james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

These multinational corporations are free to take the tariff out of their profit margins rather than impose it on the consumer. I definitely could see that happening - they’re generous like that.

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

This is a fascinating turn of events

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Lt Gen Russel Honoré condemned Musk’s web of Chinese business interests – including $1.4bn in state bank loans and a Tesla factory subject to Beijing’s stringent information-sharing laws –NYTimes op-ed as he questioned the SpaceX chief’s fitness to shape WH policy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My uneducated but full of schadenfreude take on the tech bros v. nativists. Like the humorist Lewis Grizzard once wrote about Yale v. Harvard, I hope they both lose.

Who is going to lead the country. Donald Trump or Elon Musk?I did not see Elon's name on the ballot.

New Law Requires SNAP Recipients To Balance Food On Nose Until Receiving Command To Eat It
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Why I have no fucks left for you after October 7th

hey I was just wondering where the college protests start for all the civilians being killed in Syria?

Biggest story you don’t see on cnn WaPo is the battle in Syria. Aleppo is falling and the Russians can’t stop it. BTW it isn’t a US backed group. It’s a radical Islamist group doing it. This story will get big in next 2 weeks. Assad could fall.

The meme I didn't know I needed

When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over