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BREAKING: Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced news.sky.com/story/pope-f...

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In #Okinawa, coastal fishermen now farm #coral, restoring #reefs like planting trees in a forest. With #ocean temperatures rising, half the world’s coral reefs have already vanished. These farmers are fighting back, one fragment at a time. [Heppoko Taylor]

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In case you missed it ... In 2019, outgoing EU Council President Donald Tusk described Brexit as the true "End of the British Empire". He predicted it would turn the UK into an "outsider, a second-rate player", with China, USA and the EU holding the balance of power. Everything he said came true.

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I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

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Sam’s latest in on the intellectual origins of the far right looks at how libertarianism and nationalism came together - and what might drive them apart. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/hayeks-bas...

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100% this. How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...

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An unsurprisingly development due to the unpredictable trade war: Chinese exporters at sea dumping cargo on the way to the United States to avoid paying tariffs www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

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New trade Russian roulette - you send your container to the US and try to guess what tariffs will apply on the day it gets there.

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LIVE: Fox presenters’ souls leave their body as they’re forced to finally tell the truth about tariffs. Here, the story a small business making products for kids with special needs. Its tariff bill has gone from $26,000 to $346,000. Fatal. A fate Fox deserves for months of tariff disinformation.

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This is totally cool. You store a suitcase with your essential travel amenities in one of JAL's warehouses, and your suitcase will arrive at your hotel/residence the day before you arrive. Upon return, the suitcase returns to the warehouse where everything is cleaned and prepared for your next trip

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The British government doesn’t get it. Brexit was the first step in the populist crapshow that has weakened Europe as a whole vis a vis Trump and Putin. Reducing the harm of Brexit is the first step to Europe recovering

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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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NYTimes front page June 30, 1930: " [Treasury Secretary] Mellon declares new tariff law will aid business. Secretary asserts the act will neither retard recovery nor hinder foreign trade. Holds uncertainty ended." timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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"I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point. I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't." Wild, had no idea this drama even happened!

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Plot twist: Eliminate capital gains tax by eliminating all gains.

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This is high art

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‘Designed to accommodate five million people and to act as Beijing’s twin, Xiong’an is a city created from nothing.’ Long Ling on the new city near Beijing being constructed for optimal data gathering on its inhabitants: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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TAPPER: Conservative economists at AEI say that when the Trump administration came up with your tariff rates, you mixed up import prices and retail prices and the entire computation is wrong BROOKE ROLLINS: I have not read TAPPER: I'd ask you to check it out

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NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

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@explaintrade.com, does the US has a massive, unrecognized surplus in services? US tech firms monetize 'attention' from around the world via a value chain that isn't easy to understand. We buy services with our attention.

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"Younger listeners may not know, but there was a time when the US was an ally of the UK and an enemy of Russia" Zinger from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in today's Origin Story podcast on Thatcher. More zingers and quality intellectual content on the pod www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-story

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If you are going to report how "reciprocal" these tariffs are or how they quantify trade barriers and economic injustices... ... please keep in mind they're not, becuase that would have required work. Instead just did: COUNTRY'S US SURPLUS --------------------------- = Rate% ITS EXPORTS TO US

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chef’s kiss

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NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

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fine work being done by the Guardian picture editor today.

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The historic protest comes to its end. After a record 25 hours & 5 minutes, an emotional Cory Booker completes his marathon Senate speech by quoting the late Rep. John Lewis: “Let’s get in good trouble. My friend, Madam President, I yield the floor.”

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You've been told that "tech won't save us." But the opposite is just as true. @garrettbroad.bsky.social and I wrote about the dangerous appeal of "nature-based solutionism," or the idea that natural solutions to complex problems will save us. They won't. newrepublic.com/article/1933...

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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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Latest piece in @theatlantic.com Partly inspired by Signal scandal. Here we have Trump’s court speaking their uncensored views on Europe and Europeans should take them at their word. It might allow Europe to save itself, and save the USA in the process. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn' Snyder on the new US imperialism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

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"I think the Russian regime & Mr Putin tried to destabilize the democratic system in Romania, also in the rest of this part of Europe. This is part of his hybrid war he is doing against Europe” Meet the Romanian mathematician trying to stop Putin & Trump.

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Yesterday, I posted a video showing a Russian drone strike near a football stadium in Kharkiv, while players were on the field in the middle of a game. One of the comments(on X), from someone generally supportive of Ukraine, said something like, "focus on the fight, not on the game." 🧵👇 1/7

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Unpicking yourself from global markets and supply chains. Brexit simples on steroids.

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European messaging today in Paris was exemplary. Strong message that Europe won’t prematurely lift sanctions for sake of a terrible Black Sea deal. Efforts to goad Trump into seeing he’s being played. Signals that Europe won’t accept caps on Ukraine‘s military. And pressing on w/ coalition planning.

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Column. On pathetic European freeloaders. www.thetimes.com/article/7652...

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achtung, baby www.spiegel.de/internationa...

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The guns vs butter discussion in Europe misses that the real obstacle to strengthening European defense is national control vs integration/centralization of defense. Europe only needs to make a guns vs butter trade if it insists every member state build out their cute bonsai armies

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JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

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Breaking: Read the Signal messages. theatln.tc/XISUWloF

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Ukraine was just knifed in the back. Essential reading on yesterday's deal open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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no offense to Jeff but if you are alleging the head editor of the Atlantic was cunning enough to circumvent all your security safeguards that kinda makes you sound even worse

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