Doug Saunders

The US public service famously doesn’t have a lot of waste or inefficiencies, comparatively, in part due to strong accountability/reporting mechanisms. Musk, as he did with “Twitter Files,” just fabricated claims of waste. But numbers tell the truth: he made it more expensive

Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke

March update: DOGE continues not to achieve measurable savings At first glance, spending fell $38B (7%) compared to last year. But March began on a Saturday so payments that normally go out in March went out in Feb After adjusting, spending *rose* $45B (8%) compared to March 24 https://t.co/wFmMZ49EaJ

RT @howardalaw: Anyone with family in the US will appreciate this great read from Globe’s Doug Saunders https://t.co/4DrsEqhG1f https://t.…

Sigh. Sales tax -- which is what VAT is -- is not under any definition a "non-tariff barrier" since it applies equally to non-imported goods

Mujtaba Rahman @Mij_Europe

Navarro says EU will need to lower its non-tariff barriers including VAT if it wants to reach a deal to lower US tariffs. EU will engage on US concerns on NTBs but a wholesale roll back of regulation on agri-food & tech or reconsideration of EU member states’ VATs is VVV unlikely

RT @gillesenvrac: @DougSaunders Tellement bon que j’en proposé une traduction française https://t.co/UutXkMtIKB

This is brilliant policy reporting of a rare kind by Adam Radwanski — very big-picture post-USA proposals that nonetheless focus on the achievable and realistic, with suggested plausible paths to achievement https://t.co/mdWqu0cAzR

RT @j_g_allen: Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach”

RT @DrNeilStone: mRNA vaccines are vaccines Ivermectin treats worms not viruses or cancer Covid was real and killed millions Covid vaccin…

RT @AuschwitzMuseum: 30 March 1944 | A transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy in German-occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz. After…

It’s wilder than that. Greenland’s 60k people, on an area the size of western Europe, have terrific infrastructure, a university, great schools, a nice legislature, all sorts of amenities that put other arctic countries — notably Canada — to shame. And yes universal healthcare

Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2

Imagine telling Denmark they don't do enough for people in Greenland, when both countries have universal healthcare and your country doesn't. 🙄 https://t.co/4MkyRAvA4h

The ironic thing is that I’m in some Signal chats consisting of journalists who are deeply worried that a US government official may accidentally have been invited in

This is one of the worst things I’ve heard. This gentle guy who takes care of kids got sent to a prison in El Salvador because officials mistook his autism-awareness tattoo for a gang tattoo

Noah Lanard @nlanard

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. It's in Spanish but I think the meaning should be clear to anyone. https://t.co/Bp14MiT8Lf

The vice president making direct threats in Greenland while the president gets all line-in-the-sand in Washington is one thing, but I think we can all agree that the United States actually following up and invading Europe would be a fairly big historical step.