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President Donald Trump has always insisted that tariffs are paid by foreigners, that they put free money into the U.S. Treasury. Trump’s week-long tariff war confirmed that nobody else in the U.S. government or in American business believes him. The National Association of Home Builders published a letter to the president predicting that his tariffs would raise the cost of housing construction. Automobile stocks slumped because investors expected Trump’s tariffs to add thousands of dollars to the cost of each new vehicle. The senior Republican in the Senate publicly pleaded for potash to be exempted from tariffs so as not to increase fertilizer prices for his farm constituents, belying Trump’s claim that the higher prices would be paid by the exporters.
(1) "Follow Your Bliss" Was Actually A Warning | The Black Sheep LIVE
" I'll explain Joseph Campbell's famous command to "follow you bliss," how we're uniquely blocked from doing this today, and how to overcome those blocks. We'll also discuss:
The cost of not following your bliss
How to identify what your bliss is
The secular spirituality that following your bliss can offer"
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From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion polling, I draw three conclusions about this paradox:
The economy was the top issue. Trump focused on it and Harris did not.
People of color were the swing vote. Trump did not expand his white base so much as Harris lost hers among people of color.
The majority of Americans favor progressive policies, which should encourage us to keep organizing during the second Trump administration.
Voters wanted change to address the economic concerns they were feeling. Trump posed as the change agent—“Trump will fix it.” Harris posed as the candidate of stability and the status quo—“We’re not going back.”
Genesis Protocol - The Genesis of Decentralized IP Ownership
"The Genesis of Decentralized IP Ownership
Ensuring Fair Credit And Compensation For Creators In The AI Era
Genesis Protocol is an innovative Layer 3 solution built to transform the global intellectual property (IP) market. From ownership to tokenization, licensing, and trading, Genesis Protocol empowers you to unlock the true value of your IP assets—books, films, music, digital media, and beyond—in a decentralized, secure, and groundbreaking ecosystem."
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Zizian Murder Cult | Know Your Meme
"izian Murder Cult refers to a group of highly educated software developers allegedly linked to a series of deadly attacks between 2022 and 2025. The group was supposedly recruited by former Rationalist "Ziz," also known as Jack LaSota. In 2025, Maximilian Snyder and Teresa Youngblut, both associated with the "Zizian" cult, were arrested on separate charges of murdering a Vallejo landlord and a Vermont Border Patrol agent. The incidents led to the Zizian group coming under further scrutiny, with some describing its hardline ideology as "vegan Sith," inspired by Star Wars. Ziz has also been accused of targeting and recruiting transgender and nonbinary people into the Zizian cult by other TPOT and LessWrong members, many of whom made posts warning the communities about the cult in the years leading up to the 2025 murders."
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Meet the Zizians, California’s rationalist-linked death cult
"California's Rationalist-Linked Death Cult
Plus: Air traffic control failures that led to a plane crash, "why shit not working" in New York City, and more..."
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Visionary Leaders Of Small Nations
"Visionary Leaders Of Small Nations
Singapore and Malaysia join to weave a path between America and China."
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Last Boys at the Beginning of History | The Point Magazine
"These young intellectuals call themselves—like pitch-perfect nineteenth-century Romantics—“sensitive young men.” At the after-parties they discuss metaphysics. Despite this being a D.C. social event, I don’t know where they work. It’s obvious, however, that some of the best congressional offices on the Hill, several conservative magazines and the D.C.-area universities are well represented. I do know, though, what they think about free will and contingency, ancient history and EU regulatory disputes. Among them I’ve heard discussions of twentieth-century espionage and historical intrigues and quotes from Kissinger, Freud, Kierkegaard, Homer, Virgil, Montesquieu and the Federalist Papers. They revive the best parts of their undergraduate curricula and try their best to cultivate serious intellectual lives. They also impose strict rules, among them a complete prohibition against phones on the debate floor.
Outside their meetings, they’ll read whatever they think is honest, real and intellectually meaningful, no matter where it is published. They send Jacobin articles to each other when they find an interesting point of convergence; when I send them articles about the post-liberal right from mainstream outlets, they vigorously debate me on the merits of those criticisms, sometimes laughing at how out of touch and dated most of the analyses are. They ask to get off the waitlist for the debates and intellectual events I host for a think tank. In my role there, I’ve been trying to create broad-minded, politically mixed and philosophically vigorous discussions. These young men are a few of our most enthusiastic attendees, and give me qualitative feedback on the ideas at our events, regardless of whether the speakers lean right or left.
A couple members of this debating group even introduce me to an essay in The Point, about love: “Lovers in the Hands of a Patient God.” I’m touched by it too—it’s the first essay I’ve read that treats love and sex as meaningful and sacred from a secular, liberal perspective. I cried several times when I read it. "
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