TBF the other thing that happens a lot is that administrations overreach the powers that Congress intended to give them, when that happens the courts are the only way to make them follow the law. Thi… (View Post)

Japan has almost entirely squished covid within its borders - we had 82 new cases yesterday for the entire country. They'd just relaxed the entry restrictions a few weeks ago, and what they just did … (View Post)

The difficulty of large populations suddenly moving into one single country is one of the reasons there's an international agreement, ie 110 million would more than double the UK population which wou… (View Post)

The variant has just been discovered, it hasn't just been invented. We don't know how long it's already been circulating in the UK or how much of it there is. (View Post)

It seems like a normal series of administrative fuck-ups, namely: - Ship full of ammonium nitrate has mechanical or financial problems, docks in Beirut - Owner goes bankrupt, government takes ownersh… (View Post)