Trump administration lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave
Politics
2025-04-12
2025-04-11
Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs: It’s estimated that iPhones would cost $3500 if they were made in the US.
2025-04-10
In the face of fascism, climate activists tell a better story: ‘A new network named ‘The Surge’ called a series of joint rallies for climate justice, anti-fascist and peace activists in January 2025, and were pleasantly surprised by the level of response.’
2025-04-09
Two Chinese nationals caught fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says: Happenstance or Autocracy Inc.?
2025-04-07
How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat: Mike Waltz saved his number under the wrong contract on his phone.
2025-04-06: 📚Finished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance.
2025-04-06: 📚 Want to read: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. …a once-in-a-generation, …
2025-04-05
Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say: The phrase ‘safe drinking water’ may never again be uttered.
Reciprocal Tariff Calculations: The official methodology behind those bizarre numbers, in my to-read pile.
Has the Trump administration used AI to calculate tariffs?: Well, probably , but either way their claims as to other countries' tariffs on the US are absolutely ridiculous.
2025-04-04
Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall Street: Self-proclaimed great businessman doing what self-proclaimed great businessmen do.
Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today: On the heavy-handed and biased policing of dissent in the UK.
2025-04-02
Useful Renumeration: A work-focused positive potential vision of the future, in stark contrast to anything Curtis Yarvin might have to say.
2025-03-30
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced: It’s as bleak as you’d expect.
Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’: Bezos refuses to let any opinions other than his own be published in the paper he bought.
2025-03-29
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada: So as “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.
2025-03-28
America Is Done Pretending About Meat: Gone is the dream of a cruelty-free world of vegans; apparently Real Men eat raw beef testicles
2025-03-27
Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.
Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest: Based on this year’s Spring Statement.
2025-03-26: Florida to replacement immigrant workers with…child labour
2025-03-26
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them: The incredible work of the folk at the Internet Archive.
2025-03-25
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: The top US national security brass, VP and all, inadvertently included a journalist in their military ops groupchat.