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My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.

Can’t believe how many people have tuned out the news and don’t realize our democracy is on the brink of collapse

I feel this one. I hate what our government is doing to its citizens. I'd say that we deserve better, but do we?🤔

1/2 Caixin: "China defended its large current-account surplus, saying the funds generated by its export strength are recycled into overseas investments that support industries and financial markets abroad." www.caixinglobal.com/2026-09-11/c...

2/2 A current account surplus is always balanced by a capital account deficit. What really matters to global growth is whether the capital outflow is directed into higher investment in developing economies or into lower saving in advanced economies. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Local man says he views Gal Gadot as his girlfriend. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Great to see: a NYT piece on how people here and around the world are increasingly telling Trump to eat shit and die www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u... Seeing two Trump-backed candidates just barely scrape by in SC and OK primaries is also a good sign.

The rich people who own the media want to take your Social Security rather than have their taxes raised deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-rich-o...

“There’s this famous 80-year old we need to you to bring in.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Hold on, not that one. This one appeared in Home Alone 2.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Would you please stop and just listen to the rest of the instructions?”

The same people who brought you explosive diarrhea lettuce now bring you a toilet paper shortage.

It's insane that inventory trends look like this and the market is like "eh, the President says it will all work out".

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

More dog owners need to see this..... 😂 😂

that school textbooks always attributed the discovery of fission to "Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner." Possibly even "Meitner and Hahn," which would make sense since she was the senior author of the key paper.

The famous Smyth Report, also in 1945, mentions her, pairing her with Otto Frisch as having told Neils Bohr "their guess that the absorption of a neutron sometimes caused the uranium nucleus to split into approximately equal parts." I can't swear to it, but my recollection as a kid in the fifties is

She got a raw deal on the Nobel, but she wasn't forgotten or erased or sneered at like Watson sneered at Rosalind Franklin. Here's a book published in November, 1945, "The Atomic Age Opens," a collection of articles about "atomic" physics for laypeople:

Yeah, I'm German and I learned about her in school. Most people that know anything about physics know who she is, at least in Germany. And she was also recognized amongst her peers during her lifetime. Max Planck nominated her for the Nobel Prize half a dozen times.

A case can be made she also should have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Her contribution was critical. But the overwrought phrase, "her name was erased from the discovery she made" is untrue to a comical degree. Her accomplishment has long been widely recognized in science.

Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives

If they let me into the White House Press Room, my question would be "Is the ceasefire in the room with us right now?"

What are the chances!

"The Death of Mitch McConnell" is the "Death of Stalin" sequel we never knew we needed.

I hate to say this, but Donald Trump was so right about “Lil Marco”.

I know so many otherwise intelligent people who still don't realize how badly this ends. They think it's all just going fine.

1/4 Caixin: "China’s push to rein in excessive competition in its auto market reached a climax in 2025, as policymakers moved to stamp out a relentless price war that has inflicted severe pain on carmakers, suppliers and dealerships." www.caixinglobal.com/2026-01-02/y...

1/11 Philip Coggan: "It is a mug’s game trying to predict the end of a boom with any precision. They last much longer than anyone might reasonably expect. That is true of bull markets, as well as economic advances. The reason is that markets... @philipcoggan.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/2ae4...

10/11 That is why these sequences are so dangerous – they can take in the whole economy. When eventually either excessive debt or stricter policies rein in the market, it is not just property developers who suffer. A wide range of agents can get caught up in the adjustment.

11/11 Some economists insist that you cannot say that a market is in a bubble when presumably rational investors say it isn't. But the economy itself can shift investment away from"rational" behavior as long as agents have different risk preferences and realistic time horizons.

If this happens - 5% for the year, mind you, not a single quarter - then hats off. But if it doesn’t happen, these people should never be taken seriously again. Skin in the game, right?

Used to? Hell, I had it in the Army in the 1990s, on a regular basis.

electrek.co/2025/11/27/t...

Surprise!

The way CEOs, media figures, and self-declared “thought leaders” behave towards Trump, you’d think his favorable/unfavorable polls were the exact opposite of what they actually are.

I see they have called in the famous and eccentric detective.

Trump’s “message”: I am a king and I douse you all in shit. I say go ahead and amplify it.

Well, at least you know where they stand.

Oh, no. No. It's The Ballroom.

I'm not trying to suggest it. I'm flat-out saying it.

RIP Jane Goodall 🙏 Her Trump description: "I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another"

If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’

We don’t even know who did this or why. We imagine that we can guess, but history is replete with examples of why even entirely logical guesses could be wrong. We should stop drawing conclusions until we have actual facts we can base them on.

Besides the internal contradiction, this is a historically dumb statement. The eradication of smallpox? Of cholera? Yellow fever? This man is a moron.

The media's attitude is that the country is evenly split between sane and insane people, so we need to hear both sides.

Well said.

one of the most insufferable things the NYT does is run a story and then spend half of the page talking about itself and its reporters

I received a pair of interesting documents last week from a FOIA request, wherein Los Alamos scientists in 1947 and 1949 tried to answer the question: “How many nukes would it take to make the atmosphere dangerously radioactive?” You can read the reports here: doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiatin...