Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
@char15299
Modern liberal. Social Democrat. Urbanist. Enjoyer of cosmopolitanism and globalism. Dual EU/US citizen. If the housing is safe, let them build it.
Birth tourism is fine, at least in the tiny amounts we get in the US. Per the 2020 census, the country's population grew at slowest rate in its HISTORY in the 2010s. The biggest under-the-radar story right now is US demographic stagnation. And Trump/Miller want to intensify it.
What if cancer-fighting cells could think before they act? MIT scientists are programming living cells with logic gates, like tiny biological computers, to detect and destroy cancer with precision. news.mit.edu/2025/equipping…
This is a very good point. Not only does "no tax on tips" help push tip creep, it also makes every tip in essence more expensive provided you're an American taxpayer.
"Who paid for tax on tips and no tax on overtime?"
I just bought a Coca-Cola. Trump has done them a favor. I bet there are millions of folks out there (like me) who hardly ever think of drinking this sugar water. But now Coke is in the discourse, and so on their minds. Sales spike for sure. MAHA. 😭🤡
The national security case for high tariffs on Chinese autos centers on connected vehicles' potential for data collection on US infrastructure and remote sabotage, as per Commerce Dept. probes. Smartphones face similar risks but receive tariff exemptions due to supply chain…
I get leftists not loving the institutional Democratic Party. What I don't get is going full MAGA.
Tulsi Gabbard: "In this system, there is to be a peaceful transition of power ... so yes, this is a treasonous conspiracy" Fact-check: False
This could literally pass as a scene straight from The Office
US manufacturing in the Midwest now pays a $900 per ton premium over world aluminium prices - thanks to tariffs! Visit today's Chartbook Top Link for new content here: tinyurl.com/4k4tvbym
Trump told the press he was not informed that his name was in the Epstein files. Now we learn that this was a lie. He was told by Bondi, his former criminal defense lawyer and now the AG. Time to end the Trump/Epstein cover-up. Release the files.
America could suffer some 42,500 excess deaths annually by 2034 as a result of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, researchers estimate. That is more people than currently die of breast cancer economist.com/united-states/…
Hello, @grok, which historical leader am I most similar to? Please take into consideration all of my tweets, my bio and all information in general.
As always, Susan Collins counted votes and decided she could vote no and the bill would still pass, thus saving her golden seat in the Senate. She and Murkowski seem to have a pact--whose turn is it to vote no this time?
Starmer is turning out to be a disaster, mind you. He's badly squandering his mandate. Still, I think the "UK is irreparably broken" narrative has now gone more than a bit over the top. Britain still outperforms US in some important ways (though not in economic growth, true).
UK badly underperforms relative to potential, true! Still, UK's nearly 3/4ths as wealthy as history's richest empire (US) with: much less lethal crime, cheap/universal healthcare system, non-insane politics, rational management of science & universities, strong rule of law...
Yep. The US should now be trying to make the same kinds of deals with China it made with Japan in the 80s and 90s (namely, getting the Chinese to open lots of plants here).
Finally, while I am somewhat sympathetic to the "national security" and "supply chain resiliency" arguments when it comes to very specific industries (e.g. drones and semiconductors), we also need to recognize that geopolitical risk isn't exogenous. Economic cooperation and…
President Trump's focus on a Fed Chair who will slash rates is misguided even on his own terms: 1 The Fed Chair is 1 of 12 votes, a political hack Chair won't get majority 2 Even if FFR slashed the rates people care about, like mortgage, could go up w/ higher expected inflation