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Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
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Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?
A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports

@… I dunno. I kind of find this idea a bit <cringe>. Knowing how you like to browse 2nd hand mugs, I am wondering what your feelings about it is:

‘There’s been a lot of attention’: Mug exchange a hit with neighbours, community in Riverview, N.B.
A New Brunswick woman is bringing the community together through a coffee mug library in Riverview.

Filing: Netflix paid $587M in cash for Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive, in March (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-price-ben-affleck-ai-company-r…

Netflix Paid $587 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Company
The streaming giant disclosed the figure in a footnote in a securities filing Friday.

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending (Denny Thomas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Data from German vehicle insurer HUK-COBURG (which holds a quarter of the market) shows that Germans have been choosing EVs almost twice as often since the latest oil price crisis in March: 12 per cent of car insurance policy switches in Q2 2026 were to an EV
Second-hand EVs are also becoming increasingly popular amongst frequent drivers, for whom the cost savings are even greater. Volkswagen EVs are popular as second-hand cars, whilst new German EVs are less so.

"From toxic blooms to dead zones, how wildfires transform oceans and lakes"
#Wildfires #Environment #Water

From toxic blooms to dead zones, how wildfires transform oceans and lakes
Wildfire smoke and ash can reshape aquatic ecosystems long after the flames have been extinguished

PSA: Der österreichische Tracker-Halsband-Hersteller Tractive scheint ein Leck im Shop-System zu haben - oder Daten verkauft. Ich habe im Oktober 2025 eine unique Mail-Adresse für die Bestellung tractive.com Online-Shop verwendet. Nun erhielt ich Spam adressiert an diese Mail-Adresse.
Immerhin: Das Tracking-Konto läuft mit einer anderen Adresse, dort kam kein Mail an.
#hunde

Heute gebe ich mir kulinarisch die Kante.
"Du warst nicht in Straßburg, wenn du keine 'knack' gegessen hast", stand sinngemäß auf einem Schild. Das habe ich sehr ernst genommen und bin extra morgens in die Stadt reingefahren, um diese besondere Wurst zu probieren.
Danach zum Bäcker, vor dem sich eine Schlange gebildet hatte und aus dem es herrlich nach Brot duftete: Madelaine, Éclair und Canelé, ein wabbelig-fester Miniguggelhupf.
Abends dann einen Flammku…

This is encouraging but,
1) Land use emissions have fallen less than the rise in fossil fuel emissions: global emissions are still rising.
2) There is uncertainty in the data (other than for deforestation) which is greater than the decrease.
3) It's unclear to me what the overall flux is - the balance of sequestration Vs emissions. We know some forests have become net emitters.
Why

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts - Carbon Brief
Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.