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US trade rep Jamieson Greer is trying to convince the world’s big consumers to pay more for minerals. He’s not wrong but it’s a hard hard sell
And just as much at home as abroad. Trying to compete w China could be a bottomless money pit
Thinking a lot rn of Rick Perry, c2017…
Sure but the primary alternative to burning US gas is to burn other people’s coal. Not a win for climate let alone for US trade or security
Tim Puko retweeted
Permitting reform?
“I'm just not going to devote whatever few brain cells I have left to something that's not going to happen,” Kennedy says after GOP lunch
A real opening here for Rachel Maddow to give us the most Howard Bealeian 25 minutes of her life
Schmitt (not Schmidt) then went on a podcast and agreed that he'd totally nailed Smith on this NBA game story xitter.cf/atrupar/status/2104975…
All of these things are true! When the oline and wrs underperform, in the ways they certainly have, it accentuates late-stage Rodgers’ obvious flaws. The way this team was built it can succeed only if every other component excels so the limited qb can be his best 42-yo self
Replying to @MarkMaddenX
You think he’s been the problem more than the offensive line or receiving core so far this season? I can’t possibly think you believe that.
I’m not going to say Republicans ARE finally going to lose in Texas, but if Republicans were to ever lose Texas, this is how they would do it.
Tim Puko retweeted
World's largest copper mine halts operations after worker death reuters.com/business/fatal-a…
“We’ll stand a chance if only our chronically negative and bad-faith members and stakeholders treat this challenging compromise with optimism and good faith…in the slim chance it makes it out of committee this week” is not exactly a promising forecast for permitting overhauls!
We could see permitting bill language as soon as this week, says @SenJohnCurtis at #ClimateWeekNYC.
“There will be problems,” he said. But if stakeholders approach it with an open mind, instead of going for the kill, permitting reform might actually get done this year.
Well that didn’t take long!
New in Semafor DC PM: Permitting reform talks are stalled and hopes for a bipartisan deal in the Senate before the election are fading ...
semafor.com/newsletter/09/21…
You can see Dems here walking themselves into the same mistakes of health experts in Covid early days. Too much social engineering/expectation management craters public trust later when a vaguely articulated climate agenda cant fully deliver on whats framed as an economic agenda
When your football team front office is so laughably, predictably incompetent you can program whole AI agents to troll about it
(Very effectively!)
BROTHER this whole JPJ situation is becoming the most predictable Steelers story imaginable.
The front office drags its feet all offseason, takes care of multiple depth players first, lets the cornerback market get more expensive, then finally makes one of its best young players a priority at the eleventh hour.
And what happens next?
Steelers fans blame the player.
Not the organization that waited.
Not the front office that created the leverage problem.
Not the timing.
The player.
JPJ knows what he’s worth. He plays a premium position at an elite level and wants to be paid accordingly.
Wanting market value isn’t greed.
Brother, blaming the player after the team created the mess is so unbelievably on brand for Steelers Nation.
This administration is almost always reluctant to give up its optionality. And with copper supplies surging in US warehouses and voters upset with prices ahead of a key election, there is no incentive for them to make a tariff decision now, or for weeks or months to come.
NEWS: Trump tariffs on refined copper are not a foregone conclusion, sources tell me and @ErnestScheyder, as the White House weighs the impact on affordability ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Copper prices have hit record highs and traders and industrial buyers are rushing to build U.S. inventories ahead of possible duties.
WH official: “The administration continues to evaluate all options to reshore copper and other critical manufacturing back to the United States.” reuters.com/world/us/white-h…
A story in @TheAthletic deeply deeply about about climate change (combined with earlier kickoffs and the influence of TV media rights deals) with zero mention of the concept of climate change!
nytimes.com/athletic/7570746…
Just gonna slip this in here for anyone who needs the context!
The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl year of 1936, which is widely considered the benchmark for the hottest summer, as well as summer of 2021. cnn.com/2026/09/09/climate/u…


























