Jack, Trade Dawg
@tradenerd.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, trade compliance and export controls expert, consultant-ish. Geek of the liberal and illiberal arts, Damn (almost) Good Dawg. My clients don't know I'm here. 🛃📦🚢✈⛟💸
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Outing my Real Name™️, but I am working on a project about how many $billions of weapons (and other high tech stuff) the US exports, because regardless if you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, we have a right to know what our government is allowing!
public.tableau.com/views/USExpo...
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We don't complain about fall weddings in the South, but we do improvise, adapt, and overcome
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We don't complain about fall weddings in the South, but we do improvise, adapt, and overcome
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My new Capitolism @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social digs into an under-discussed way that Trump's tariffs are kneecapping American businesses: their INSANE complexity.
You think you know how bad it is? You have no idea.
"Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell"
🎁: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...
You think you know how bad it is? You have no idea.
"Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell"
🎁: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...
Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell
Complexity is a tax, and today U.S. companies are paying through the nose.
thedispatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My new Capitolism @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social digs into an under-discussed way that Trump's tariffs are kneecapping American businesses: their INSANE complexity.
You think you know how bad it is? You have no idea.
"Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell"
🎁: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...
You think you know how bad it is? You have no idea.
"Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell"
🎁: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...
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Question: If foreign countries are paying the tariffs, why is Costco joining dozens of other companies demanding millions of dollars in refunds over Trump’s tariffs?
We’ll hang up and listen
We’ll hang up and listen
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Question: If foreign countries are paying the tariffs, why is Costco joining dozens of other companies demanding millions of dollars in refunds over Trump’s tariffs?
We’ll hang up and listen
We’ll hang up and listen
You're goddamn right we do
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
You're goddamn right we do
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
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They dropped like $6 million to desperately defend an R+22 district by less than nine points against an unabashedly liberal crusader in mostly rural Tennessee. They should come unhinged. They are fucked.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
They dropped like $6 million to desperately defend an R+22 district by less than nine points against an unabashedly liberal crusader in mostly rural Tennessee. They should come unhinged. They are fucked.
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i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
If we can't send Aftyn Behn to Washington in 2025, the least we can do is send Pete Hegseth straight to the fucking Hague in 2026
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If we can't send Aftyn Behn to Washington in 2025, the least we can do is send Pete Hegseth straight to the fucking Hague in 2026
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
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Why did Elon’s Boring Company the Twitter Spaces (not a “town hall”) made unavailable to listen to as a recording and removed right when it ended?
Kind of an odd way to convince an already skeptical Nashville they’re being transparent about this tunnel, no?
Kind of an odd way to convince an already skeptical Nashville they’re being transparent about this tunnel, no?
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Why did Elon’s Boring Company the Twitter Spaces (not a “town hall”) made unavailable to listen to as a recording and removed right when it ended?
Kind of an odd way to convince an already skeptical Nashville they’re being transparent about this tunnel, no?
Kind of an odd way to convince an already skeptical Nashville they’re being transparent about this tunnel, no?
I thought I wanted to be a fed or a spy, but instead decided to go corporate and dive into the weird world of trade. Not quite an accident but not my intention, but also it's worked out well since the US started a trade war 🤷
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I thought I wanted to be a fed or a spy, but instead decided to go corporate and dive into the weird world of trade. Not quite an accident but not my intention, but also it's worked out well since the US started a trade war 🤷
Claire Danes is tremendous, all the time but especially whenever she portrays a woman who grinds her teeth
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Claire Danes is tremendous, all the time but especially whenever she portrays a woman who grinds her teeth
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
I listen to a horrifying number of podcasts- 5 of these are tolerable, 5 are totally unlistenable, and I'm baffled by the rest.
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I listen to a horrifying number of podcasts- 5 of these are tolerable, 5 are totally unlistenable, and I'm baffled by the rest.
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
everything 30 Rock ever said about the Golden Globes was right
Announcing the Nuzzi-Voce Flash Fiction Contest! Write your own prose in the signature style of Today's Main Character and quote this post. First prize is a Cadillac, second prize is steak knives, third prize is you can block anyone you like. My inaugural entry:
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Announcing the Nuzzi-Voce Flash Fiction Contest! Write your own prose in the signature style of Today's Main Character and quote this post. First prize is a Cadillac, second prize is steak knives, third prize is you can block anyone you like. My inaugural entry:
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The most obvious thing to say about the Court's IEEPA decision is that Trump will continue tariffs no matter the outcome, but that alone misses that each possible tariff authority has its own scope and constraints which means that different tariffs behave very differently with different impacts.
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The most obvious thing to say about the Court's IEEPA decision is that Trump will continue tariffs no matter the outcome, but that alone misses that each possible tariff authority has its own scope and constraints which means that different tariffs behave very differently with different impacts.
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All the journalists I've ever known or met are interesting, talented, and decidedly normal people trying to do their jobs amidst dicey to very difficult circumstances, and yet there is also this class of journalists who are making CHOICES
these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
All the journalists I've ever known or met are interesting, talented, and decidedly normal people trying to do their jobs amidst dicey to very difficult circumstances, and yet there is also this class of journalists who are making CHOICES
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FORTUNE says Musk’s Boring Co. (currently drilling a Teslas hole in NASHVILLE) got penalties for Chemical burns of firefighters… then pressured NEVADA officials to drop them🤔
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
FORTUNE says Musk’s Boring Co. (currently drilling a Teslas hole in NASHVILLE) got penalties for Chemical burns of firefighters… then pressured NEVADA officials to drop them🤔
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
But @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower say they care about safety? “A cowboy culture”? archive.ph/2025.11.15-1...
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Hey @GovBillLee do you have any concerns about your buddy Elon covering up firefighters and workers getting burned by chemicals in his tunnel?
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hey @GovBillLee do you have any concerns about your buddy Elon covering up firefighters and workers getting burned by chemicals in his tunnel?
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
“Workers go to peel off a sock and a chunk of skin comes off” 😳
fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...
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Kirby does not respect Sark
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Kirby does not respect Sark