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"Drill Baby Drill" looking less likely: U.S. energy firms cut number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a sixth week in a row. They're now at the lowest since November 2021 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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🌾 Fascinating.

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🛂 Striking.

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🧑‍🎓 Trump's attack on education and learning continues: Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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🪖Surprising if the US decided to give this business back to France. on.ft.com/43Ealsx

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BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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🪖 One war influences another. "All too aware of China’s disastrous entry into the Korean War, Johnson refused to allow an invasion of North Vietnam and strictly limited bombing." Jeffrey Wawro writes a new history. #EmpireOfLiberty Columbia University www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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🔥Max Boot offers useful historical perspective of previous domestic military deployments. "[I]gnoble (putting down strikes during the Gilded Age)" seems the most apropos. wapo.st/45b3SGJ

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Yes. It was primarily, it appears, a successful effort by Musk to derail investigations of his businesses.

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🪥 Harvard researchers estimate the cost of abandoning public dental health: "25.4 million more rotten teeth ... dental bills for the added decay will total at least $9.8 billion ... 2.9 million quality-adjusted life years" for children. #RFKJr arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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🦷 Fascinating BBC review. Logically, RFK Jr. should require US communities with natural fluoride in their water to remove it. bbc.com/future/artic...

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🧑‍🎓 A trial offering could be a good way to test this idea. Of course, the federal government stands to lose $100s of billions, but the author argues they already are lost. massinc.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

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😷 Trenchant commentary from @newyorker.com writer Daniel Immerwahr, who lives up to his name. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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🪖 U.S. Naval War College reviewer Joseph Stieb is skeptical that the "by, with, and through" strategy used to defeat the Islamic State has broad applicability. #EmpireOfLiberty @columbiauniversity.bsky.social a.co/d/2Rl9qjk

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🪖 Cluster munitions make a comeback. For my #EmpireOfLiberty Columbia University students. "The cluster-munition convention, like the Ottawa treaty barring landmines, was signed in a period when humanitarian protections took precedence over military utility." www.economist.com/internationa...

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👽 Garbage in, garbage out. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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E pluribus unum

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📉 More weakness from Trump: the strong build bridges and work profitably with others; the weak build walls of ignorance and prejudice, and cower in poverty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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🏧 A primary purpose of DOGE was to slow or stop investigations into Musk's businesses that could cost him money: $2.37 billion was well worth a few weeks of work.

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📚 The US knows who international students are, and where they are studying: it issued their visas! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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💨 A change in the wind. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Right on, Prof. @jasonfurman.bsky.social on.ft.com/4kg3JXh #Harvard

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MAGA is fine with economic destruction to advance its political goals. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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🙋 Hardly every student's "worst nightmare," but a useful technology for exams. For my @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and Hult International Business School students. www.wsj.com/business/cha...

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📡 "In intelligence, sometimes the most illuminating information comes from unexpected quarters." For my #EmpireOfLiberty @columbiauniversity.bsky.social students www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

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🏛️ Federal Reserve’s Jay Powell urges US university students to protect democracy - "“Our great universities are the envy of the world and a crucial national asset.”" on.ft.com/43fbTJt

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💰Paul Krugman sounds a warning. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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🪖 Marking 250 years of U.S. naval combat. For my #EmpireOfLiberty Columbia University students. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/23/m...

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🌞Amazing.

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💰An Economist columnist argues that Trump's driving ideology is commercial gain. www.economist.com/internationa...

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📰 Words of War profiles a brave journalist. www.economist.com/culture/2025...

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⚗️ MAGA is killing jobs. "Far from unshackling scientific endeavour, the administration is doing it grievous damage. The consequences will be bad for the world, but America will pay the biggest price of all." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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📚 "Seduction" might be more accurate than "capture." "Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company" www.economist.com/culture/2025...

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📉 Trump attacks one of the country's most successful exports: education. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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👽 @pbump.com "He can make obviously false statements and be confident that his supporters will never encounter (much less seek out) the countervailing evidence." wapo.st/3ZrJbT8

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DOGE cuts kneecapped $2.37 billion worth of investigations into Musk's companies, estimates the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Minority Staff. Now the cuts, and Musk's recent retreat from service, make sense: mission #1 accomplished. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Trump has promised wealth. MAGA believes his policies will bring it to them. And if there are to be any sacrifices, they will only be for those who play with dolls. For @jamellebouie.net and @adamtooze.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

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🪖 Of the H-Bomb: "Cold War analysts coolly judged that it could reduce a region the size of France to ashes." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

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💉Americans might have to move to Canada to stay healthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/h...

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🗽 Larry Edelman @bostonglobe.com offers powerful lessons from China and Canada. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/19/b...

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J.D. Vance: sycophant. George Packer is a brilliant writer. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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🌐 Prescient — if current policies remain unchanged. "America, by contrast, may end up as a profoundly diminished nation. Sheltered behind tariff walls, its companies will sell almost exclusively to domestic consumers." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

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🤖 "'I’m teaching students to use A.I. as a tool that’s helpful, like a book or a dictionary,' Ms. Lowd said." AI can be extremely helpful when used in this way for students who want to learn. #CM5 Power & Policy Challenge Hult International Business School www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/t...

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A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

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🗽The State Bar of California defends the rule of law. Other states should join them. www.calbar.ca.gov/About-Us/New...

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from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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🇺🇸 The last major ratings agency downgrades US debt, joining S&P and Fitch. This will increase US interest rates, and reduce the value of the USD over the longer term. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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