Sailor, writer, CFA, Yale Law Knight fellow, ex- Forbesie, husband & father of 2. In no particular order.
Guilford, CT
Joined June 2009
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Daniel Fisher retweeted
"For specialty subcontractors, and especially those who subcontract their own trade — or sub it down yet another tier — the message is blunt: the structure that felt like ordinary industry practice is now the structure regulators are told to scrutinize, and not knowing what happens below you is a liability, not a defense."
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Daniel Fisher retweeted
.@for_consumers's Executive Director O.H. Skinner III on what would happen if SCOTUS were to rule against Suncor:
“If there is a loss for the energy companies, you will start to see a greater use of nuisance, not just in the climate context, but in the control of people’s lives context. How do you get rid of plastic straws? You bring a public nuisance claim... They’ll pursue greater and greater claims against guns, everybody in the value chain of energy... [then utilities, car manufacturers] and it will work all the way down the value chain in an effort to sort of fundamentally reshape the economy.”
Daniel Fisher retweeted
It's ironic to kick off Truck Driver Appreciation Week having to defend the rights of independent contractors to exist in New Jersey, but here we are. This morning the Assembly Labor Committee will discuss A-4735, a fast-tracked bill that protects youth sports officials from being reclassified as employees under the widely-opposed NJ Dept. of Labor rule taking effect in 17 days, but does absolutely nothing to protect owner-operator truckers, nurses, teachers, emergency road service drivers, or any of the other Independent Contractors whose jobs are in jeopardy come Oct. 1st.
Daniel Fisher retweeted
Can New York impose $75 billion in retroactive liability on American energy companies for ...something something climate change? No! New York's novel attempt to become the nation's climate regulator failed. Huge win for @mccuskeyforwv, @AGIowa, @USChamber, and @AGToddBlanche
Daniel Fisher retweeted
Measles hospitalizes 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who catch it, killed two children last year, and wipes out antibodies kids have built against other infections. We have a vaccine that's 97% effective. Caring about public health means not picking one crisis and ignoring the other.
0 Americans have died this year of measles. 300 per year died before invention of vaccine. The U.S. is managing the current Fauci measles outbreak better than any other country.
Over 1 million Americans will die this year of preventable chronic diseases tied to our food system.
Any medical influencer only talking about measles and not talking about chronic disease is a political hack, not someone who cares about public health.
Daniel Fisher retweeted
This is a particularly evil form of rent-seeking
You were correct. I was rage baited. share.google/UxQIHglSszP0cVM…
Daniel Fisher retweeted
The Spirit of Aloha rages against the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mad not only about the result in Wolford v. Lopez, the Court issues an unhinged attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. I haven't ever seen something like this. And it's not good.
Daniel Fisher retweeted
I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.
It was by design.
The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.
I gave them the contact information for five friends.
They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.
They simply did not call the other three.
I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.
I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.
I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.
As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.
My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.
Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.
Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.
But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”
Daniel Fisher retweeted
Far-left historians today often exaggerate the importance of slavery to capitalism by tracing cotton's derivative products globally.
That said, there is one 19th century figure who directly benefitted from slave-produced cotton: Karl Marx.
For most of his adult life, Marx relied on handouts from his friend Friedrich Engels for his main source of income. From the 1840s-1869 Marx send Engels a non-stop stream of requests for money, which Engels usually obliged. After 1869, Engels sold his business partnership and began giving Marx a regular yearly allowance from the proceeds that more or less lasted until his death in 1883.
Engels's business, in turn, was a large textile mill in Manchester operated by his father's firm Ermen and Engels. And what did that mill make? Yarns and fabrics out of slave-produced cotton, which it sourced from the American south.
We know this because, in 1862, Engels wrote a letter to Marx about the American Civil War in which he reported that cotton from the south had dried up because of the blockade. Other business records indicate that Ermen and Engels got their cotton from shipments through Liverpool, which in the 1840s-1861 meant southern plantation cotton imports from the United States. Indeed, southern cotton would have been the raw material that sustained the majority of Engels' working career since he retired only 4 years after the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States. His firm likely also got cotton from other sources such as Egypt during the Civil War, but for most of his multi-decade career there, the cotton would have been slave-produced.
That means Engels very much made his family fortune as a derivative beneficiary of American slavery. And he used that slave-derived fortune to directly subsidize Karl Marx ;-)
Daniel Fisher retweeted
IARC has confused hazard with risk.
IARC has promoted chemophobia
IARC has fueled litigation.
IARC is politicized.
A decline of IARC would result in less fearmongering, fewer lawsuits and a greater reliance on risk assessments.
After the US government put a health warning on IARC's low quality research, @zaruk wonders what a post-IARC world will look like.
Less fear, ignorance or useless lawsuits
It will be better and no one will notice when the cancer agency crawls into oblivion
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Daniel Fisher retweeted
The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you go to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, you will find the grave of Laura Bullion. It's nice enough, but not particularly remarkable. You'd never know that Laura was the only female member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" Gang.
Laura was most likely born in Knickerbocker, Texas in 1876, though there are also claims that she was born in Arkansas or Kentucky. She was probably of German and Native American heritage.
In the 1890s, Laura Bullion was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang; her cohorts were fellow outlaws, including the Sundance Kid, "Black Jack" Ketchum, and Kid Curry. For several years in the 1890s, she was romantically involved with outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), a bank and train robber and an acquaintance of her father, who had been an outlaw, as well. In 1901, Bullion was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years in prison for her participation in the Great Northern train robbery. She was released in 1905 after serving three years and six months of her punishment.
Laura Bullion moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1918, posing as a war widow and using assumed names. She supported herself as a householder and seamstress, and later as a drapery maker, dressmaker and interior designer. Her fortunes declined in the late 1940s, at which time she was without an occupation. In 1961, she died of heart disease at the Shelby County Hospital in Memphis. As I mentioned at the beginning, her final resting place is at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.
Daniel Fisher retweeted
The mathematics of war: insights from the Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces.
Daniel Fisher retweeted
New Jersey rule analysis from attorney Richard Reibstein:
“On the whole, the final regulation continues to make it even harder for businesses using an IC business model to operate with otherwise legitimate ICs in New Jersey, which has an ABC test that remains one of the strictest tests for IC status in the nation.”
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Daniel Fisher retweeted
Well this is an actual stunner
Even the Freelancers Union — which stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the AFL-CIO and Democratic Socialists of America as they tried to convince us all that the ABC Test regulatory language in the federal PRO Act was fine — has now decided that what New Jersey just did with the ABC Test is a bridge too far
Yes. You read that correctly
** The people who stand with the socialists think New Jersey went too far **
Andrea Gordillo, Chief of Staff at Freelancers Union, “says the rules, as written, don’t surgically target exploitative misclassification and instead make broad sweeps and threaten freelance work.”
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Daniel Fisher retweeted
Perfect case study of how regulation that claims to rein in the biggest companies actually protects them. Many such cases. A constant threat.
Daniel Fisher retweeted
Just in: @PacificLegal's Coastal Property Rights group gets a unanimous victory curbing the California Coastal Commission's claim to unchecked power.
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