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Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good 

In 2023 China produced roughly half of the world’s crude steel. China is the world’s largest automobile maker, accounting for a third of the global total. China’s state-backed aerospace company, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), threatens to take global market share from America’s Boeing and Europe’s Airbus. China is also the world’s largest commercial shipbuilder, responsible for more than half of all shipbuilding. America’s share of the global shipbuilding market is 0.10 percent. …During the Covid pandemic, Americans were shocked to learn how dependent the U.S. is on medical supplies from China, which provides around 30 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients used in drugs by value and 78 percent of the vitamins in the U.S. A single Chinese company, DJI, controls 90 percent of the American drone market, including 90 percent of the drones used by American police departments and first responders.

"Like the Hunger Games"

Cockroaches and working in a closet: Inside Trump's return-to-office order

Reuters also viewed three back-to-work memos sent to staff, informing some of them that they won't have a workspace or internet access when they return. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told staff this week it cannot guarantee desks or parking spots for the roughly 18,000 employees expected to report to offices on Monday.

OK, I confess I didn't see the movie. Not the whole thing. I quit after about 20 minutes. But I take the comment (from the linked Reuters article) to mean pretty messed up.

If that's not what it means, it should. 

There'll always be an England

How to Fix a Pothole the British Way: Public Shaming

Teenager Ben Thornbury designed a putt-putt golf course around the potholes in his hometown of Malmesbury, with a sign that read “High Street Crazy Potholes Golf: Now Open.” A month after a British tabloid did a story on the “cheeky” teen, the road was fixed. When more appeared, he set up roadside pothole fishing.

Also there'll always be a teenager, but that's a whole different thing.