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been thinking about this a lot. is there an adult in the room?

great piece from Liz Bruenig on pronatalism. I really agree with this part in particular — there's genuine discomfort on the left with saying "having kids is a good/commendable thing" — partly due to fear that it will stigmatize (or worse) those who don't want to or can't (1/2)

The plan: decouple from China, incur massive retaliation, then exempt their highest value goods thus forcing the nearshoring of toy and homegoods manufacturing to vietnam

I remember when tunnel-boring machines were seen like ASML’s chip-making machines: so complex and gigantic that they’d be the last category to be eaten up from below by Chinese competitors. Surely, here a line would be drawn.

WHEN WILL THE WIND STOP!!!!!!!! I CANT LIVE LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!!

Two of our American customers devastated by the tariffs gave up and sold themselves to their Chinese factories in the last week.

BREAK OUT THE MALORT BOYS WE GOT A CHICAGO POPE

“ God bless everyone in the world, except Green Bay.”

Finally Rome will have good pizza

I reported this with Christian Paz in Philly. Today, Explained version comes out this afternoon!

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice ✊

It is good to have the government collect high-quality longitudinal surveys of the effects of alcohol and internet use.

It's like, on the one hand, maybe we're just witnessing a stupid Twitter fight that will pass. But also maybe we're witnessing a historically consequential blowup between two of the most important political forces in America? Hard to tell!

Great microcosm of DOGE: early on there were headlines about how they might create their own free tax filing app. That never happened, they gutted the IRS, and now the actually existing Direct File program that got a 94% satisfaction rate is being destroyed for no reason.

A big throughline in Trump policymaking is that the soybean farmers must not be negatively affected by anything (tariff retaliation, immigration enforcement etc)

this weather is killing me

After a decade of discourse about right wing populism, Trump is cutting taxes for the rich, stripping health insurance from the poor, and going to war in the Middle East without congressional authorization. He is George W. Bush plus ICE terror raids on American neighborhoods.

Pro Zohran migrants are overwhelming NYC.They’re streaming across our city border from places like Bard, Wesleyan, Kenyon. They’re lining up outside Radio Bakery, they’re driving up the cost of Big Thief tix, they’re outside Nowadays asking if anyone has a cigarette they can buy.

the stagnationist account from peter thiel and others is very fixated on things that were advancing in the 50s and 60s that stopped (built environment, nuclear power plants, jets), but seem to largely ignore medicine, where we see both steady advancement and huge breakthroughs

JD Vance's prior positions included a natalist agenda (much bigger CTC, free childbirths), greater skepticism of Wall Street (fees on credit cards, penalties for executives of failed banks), and opposition to large federal health care cuts It’s hard to see that vision reflected