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"Even if discovered after seven generations of Americans have ordered their entire society around their understanding."
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Even if discovered after seven generations of Americans have ordered their entire society around their understanding."
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the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.
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the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
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Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...
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The 14th, as it is understood, is so central to America as it currently exists, its elimination is tantamount to withdrawing the entire constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The 14th, as it is understood, is so central to America as it currently exists, its elimination is tantamount to withdrawing the entire constitution.
Pressley just recently announced she won’t challenge Markey/Moulton unfortunately
December 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Pressley just recently announced she won’t challenge Markey/Moulton unfortunately
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Had the real honor of being published by @liberalcurrents.com this year, who ran this essay I wrote trying to explore Zionism as part of broader nationalist movements, instead of as a sui generis phenomenon, either for good or for evil.
The Banality of Zionism
Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Had the real honor of being published by @liberalcurrents.com this year, who ran this essay I wrote trying to explore Zionism as part of broader nationalist movements, instead of as a sui generis phenomenon, either for good or for evil.
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starting point for future budgets for things that are good, "idk, how about triple it" bsky.app/profile/cost...
The entire R&D budget of the department of energy for renewable energy and energy efficiency is, or was, $3.5B. For the whole country! We should triple that number instead. bsky.app/profile/cost...
SpaceX gets a $5.9B contract.
All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
starting point for future budgets for things that are good, "idk, how about triple it" bsky.app/profile/cost...
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By Cotton’s logic, any effort to survive is only interpretable as guilt. Flipping the boat over? You must be trying to save the cargo, not yourself. It’s a monstrous logic, both morally and strategically; Cotton has neither the intellect nor the soul to see why, but unfortunately he does have power.
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
By Cotton’s logic, any effort to survive is only interpretable as guilt. Flipping the boat over? You must be trying to save the cargo, not yourself. It’s a monstrous logic, both morally and strategically; Cotton has neither the intellect nor the soul to see why, but unfortunately he does have power.
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either you have to assume that the people on the boat *are* guilty for reasons that don't appear in the video, and behaving accordingly, or else you assume people who do not know why they might be the target of military strikes, or even that that's what happened, are trying to signal for rescue
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
either you have to assume that the people on the boat *are* guilty for reasons that don't appear in the video, and behaving accordingly, or else you assume people who do not know why they might be the target of military strikes, or even that that's what happened, are trying to signal for rescue