Guyana is riding high on an oil boom. But can the world’s fastest-growing economy outrun the so-called "resource curse" that has afflicted so many other petro-states? @jpspinetto.bsky.social weighs the odds www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #Guyana

Oil’s Curse Is Hanging Over the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy

Can Guyana outrun the mismanagement and corruption that have afflicted so many other petro-states?

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Daniel Ortega’s decision to abolish even the pretense of elections in Nicaragua should trigger a robust international response, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nicaragua’s Dictatorship Should Be Marco Rubio’s Next Problem

It’s rare these days to hear a dictator openly admit he won’t bother holding elections. Even the world’s most brutal authoritarian regimes usually resort to sham votes and other tricks to cloak themse...

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There is no greater joy for an editor than to watch a writer turn something you suggested into something you could never have written as well. Not least cuz they do all the hard and brilliant work.

King Canute has spoken: He will impose tariffs on climate change. Perhaps he will then use that tariff revenue to subsidize the fossil fuel industry. The mind reels. Truly, if ever monkeys were to fly out of someone's butt, it would be this king's.

By not addressing China’s behavior in its trade agreements, the EU is holstering its best trade weapon, says @shannonkoneil.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Europe Has to Take on China to Save Free Trade

The US and the European Union have been on a trade agreement tear, competing to define the future global trading system. The EU looks to backstop the more established rules of the road; the US, to mus...

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yes, the stock market has now become a Trump casino where high-rollers get the best seats substack.com/redirect/9b7...

Trump Media to sell high-speed access to president’s social media posts

Family company hopes large trading firms will pay for market-moving social media posts milliseconds early

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For all its destructiveness, populism is demonstrating an extraordinary ability not just to survive, but to thrive, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's Adrian Wooldridge www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Populism Isn’t Peaking. It’s Diversifying

A new ritual has evolved in political analysis. A populist leader hits a rough patch. Liberal pundits conclude that populism has peaked. Then another populist leader records a triumph and the pundits ...

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"There was no shocking big reveal, just a Mad Libs soup of insinuations about the 2020 election, debunked now for years, most notably by officials in Trump’s first administration." @niamalikah on the latest sewage to spew out of Trump's piehole www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump Delivers a Reckless Speech on Rigged Elections

Here we go again.

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Hawaii and Montana are bucking to subvert the Supreme Court's judgment that money is speech, in test cases that couldn’t have come along at a better time, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's @maryellenklas.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Two States Are Making the Case That Money Isn't Political Speech

Who should have more power — the people of the states or the corporations that are authorized by them? For legislators in Hawaii and Montana, the answer is most definitely the former, not the latter. ...

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Don't be fooled by Trump's attempt to reset the clock of the War Powers Resolution. His war against Iran must now be stopped, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Hey Congress, It’s Day 138 (Not 9) of a War You Must Stop

With so much of shock value coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth and Truth Social account, it’s tempting to overlook the gall and cynicism of his letter to Congress dated July 10th. In that missive, the...

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Rubio is hypocritical in selectively citing international law in Hormuz, the South China Sea and elsewhere. Trump is brutally honest in ignoring it altogether. @andreaskluth.bsky.social weighs which is worse www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Rubio the Hypocrite Is Still Better Than Trump the Nihilist

Behold the sheer hypocrisy of recent statements by Marco Rubio concerning two of the world’s most important waterways, the Strait of Hormuz and the South China Sea.

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CE's record of rogue killings is long, ugly and unaddressed by Congress. See this investigation of killings from 2015-2021. www.thetrace.org/2024/08/ice-...

Armed and Untouchable: ICE’s History of Deadly Force

Nemesia Martinez was working at one of Mississippi’s dozens of poultry plants on July 20, 2016, when she missed a call from her neighbor. It was 9 p.m., and her shift defeathering and extracting the l...

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@wmata.com Where is the M82 bus southbound right now? Second time in a week that the bus that is supposed to be at Burdette and River at 7:36 am is a no-show. We're going to work. Are you? Please do your fucking job!

