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—The stock market freakout: It’s possible that Trump’s economic advisors, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and his political counselors finally got through to him that the market’s historically rapid plunge since April 2 would not be good for the economy or Republicans’ fortunes in the 2026 midterms.

—The bond market freakout: More worrisome to financial observers was weird, counterintuitive activity in the treasury bond market.

The Pennsylvania senator has said he's open to Trump’s expansionist plan to purchase Greenland, slamming colleagues for their “freakout” over the suggestion in a Fox News interview.

Another parallel to today’s freakout about “wokeness”: None of these books seemed very interested in understanding “the politically correct.”

Then there are the changes that feel closer to a Cronenbergian freakout: curiously dense new tufts of back hair, slightly sharper teeth, a body count of dead critters each morning on the doorstep.