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A point I wish had been hammered harder during the campaign is that, whatever you think the ideal policy would be if you could implement it by waving a magic wand, in practice deportations on the scale Trump was promising require a police state.

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Immigration control and the logic of the totalitarian state. "As Kukathas makes clear, a large and at best modestly accountable enforcement apparatus engaged in the surveillance, regulation, and intimidation of citizens is a logical necessity for immigration enforcement per se. It is the price.”

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I am convinced those “In English we say/In poetry we say” videos Instagram insists on showing me are some weird stealth campaign to make people hate poetry, because it is the most insipid junior high treacle every. single. time.

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I guess it’s harder to get AI slop supporting predetermined conclusions through peer review.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1107 comments

It’s sort of funny the article stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion: RFK asked an LLM to cook up a phony report supporting his crackpot notions, and it churned out the usual slop full of hallucinated citations.

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

Make America Hallucinate Again

submitted 3 hours ago • 32 comments

A panel of the US trade court makes the shocking discovery that the Constitution gives the power to assess tariffs to Congress, not to the president. www.ft.com/content/bd64...

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Anyone check the handwriting on that thing? Taping an easily-removed little note to a car seems like a terribly polite & convenient form of “vandalism.”

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WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

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Apparently I need to repeat this: “are you just figuring this out?” & its variants are an autoblock. Your savvy little pose is not clever or interesting. It is twee & boring, and you’ve just wasted three seconds of my one wild & precious life, as well as everyone following me. Restrain yourself.

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It is a uniquely boring & unsympathetic but nevertheless instructive sort of tragedy that some of the world’s wealthiest men are so transparently, desperately miserable.

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

Two most petulant men on the planet grow apart www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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The most virulent anti-immigrant sentiment invariably comes from quarters where folk understand, if only subliminally, that they are in every salient respect inferior to the Huddled Masses & are clinging desperately to the advantage of a lucky birthplace.

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Yes. Immigrants grow the economy, commit crimes at a lower rate than native born Americans, create jobs, and are of better character than the people who want to keep them out.

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It looks like they stole the chairs from an hotel lobby and plonked them in a high school gym.

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

You have to wonder whether he’s retconned his own history to buy into this silliness or if it’s purely cynical performance for an audience that wants its resentment fed and has a totally nonfunctional bullshit radar.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

If I’m reading this correctly — and I’d like to think that I am — the U.S. Court of International Trade just handed the Trump administration its biggest, most sweeping legal defeat this year. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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NEW: Three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade rules that Congress did not delegate to Trump unbounded authority to set tariffs. The challenged tariff orders are enjoined. cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

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Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working for DOGE and it's just painful how little any of them bothered to learn anything about civic tech. Silicon Valley types thinking they're the first people to name problems and solve them sahillavingia.com/doge

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MUSK: OUT TARIFFS: BLOCKED SMALL BUSINESSES: RELIEVED The court’s decision provides much needed relief for Main Street. But rather than wait for an appeals process to play out, Congress should terminate this illegal emergency authority once and for all.

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The whole DOGE fiasco is basically Chesterton's Fence on steroids. "I don't understand why things are set up this way, and since my 42069 IQ instantly comprehends all things, this can only mean the people who set it up that way were knaves and fools. Tear it down!"

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

I wonder why in the intelligence world it might be difficult to export information directly off a computer

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Obviously crime can & does happen wherever, but I don't think I've encountered anything more threatening than a loud, erratic panhandler in 25+ years of regularly riding NY & DC Subways. This is just creepypasta for sheltered hicks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

It's long been clear there's a common denominator to a lot of the institutions Trump picks as enemies: Journalists, Universities, Courts, the Intelligence Community. All independent sources of facts & information that might conflict with his fabricated reality. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

This dude is not the president. I don’t know who is. But someone is making a fck ton of decisions and it’s not him.

submitted 18 hours ago • 46 comments

How to get yourself quoted in dozens of lawsuits.

submitted 23 hours ago • 40 comments

Your periodic reminder that immigration "judges" are employees of the executive branch who, despite serving a quasi-juridical function, can be fired at the whim of the president and AG like most DOJ employees. They are not independent Article III judges.

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

This is like the wonk version of "For Sale: Baby shoes, never used."

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The TACO thing is funny, and true, but insofar as his cowardice on this score is the only thing keeping him from utterly tanking the economy, I do sort of worry that "poke the thin-skinned moron" is a game that end poorly for all concerned.

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I put much work into this. DOJ is trying to block courts' access to info in #AbregoGarcia and Alien Enemies Act cases by asserting it is a "state secret." I walk through the clear case law on this topic. I provide a Table of senior officials' statements that preclude the state secret privilege.

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A sharp take on how we got here. It argues that the Long 90s—the political, economic, and cultural order shaping life since the 1980s—has broken due to the rise of the asset economy, erosion of civil rights, and a collapsed Congress. Trump’s second term is not a fluke, but a historic turning point.

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Not hyperbole, just clear eyes in the face of reality. Agree with all of this from @dandrezner.bsky.social

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Gessen is an oracle. Take note. Stay angry. Prepare to act. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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