Yann LeCun

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Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump

Donald Trump “erupted” during a meeting with his top national security team last week, reportedly yelling expletives at those present, according to NBC News. The report says Trump is “exasperated” by the lack of progress in ending the Iran war and the lack of a clear strategy. One Trump ally said, “The president is exasperated. I don’t think he believed it was going to be this difficult to get the Iranians to agree to a deal.”

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Steve Rattner@SteveRattner

Oil is back above $100, and gas is above $4. These numbers are brutal for inflation and Americans' pocketbooks. And there is no end in sight for their fundamental cause: Trump's war of choice in Iran.

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Bill Madden@maddenifico

Trump's Beef Catastrophe: Incompetence, Blithering Idiocy, and Blatant Lies Have Obliterated America's Beef Industry In yet another humiliating display of incompetence, the authoritarian Trump regime has turned America's once-mighty beef industry into a national punchline. After months of touting "record" export numbers as proof that his chaotic trade policies were somehow working, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been forced to admit it inflated beef export sales by a staggering 90 percent. According to a bombshell Reuters report, the USDA bragged in early July that U.S. exporters had sold more than 126,000 metric tons of beef to foreign buyers for a sales period ending in late June. The actual number? Just 12,000 metric tons. That's not a rounding error. That's a catastrophic fabrication that would embarrass a high-school bookkeeper. The fake numbers were so absurd they should have raised red flags immediately. The USDA claimed record sales of more than 38,000 metric tons to Chile and over 32,000 metric tons to Italy — countries that aren’t even major markets for American beef. Reality? A pathetic 367 tons to Chile and 350 tons to Italy. Fourteen other countries saw their numbers slashed as well. This isn't just bureaucratic sloppiness. This is the Trump regime's signature brand of hype, lies, spin, and propaganda colliding with economic reality — and the American cattle industry is paying the price. U.S. beef prices have hit record highs this year thanks to tight cattle supplies and strong domestic demand. Exports have been declining since 2022. Higher prices have priced American beef out of the global market, as commodity analyst Austin Schroeder bluntly told Reuters: "We're priced out of the world market to a certain extent. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for that big of an export number." Meanwhile, domestic supplies are so low the U.S. has had to ramp up beef imports. Earlier this year, a screwworm outbreak forced Texas to declare a state of disaster, further hammering producers already squeezed by Trump-era chaos. Instead of acknowledging the mess his administration created — from trade wars that disrupted markets to regulatory neglect that left ranchers vulnerable — Trump and his sycophants simply let the USDA pump out fantasy numbers and call it a win. This is the same pattern we've seen across the board: brag about successes that don't exist, then quietly revise the data when caught. Only this time it's not some abstract economic indicator. It's the backbone of rural America — cattle ranchers, feedlot operators, processors, and exporters — watching their industry get trashed by incompetence and covered up with lies. The revised numbers aren't just embarrassing, they're devastating. They confirm what ranchers have been screaming for months: America's beef sector is in serious trouble, and the people running the show are too busy tweeting victory to notice or care. The only question left is how many more "record" numbers will have to be walked back due to Trump being a serial lying sociopath who is too psychologically fragile to handle the truth.

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Steve Rattner@SteveRattner

Labor force participation has fallen to 61.5% — the lowest since 2021, erasing the entire post-pandemic recovery. Since Trump's inauguration, over a million people have left the job market — which explains part of the reason the unemployment rate dropped last month.

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Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1

I don't think people understand just how bad it will be if an American open source champion doesn't emerge soon and the big labs succeed in creating modern East Indian companies and ban open models on moronic national security grounds. "If a credible Western open frontier player does not emerge, the consequences cascade quickly. This is the inverse of the early Internet wave. In the 2000s and 2010s, Western companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft — dominated globally while China carved out its own walled garden. "The AI version flips that dynamic on its head. "Without a credible Western open frontier player, the only open models capable of running entire economies are made in China. If U.S. policy further restricts Chinese open-weight access on national-security grounds, the U.S. ends up with two or three closed Cathedrals serving the U.S. market — and the rest of the world picks the AI stack that is free, capable, self-hostable, and not embargoed. "Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East. "Roughly six billion people. "Chinese open models become the global default by 2030, and the United States ends up technologically isolated from the majority of the world’s AI users. "We would have done it to ourselves."

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Dr. Catharine Young@DrCatharineY

American science is at extraordinary risk. NIH has awarded less than half as many grants as it has compared to the past five fiscal years averaged together. 'I thought we were at rock bottom', the official said. 'We are below rock bottom now.'"

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Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students”

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Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump

Someone quietly placed a massive $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 a.m. ET this morning. Just 70 minutes later, Axios reported the U.S. and Iran were close to a 14 point deal to end the war. Oil prices crashed, and someone made a fortune. The golden age of corruption.

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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTC

Palm Beach International Airport is now officially renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. The airport will be required to purchase official Trump merchandise, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.