When an invasive fish is also tasty, Maryland schoolkids can help ‘eat the problem’ - "To Brewster, the blue catfish presents a bad news-good news proposition. It’s invasive — and its white, flaky meat is tasty, in part because it’s not a bottom feeder. It was first brought to rivers in Virginia in the 1970s for recreational fishing."
In China, the AI bubble has already burst
China’s Economy Has a Huge Weakness: Local manufacturers are struggling to make one very important thing. - "These problems at home have forced Chinese manufacturers to search more desperately for profits abroad. China's trade surplus is on track this year to break the 2025 record of $1.2 trillion. But exports are no panacea. Chinese automakers shipped nearly 80 percent more cars overseas in August than they did a year earlier, but their profits still sank by 16 percent. In theory, Chinese manufacturers that gain market share should also gain more power to raise prices and increase profits. But their greater reliance on foreign customers leaves them vulnerable to protectionism. If policy makers around the world impose tariffs or other barriers on Chinese goods, the pressure on China's economy may be too much for Beijing to bear. The Chinese government has already been scaling back tax breaks that help electric-vehicle companies even as the industry's profits suffer."
The Real Culprit Behind High Grocery Prices: Although neither farmers nor grocers make very much money, many of the middlemen who operate between them make plenty of it. - "Although neither farmers nor grocers make very much money, many of the middlemen who operate between them make plenty of it. Egg producers such as Cal-Maine and meatpackers such as Tyson's generally make 4 to 12 percent profits. Food processors such as Ingredion make 10 to 15 percent. Leading food manufacturers such as General Mills and Kraft Heinz make 15 to 19 percent. 'If you're trying to figure out how to reduce prices, you have to ask: Where is the actual money being made?' Skanda Amarnath, the executive director of Employ America, an economics-focused think tank, told me. 'And the answer is: It's all in the middle.'
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"One way to lower food prices, then, would be for the government to provide a public option for food purchasing. The Kitchen Table Project argues that the federal government should launch an "affordable groceries partnership" in which it would agree to purchase a basket of food staples, including eggs, ground beef, milk, produce, rice, and peanut butter. Because the government would be buying in large quantities, it would have leverage to negotiate down the prices for these food items. Then it would sell to participating grocery stores at that lower price point."
Democrats Are Sounding More Like Republicans: Why politicians are betting on ever more moralizing language - "I hold one man responsible for this altered tone, and it's not Jesus. When you have a president whose worldview resembles something out of Squid Game; who has talked about being constrained only by his 'own morality,' whatever that may be; who characterized soldiers who died for a cause larger than themselves as 'suckers' and 'losers,' then political physics suggests that the pendulum will soon swing in the other direction.
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"What has shoved aside the notion of good and evil is an ideology of self-interest, which posits that humans are merely animals preoccupied with satisfying their individual needs and increasing their power over others. Or, to borrow the words of that great philosopher Stephen Miller, the idea that 'iron laws of the world since the beginning of time' dictate that the planet is governed by 'strength,' 'force,' and 'power' alone. Neiman would identify the kind of thinking Miller expressed as evil: 'The signal evil of our age is the belief that self-interest is all that moves us, and ideas of justice are self-deluded hype. Evil actions are those that deny the possibility of morality.'"
When ICE Comes for a MAGA Supporter: What happens to the right’s immigration views when the target for deportation is one of their own? [ed. note: Sam Sey, who overstayed his visa by 4 years]
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