
Trump bears an economic grudge against Taiwan and wants Taiwan to pay for US protection. He also says: “Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It’s 68 miles away from China.”
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Trump bears an economic grudge against Taiwan and wants Taiwan to pay for US protection. He also says: “Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It’s 68 miles away from China.”








Every lawyer should read decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States even when they dont apply to their jurisdiction. Pure legal art. The legal reasoning and writing is phenomenal.

This is the primary dividing line in Dem politics today: between people who think Trump appeared out of nowhere, and people with a modicum of understanding of history and political economy who understand he’s a symptom and we’ll be fucked if we don’t solve the underlying issues.


so glad to be a dc 10


Incredible questions being asked on YouTube

me at nopa on a first date her: how’d you pick this restaurant? me: I asked claude [waitress compliments her pants, clothes come up] her: where do you shop? me: lost a bunch of weight, had to rebuy everything. sent claude a pic of me and it picked [few min later, looking at menu] her: wait how do you track the calories me: believe it or not, also claude. I send it a pic of the menu I’m such a shill

Google unveils TPU 8t and TPU 8i at $GOOGL Cloud Next > TPU 8t is built for training frontier models > TPU 8i is built for inference, lower-latency agentic AI workloads, and more complex reasoning tasks > 8t delivers 124% more performance per watt and 8i 117% more than the prior generation > 8i also brings an 80% better performance-per-dollar than Ironwood > General availability is planned for later this year

Initial VA reaction: -Turnout was to the right of both 2025 and 2024, closest to 2021. It’s quite likely that Youngkin won last night's electorate. -YES won because it massively overperformed Harris with Hispanic and Asian voters in NoVA, while also improving with Black voters.


The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…


