William Munny

Among all the things wrong with this, maybe it is not in the U.S. national interest for the president to make dramatic foreign policy changes in response to a TV ad?

those most equipped to bell the cat are too chickenshit to bell the cat

America’s risky bid to make Argentina great again Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is taking a big gamble with his $20bn swap line to prop up a Trump ally

Trump's effort to salvage Milei from the mess he made of the Argentine economy is unlikely to help Milei, but very likely to waste $100 bn or more in US taxpayer money... driving the US deficit into new stratospheric heights. www.ft.com/content/6965...

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

Good 🧵 on cars here.

Quarter of a century after 9/11 it looks like the historical significance of that day was not its impact in Afghanistan and the Middle East but on the executive branch and democracy in the USA itself.

Via Martin Wolf, here is what happens when populists take control. on.ft.com/47fVDsb
Maybe the UK was pitched exactly onto this curve. We got Brexit and Johnson, and it dropped our GDP by 4% relative to not doing that.

Elect another populist government in 2029, and maybe we'll get the next 6%

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

King Prince Charles is visiting the Vatican today, presumably to request Prince Andrew be moved to a different parish after some trouble.

I hate the "rounding up for charity" campaigns because I think it's the capitalists who own the supermarkets who should contribute, yet sometimes I want to support a good cause. So I round up at the self-checkout and steal an item of equivalent value.

My pre-teen daughters have previous editions (a copy each). I often find them buried in it and know how much reassurance it gives them. You have done a great service with the book Kaz. From a very grateful Dad.

A copy of the new 2026 edition of Girl Stuff 8-12 showing the cover, sitting on another copy open to the start of Chapter 2, Getting Your Period, with a cartoon about an adhesive pad mishap.

Ahem. Say hiii to the brand-new, updated 2026 edition of Girl Stuff for the 8-12s: first periods; body changes, friends & bullies, confidence, mental health, heroines, healthy eating, & so much more. Equip them to be themselves in the face of hard sell ads & social pressures. #ChristmasIsComing

Kristi Noem is preparing to go to war against America, arming Trump's secret police as if it were an invading army

operation which is a blatant violation of US and international law. US media continue to regurgitate Trump's nonsensical claims about this all being a "war on drug dealers." They know better.

Military briefing: the US naval and special forces build-up off Venezuela Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to see Nicolás Maduro ousted. Here are the forces he has sent to the region

Trump has amassed a large strike force off the coast of Venezuela, preparing to invade and occupy Venezuela so he can topple Nicolás Maduro and install his puppet regime to rule there. In the meantime, senior US military figures are resigning rather than have their careers tied to a military

Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...

Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump.

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

Ed Luce: Explaining why Putin is so good at sweet-talking the US president triggers polarised responses. Some believe that Putin has some kind of a secret hold over Trump. Others say that is deep state propaganda.

More from Ed Luce's analysis of the Trump-Putin psychodrama

Under Trump, wealthy Americans are getting ahead while everyone else is falling behind.

Our economy should work for all Americans – not just the wealthy.

to be clear, these women were - as far as they could tell - over eighteen. but showing up as a 50-something with two 19 year olds is still indicative of character in a way that apparently does not raise red flags for most of the rich and powerful

In respect of these people I’d like to ask: who the fuck did they think the 17-year-old at the table was? What did they think she was doing there? Only Melinda Gates, who met Epstein once and cited him as a factor in the breakdown of her marriage to Bill Gates, sensed what apparently none of these people could put their finger on

good bit from the Guardian review of Giuffre's memoir; I have heard several people from the NGO world express the confusion and embarrassment they felt at billionaires showing up with very young women at events.

We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future.

A future marked by scarcity and disaster.

A future these people are accelerating.

That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.

Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.

Lmao

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

“A market crash today is unlikely to result in the brief and relatively benign economic downturn that followed the dotcom bust,” writes the former IMF chief economist. “There is a lot more global wealth on the line now” econ.st/3JeEW8w

Illustration: Dan Williams

A good reminder that when the usual suspects in #auspol talk up Singapore as an economic model to emulate, they forget to mention the ongoing importance of strategic government ownership of key economic infrastructure and companies (airlines, airports, banks, ports, utilities) to their strategy