Liam Denning

Iran Strikes Feel Like 2003 All Over Again Less than a year ago, US President Donald Trump gave a speech in the Middle East in which he excoriated his predecessors for their habit of launching “forever wars” in that region. Alluding to the Ame...

“If ever history demanded that Congress reclaim its constitutional monopoly in declaring war, that moment is now.”
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I wonder if the Trump admin will end up coordinating crude draws with that woke IEA they deride

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Trump’s Ambitions for Iran Are Now Clear: He Wants Everything US President Donald Trump never did explain to Congress or anyone else what his justifications and goals would be for attacking Iran. Now, with “Operation Epic Fury” underway, we know. The answer was ...

The US goal for an Iran strike proved to be "Everything." But one aim will rule them all and that's regime change, making this an existential and unpredictable fight. My column for Bloomberg @opinion
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Reposting. Still my personal opinion.

The implied utter disregard for the polling is worth noting

Casey Means Lacks the Right Stuff to Be America’s Top Doctor Casey Means, a wellness influencer, entrepreneur, and physician, this week tried to convince the Senate Health Committee that she is up to the task of serving as the US surgeon general.

At this week's Senate hearing, Casey Means tried to lean into her MAHA appeal, arguing she'd focus on politically palatable issues like healthy food & a healthcare system centered on prevention. But her equivocating on vaccines, birth control, etc made clear: she isn't up to the top doctor job. 🎁:

This $26.5 Billion Power Loan Is All About the Midterms If you want to gauge the political temperature around utility bills and the datacenter boom, the Department of Energy just made its biggest loan in history to help keep a lid on utility bills in a dat...

The DoE’s biggest loan ever is a sign of how energy bills are shaping the midterms
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Are gas prices below $2, as Trump promised?

Not even close, @liamdenning.bsky.social says 🎥

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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Longest SOTU = England's loudest band

Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

Trump tried to reframe his $2 gas pledge in his SOTU speech. Because he didn’t get anywhere near meeting it. Here are the numbers.
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“More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country,” Trump said during his #SOTU address.

That’s true — but job growth has actually slowed since he took office: bit.ly/3OxrLC6

Softbank’s Ohio Power Plant Delivers an AI Sticker Shock President Donald Trump famously likes to build big things, or at least have others build big things to which he can attach his name. True to form, his latest solution to the gathering crisis on the la...

The giant SoftBank-led power project Trump is touting for Ohio tells us one thing: This can’t be the energy solution for AI
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Softbank’s Ohio Power Plant Delivers an AI Sticker Shock President Donald Trump famously likes to build big things, or at least have others build big things to which he can attach his name. True to form, his latest solution to the gathering crisis on the la...

Softbank’s $33B power plant: Gas, but priced like nuclear
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Trump touted gas prices below $2. That may be true in some places.

But overall, he missed that promise — by a lot: bit.ly/3OxrLC6

“Our nation is back — bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before,” President Trump said to start his #SOTU address.

📊👀 But what does the data say? See it all here: bit.ly/3OxrLC6

Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

Trump pledged sub-$2 gasoline within a year. Didn't happen.
We at @opinion.bloomberg.com tracked 12 metrics for Trump's Year One, a data-driven report card ahead of tonight's SOTU

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Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

Here's the statistical State of the Union.

Trump's Year One in 12 metrics
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Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

Here's the statistical State of the Union.

Trump's Year One in 12 metrics
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

Trump pledged sub-$2 gasoline within a year. Didn't happen.
We at @opinion.bloomberg.com tracked 12 metrics for Trump's Year One, a data-driven report card ahead of tonight's SOTU

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We've hit the one-year deadline for Trump's pledge to cut energy costs in half.
How did he do? Not well.
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Did Trump deliver on the promises that sent him back to the White House?

📊 We looked at the data to decide: bit.ly/4s8Fk9E

Data Dive: Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? Has President Trump delivered on his promises about immigration, the economy and other key issues?

Has President Trump delivered on his promises about immigration, the economy and other key issues?

🎥 Tune in for LIVE analysis of the data with @jonathanjlevin.bsky.social, Allison Schrager and @byjustinfox.bsky.social @ 8:30am EST:

Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

State of the Union report card: Trump promised voters lower prices, higher wages, a massive deportation campaign and many other things in 2024. A look at all of that — along with health care, jobs, energy and more — by the numbers:
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UT System votes to limit 'controversial topics' in class, raising concerns about academic freedom This is the latest move by the state to have more control over what is taught at public universities.

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We’re at the “rage-tweets-for-sale” phase of the Trump presidency. 🤡

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Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein.

Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

Chinese Cars Are Coming to the US — Like It or Not In a world being conquered by China’s auto companies, one redoubt stands out: The US. It deters Chinese companies with sky-high tariffs and a ban on auto software systems developed or controlled by th...

Ford reported by @bloomberg.com to have talked to Trump admin about JV to make Chinese cars here in the US

As I was saying …
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