Elon Musk is moving to slash government spending, but not spending on programs going to his own business. nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/… via @NYTimes

Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 Misleading on several points. The Moderna & Pfizer vaccines showed >90% efficacy against the original Wuhan variant. (Read the summaries FDA presented to its vaccines advisory committee in 12/20.) Whatever the definition of a vaccine, FDA won't approve if not safe and effective.

The false account about U.S. aid agencies shipping condoms to the Gaza Strip came in a flurry of statements by Trump and Elon Musk as they sought to justify to-the-bone cuts in American foreign assistance. wsj.com/world/africa/g…

Yellow equipment in the wild. #trucking #Yellow

Footwear maker Keen’s expanding U.S. production will lead to more work for factory robots. wsj.com/articles/shoem…

Vincent Passanisi, whose Santa Fe Importers, supplies Italian meats and cheeses to more than 1,000 local stores and restaurants, said revenue is down 15% to 20% as logistics operators and related companies in the region pull back because of tariffs.  wsj.com/business/logis…

Self-driving truck company TuSimple promised the U.S. government it would stop sharing sensitive technology with Chinese partners and then transferred a trove of data to a Beijing-owned firm. ⁦Heather Somerville⁩ wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Small businesses wrangling rising shipping rates and shifting trade policies left in ‘complete confusion’ after trade court decision, via The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/articles/tarif…

"The administration has terminated more than 80% of USAID grants. "A BU global health professor estimated these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children. "That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished." nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opi…

A major element in the House-passed budget bill for DC residents. It would kill the college tuition assistance that city residents get, the TAG program. open.substack.com/pub/homeruleru…

“America in 2025 is making political murder easier. This is a choice, not fate.”

What a scoop from the Post. The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act would force the USPS to sell off its 7,200 EV delivery vehicles and *rip up post office facilities/lots* to uninstall their chargers. The chargers have no real market value so it’s just incinerating public dollars.

U.S. manufacturing is in steady contraction amid Trump’s ongoing trade wars. on.mktw.net/44mzdnO

Trump’s ambitious plans to reverse decades of maritime-industry decline are sputtering. An office focused on maritime policy has been cut from seven staffers to two. wsj.com/articles/trump…

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’ A wrenching, deeply reported story on the impact that the revival of measles has had on a Texas community. nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/…

NEW: More U.S. warehouse space is vacant than at any time in the past 11 years as companies hold off leasing new space amid rapidly changing trade policy, via The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/articles/wareh…

The trouble with the @espnnba summer league game coverage is that ESPN just hates covering the summer league games.

Exclusive: Union Pacific is in talks to acquire its smaller rival Norfolk Southern in what would be a megamerger in the railroad industry on.wsj.com/3Ukrvpw

The divide at FedEx between its Express and Ground operations, long derided by investors and analysts, is a key plot point in a short story in this week’s New Yorker.

“Importers are scratching their heads.” The new rules appear to legalize, but tax, currently prohibited transshipment activities. nytimes.com/2025/08/08/bus…