The UK has joined with the United States and a handful of other rich nations in rejecting the UN push
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Will Trump’s tariff wars backfire? And how should other world leaders, including Keir Starmer, react? In this episode of the Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Erica York of the Tax Foundation think tank.
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By ripping out his party's ideological roots in exchange for power, the Labour leader's premiership has been left deeply vulnerable to the coming storm, argues Neal Lawson
Duvet, you are so groovet, I’d like to stay under you all of Tuesdet.
One good side-effect of contemporary politics is that a more sober look at the merits and demerits of the US Founders’ legacy is possible again. (Of course, here at CrookedTimber we pride ourselves on our sobriety in such matters; it helps many of us reside in distant shores.) The current US President has contempt for […]
He said he would do it but they didn’t believe him I wonder how many people feel this way: EL PASO — On a recent windy, cold afternoon in this border city, dozens of people gathered at a park for an immigrant rights demonstration to denounce the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Some held signs reading: “Immigrants Make America Great.” Alan, a local police officer, and his wife came and held a Mexican flag. He said he joined the demonstration because he worries about his father, an undocumented immigrant who works at a farm in southern New Mexico. Alan said he voted for Donald Trump because of worries about the economy and because he believes Trump is pro-police and would combat the public’s negative perception of law enforcement. He said he believed Trump’s promises to make everyday items affordable for middle-class families. But after two weeks of Trump in the White House, Alan — who declined to give his last name because he fears retaliation against his father — said he now regrets his vote. Partly because he was angered when Trump granted clemency to people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
The Israeli onslaught continues with attacks on Jenin in the occupied West Bank overnight while government officials suggest the death toll is 61,000. In Melbourne yesterday, protesters endure searing heat for the 69th weekly protest in support of Palestine. Justin Trudeau speaks out for Canada. The ABC Afternoon Briefing mentions Peter Dutton 46 times in Continue reading »
From my recent travels, the answer seems to be "no."
I wrote about Ed Martin, the new US Attorney for Washington DC, the other day. He was one of the organizers of the Stop the Steal rally, spoke on January 5th, and raised money for the defense of the January 6th insurrectionists. Here he is sucking up to President Musk and assuring him that he’ll use his police power against his opponents: They know there will likely be big protests eventually. It just seems inevitable. We’re already seeing them happen in cities where the immigration raids are taking place. When they do, especially if there’s a big march in DC, I suspect there will be violence. It would be nice if the big march, should it happen, be led by women again. It would not preclude the police crackdown because that’s what Trump and his henchmen are looking for. But it will illustrate for the American people more clearly who they really are. By the way, I came across this about Martin. He’s quite a piece of work:
The slender-billed curlew as an illustrated case study
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At least one of them is: At the press conference outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz: "If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the… pic.twitter.com/st0kaEmibI — Art Candee ðŸ¿ðŸ¥¤ (@ArtCandee) February 3, 2025 At the press conference outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz: “If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don’t like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers. That is not how the American system of government works.” The WSJ reports: Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) said he would place a “blanket hold” on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until the administration’s attack on the leading U.S. foreign-assistance agency ends, a move that threatens to stall Trump’s ability to get his foreign-policy team in place.
The “drop is always moving,” and Drupal continues to evolve thanks to the folks who contribute from all over the world. But sometimes, behind all the coding, innovation, and collaborating, people start to lose motivation. In fact, it’s not uncommon for contributors to the Drupal project to experience burnout.
The Drupal Community Working Group is here to help. Part of our charter is to "help to prevent conflict and burnout" burnout, and this article is all about recognizing the signs and finding support.
Burnout can happen when work and life get out of balance. It can appear for lots of reasons. You might feel tired all the time or just plain bored with the same old tasks. Doubts creep in, and you start feeling impostor syndrome. You might feel the symptoms in your body and mind.
A man Ben Smith from Semafor calls a “MAGA Intellectual” (a contradiction in terms) has been tapped for Assisstant Secretary of State: Beattie has been a vocal critic of broad swathes of American foreign policy and represents a dramatic step away from the establishment Republicanism Rubio long embodied: In a widely-circulated essay on the site he founded, Revolver, Darren Beattie compared the “color revolutions” that Western democracies backed in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and 2000s to “the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.” Beattie, who has a PhD in political theory from Duke University, where he also taught, was fired in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists. He was appointed by Trump in 2020 to a the Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad, a move that the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, called “outrageous” at the time. (Greenblatt declined to comment Sunday.) The commission works with other governments to preserve sites related to World War II and the Holocaust.
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Let’s deal with the big, almost certain effects first.
This is the beginning of the end of the American alliance system, empire and world economic system.
Peter Dutton’s muse, Gina Rinehart, has declared that Australia would be a much better place if it were all mine. In an off camera rant, allegedly recorded at a McDonald’s drive thru. ”I stand by what I said, this country... Read More ›
What are the philosophical and empirical dimensions of the association of neoliberalism with free markets and why are they so hard to shake off? My latest articles argue that we need to dispel the neoliberalism = free markets couplet and re-evaluate how we assess neoliberalism.
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Many of us are aghast at the unprecedented dismantlement of the US administrative state. Mass terminations. Website erasure. Removal of watchdogs. Unchecked access to the treasury. All around me, people are trying to connect what’s happening to historical events. Is this fascism? A hostile corporate takeover? A coup? People want a frame both to understand […]