The thing about going global to reap economies of scale is that it assumes frictionless trade; the world saw this in 2020 and learned, uh, nothing? (Yes I wrote my undergrad thesis on autarky in chemical fertilizer production in China).
NB: From the 2024 NHE tables, Medicare alone is $1,118.0 billion a year, or about $3 billion a day.
Look for video of the Transatlantic Sessions, Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas with a host of American, Scottish, and Irish musicians, going back 30 years now I guess. I don't remember if they shared much banter but there's much to listen for regarding differences in approach. youtu.be/7ljF9bDWrIg?...
South Burlington residents formed a human tunnel to rescue a three-year-old from an ICE raid without a warrant.
DC/Northern VA, where it was 86 degrees yesterday and it is snowing now. Confused person gif?
Bike lanes and public seating are good for business! It's common sense: when you create streets that are calm and welcoming, people like to spend time there.
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
The Anabasis also suggests that getting the troops out again might be a problem. I suppose more recent history is also, erm, useful.
Continue loving your friends. Love your community. Stand up for the marginalized. Support and help each other. Stronger together is a saying for a reason.
Literally me on any social media platform
any analysis of Israel and Lebanon that does not include the stated desire by multiple Israeli politicians - over many years - to destroy Lebanon itself is either not paying attention, in denial or actively deceiving people
jfc. Fourth Circuit with broad finding on banning adult health care. Their language. omfg.
There's a whole thing about tortoises being captured and held on shipboard for food that is horrifically fascinating. seahistory.org/sea-history-...
If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
Thx! I had lost track of her, will go listen now!
Learned this Charles Babbage quote earlier today: "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
a lectern with microphones is placed in the street in front of an ice detention center in broadview, illinois.
iβm outside the ice jail in broadview, illinois, where community members and electeds are holding a press conference after six people, including three u.s. citizens, were abducted from oβhare airport and detained for more than 40 hours.
feds took the six people to wisconsin before repeating them.
These are concentration camps. Don't think that these aren't concentration camps simply because there aren't gas chambers. The Nazis began to build and operate camps in 1933, but it wasn't until 1939 that they began gassing their prisoners. This is the path we're on.
A much higher audience & CinemaScore than I expected tho! I remember rushing to the theater to see Mother! b/c I was sure its CinemaScore (F) wld mean it wld be dropped before 2nd weekend.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Let me be clear: Iβm glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
This war on Iran is a case study in an administration that believes it has the means - and therefore the moral authority - to do whatever it wants.
It could have assembled a case, enlisted allies, stuck to a script.
But it can't be bothered, because it feels that to all be unnecessary.
My current enemies are not in Iran, theyβre in the Epstein Files.
The trust index is critical for maintaining a single national polity. Its collapse means we are not now, and cannot continue to function as, one nation.
Spotted in Seattle! πΈπ π
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
yougov.com/en-us/articl...
(one thought: I use the "block" button pretty liberally here, it keeps me sane and out of trouble)
BREAKING: SCOTUS shadow docket decision rules in favor of forced outing of trans students, reinstating a lower court ruling against California's law prohibiting forced outing. Also references forcing teachers to misgender trans students. Horrific precedent.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
