Zach Stanley retweeted
How does America making unilateral economic concessions to Russia end the war?
You make the concessions as part of the peace deal!
Zach Stanley retweeted
Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage
The trip highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a tycoon with a criminal record who has close ties to Vladimir Putin’s personal security service. Intelligence experts say such connections are ripe for manipulation. ft.trib.al/p0LBRYI
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Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
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TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
Major @TheShotgunStart In, Out, Alternate vibes here.
Zach Stanley retweeted
Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune
Zach Stanley retweeted
Wow @marcorubio straight lied about the admin’s biggest donor’s complicity in the murder of Ukrainian children
BREAKING WSJ:
Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Actually cannot believe what I've read here.
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office says.
mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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The Russians have provided Iran with satellite intelligence...ammunition, drone components, and explosives...used to kill American soldiers. Trump’s response is to beg Putin to accept American money in exchange for a few thousand barrels of diesel?
thebulwark.com/p/hes-despera…
Zach Stanley retweeted
New WH Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has deep ties to Communist China, working in Beijing for years at Chinese law firm Zhong Lun.
Zhong Lun regularly acts as counsel for Chinese state agencies, state-owned enterprises, and cross-border transactions tied to Chinese government strategies like the Belt and Road Initiative.
Zach Stanley retweeted
Starting Oct 19, the Trump administration is rolling back Biden-era airline passenger protections, and airlines will no longer have to provide stranded passengers with meals, hotels, or other assistance for delays or cancellations.
Airlines are no longer required lodging, meals, or other assistance when delays or cancellations.
Starting October 19, under 14 CFR 234.4, rule is to reduce the number of disruptions for which airlines provide amenities or compensation.
federalregister.gov/document…
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If you’re wondering why we’re talking about televised firing squads all of a sudden it’s because it was finally revealed we lost *an entire base* in Kuwait and our troops didn’t have enough bullets to defend it. A career ender for Hegseth in any other world.
Zach Stanley retweeted
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said.
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
Zach Stanley retweeted
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences
if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
Zach Stanley retweeted
DHS's goofy assumption that a $100k fee on STEM OPT won't reduce STEM OPT participation is necessary for them to argue their plan won't be detrimental to the US economy.
Once you account for the fact this will shrink the skilled STEM workforce, this kind of change will conservatively cost the US $240-481 billion a year, or about $1,000 per household.
From @m_clem, @AmyMNice, and my work for @theNASEM:
nap.nationalacademies.org/re…
Zach Stanley retweeted
New England is a great example of why energy regulation via permitting-friction is structurally bad for clean energy:
- Fossil fuels can be transported several ways, making them flexible — if a pipeline gets blocked fossil can move on ships or trains.
- Clean electricity HAS to move on transmission lines that connect generation in specific locations to market.
- Permitting and other frictional costs are bad for building all complex infrastructure, BUT that's much worse for clean energy than for fossil.
Case in point: New England
- Over the last 10 years several pipelines to bring natural gas into New England were blocked.
- At the same time major transmission projects to bring hydro power from Canada to New England was also blocked/delayed.
- What happened when both pipelines and transmission lines were constrained? We just shipped more expensive natural gas to New England on tankers because fossil is more flexible under frictional costs
- Ironically New England often ends up using dirtier foreign LNG because of the Jones Act
xitter.cf/mattyglesias/status/21…
Blocking gas infrastructure in New England hasn’t caused renewables to magically sprout, it just means that electricity is expensive to “electrify everything” is unattractive.
We need a better strategy.
slowboring.com/p/the-permitt…
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Hours before Krist Noem left her job as D.H.S. secretary, her agency bought 5 planes from a donor at a big markup, records show. They were supposed to fly deportees but have largely sat idle -- a striking symbol of gov. waste under President Trump. nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/po…
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One day after @jaredkushner took to this platform to insist his work diplomatically is unconnected to his business interests, the Times drops this one
