alexandra scaggs

interesting on the tariffs

www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2025...

One of the great things about being forced to be familiar with the great American novel is that it’s all about middle-age straight men, importance, and their oncoming death.

"why doesn't Bluesky have its own Grok" well because the human users already bring up completely unrelated human rights atrocities in your mentions for no reason

I don’t mean to sound Woke or partisan but this upset me a bit

You can never go wrong if you treat an unhealthy preoccupation with IQ / general intelligence as a measurable, ordinal quality as a massive intellectual and ethical red flag

The thing is, while they're not right about a lot of things, vegans are actually correct that our industrial food system is wildly exploitative and unsustainable. But their weird black and white thinking helps keep better practices from being widely adopted.

GO BIRDS

i’m sure they’re claiming him because he dated a 16 year old when he was 42

same, fresh venison tastes SO good

A Deadly Parasite’s Return Threatens US Ranchers Too Young to Remember It After being eradicated in the US in the 1980s, the screwworm could be back as soon as this summer.

Forty years ago the US eradicated a flesh-eating parasite that targeted livestock with the help of science, government funding, and international cooperation. Now the threat is returning and the country's defenses are down. (Yes, it's an allegory for measles.) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

no parent on earth is like “oh we actually really need more stuff. plastic dolls, Barbies, those baby dolls that make loud crying noises when you squeeze their hand…. we can’t get enough of them”

as a parent I am begging you please give the doll quote a rest, my child does NOT need 30 dolls but she definitely wants that many

Maybe you prefer sitting in front of a screen all day having most of the product of your labour going towards billionaires' yachts and a militarized police state over working with your hands to plant or build things that help your community, but I've done both and I know which I prefer

a screenshot of the 338 Canada vote projection, with a line drawn at early January and an arrow pointing from the text "Pierre steals Joey's chart" to the line. After the line, LPC's vote projection skyrockets

* US STOCKS OFF TO WORST START AGAINST GLOBAL PEERS IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS

@financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/f3a7...

love to settle a bout of insanely venomous infighting with paper-rock-scissors right as everyone gets mauled by a bear

i laughed so hard at S2Ep2 of Andor. now THESE are writers who understand The Left

Andor is great because it understands what Star Wars is fundamentally about: someone pressing a button and the thing they wanted the button to do not happening

one big problem here: this is NOT what Mr Market looked like in my covid-era stress dreams

ceej @ceej.online PROTESTANTS: while we can't know for certain what it's like there, we can consider hell a state of anguish for those souls who are separated from god's light CATHOLICS: the devil is real and here is his org chart December 9, 2024 at 12:01 PM

If it contains a chip, it’s okay to ship.

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

Winding it down for the night but lol, the Nikkei is currently +6.3% in Tokyo with 10y JGB yields up 12.6 bps and 10y ACGB yields up more than 15 bps. Europe is going to be mighty confused when they roll out of bed in a few hours.

April 7 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes fell back into the red in choppy trade on Monday after CNBC reported White House officials were not aware of U.S. President Donald Trump considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China. The White House denial came after stocks rose on a CNBC report about Trump considering a tariff pause.

Meanwhile, Reuters is blaming “a CNBC report” in its official copy. I can tell you that’s false. CNBC on air didn’t say one word about this until markets had rallied into positive territory and they were initially baffled about it.

Flippin chaos out there. www.reuters.com/markets/us/f...

I'm not an expert guys does Asia make a lot of stuff

U.S. Farmers Brace for Losses in New Trade War With China (Gift Article) China is the third-biggest buyer of U.S. agricultural products. Now that it has punched back with tariffs on American goods, farmers can expect to feel the pain.

Farmers Brace for Significant Losses in a New Trade War

China is the third-biggest buyer of U.S. agricultural products. Now that it has punched back with tariffs on American goods, farmers can expect to feel the pain.

W/ insights from #DavidLOrtega

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

tbh i’m just jealous! i am basically one generation removed from that lifestyle because one person was not into it and now it’s too late for me to learn

Scene: a nightmare
<phone rings>
Assistant: Sir, Isaac Chotiner is on the line
Me: Shit, shit, okay don't panic we can still beat this
<phone rings>
Assistant: Sir it's worse
Me: How?
Assistant: Derek Guy has found your merch page.
Me, loading a single bullet into a revolver: Understood