hilzoy
Ethics R Us. Baltimore.
Refugee from Twitter, blogging, and who knows what else.
- "like Marley's chains" 🥰
- In what possible world does it even cross your mind that the appropriate response to teenagers ringing your doorbell and running away is to shoot them?
- Reposted by hilzoyThis! Trump's opponents need to reclaim the fight against antisemitism by going on attack against the Nazi sympathizers celebrated by the MAGAts.
- Reposted by hilzoyThis Trade Policy Dashboard from @innovateeconomy.bsky.social is an excellent collection of stats on the US economy and impacts of trade policies: eig.org/trade-policy...
- Via Adam Tooze: 😬
- Reposted by hilzoyArticle 3 of the Convention Against Torture (to which the United States is a party)
- With reports of Trump admin. plan to send migrants to Libya This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant "Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."
- Reposted by hilzoyA victory for Rümeysa Öztürk! She will be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont while her case is heard—including a hearing for potential release on bail this Friday. FULL OPINION: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- NEW: #Ozturk wins at the Second Circuit! Stay of transfer denied, administrative stay vacated.
- Reposted by hilzoyCBO issues estimates of enrollment/coverage losses from major #Medicaid cut proposals under discussion by House GOP. As expected millions lose Medicaid coverage and end up uninsured. But these estimates are of each proposal separately and don't show the cumulative impact: www.cbo.gov/publication/...
- It never crosses his mind that people might just go elsewhere. He thinks he's in this impregnable position: he holds all the power, and everyone else just has to suck it up. When you think like that, your power tends to disappear.
- Trump: "I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for and I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping, because everybody wants to shop here"
- It's easy to tell it's hallucinating if you have even a passing familiarity with Congress and politics. (1) AOC sponsored two bills *that Trump signed*? I don't think so. (2) Bills that were introduced this year, one of them just six weeks ago, have already become law? HAHAHAHAHAHA.
