Peter Bromka

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

Trump’s China Tariffs Are Having a ‘Massive Impact’ on Small Business

The tariffs are crushing many small businesses. I spent the last month talking to one in Richmond, Vermont about its struggles.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

As they continue to dissect the latest Shahed delivery, the engineers say one of their biggest worries is how the Russian drones are now being controlled. The newest models are unfazed by Ukraine’s electronic warfare, they say. This is because they no longer rely on jammable GPS, are driven by artificial intelligence, and piggyback on Ukraine’s own internet and mobile internet networks. The team say they recently discovered a note inside one of the drones they were dismantling—presumably left by a sympathetic Russian engineer—which hinted at the new control algorithm. The drones are controlled via bots on the Telegram social-media platform, the note indicated, sending flight data and live video feeds back to human operators in real time.

Holy crap that's fascinating. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

The end of that Sound Running men's 5,000 is what dreams are made of.

Lalo Herrera ran a Mexican national record and you could tell at the finish that he'd captured a dream.

Took a moment after the finish to soak it in.

🚨Rep. Mike Levin exposes secret provisions in the GOP’s budget like Tax Free Gun Silencers. 😳

Once again, the relevant fact here is that the Secretary of Conmerce is lying to the American public.

Unmoored Learning to live a life detached

Unmoored, an essay making sense of a life detached.

Happy Mother’s Day. Call your Mom.

open.substack.com/pub/bromka/p...

Hammering a sub-4 solo is fun to see

I’m just a guy, sitting in front of a microphone, asking the neighbors to stop using their leaf blowers so that I can record 😭

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Abolish ICE

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

Look how comfortable that dog is on Tyler Shough’s lap. GREEN FLAG. That’s the kind of teammate I want in my QB room.

My dad was raving about an AI song someone sent him and I reminded him that it can only do that cause they’ve illegally ingested a century of people’s work.

Kind of a buzzkill to the conversation 🥴

Kind of a chilly day to spectate the Boston Marathon.

Which means it’s a perfect day to race! Wishing a wonderful day to all the runners 🦄🔥❤️

Heard from a Boston pop-up that they were short on product due to tariffs.

The gear got to American but customs wouldn’t release it cause they didn’t know what the tariff was. Total chaos.

Great work White House.

The Marathon Doesn't Owe You Anything Writing On Running · Episode

The Marathon Doesn’t Owe You Anything

open.spotify.com/episode/3o1p...

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

How to Run Boston Writing On Running · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/4mtq...

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

To be fair: podcast ads feel the most old school and don't over reveal too much of our identity.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social I love the recent episodes, but found this transition pretty funny

With some athletes ‘suffering financially,’ Michael Johnson hopes his new league can bring value to track and field | CNN Michael Johnson wants to make one thing clear: track doesn’t need saving. But he does think it needs improving.

Grand Slam Track makes its debut tomorrow. And if it's a success, that will be really good for the sport.

Watch:
Friday, 4/4, 6:00–9:00 p.m. EDT on Peacock
Saturday 6:00–9:00 on Peacock and CW Sports
Sunday 3:00–6:00 on Peacock and CW Sports

www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/s...

U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

What RFK has done just this week to NOT support vaccines:
-fired FDA's top vaccine scientist
-buried CDC's measles forecast
-shut down agency that runs the NATIONAL VACCINE PROGRAM (OIDP)
-Hired anti-vaxxer to probe phony autism/vax links
-Made Texas kids sick with his vitamin A measles 'cure'

We’re being led by the dumbest among us

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow.

She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.