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This Administration Isn’t Blatantly Breaking the Law Right Before Your Eyes—We’re Just Flirting with Breaking the Law

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-administration-isnt-blatantly-breaking…
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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 22:00

“The Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders.” — New York Times

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This administration repeatedly ignores court rulings, so, sure, it looks like we are breaking many laws. But even though it seems very, very obvious to everyone that we’re breaking laws left and right, any stable genius can see we’re merely edging ever closer to breaking many laws. Like a teenager sitting next to their crush in a dark movie theater, slowly creeping nearer and nearer to graze their date’s hand.

This isn’t a constitutional crisis. We’re just making eye contact with a constitutional crisis from across the bar, then looking away and giggling.

Sweden is still better off without the euro

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/sweden-is-still-better-off-without-t…
Created
Mon, 21/04/2025 - 20:42
Lately — especially in the Moderate Party (Moderaterna) and the Liberal Party (Liberalerna) — there has been a push for the euro based on the argument that global economic uncertainties make smaller currencies like the Swedish krona more vulnerable. Facing increased volatility, the euro is said to be a safer alternative. This, however, sounds rather […]

My blog is on holiday today

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62507
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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 13:03
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to work on a project that has an impending (very) deadline. I also did a podcast interview with the team at Macro and Cheese on the state of American this morning. So…

Bring Back British Steel

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/bring-back-british-steel/
Created
Mon, 21/04/2025 - 11:21

A decade ago, I stood up in Parliament and urged Conservative ministers to save the Redcar steelworks — our blast furnace, our world-class coke ovens. I warned then that abandoning these strategic assets would have generational consequences, and I wasn’t alone in saying so. My Labour colleagues in the neighbouring constituencies (Redcar and Middlesbrough South […]

Great academic opportunities: 29 calls for papers, 9 postdocs, 7 summer schools, 6 PhD scholarships, 5 jobs, 2 visiting posts, a research grant

https://economicsociology.org/2025/04/21/great-academic-opportunities-27-calls-…
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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 10:53
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 29 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 7 summer schools, 6 PhD scholarships, 5 job openings, 2 visiting positions, and a research grant in […]

Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers

https://tomdispatch.com/trump-harvests-autocratic-powers/
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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 07:08

In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their “black sites.” For those too young to remember (or who have quite understandably chosen to forget), “black sites” was the name given to clandestine CIA detention centers around the world, where that agency held incommunicado and tortured men captured in what was then known as the Global War on Terror. The black site in this case was the notorious Salt Pit in Afghanistan. There el-Masri was, among other things, beaten, anally raped, and threatened with a gun held to his head. After four months he was dumped on... Read more

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