Keith Johnson
@kfj-fp.bsky.social
Energy, geopolitics, geoeconomics, trade, seapower, for Foreign Policy. There's a little kicking.
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This seems like an industry one would want to dominate.
Luckily @christinalu.bsky.social does.
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Luckily @christinalu.bsky.social does.
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How China Became a Solar Power
Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This seems like an industry one would want to dominate.
Luckily @christinalu.bsky.social does.
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Luckily @christinalu.bsky.social does.
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The actual US tariff revenue so far this year is $200 billion, with a 'b'. Weird there would be a falsehood, from him, on this topic.
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So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The actual US tariff revenue so far this year is $200 billion, with a 'b'. Weird there would be a falsehood, from him, on this topic.
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Not premature; prescient.
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Ukraine Faces a Double Threat if Russia Takes Pokrovsk
The eastern city is a key military hub, but it’s also critical to Ukraine’s steel industry.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not premature; prescient.
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Ground beef costs as much, or more, in many parts of Europe as in the Colluding monopolistic Meat Packing America, and that to me is of particular concern because I will, by God, make Old El Paso tacos tomorrow.
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ground beef costs as much, or more, in many parts of Europe as in the Colluding monopolistic Meat Packing America, and that to me is of particular concern because I will, by God, make Old El Paso tacos tomorrow.
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Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Wow, I just aced another IQ test. Best results ever.
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Wow, I just aced another IQ test. Best results ever.
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"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
This is what a Secretary of War looked like, when that was an actual thing.
He could actually do a pull-up, and play a mean game of golf.
Also, he retired to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, because he was not a drunk TV failure/skateboard target.
He could actually do a pull-up, and play a mean game of golf.
Also, he retired to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, because he was not a drunk TV failure/skateboard target.
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is what a Secretary of War looked like, when that was an actual thing.
He could actually do a pull-up, and play a mean game of golf.
Also, he retired to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, because he was not a drunk TV failure/skateboard target.
He could actually do a pull-up, and play a mean game of golf.
Also, he retired to become a Justice of the Supreme Court, because he was not a drunk TV failure/skateboard target.
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There he goes again
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
There he goes again
Is this okay, Reagan Foundation? Quoting his actual words? The ones in public domain?
“Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers, or restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take….Over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker, and consumer.”
“Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers, or restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take….Over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker, and consumer.”
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Is this okay, Reagan Foundation? Quoting his actual words? The ones in public domain?
“Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers, or restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take….Over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker, and consumer.”
“Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers, or restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take….Over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker, and consumer.”
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Russia is facing huge fiscal challenges to finance the war in Ukraine
• Rise in military and social (to support social stability) expenses has fuelled widening of fiscal deficit
• Liquid reserves of sovereign wealth fund are dropping fast and external borrowing is not an option
• Rise in military and social (to support social stability) expenses has fuelled widening of fiscal deficit
• Liquid reserves of sovereign wealth fund are dropping fast and external borrowing is not an option
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Russia is facing huge fiscal challenges to finance the war in Ukraine
• Rise in military and social (to support social stability) expenses has fuelled widening of fiscal deficit
• Liquid reserves of sovereign wealth fund are dropping fast and external borrowing is not an option
• Rise in military and social (to support social stability) expenses has fuelled widening of fiscal deficit
• Liquid reserves of sovereign wealth fund are dropping fast and external borrowing is not an option
Beyond the insane lies about paid protesters, the crime here is the illiteracy on display. 'To beg the question' does not mean to ask the question; it is a rhetorical fallacy that presupposes the answer. It does beg the question, though.
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Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Beyond the insane lies about paid protesters, the crime here is the illiteracy on display. 'To beg the question' does not mean to ask the question; it is a rhetorical fallacy that presupposes the answer. It does beg the question, though.
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Dear Mr. President, I want you to know
Those are not windmills, nor covered in snow
They are wind turbines, which turn quite differently
And make good things glow.
Please stop calling them windmills, we beg you on knees.
Those are not windmills, nor covered in snow
They are wind turbines, which turn quite differently
And make good things glow.
Please stop calling them windmills, we beg you on knees.
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Dear Mr. President, I want you to know
Those are not windmills, nor covered in snow
They are wind turbines, which turn quite differently
And make good things glow.
Please stop calling them windmills, we beg you on knees.
Those are not windmills, nor covered in snow
They are wind turbines, which turn quite differently
And make good things glow.
Please stop calling them windmills, we beg you on knees.
Kings are sometimes beheaded. Charles I was.
We were in the National Gallery this weekend, and the first thing my boy said was, that horse is misshapen. And the second thing was, wow, that was right before he died.
