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- “If the U.K. deal is a model for deals yet to be struck with other nations, Trump will have little to show for the chaos and disruptions that his tariffs have unleashed,” Scott Lincicome writes:
- The Qataris would presumably not give Donald Trump a free plane out of the goodness and generosity of their hearts, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. “There’s a simple term for this: bribery.”
- As the Democratic Party's favorability ratings plummet, many activists "have become more aggressive about pushing senior lawmakers to do what Joe Biden did not—quit while they’re ahead, or at least still with it," @russellberman.bsky.social reports:
- “All of this hullabaloo about nonsense deals with Britain and China serves to distract from the brute reality of the Trump and MAGA trade agenda,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “Fiscal redistribution from poor to rich: That is the goal.”
- “I didn’t quite grasp the astounding force of feeling layered into all of that until I was the one doing the layering,“ Elizabeth Bruenig writes. “It’s as though I’ve learned a language my mother was speaking all along, and now understand what she was trying to say.”
- Older parents are constantly telling those in the early days to cherish it. But that can be very hard advice to follow when you’re in the thick of it. In the Wonder Reader, Isabel Fattal rounds up stories on the gems and the challenges of parenting:
- As the Democratic Party's favorability ratings plummet, many activists "have become more aggressive about pushing senior lawmakers to do what Joe Biden did not—quit while they’re ahead, or at least still with it," @russellberman.bsky.social reports:
- In the Mother’s Day episode of “Saturday Night Live,” Walton Goggins played a flirty waiter hot for moms. But the mothers ended up feeling like the butt of the joke, @julieebeck.bsky.social writes:
- “After centuries of intellectual progress, Americans must face a terrible question,” the physicist Alan Lightman writes. “Are we now descending from light into dark?” theatln.tc/GonKaWSv
- Donald Trump never meant to keep his promises. His voters are starting to notice, @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/sO3CuM9X
