Jason Kuznicki
@jkuznicki.bsky.social
A gay dad cultivating his garden in Puna, Hawaii. Now working on some big projects for the future.🍍🌴🌱📖🌐☸️
Newsletter: https://pacification.beehiiv.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3319839950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Newsletter: https://pacification.beehiiv.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3319839950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
The past was more brutal than we generally realize.
“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The past was more brutal than we generally realize.
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The distinction between #mild & #heavy #bias is intuitive
Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women
Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women
Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?
Abstract. Methodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social science
academic.oup.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The distinction between #mild & #heavy #bias is intuitive
Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women
Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women
Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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It’s a reference to Ezra Pound being also an insufferable bastard who none of his friends could defend anymore after he spun out and lost his mind idolizing a fascist.
worst forest/trees problem in generations is that a canto is A SECTION OF A LONG POEM. THAT'S IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE A CANTO BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE WORD LOOKED COOL ON YOUR MEMOIR. CANTOS ARE POEMS. THAT LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SLAMBOOK A CANTO AMERICAN OR OTHERWISE
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It’s a reference to Ezra Pound being also an insufferable bastard who none of his friends could defend anymore after he spun out and lost his mind idolizing a fascist.
Timeline cleanse 🌴🌱🌺
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Timeline cleanse 🌴🌱🌺
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"the use of AI to write a report that depends on an officer's specific perspective without using an officer's actual experience is the worst possible use of the technology"
Judge’s Footnote on Immigration Agents Using AI in Chicago Area Raises Accuracy and Privacy Concerns
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote the footnote in a 223-page opinion issued last week, noting that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines agents’ credibility and “ma...
news.wttw.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"the use of AI to write a report that depends on an officer's specific perspective without using an officer's actual experience is the worst possible use of the technology"
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We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
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DHS: We need to be able to violate the Constitution and be given 100s of billions because we're catching "criminals" who are raping and killing Americans
Me: No, you're not.
DHS: Your premise is shockingly dangerous!
Me: No, you're not.
DHS: Your premise is shockingly dangerous!
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
DHS: We need to be able to violate the Constitution and be given 100s of billions because we're catching "criminals" who are raping and killing Americans
Me: No, you're not.
DHS: Your premise is shockingly dangerous!
Me: No, you're not.
DHS: Your premise is shockingly dangerous!
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THE WAR QUEER
tag yourself I’m “the fully sublimated homosexual or bisexual”
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
THE WAR QUEER
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We need full-throated defenses of liberalism right now. And, watching the success of the @liberalcurrents.com fundraiser, it's encouraging to see how many people agree. gofund.me/50ba1838d
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We need full-throated defenses of liberalism right now. And, watching the success of the @liberalcurrents.com fundraiser, it's encouraging to see how many people agree. gofund.me/50ba1838d
The DOGE that we got was the reductio of the radical libertarians’ nonaggression axiom: that no amount of involuntary taxation is ever justified, regardless of the good that it may do:
What if we taxed everyone a few pennies a year, but it saved the lives of 100k+ children?
What if we taxed everyone a few pennies a year, but it saved the lives of 100k+ children?
We all believe in improving efficiency, and a team genuinely focused on that could do a world of good.
But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.
But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The DOGE that we got was the reductio of the radical libertarians’ nonaggression axiom: that no amount of involuntary taxation is ever justified, regardless of the good that it may do:
What if we taxed everyone a few pennies a year, but it saved the lives of 100k+ children?
What if we taxed everyone a few pennies a year, but it saved the lives of 100k+ children?
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Update: Despite the best efforts of the local prosecutor, Duncan is getting out as I type this.
First day of freedom in three decades.
Here’s a text from his aunt.
First day of freedom in three decades.
Here’s a text from his aunt.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Update: Despite the best efforts of the local prosecutor, Duncan is getting out as I type this.
First day of freedom in three decades.
Here’s a text from his aunt.
First day of freedom in three decades.
Here’s a text from his aunt.
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Here’s @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com last year www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Here’s @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com last year www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...
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We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
Re-upping for the late crowd
Hey there people in my phone! Is anyone keeping an archive of Trump admin propaganda images? I’d be interested to browse it for an essay I’m writing. Will definitely credit you.
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Re-upping for the late crowd
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It wouldn't be a crime even if they (or you or I) misstated those rules, or for that matter openly advocated breaking them. I'm a bit wary of treating it as legally relevant that they were factually correct in what they said. They were, but it would be 1A-protected free speech even if they weren't.
Art. I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make rules and regulations for the armed forces — including codes of discipline and strictures against following illegal orders. You can’t punish members of Congress for articulating those rules. Also protected by Speech and Debate Clause.
