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Pääministeri Orpo lienee ainoa ihminen, joka ei ole saanut "mitään viitteitä" siitä että Suomen ja USAn kahdenvälinen turvallisuussuhde olisi muutoksessa. On tärkeää että valtiojohtomme ei toista idioottimaisuuksia ja kiellä tosiasioita. Vakaa toiminta rauhoittaa, ei lässytys.

Texas before the Evangelical Revolution

I still can't believe they didn't exempt Canadian oil. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it. They acknowledged it was a bad idea to put tariffs on it but decided to do 10% instead of 0. They *literally* built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it!

DJT: “Good luck, Marco. Now we know who to blame if anything goes wrong.”

Trump is 100% an American Peronist. Wild shit

This is probably the right way of thinking about @ElonMusk. He's a low-literacy reader with very narrow skills and little education—he lies ruthlessly about both things, by the way—who spends every day getting corrected by actual experts he then ignores so he can repeat his lies.

Hilarious story. Heritage foundation economist says on a podcast today “this whole idea that tariffs can never serve a good purpose, that’s just not correct”. Josh digs up this 2021 heritage foundation article to dunk. Heritage deletes the article in 30 minutes lol.

When the US ask allies to coordinate on semiconductor/SME export controls, often the answer is “We don’t have the legal authority to do what you are asking.” So Gregory C. Allen and I dug deep on how allied export control regimes really work. Check out the key findings below! 🧵

So, expansion of the counter-terrorist methods into the system of criminal justice does not really require any special explanation. These methods will be eventually used everywhere. And yet, it is noteworthy that this expansion is facing very little public opposition.

"Increasingly worried the Trump administration will implement the policy agenda they ran on instead of the made up one I ascribed to them" – The entire business community for some reason

It’s a good bit that China is hitting the same “can’t shift from a manufacturing based export economy to a services based consumer economy” faceplant Japan did just at 35% of American GDP instead of 120% of it.

The historical bias in reporting on declining birthrates in the West vs Asia is so funny. Declining birthrate in Japan = Sexless deviants defy natural order Declining birthrate in US/Europe = ethical choice, noble sacrifice to save the planet

Maanpuolustustahto mintissä, mutta noinkohan on reserviläiskuntosi laita? Lanseeraamallamme Charly Challengella voit selvittää, onko elämäsi kunto jo saavutettu – vai olisiko aika heittää X:llä vesilintua ja pyyhkäistä viimein voimistelumatolta pölyt.💨 ulkopolitist.fi/2025/04/01/ole…

This might be the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics.. 4o, o3 high, Gemini 2.5 pro, Claude 3.7, Grok all give the same answer to the question on how to impose tariffs easily.

Bessent appears to be saying that former federal workers are going to create the labor pool for a manufacturing renaissance in the United States. Just beyond parody.

exiling cancer researchers at the NIH to work in steel factories is quite literally Maoism lmao

Roads in many countries aren’t wide enough for Ford F-150s. Non-tariff trade barrier right there.

.The Economist US/YouGov America: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president? % Approve/Disapprove Reg. voters 45/52 Dem 6/91 GOP 90/8 Ind 32/56 Men 48/48 Women 38/54 Lib 11/87 Mod 37/56 Con 84/13 White 49/45 Black 26/66 Hispanic 35/60 Apr 5-8

The basic political economy problem many aging societies are facing is that to get to replacement level, you need either very large cash transfers to parents, or large immigration. But the power is in the hands of the elderly, who want neither of these things.