So classy and courageous of Sullivan & Cromwell to come to the aid of a self-confessed pussy-grabber. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Work on Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case Divides Sullivan & Cromwell

The law firm’s co-chairman assured partners it would stay out of the president’s appeal of sex-abuse and defamation cases. It reversed course after being asked by Trump’s personal lawyer.

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A once-vulnerable Latin America avoided serious disruption from the Iran War. But achieving sustained prosperity remains a tall order, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

On the Iran War, Latin America's Economies Dodged a Bullet

So much for the panic attack.

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You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say

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Originalist meaning of GOAT

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"The goat showed firefighters the best path, often stopping to bleat and encourage them to follow her route."

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. the President is right that his tariffs are at work — in destroying U.S. jobs .. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025 .. “His trade oscillations and border taxes are a major reason .. why Americans are so unhappy.” www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

"Never before has the federal government sent a large, heavily armed militia—masked and responsive to a partisan faction—to brutalize and subjugate the citizenry of a major US city without provocation." @franciswilkinson.bsky.social on what happened next www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Minneapolis Offers a Blueprint for How to Beat MAGA

Faced with an unprecedented federal assault, citizens of the Twin Cities turned to their neighborhoods, churches and schools to defeat MAGA.

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The Trump administration has corrupted the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. What if we just got rid of it? @andreaskluth.bsky.social of @opinion.bloomberg.com explains why we can't www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If the US Keeps Messing With This Spy Agency, It’ll Pay a High Price

As the White House keeps roiling the topmost organization in the American espionage hierarchy, questions have resurfaced that are as old — 25 years — as the Office of the Director of National Intellig...

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ABSOLUTELY 100% AMERICAN!!! thank you

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 4w ago

It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

I came to Brilliant Corners this morning out of a need for Monk and in remembrance of Rollins. But what jumps out at me from this track is the fundamental importance of Roach: open.spotify.com/track/1OjmEy...

Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are

Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry, Clark Terry · Brilliant Corners · Song · 1957

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Poor Team USA had to play through an air quality alert in Seattle created by the noxious pall that Trump cast over the game -- though that seemed to energize the cheese-eating surrender monkeys who beat them soundly.

"For veterans of the siege, Democratic Party politics may seem a weak imitation of the intimate, intense, egalitarian, self-organized community networks that powered the Twin Cities over a formidable adversary," says @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Minneapolis Offers a Blueprint for How to Beat MAGA

Faced with an unprecedented federal assault, citizens of the Twin Cities turned to their neighborhoods, churches and schools to defeat MAGA.

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New York, America and world would surely be in a slightly better place if Al Franken was still in the Senate and Kirsten Gillibrand wasn't. How about an ethics investigation, Chuck? www.politico.com/news/2026/07/02/gillibrand-son-crypto-fund-investors-00985811

Trump's siege of Minneapolis confirmed that the real divide in the Democratic Party is between those who comprehend the authoritarian challenge and are opposing it, and those who can't seem to grasp, or adapt to, the threat, says @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Minneapolis Offers a Blueprint for How to Beat MAGA

Faced with an unprecedented federal assault, citizens of the Twin Cities turned to their neighborhoods, churches and schools to defeat MAGA.

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Looking for a feel-good July 4th story about American resilience and community in the face of injustice and oppression? @opinion.bloomberg.com's @franciswilkinson.bsky.social has just the ticket. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Minneapolis Offers a Blueprint for How to Beat MAGA

Faced with an unprecedented federal assault, citizens of the Twin Cities turned to their neighborhoods, churches and schools to defeat MAGA.

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My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com looks at Whirlpool - a US tariff champion since at least 2011 and one of US protectionists' favorite companies. Spoiler: It's not doing so hot - due in large part to the very tariffs it's doggedly supported. Lessons abound. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

RFK jr needs to swim in reflecting pool and chug a glass to show it is safe for America

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...