I don't view migrants wanting to enter the US as any sort of "crisis", no matter how many migrants are trying to enter the US at any particular time. The only migrant crisis is in the minds of people who want to stop other people from traveling across a fictitious line on the ground ( Read more... )

NEW YORK - Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order on December 27 to restrict the flow of migrant charter buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to New York City ( Read more... )

Negotiations continue on Capitol Hill that I personally consider "lose-lose", in that Democrats are considering trading something I don't want, in exchange for something from Republicans that I don't want. I'd rather they all fail in their dealmaking and go home for Christmas ( Read more... )

I've reached staycation relaxation again, probably going to play games with Kent on Sunday, nothing else planned until then, but having enough time and space to feel myself radicalizing, but WTF good are radical ideas inside my personal head ( Read more... )

Have many green voters had their wages undercut by mass migration?

Sigh ... wages are undercut by the labor market, by treating labor as a mere commodity rather than by treating every person on the planet as part of a communal whole, sharing equally in the produce. This draws mass migration from places with lower wages to places with higher wages ( Read more... )

Yesterday, a federal district judge abruptly threw out the federal mask requirement for people using mass transit -- such as trains, buses, and planes -- and by the end of the day most transit companies and agencies had dumped their mask requirements. So the next time I ride Metro, people will not be required to wear a mask. Enforcement was ( Read more... )

In the global rivalry between China, Russia, and the US, you don't have to pick a side. Disliking the US doesn't mean you have to boost China or Russia. Disliking Russia or China doesn't mean you have to be a US fanboy/girl/x. It's OK to oppose the imperialism and environmental destruction of all three countries simultaneously ( Read more... )

The European Council President, Charles Michel writes:

“The use of force and coercion to change borders has no place in the 21st Century."You mean, except when Israel does it on the West Bank, except when Turkey does it to Syria, except when the US helps the Syrian Kurds to do it, except when Kosovo does it to Serbia, except when Russia did this ( Read more... )

"there are few natural borders--just socially agreed ones"

For all the reverence that Trumpsters give to the southern US border with Mexico, they seem to have no historical consciousness of how this border came about. We're simply supposed to defend the border. Which these days means not allowing people to cross the border without legal ( Read more... )

In a world of credit cards, electronic cash transfers, and Bitcoin, you'd think paper money would be slowly heading toward extinction. Who needs hard cash in their wallets or purses anymore? When I'm out shopping I can pay for stuff by waving my phone, I don't even need credit cards, nothing has to touch ( Read more... )