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THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about how there are so many different arguments being put forth to explain or defend the tariffs. But the stuff about countering China's strategic tech dominance has to be the most egregiously bad.

The container ships are still all going around.

An @SFStandard investigation revealed that Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has been using a shadowy campaign committee to spend thousands on extravagant meals and cocktails. We have the receipts. 🧾 📝: Josh Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/04/10/cal…

We're excited to announce the 2025-26 Knight-Bagehot fellows. Congrats Amanda Aronczyk, Kyle Campbell, Suzannah Cavanaugh, Aisha S Gani, Esmy Jimenez, Audrey McGlinchy, Saahil Menghani, Rob Price 🏔, Nathan Rubbelke, Stella Yifan Xie Full list and bios at journalism.columbia.edu/2025-knight-ba…

Looking at incoming vessels to the Port of Los Angeles (America's largest port): 1.) This week we're still in frontrunning mode (57%+ YoY). 2.) Next week we're basically at normal (-8% YoY). 3.) Two weeks from now we're in The Bad Place (-44% YoY)

If we were serious about the moon+mars you'd think it would be a gut+replace kind of thing at NASA, not just a gut.

we've reached pope smoke explainer

so this guy let snakes bite him hundreds of times and injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times and now his blood may contain a magical universal anti-venom. but the most interesting part is deeper: his first snake bites were self-administered in a craze induced by 9/11

This giant microwave may change the future of war trib.al/l6LtebV

Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military. Leveraging Meta's massive investments in XR technology for our troops will save countless lives and dollars.

Time for a single engineer with that kind of revenue to raise a round as a one-man company with a $2 billion valuation

The original Advisory Circular bot is back: The only bot that posts when it detects aircraft flying in circles, in real time. See the image for where to find it.

some truly incredible details in this story from my colleagues nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/…