Trump Pauses Some Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days, Raises China Tariffs to 125%: Live Updates Stocks immediately made steep gains after President Trump’s reversal. But he said China would not be included, raising tariffs on its exports to 125 percent after Beijing announced a new round of reta...

Tariff Live Updates: Trump Backs Down on Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04.... Let Trump get into a pissing contest with China. My money isn't on Trump winning that one.

But ... clearly regretting it as Cybertrucks were just recalled for the 8th time.

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE? There's magical thinking about the magical thinking

This, potentially, explains a lot: Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE? www.programmablemutter.com/p/should-agi...

Canada put down an accent rug for lil Marco. 😭

In rare meeting without U.S. ally, Western army chiefs meet to show Ukraine unity More than 30 army chiefs among Washington's closest allies met in Paris on Tuesday without their U.S. counterparts, seeking to take on more responsibility over the Ukraine war given President Donald Trump's unpredictability and rapprochement with Moscow.

"The closed-door gathering of 34 army chiefs, including NATO alliance and EU members as well as Japan and Australia, was a rare - and possibly unprecedented - convening without the U.S."
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

I always thought Wallace Shawn had the ideal career: you get to be this well-regarded highbrow playwright and art house movie maker

AND you also get to be a part of millions of people‘s childhoods by being in Clueless, the Princess Bride, and Toy Story. What a life.

Reworldling Humanity: E.B. White’s Magnificent 1943 Response to a Politician Who Wanted to Make the Pacific Ocean an American Lake On September 11, 1943, E.B. White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985) reported on the pages of The New Yorker that Clarence Buddhington Kelland — a writer prolific and popular in his lifeti…

Reworldling Humanity: E.B. White's Magnificent 1943 Response to a Politician Who Wanted to Make the Pacific Ocean an American Lake www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/03/e...