with all the noise about white domination in South Africa, it is worth looking at the Palma Ratio of inequality... yes, SA was an unequal society under Apartheid, but inequality really sky-rocketed when the ANC took over...

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

not an American so I have ben trying to avoid US (Trump/Musk) news as much as possible, but I see the Venezuelans are being booted out - what happened to the Haitians that were supposed to be eating everyone's pets? Did they give up or were they also given the bum's rush? Asking for a friend...

Anyone who is surprised by this wasn't paying attention. This was always an anti-woman candidate and administration. I hope the women who voted for Trump wake up soon.

1/n I don't post threads often as there is little interest outside of South Africa in South Africa, but in light of our recent Budget presentation, I feel inclined to comment. I'm not a public finance specialist, but I have previously considered as knowledgeable about infrastructure and published

AOC is probably the most famous Dem in the country and has had a target on her back since Day 1 and she's out there every day bringing the fire. Fuck off if you don't actually want to defend the country and just want to suck up my tax dollars in a cushy job.

an interesting article about a much needed response to the Nazi... but it doesn't consider the implications of a decline in the value of Tesla stock on the loans Musk took out to finance some of his businesses including Twitter. Anyone with financial nous know about that?

gently suggest that everyone who wrote or edited this at the @nytimes.com be gently guided into a career that's not journalism because this is uhhh, real bad

wow

"The privilege to misgovern may be all but universally enjoyed in practice. But it takes some nerve today to espouse it consistently in public" John Dunn, The Cunning of Unreason, more than 20 years old but very relevant today...

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

As a result, there will be more unwanted pregnancies, more women & girls who have suffered rape will be forced to bear children, & more lives ruined. But Trump doesn't care. #Shame www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

planners should be like catholic priests but instead of celibacy they're just not allowed to have a car

Elder explaining life

America

In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

It's disheartening that in an age where knowledge has never been more accessible - the United States is about to be governed by an administration so primitive and ignorant as to believe that tariffs are good and that vaccines are bad.

posting a picture to present some 'zen' on the timeline...

1/n as a way of introduction to this site, apart from my brief bio, I thought I'd try explain something about the political trajectory in South Africa. It will be anecdotal and brief and dependent on interest, I may elaborate on specific issues.

I am wondering if women in the US are going to evoke the Lysistrata option? Not just as a protest, but as a public health measure in those states that have abortion bans. Surely any pregnancy in those states is a risk (as sadly we have seen in Texas and Georgia already)?