Breaking news: Donald Trump is a fucking monster.

Since 2000:

The share of Switzerland's economy from manufacturing has stayed at 18%.

The US has gone from 15% to 10%

The UK has gone from 13% to 8%.

Amazing that rich, advanced services economies like Singapore (20%) and Switzerland have such high GDP shares in manufacturing

"Ukraine offers NATO the greatest deal ever presented in military history: It is singlehandedly destroying the alliance’s greatest rival at the cost of no NATO lives."

This piece by James Emanuel Shapiro is really important and I hope folks give it some thought. Basically: the business landscape for indie films has totally collapsed—thanks to the closing theatrical window, the collapse of transactional business (both in terms of VOD and physical media sales), and decreasing prices for streaming sales—a…

I’m absorbing that news conference after meeting our deadline. I wish I knew what to say. Embarrassed for Zelensky who misread the room. Ashamed that my president and vice president berated a man who has endured three years of brutal attack by a much larger and more powerful nation.

But it was a clear window into the worldview of Trump and Vance: Putin has been victimized by leftist Europeans and neocons. Zelensky is an ungrateful war-monger who is lucky we haven’t already thrown him to the wolves. But we will soon.