Nick Kapur

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Trump Just Made the World Much More Dangerous By waging war on Iran, the president is making it more likely that other countries will develop nuclear weapons—to protect themselves from the U.S.

Grateful to @newrepublic.com who asked for my immediate thoughts in Trump’s attack on Iran.

In short, the demand for nuclear weapons is about to go way up. If you do not have nuclear weapons, you are vulnerable.

newrepublic.com/article/2071...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Full post: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

"An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

I'm old enough to remember when we already had an Iran nuclear deal that was working perfectly fine, and Trump cancelled it for no reason, other than the fact that Obama had made it.

"Since the 1800s, every generation has been smarter than their parents’—until Gen Z."

Thanks to smartphones, the pandemic, and AI, "Gen Z underperforms on basically every cognitive measure, from executive function and literacy, to general IQ, memory, and attention."

Is AI Making Us Dumb? What the research tells us

This entire piece is interesting, and worth reading in full: profgmedia.substack.com/p/is-ai-maki...

"Since the 1800s, every generation has been smarter than their parents’—until Gen Z."

Thanks to smartphones, the pandemic, and AI, "Gen Z underperforms on basically every cognitive measure, from executive function and literacy, to general IQ, memory, and attention."

I constantly hear people banging on about how bad almond milk is for the environment, but somehow I never hear anyone mention how dairy milk is many times worse for the environment across every possible metric

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I constantly hear people banging on about how bad almond milk is for the environment, but somehow I never hear anyone mention how dairy milk is many times worse for the environment across every possible metric

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

A functional Supreme Court would have never allowed transparently illegal tariffs to remain in place for nearly a year.

This, from TPM, explains more fully:

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find...

Link: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

A functional Supreme Court would have never allowed transparently illegal tariffs to remain in place for nearly a year.

This, from TPM, explains more fully:

🚨 This should be a five-alarm fire situation for parents: a study found that an increase in screen time for children led to a *decrease in brain size*

I ran the numbers in my newsletter two weeks ago. The $100 mill the Post lost in 2024 was equal to about two days of the increase in his net worth since he bought the paper.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

Is ‘brain rot’ real? How too much time online can affect your mind. Research suggests that high use of social media and AI chat tools may affect your attention and memory. But there is something you can do about it.

Link: www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

🚨 This should be a five-alarm fire situation for parents: a study found that an increase in screen time for children led to a *decrease in brain size*

Map: Track the spread of measles in the U.S. Measles case counts soared to a 34-year high in 2025. NBC News will continue to track totals this year.

Link: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

As child vaccinations continue to backslide amid the Trump administration's continued flirtations with vaccine hesitancy, measles cases are soaring so far in 2026

This. Today's ruling is primarily a multidimensional failure of the judicial branch, not really its robustness in the face of authoritarianism. This should never have been a SCOTUS case in the first place, & it shouldn't have taken over a year to get here.

I'm old enough to remember when we already had an Iran nuclear deal that was working perfectly fine, and Trump cancelled it for no reason, other than the fact that Obama had made it.

Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

Good thing the Washington Post has just gutted its climate desk.

Here's a link: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Global warming has suddenly accelerated, and scientists don't fully understand why.

But it's almost certainly some kind of feedback loop.

Also, the high five was not invented until the late 1970s.

I was just talking about this with my kids! They didn't believe me when I told them that nobody ever did this when I was a kid because no one had ever thought to do it.

Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

A framed yellow door sits at the end of a path between two rows of hedges. Behind the door is an open meadow.

Exhausted and dehydrated, I slowly walk the last few steps. “This has to be it,” I think to myself. Taking a deep breath, I close my eyes and turn the handle, whispering a little prayer as I step through. I open my eyes and the last trickle of hope leaks away. I am still in IKEA.