A woman, holding a sign "«The 6th commandment. Don't kill» next to the Christ Cathedral in Moscow yesterday, got arrested.

New research paper alert! 🚨 I've combined economics with ideas from biochemists and medical doctors to explore what's driving obesity and other metabolic diseases. The main finding? Vegetable seed oils seem to play a big role. 🌱🛢️ (1/25) tyleransom.github.io/research/obesi…

“the absolute priority will be to strengthen europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the usa.” - next german chancellor friedrich merz, unthinkable words even two months ago

Imagine the following under Reagan: Instead of demanding Russia end its domination of Eastern Europe (“Tear down this wall.”), he announced the wall wasn’t America’s problem. Instead of strengthening U.S. forces in Europe, he withdrew some or all of them. Instead of backing

world leaders in kyiv today, on the third anniversary of russia’s invasion

6 March 1890 | A Pole, Rudolf Bator, was born in Rzeszów. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 10 February 1942. No. 20524 He perished in the camp on 23 March 1942.

Ironically, a united, vigorous, aggressive Europe is a far more powerful and desirable ally than Putin's Russia. BUT it turned out that the only thing that would (maybe) spur Europe to be united and vigorous was the U.S. becoming an ally of Russia. Fuck.

President of France Emmanuel Macron has called on French manufacturers to increase the volume of arms production. Paris is offering arms contracts to European countries. As of 2023, France was among the top ten countries in the world in terms of military spending, as well as

Europe is poised all within a few months to now be completely reliant on itself for defence. Was it worth it America? All for 60 billion.

trump-putin call is critical. so is europe taking leadership on defense—and germany’s decision today sets that in motion.

71% of America’s GDP comes from blue counties. We’re the economic engine of the USA. We’re subsidizing red states while they promote tax cuts for billionaires and cut basic programs like free school lunch. We shouldn’t be playing defense.

One of the more puzzling aspects of Trump's second term trade agenda is the focus on Canada. In purely economic terms, it doesn't make much sense -- the US consistently runs a manufacturing surplus with Canada, so a trade war threatens more deindustrialization ... 1/

The stats agency of the Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics, has been completely dismantled this week. They oversee the National Assessment of Education Program, which asses how students are doing academically. This is an utterly complete shame!

This is Bilohorivka—a village erased from existence. Russia leveled it so completely, it's almost hard to believe it ever stood.

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

This is such an important point that I've updated my chart, just for Jason Furman

The exciting news about GLP-1 drugs just doesn't stop rolling in. They may halt the progression of many life-changing disorders. In this case, they seemingly halted the progression of Parkinson's:

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.