“arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”

wtf? www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

“The Trump regime is an endless recursion of propaganda generation to build more power to generate more propaganda to build more power… because as long as that perpetual motion machine is operating they can plunder undetected.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

from @resnikoff.bsky.social resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/living-wit...

the era of tacitly trading US protection for cheap foreign goods—which had the side effect of providing demand to foreign producers—is ending. perhaps having to provide their own protection will substitute for the loss of US demand.

is this illegal under Wisconsin law, which Dear Leader cannot pardon and whose enforcers he does not control?

the project now is to reconstruct liberalism, to build a new liberalism that does not neglect the prerequisites for continuing public support for a liberal society (which implies making material policy demands rather than merely affecting neutrality). what name should we give our new liberalism? 🤔

i’m so tired of living in a horror movie.

“of course, the implied threat is that this won’t stop at international students… These are…tactics of weak insecure bullies… their only response is an impotent rage, an attempt to replace respect and fair treatment with authoritarian tactics…intimidating people into silence and capitulation.”

#FreeSpeech

i think much of the Republican coalition is tacitly sure they can do what they’ve persuaded themselves is called for, and the pointy-headed liberals who warn them of consequences will be wrong because God will reward and protect the USA they will have sanctified.

one way to understand what's going on is we've given up on the postwar Westphalian order because an adversary and an ally had territorial ambitions that order couldn't countenance, and we elected an egotist who could be flattered into his own, rather random, annexation lusts.

in a million years i’d not have guessed this is the same person.

are any historically US-based software or tech companies relocating activities, servers, personnel outside of the US in order to address political risk?

i always thought of the US as a place where we kind of like a good ruckus.

"If there are two foreign policy agendas that tie US politics together, it is the mantra 'for Israel, against China'." @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-... // on the cosmopolitan research university—particularly Tooze's Columbia—as ground zero for unwinding retrofutures.

if a US visa or green card is a “privilege” whose revocation constitutes foreign-policy discretion rather than punishment and so is not subject to protection on first-amendment grounds, couldn’t an identical case be made with respect to passports for US citizens?

“We need…more capacity [in] the examination process…to allow for 3-way communication (including informal channels) btw developers…authorities…affected parties. [T]his is likely to be uncomfortable…alien to a common-law culture…having a much more active role for the state” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social

could the Alien Enemies Act have been used against The Beatles for the British Invasion?

[new draft post] Delivering rough consensus https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/26/delivering-rough-consensus/index.html