![\"Embargo](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Embargo-Act-illustration.webp\" "\\"Embargo")
<\/a><\/p>\nPaul Krugman<\/small>:
\nWho has the power in a trading world?<\/a><\/h2>\nOn Friday Donald Trump threatened<\/a> to cut off all trade with nations with which the United States runs a trade deficit. His demand, oddly, was directed at the Federal Reserve: He would impose trade embargoes unless the Fed cuts interest rates. I won\u2019t even try to untangle his logic, if there is any, because today\u2019s primer isn\u2019t about Trump. It is, instead, about how to think about a world in which governments \u2014 even the government of the United States, which created the rules-based trading system that prevailed until recently \u2014 increasingly use threats to cut off international trade as a tool of coercion.<\/p>\n… \u201cweaponized interdependence<\/a>,\u201d a term coined in 2019 by the political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman. Farrell and Newman focused mainly on national governments\u2019 efforts to exploit their control of international networks, such as America\u2019s use of the dollar\u2019s central role in the international monetary system to impose sanctions on nations it considers hostile. At this point, however, weaponized interdependence is everywhere: Iran attempting to force the United States to call off its war by closing the Strait of Hormuz, China threatening the West with a cutoff of rare earths, the Trump administration using the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada to remove cultural protections for French \u2014 or become the 51st state?<\/p>\n(Paul Krugman more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\nDean Baker @ National Memo<\/em><\/small>:
\nLiberated? Despite Trump Tariffs, Steady Trade Deficit Jumped In July<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
\n\n![\"Russia](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Russia-Has-1000-Ships-With-No-Country.webp\" "\\"Russia")
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Lawrence Winnerman @ Blue Amp Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nRussia Has 1,000 Ships With No Country<\/a><\/h2>\nAnd nobody can legally stop them. Worse, nobody seems willing to try.<\/em><\/p>\nPutin built himself a fleet of a thousand ghost ships that no court on earth can touch. They earn him more than the entire West has sent Ukraine since the tanks rolled in, and a lot of them keep parking on top of the undersea cables that carry your money across the ocean.
\n…<\/p>\n
Ninety-nine percent of international data moves through fiber-optic cables lying on the ocean floor. Not satellites. Cables, roughly the diameter of a garden hose in deep water, carrying the internet, interbank settlement, and military traffic between continents.<\/p>\n
On Christmas Day 2024, a tanker called the Eagle S, flying the flag of the Cook Islands, \u201caccidentally\u201d dragged its anchor about 90 kilometers across the floor of the Gulf of Finland. It severed the EstLink 2 power cable between Finland and Estonia and 4 data cables along with it. Repairs took 7 months. …
\n(Lawrence Winnerman @ Blue Amp Media<\/em> more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
![\"Trump](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Trump-golfing.webp\" "\\"Trump")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Mitch Jackson<\/small>:
\nThis Labor Day You Paid $4.15 a Gallon. He Made $1.4 Billion<\/a><\/h2>\nThis Labor Day you paid $4.15 a gallon so the man in the Oval Office could pull $1.4 billion from crypto and sell Wall Street his next move for $100 grand a month, milliseconds before you ever see it. He\u2019s playing you for a sucker but here\u2019s the deal, the one thing that scares him is sitting on your ballot in November.<\/em>
\n(Mitch Jackson more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Allison Gill<\/small>:
\nUSPS Whistleblower Report Makes it into Court Papers<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Sabot Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nNineteen Days Before the Deadline, Autistici\/Inventati Is Shutting Down<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Zeteo<\/small>:
\n25 Years Since 9\/11: 13 Numbers That Tell the Story<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Heather Delaney Reese<\/small>:
\nHate will never make America great<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ruth Ann Crystal MD<\/small>:
\nDr. Ruth Report, 9\/6\/26<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nMichael Hoerger estimates 1 in 95 Americans<\/a> have COVID, with very high rates in parts of the South and West. Much of Texas<\/a> wastewater reflects 1 in 20<\/a> people being infectious with COVID.
