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What's that saying... the best defense is a good offense? Or maybe the aphorism about levers and moving the world is more appropriate here: The US Treasury Bond attack Carney engineered, forcing Trump to pause tariffs: open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

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"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psy...

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How long will the US Campaign against Spiritual Pollution continue? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaig...

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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I agee w Patrick. (We lived in China at same time, diff on many things, agree here.) Chinese leaders always reckoned with the vast depth of US strength. Institutions, networks, expertise. Now, in cold-blooded rather than triumphalist mode, they recognize they're dealing with nuts and clowns.

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The trade war will undoubtedly hurt the Chinese economy. But I honestly don’t think Xi cares. He sees this correctly, as a historic opportunity to destroy U.S. global influence.

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“No country can imagine suppressing and containing China on the one hand and developing good relations with China on the other. This “two-faced” approach is not conducive to the stability of bilateral relations but is also unable to establish mutual trust.” Foreign Minister of the PRC, Wang Yi.

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40 years ago today Wham! played Beijing…

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This is their crash. This is on them, too.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

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This juxtaposition is not ideal

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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

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~Canadians could face detention if denied U.S. entry, Ottawa warns in a travel advisory updated Friday “Comply and be forthcoming in all interactions with border authorities. If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation.” #BoycottUSA globalnews.ca/news/1111739...

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I think this the first time Brexit has appeared as an attack line in a major English speaking political campaign.

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A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏 #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (📸Nate Blouin)

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Disaster of a front page for Trump. The economic chaos. The golf trip. His gormless mind-deadened face gazing out from it.

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This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

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A well-respected MMA coach who always posts training tips and is based out of Australia says he arrived in the U.S. for an already-scheduled seminar, but was detained at the border, thrown in a federal prison and ultimately deported. The details of his story are harrowing:

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Now unpaywalled: my review of one of the most important--and yet shunned--recent books on China: "I Have No Enemies," a @columbiaup.bsky.social biography of the #NobelPrize laureate Liu Xiaobo. Originally in @nybooks.com Breprinted by @chinafile.bsky.social www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb...

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Canada updated its travel advisory for the US, telling travellers to "expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including of electronic devices," adding, "If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation.": travel.gc.ca/destinations...

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It might be an arch, but there’s no such thing as peace anymore. Don’t go anywhere near the border.

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It's not even safe to go near the US

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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

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“The WH was simply demanding lists of concessions, according to one foreign diplomat deeply involved in the conversations. The diplomat said Trump officials wanted regulations and other barriers to be wiped away to boost US goods and services being sold abroad.”

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The new tariffs do not mirror tariffs developing countries impose on the US, nor account for different economic conditions & fiscal realities shaping tariff regimes in poorer countries—& ignore basic realities of institutional capacity, resource endowment, & geography. By @cullenhendrix.bsky.social:

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"The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

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We probably all remember the naked emperor and the child from Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 tale. But really the story is mostly about the succession of ministers and flatterers and onlooking adults who dared not state the obvious truth. Now playing on US TV! andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...

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“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

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calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... Smith keeps saying that we need to calm down the rhetoric against Trump while she simultaneously ramps up the rhetoric against Ottawa.

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😂😂😂

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A thread I’m afraid is all too accurate.

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How bad was today's stock market decline? Of the 11,406 trading days since January 1980, only 29 had larger declines.

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I don't know who might need this reminder about Trumpian economic claims, but Mexico did NOT in fact pay for that wall. Now here's Anais Mitchell live in 2016, when Trump was new and Hadestown was still in gestation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGU...

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This just in from Alberta: ‘Vote like we tell you, or we’ll bust up your country!’ albertapolitics.ca/2025/04/this...

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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

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Minimal moral duty of any university, to defend a community member subject to human rights abuses by an oppressive regime on account of her lawful speech.

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So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

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"While Western Conservatives like Smith advocate for quiet diplomacy and pragmatic cooperation with Washington—even with Donald Trump—they reserve only bombast and brinkmanship for Ottawa and the rest of Canada ..." @drjaredwesley.bsky.social sums it up beautifully -- and explains it. #abpoli

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A reminder that Danielle Smith, Scott Moe, and Preston Manning are choosing this moment not to fight US aggression but aim a gun at Canada. Oh, and Quebec just entered a new Starlink deal. Meanwhile, the rest of our 'leaders' still think this is a blip and things will return to normal.

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With threats of separatism coming from populist quarters, I'm even more convinced.

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Wow this is wild. James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

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I know Trump is busy ensuring the U.S. economy commits seppuku right now, but FYI Tufts University just issued a declaration in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. It’s a pretty strong declaration. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

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I've been saying this for years. Belief in American exceptionalism blinds people to what is happening right before their eyes.

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Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

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In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

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Have made a decision, a sad, painful one, not to travel now to US.

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Immediately filling out the forms to retitle my survey to “The Wretched Truth about America to 1877”

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Happy April Fools Day!

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