Mia Wong

access to rare earth elements that are necessary for a whole bunch of advanced engineering, particularly sort of defense projects. This is something that could genuinely devastate the American defense sector. Trump's plan for this is that he's threatening to use the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to impose even more devastating tariffs. Now, It is genuinely unclear to me.

He probably will. He probably will. Like, two weeks ago, a thousand percent tariffs would have been a joke. But no, they might. They might legitimately do a thousand percent tariffs.

He probably will. He probably will. Like, two weeks ago, a thousand percent tariffs would have been a joke. But no, they might. They might legitimately do a thousand percent tariffs.

He probably will. He probably will. Like, two weeks ago, a thousand percent tariffs would have been a joke. But no, they might. They might legitimately do a thousand percent tariffs.

There's also been the beginnings of, on the U.S. end, sort of export restrictions from chip exports to China and countries like NVIDIA and AMD. And this is a fucking,

There's also been the beginnings of, on the U.S. end, sort of export restrictions from chip exports to China and countries like NVIDIA and AMD. And this is a fucking,

There's also been the beginnings of, on the U.S. end, sort of export restrictions from chip exports to China and countries like NVIDIA and AMD. And this is a fucking,

big rip to the the big rip to the fucking ai people eat shit get fucked yeah so like so that that's roughly the state of of the tariffs right now more more bullshit will happen we'll be back on tariff talk next week with another round of unbelievably hideous turf tariff shit but i want to i want to move on to one more thing which is things that have been happening at the NLRB.

big rip to the the big rip to the fucking ai people eat shit get fucked yeah so like so that that's roughly the state of of the tariffs right now more more bullshit will happen we'll be back on tariff talk next week with another round of unbelievably hideous turf tariff shit but i want to i want to move on to one more thing which is things that have been happening at the NLRB.

big rip to the the big rip to the fucking ai people eat shit get fucked yeah so like so that that's roughly the state of of the tariffs right now more more bullshit will happen we'll be back on tariff talk next week with another round of unbelievably hideous turf tariff shit but i want to i want to move on to one more thing which is things that have been happening at the NLRB.

So the NLRB, for people who are not regular listeners to the show, is the National Labor Relations Board. They were in charge of a whole bunch of things related to negotiations between employers and unions, or the people who certify union elections. They handle unfair labor practices disputes. And Doge effectively broke into the NLRB

So the NLRB, for people who are not regular listeners to the show, is the National Labor Relations Board. They were in charge of a whole bunch of things related to negotiations between employers and unions, or the people who certify union elections. They handle unfair labor practices disputes. And Doge effectively broke into the NLRB

So the NLRB, for people who are not regular listeners to the show, is the National Labor Relations Board. They were in charge of a whole bunch of things related to negotiations between employers and unions, or the people who certify union elections. They handle unfair labor practices disputes. And Doge effectively broke into the NLRB

and has seized a whole bunch of information that they shouldn't have. NPR broke the story and has been doing a lot of good coverage of it. So it came in, right?

and has seized a whole bunch of information that they shouldn't have. NPR broke the story and has been doing a lot of good coverage of it. So it came in, right?

and has seized a whole bunch of information that they shouldn't have. NPR broke the story and has been doing a lot of good coverage of it. So it came in, right?

They technically had some kind of order saying that they were supposed to be able to come in and do this stuff, and they set up and they disable all of the security stuff and all of the sort of logs and all of the sort of stuff that's supposed to verify what someone's doing on a computer system. They go in and disable all of them. They delete all traces of what they do.

They technically had some kind of order saying that they were supposed to be able to come in and do this stuff, and they set up and they disable all of the security stuff and all of the sort of logs and all of the sort of stuff that's supposed to verify what someone's doing on a computer system. They go in and disable all of them. They delete all traces of what they do.

They technically had some kind of order saying that they were supposed to be able to come in and do this stuff, and they set up and they disable all of the security stuff and all of the sort of logs and all of the sort of stuff that's supposed to verify what someone's doing on a computer system. They go in and disable all of them. They delete all traces of what they do.

And this is a big deal because the NLRB has a lot of extremely sensitive data. It has extremely sensitive data on unions. It has a lot of extremely sensitive trade data on private companies. Now, the NLRB person who blew the whistle on this to NPR described how... So he complains to his superiors about Doge, again, just sort of breaking into this fucking office and just stealing all of this data.