The Trump Regime Is Being Defeated Before It Takes Office

The Trump Regime Is Being Defeated Before It Takes Office

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As I have emphasized in the past two days, “the Trump regime will be tamed before it takes office.”  In the Western World You Become Respectable by Selling Out the People Trump Regime Already Backing Off on Pardons for January 6 Supporters of Trump  Now it is Tulsi Gabbard who is finding respectability in order to be confirmed. “Tulsi Gabbard Says She Now Supports Controversial Surveillance Law.  Gabbard had previously criticized Section 702 as enabling the government to ’trample’ […]

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Looting Is Bad. So Are Curfews.

Looting Is Bad. So Are Curfews.

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The California National Guard arrived in burn zones Friday to assist local police “with traffic control and critical infrastructure protection,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. Since then, the National Guard has been helping to enforce a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in and around Pacific Palisades and Altadena—the two neighborhoods most impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Preventing looting is worthwhile. Preventing residents’ freedom of movement is not. The Palisades and Eaton fires […]

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Nate Silver on "The Rise and Fall of 'Fact-Checking'"

Nate Silver on “The Rise and Fall of ‘Fact-Checking'”

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From Silver’s Substack newsletter yesterday: So, the news is that Facebook is eliminating a partnership that began in December 2016 with independent fact-checking organizations and replacing them with a Twitter/X style Community Notes program. To which I say: that sounds fine, actually…. My impression is that journalists who label themselves as misinformation experts or fact-checkers have a relatively poor capacity for self-reflection, perhaps because these are such self-aggrandizing labels to begin with. But that’s a hard claim to prove. It might […]

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No overtime for you!

No overtime for you!

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Argentina’s far-right libertarian President Javier Milei is trying to push through anti-worker labor reform that will increase the work day to 12 hours, with no overtime. It will also allow companies to pay workers partially with tickets (not real money) that can only be used at supermarkets or specific designated businesses. The anti-worker reform is euphemistically called the “Law on Promotion of Investment and Employment”. Here is the source, from the local media in Argentina: https://11noticias.com/noticias/Novedades/Recomendaciones-para-protegerte-del-sol-y-prevenir-golpes-de-calor_38746.htm He’s a […]

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