Notes in the Margin

The background: Japan is selling U.S. bonds and that's not great for the U.S. because it lowers bond prices and raises yields. In other words: higher interest rates for you and me.

The locals still have some control over their own borders, unlike in the USA where the central government dictates border policy for all. 

The Trump government is expanding its ownership of the means of production. Marx would approve. 

“Polymarket and Palantir are partners... The goal is not just … mass surveillance ... It’s predictive policing. ...This is the privatized panopticon.”

The claim that the US attacks on "drug runners" in the Caribbean has not affected the drug trade at all. 

The number of Japanese residents fell by 916,744, or 0.76%, to 119,736,483, marking the 17th consecutive year of decline, and the sharpest drop on record.

The Israeli president joins Milei in pushing a pro-Israel axis of states in the Americas. (With the US leading the way, of course.)

"Conservative leader Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning the June election by fewer than 50,000 votes."

Fauci hid key facts from Congress and the public in order to relentlessly promote himself. 

Like his friend Trump, Milei supports stronger spy agencies, granting them more power to spy domestically and expanding state secrecy.