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Trump left West Point after his speech instead of staying to shake the hand of every graduating cadet, as is longstanding tradition. If Obama or Biden had done that, we would never the hear the end of it. But it's Trump, so reporters don't care.

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This is all correct (and you should read it) but to be fair - the majority was just calling out an implication of their ruling that had been repeatedly raised below. They didn’t invent the connection - they just recognized the need for a fix. (They don’t yet have one.)

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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95. “He and about 60 other engineers had less than two days to invent a solution using materials already onboard the spacecraft.” [nytimes.com]

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The play where Draymond thinks he gets fouled but flails & whacks the guy in the face in response & gets a T or flagrant is getting super old. It’s like he doesn’t believe in replay.

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The last 2 World Cup sites were Qatar and Russia (22 and 18). Qatar was supposed to invent outdoor AC to deal with heat (didn’t happen). Russia in 18 was…Russia. FIFA not exactly a reactionary org when it comes to host nations being less than someone’s ideal. Hopes officially not up on this one.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

It should suprise no one that Alcatraz was established as part of a National Park (the GGNRA) by an Act of Congress in 1972. So….anyone want to estimate the odds that it could be put back into service absent another Act of Congress?

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This one (of a series - all interesting) probably needs a PS - this isn’t just on Mitch. Schumer gave UC for the Senate to go into recess immediately in the wake of 1/6 which worsened the time crunch instead of potentially preserving momentum.

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He’s not saying “I cannot tell you” because he’s in on some trade secrets. He’s saying it because he does not know. Just like he does not know whether the President has talked to the leader of China.

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Wait until folks hear how bad of a guy Ernesto Miranda (of Miranda v. Arizona fame) was.

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“For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences“ - a grievance against King George III in the Declaration of Independence.

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First I’ve heard that the pro bono work from big law firms is actually going to have the most wealthy client in the world, the US, as a beneficiary.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

My last post before baseball. Market isn’t surging so much due to current tariff levels. It’s surging because Wall Street believes it has leverage & can dictate future retreats.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Yep. US trade policy set by tweet and with character limits (maybe he’s exempt). Not erratic at all. Nope.

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If you opened a factory yesterday, you can close it now.

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

Of course @weisenthal.bsky.social gets it right. Once things settle down and explanations emerge about the real meaning of the policy-by-tweet, we'll try and determine what's up. Markets clearly do impact the Admin. If they turn out not to like 10%+China, we'll see how long that lasts.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

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Same as with the CR - House leadership acting affirmatively to vest the President with power over tariffs & strip Congress of it. I guess if we get to the point where 77 House Republicans want to strip the President of his tariff authorities, it's going to happen.

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This is the bit I was talking about. I’d meld it with a Cortez-Masto question. If the only thing Australia has now is to drop its insistence that US beef be, in fact, US beef? Why even cut that deal? You might get a 0 tariff for a few weeks until POTUS declares a new emergency.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

USTR to Sen. Warner today in his confirmation hearing - even if you have a trade surplus with the US, the US should be "running up the score" in that bilateral relationship. The gripe in this case is with Australia and the fact that they don't import beef. I might be incorrect, but Australian

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If you read this piece, one wonders if the “open borders” comment by the President today wasn’t him misspeaking (as I assumed) or rather him stating what would be a logical Musk term of his zero tariff EU proposals. Not only zero tariffs but work bilateral work authorization.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

The Senate process that has legs is canceling the national emergency, because that's a privileged resolution that has to get a vote in 18 days. Democrats should be introducing a resolution canceling the emergencies every day, setting up daily votes in 2-3 weeks.

submitted 50 days ago • 21 comments

We imported $3 billion worth of goods from Russia last year ustr.gov/countries-re...

submitted 50 days ago • 85 comments

White House says that Congress taking back its Constitutional duties would “hamper the President’s authority…to determine foreign policy” - the same folks quoting 1791 Hamilton need to familiarize themselves with all of his work. Congress is unquestionably the boss here if it wants to be.

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For people in their mid-40's this might turn out to be the 5th 25% stock market drawdown of their careers. That's the same number as there were in the second half of the 20th century:

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