This isnāt going to go over well.
The Trump administration has sent a letter to some large companies in the EU warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.
The letter, sent by the American embassy in Paris and others around the EU, said that Donald Trumpās executive order applied to companies outside the US if they were a supplier or service provider to the American government, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The embassies also sent a questionnaire that ordered the companies to attest to their compliance. The document, which the Financial Times has seen, is titled āCertification regarding compliance with applicable federal anti-discrimination lawā.
The extraterritorial move may not be enforceable according to initial legal assessments, so some executives and their advisers have decided not to respond for now, said two of the people.
Sobering comments from Yale professors moving to the University of Toronto.
The student seizures bother me immensely. Who is going to stand up for these people?
Reading a NYTimes magazine article on Eric Adams, I was saddened by the description of current NYC:
āMigrant mothers trudge through moving train cars with sleeping newborns strapped to their backs, selling marked-up candy. Men warm their bare legs over steaming curbside grates outside $10 million apartments, tattered sweatpants around their shins, as packs of deliveristas e-rocket past them ferrying $100 app orders from ghost kitchens. Drugstores protect toothpaste and deodorant as if they were launch codes, to be accessed only by uniformed authorities with keys. Undocumented middle schoolers in Brooklyn tuck little red cards into their pockets outlining their rights, as the new secretary of homeland security, fresh from South Dakota, hits the Bronx in a bulletproof vest and camera-ready makeup for a predawn raid tied to Venezuelan gang violence.ā
It is a bit sad. But Iām pretty sure they still want to be here.
Also, the mothers make more money carrying their babies, Iām guessing.
The drugstores canāt be blamed for locking up their stuff, (you want them to go out of business?) and Iām guessing they arenāt protecting themselves against the migrants, rather our own homegrown shoplifters
Let he who has not ordered $100 worth of food from a restaurant (while living in a neighborhood that contains poor people) cast the first stone
Though come to think of it I canāt remember a time ever that I paid $100 for a restaurant order. But Iām not casting stones
NYC has more benefits for migrants than many many other places, plus, it let them come here
NYC taxes have been paying for their food and shelter - not that I would grudge them it - but many places donāt do that
Just to clarify I am against the current policy of arresting non-criminals and especially against sending those arrested to a foreign prison
Cities have rich people, and poor people, is that the message?
The administration is fcking up left and right on their arrests of legal immigrants. They are largely small fck ups that can escape most of the media or individually do not create enough alarm. They might get away with this for a long time if it was the only thing they were doing that people donāt like. As tariffs hit pockets and DOGE cuts affect people broadly, everyone is going to quickly see something that sours their mood on the administration.
Keep in mind that one of the reasons the administration is doing lots of stuff is because doing so makes it difficult for its opponents to focus their attention on any one thing, diluting their effectiveness.
Other big cities in rich western countries arenāt as stark as NYC. I love NYC and have been visiting there for over 50 years but riding the subway there is a grim experience compared to London, Paris, Toronto, etc. The disparities are more obvious in NYC.
If you mean āordered for home deliveryā, Iām pretty sure Iāve never had food (of any price) delivered to my house. Iād start throwing stones, but Iām not sure how I get them.
Agreed. It can be gross to see the āhavesā and āhave-notsā rubbing shoulders, but I think itās also part of the nature of wealth. Where there is lots of money there are jobs and support and dollars to scrounge up. And that can be better than the alternative, where the rich live in a walled utopia and the poor pick apples for nothing.
Also, hard to care right now while watching America tumble into tyranny and kleptocracy.
Thereās a lot of things right now that I canāt care about right now.
There is this but I also remember how dirty and less safe NYC was compared to Toronto when I first started going there in the 1970s. The wealth disparities in NYC are also more pronounced and visible.
No supermarket delivery?
You must be really rural I assume.
Interestingly, my initial (and perhaps unfair) reaction on my first visit to Toronto was somewhat depressed because it felt as nasty as several US cities (as opposed to MontrĆ©al, the Canadian city Iām most familiar with, which, while not sterile, at least feels decidedly non-American).
Toronto did strike me as a little worse than NYC, but still in the same ballpark.
However, my experience in Toronto has been extremely limited (airport, office, hotel, and dinner), and my first trip I was also somewhat discombobulated with having had to leave my smartphone behind as it was turning into a spicy pillow.
You must have been shielded from tours of Detroit, or St. Louis, or Memphis. There are terrible areas to discover in those cities. South Side of Chicago is also a sad area.
They tend to be just a lot of poverty and abandoned buildings all concentrated and geographically separated (by a block or two in some cases) from the areas most people visitā¦that could be a bit different than NYC.
I remember Margaret Atwood describing Toronto as so cold and mean and miserable, but then she describes everything that wayā¦
What strikes me is not so much the disparity in wealth, as some have mentioned.
It is the apparent lack of basic security of the migrants next to the great wealth. In other words, it is not that the migrants seem able to live safe, fulfilling but simple lives in which they have health care, education, and safe living conditions while their neighbors eat caviar instead of black beans. Instead they do not have this basic security while their neighbors have so very much above and behind that security. From that perspective, them choosing to be there does not help: If that is their choice, how much worse must their home be?
NYC is still dirty, but itās much safer nowadays.
Wealth disparity is still there and may be worse for all I know.
NYC has a right to shelter, so all that wealth means anyone homeless who comes to NYC can lay claim on the government for a place to sleep. Not that the shelter system sounds that great, but I donāt know of many places like that.