Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE officer during immigration-related operation, DHS says www.nbcnews.com/news/us-n…
Chris Abraham
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I feel like The Atlantic’s editors now have anti-Trump story commissions set up as mad libs by this point, 10 years into the Age of Donald.
Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/internati…
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Fascinating.
Why Europe Needs to Go It Alone youtube.com/watch
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Which Venezuela Propaganda is Truest?
With this much propaganda everywhere, it’s honestly hard to tell which propaganda is closest to reality. Some of the people we constantly hear from really may be plants, or at least carefully curated voices. Anyone who watches international media long enough knows that a lot of …
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Here’s my most recent nerd credentials. This is my Monday night hootenanny! Yeehaw! 73!
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Reminder that J6 was a relative creampuff 🍨 🍦 🥛 🍼 🍭 🍬
At least 35 people have been killed and 1,200 detained in Iran’s economic protests www.newsdoes.com/share/201…
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We do indeed live in interesting times.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ends 2026 campaign for reëlection www.axios.com/local/twi…
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Years of sanctions and embargoes hollowed out Venezuela, then we acted shocked when it destabilized. Now the U.S. literally grabbed Maduro. Economic strangulation, followed by military seizure, isn’t deterrence — it’s manufactured provocation with a predictable endgame.
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Pin the Tail on the Mascot
Here’s the symmetry people don’t like to acknowledge. Many liberals argued that even if Joe Biden were cognitively diminished, senile, or largely absent for stretches of his presidency, it didn’t meaningfully matter. Why? Because the presidency is not a solo act. It’s an …
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I lived in Berlin from 2007 to 2010, and watching this made me curious whether my memories of that period were just personal impressions or reflected real structural conditions at the time. When I was there, energy security was not a constant topic of public concern, and Russian gas was treated as a stable, almost background assumption of European life.
I went back and checked the data. During that period, Germany was already sourcing roughly 35–40% of its natural gas from Russia, with a significant portion transiting through Ukraine. Despite the 2006 and 2009 Russia–Ukraine gas disputes, Germany’s supply was largely maintained, which reinforced confidence in the arrangement. At the same time, Germany was already committed to phasing out nuclear power and expanding natural gas as a bridge fuel.
In retrospect, the calm I remember wasn’t accidental. It was supported by cheap energy, uninterrupted supply, and policy decisions that deferred risk rather than eliminated it. The memories and the facts align more than I expected. youtu.be/zRG_ABrvL…
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The more things change the more they stay the same + history doesn’t repeat itself—but it surely and certainly rhymes! youtu.be/b5wfPlgKF…
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Fascinating.
Russians are devastated about Venezuela youtube.com/watch
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I think it’s very dangerous to dismiss Donald Trump as someone who simply “failed up” into becoming U.S. president—twice. I’ll say it again, because people keep trying to wave this away: it is exceedingly dangerous to treat Donald Trump as a mistake, a fluke, or some kind of cartoonish buffoonery that accidentally captured the presidency of the only superpower in the world. That story may feel comforting, but it does not explain reality.
People like to frame Trump as Bam Bam or “Hulk smash”—noise, impulse, raw force, no cognition. But even if you accepted that metaphor, Bam Bam was a remarkably capable child. He wasn’t random. He was effective. And Trump isn’t Bam Bam anyway.
The only way the “buffoon by accident” theory works is if Trump has a fairy godmother—some blue, unseen hand quietly turning six decades of public life into nothing but luck and coincidence. Otherwise, the record simply doesn’t add up.
No one has a 60-year public career, survives repeated elite attempts at removal, wins the presidency twice, reshapes the Supreme Court, and delivers something as consequential as the rollback of Roe v. Wade by accident or brute stupidity. That’s not how power works.
American presidents have actually gotten better at cartoonifying themselves—at leaning into spectacle, absurdity, or buffoonery—because it creates plausible deniability. It lets people believe that ruthless or carefully calculated outcomes were unplanned, chaotic, or dumb. That misread is the shield.
You don’t have to admire Trump. You don’t have to like him. But dismissing him as slapstick is analytically reckless. His presentation may be crude. His incentives are not. Confusing the two is how people keep getting blindsided. The rest is up to you. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
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It’s really good. I highly recommend it.
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Politically Chris Abraham
I’m economically right, culturally unsentimental, and institutionally serious. I don’t want to rule people or liberate them. I want systems that don’t lie, don’t rot, and don’t pretend incentives don’t exist. I believe markets are real, scarcity is real, and incentives shape …
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Love God, and do what you will. (Ama Deum et fac quod vis.)
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A Tariffs Primer
Tariffs aren’t a moral statement or a magic revenue machine. They’re a blunt economic tool in a trade system that’s never been truly free. Most countries impose higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers on U.S. exports than the U.S. imposes on theirs. When the U.S. raises tariffs, …
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America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy chrisabraham.com/blog/amer…
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Happiness of small cozy things
I promised my best friend and my little twin sister I’d be a lot less bombastic this year, so instead of big opinions, here’s a very PG, very G moment of quiet bliss. I took a frozen young chicken that had been sitting in my freezer for six months, unwrapped it, set it on the …
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This is extralegal and extrajudicial: no declaration of war, no clear congressional or UN authorization, no due process. Unilateral seizure of a foreign head of state shreds sovereignty and international law.
Maduro and wife captured by Delta www.washingtonpost.com/world/202…