Blue jays have been swooping and screeching and carrying on in my side yard all day. Here’s a pair perched in the banana tree: They have a nasty reputation, blue jays, but they’re lovely birds. So glad today is Friday. This week has felt eternal. Got any big plans for the weekend? I was thinking …
Competency and conscience
I want to highlight two events from yesterday. First James Joyner’s response to the mass resignation of the membership of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: That’ll teach him. Now he’ll have to pack the commission with people hand-picked by Steve Bannon. https://t.co/1jGxMx780u — James Joyner (@DrJJoyner) February 17, 2017 …
Immigrants Get the Job Done*
The AP reports that the Trump regime floated a proposal to activate 100K National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo …
The Crazy Goes Back to Tax Cut Jeebus
I’ve now watched the Trump presser yesterday three times. Not because I am a masochist who enjoys inflicting as much pain as possible on himself, but because I don’t think I appreciated the full madness of it the first time. The surreality of it all just overloaded my senses and I really couldn’t take it …
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
First of all, to answer Dave’s question, yes, it’s worth engaging with journalists, especially those who clearly take the time to seek out good, non-establishment sources. Now, onto what may destroy this country. K-Thug today quite rightly calls out the Republican moral midgets in Congress for bowing down before Dear Leader. I’ve been wondering for …
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A question for Doug J
Yesterday, Politico highlighted my post on the distributional impacts of expanding actuarial bands. I like that piece a lot. It gets into the weeds very quickly on a relevant policy discussion and illuminates some of the trade-offs and quirks of the structure. Politico highlights a couple of writers a day. These links and names get …
Friday Morning Open Thread: Soldier On
US history condensed into a single photo from #StandingRock pic.twitter.com/gUH0xbJItX — Evan Greer (@evan_greer) February 13, 2017 On February 19th, we are calling on all people to join the TODAY, I AM A MUSLIM TOO rally, a day of solidarity! #IAmAMuslimToo pic.twitter.com/stDMyqDYFg — I Am A Muslim Too (@iamamuslimtoo) February 11, 2017 On a lighter …