📄 NEW: “Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse” The election is top of mind, but the debt ceiling remains an existential threat to the global economy — and Thiel’s network is signaling US debt default in Q1 2025. The dollar and your savings are at risk. washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-an…

Walz: They talk about small government. Small enough to be in your bedroom, small enough to be in your exam room, small enough to be in your library telling you the things you should make decisions about.

PSA: ignore all polls like this unless they follow up with “how much more tax?” We did, and the answers were pretty amazing.

The thing that baffles me is that good and serious people have seen versions of what happened tonight in the US for eight years and are still surprised that people don’t see the world as they do. 1) Voters think “the economy” is “can I afford to live” NOT “we are doing better

Jeez folks, look at UK-US trade figures before you fire off the columns that Trump tariffs will decimate our economy. Yes, it won't be great if the US chooses to go this way. For anyone. But 69% of our exports are services. Probably more. And plenty of others are intermediates.

Open access on ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ When will people realise that open borders are destroying faith in liberalism? Time to transform the outdated & cruel refugee system Asylum treaties are the greatest threat to the West. Rip them up now thetimes.com/article/8cae59…

Blaming Trump for questioning NATO is deluded. Europe has failed on defence for decades, while increasing welfare budgets. Even now 8 Euro nations are not meeting the 2% obligation. Why should American taxpayers fund European incapacity benefits? thetimes.com/article/b7e711…

Thousand Cow AI Challenge: Have any LLM create an image of 1000 cows vertically stacked one cow wide and one cow deep - reaching the clouds. #1000cowclub Elon Musk Chase Wilson Jared Best Matt Jones Felix Wetzel

You showed today that it is possible #stackthatcow

The Tories - Johnson, Truss, etc - were not “right wing”. They increased welfare, tax, immigration & debt to new records and vastly expanded bailouts, regulations & money printing Isn’t this called socialism? thetimes.com/article/54a202…

What’s remarkable is that Rory Stewart and ALASTAIR CAMPBELL in their podcast (often excellent) keep referring to the hard right turn under Johnson, Truss etc. I find this completely baffling

If DOGE were to return any money saved to the American people a la UBI it would immediately become the most popular thing anyone has ever done.

A wise general once told me that the role of senior leaders at points of tension is to reassure the nation & stiffen our resolve Global power is shifting & a third nuclear age is upon us. My RUSI Lecture explores how Britain stays safe in dangerous times gov.uk/government/spe…

Old Europe (UK, France, Germany) is crumbling. Leaner, hungrier nations are building, growing & seizing the future while we’re bogged down in planning, entitlements & debt. France has run deficits 50 straight years! There’s a word for this: delusional thetimes.com/article/153f0f…

twitter hype is out of control again. we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it. we have some very cool stuff for you but pls chill and cut your expectations 100x!

18th C. Europe isn't a good benchmark for our living standards

Lutnick: You realize trillions of dollars of factories are going to be built in America. That's huge gdp. The factories being built in America are huge -- Brennan: That takes years, and you said that robots are going to fill those jobs. So those aren't union worker jobs.

Novak Djokovic shut down the “mental toughness is a gift” myth in 90 seconds of pure gold. Interviewer: “Your mental strength is your greatest gift.” Djokovic: “I have to correct you. It’s not a gift. It’s work. Every single day.” He trains his mind like his serve: -

What jobs will still be here in 10 years? blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-job-mark…