New from me VANITY FAIR (1/5): I spent part of the past year and a half investigating Germany’s wealthiest person, Klaus-Michael Kuehne, and his cover-up of his family’s and company’s Nazi history and Holocaust profiteering. vanityfair.com/news/story/ric…

Senator JD Vance said that economists disagree about whether tariffs lead to higher prices. So this week, the University of Chicago surveyed economists and asked them exactly this question.

Trump-Loomer couple was inevitable. Trump is now guided by his most extreme and nativist advisors who play off his ego to fulfill half-baked visions of a white ethnostate. The mask is off - it's time all moderate Republicans stand up. Anderson Cooper 360°

ABC's Linsey Davis, along with David Muir, showed everyone from Chuck Todd and Kristen Welker to Dana Bash and Jake Tapper how it's done: if you're a journalist, you don't just sit there and let Trump lie to the American people. You point out the lies. It's called fact-checking.

Is the press doing an adequate job of analyzing Trump’s deteriorating mental state? The answer is “no.” trib.al/Zz4mtEp

This guy has literally changed the world — by opening millions of people’s minds and hearts to the value of travel and global understanding. His influence worldwide, and his contributions to world understanding are legion. So yes, Rick Steves is a damn big endorsement.

Remember when the economy was soooo good in 2019 the President begged the Fed for NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES

A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis theguardian.com/technology/202…

No one gets inside Trump’s head better than George Conway - for years he’s studied how to trigger Trump- tune The New Yorker podcast!

A day in Elon Musk’s mind: He will share anti-immigrant content, election conspiracies and attacks against the media. He will exchange tweets with far-right politicians, conservative media influencers and sycophantic admirers. theguardian.com/technology/202…

I can’t tell what’s more disturbing: him raising this dangerous and false conspiracy theory about Democrats taking kids, or the reality of him going on-line last week to suggest giving Taylor Swift one.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has just appealed his conviction. He argues, among other things, that the judge didn't like him. courtlistener.com/docket/6914369…

The woman behind a Facebook post that Trump and Vance elevated into a national lie about Haitian immigrants eating pets, thrusting Springfield, Ohio into the spotlight, now says she had no firsthand knowledge about it and “is filled with regret and fear.” apple.news/A6eQGyxSkT7OTt…

The whole Trump/Vance/Haitians/cats things is turning into a spectacular case of hole-digging: You said something stupid, then rather than admit it, you keep saying even stupider things.

US economy is heading for soft landing, FT survey says ft.com/content/022bb1… via @ft

Elon Musk As an immigrant yourself, you are surely aware that non-citizens can’t vote right? Why do you lie to people like this?

“If we’re willing to see children terrorized because of a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should ask who abducted our conscience, not someone’s pet.” ~Russell Moore The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Thank you Jonathan Freedland and Hadley Freeman for your eloquence and courage. The increasingly destructive editorship of the JC is no longer tenable. Its ownership must be revealed — and hopefully replaced too. The community deserves, and needs, better.

RT, Russian state television , is also an intelligence operation that gathers information and does military procurement. Spying and lying in one institution cnn.com/2024/09/13/pol…

FT-Michigan poll: Harris better represents the interests of the middle class (49 per cent to 36 per cent) as well as small businesses (48 per cent to 37 per cent), union members (45 per cent to 35 per cent) and blue-collar workers (43 per cent to 36 per cent).