Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

The Czar is a good man! But his Boyars speak only lies!

This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.

I’ve posted a number of threads over the past couple of weeks explaining the framework I’ve developed around disordered discourse and its outcomes.
But I also want to explain why that framework is useful, beyond just mapping the problem or explaining how we got here.

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

Every day. Especially today.

I'm just going to keep linking to old newsletters I wrote on these topics because they were right then and right now

theracket.news/p/what-every...

This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.

You say it like it is, oh sage.

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

This is James Robertson Justice and I claim my five shillings

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

Not. Normal.

The Trump administration seems to have two main goals. Making the richest even richer through tax cuts and deregulation etc, and a return to American white male supremacy. Anyone, anywhere, with the means to make this more difficult and protest, obstruct or resist needs to do whatever they can.

Elon Musk just called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so it’s worth reiterating: All functional retirement schemes, public or private, pre funded or pay as you go, are claims on future production - there's just no way, at scale, of storing current production for use during retirement

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You should DEFINITELY NOT go to this site & mess with this DOGE survey by the Heritage Foundation.

Definitely do NOT put fake information where they ask for your personal details.

That would fuck up all their shit, man.

These people are doing SERIOUS WORK.

secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

Americans and the economy will suffer the impact of NOAA layoffs, scientists fear. ‘People will die.’ | CNN Scientists and politicians are sounding the alarm about potential consequences of the layoffs, including keeping people safe and protecting the economy.

The remaining employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are trying to “pick up the pieces” and figure out how to continue delivering life-saving information to the public after the firing of hundreds of America’s foremost experts in weather forecasting and earth sciences

Poem by Annie Thompson Poems mean so much to everyone. All those special people mentioned. And those who weren't mentioned, But know it's for them. Poems are a delight to write, Poems are a pleasure to read. To all those who read our poems, Be it rhyming or not, It's a way all our new poets write.

Regret to report that poetry has returned to the Derby Telegraph with a vengeance

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Yes