“Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career,” Nicholas Hune-Brown writes. “But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam.” @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's favorite this week thelocal.to/investigatin...
postmodern finance theory
A dose of hope, from one of my fav climate scientists @drkatemarvel.bsky.social. A long read, but a good one.👇
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
This is an excerpt from Kate's new book, which is just out in the UK.
I've been inspired by Kate's work for a long time, so I'm super-excited to read it. I bet a lot of you will enjoy it too!
Other than standing in a greeting line at the Calgary airport on Sunday, Indigenous leaders had nothing to do with the meetings taking place around a very small table of the world’s G7 leaders.
🤩 “The court…confirm[s] that private companies can… be held liable for their share in causing climate damages. This finding has major ramifications for the wider legal battle to make fossil fuel companies accountable.” #swiss #us #uk #japan #netherlands #cdnpoli
theconversation.com/one-lawsuit-...
Listening tonight and glad that you touched on Myanmar earthquake. Here’s a number for you @adamtooze.bsky.social: $12. That’s how much a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh gets to spend on food all month, ~13 cents per meal, if you want three meals a day. (The bulk of it funded by USAID.)
“Specifically, various contrasting narratives were spread on WeChat about Mr. Carney – first amplifying the candidate's stance with the United States[ii], then targeting his experience and credentials.”
www.canada.ca/en/privy-cou...
Statement from the director of the Voice of America (who has been placed on administrative leave).
“The focus of the U.S. government is dealing with its yearly deficit in federal spending”
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Immediate thoughts as an economist: Volume drives revenue, but industrial policy restrictions may conflict with this. Trade reciprocity ~~> current trade systems.
Closeup of red Northern cardinal bird against blue and white background
Winter’s cold blanket,
Contrasted by cardinal.
Spring still holds its breath.
🪶🇨🇦
Inspired by the thought of balancing darkness and light: butterfly closeup #NaturePhotography 🦋🌿
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
New day, new lawsuit against the Trump admin: latest challenging the halt of USAID funds, brought by plaintiffs incl. private contractors, small business group, nonprofits and the American Bar Association (gets $ for int'l rule of law programs)
assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
Can the President Abolish, Move, or Consolidate USAID? Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID. The Secretary of State established USAID as directed by Executive Order 10973, signed on November 3, 1961. The agency was meant to implement components of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA, P.L. 87-195), enacted on September 4, 1961. Section 1413 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, Division G of P.L. 105-277, established USAID as an “independent establishment” outside of the State Department (22 U.S.C. 6563). In that act, Congress provided the President with temporary authority to reorganize the agency (22 U.S.C. 6601). President Clinton retained the status of USAID as an independent entity, and the authority to reorganize expired in 1999. Congress has not granted the President further authority to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID since. Congressional Research Service
Here is United States law regarding the President's attempts to close our development assistance agency in secret over the weekend.
It is illegal. No ambiguity.
Americans decide with their actions, today, if the US is a country of laws or—something else.
—> crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...
/ So the moral of the story, after everyone spent the day arguing about, "He just wants some changes at the border," versus, "He wants a whole bunch of other stuff," is: Trump wants both. As per last post.
We're through Round 1. Onto Round 2.
This is nuts. On av. 15% of families with children who have disabilities have considered placing their child into foster care, solely to access disability services not funded if their child remained at home. My latest for @indiginews.bsky.social.
Each State's Top Country For Exports.
Canada is number 1 for 32 states, Mexico for 6 and China for 5
See the import map here: brilliantmaps.com/the-top-i...
Our Litigation Tracker is now souped up with interactive Table. ⬇️
Now tracking 23 cases and expecting more to drop soon.
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
A man jumping, under the words "Make Time For Joy"
Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
Red Northern Cardinal sits in juniper tree branches
From December, Northern Cardinal in juniper tree. 🪶
Great White Pelican, inspired by @edyong209.bsky.social 🪶📷
Two gray-crowned cranes (grey and white bodies with golden spikes and touches of red on the face) express affection to each other in a green field. The shape of their two necks and heads meeting makes a heart.
Gray-crowned cranes 🪶
A small dark brown bird with a red vent perched on a wire. The bird has its beak open.
Red-vented Bulbul 🪶
The image shows a small bird perched on a branch against a clear sky. The bird has distinctive markings, including a red patch around its throat, yellow and black around its eyes, and greenish plumage. The tree branch is bare, with a few green leaves visible lower in the frame.
Coppersmith Barbet 🪶
A fluffed up male zebra finch lying on a flat perch.
A fluffed up male zebra finch lying on a flat perch. His head is tucked into his shoulder feathers.
Afternoon nap 🪶
Kingfisher mid-air with fish pierced in beak, flying upward
Kingfisher sitting on wire, with its head twisted upside-down trying to loosen fish without dropping it
“Success!” / “Oh wait, it’s stuck..”
White-throated Kingfisher #bird
A male Anna's Hummingbird, his gorget fully pink, is sitting quietly at the end of a little bare branch sticking out of a bush
A spot of pink -- Vancouver, May 16
#photography #birds #AnnasHummingbird
Oriole perched on tree and preening, yellow body, black head, orange beak
Ah, that’s the spot.
Black-hooded Oriole #birds