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\n![\"PMC](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PMC-COVID-19-Dashboard-Interactive-Map.jpg\" "\\"PMC")
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\n(Ruth Ann Crystal MD more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Week Fifteen in 250 to 250<\/a><\/h2>\nLast week was the fifteenth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we\u2019re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n
Our hope was for the videos to emphasize the agency of Americans\u2014mostly everyday Americans\u2014to change the country. Each falls into a category that defines what it means to be an American, including community, democracy, innovation, mobility, civil rights, education, conservation, and creativity.<\/p>\n
Every week, I try to say something new about the week\u2019s videos, but in a way, each week\u2019s production has been the same: a wonderful combination of my own favorite historical events and ones new to me, with narrators who fit their topics perfectly and are themselves part of America\u2019s story. The generous participation of so many people in this project has made it significantly bigger than the sum of its parts, and this week is no exception.<\/p>\n
You can follow the project at the sites listed below, or under \u201cvideos\u201d at my own YouTube page: Heather Cox Richardson<\/a>. Or just wait until I send out the week\u2019s roundup.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n![\"Woody](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Woody-Guthrie-and-the-Ghost-of-Tom-Joad-Today.jpg\" "\\"Woody")
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\nLast Days in Two Nations<\/a><\/h2>\nClimate.us<\/a><\/h2>\nformerly Climate.gov<\/p>\n
Climate Solutions Explorer<\/a><\/h2>\nHave I Been Flocked?<\/a><\/h2>\nBrockovich AI Data Center Reporting<\/a><\/h2>\nresources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nMike Ludwig @ truthout<\/em>: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That\u2019s an Undercount.<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\nSergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel<\/a>\n
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo<\/a>\n
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon<\/a>\n
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran<\/a>\n
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero<\/a>\n
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a>\n
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze<\/a>\n
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt<\/a>\n
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano<\/a>\n
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez<\/a>\n
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil<\/a>\n
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam<\/a>
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\n- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\nNACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTexas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations … trying to ‘unbury the lede’ Paul Krugman: Who has the power in a trading world? On Friday Donald Trump threatened to cut off all trade with nations with which the United States runs a trade deficit. His demand, oddly, was directed at the Federal Reserve: He would impose trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
… \u201cweaponized interdependence<\/a>,\u201d a term coined in 2019 by the political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman. Farrell and Newman focused mainly on national governments\u2019 efforts to exploit their control of international networks, such as America\u2019s use of the dollar\u2019s central role in the international monetary system to impose sanctions on nations it considers hostile. At this point, however, weaponized interdependence is everywhere: Iran attempting to force the United States to call off its war by closing the Strait of Hormuz, China threatening the West with a cutoff of rare earths, the Trump administration using the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada to remove cultural protections for French \u2014 or become the 51st state?<\/p>\n (Paul Krugman more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And nobody can legally stop them. Worse, nobody seems willing to try.<\/em><\/p>\n Putin built himself a fleet of a thousand ghost ships that no court on earth can touch. They earn him more than the entire West has sent Ukraine since the tanks rolled in, and a lot of them keep parking on top of the undersea cables that carry your money across the ocean. Ninety-nine percent of international data moves through fiber-optic cables lying on the ocean floor. Not satellites. Cables, roughly the diameter of a garden hose in deep water, carrying the internet, interbank settlement, and military traffic between continents.<\/p>\n On Christmas Day 2024, a tanker called the Eagle S, flying the flag of the Cook Islands, \u201caccidentally\u201d dragged its anchor about 90 kilometers across the floor of the Gulf of Finland. It severed the EstLink 2 power cable between Finland and Estonia and 4 data cables along with it. Repairs took 7 months. … This Labor Day you paid $4.15 a gallon so the man in the Oval Office could pull $1.4 billion from crypto and sell Wall Street his next move for $100 grand a month, milliseconds before you ever see it. He\u2019s playing you for a sucker but here\u2019s the deal, the one thing that scares him is sitting on your ballot in November.<\/em> … Last week was the fifteenth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we\u2019re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n Our hope was for the videos to emphasize the agency of Americans\u2014mostly everyday Americans\u2014to change the country. Each falls into a category that defines what it means to be an American, including community, democracy, innovation, mobility, civil rights, education, conservation, and creativity.<\/p>\n Every week, I try to say something new about the week\u2019s videos, but in a way, each week\u2019s production has been the same: a wonderful combination of my own favorite historical events and ones new to me, with narrators who fit their topics perfectly and are themselves part of America\u2019s story. The generous participation of so many people in this project has made it significantly bigger than the sum of its parts, and this week is no exception.<\/p>\n You can follow the project at the sites listed below, or under \u201cvideos\u201d at my own YouTube page: Heather Cox Richardson<\/a>. Or just wait until I send out the week\u2019s roundup. formerly Climate.gov<\/p>\n Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations … trying to ‘unbury the lede’ Paul Krugman: Who has the power in a trading world? On Friday Donald Trump threatened to cut off all trade with nations with which the United States runs a trade deficit. His demand, oddly, was directed at the Federal Reserve: He would impose trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dean Baker @ National Memo<\/em><\/small>:
\nLiberated? Despite Trump Tariffs, Steady Trade Deficit Jumped In July<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLawrence Winnerman @ Blue Amp Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nRussia Has 1,000 Ships With No Country<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\n(Lawrence Winnerman @ Blue Amp Media<\/em> more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMitch Jackson<\/small>:
\nThis Labor Day You Paid $4.15 a Gallon. He Made $1.4 Billion<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Mitch Jackson more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\nAllison Gill<\/small>:
\nUSPS Whistleblower Report Makes it into Court Papers<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nSabot Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nNineteen Days Before the Deadline, Autistici\/Inventati Is Shutting Down<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nZeteo<\/small>:
\n25 Years Since 9\/11: 13 Numbers That Tell the Story<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nHeather Delaney Reese<\/small>:
\nHate will never make America great<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nRuth Ann Crystal MD<\/small>:
\nDr. Ruth Report, 9\/6\/26<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nMichael Hoerger estimates 1 in 95 Americans<\/a> have COVID, with very high rates in parts of the South and West. Much of Texas<\/a> wastewater reflects 1 in 20<\/a> people being infectious with COVID.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Ruth Ann Crystal MD more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Week Fifteen in 250 to 250<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nLast Days in Two Nations<\/a><\/h2>\n
Climate.us<\/a><\/h2>\n
Climate Solutions Explorer<\/a><\/h2>\n
Have I Been Flocked?<\/a><\/h2>\n
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting<\/a><\/h2>\n
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\n
Apocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\n
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Mike Ludwig @ truthout<\/em>: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That\u2019s an Undercount.<\/a><\/h2>\n
ICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\nSuffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\n
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\n
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\n
Accountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n