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“RECIPROCAL TARIFFS TAKE EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LARGELY FROM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR MANY YEARS, LAUGHING ALL THE WAY, WILL START FLOWING INTO THE USA. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP AMERICA’S GREATNESS WOULD BE A RADICAL LEFT COURT THAT WANTS TO SEE OUR COUNTRY FAIL!”

Okay 10000 tariff grandpa time for bed

A graph of the timeline for Trump’s 2nd term tariffs

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs have increased on $1.6T in US imports from more than 90 countries. Those increases go from as small as 5% for goods from the EU & Japan to as high as 31% on Syrian goods, driving the overall tariff rate up more than 2%.

The ending of this clip is wild, where they talk about how nobody abroad wants American lobster anymore so it’s the one thing that’s dropped in price and the grocery store owner says “enjoy your lobster”

Trump tariff banana

most postcolonial leaders in the first wave had backgrounds in engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other highly technical fields. this goes for insurgents as well, like yasser araft is not unusual in that he had a civil engineering background

postcolonial countries modernized aggressively because they understood that there's nothing romantic about being starving and sick

This short thread hits right at the crucial points. We are witnessing a manufactured inevitability because certain actors have already decided to embrace the hype & want to depict their decision to do so as ruled by the laws of historical trajectory. However, there are no such laws.

If historians know something it is this: nothing is inevitable just because it is popular. AI is not an exception. Nor is fascism.

well well well

Behind Japan's political battles, a war over history A guest essay from Daniel Sneider

The fight over Ishiba's survival has become entangled with the question of how to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. In a guest essay, @dcsneider.bsky.social explains the politics of memorial statements and Ishiba's thinking.

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Lmao

Behind Japan's political battles, a war over history A guest essay from Daniel Sneider

With much thanks to Tobias Harris for publishing this piece on Japan's history wars in his fabulous Observing Japan substack.
observingjapan.substack.com/p/behind-jap...

Effective tariff rates continue spiking—customs duties averaged 9% across all imports in June, a figure more than quadruple the pre-Trump norm.

Keep in mind that this understates the economic impacts of tariffs because tariffed goods make up a smaller % of overall imports now

Despite tariffs now being paused at "only" 30%, US direct trade with China remains in freefall

In June, total imports were down more than 59% from January and hit the lowest levels in 21 years

A graph of net imports of large computers, which skyrocket to record highs of nearly $130B annualized

AI demand & tariff front-running are driving an unprecedented surge in US large computer imports, which are now up more than 200% from last year

Most of these new computers are coming from Taiwan, which surpassed Mexico to become America's #1 source of imports last month

civilizational suicide

two common-sense policies that Zohran should push on day 1 are

1) ban horse-drawn carriages

2) impose an extremely steep noise/pollution tax on helicopter usage

What I like about this review is Chu very clearly gets bored with Williams and uses his bad book as an opportunity to think through Toqueville and engage with the question of “speech” in material terms.

And if universities keep bowing down to the administration, you can bet private gifts will plummet as well.

India’s Pragmatic Pivot Toward China By improving business ties with Beijing, New Delhi is advancing its economic interests amid uncertainty from Washington.

As New Delhi grapples with America First, it sees a new role for China in providing the technology and capital that India needs.

Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians “I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Meet Adam Kincaid: The Hidden Hand Behind the Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Read more here.

NEW: Meet the man quietly redrawing Texas to keep the GOP in power.

His name is Adam Kincaid. He doesn’t live in Texas. But he drew the unfair map in 2021 and the unfair map again this year.

From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

There will be a time 20 years from now where it will just be taken for granted that Trump was a horrible ruler and a lot of the people who supported him will still be alive. Your job is to tell them they're full of shit to their stupid faces.

"the human race goes extinct because men don't want to change a single fucking diaper"

Police are responding to reports of explosives at Shinsegae Department Store in Yongin and Starfield shopping mall in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province. The development follows the bomb threat at Shinsegae's store in central Seoul on Tuesday, which the police confirmed to be a hoax.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Korea’s “big three” shipbuilders join task force to help “make American shipbuilding great again” Seoul hopes US$150 billion fund under discussion will help satisfy US demands for more Korean defense spending

Seoul hopes US$150 billion fund under discussion will help satisfy US demands for more Korean defense spending.

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How we made it: the costly solution to water shortages Guide to the climate graphic of the week

How we made it: the costly solution to water shortages on.ft.com/453MGT9

[Editorial] We’ve seen enough of Yoon’s shameless behavior Koreans are mortified to see their former president acting like a common crook

Koreans are mortified to see their former president acting like a common crook.

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