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The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a century and a half of precedent this year and strip citizenship from millions of Americans, and the main response from legal academia has been shock and outrage that people have been insufficiently deferential to the people doing this.
I want to address my friend Ilan who says here that he has been subject to “a lot of hate” from academics who “should know better” and haven’t respected the “academic enterprise.”
I don’t dislike Ilan. I also think his paper is fundamentally wrong and not scholarly.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFge...
I don’t dislike Ilan. I also think his paper is fundamentally wrong and not scholarly.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFge...
The Sanity Interview: Ilan Wurman
YouTube video by The New York Sun
m.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM
The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a century and a half of precedent this year and strip citizenship from millions of Americans, and the main response from legal academia has been shock and outrage that people have been insufficiently deferential to the people doing this.
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Gallego ("moderate" Dem) is going with "ICE needs to be totally torn down" (not "reform and retrain"). This is a pivot point for the country on immigration. You have been seeing this in the data for a while, and now officials are snapping to the public opinion www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...
January 18, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Gallego ("moderate" Dem) is going with "ICE needs to be totally torn down" (not "reform and retrain"). This is a pivot point for the country on immigration. You have been seeing this in the data for a while, and now officials are snapping to the public opinion www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...
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Donald Trump's net approval rating right now is currently worse than bush's was after Katrina www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
January 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump's net approval rating right now is currently worse than bush's was after Katrina www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
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Keep Minnesota Weird
Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Keep Minnesota Weird
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“you’re sacrificing on behalf of someone in your community? You are delusional and must be getting paid. The real solution is once we do ethnic cleansing people will want to sacrifice on behalf of people in their community”
January 18, 2026 at 6:27 PM
“you’re sacrificing on behalf of someone in your community? You are delusional and must be getting paid. The real solution is once we do ethnic cleansing people will want to sacrifice on behalf of people in their community”
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It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors!
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
January 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
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Again, just like we're not going to have hyperinflation, we're not going to have a debt crisis over this. Not least because Europe is not remotely America's largest lender. We owe ~70% of our debt to...ourselves. This stuff isn't helpful. The real awful stuff is bad enough.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Again, just like we're not going to have hyperinflation, we're not going to have a debt crisis over this. Not least because Europe is not remotely America's largest lender. We owe ~70% of our debt to...ourselves. This stuff isn't helpful. The real awful stuff is bad enough.
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We already saw this with tariffs and predicted economic damage
- grandpa levies bajillion percent tariffs on everything from China
- economists et al al go "uhhhh holy fuck holy fuck"
- naptime defeats tariffs otaku and most stuff reverts to 10%
- bunch of people accuse economists of exaggerating
- grandpa levies bajillion percent tariffs on everything from China
- economists et al al go "uhhhh holy fuck holy fuck"
- naptime defeats tariffs otaku and most stuff reverts to 10%
- bunch of people accuse economists of exaggerating
My Greenland prediction:
1.) The U.S. won't attack.
2.) It won't attack because it was stopped.
3.) It being stopped will be used to tar people urgent about it being stopped as hysterics
1.) The U.S. won't attack.
2.) It won't attack because it was stopped.
3.) It being stopped will be used to tar people urgent about it being stopped as hysterics
January 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
We already saw this with tariffs and predicted economic damage
- grandpa levies bajillion percent tariffs on everything from China
- economists et al al go "uhhhh holy fuck holy fuck"
- naptime defeats tariffs otaku and most stuff reverts to 10%
- bunch of people accuse economists of exaggerating
- grandpa levies bajillion percent tariffs on everything from China
- economists et al al go "uhhhh holy fuck holy fuck"
- naptime defeats tariffs otaku and most stuff reverts to 10%
- bunch of people accuse economists of exaggerating
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This is who voted against establishing DHS
January 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is who voted against establishing DHS
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I watched SORCERER yesterday, on Blue Ray for the first time. What I hadn't noticed before was the amazing sound throughout. And still as stomach-churningly tense as the first time. Such a shame it took so long to find its audience, but god you'll never complain about the trip to big Tescos again.