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It wouldn't be a crime even if they (or you or I) misstated those rules, or for that matter openly advocated breaking them. I'm a bit wary of treating it as legally relevant that they were factually correct in what they said. They were, but it would be 1A-protected free speech even if they weren't.
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How can ordinary people come together to protect immigrants from unjust deportation?
Throughout the 1980s & early 90s, the Sanctuary Movement illustrated one way to do this.
In a newly published paper, Karla Segovia, Molly Rovinski & I analyze this movement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Throughout the 1980s & early 90s, the Sanctuary Movement illustrated one way to do this.
In a newly published paper, Karla Segovia, Molly Rovinski & I analyze this movement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Collective action in the sanctuary movement: polycentric protection of central American asylum seekers - Constitutional Political Economy
In the 1980s and early 1990s, civil wars contributed to significant waves of migration from Central American countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States federal government, specific...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
How can ordinary people come together to protect immigrants from unjust deportation?
Throughout the 1980s & early 90s, the Sanctuary Movement illustrated one way to do this.
In a newly published paper, Karla Segovia, Molly Rovinski & I analyze this movement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Throughout the 1980s & early 90s, the Sanctuary Movement illustrated one way to do this.
In a newly published paper, Karla Segovia, Molly Rovinski & I analyze this movement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
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More people should know that impeachment is a constitutional option for removing Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem.
Take out the minions first.
Take out the minions first.
Yes, they fall under the category of “all civil officers” in the Impeachment Clause of the Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 4.
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
Interpretation: Article II, Section 4 | Constitution Center
Interpretations of Article II, Section 4 by constitutional scholars
constitutioncenter.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
More people should know that impeachment is a constitutional option for removing Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem.
Take out the minions first.
Take out the minions first.
Hey there people in my phone! Is anyone keeping an archive of Trump admin propaganda images? I’d be interested to browse it for an essay I’m writing. Will definitely credit you.
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey there people in my phone! Is anyone keeping an archive of Trump admin propaganda images? I’d be interested to browse it for an essay I’m writing. Will definitely credit you.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Liberal Currents is one of the few publications with commentary consistently worth reading these days. Please support them; I'll be doing the same.
Once again: the next $28,000 will get matched by one of our donors. Hitting $70,000 in GoFundMe will mean hitting $105,000 in fact, with his generous matched donation. That will put us well on the way to doing projects like The Reconstruction Papers on a regular basis. gofund.me/29ce4ead3
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Liberal Currents is one of the few publications with commentary consistently worth reading these days. Please support them; I'll be doing the same.
Before you bring something here from Twitter, ask yourself: Is it newsworthy? Or is it just some rando going off?
The first kind of post improves things here. The second really doesn't.
The first kind of post improves things here. The second really doesn't.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Before you bring something here from Twitter, ask yourself: Is it newsworthy? Or is it just some rando going off?
The first kind of post improves things here. The second really doesn't.
The first kind of post improves things here. The second really doesn't.
This year our daughter's boyfriend's parents have invited us to their place for Thanksgiving.
I'm bringing a bread and a couple of desserts. Probably a savory monkey bread like on GBBO, a pecan pie, and a dried fruit babka.
Less cooking than I usually do! Feels like a vacation.
I'm bringing a bread and a couple of desserts. Probably a savory monkey bread like on GBBO, a pecan pie, and a dried fruit babka.
Less cooking than I usually do! Feels like a vacation.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This year our daughter's boyfriend's parents have invited us to their place for Thanksgiving.
I'm bringing a bread and a couple of desserts. Probably a savory monkey bread like on GBBO, a pecan pie, and a dried fruit babka.
Less cooking than I usually do! Feels like a vacation.
I'm bringing a bread and a couple of desserts. Probably a savory monkey bread like on GBBO, a pecan pie, and a dried fruit babka.
Less cooking than I usually do! Feels like a vacation.
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Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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This is a good thread that describes the trend of ascribing the tyranny of nature to capitalism. That subsistence requires effort (and comfort increasingly more so) is a consequence of reality, not of a particular economic system. Systems change the distribution and generation, not the rule.
Bluntly: you don't want socialism, you want robots doing the work so you can have more time for what we can broadly call "leisure."
There is nothing wrong per se with this desire, but intellectual honesty requires we admit that as it stands socialism will probably involve the same "get up at 7 am."
There is nothing wrong per se with this desire, but intellectual honesty requires we admit that as it stands socialism will probably involve the same "get up at 7 am."
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is a good thread that describes the trend of ascribing the tyranny of nature to capitalism. That subsistence requires effort (and comfort increasingly more so) is a consequence of reality, not of a particular economic system. Systems change the distribution and generation, not the rule.