Andrew Wilmington 🧦🌐🏗️
@awilm.bsky.social
Hematology/oncology physician. Social democrat. Abundance liberal. YIMBY. Advocate for better government. Views my own.
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"As with so much of what has gone wrong in the past 10 months (or years), this chaos can be laid squarely at feet of SCOTUS. Here, they’ve allowed him to continue collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs despite multiple lower courts ruling it's patently illegal." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Costco demands a refund from Trump
The mega-retailer is suing to get its tariff money back.
www.publicnotice.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"As with so much of what has gone wrong in the past 10 months (or years), this chaos can be laid squarely at feet of SCOTUS. Here, they’ve allowed him to continue collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs despite multiple lower courts ruling it's patently illegal." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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If you're willing to accept 1960s living standards, you can absolutely afford to support a 2025 family on a single 2025 income. People just don't want to do that.
www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-af...
www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-af...
You can afford a tradlife
It’s rising, not falling, wages and incomes that make full-time homemaking rare.
www.slowboring.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you're willing to accept 1960s living standards, you can absolutely afford to support a 2025 family on a single 2025 income. People just don't want to do that.
www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-af...
www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-af...
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we have built a culture of elite impunity
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
we have built a culture of elite impunity
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The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
This is so gross.
Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
This is so gross.
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Talking to housing advocates in the last few weeks has gotten pretty bleak. Various versions of "everyone's acting like the crisis is over, and it's really really not." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Feds to reduce housing spending by half, build only 26,000 homes: Budget watchdog | CBC News
Spending on housing programs will decline by more than half over the next four years with the federal government’s $13-billion signature housing initiative leading to the construction of just 26,000 n...
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Talking to housing advocates in the last few weeks has gotten pretty bleak. Various versions of "everyone's acting like the crisis is over, and it's really really not." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Who has Trump pardoned?
*the loyal (Jan 6rs, election deniers)
*other politicians engaged in corruption
*the wealthy and connected - and in some cases, the pay-for-play aspects are very clear
*the loyal (Jan 6rs, election deniers)
*other politicians engaged in corruption
*the wealthy and connected - and in some cases, the pay-for-play aspects are very clear
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Who has Trump pardoned?
*the loyal (Jan 6rs, election deniers)
*other politicians engaged in corruption
*the wealthy and connected - and in some cases, the pay-for-play aspects are very clear
*the loyal (Jan 6rs, election deniers)
*other politicians engaged in corruption
*the wealthy and connected - and in some cases, the pay-for-play aspects are very clear
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I don't think the president should pardon a man convicted in US court of conspiracy to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US. I think large-scale drug trafficking is bad, not good, and convicted traffickers do not deserve special treatment.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I don't think the president should pardon a man convicted in US court of conspiracy to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US. I think large-scale drug trafficking is bad, not good, and convicted traffickers do not deserve special treatment.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
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"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
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HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
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“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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The Trump regime wants to make us less healthy and more dead.
Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution
The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the tighter standard on p...
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Trump regime wants to make us less healthy and more dead.
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In a city full of NIMBYs, Connie Chan is one of the biggest. she’s also super anti-transit and opposed measure RR that saved Caltrain during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In a city full of NIMBYs, Connie Chan is one of the biggest. she’s also super anti-transit and opposed measure RR that saved Caltrain during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
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Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
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A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
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the fact that the MTA is in the process of buying thousands of new subway cars without open gangways is a generational missed opportunity
My F train that was so crowded it couldn’t reliably get its doors closed at every stop between Jay St and Broadway-Lafayette — and I’ve never been more frustrated with the NYCT bureaucracy for cooking up literally every imaginable reason to not go all in on open gangways.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
the fact that the MTA is in the process of buying thousands of new subway cars without open gangways is a generational missed opportunity
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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Trump: “Tariffs protect you!”
Also Trump (a few months later): “We’re cutting tariffs to help with the cost of living!”
Economists: “So… you admit it?”
Trump: nervous coughing noises
Also Trump (a few months later): “We’re cutting tariffs to help with the cost of living!”
Economists: “So… you admit it?”
Trump: nervous coughing noises
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump: “Tariffs protect you!”
Also Trump (a few months later): “We’re cutting tariffs to help with the cost of living!”
Economists: “So… you admit it?”
Trump: nervous coughing noises
Also Trump (a few months later): “We’re cutting tariffs to help with the cost of living!”
Economists: “So… you admit it?”
Trump: nervous coughing noises
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Last year, the owner of a sawmill in North Carolina voted for Trump. This year, he’s closed down his mill and blames the squeeze from Trump’s tariffs. On the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics reporter Shawn Donnan visits the “Old North State” to understand the ripple effect of tariffs
They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
On today’s Big Take podcast: How Trump’s trade war led to the closure of a family-run sawmill in North Carolina.
bloom.bg
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Last year, the owner of a sawmill in North Carolina voted for Trump. This year, he’s closed down his mill and blames the squeeze from Trump’s tariffs. On the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics reporter Shawn Donnan visits the “Old North State” to understand the ripple effect of tariffs
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it's part of the corruption argument, really
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
it's part of the corruption argument, really
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This is brilliant, props to @ldpreload.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is brilliant, props to @ldpreload.com
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It only took 7 months, but my “why tariff banana?” crusade has FINALLY been vindicated: the White House has exempted bananas (and a bunch of other tropical fruits) from the tariffs today
Now if they could just realize this whole trade war is stupid and counterproductive…
Now if they could just realize this whole trade war is stupid and counterproductive…
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It only took 7 months, but my “why tariff banana?” crusade has FINALLY been vindicated: the White House has exempted bananas (and a bunch of other tropical fruits) from the tariffs today
Now if they could just realize this whole trade war is stupid and counterproductive…
Now if they could just realize this whole trade war is stupid and counterproductive…