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The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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“Is it a good idea to let an adversary maintain their fully functional equipment for use another day when it’s still in range and there’s no ceasefire or other negotiated settlement?” feels like something even a cursory read of history can answer
December 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“Is it a good idea to let an adversary maintain their fully functional equipment for use another day when it’s still in range and there’s no ceasefire or other negotiated settlement?” feels like something even a cursory read of history can answer
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Lincoln, 1865: Burn’em, Billy.
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lincoln, 1865: Burn’em, Billy.
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The problem with AI is it moves people from bottom left to bottom right by drastically increasing their output.
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The problem with AI is it moves people from bottom left to bottom right by drastically increasing their output.
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Michael Flynn? The Joint Special Operations Command G-2? Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency?
December 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Michael Flynn? The Joint Special Operations Command G-2? Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency?
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The F-35 is the B-29 of fighter jets
and F-35 is cheaper or at least cost competitive with basically every existing 4th and 4.5 gen fighter on the market!
Nothing says "bespoke weapon" like a fighter jet that we've built 1200 of and plan to build +3000 total. Also "more time in maintenance than in the air" describes literally every military aircraft.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The F-35 is the B-29 of fighter jets
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when Kara Swisher weighs in on tech and the economy you can simply reverse everything she says and you’ll be the smartest person in any conversation. you just won’t get paid for it
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
when Kara Swisher weighs in on tech and the economy you can simply reverse everything she says and you’ll be the smartest person in any conversation. you just won’t get paid for it
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Gosh, I sure hope the president isn't somehow constitutionally incapable of swearing a meaningful oath!
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Gosh, I sure hope the president isn't somehow constitutionally incapable of swearing a meaningful oath!
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Kind of like how, in some border disputes, one side is a democracy and the other isn't, any time we're fighting about "can X be brought under Trump's control?" we're asking whether it can be made the plaything of a tyrant and a usurper, rather than a creature of public law
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Kind of like how, in some border disputes, one side is a democracy and the other isn't, any time we're fighting about "can X be brought under Trump's control?" we're asking whether it can be made the plaything of a tyrant and a usurper, rather than a creature of public law
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This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
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hoo boy
did they use pete's tat as the prompt for the AI or
did they use pete's tat as the prompt for the AI or
Updated my single issue voter issue:
Whoever runs on firing the person the wrote this and/or approved this, will get my vote.
Whoever runs on firing the person the wrote this and/or approved this, will get my vote.
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
hoo boy
did they use pete's tat as the prompt for the AI or
did they use pete's tat as the prompt for the AI or
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Once again, for 2028 I'm a single issue voter and that issue is post-Trump lustration. GTFO with "better angels of our nature" for once.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Once again, for 2028 I'm a single issue voter and that issue is post-Trump lustration. GTFO with "better angels of our nature" for once.
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Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.
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everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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not sure you can talk coherently about maintaining the rule of law without promising serious court reform
Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
not sure you can talk coherently about maintaining the rule of law without promising serious court reform
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"co-founder of Palantir, a company trying to literally invent the panopticon, calls for public executions" poor Michel Foucault, spinning in his grave right now
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"co-founder of Palantir, a company trying to literally invent the panopticon, calls for public executions" poor Michel Foucault, spinning in his grave right now
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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"Caesar broke the laws of Rome in Gaul well before he ever marched on the city itself. What would make you think we’re immune?"
Here. I wrote about the social and moral degradation of allowing a military force to engage in war crimes.
othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...
othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...
The Emerging American Achilles
Violence Without the Law
othermeans.io
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Caesar broke the laws of Rome in Gaul well before he ever marched on the city itself. What would make you think we’re immune?"
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does feel like the biggest lessons from ukraine for the US et al is "you do not have enough artillery" and "you do not have enough air defense"
You need a cheap, potentially expendable AEGIS-capable frigate to screen your big assets. You need cost-effective anti-drone SHORAD. You need enough anti-shipping capability to render the Strait of Taiwan a death trap.
And so on.
And so on.
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
does feel like the biggest lessons from ukraine for the US et al is "you do not have enough artillery" and "you do not have enough air defense"
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I think we probably need a response to SCOTUS ruling that the president is actually a dictator as long as he's a Republican
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I think we probably need a response to SCOTUS ruling that the president is actually a dictator as long as he's a Republican
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FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
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The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!