A couple things:

• ICE operates under rules that say they’re not supposed to detain people at church. So encourage people to spend raid day at church.
• Don’t help out. Give the absolute minimum, don’t provide information, and refuse to give access on the basis of an administrative warrant (one not signed by a judge)

Edit: since I posted this, the rules ICE operates under have been changed to allow raids at churches.

Definitely want a hard block like other platforms. The fact that ‘block’ is treated as ‘mute’ is really damaging in terms of enabling harassment.

Here’s a gift link you can edit into your post so people don’t hit the paywall

Which is why Krugman is using CPI, and not some random category. He’s smart enough to avoid that kind of pitfall.

Wages at the bottom end of the scale haven’t been ok since Reagan decided to break things. Biden hasn’t managed to fix this; he was the moderate candidate who wasn’t willing to break the billionaires. And even if he had been, at no time during his Presidency have we had a Congress which was willing to go back to taxing the wealthiest at rates high enough to redistribute wealth back down the ladder.

The answer to that is under no circumstances to go choose somebody in a party whose core promise is to transfer even more wealth to the richest.

Yep, goods went down in price, services and housing went up in price. Given what people actually buy…it’s been a few percent per year increase in overall prices, which is what your chart from a right-wing think-tank is designed to hide.

Journalism has been utter hell as a place to make a living for the past 20 years. Online platforms broke the local oligopolies on commercial speech and classifieds, and left that money in the hands of a few newly-minted billionaires instead of journalists. I don’t see that as the result of the Biden administration or their policies.

It’s the standard statistics about wages and price levels that we’ve been using for decades. I don’t see any evidence that they’re gamed, though I don’t doubt that there are some people for whom what you describe is true

Total return weakens Israel. Basically because it leaves the country as a fairly narrow strip that’s easily cut apart in an attack.

Getting land in the west Bank returned means significant security concessions from whatever government is left. Last time this was tried it led to Hamas winning an election

Mostly concern that it weakens their position militarily. Get a genuine willingness for peace from a posr-Hamas Palestinain government and some sort of land-for-peace becomes thinkable

Netanyahu looks to lose the next Israeli election. Hamas doesn’t bother holding them

Hamas has been a problem for a long time

If you just send in food, Hamas will take the bulk of it, same way they supplied the tunnels in the first place. Only real way to solve the problem is to get rid of Hamas.

Pretty cynical when Hamas and Islamic Jihad could release the hostages and surrender and end all the fighting instead of giving people a choice over how they die

Hamas is their government, and as such, has a responsibility to those it governs.

And the supplies are literally under the feet of the people who need them. Not something dependent on outside shipment.

Hamas made a decision to start a war, and now they’re choosing to let people suffer for PR points instead of moving supplies up and out of their tunnels to the people.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a union get everything they asked for. It’s not as good as it might have been, but it’s a lot better than nothing.

He did shut down the railroad workers strike…and then got them the paid sick days they were striking to get

Probably treating this one differently because a railroad shutdown would have had much larger impact on people working in other industries.

critically thinking

A lot of people don’t, and it’s generally hard to do when looking at TV instead of a printed article.

Of course there are studies

It’s the kids who live near the airport who suffer, not the pilots.