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“Meta’s AI-powered recommendation engine is still running, engineered to maximize young people’s engagement even with content that harms them.” | Jack Kubinec thedispatch.com/article/meta…

“Vague, one-sided U.S. trade deals made at virtual gunpoint tend to fail over time because sovereign foreign governments have little incentive to comply in good faith.” | Scott Lincicome thedispatch.com/newsletter/d…

“...Trump isn’t the only American politician to dust off socialist central planning and think he has found something shiny and new.” | Matthew Mitchell thedispatch.com/article/soci…

“Stars and Stripes is intended to be a reputable news source available to U.S. troops, not the Pentagon’s Pravda.” | Mike Nelson thedispatch.com/article/hegs…

“Billions in subsidies to underwrite “affordability”—and the median price of a California house is pushing $1 million.” | Kevin D Williamson thedispatch.com/article/cali…

“Handing a pot of money with a hazy mandate and a national security halo to an executive branch run by Trump is like hiring the local mafia boss to run your charity.” | Nick Catoggio thedispatch.com/newsletter/b…

“Simply saying you’re committing violence in the name of the anti-Israel cause is enough to buy not just exoneration, but endorsement.” | @JonahDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…

“It seems Americans are no more interested in living under a right-wing Cathedral than they are in living under one built by the left.” | Mike Warren thedispatch.com/newsletter/n…

“The deal’s most ironic element may be that given how long it will take to actually generate meaningful results, in the best-case scenario neither its American nor its Venezuelan architects will be in power to see it bear fruit.” | Gil Guerra thedispatch.com/article/u-s-…

“What ends up happening when you have a paucity of information, you create a void, and that void is invariably filled by the conspiracy theories of people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes.” | Grayson Logue thedispatch.com/article/penn…

“At first blush, it might seem strange that J.D. Vance and Abdul El-Sayed have zeroed in on each other as foils, given that they’re so much alike. But is it so surprising? The nastiest feuds are often explained by the narcissism of small differences.” | Nick Catoggio thedispatch.com/newsletter/b…

“Trump has a long, long history of claiming that America should ‘take the oil’ from countries we go to war with.” | @JonahDispatch thedispatch.com/article/trum…

“Porn is like the artificial hormones that make factory-farmed chickens too heavy to walk: a modern innovation that supercharges depravity.” | Matthew Loftus thedispatch.com/article/porn…

“Hegseth seems to be amplifying the mistaken belief that if we had just done more wholesale killing in Afghanistan, without those pesky lawyers and their tiresome expectations of reducing civilian harm, the war might have turned out differently.” | Mike Nelson thedispatch.com/article/hegs…

“The most one can say for the “fed” ploy is that it reflects Trumpism’s belief that there’s no conflict in working for the government, for the media, and for one’s own professional interests all more or less at the same time.” | Nick Catoggio thedispatch.com/newsletter/b…

“The power disparity in economic relations is at the heart of most complaints about capitalism.” | Kevin D. Williamson thedispatch.com/newsletter/w…

“The trap of AI is the convenience and benefits it provides us and the dependence it builds on those benefits.” | Patrick McNamara thedispatch.com/article/paul…

“The bigger problem for Trump is that he’s become the ‘establishment’ and the status quo.” | @JonahDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…