The 90-day truce in the U.S.-China trade war reduces the risk of product shortages and makes a recession less likely in the short-term. But it does little to lift the cloud of uncertainty that has hung over the U.S. economy since Trump took office.
My story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...
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China Truce Eases Tariffs but Does Little to Resolve Future Uncertainty
A 30% tax hike on goods from China, substantial layoffs in government, science and medicine, no ships in transit, and massive uncertainty about what the mad king will do next and you think the economy is just going to hum along?
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The number of journalist in this piece who draw the line at “letting AI do the writing” but are fine with “letting AI do the thinking” makes me want to walk into the ocean.
This is how you lose your edge — and the war on our industry as executives try to replace us.
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As with many tools it empowers both bad and good users.
Thesaurus use comes down to the metric for choosing a word: exact connotation versus false erudition; John Donne versus David Brooks.
Breaking News: A federal grand jury indicted the Wisconsin judge who was accused of obstructing federal agents trying to arrest an undocumented immigrant.
Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents
they can indict a ham sandwich
Origin: As New York Judge Sol Wachtler said in 1985, "If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich." Grand juries are the prosecutor's babies.
NEW: ICE persuaded a magistrate judge that Columbia was violating 8 USC § 1324 by "harboring aliens" — i.e., students Yunseo Chung and Ranjani Srinivasan — by refusing to invite ICE onto its private campus to capture them, per the newly unsealed application.
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He's due for reappointment in October. Makes him extra pliable?
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The NY Times knows it has reached peak both-sides journalism if you can read the entire paper and be just as uninformed as when you started.
Ted Cruz: "I also think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems ... I certainly have concerns."
Where does a Ted Cruz "certainly have concerns" fall on the scale between a Susan Collins "deeply concerned furrowed eyebrow" and a Chuck Schumer "very good, strong, letter?"
The cool stuff when you search on "sewer"
bsky.app/profile/pete...I saw this tweet and wondered if this was really the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District account. Fortunately, the account bio is very clear: "yes, really the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in cleveland, ohio."
It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.
Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14
The NYT has been kissing the ring since before the election. It's why we dropped our decades-long subscription.
I "supported journalism" with a delivery subscription for thirty years. Finally had enough during Trump 1. For no reason at all, I want to mention there is no limit to the number of successive 6 month "vacation holds" during which you can still read online without paying. ( > 9 years.)
Where the Red Fern Grows fucked me up for years
Screw your favorite book, which was the first that upset you?
A Wrinkle in Time was mine. The possessed baby scared the everloving shit out of me. My babysitter had to call my mom to come home early because I was hysterical.
Still think about “Wrinkle in Time” every time I see a young kid bouncing a basketball.
Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given lavishly appointed plane and that Mr. Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office
Maggie Haberman, Eric Schmitt Glenn Thrush
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
Wow, the NYTimes understands that accepting huge gifts from people and countries who want something from you isn’t corruption if you’re a Republican; your son getting hired in one of those countries absolutely is and requires hundreds of thousands of words about it if you’re a Democrat.
The NY Times knows it has reached peak joumalism if you can read the entire paper and be just as uninformed as when you started.
