i confess that sometimes late at night, like now, i wish i were not so woke.

they are achieving ever greater shares of the ecosystems they’re destroying.

I’m happy to defer to you on that. I’d have to look into the question a lot more than I have or intend to do before I’d have much of a view on whom King would have been referring to. I do rather like Phil Ochs, foolish, ivory-towered, and quite out of touch as he may have been. youtu.be/oJRJdrcrX3M

i’m not trying to adjudicate the dispute. just saying that “liberal” as a category accused of being to the right or selling out was current then as now, whatever the merits or demerits of the accusation.

i don’t really have a dog in this fight (i think of myself as a liberal social democrat), but by 1966, three years after the letter, this was current. youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA

he just uses the nuclear codes. there's always a guy right next to him who can remind him.

Excellent.

under its newly ascendant "unitary executive theory", i suggest we refer to it as the Supreme Court Royale Of The United Monarchy". (sorry.)

does Trump really conduct internal administration communications via TruthSocial DM? now there's quite the hacking target, for a foreign state actor or anybody else. re xcancel.com/RichardHanan... sorry not the loveliest source.

the L-R spectrum is a dumb way to orient your thinking about contemporary electoral politics. the people for whom it matters are already placed and not persuadable. swing voters swing and vote based on other things. “moderating” in this sense doesn’t broaden the tent. you have to do something else.

whatever.

frog, meet scorpion.

have we learned anything about the people who’ve been killed in the several US military operations against boats alleged to be operated by “narcoterrorists”?

#enshittification

eventually Europe will have the capability to independently deter Russia. before then, and while the US is like 🤷, there is potentially a temporary window of opportunity, from Russia’s perspective. use it or lose it.

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“Ut Res Magis Valeat Quam Pereat which translates to ‘it is better for a thing to have effect than to be destroyed’… This principle underscores…that all laws must be interpreted in such a way that the purposes which inspired them are achieved.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

if ben quits too they can rebrand as ampersand. &

you’ve got to admit there’s now an almost eerie peace between Azerbaijan and Albania. fantastic work mr. president.

there is no one more pathetic than one’s murderer.