Cullen Hendrix
@cullenhendrix.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute. Sustainability, security, and political economy. Heart masquerading as head since 1977.
You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.
You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.
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Thank you for the music! What are tariffs doing to the music industry?
Tariffs are affecting many parts of society, but how are they changing the music industry? This highly globalized industry is a finely tuned ecosystem, harmonizing the craftmanship of high-end manufac...
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Mark your calendars for Nov 19! 🎸
A very musical episode of Trade Winds with me, @JohnMlynczak (NAMM) & Julie Robbins (Earthquaker Devices) on tariffs, instruments & how trade policy meets pop culture & music education - all hosted by @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social.
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A very musical episode of Trade Winds with me, @JohnMlynczak (NAMM) & Julie Robbins (Earthquaker Devices) on tariffs, instruments & how trade policy meets pop culture & music education - all hosted by @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social.
🔗 www.piie.com/events/2025/...
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Reminder: there are no trade deals. Nothing binding was actually signed. 90% of news coverage you saw about “trade deals” was wildly misleading. It’s pretty weird. And it will get weirder as “deals” turn out to be not deals, actually.
JPMORGAN: “.. China’s soybean purchases are stalling, potentially putting the trade agreement at-risk, as the 13% tariff on soybeans makes Brazilian / Latin American alternatives more attractive. Further, the elevated purchases made by China in the recent months lowers demand ..”
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reminder: there are no trade deals. Nothing binding was actually signed. 90% of news coverage you saw about “trade deals” was wildly misleading. It’s pretty weird. And it will get weirder as “deals” turn out to be not deals, actually.
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Join us for this interesting discussion about the music industry and instruments. With @cullenhendrix.bsky.social Julie Robbins from EarthQuaker devices and John Mlynczak from NAMM
Thank you for the music! What are tariffs doing to the music industry? www.piie.com/events/2025/...
Thank you for the music! What are tariffs doing to the music industry?
Tariffs are affecting many parts of society, but how are they changing the music industry? This highly globalized industry is a finely tuned ecosystem, harmonizing the craftmanship of high-end manufac...
www.piie.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join us for this interesting discussion about the music industry and instruments. With @cullenhendrix.bsky.social Julie Robbins from EarthQuaker devices and John Mlynczak from NAMM
I think there's more to it ... but not much.
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I think there's more to it ... but not much.
I guess this trade war is going really asymmetric.
A blast of cold, dry Arctic air from Canada is set to sweep southward this weekend, sending temperatures across the central and Eastern United States plunging 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below normal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Do You Remember Where Your Gloves Are? Early Blast of Winter Heads East.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I guess this trade war is going really asymmetric.
Between tariffs and the government shutdown the US appears to be waging siege warfare against its own population.
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Between tariffs and the government shutdown the US appears to be waging siege warfare against its own population.
Gilt bathrooms + calling your constituents crack addicts: the party of the common man.
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Gilt bathrooms + calling your constituents crack addicts: the party of the common man.
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Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the U.S. He wasn't replaced. Now, the wells are at risk of spewing planet-warming gases and contaminating groundwater.
The Only National Parks Employee Who Tracks Leaky Oil Wells Is Out of a Job
Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the National Park Service’s chief petroleum engineer. He wasn’t replaced.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the U.S. He wasn't replaced. Now, the wells are at risk of spewing planet-warming gases and contaminating groundwater.
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42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.
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Rep. Crow: Trump is largely using tariffs to enrich himself and his family. They are using the threat of tariffs to strike golf course deals around the world. They're using tariffs on Brazil because they did something that they didn't like. Trump is personalizing American power for his benefit
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Rep. Crow: Trump is largely using tariffs to enrich himself and his family. They are using the threat of tariffs to strike golf course deals around the world. They're using tariffs on Brazil because they did something that they didn't like. Trump is personalizing American power for his benefit
This implies the existence of "just discrimination," which would appear to be the mother of all contradictions in terms.
The Trump administration makes it official:
The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.
As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.
As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This implies the existence of "just discrimination," which would appear to be the mother of all contradictions in terms.
Chef's kiss, no notes, America. This is where we are.
I'm so ashamed.
I'm so ashamed.
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Chef's kiss, no notes, America. This is where we are.
I'm so ashamed.
I'm so ashamed.
I have to assume the people who made LoTR are furious about this.
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I have to assume the people who made LoTR are furious about this.
My God.
😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”
apnews.com/article/viet...
apnews.com/article/viet...
Vietnam's tourist sites submerged as record rainfall causes major flooding
Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An.
apnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My God.
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Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
Mark your calendars for Nov 19! 🎸
A very musical episode of Trade Winds with me, @JohnMlynczak (NAMM) & Julie Robbins (Earthquaker Devices) on tariffs, instruments & how trade policy meets pop culture & music education - all hosted by @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social.
