Links for September 2025
25 countries suspend postal services to US over tariffs: UN. “Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States from August 29.” But incompetently: “several critical processes relating to the designation of ‘qualified parties’ and mechanisms for duty collection and remittance remain undefined,”
“Trump is every single stereotype of a loathsome shitheel from the last one hundred years of popular culture, all at once—the ignorant blowhard at the end of the bar, the entitled silver spoon trust fund asshole, the clueless boss who does nothing but create crises for his employees to clean up, the lecherous old man, the vapid self-important celebrity, the penny pinching miser who stiffs the honest working man, the oily corrupt politician, the cowardly bully, the draft-dodging faux-patriot, the scumbag crook who gets off on a technicality. He’s almost literally every repugnant trope from generations of literature, movies, and TV shows.”, link.