We were in the National Gallery this weekend, and the first thing my boy said was, that horse is misshapen. And the second thing was, wow, that was right before he died.
October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Kings are sometimes beheaded. Charles I was.
We were in the National Gallery this weekend, and the first thing my boy said was, that horse is misshapen. And the second thing was, wow, that was right before he died.
We were in the National Gallery this weekend, and the first thing my boy said was, that horse is misshapen. And the second thing was, wow, that was right before he died.
We are three years away from a Michael Lewis book.
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JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)
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October 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We are three years away from a Michael Lewis book.
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Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.
I guess the tacit no-attacks-on Ukrainian gas facilities observed by Russia in the past is now a thing of the past. That energy back-and-forth is getting more intense.
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Russia launches biggest attack yet on Ukraine’s gas production facilities | Naftogaz Ukraine
In the morning of October 3, Russian forces launched the largest strike on Naftogaz Group’s gas production facilities since the start of the full-scale invasion. Facilities in Kharkiv and Poltava regi...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I guess the tacit no-attacks-on Ukrainian gas facilities observed by Russia in the past is now a thing of the past. That energy back-and-forth is getting more intense.
www.naftogaz.com/en/news/voro...
www.naftogaz.com/en/news/voro...
'I asked the Chinese, why didn't you do this, and they said very simply, James K. Polk. It might have been Milliard Fillmore. Not van Buren, for sure. Either way, it was staggeringly irrelevant to the matters at hand, and for that, i nodded thoughtfully.'
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Bessent on China: "At the meeting in Geneva when I asked them, 'Why didn't you continue buying soybeans and the other products' then had one word, and guess what it was? Biden."
October 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
'I asked the Chinese, why didn't you do this, and they said very simply, James K. Polk. It might have been Milliard Fillmore. Not van Buren, for sure. Either way, it was staggeringly irrelevant to the matters at hand, and for that, i nodded thoughtfully.'
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I laugh but this was from 7 years ago. Trump used taxpayer money to bail out farmers for bad ideas then, and will do it again next week.
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Trump’s $12 Billion Bailout Is No Remedy for Farmers Caught in Trade War
Additional subsidy angers some lawmakers, and could cause problems at the WTO.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I laugh but this was from 7 years ago. Trump used taxpayer money to bail out farmers for bad ideas then, and will do it again next week.
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This is such a refreshing corrective to that Quantico trainwreck.
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Climate change, security, and the race for critical minerals
Cullen Hendrix, PIIE senior fellow, joins Anjali V. Bhatt, PIIE communications manager and research fellow, for a live, virtual conversation about how climate change is shaping human health and securi...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is such a refreshing corrective to that Quantico trainwreck.
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This is a really revealing look at just how awful things got at Zaporizhzhia NPP, and at Rosatom's complicity in the violent takeover of Europe's largest nuclear power station.
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Rosatom’s Complicity in War Crimes and Nuclear Risks at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Revealed - Грінпіс Україна
Truth Hounds, with the expert support of Greenpeace Ukraine, has published a groundbreaking investigation into the role of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom in war crimes, civilian repression...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is a really revealing look at just how awful things got at Zaporizhzhia NPP, and at Rosatom's complicity in the violent takeover of Europe's largest nuclear power station.
www.greenpeace.org/ukraine/en/n...
www.greenpeace.org/ukraine/en/n...
I may be slower than most, but it has taken me near 50 years to understand Merle Haggard when he says "pitching woo." I always thought it was "wool," which for Oklahoma seemed out of place. But it is just old fashioned for "courting."
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I may be slower than most, but it has taken me near 50 years to understand Merle Haggard when he says "pitching woo." I always thought it was "wool," which for Oklahoma seemed out of place. But it is just old fashioned for "courting."
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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@fisherdanar.bsky.social: “The only other time that we’ve had such a heightened period of political violence, if you think about all the things that have happened from [January] 2021 through now, is in the 1960s"
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, experts on political violence warn that the US has entered a dangerous new era akin to what the country experienced in the 1960s, and they’re urging political and community leaders to take steps to reduce tensions. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/c...
Is America Becoming More Violent?
The U.S. has entered a dangerous new era, experts warn.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@fisherdanar.bsky.social: “The only other time that we’ve had such a heightened period of political violence, if you think about all the things that have happened from [January] 2021 through now, is in the 1960s"
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This is so cool - and an example of good scientific-historical work.
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such as Arabia, 541- 750 CE. It began during the reign of Justinian (r.527 – 565) and continued during the rise of Islam and the fall of the Sasanian […]
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September 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is so cool - and an example of good scientific-historical work.