@jimgoldgeier
Prof/ex-dean, American University School of International Service; senior advisor, Bridging the Gap; Research Affiliate, Stanford; Non-resident fellow, Kennan Institute. Views are my own. www.jamesgoldgeier.com.
US solar installation: Down 14% between 2024 and 2025.
Chinese solar installation: Up 14% between 2024 and 2025.
Last year China installed more than 7 times more solar capacity than the US. So much for energy dominance...
⚡️ Ukrainian forces have seized the initiative and liberated over 400 square kilometers of territory.
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California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
⚡Ukraine’s defense forces have regained control of more than 400 square kilometers of territory during a counteroffensive in Dnipro region.
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BREAKING Iran will continue missile attacks for as long as necessary says foreign minister, adding negotiations with US 'no longer on the agenda'
The Wall Street Journal & . Follow ... X WSJ 14h • 0 Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president's sons, are backing a new drone company that is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon and fill a hole left by the administration's ban on new Chinese drones in the U.S. https://on.wsj.com/4uyhkoO Powerus, a drone roll-up company based in West Palm Beach, Fla., is merging with a publicly traded golf-course holding company backed by the Trumps, Powerus executives said. The reverse merger will result in Powerus, which was formed last year, trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the coming months. The deal brings deeper involvement by the Trump family into a multibillion-dollar sector that has new opportunities for growth following changes imposed by the Trump administration. Those include the Pentagon's emphasis on large-scale, rapid adoption of small drones, and a national ban on new models of the Chinese drones that have for more than a decade dominated the consumer and commercial markets. EXCLUSIVE Nord Lor Finan LTS NasdaqListe Nasa.
What is there even to say anymore?
“Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president's sons, are backing a new drone company that is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon and fill a hole left by the administration's ban on new Chinese drones in the U.S.”
Putin-level lying here:
"The Ukrainians have become the world’s leading experts in counter-drone warfare. We need their expertise. Maybe we should have been learning from them this whole time."
Putin’s biggest mistake in launching the full-scale invasion? He ignored the fact that Ukrainians have agency. Trump has the same problem. Doesn’t consider that even in smaller, weaker countries, people have agency. They don’t have to just take whatever the big power dishes out.
Of course
Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform
Ukraine helping US. Russia helping Iran. And still Trump’s Russia First policy continues. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
“Alliance tensions in wartime are normal. Starting conflicts without basic alliance management is not.” The latest from @profsaunders.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
When are we going to get the results of the Pentagon investigating itself on whether they bombed a girls school while using AI?
Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Sure “create supply.” And reward Russia, at a time when it not only continues its war against Ukraine but also reportedly provides Iran with intel to harm Americans. The Trump Russia First policy continues.
Proud to have worked on this investigation, just shortlisted for @gijn.org's 2026 Sigma Awards.
It details how an affiliate of a Danish company appears to have taken part in Russia’s pillaging of stolen Ukrainian grain from two occupied ports on the Sea of Azov.
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
Crucially important read:
The DHS is abusing its power to brand American protesters as terrorists.
WSJ: 181 of the 279 “people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year” are U.S. citizens.
About 1/2 never charged.
0 convicted.
www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
“It is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place.”
We’re good at “clearing out the bad guys.” But have we shown any interest in the people living in those countries? We aren’t in Venezuela. We aren’t in Iran. Will Cuba be any different?
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
Literal "We have always been at war with Eastasia"
Im sure this will be convincing Iranians that the US is bombing them for their own good
A reminder that the war against Iran is entirely at President Trump's whim and he refuses to explain it.
FEDWATCH: Oil-shock inflation “prevents the Fed from responding to worsening employment conditions .. an adversely tightening policy which could strain credit and put at risk 1 to 2 million jobs created by private credit, according to the Fed’s own estimates.” 👀
New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Steve Witkoff: I've communicated to Russians to stop sending targeting information to Iranians.
"I've strongly said that," he told reporters.
key questions for journalists to ask: did the military consider any of the risks to human life or the environment when bombing an oil facility in/near a city of close to 10 million? if US did it, was it a result of hegseth's rejection of the law of war?
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