#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Trump is an Uncertainty Engine, and, except for those who make money by arbitraging risk, it is bad for the economy (and everything else). I wrote about Trump as an (the?) Uncertainty Engine a while back saideman.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-...
Justin WolfersThe point of a tariff is to make firms build factories at home. But if it's on Monday, off Tuesday, back on Wednesday, no one pours concrete. Chaotic tariffs give you all of the cost and almost none of the benefit. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/global-tariffs-are-back-did-they
Reminder the Tates are repped by a lawyer w/only a VERY LOOSE relationship w/reality who played a key role in mythologizing Jan6ers & you should assume anything he says is in service of same. You should also ask how Andrew is tweeting from what he claims is SHU, where people don't have Xitter.
Bloomberg NewsSocial-media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate face threats to their lives in the Miami jail where the brothers are being held pending extradition on UK rape charges, their lawyer said
How did a false allegation lead to Pete Buttigieg's separation from his kids? Our exclusive reporting shows how authorities did not take steps to vet the caller who left her contact. We found the caller who said she wanted to thwart his White House ambitions. Gift link: wapo.st/45ok5XP
Source of false Buttigieg allegation appeared ‘mentally unstable,’ records showThe Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that prompted the ex-Cabinet secretary's separation from his 4-year-old twins was handled.www.washingtonpost.comI have been saying this for some time: that Trump is toxic in the domestic politics of most democracies and that will make it harder for the US to get stuff it wants. \Obama was able to get more help than Bush because the former was popular and the latter was unpopular, just not as much as Trump
Dmitry GrozoubinskiYes! I wrote this in July of last year talking about the inevitable self-defeating nature of being a massive tool. www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
Back in the day, I taught a course on US/Texas Public Policy, and I told the students you can let the market sort out outcomes rather than regulation. But the price would be harm to people.
Will BorgerI worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.
Disband ICE. The apple picking machine ensured that they are almost entirely bad apples and then the apple storage facility ensures that they rot.
Tina VasquezText messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.
Lots of states have one terrible Senator. Missouri has two of the absolute worst Senators around.
Kyle GriffinLiz Oyer says she's received deaths threats since testifying against Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General — and that Missouri's Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have helped fuel the violent threats against her.
This is one of the Iron Laws of Ethnic Conflict. Pretty much everywhere, people think that minorities are much bigger than they actually are. Maybe this is confirmation bias at work, but it is pretty universal. And it generates a heap of resentment much of the time.
Joel S.This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.
Jewish orgs seem to think they have to align themselves with sex pests and those adjacent to them because the alternative is Mamdani (see: Andrew Cuomo)
Jacob KornbluhCity Hall said retired Justice John Leventhal was rejected during vetting process for serving on Ghislane Maxwell’s legal team “To date, Mayor Mamdani has had the privilege of appointing a dozen qualified judges from a range of backgrounds, including Jewish judges,” Press Sec. Joe Calvello said.
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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA - Nature Human BehaviourUsing individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps ...www.nature.com