🇺🇸💸 Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a first-of-its-kind "Sovereign Wealth Fund," which will invest vast amounts of money into national development projects like highways, new airports, etc.

📎 George

🇩🇪 German far right may benefit most from Merz’s self-inflicted wound

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

As mainstream parties falter in their efforts to isolate rising far-right parties across Europe, Merz has made a risky calculation: that persuading German voters he and his conservatives are serious about cracking down on migration is more important than upholding the strict quarantine on the far right, in place since the end of World War II.

Merz insists he is not cooperating with the AfD but merely seeking to pass measures favored by the conservatives, without regard to who else supports them. And unlike conservatives elsewhere in Europe, Merz continues to promise he won’t govern in coalition with the far right. If he keeps to his word, he’d likely have to govern with one of the center-left parties that are outraged by his tactics.

The only way to stop the AfD, Merz contends, is if mainstream parties like his drastically cut migration. If center-left parties won’t support him, he says, he’ll do it with help from the far right.

https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-cdu-germany-far-right-afd-nazi-past-election/

"Orania proves that an ethnostate built on self-reliance can thrive. With low crime, strong education, economic growth, and sustainability, it stands in stark contrast to the dysfunction of Western multiculturalism. Strength, order, and purpose drive its success."

📎 Chad Crowley

🇺🇸 REPORTER: Why is it important for Elon Musk to have access to the payments systems at Treasury?

TRUMP: Well, he's got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good, and it's only if we agree with him

📎 Aaron Rupar

🇺🇸🇺🇦 REPORTER: What you said about Ukraine earlier -- the rare earth. Do you want them to give the rare earth to the United States?

TRUMP: Yeah

📎 Aaron Rupar

🇺🇸 Fact: The avg age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds

https://fxtwitter.com/eglyman/status/1886449060128673885

One of the most destructive memes of the last generation was that your 20s don’t matter.

Extended adolescence robbed many of their agency during their highest-energy years, encouraging therapeutic self-discovery, waiting one’s turn, experimentation with identity. Uselessness.

The next generation is having none of that. The gerontocracy is dead. Go all in early.

📎 Katherine Boyle

"Average age of engineers and scientists in the Manhattan Project was 25.

Our current gerontocracy is ahistorical.

Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency."

📎 pratyush

🇺🇸 "Down with the Gerontocracy. We can do things."

📎 saila