break-up physics.

"voters" are not a coherent agent, have radically diverse interests, no means of being held accountable in common. constituted as "voters" we are a phenomenon, not an agent, no more constructive to blame than a lightning strike. if our behavior should change, then our institutions must.

(bluesky seemed like a very gentle place, until i confessed that i am still friends with some tankies.)

his justifications for exceptions includes terrorism, which luigi is being charged with, at least under NY law: “These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.”

(luigi is being charged as domestic terrorism, i think.)

biden (or his delegates) sure did!

so are roof, bowers, tsarnaev.

if luigi had been convicted some time ago and was on federal death row, would biden have commuted his sentence today?

tired: peace through strength wired: peace through conquest

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yeah. Trump negotiated a deal (with no force of US law), the Pentagon did not intend to follow through (some speculate sabotaged the withdrawal as political retribution when Biden forced it), Biden had a hard choice to make as abandoning the deal likely would have led to a resurgence of violence.

making the bigtime here.

i mean, you don’t get the pomp and glory of a military victory in California… except, well, it *is* a blue state.

drill baby drill will take care of that, by two very distinct mechanisms!

bluesky really has graduated from a kind of Canada where everyone was polite to a place where people can be pretty effing mean!

watch them put minutes on the metric system because their favorite time would be 2:88pm.

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are there no rare earths in Antarctica?

Musk seems excited! x.com/elonmusk/sta...

the question is whether Trump will ratify Russia’s gambit to undo a Westphalian norm in favor of a “great power” spheres-of-interest norm, under which local toughs do what they will and small countries accept what they must.