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Sort of eclectic interests, probably some inconsistencies, but I'm pretty nice, really. Canadian. she/her

  1. It's not "600,000 asylum seekers" - there are not that many people seeking asylum in the UK. Anyone whose status is unclear (and from Windrush that would include anyone who the Home Office has the wrong information about) would be at risk.

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  2. Apropos of nothing, a reminder that German stock markets kept climbing in an almost uninterrupted fashion in the run-up to WW2. Investors are really, really bad at pricing serious institutional and political risks.

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  3. Let’s be clear: Pritzker isn’t a savor, he’s not “the leader of the resistance.” There won’t be one. That’s us. He’s an elected doing his job when most aren’t, and doing it well. He’s not a leftist, he’s a liberal, but he’s putting himself on the line, and that’s worth a lot.

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  4. Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin

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  5. undercooked "AI's" rushed and sloppy integration into journalism continues to go great, why do you ask

    "Wired and Business Insider have removed news features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated works of fiction.

Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author after concerns were raised by Press Gazette. The publisher has concluded that it “appears to have been written by AI”.

Several other UK and US online publications have published questionable articles by the same person, going by the name of Margaux Blanchard, since April.

Most of the published stories contained case studies of named people whose details Press Gazette was unable to verify online, casting doubt on whether any of the quotes or facts contained in the articles are real."
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  6. 20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States.

    It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’).

    If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.

    Countries across the world are suspending parcel shipments to the U.S. over uncertainty over the Trump administration's policies.

    Map shows countries suspending postal service to United States

    Countries across the world are suspending parcel shipments to the U.S. over uncertainty over the Trump administration's policies.

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  7. Sometimes lost in the endless barrage of disappointing fed-level Dems: state-level Dems are doing a lot to resist, and not just with rhetoric from high-profile govs.

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