Michael Lewis

Conservative party to ditch commitment to net zero in UK by 2050 Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday

UK Tory opposition leader Badenoch to abandon climate change net zero 2050 target

This isn't a new direction but a craven failure, feeding not halting Britain's decline

Wrong in so many ways, it fails
• Morally
• Economically
• Socially
• Politically

🧵1/5
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Part of being politically effective is you have to start by having an accurate view of a) where the voters are and b) what your political opponent is actually like. Not sure if the underlying problem with Badenoch's positioning on Net Zero is she is missing a), b) or both, but certainly one of them.

Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.

Car boot sale on the White House lawn

A reimagining of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, with JD Vance.

Time for a tariff on the word "tariff"? Its etymological supply chain is global - shipped into English via medieval Mediterranean and Latin tarifa ("list of prices, book of rates"), & ultimately sourced from Arabic ta‘rif, "notification" or "definition." A linguistic import tax seems only fair?

Quid pro oh no

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

0%, 25%, 0%, 25%, 50%, 25% …..

he always pays, no?
#honestdon

Unpaid contractors

Trump Taj Mahal (1990), Trump Tower construction workers, Trump Hotels suppliers

Lawyers: Sued by Harder LLP ($2M, 2019), sued by Morrison Cohen (2015)

Loans: Atlantic City casinos (1990s bankruptcies), Deutsche Bank ($640M, 2008)

etc etc

100%

Is he “paying” full list do you think? #priorities

Can the US switch off Europe’s weapons? Long hooked on American defence exports, allies feel buyers’ remorse over hardware dependent on Washington support

US defense companies might never be trusted again

on.ft.com/3DtQQZs

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.

"Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies"
From Graeme Wood

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

German magazine ‚Stern‘.
(Wordplay on ‚axis of evil‘)

Thank God Keir Starmer is prime minister, part 1,274.

Mexico and Canada should both ban X and Facebook.

As well as every other democracy in the world that wants to stay in existence.

and can, IDK, count?

Europeans move towards seizing €200bn of Russian assets French discuss proposal for Kremlin to lose securities if it breaches a future ceasefire

Europe’s biggest powers are swinging behind efforts to seize more than €200bn of frozen Russian assets, as they draw up plans for a ceasefire deal in Ukraine

www.ft.com/content/6536...

In unrelated news…

presidential ponzi #nuts

Emily Dickinson 1945

"I gotta be honest, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other" - JD Vance in 2022. Explains a lot of today's behavior.

Chris Mason failing to meet this moment when readers need him to explain what happened and why it’s important.

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.

Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”