Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

“This is not about fighting crime,” said #JBPritzker, flanked on Monday by #Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson & other leaders, adding that it’s more about “an arrogant little man” trying to “intimidate his political rivals.”

Pritzker, who is seeking a third term in 2026, has been among #Democrats’ most vocal #Trump critics. Weeks into Trump’s second admin, Pritzker compared it to the #Nazi#ThirdReich.

#law#MilitaryState #authoritarianism
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

More recently, #JBPritzker welcomed #Texas#Democrats who fled the TX statehouse to delay #Republicans’ partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional districts at Trump’s request.

In #Chicago Monday, Pritzker & Johnson emphasized that the #Trump admin had not reached out about its plans…. Trump acknowledged he hadn’t talked to #Illinois or #Maryland ofcls & at one point Monday said he might not send #troops unless Pritzker asked.

#law#MilitaryState #authoritarianism
Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Second, #poverty alleviation has not been steady. In the 1990's the poverty rate increased dramatically, during the period when #neoliberal structural adjustment programmes were imposed on many developing countries.

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

The BNPL data indicates that the story of global #poverty over the past few decades is more complex – & more troubling – than we previously understood. There are three major findings.

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist