Adam Hosein

Microecon textbooks begin with people freely making rational choices to satisfy their preferences. But I’m struck how much expansion of global capitalism was in fact driven by trade in stimulants or addictive goods—tea, tobacco, sugar, opium, coffee. Surely someone has written about this?

A Line Must Be Drawn: The Cowardice Of Historic LGBTQ+ Provider Fenway Health Fenway Health must return to its roots and care for those the government casts aside.

1. Fenway Health shamefully dropped trans youth to save LGB cisgender people—a calculation based on fear and willingness to become agents of this administration.

I issue my call for Fenway to return to its roots and care for those the government casts aside.

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Stand Up to Racism’s statement on the horrific antisemitic attack at a Manchester synagogue today

Those poor goats though.

Lovely.

Do Moderates Do Better? Uncovering Bias in Split Ticket’s WAR Scores

We took a close look at Split Ticket's WAR metric, which has become influential in Democratic circles for suggesting moderates significantly outperform progressives.

Our finding: The metric contains systematic biases that overstate the advantage of moderation. A corrected model shows no advantage.🧵

British ICC chief prosecutor lost access to email and has bank accounts frozen after Trump sanctions on top court The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, British barrister Karim Khan, has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen since Donald Trump slapped sanctions on him in Fe...

If claims fascism is sweeping the western world seem exaggerated, it's worth reflecting on how Microsoft came to disable the email account of the chief prosecutor at the UN since he issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, & why it's not really being reported anywhere...
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Which is ironic given that Locke refuted Yarvin several hundred years ago…

Here’s Locke’s response to the claim that everyone is safer under an absolute ruler

Hobbes actually makes this argument that an absolute ruler would have no interest in plundering his own country. Unfortunately Yarvin seems unaware of this or the fact that Locke and history have clearly refuted the argument.

There are plenty of Hamas fighters who occasionally (not often) plant bombs and shoot at Israeli forces. There are cells that hold the hostages. Not much else is there. Hamas in Gaza is destroyed. The Israeli cabinet could have declared victory long ago.

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also great job!

So great to see you this. He’s amazing.

Well done, Governor. Crucial work despite the difficult circumstances.

Obviously, since this is in the Economist (which: awesome), I can't say "why won't the media cover this?!"

But still not seeing it covered w same urgency as a crime spike.

And showing crime is falling IS an urgent issue, given that Trump wants to use fear of crime to justify "unleashing" police.

Absolutely. And presumably the uncertainty in the meantime about the scope of exceptions will lead many people to leave or decide not to come, to the great detriment of both individual and country.

Island of Spirit. Or maybe Island of Togetherness.
(Harkening back to the Blitz spirit of togetherness.)

A happy, kind boy is such a blessing to the world. Happy Mother’s Day.

2. migration debate should have a nuanced focus on all of the complicated potential benefits and burdens of different forms of migration. It makes no sense to throw students, asylum seekers, care workers, etc. in one basket. Or to avoid discussing what the real effects are of each form of migration

1. UK immigration debate is bizarrely focussed on total numbers. Suppose someone did a poll on ‘How many books should there be in the local library?’ That obviously would be a useless question—which kinds of book are talking about? What needs are there? How much space is there? Similarly,

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

It’s giving bad snl episode

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

I don’t understand the politicos of this either—Labour will never manage to be to the right of Reform, so by spreading Reform’s narrative they are buying their own demise.

Congratulations, friends!! Delighted for you.

I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.

This is a pathetically small number. The Democratic Party can’t even oppose the most blatant show of authoritarianism yet.

When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.

Strong statement from ACLU on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil:

"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."