Michael Nelson

One reason we tolerate the evisceration of USAID is skepticism about aid's effectiveness. Yet aid can and does save lives. As @BillGates notes here, child deaths from diarrhea have fallen 72% since 2000. Diarrhea still kills too many children, but we know to solve these problems,…

now published information that its editors were well aware of years ago suggests that your oligarchs have decided Trump has outlived his usefulness so they are pushing him out the door so Vance can take over. That was their plan all along because they were well aware of Trump's

Compelling evidence that Putin's KBG secured compromat information of Trump's life long pedophilia. It has become apparent to all of us that your national media lack the will to investigate because of the oligarchs who control them. Yet, the fact that the Wall Street Journal has

Last night's phone call from a life long British friend who is in the upper hierarchy of their intelligent service. Paraphrase his opening line: "Peter, I can't understand why your national media failed to report what most NATO countries and Israel have known for over a decade:

We asked @zck about the recent Hill and Valley Forum and AI policy and regulatory announcements that came out of the event. "It was a well-done event." "The big one for me was fair use training of copyright material for AI. If it's trained on legally procured, legally purchased…

4.) space economy growth (it shouldn’t take longer to get the permits than it takes to build and launch the rocket) (Jay has been doing great work leading the Space Bureau); 5.) cybersecurity 6.) workforce development (lot of commitments in mergers)

Starts with a discussion of his build America agenda, designed to get shovels in the ground on broadband deployment projects. We need to do a few things: 1.) permitting reform. 2.) accelerating copper retirement. 3.) restoring wireless by freeing up more spectrum

Oklahoma relies on California for critical federal tax dollars that fund education, healthcare and — apparently — this new tax break. You're welcome, @GovStitt.

Victims testified under oath that Maxwell sexually abused them with Epstein. Victims testified under oath that she recruited them and schooled them on how to give sexualized massages to Epstein. Victims testified that she took their passports so that they became prisoners on the…

This story - about the CIA banning 84-year old Jim Clapper from a graduation for a working dog he donated - came from my colleague @ShaneHarris You can read it here. theatlantic.com/national-secur…

Enlightening!

I had a lot of fun researching and writing this piece: what if AI made the world’s economic growth explode? The macroeconomics of an extraordinary thought experiment: economist.com/briefing/2025/…

Shocking, I know.

It will be interesting if an overt out in the open cover up in our current modern society will actually work.

"Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said." ncronline.org/news/miami-arc…

The only way to make Starlink profitable is to get everyone to use it, and therein lies the problem, because Starlink is cursed with something business professionals call "dogshit unit-economics." Every time you add a new user to Starlink, everyone nearby gets slower…

Here are some stats Fox News doesn't want you to know. 52 million jobs have been created since the Cold War. Democratic administrations created 50 million. Republican administrations created 1.9 million. Republican Presidents have 1 thing in common: recession.