January 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I watched SORCERER yesterday, on Blue Ray for the first time. What I hadn't noticed before was the amazing sound throughout. And still as stomach-churningly tense as the first time. Such a shame it took so long to find its audience, but god you'll never complain about the trip to big Tescos again.
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Really enjoyed the Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life exhibition at The Courthauld, with pictures hitting a sweet spot between meditative Still Life & Pop Art with their repetition & sense of artificiality, as well as a melancholy feel of absence & ever-delayed gratification
January 18, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Really enjoyed the Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life exhibition at The Courthauld, with pictures hitting a sweet spot between meditative Still Life & Pop Art with their repetition & sense of artificiality, as well as a melancholy feel of absence & ever-delayed gratification
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Umpteen reporters are doing their best but in the most critical venues—the Beltway, in national security circles, & in senior leadership—the inability to recognize danger is fatal
January 18, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Umpteen reporters are doing their best but in the most critical venues—the Beltway, in national security circles, & in senior leadership—the inability to recognize danger is fatal
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The parochial incuriosity of the American press remains the single biggest failure of the last decade
Just to back up Paul's point, a lot of Americans expressing shock at how Ukrainians are not fully sharing intel with the US because of concerns about leaks to Moscow seem to have missed how intel-sharing between US and Europe started breaking down months ago
US media just hasn't shown much interest
US media just hasn't shown much interest
I also noted that I think there is reason to suspect that it is not just Dutch intelligence that has halted sharing.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The parochial incuriosity of the American press remains the single biggest failure of the last decade
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Nobody wants to anger the fuhrer themselves and everyone assumes the idea is so self-evidently stupid and self-destructive that somebody else will stop it.
1) Here's the thing: this Greenland thing is wildly unpopular. Like 50 points underwater. WTF is wrong with the GOP that they feel the need to run and defend this thing that the American people absolutely fucking do not want?!
Cruz: "When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump for being single-mindedly focused on America first... I believe it is overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland... the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories"
January 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Nobody wants to anger the fuhrer themselves and everyone assumes the idea is so self-evidently stupid and self-destructive that somebody else will stop it.
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We keep talking about the midterms as if we're very sure of the issues that are going to decide them, but I think about where the country was a month ago and where it is now, and I honestly can't begin to (and don't want to) imagine the world we'll be living in come November.
January 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
We keep talking about the midterms as if we're very sure of the issues that are going to decide them, but I think about where the country was a month ago and where it is now, and I honestly can't begin to (and don't want to) imagine the world we'll be living in come November.
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Once again, it has been a constant and systematic failure of American media that Trump’s non-deals have been routinely described and celebrated as deals. Just as his promise of a 100 deals in 100 days came and went but was regularly heralded as if it were ever a possibility. Fantasy world politics.
Every single one of these has been a handshake and nothing else.
January 18, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Once again, it has been a constant and systematic failure of American media that Trump’s non-deals have been routinely described and celebrated as deals. Just as his promise of a 100 deals in 100 days came and went but was regularly heralded as if it were ever a possibility. Fantasy world politics.
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If you can't write a grad school application on your own, you absolutely should not go to grad school. That's actually a good sign that it's not for you. There are other things you can do with your life.
January 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
If you can't write a grad school application on your own, you absolutely should not go to grad school. That's actually a good sign that it's not for you. There are other things you can do with your life.
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The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
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The Greenland Tariffs thing has the feel of a face saving climb down more than any thing else
January 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The Greenland Tariffs thing has the feel of a face saving climb down more than any thing else
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I cannot wait for these two tweets posted within an hour of each other by a European leader. First tweet condemning US military action in Greenland that kills European soldiers. Second tweet celebrating their nation's military support to US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran.
January 18, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I cannot wait for these two tweets posted within an hour of each other by a European leader. First tweet condemning US military action in Greenland that kills European soldiers. Second tweet celebrating their nation's military support to US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran.