Reality Sets In on Trump’s New War open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Economic consequences from Krugman.
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Reality Sets In on Trump’s New War open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Economic consequences from Krugman.
More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave. No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.
Very obviously but if you said this ten years ago, you got wall-to-wall screaming and finger-pointing for being divisive, insulting, ideologically purist and tribalistic. But it was plainly horrible National Front stuff then, just as it is now.
Cabinet Apocalypse open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Timothy Snyder on the making of the 'strongman'.
March 3, 2026
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Costs, legality and escalating wars.
It's one thing to say international law doesn't exist: where are the arrests & trials? It's another to say it shouldn't exist. And if you do, you have to say why there should be domestic law but not international law.
Terrifying for the stranded.
💥“No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, 3 of which — Iran, Nigeria & Venezuela — had never been targeted by US strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in 4 years.”💥
you want me to be pro-war? the thing that murders innocent people, destabilizes society and enriches the worst people in the whole world?
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, biochemist & a trailblazer in crystallography, she established the biomolecular structures of insulin, vitamin B12, & penicillin winning the Nobel in Chemistry in 1964 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInStem #WomenInScience
Almost as if...
Also, how do you claim to tell the difference between someone helping someone vote as they wish, and telling them who to vote for, unless you're a) spying on them closely, b) fluent in the language they're speaking, & c) absolutely confident none of that is a problem?
The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Frauds. All the way down.
see this is actually a quite good statement
I was literally pulling up the FBI indictments of the Iranian hackers two days ago for a forthcoming article ab this 🫠
Trump dismantled the entire infrastructure that disrupted this op! Kate and Stamos and I were sued by America First Legal — case is entering its 3rd year. These fucking hacks.
The Economics of Faltering Fascism open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Krugman makes a key point.
Hannah Spencer victory speech
youtu.be/Tf7wVpDEvho?...
"We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better without hating each other"
Zach Polanski has really got the establishment, and I very much include the Labour Party, rattled.
The Green’s don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of winning where I live at the moment so I’ll vote LibDem, however, he is the best thing to happen to British politics in the last few years.
Closing the libraries kind of makes sense if the plan is to get everyone reliant on AI so that people no longer have the capacity to think critically.
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...
Gorton and Denton by-election result:
GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)
Green GAIN from Labour.
We're suing on behalf of two families whose loved ones were killed when our government bombed their civilian boats in the Caribbean.
The Trump administration had no right to kill Chad Joseph, Rishi Samaroo, or anyone else caught up in these illegal extrajudicial killings.
She's such a superstar 🦸♀️🌟
I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF
5. Max and Francesca co-own a home in Washington, D.C., where they lived for years and brought a daughter into the world. The sanctions against Francesca include a block on this property that bars Plaintiffs’ from enjoying it or its value indefinitely, constituting an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. 6. L.C., Max, and Francesca also continue to face irreparable harms to their Fifth Amendment due process rights. Max and Francesca’s spousal relationship, and their parental relationship with L.C., has effectively been turned into criminal activity. Both Max and Francesca’s chosen professions have been, and continue to be, impaired through the termination of longstanding relationships, canceling of professional opportunities, and limitations on their ability to engage fully in their professional lives. 7. At its heart, this case concerns whether Defendants can sanction a person — ruining their life and the lives of their loved ones, including their citizen daughter — because Defendants disagree with their recommendations or fear their persuasiveness. Sanctions, used appropriately, are a powerful tool to disrupt and undermine the activities of terrorists, criminals, and authoritarian regimes. Sanctions are abused, however, when they seek to silence disfavored points of view and to violate the constitutional rights of people the government does not like.
Via @seamushughes.bsky.social, Treasury has blocked Francesca Albanese, her spouse, and their US citizen daughter from accessing her property based in IEEPA sanctions.
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The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
"It is a very good time to stop applying the terms “high skilled” and “low skilled” to entire occupations". Great point by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/0409... As I said here, "skill" is an ideological construct, not a technical one: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/skill-as-i...
Policy-making as gardening open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil... Interesting analogy from Chris Dillow.
There's one simple trick to making regulations and government more generally significantly less painful:
Start rewarding officials and agencies more for a smooth 'user' experience than you punish them for errors.
At the moment the former is not rewarded at all and the latter can be career ending.
This is good. I'd add that the Labour right defeated the left not by appeasing it but by marginalizing it, in part by not talking about its strong points (a critique of capitalism). So why does it think the opposite strategy will work on Reform? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-...
