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I was born in Donbas. I grew up speaking russian freely. No one ever forbid this language. No one ever silenced my voice. We lived, loved, built our homes. We didn’t ask to be “saved.” We didn’t choose to be occupied. 🔽

Update: Wet feed has been obtained. Crisis averted.

Wanna win a free copy of my upcoming novel COPE FIELD? You got a few different ways! 1.) The Goodreads giveaway is live, so you can enter there for a chance to win one of five copies. 2.) I am doing my own separate giveaway here on Bluesky. All you gotta do to enter is repost this post!

I had this exact thought. They are loving this.

The Trump 75 incomplete list: East Fallopia Rep of Caramelstan Cent Asian Eastern Republic Duchy of Wallachistan Slobovia Krasnovia Kingdom of Linguine Equatorial Islands of Antarctica Independent Gulf of America Islands Federated Republic Lemurvia Ivermectia

All together now: a tariff is a TAX on you.

You can bully the Senate. You can bully CBS. You can bully NIH. You cannot bully the bond market. It is the dread King in Yellow. Pestilence follows its wrath.

This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1937...

China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

In 2024, China was the third largest EU export trade partner (8.3%) and the largest partner for EU imports (21.3%). I think that's going to begin to change as of tomorrow. Both Chinese export and import trade to the EU are going to grow rapidly in the next quarter.

yle.fi/a/74-20154393 "...it is essential to take into account the EU's objective to strengthen economic security and resilience and to reduce harmful dependencies," the government release read."

And this is the reason why the John Roberts court continues to propagate lawlessness.. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

very excited to learn that the constitution allows the federal government to disappear people to foreign gulags beyond the reach of any judicial remedy

Here's Beaux.

Friendly reminder:

The problem of the moment is that many don't understand what he gets right about trade theory, while many others don't understand what he got totally wrong about its effects on industrial composition, employment, and distribution, without state management and international coordination. #EconSky

This is important.

I SO wanted—needed—to see this.

Dear, Elon Best wishes from Wisconsin

We want Tesla under $140. And it's making good progress.

The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

You know, there were signs he isn't smart.