Al Lanctot

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

An unaccountable, evidence-free government reimbursement program? What could go wrong?

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Russia is threatening Europe more seriously today than at any point since the darkest days of the Cold War.

Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s president, has warned that “hybrid warfare may be preparation for what happened on Sept 17, 1939” – the date Soviet forces invaded Poland ⬇️
https://t.co/oDoxPvxVCI

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

On Iran, affordability (especially tariffs), and the debt, President Trump has dug himself a hole. And instead of reversing course, he's digging even deeper.

As I explain in my latest at @TheDispatch, policy lessons abound.
https://t.co/1rsauVquIT

[Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO]

A diesel export ban would backfire on American consumers and run directly counter to President Trump’s affordability agenda.

The result would be less refining, tighter supplies of gasoline and jet fuel, and higher prices across the economy.

@SecretaryWright said it best: “The blunt tool of banning diesel exports definitely doesn't work.”

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"The researchers go on to estimate that 92 percent of the 2025 tariffs were passed on to US producers and consumers in the form of higher prices, compared with 81 percent for the 2018–2019 tariffs."

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

All Trump has done in his second term is appease Russia and offer concessions, while Putin has outplayed him and offered zero concessions in return.

The idea of removing sanctions on Russia as it continues escalating in Ukraine is beyond insane and traitorous

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Maybe it's just me, but I personally wouldn't have campaigned on lowering prices and then immediately enacted policies that increase prices. 🤷

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

So let me get this right…

Trump’s saying don’t hit Putin’s oil refineries, while Putin goes after pretty much anything in Ukraine, while also acknowledging that Putin won’t entertain an energy ceasefire…

WTF? 🤷‍♂️

[Bloomberg @business]

President Trump was wrong to invite Vladimir Putin to this year’s G20 meeting, according to Poland's foreign minister https://t.co/4T1PlyfRwq

[Alexandre 🇺🇦 @Toriadus]

Russian scumbags have committed a direct act of nuclear terrorism. Where is the UN’s response? Where is the IAEA’s response? No one gives a shit.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The fact that Ukraine stopped destroying Russia's oil refineries FOR TRUMP even while Russia ramps up the destruction of Ukraine's power plants isn't enough for Putin's dog in the White House.

Again, spends the day again berating Ukraine for the high fuel prices that are actually caused by his war in Iran.

[Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO]

You can’t tax your way to lower prices. Until domestic mining and refining catch up, tariffs on coffee, copper, and steel are paid by American families. Excellent piece by @JimGeraghty on a real affordability agenda.
https://t.co/j3KljP3vkw

[Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO]

Short-sighted political theater is actively dismantling a decades-old economic and national security alliance. North America’s global strength depends on U.S.-Canada cooperation. We need to fix the rift before the fracture becomes permanent.
https://t.co/ln36mF4onS

[Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs]

In case you missed it, in 2023 the Russians kidnapped a Ukrainian female journalist and returned her lifeless body without its internal organs. She was 27.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Babyn Yar.
85 years since the tragedy.

One of the largest Nazi mass-murder sites in Europe. A place of profound pain and of our remembrance of all victims of the Holocaust. On September 29–30, 1941 alone, nearly 34,000 Jews were murdered here. At Babyn Yar, the Nazis also killed Roma, Ukrainian nationalists, members of the underground resistance, prisoners of war and patients of a psychiatric hospital. In total, an estimated 100,000 innocent people were killed here during the occupation.

This tragedy reminds us how important it is to stand up to evil and to regimes that place no value on human life. It reminds us why we must never turn a blind eye to terror and atrocities, and why we must always support the true defenders of life.

Today, I honored the memory of those killed in the Nazi mass shootings. Eternal memory to all the innocent victims.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The front. This is where independence is won. And the path to peace runs through these very labyrinths, these very corridors. And when we say, “Ukraine is holding on,” this resilience begins right here at the front, in command posts like this and at every one of our positions – where Ukraine is – because Ukraine has defenders. Our warriors.

I thank you – everyone who is defending our life, our values, Ukraine’s right to exist, and the future of our entire state. I thank everyone who wears a patch on their shoulder, and on whose shoulders rests our independence.

With gratitude and respect to all our defenders, we say today:
Glory to you!
Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to the Heroes!

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

The economic illiteracy here is pretty stunning. Tariffs artificially inflate steel prices, which helps one factory, sure. Meanwhile, the rest of U.S. manufacturing and American consumers pay higher prices, because tariffs are—by definition—a tax. This is Econ 101.

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

While China pours resources into drones, shipbuilding, autonomous systems, C4ISR, electromagnetic warfare, and advanced missiles, we are devoting the Secretary of Defense's attention to testosterone, fat soldiers, PT, religious affairs, and how to undermine our allies.

By the way, the Pentagon is finally moving more aggressively on autonomous warfare by announcing AUTOWARCOM. We are late to the party, and, given where the SECDEF's priorities lie, I am deeply skeptical.

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

Putin's war is not fundamentally about security, NATO, or even territory. It's about imperial restoration.

Dmitry Medvedev recently made the Kremlin's thinking unusually clear: Russia must be a great power or cease to matter. That worldview explains why Moscow continues absorbing staggering losses for relatively small territorial gains.

Understanding that objective is essential to understanding the war.

[Dr. Fred Hoffman, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) @InfoAgeStrategy]

Why does President Trump consistently side with Russia and against Ukraine? Against the wishes of 70% of the electorate?