“What happened here was something far darker: the US government engaging in what amounts to human trafficking, shipping people to El Salvador as forced labor without any due process. The mask slipped entirely when El Salvador’s President tweeted ‘Oopsie… too late’”
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look. i don’t know what everyone is so upset about. they used the same level of opsec as DOGE does.
anti-antisemitism feels an awful lot like antisemitism. hunted.
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“Former diversity offices have been remained offices of ‘Belonging’ or ‘Collaboration,’ as the University of Colorado calls its former diversity program. Collaboration is all too apt a name.”
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it’s got to suck for signal, i mean, states always want in to conspicuously encrypted services but boy must they be everybody’s juicy target now.
have the europeans commented on whether they’re gonna pay for it?
so will they be returned so they can make their case during “individualized hearings”?
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i wonder what business is done via X.com DMs these days.
bet Zuck is pissed it wasn't whatsapp.
how were war plans even made before emojis?
i kind of wish Jeffrey Goldberg hadn’t reported out the story, so maybe we’d receive advance notice when the little green men are supposed to appear in Greenland.
“The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure” @davetroy.com america2.news/the-substack... ht @loudpoet.com
The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure
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Excellent, from @mattbruenig.bsky.social, on “Abundance”. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t... ht @ryanlcooper.com
Text: Many of the anxieties that stoke opposition to the kinds of construction projects and rapid technological innovations favored by the authors are downstream of economic inegalitarianism. People block housing construction because they fear living next to the people that our economic system provides so little income to. They block nearby transportation and energy infrastructure because they don’t want to tumble down the economic ladder by impairing the value of their personal real estate assets. They resist productivity-enhancing technology because they fear job loss and permanent income loss. The preservation or deepening of economic inegalitarianism could easily turn the authors’ utopian vision of 2050 into a dystopian nightmare. Attending to distribution is a must.
the difference between a domestic terrorist and a domestic freedom fighter is a presidential pardon.
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in retrospect it’s now obvious that the Whisky War was a plot by the American deep state to divide its enemies.
i'm grateful Justice Roberts rebuked Trump for his ridiculous call to impeach Judge Boasberg, but I can't endorse as a universal rule that "impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision”. i think Justice Roberts' decision in Trump vs US merits impeachment.
awful, wholly unjustifiable decisions by lower court judges — decisions contrary to the text, history, and practice of the law — perhaps do not demand so severe a remedy, since appellate courts can correct them.
but impeachment is one of the few deterrents that might dissuade Supreme Court justices from constitutionalizing the anti-constitutional (thanks @jamellebouie.net). impeachment if anything is a remedy too hard to exercise, rather than too dangerous to judicial independence.
whenever we talked about patent reform, ”moderate” center right technoöptomists would accuse us of a holocaust for the cures reducing a financial incentive might foreclose (with no evidence financial rewards are a binding constraint). i wonder, are they crying holocaust now?
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gutless shrugged.
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Can we rescue the people we misimprisoned in El Salvador?
if you don’t feed me grapes when i ask for grapes, you are a bad ally. 🍇