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Ex Microsoft. Ex Bell Labs. Data science, tech, neuroscience Ph.D, beginning bread maker.
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

This is the most Chicago editors note ever

With shipping from China dropping further than during the pandemic due to Trump's tariffs, the CEOs of Target & Walmart have warned that consumers will start seeing empty shelves and higher prices as the result. Trump now has the choice of backing down with nothing to show for it or a recession.

Thought he was going to meet the Pope but instead got the Holy Ghost.

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Nintendo said it’s delaying Switch 2 pre-orders in the US due to concerns over Trump's global tariffs

Just a reminder:

I’ve talked to friends who were bearish on the U.S. stock market due to Trump. One wanted to buy puts on the S&P 500 while the other sold US stocks to buy foreign companies. I honestly thought Trump wouldn’t be crazy enough to tank the stock market. That’s what I get for believing in his sanity.

Accurate.

As Trump tells us how great everything is going, here are the headlines on the Wall Street Journal site right now

Just going to drop this here www.fastcompany.com/91281410/soc...

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

The NRA pulled it off with school shootings so this isn’t as crazy as it sounds.