Listen to Eisenhower on the men who perished on D-Day: They "gave us a chance, and bought time for us, so that we could do better than we have before." cbsnews.com/video/eisenhower… via @CBSNLive

the original color revolution

Billions of taxpayer funds to ICE shifted from anti-terrorism, drugs, organized crime, human trafficking, to go after immigrants... including 80 workers at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, #Nebraska. And a guy that owns a Gyros restaurant in Kearney.

Shipping human beings off in the dark of night to brutal dictatorships to which they have no connection while giving them no chance to respond is a bit worse than a court of law telling you "in the dark of night" (or at any hour) that what you're doing is illegal.

This is a huge NYT investigation into how Russia uses shell companies and Tether, a crypto coin, to evade sanctions and buy arms. What it doesn't mention is that the main U.S. backer of Tether is Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Howard Lutnick's sons. nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…

I don't think it was in the cards for him to go after China under the legislation. The question for me has been whether he will go after India, which he may believe is a softer target possessed of far fewer retaliatory options. To be blunt about it, the zeitgeist of the past 15 months has been to try to coerce India (which for several months at the end of 2025, was tied with Brazil for the highest American tariffs imposed on any country) while demonstrating repeatedly that the threats to China are mostly rhetorical. Peter Navarro at one point called Ukraine "Modi's war." Nobody in the administration has ever tried to call it "Xi's war." And various of Scott Bessent's comments on the India-EU trade agreement and India's Russian oil purchases have gone down poorly in Delhi. This U.S.-China summit in Washington will have reinforced the suspicion in India that it is New Delhi in the crosshairs while Beijing keeps escaping U.S. scrutiny. If you rewind the clock to Trump's 2025 inauguration day, that is decidedly not what most people would have expected.

"We should be developing the rules for the future of AI with our democratic allies around the world who share our values, and making China fit into that world, rather than starting with an adversary" -- as my better half @Henrietta_Ivy explains here.

One totally unsurprising consequence of this US-China trade truce is that Trump is not even thinking about implementing the Lindsey Graham Russia sanctions legislation he just signed, which would have required penalizing China's support for Russia's war machine.

“In any normal world, the President of the United States addressing the United Nations, threatening war crimes, celebrating the plunder of another country, and then threatening to start another war on top of that, would be considered unusual. It would be considered shocking. And what was most shocking to me about today’s speech is that it wasn’t shocking. Everybody heard Trump threaten war crimes, celebrate the plunder of a country, threaten to attack another country. And everyone was like ‘Meh, that’s just Trump being Trump.’” “And the reaction, of course, from the Iranians and everyone else to his threat to commit these war crimes was like, ‘Oh, he’s bluffing.’ Because everybody knows he’s bluffing. Because he’s done it so many times. So he destroyed the credibility and morality of the U.S. message at the United Nations for nothing. Because everybody knows he doesn’t want to escalate. We don’t have the munitions. He doesn’t want to do more damage to the economy.” “And after the midterm elections, nothing changes. Trump is still going to want to bluff and he’s still going to want demands from the Iranians that they are never going to agree to. But nothing changes on the Iranian side either. They’re not going to change their desire to stick it to Trump and to stick it to the United States. And that’s the quagmire that some of us have been predicting for the last seven months. We’re in it now.”

One glaring omission here by Marco Rubio: He says nothing about the several Russian attacks on American companies in Ukraine that have been badly damaged or destroyed. They include: Coca-Cola. Boeing. Terminal Autonomy. Cargill. PepsiCo. Philip Morris. Mondelez. Bunge. Flex Ltd.

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk have spoken (albeit somewhat inconsistently) about the need to slow down to avoid AI existential risk. Zuckerberg, Huang, and almost every VC say it's bullshit. The difference is not that the first group is conflicted but the second isn't. They both are super conflicted. If AI existential risk was to hype up the technology, why would Zuckerberg, Huang, and VCs be dismissing it? If it were "regulatory capture," why would Hassabis and Musk, neither of whom are at the frontier (sorry), be discussing it? The difference is that the first group has been thinking about these risks seriously (at least off-and-on) for over a decade, since well before they ran large AI companies. The second has very clearly only engaged superficially, and is now annoyed that the first group's actions could dampen the massive profits of the AI boom for risks that sound like science fiction to them. The terrifying reality is that these concerns are not being made up to sell a product or a policy. They have been around in some form since Turing, and fleshed out in great detail before OpenAI or Anthropic were a twinkle in their CEOs' eyes. They are fundamental to a technology whose entire purpose is to surpass human capacity, unless you are able to solve the very, very difficult problem of aligning the interests/goals of a more powerful agent with something as complex as human flourishing -- which the companies are very visibly failing to do. They need to simply not build superintelligence, using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI.

It's like saying to companies that generate toxic waste, "if you believe it's unsafe, you can just not dump it in rivers -- you don't need us to force you." Responsible companies ask for uniform rules so that irresponsible competitors don't take advantage of them.

Bryan Boughton, who runs the Fox News Washington bureau and is the current TV pool chair, says in an email; ”This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President.” “This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.” Via @brianstelter

This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined. Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels. Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion. Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times. In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere: “How many combines are available in Europe?” “Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.” “I’ll take them all.” Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers. He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him: “Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.” Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center. “$14 million.” “Okay. And what do you expect in return?” “Nothing. Build it.” Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients. But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics. It is food: 642 million meals. And that is only part of it: * 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks; * 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories; * Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding. “I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says. He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson. Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world. I simply want to thank him and wish him well. Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine. He simply chose to help. Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.

When I was in second grade, I had a similar vision, which I submitted, at the strong request of the United States Military of course. Here was my design:

CBO estimated Biden's immigration surge as a nearly $1 trillion deficit/debt reducer over a decade. cbo.gov/publication/60165

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Okay, now I'm starting to think he might actually lose. These red seat Republicans are not built for this.

Anyone proposing AI deal with China as alternative to type of democratic compact @Malinowski proposes will have to do better than "this should be easy to do" and "this is like a one-page document." US should pursue talks with China while acting on the assumption they will fail.