Immigrants, both legal and illegal, commit crimes at lower rates than native born citizens. People shrieking about deporting immigrants to protect “us” against violent crime may or may not be bigoted, but they are certainly ignorant. “Deporting all illegal immigrants” would increase the crime rate.
It doesn’t help to argue that the last admin eased venezuelan immigration or that the gop turned down a border deal. Both of these compound the mistaken belief that immigrants and crime are linked.
Just finished this book yesterday. Really excellent! And timely.
It dovetails with our proxy failure (Goodhart's Law) paper too: sometimes aiming for a thing via proxies (quantities, scores, metrics) can lead to the opposite. Here the problem is aiming for control of life.
This review captures the gist of it: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/control-everything-on-hartmut-rosas-the-uncontrollability-of-the-world/
I get why this is in the indictment, and it's fine rhetorically, but...: "He was also entitled to formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by ... filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures."
No, there is no right to bring a frivolous legal action. It's illegal to do so. Again, not saying I'd have drafted this differently, but I'm concerned by the assumption that's "out there" that no election is final until courts say so.
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.
Yohan John 🤖🧠
Thomas Zimmer