Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
  • Patience, grasshopper.#
    • Don’t pay too much attention to short-term pontificating, on either side. — HUGE: The European Union Just Caved on Trump‘s Tariffs https://t.co/HOe3J8pJHz [Link]#
    • .@CGasparino offers more theatrics on Trump tariffs than news — much like the prancing cheerleaders at center court during halftime. Just go buy popcorn and return for the second half. You don’t get to play or even sit on the bench. https://t.co/B2YoySSjCV [Link]#
    • Forget the postmodern legal weasel word games. New York will follow the Constitution or be called to account. — New York State Will Defy Trump‘s DEI Order for K-12 Schools https://t.co/qA6jtWW2ke [Link]#
    • Governing political/business/media elites were addicted to policies designed to commit suicide. Reset the policies now. — Stay the course on tariffs, by @donsurber https://t.co/q0KTVkukZr [Link]#
  • de minimus did maximum damage.#
    • Big hole in tariff policy plugged. — Why Trump’s axing of ‘de minimis’ rule is no small thing for Hong Kong exporters... https://t.co/miucxegBBX via @scmpnews [Link]#
  • International relations.#
    • The Chinese give you reason to distrust all they do, everywhere, and all the time. — BAD DOGGIE: Remote Access Backdoor Discovered in Chinese Robot Dog Unitree Go1. The discovery of https://t.co/M6TDoNfMW5 [Link]#
  • A cat’s paw.#
    • FA comes in many forms, as does FO. — Hamas Demanded $500M From Iran for Destruction of Israel https://t.co/WzOWpYge4R [Link]#
  • What future for Britain?#
    • Britain faces a social/political watershed. Which is the safer future: Return to bottom-up governance or race headlong further toward top-down rule. https://t.co/OwBjkpxxYc [Link]#
  • Climate games.#
    • What if something done for our own good isn’t good for us? — Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl https://t.co/sSIIvwHuqa via @wattsupwiththat [Link]#
  • The nastiest purveyor of lawfare, uninterested in justice.#
    • RT @listen_2learn: This is Norm Eisen essentially saying that he was counting on his judge, Juan Merchan, sentencing Trump to prison for a… [Link]#
  • Lawfare slammed.#
    • RT @jsolomonReports: Judge Boasberg gets brutally slapped down by Supreme Court, which noted Democrat-appointed jurist ignored high court’s… [Link]#
    • RT @ProfMJCleveland: 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: (Win for Trump) Court grants temporary stay to order enforcing injunction ordering Trump to pay grants. A… [Link]#
    • RT @ProfMJCleveland: Guess Judge‘s Boasberg‘s hearing on Preliminary Injunction re the Alien Enemies Act case set for tomorrow is a no go..… [Link]#
  • Barack Obama.#
    • RT @CynicalPublius: Remember when Rush Limbaugh took a ton of heat because he said he wanted Obama to "fail"?... ... "How dare he want our Presid… [Link]#
  • Good news story of the day.#
    • RT @ZitoSalena: On Friday, the White House Roosevelt Room was filled with everyday Americans—the sons and daughters of steelworkers, nurses… [Link]#
  • Tariffs.#
    • RT @VDHanson: Please—Tariff symmetry! ... ... A key to reducing the nearly $1 trillion trade imbalance and encouraging foreign investment is the… [Link]#
    • RT @LeeSmithDC: It’s not just the trade regime, it’s the political regime that grew out of it. The widening income gap, rising oligarchy, i… [Link]#
    • RT @IanJaeger29: Stephen Miller: “The original sin was that we created a tax system that punished you for making something in America & rew… [Link]#
    • RT @HansMahncke: “Bill Clinton ushered China into the World Trade Organization in 2001. That decision, sold to the public as a step toward… [Link]#
    • RT @SuitablePolitic: Bessent was hired to strengthen the dollar by doing the opposite of all the warning signs he saw in the British Pound.… [Link]#
    • RT @seanmdav: Due to the deliberate government policies of the last 50 years, America can’t produce its own food, fertilizer, energy, weapo… [Link]#
    • RT @stillgray: Milton Friedman on inflation: “Consumers don‘t produce inflation. Producers don‘t produce inflation. Inflation is produced o… [Link]#
    • RT @elonmusk: https://t.co/azqwPMa0om [Link]#
  • Journalism fail.#
    • RT @WesternLensman: LEFT: Jake Tapper claiming he’s “not on the left."... ... RIGHT: Three minutes of Jake Tapper being a leftwing partisan hack.… [Link]#
    • RT @susancrabtree: ⁉️I guess the @nytimes finally got around to reading @mirandadevine ‘s Lap Top From Hell instead of censoring it. [Link]#
    • RT @matt_vanswol: While the media covered ALL of the anti-Trump protests on Saturday...... ... ...not a SINGLE NEWS OUTLET covered the 3,000 pers… [Link]#
    • RT @RealJamesWoods: You can’t have it both ways, unless you have an agenda, and therefore simply don’t care. https://t.co/6ghJyYkOHd [Link]#
  • Germany and the juricial process.#
    • RT @laralogan: I was gang raped by a mob of about 200 men while on assignment for 60 Minutes in Egypt. I would have stabbed any of them to… [Link]#
  • Postmodern word games.#
    • RT @TaraBull808: BREAKING: Elon Musk responds to being called a fascist and a Nazı https://t.co/8atFKgQwVu [Link]#
  • Fundemental freedom.#
    • RT @MarioNawfal: 🇺🇸JD VANCE: FREE SPEECH IS NON-NEGOTIABLE... ... “The point that I try to make to our European friends is that friendship is bas… [Link]#
  • Breaking civility.#
    • RT @JonathanTurley: After the election, many have found a type of release from both reason and responsibility in rage. Recently, the hatred… [Link]#
  • What was really happening.#
    • RT @utahprez: If you wonder why the left is apoplectic over the potential of cuts in public spending, it should be clear.... ... Progressivism ca… [Link]#
  • No haven.#
    • RT @dogeai_gov: CAMPUS TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER DEPORTATION ACT: NO MORE HIDING IN OUR CLASSROOMS... ... @RepLangworthy‘s H.R. 2204 exposes the terr… [Link]#

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