Members of Congress respond to their voters' demands that they stop their support for Israel's campaigns of ethnic cleansing and genocide by increasing their support for Israel's campaigns of ethnic cleansing and genocide. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Why Congress Wants a Closer U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership
A proposal making its way through Congress would integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense and intelligence apparatuses more tightly. Some worry that it is a bad idea.
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The rest of the world does not share Wall Street's and the media's euphoria over the American tech elite. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/t...
How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
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The New York Times wonders whether Israel's increased bombing "may undermine" Donald Trump's peace plan fo Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...
Israeli Strikes May Undermine Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza
President Trump announced a proposal aimed at achieving the disarmament of Hamas and an Israeli withdrawal. Israel ramped up attacks on the Palestinian enclave.
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The fossil fuels president convinces the rest of the world to move away from fossil fuels.
Juan Cole@jricole.bsky.social · 5h agoHormuz Crisis: Electric Car Sales Double in Major Markets www.juancole.com/2026/08/horm...
The Wall Street elites show their commitment to "populism" by insisting that ordinary Americans bail out Wall Street elites when their reckless bets inevitably go bad.
Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · 20h agoWe can help to insulate the American people from the cost of the collapse of the AI bubble by changing bankruptcy laws so as not to protect private equity from their failures deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-simple...
The "fossil fuel" president shows the rest of the world the value of moving away from fossil fuels. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
China's EV Boom Is Quietly Undermining Oil's Biggest Chokepoint | OilPrice.com
China’s electric vehicles displaced an estimated 34 million tonnes of oil in the first half of 2026, equivalent to roughly 1.35 million barrels per day.
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The billionaires are euphoric over Donald Trump's and the Republican Party's "populist" program to take money from ordinary Americans and give it to billionaires. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
The Oligarchs are Doubling Down on Republicans
And Democrats should make the most of it
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Donald Trump's "populist" program to start wars and destroy the planet are making oil industry billionaires even wealthier. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Donald Trump shows his commitment to "populism" by forcing ordinary Americans to pay for his permanent police state in Washington DC. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C. set to cost additional $1.4 billion
The estimate, provided to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, covers the period from Oct. 1, 2026, through the end of the president’s term.
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Ordinary American’s are decidedly not euphoric over the Peace President’s “populist” program to start wars and impose the costs on ordinary Americans.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterdayNew Fox poll finds Trump 9 points underwater *in Texas.* Half of Texas independents have a *strongly* unfavorable view of Trump. Talarico +3. Those are crazy numbers for Texas. On the pod, @sawyerhackett.bsky.social is good on the possibilities this opens for Dems: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
The Peace President started a war with a country he doesn’t remotely understand. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders
Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.
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Ordinary Americans do not appear to share the billionaires' euphoria over the Trump economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
McDonald’s U.S. Sales Slow as Consumers Spend More Cautiously
The fast-food giant named a new president of its U.S. operations, aiming to bring “focus and urgency” to a revamp of its outlets.
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Billionaires are willing to spend a lot of money to support genocide. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside the Spending of AIPAC, One of the U.S.'s Largest Super PACs
In recent years, AIPAC has more than doubled the amount it spends in political campaigns, while rarely mentioning Israel. Its biggest test yet, the Michigan Senate primary, comes Tuesday.
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The billionaire owner of the New York Times is very sympathetic to billionaire media owners.
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterdayShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
The Peace President is so excited about starting wars that he has already used up all his weapons. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...
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If only strategic genius Donald Trump could have foreseen that Iran and its Allies could shut down the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
Juan Cole@jricole.bsky.social · 2d agoA new Houthi front and expanded Iranian Attacks risk sinking Gulf Nations’ Workaround and widening shipping Risks
Donald Trump‘s actual policies to start wars and to immiserate the public are interfering with his purely imaginary policies to bring peace and prosperity. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
How the War in Iran Is Complicating Trump’s Agenda at Home
As President Trump heads to the West Coast to talk to Americans about the economy, the war in Iran is driving up costs and polls show the already unpopular conflict is losing support.
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The "energy dominance" president shows his strategic mastery by starting a foolish war and handing energy dominance to Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump
The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
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Wall Street's and the media's euphoria over Elon Musk will prove to have been misplaced. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/t...
SpaceX’s Stock Lockup Is Expiring. Prepare for a Bumpy Ride.
On Thursday, employees and other insiders at Elon Musk’s rocket company will be released from their first stock “lockup” and can start selling some of their shares.
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Donald Trump shows his commitment to "populism" by enabling RFK Jr. to kill ordinary Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/w...
Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan
The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.
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Strategic genius Donald Trump had no idea what would happen on Day Two of his forever war. oilprice.com/Geopolitics/...
Why the U.S. Can't Easily Exit the Iran Conflict | OilPrice.com
The Trump administration has become strategically trapped in the Iran war, with no remaining option offering a clear military, political, or economic victory.
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Donald Trump does not appear to be the strategic genius that the media and intellectual elites insisted he is.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d agoPENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
The Peace President’s commitment to forever wars is not turning out as well as the media and intellectual elites insisted it would,
Juan Cole@jricole.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Gulf's Escalation: From Regional War to Systemic Crisis www.juancole.com/2026/08/esca...
The pro-war press discovers that Donald Trump is not the strategic thinker that they imagined he is. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Trump Pivots Back to Diplomacy as Iran Victory Eludes Him
The question is whether negotiations can finally reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lay the groundwork for nuclear talks.
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Israel does not seem interested in the Peace President's plan for Gaza. www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
Israeli strikes kill 13 in Gaza; minister says no deal to halt attacks
Palestinian health officials said Israeli warplanes carried out separate strikes across the enclave in the northern Gaza City, the central city of Deir al-Balah and the southern area of Khan Younis...
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Donald Trump is making America a fiery wasteland. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
Spokane Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Buildings as Thousands Evacuate
Firefighters were hopeful that weather conditions in Washington state could improve their efforts, but worried that fire might spread to a canyon, where it could expand rapidly.
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Wall Street seems to have lost its euphoria over Donald Trump and his lackey's management of the economy. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
The Bond Market Doesn’t Like Bullshit
Why Kevin Warsh just bombed
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