Sorry it’s late. I had a too early meeting with East Coast people and then went for a walk instead of doing this. Now I’m having a too late lunch.
– At the start of the year I didn’t know anything about elevator reform. Now I’m sad it didn’t pass. Next year.
– Make recycling better in Washington.
– It turns out that cutting Medicaid has negative outcomes.
– Hell yeah Bike Works
Single-stair buildings and smaller elevators looks like trading safety for affordability to me. I don’t think a single stairway is wise for any building with more than a few living units.
Elevators are the last thing you want to use as an escape route in a building on fire. Think of elevator shafts as chimneys, because that’s what they are.
If high-rise building elevators can’t accommodate stretchers, how do you get someone having a heart attack or other major medical emergency out of the upper floors?
I’m not sure adopting third-world building standards is the way to go. The only apparent argument in favor is that it’s cheaper. You can make the same argument for thatched roofs and cardboard walls.
A stupid freshman GOP senator just gave Democrats permission to call Republicans Nazis, because what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander, too.
https://www.rawstory.com/chuck-schumer-2671676297/?
#goosegander
Tariffs bring jobs back to the domestic economy by erasing imported goods’ cost advantage. They do not make goods cheaper.
The competitive advantage for domestically produced goods created by tariffs can motivate companies to increase domestic employment up to their existing onshore production capacity.
But they won’t invest in physical expansion unless they believe the tariffs will be permanent. Thus, factory capacity sized for a non-tariff environment is a limiting factor for reshoring jobs.
Trump is already signaling the tariffs are negotiable, and thus potentially non-permanent. No well-managed companies are going to invest in domestic factory expansion without government subsidies of the sort seen in Biden’s CHIPS Act.
If you were wondering, 36 hours is how long it takes for die hard free market conservatives to hop on the Daddy Trump protectionist cock and start bouncing.
Well they are admiring Nazis in committee hearings.
In a new federal court order today out of Maryland, Fat Hitler has until midnight Monday to send an airplane to El Salvador and bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.21.0_1.pdf
Abrego Garcia has no tattoos, is not and and has never been a member of any criminal gang, isn’t involved in any terrorist groups, and has never committed any crimes, which facts have all eventually been admitted to by the DOJ in court in recent days.
They will miss this deadline.
At which point I would argue the Secretary of Homeland Security should be held in contempt and ordered to surrender for confinement at FCI Cumberland until such time as the lawful court order is complied with.
And if the DOJ refuses to present the Secretary for confinement then the Attorney General should be held in contempt and ordered to surrender to FCI Cumberland as well.
People die in El Salvador’s CECOT facility all the time under exceptionally murky circumstances. An innocent man’s life hangs in the balance. That justifies the court exercising extraordinary measures to obtain compliance with its order.
@ 3
No well-managed companies are going to invest in domestic factory expansion without government subsidies of the sort seen in Biden’s CHIPS Act.
Well, then Apple either continues to manufacture overseas and pays the tariff, reducing profits, or it ceases to produce, reducing profits.
Apple is committing to invest $500B in American production and development. It’s not doing it for the subsidies. It’s doing it to avoid the tariffs.
Or perhaps Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does not think that Apple Computer is a well-managed company.
The last possibility is that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is simply full of shit, per usual.
@7
Apple is building an AI datafarm and research center. They aren’t gearing up to make iPhones here no matter hoe many consecutive days you make that claim
Does a federal court have habeas jurisdiction over someone the United States has removed without process to a “foreign sovereign”?
The existing standard articulated by CJ Roberts in June 2008 was that “(t)he habeas statute, 28 U. S. C. §2241(c)(1), applies to persons held ‘in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States.’ The disjunctive “or” in §2241(c)(1) makes clear that actual Government custody suffices for jurisdiction, even if that custody could be viewed as “under … color of” another authority, such as the MNF–I.”
If the Slavadoran government is holding a petitioner on behalf of, at the behest of, or “under …color of” the U.S. government then the court has habeas jurisdiction.
Look for a 7-2 split with the usual suspects in dissent.
Until then also look for mewling cult members like the Nazi Fucktard to adopt whatever idiocy he is programmed to adopt from the face holes of administration spokesmodels.
@4 Spoken like someone who doesn’t worry about making ends meet. These Wall Street guys just don’t get it. They have no idea how Main Street lives.
@6 But he got traffic tickets …
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@7 “It’s doing it to avoid the tariffs.”
The $500 billion is pledged, not spent. Some of this money was pledged during Trump’s first term, some during Biden’s term, and it was announced in February. Nobody spends $500 billion without years of planning. So no, it’s not in response to the tariffs announced this week. As always, you’re the one who’s full of shit. 💩💩💩💩💩
@9 “If the Slavadoran government is holding a petitioner on behalf of, at the behest of, or “under …color of” the U.S. government then the court has habeas jurisdiction.”
Given that we’re paying the Salavadoran government to house these prisoners, they’re being held at the behest of the U.S. government.
But the argument for his return doesn’t depend on that. Suppose a U.S. citizen suspected — or even convicted — of aiding or abetting a foreign terrorist organization was snatched and “rendered” to a CIA black site in a foreign nation for interrogation.
Does that person still have due process rights? Do U.S. courts have jurisdiction to order his return to the U.S. for trial or incarceration under our laws? That person never lost his constitutional rights and our courts never lost jurisdiction over him.
Factoid: The 10% of households who own 85% of stocks lost more from Trump’s tariffs in two days (85% of $5 trillion = $4.25 trillion) than they’ll get in 10 years from their share of his $4.4 trillion tax cut.
You get what you vote for.
#winning
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent apparently doesn’t want Trump’s tariffs pinned on him, because he’s “reportedly looking to move on from his current job.”
https://www.rawstory.com/bessent-trump-tariffs/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: After two months on the job, Bessent is already suffering reputational damage from his awkward efforts to defend Trump’s indefensible policies. It appears he’s looking to cut his losses, kinda like Doctor Dumbfuck letting another option play expire. Even a billionaire can take only so much humiliation.
A Trump official ordered Social Security to increase waste, fraud, and abuse in its program.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-retaliation-maine-sparks-calls-key-officials-resignation-rcna199520
Conservative men are afraid of cities. Secretary ‘MTVs Real World’ got an NYPD escorted two stop ride.
3.7M people rode those trains every weekday. Many at night. Some are ….GIRLS (gasp)
If you’re a Republican male legislator in the Florida capitol building, and you go into the men’s room and encounter this person in there, what would you say and do?
I never jetted off to golf after a 4000 point drop for the week.
Didn’t even go to Dekaware.
This post is Anti-Semitic!
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/red-crescent-massacre-gaza-israel
Federal Judge.
“No fuck off. Congress allocated funds for NIH research and that research is funded . That research will happen. Take your Orange ass and Elon and, I cannot stress this enough, fuck off. The research will be done’
@20 It was only a 3269 point drop.
Yes of COURSE.
We’re going repatriate all the textile shirtwaste jobs and all the Glidden shirts ar WalMart will still be $5.99. $6.99 with a graphic on them. Lots of factories will open in the next 4-6 weeks. No disruption.
Secretary of Labor CHAVEZ-DeREMER asked on Fox news if American workers will do Bangladeshi wage labor making garments.
You just pissed off Millennials, Gen Z, and all the tech bros.
Nintendo announces a halt to Switch 2 preorders in the US to recalculate the price due to Tariffs. Waffling on if orders already received will be filled or refunded.