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China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 18h

Breaking: Trump has responded angrily on social media to China's latest rare earths controls, calling them a "rather sinister and hostile move," threatening a "massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products" and the possibility he might cancel his planned meeting with Xi Jinping

Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 1d

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China Can’t Decide if It Wants to Be the World’s First ‘Electrostate’

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 1d

you may have heard that china is becoming an "electrostate" or that it's leading the world in decarbonization. but actual chinese economic policy is far more muddled and complex. essential piece from @jeremywallace.bsky.social heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

The country’s underwhelming new climate pledge is more than just bad news for the world — it reveals a serious governing mistake.

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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 1d

“That’s not what you train for,” one retired Marine officer told me. (“I’m not a liberal,” he made clear.) “You’re hearing, ‘Blood makes the grass grow! Kill, kill, kill!’ in bayonet training, and then you send them to a U.S. city?”

My latest.

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As Trump masses troops outside blue cities in the name of protecting federal properties, current and former members of the military grapple with the question of which orders are legal—and resent being...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

One good rule for a veteran writer: Break your own rules ruthlessly. I don't do profiles and rarely write about theater, so when T asked me to do a deep dive into the life & work of David Henry Hwang, naturally I said yes! Huge thanks to DHH for his time and openness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 1d

Rare earths stocks surge after #China tightens grip on global supplies
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Rare earths stocks surge after China tightens grip on global supplies

Rare earths stocks were jumping Thursday

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Before the snow

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Before the snow

Trump vows to push China to start buying American soybeans again. Treasury Secretary Bessent says White House will announce major bailout of US farmers.

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 3d

𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 276𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧.
Trump vows to get China buying American soybeans again. White House to bailout US farmers. And China been diversifying away from American purchases for years and that won't change. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

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Beijing Signals No More Easy Concessions

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 1d

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Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

"We went from a dead country a year ago to the hottest country in the world."

Headlines from October 2024 (left) versus June 2025 (right).

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 1d

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Beijing Signals No More Easy Concessions

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 1d

China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card youtu.be/Je6EkVqgLC4?...

China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 3d

A great companion piece to Doctorow's analysis of the generative AI bubble: an historical perspective on the massive boom and bust as a result of the arrival of the tech gamechanger we know as "electricity" theconversation.com/todays-ai-hy...