Race car drivers turn lemons (and $500) into an endurance contest like no other The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance race with a twist: The cars cost less than $500, and costumes are unlimited. A recent race saw a Toyota Yaris painted like a snail, and a team dressed as bees.

The 24 Hours of Lemons is an endurance race with a twist: The cars cost less than $500, and costumes are unlimited. A recent race saw a Toyota Yaris painted like a snail, and a team dressed as bees.

The Coming Economic Nightmare Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

Hi I'm here from the 1970s to tell you about the coming Trump stagflation. Latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Rebuilding from the rubble Exploring technology for social good

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Trump is halfway to making America a police state [FREE TO READ] The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point

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Kleptocracy, Inc. Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.

“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump [FREE TO READ] Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u

Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk (Gift Article) His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.

On Musk's old-fashioned, backwards-looking futurist/techno-authoritarian ideas, all borrowed from failed thinkers of the 20th century
from Jill Lepore

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8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER

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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

this, at least, is clear: "Trump is genuinely bored of the war. He doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t know why it started. He doesn’t know how to stop it. He wants to change the channel and watch something else."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Three years of sacrifice and courage Reflections on the meaning of three years of war in a much longer Ukrainian struggle against Russia.

Three years ago, Russia launched an attack across the borders of #Ukraine. As Russian troops drove down roads in the hope of a short war & a victory parade in Kyiv, they received a mighty surprise. Reflections on 3 years of this full scale war.
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The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

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Balanced, serious assessment. There has been consensus on areas where Ukraine needs to improve for some time - mobilization, organization, command. More progress in these areas urgently needed in 2025.

Assad’s possible paths to Moscow | Flightradar24 Blog We explore some of the possible flight paths from Damascus to Moscow for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

How did Bashar al-Assad get to Moscow? We look at a few possibilities and analyze the raw ADS-B data from *that* Syrian Air IL-76 flight. www.flightradar24.com/blog/assad-p...

Desperately Seeking a Coalition of the Decent Now more than ever.

A man with a wife and two children was murdered in cold blood. He was a human being.

But you would hardly know that from watching the explosive reaction, including among folks who allegedly pride themselves on their humanity, tolerance, and decency.

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Twilight of the Liberal Left An era decisively ends

"Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you’ve never lived anything close to a precarious life." Strong essay by @rossbarkan.bsky.social rosselliotbarkan.com/p/twilight-o...

Come in, the headline should be: Whither. Indonesia!

U.S. Navy's Afloat Accident Rate Hits Decade High, Led by MSC The U.S. Naval Safety Command has released its accident numbers for FY2024, and the report shows a rising rate of serious mishaps in the fleet. The n...

U.S. Navy's Afloat Accident Rate Hits Decade High, Led by MSC

"The accident rate afloat has been above average for the last three years: there were eight incidents in 2022, eight in 2023 and a decade-high 10 incidents in 2024."

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