The year is 2026. The White House is hosting a UFC fight on the lawn. Sponsored by Monster Energy Drink.
It just doesn't get any tackier than that.
good lord Honda is writing off ALL its EV manufacturing investments in NORTH AMERICA!
Ohio, US - gone
Ontario, Canada - gone.
Cancelling its EV lineup of Honda 0 SUV, the Honda 0 Saloon and the Acura RSX.
www.automotivemanufacturingsolutions.com/strategy/hon...
Looks like a scene from Idiocracy.
Honestly, fuck Travis Pastrana for doing this.
“even all this becomes a metaphor for the neoliberal project, a de facto privatisation of a piece of public park by a hugely wealthy foundation.” - @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/40bd...
🧵 I wrote a thread about this when he was elected that I can't find, but the gist of it was: Mamdani WILL disappoint you. He can't not. I'm glad a socdem got elected and he seems like a nice dude, but he's a propaganda machine. The amount of people that just think they're job is done now that he's >
8/ I don't want to say that this is about the US when it is about Trump
EV & Battery companies came to the US in a dramatic way post IRA -- $80 billion in US investment that year, and another $47 billion in 2023.
Losses now are because of partial IRA rollback
insideclimatenews.org/news/1903202...
2/ "GM, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers... in EVs"
Honda out of making or selling EVs in North America too.
A drumbeat of warning articles ndicate how catastrophic the situation has become
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
Trump threatens to nuke Iran in a statement ostensibly announcing a peace deal: “Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”
7/ With Trump IRA cuts killing EV demand, effect on workers across manufacturing plants is massive.
An Eg. Ford dissolved is battery venture with SK On, the Korean battery manufacturer.
SK On laying off 958 people at a plant in Commerce, Georgia, that had 2,566 workers before the reduction.
Tyler, from the Internet
Ocean policy expert David Helvarg discusses the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean.
We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’...
www.democracynow.org
Yeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...
