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David Feldman

David John Feldman is a British legal academic, author and former judge. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English… more

David Feldman
H-index: 19
Economics 44%
Psychology 20%
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Yes, Brown already capitulated once. Rejecting a second capitulation required a lot of verbal gymnastics.
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That's disgusting. Totally disgusting. And so is the contemporary GOP that goes along with this.

This is why he is pulling out all the stops to ensure that the GOP retains the House, even if Republicans get less than 45% of the national vote.... which is also disgusting.
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"Virtually all?"

Name the reporters and "news" organizations that have agreed to the Pentagon's authoritarian news-squelching diktat.
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Who did not turn in their badge? Which "news" organizations will "cover" the Pentagon under its news-squelching rules?

Name the people and organizations sensible people should now shun.
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Does the governor have any ability to block this?
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Who has signed on, and which news organizations have agreed to neuter themselves? I would like a list so that I can stop reading those "journalists" and so that I can shun those "news" outlets. The quotation marks for obvious reasons.
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A gnat has more integrity than Mike Johnson.
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Many years ago, my thesis advisor put me first author on a couple of papers that we wrote together that were not part of my dissertation. I objected because I thought he had done more of the work. He smiled and said F comes before T. He favored a clear rule that applied to his entire CV.
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So we can have a continual stream of lawsuits by the lieutenant governor against the sitting governor in order to frustrate everything that she tries to do.
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2/ need to be finding ways to ratchet up pressure on ICE that are short of causing the next Civil War, but stronger than verbal blasts and yet another suit that the administration will sidestep or delay.
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If ICE is an out-of-control danger, then do something more forceful than making Twitter and Bluesky posts. Give your police power to intervene with force.

Yeah, that's kind of risky, right? Insurrection and all that. Hence a lot of Bluesky posting instead. Sorry for my downer attitude, but you ...
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The racism that was all around me as a child never went away. It just hid itself while our leadership (of both parties) maintained a public position that overt racial bigotry was shameful. The GOP slowly retreated from that view until Trump released the floodgates of open racism again.
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Oh, that has China's leadership quaking! The US imports about $1B of "used cooking oil" to help produce renewable diesel. Meanwhile $13B of soy bean exports dried up, with few/no alternative buyers elsewhere in the world.
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Can we start by re-migrating Rubio to Cuba ...
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Good chance "speaker" Johnson won't be speaker for too much longer.
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Water is wet!

h/t @jamellebouie.net
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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I wonder how long before it becomes a weekly ....

or is that weakly.
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Mariupol should go back to Ukraine, or no peace. Soon, Ukraine will have the homemade capacity to bring devastation to Russia's cities within 1500 km of the border. That should concentrate minds in Moscow.
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Slimy, unctuous, incompetent liar. Just another Republican ...
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Confidence is one thing. Hubris is another.

The Russians have a lot of experience with modern drone warfare. We do not. Russia is also willing to lose large numbers of men to accomplish their ends. Is the Netherlands?
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It will be a dead color after imbibing cyanide.
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I agree, but I would not uncritically generalize this to other electorates around the nation.
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I might suggest to prominent Democrats that they publicly warn any university that signs the compact that any benefits received under the compact ($$) will be revoked in January of 2029. University "dependence" on continued preferential support will fall on deaf ears.
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On the other hand, she is has an excellent grasp of what sells in the modern era. She is a prime example of how to use clickbait effectively as self-promotion.
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Perhaps the next Democratic administration will need to revoke the special privileges those red state publics enjoyed, even if those red state universities become reliant on extra dollars their privileges have given them. Perhaps they should be warned, now.
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I’m guessing that professors in Texas who are mobile are increasingly likely to consider moving. Everyone else will self censor. So glad I don’t live there.

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