Saturday, President Trump lashed out at Walmart on Truth Social for signalling that tariffs would raise prices for consumers. “Walmart should STOP trying to blame tariffs for raising prices,” he wrote, demanding the retailer instead “EAT THE TARIFFS” and “not charge valued customers ANYTHING.” Here’s the truth: companies can sometimes absorb some tariffs. But a policy of universal tariffs against Chinese goods will raise prices at Walmart. Margins are thin, and politicians don’t get to demand that retailers lose money by selling at a loss after their inputs increase. When Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris suggested that grocery stores were “price gouging,” it was a tactic to distract from their inflationary spending policies. Trump is running the same playbook: blame companies for raising prices in an environment he created. You can love them or hate them, but tariffs do raise prices. That’s just math.

Monday, the New York Times reported that Miami schoolteachers are using AI to simulate dead presidents (notably JFK) in history class, and basically gifting kids free chatbots. It’s a total departure from two years ago, when our largest school districts — New York, LA, Seattle — announced (completely unenforceable) AI bans. A welcome development, sure, though most AI coverage still feels fearful to me: frumpy adjuncts feeding essays to copyleaks, a fixation on what “sounds like AI” (who cares? is it good?), the emdash stasi. Maybe, instead of telling everyone how not to use this new, protean technology, teachers should take a page from our friends in Miami and… have an imagination? Simulate dead presidents and let kids grill them about policy; recreate the Apollo 11 moon landing in 360-degree glory; make a personalized debate partner (troll) for every student so they can figure out what they actually believe. Build things! Kids learn from example, I heard.

Today in hilarious California self-owns, the state’s Tesla sales dropped 21% in Q1 of 2025 according to data from the California Energy Commission — part of a broader decline for the company as some consumers grow disillusioned by the MAGA overtures of one Diablo-playing Tesla executive. Great, congrats, you got him, ladies. But the decline in Tesla sales has led to a year-over-year drop in California’s overall EV sales, jeopardizing the state’s goal of making at least 35% of new car sales zero-emission vehicles by 2026. It speaks to an uncomfortable reality — an inconvenient truth, if you will — concerning the political priorities of wine-sipping Napa boomers: they believe climate change is an existential threat that will kill us all, right up until the point the guy offering a solution to this existential threat tries to cut government waste. Congrats, San Diego: your watery death is hereby postponed until we lock up Big Balls.

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