture.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
August 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Produce Prices Index for July releases. "Fresh and dried produce" prices up almost 40% in one month. Going to get interesting at the supermarket ...

www.bls.gov/news.release...
Table 2. Producer price index percent changes for selected commodity groupings by Final Demand - Intermediate Demand category, seasonally adjusted - 2025 M07 Results
www.bls.gov
August 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
June 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Agraria
May 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
May 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
AI will eat the world
May 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
U.S. Secretary of Transportation says avoid Newark for the foreseeable future:

gizmodo.com/transportati...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport
Would you let your family fly out of Newark?
gizmodo.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"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 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Honestly, this was a brilliant move, and it shows how fundamentally weak Donny and the U.S. are.

And, the GOP wants to make us weaker by adding $4-5 trillion to the debt pile for tax cuts for the extremely wealthy.
deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...
Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes
deanblundell.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore, c. 1993.

2025 corollary: Global businesses see tariffs as damage and route around it.
April 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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By far, the best protest sign I’ve seen from the #handsoff protest —
April 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
First gen shingles vaccine appears to reduce the risk of dementia:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I would expect it to also be true for newer versions.
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM