just called my Florida Congressional delegation to express my CECOT outrage. one human picked up (on behalf of Rep Luna), two voicemails (Sens Scott and Moody).

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the right time to throw the ring of power into the volcano is when it is you who holds it. we forgot that, tried to wield it, now look who we’ve become.

in the kingdom of lies, honesty is treason.

“nobody can be trusted w/absolute power, least of all the demagogues who seek it. The one good thing Trump’s trade policies are achieving is to demonstrate this yet again. They are harbingers of chaos. The world’s challenge is to survive the folly. The US’s is to end it.” www.ft.com/content/a3e6...

hey, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime. instead of $40M for a documentary on Melania (really?), how about a fraction of that for a documentary on the life of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his wife and the two children he is helping to raise?

“Deep understanding of reality is intrinsically dual use.” @michaelnielsen.bsky.social

the only way it's true Bukele does not have the power to produce him is if they've killed him. have they killed him?

i wonder if people have done any polling across the multiracial "tattooed" demographic.

is there no 8th Amendment, cruel-and-unusual-punishment challenge to CECOT?

jfc.

bring back Nightline, “America Held Hostage”, where is Ted Koppel when we need him?

yes, but they scolded me for not wearing a mask, and made me endure frequent nasal swabs because i refused the vaccine.

have we considered a tariff on imprisonment, enslavement, and torture? can't have hard working american torturers competing with sadists making third world wages.

i wonder if instead of oscillating between "risk-on" (stocks up, Treasury prices down) and "risk-off" (stocks down, Treasury prices up), we're going have shifts between "normalization" (stocks up, Treasury prices up, dollar up) and "de-dollarization" (stocks down, Treasury prices down, dollar down).

there are better ways to do industrial policy than tariffs, but if you were using tariffs to do industrial policy they would be sectoral, and certainly wouldn’t be incoherently targeting bilateral trade deficits.

Word of the day — “soteriology”, a doctrine or theology of salvation from @quinnae.com via @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

if they had any sense they’d call the whole thing off and declare the weaker dollar a great victory.