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Hegseth wraps up his press event: "We'll strike 'em hard tonight, and hopefully Iran makes a good decision. Thank you."
This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.
Pretty amazing Hegseth is still doing his "woke brown wussies lose" bit after handing Iran the Strait of Hormuz, perhaps the fastest and most decisive military defeat by a superpower in superpower history.
$70 billion more for ICE and CBP in the bill being signed into law today. We'll have an analysis out ASAP.
I CAN HAZ A BOT @70sbotchan.bsky.social :)
joint project with the inimitable philosopher @yusufimaadkhan.com. We starting an experiment in summer silly season. Follow along for tweets from the borgesian archive
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1/ China's May trade data just complicated the story Washington tells itself about decoupling. Exports to the US jumped 35% — the fastest pace in five years — led by the inputs feeding America's own AI build-out.
7/ Roughly 40% of US battery imports and 30% of transformers and switchgear come from China. The compute side — servers, chips — comes from Taiwan and Korea. The power side comes from China.
17/ The leverage is each side gains from this is asymmetric. Beijing paused its rare-earth controls through late 2026 but left the licensing machinery intact — it can throttle magnets and gallium at will. Washington has no equivalent switch.
16/ Direct US–China trade has fallen, but Chinese components still reach the US assembled in Vietnam and across ASEAN. Intervene in direct flows, and the content arrives another way.
