might they argue that it cannot be illegal to follow and order that (because immunity) was lawfully given?

who knew “don’t break the law just because someone tells you to” would be such a controversial message.

To mistake problems of integration for problems of immigration is to render oneself pathetic.

“what our politicians are doing is falling over themselves trying to launch one hare-brained anti-immigrant scheme after another in a mad race to get ahead in the cruelty-stakes. It is as crazy as it is pathetic; today’s politics has become all about who can be biggest asshole and very little else.”

if he just ordered their execution (by some agency of the military or by federal law enforcement), would that be an official act to which presumptive if not absolute immunity attaches?

this makes me sad.

it’s awesome. now the rest of us can write, “according to the new york times, fish are building space lasers.”

(i’d think the basic transcription would be automated by now? though of course i’d guess they still have a human editor go over it before publishing.)

i love that they’re there if i want to cite and quote something i’ve listened to. but i sure don’t want to just read a transcript. letting them replace opinion essays feels lazy.

half the time i think i’m clicking a link to a new york times opinion column, i’m really clicking a link to a podcast transcript.

Would the administration be murdering people in the Caribbean but for Trump v. United States?

a thing abt right populist leaders is they can’t resist doing garishly stupid illegal destructive stuff, often stuff that objectively doesn’t even do them much good. but once they’ve done these things a peaceful transfer of power means they might go to jail. so they’ll go to extremes to resist one.

is Congress developing a pulse?

you’ll know trump is a “lame duck” when the supreme court abruptly turns awesome. suddenly roberts is an institutionalist again and alito is channeling ruth bader ginsburg.

hi! thanks!

#evergreen

Peter Dorman is here! @pdorman.bsky.social

“Culture and interpersonal relationships don’t hover above policy and political economy; they condense and reflect it… Generosity and tolerance are not free-floating virtues. They emerge from political-economic conditions that make them actionable” @eric-reinhart.com

a bit on the nose, writers, that the most valuable company in this world is basically called “Invidious”?

[new draft post] The qualitative is the foundation of the quantitative https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/11/19/the-qualitative-is-the-foundation-of-the-quantitative/index.html