🔗 www.piie.com/events/2025/...
A very musical episode of Trade Winds with me, @JohnMlynczak (NAMM) & Julie Robbins (Earthquaker Devices) on tariffs, instruments & how trade policy meets pop culture & music education - all hosted by @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social.
🔗 www.piie.com/events/2025/...
Thank you for the music! What are tariffs doing to the music industry?
Tariffs are affecting many parts of society, but how are they changing the music industry? This highly globalized industry is a finely tuned ecosystem, harmonizing the craftmanship of high-end manufac...
www.piie.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Mark your calendars for Nov 19! 🎸
A very musical episode of Trade Winds with me, @JohnMlynczak (NAMM) & Julie Robbins (Earthquaker Devices) on tariffs, instruments & how trade policy meets pop culture & music education - all hosted by @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social.
🔗 www.piie.com/events/2025/...
A very musical episode of Trade Winds with me, @JohnMlynczak (NAMM) & Julie Robbins (Earthquaker Devices) on tariffs, instruments & how trade policy meets pop culture & music education - all hosted by @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social.
🔗 www.piie.com/events/2025/...
Reminds me of a cartoon from MAD Magazine in the 1980s featuring a grinning Derg general saying "We have no money for food and medicine ... only guns and tanks."
NEW: About two dozen states sue Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamp benefits in November while the government is shut down. The admin has said it cannot use leftover emergency money, a decision states have contested. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reminds me of a cartoon from MAD Magazine in the 1980s featuring a grinning Derg general saying "We have no money for food and medicine ... only guns and tanks."
This is the basic diagnostic for dementia, right? I saw my mom go through it two or three times in the past year.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is the basic diagnostic for dementia, right? I saw my mom go through it two or three times in the past year.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
All roads lead back to (woke?) Reagan.
The Reagan administration ended the construction differential subsidy program, which had historically helped U.S. shipyards compete with foreign builders. And even then they weren't exactly setting the world on fire.
The Reagan administration ended the construction differential subsidy program, which had historically helped U.S. shipyards compete with foreign builders. And even then they weren't exactly setting the world on fire.
Trump: "In World War 2, we were the biggest in the world on shipbuilding. And then over the years we went wokey."
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
All roads lead back to (woke?) Reagan.
The Reagan administration ended the construction differential subsidy program, which had historically helped U.S. shipyards compete with foreign builders. And even then they weren't exactly setting the world on fire.
The Reagan administration ended the construction differential subsidy program, which had historically helped U.S. shipyards compete with foreign builders. And even then they weren't exactly setting the world on fire.
I love economists but they have a tendency to barge into established areas of study and act as if they are exploring virgin territory.
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I love economists but they have a tendency to barge into established areas of study and act as if they are exploring virgin territory.
Is this stagnation?
October 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Is this stagnation?
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Bipartisan group of big-name economists (including Bernanke, Yellen, Nobel laureates Acemoglu & Johnson, etc) in amicus brief urge SCOTUS to throw out Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bipartisan group of big-name economists (including Bernanke, Yellen, Nobel laureates Acemoglu & Johnson, etc) in amicus brief urge SCOTUS to throw out Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Another reason you need almost need a PhD to navigate AI for research - you need to be an expert to separate wheat and chaff.
Some AI experts told me it looks like Grok's been given a restricted list of sources when talking about subjects where Elon wants it to give a specific answer. So I asked Grok to give me a list of researchers on cognition and heritability and it spit out total bigots and pseudo-scientific cranks
October 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Another reason you need almost need a PhD to navigate AI for research - you need to be an expert to separate wheat and chaff.
I just canceled my ChatGPT subscription.
It can be incredibly useful - but the downsides are substantial relative to price. It still hallucinates, it disregards standing orders while saying it will comply, and it's rate of hangups (spinning its wheels indefinitely) has increased.
It can be incredibly useful - but the downsides are substantial relative to price. It still hallucinates, it disregards standing orders while saying it will comply, and it's rate of hangups (spinning its wheels indefinitely) has increased.
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I just canceled my ChatGPT subscription.
It can be incredibly useful - but the downsides are substantial relative to price. It still hallucinates, it disregards standing orders while saying it will comply, and it's rate of hangups (spinning its wheels indefinitely) has increased.
It can be incredibly useful - but the downsides are substantial relative to price. It still hallucinates, it disregards standing orders while saying it will comply, and it's rate of hangups (spinning its wheels indefinitely) has increased.
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Nothing to worry about, just dead bodies washing ashore in a region where the US is carrying out extrajudicial killings of boats at sea
Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.
A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes
The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.
nyti.ms
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Nothing to worry about, just dead bodies washing ashore in a region where the US is carrying out extrajudicial killings of boats at sea