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My little essay on the end of the world trading system comes out today on the Peterson Institute for International Economics website. Check back later in the morning.

https://www.piie.com/blogs

Heck, Trump posted about "buying opportunities" a few hours before he did what he did. This is grift on massive does of steroids.

Well, perhaps Polis can ceremoniously light a bonfire in front of the capitol and toss the offending picture on as a sacrifice!

@ShiroKuro said in Leopards Eating More Faces:

Not green cards, a green card has no restrictions on work. The owners had green cards, the workers didn’t.

Six of Abby’s eight employees were in the U.S. on visitor visas but none had work permits when Homeland Security Investigations agents came to the business Feb. 12

I believe a visitor’s visa is a temporary visa, like for tourists. You’re not allowed to work with that.

Yes, and the owners surely knew that. As do the hypocritical white farmers who hire illegals by the truck load to pick crops and the Iowa chicken processing plants who hire them by the hundreds to do work none of the white folk in town would do for double the going wage.

@Steve-Miller said in Tariffs:

Why it matters: The conservative think tank says the error led to tariff rates massively higher than they should have been to achieve the goals the administration sought.

Depends on what you think the goals are.

Indeed. The administration wanted big numbers, so the formula was designed to give them big numbers.

So many mixed feelings.

Of course I feel sorry for the family caught up in this political hunt, driven substantially by racist motives. ICE is gonna suffer a lot in 2029 if a Dem wins the White House. In fact, we may see the closure of that organization completely.

But my sympathy for districts that voted for Trump is rather fragile. I just want to dope slap those folks. And after dope-slapping them, if they're still remorseful despite the dope-slapping, then welcome them back into the fold.

Yet if you want to decrease illegal migration (illegal, mind you), the most sensible way to do that is by hitting those who employ illegal migrants. If you want to hear the howling, wait until ICE destroys the labor force of White-owned factories in truly ruby red states. leading to really painful losses for White Republicans. Can't wait.

We had an excellent turnout in little Williamsburg. Lots of cars honking in solidarity ... well, not the one Cybertruck that went by.

Even private commercial vehicles (truck and buses) joined in. Even a USPS truck.

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There once was a penguin from Heard

Who was an industrious bird.

Her wares she did send

To America without end,

Till Trump said the dark tariff word.

There are good economists in the Council of Economic Advisers who likely helped invent this "formula." People like Kim Ruhl. He is a trade economist. I suspect his credibility is shredded for all time coming. For a few pieces of silver he ...

Back in the day, the CEA's role was to represent the economics profession and to tell truth to power. I know many people who have served well in that role over the years. Those days are in the rear view mirror.

Two generations earlier we had the great whiskey flood/fire of Dublin! Alcohol poisoning seemed to be a greater cause of death than fire or drowning in it ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-night-a-river-of-whiskey-ran-through-the-streets-of-dublin-1.2743517

Let 'em live in the filth they're creating in their state. Glad I shook the dust off of my sandals and departed that mess of a place over 50 years ago.

Try BlueSky instead...

Oi, what a pain.

I have a Canadian student in one of my classes. She came in today emblazoned in a red "Liberals" shirt. This one, in fact. She had been home in Ontario during the Liberal Party convention, paid her membership fee, and attended, voting for Carney. She said she attracted some TV coverage because she was up front, and rather younger than the average convention goer!

So, I decided to get the same tee, and I might wear it to class!

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Hamas, not Palestinian Authority.

Not all prominent law firms are kissing the ring ...

https://bsky.app/profile/kekerllp.bsky.social/post/3lkygek5bvk2b

Kluurs, I actually agree with much of what is in your sources. Israel has behaved very opportunistically in its response, destroying and killing much more extensively than was likely needed to achieve military objectives. They have not effectively curtailed the worst instincts of their least ethical soldiers. Some in the IDF likely have committed war crimes by any serious person's definition. If and when this Israeli government falls we may get an objective commission to discover and report these things from within Israeli officialdom. Alas, we may have to wait quite some time for that. Netanyahu's political skill (and luck) should never be underestimated.

That still doth not a genocide make ... yet. For starters, despite the horrendous toll, most creditable estimates I have seen still report a civilian/military casualty ratio quite a bit lower than in most other wars, even wars conductive by "civilized" European nations over the past century. That fact does not excuse any deliberate targeting of civilians, like the Palestinian woman walking to her chemo appointment. The evidence of Hamas using the civilian population to shield its forces is overwhelming. But IDF soldiers who use that fact to butcher civilians for sport ought to be held to account. One can accept the former fact, and its conclusion that innocents may be killed in legitimate war, without excusing the latter fact, that some in the IDF needlessly and cruelly murder people.

The quote that began this thread is a contention by a Palestinian that any "leadership" that actually wants to lead a people should understand that surrender is sometimes the best option. Instead, we have an organization that is a modern authoritarian kleptocracy fueled by 9th century religious bigotry that sees Gaza as Götterdämmerung, except with some paradise afterward because Islam never ever loses and inch of land to infidels. Palestine, every inch of it, is a waqf from God!

Hamas must go. How do you do that without a lot of destruction given the organization's complete and utter contempt for its own civilian population?

I'm deleting nothing. Fuck 'em and fuck him.

I'm giving an interview on CGTN IChinese media) Monday night on the administration's assault on the Department of Education.

I just don't care. I will not bend the knee, kiss the ass, or offer up prior obedience.