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  "path": "/2026/05/28/dont-look-up-the-coming-manufacturing-apocalypse/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T09:00:49.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Economics",
    "Foreign Policy",
    "Manufacturing",
    "Trump 2.0",
    "apocalypse",
    "fertilizer",
    "helium",
    "Iran",
    "Iran War",
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  "textContent": "Our manufacturing for nearly everything has been borked to some degree by Trump since 2017, and more so since Trump attacked Iran. We won't be able to re-stock our munitions quickly even if we had manufacturing capacity. Meanwhile Trump just continues to spout utter nonsense about Iran and a \"forever war\", and almost no one is acting appropriately to this situation.\n\nThe post Don’t Look Up: The Coming Manufacturing Apocalypse appeared first on emptywheel.",
  "title": "Don’t Look Up: The Coming Manufacturing Apocalypse"
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