There is no statute of limitations for murder, including under UCMJ.

As someone who studied classical history as an undergraduate in the 90s, this list is excessively exciting.

What do you mean we’ve redefined our understanding of hoplite warfare?!

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

The idea that someone could hire 100 thousand people, to say nothing of a million, to engage in protest is the sort of thing only a child could believe. 100? Sure. 1000? Possible. 100,000? You are a mental child.

#ICYMI: Yesterday’s “One First” summarized just how weak the defenses of the Supreme Court’s behavior on Trump-related emergency applications have been—and explained what someone would have to do to *actually* defend all that the Court’s majority has been doing:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

At this moment, anyone who tries to convince you that it’s a good time for any kind of violence is just wrong. There is nothing Steven Miller would like more than us being violent right now.

Either elections still matter and we've got about a year of Trump steadily making himself more and more hated before a Dem wave causes a deadlock between Congress and the WH, or they don't and we're in the long game. Either way, undermining their popular legitimacy is step 1.

Fiscal conservatism means cutting vital services so that you can cut taxes for rich people by a billion dollars over a few years and half a billion dollars in one year. #idpol #idleg #idgop #idahogop #Idaho

or we could just move to proportional representation, make one statewide multimember district for Utah, and stop all this goddamn endless litigation.

#idpol #idleg #idahogop #idgop #Idaho

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

Both parts of his story are evil. Pure evil.

I am struck by how lack of standing seems to so frequently evade court challenge to unconstitutional government actions.

It's an odd thing missing, given that this problem was solved in ancient Athens: for certain matters the entire citizen body ('ho boulomenos,' 'whoever wishes') had standing.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

I find it frustrating because liberals used to be evidence and fact-based and now we don’t know how to critically look at information either.

I wouldn’t have pegged Mountain Home as the issue that would be the latest reason I want to leave social media. But here we are.

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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