This actually illustrates a very important point about tariffs: that the cost imposed on consumers comes from the reduction in supply and increase in price, and only indirectly from the tariff fee itself. Regardless of "who pays", it is effectively a transfer of wealth from consumers to producers.
we need Justice(s) Learned Lesson
Americans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. — James N. Druckman.
(@umisrcps.bsky.social)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260420-top...
This interpretation is exactly right.
More RECKLESS, brutal inanity from Trump & Russ Vought:
OPM is moving to require every insurer in the Federal Employee and USPS Health Benefits programs to every month provide everyone's _identifiable_ health data, incl doctor visits, prescriptions, and treatments. 👎🏻
www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...
This is a war based on lies
Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police
Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War
Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.
Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social
Shoebills are so cool. Some of the reasons they bow are-
Greeting and Recognition: Bowing is a way for them to greet humans they have bonded with or recognized, such as keepers.
Great thread from @scott-delaney.bsky.social highlighting the hypocrisy from Bhattacharya on training future scientists.
We won't have a next generation of scientists if we allow the Trump-Vought-Bhattacharya NIH to continue.
this but not only this — the wider ecosystem — public and private institutions, culture and society writ large, and dedicated individuals that all need each other to succeed
Trump: I'm winning a War, BY A LOT, things are going very well, our Military has been amazing and, if you read the Fake News, like The Failing New York Times, the absolutely horrendous and disgusting Wall Street Journal, or the now almost defunct, fortunately, Washington Post, you would actually think we are losing the War. The enemy is confused, because they get these same Media "reports," and yet they realize their Navy has been completely wiped out, their Air Force has gone onto darker runways, they have no Anti Missile or Anti Airplane Equipment, their former leaders are mostly gone (This has been, in addition to everything else, Regime Change!), and perhaps, most important of all, THE BLOCKADE, which we will not take off until there is a "DEAL," is absolutely destroying Iran. They are losing $500 Million Dollars a day, an unsustainable number, even in the short run. The Anti-America Fake News Media is rooting for Iran to win, but it's not going to happen, because I'm in charge! Just like these unpatriotic people used every ounce of their limited strength to fight me in the Election, they continue to do so with Iran. The result will be the same - It already is! President DONALD J. TRUMP 170 ReTruths 626 Likes 4/20/26, 11:11 AM
“I'm winning a War, BY A LOT…”
Here is a more serious take: confidentiality is one of those norms that is respected within systems in which everyone agrees on the rules of the game and trusts that others are following the rules in good faith.
I've written about PRC cars
musgrave.substack.com/p/building-y...
and
musgrave.substack.com/p/oh-no-i-be...
There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.
It seems to me that any government official who sues for defamation should be required to pay attorneys' fees x 3 plus costs if they drop the case, and x 5 if they lose.
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
American Lada
Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz
The Senate is now close to a tossup. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
NIH grantmaking plummeting under Trump
How many people will die from diseases that would otherwise have been preventable
We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.
He’s just burning your tax money.
I want to once again shout out attorneys like @doritreiss.bsky.social and @weparmet.bsky.social for their endless dedication to fighting for public health through the courts.
The process can be slow, but progress is happening.
We've had administrations where the Civil Rights Division took a less watchful eye to the rights of racial minorities or diverted its energies to address other issues, but this is the first administration in history to pervert it wholly into a tool to *hurt* the people its supposed to protect.
repeated 🤦🏾 can’t be good for my brain or anyone else’s
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Palantir is part of the "regressive and harmful" subculture that destroyed USAID, terminated mRNA research, trashed NIH & CDC & FDA & EPA, and brought back measles. Within the next few years, their subculture will be responsible for more preventable deaths than any other in human history.
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I know a lot of folks are dunking on this from the perspective of national party politics in the early 20th century, but from the New York perspective figures like Fiorello LaGuardia (elected on a Fusion ticket and arguably the most consequential mayor in US history) reflect reformist progressivism
