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Adam makes another very good point, which is that any firm which agrees to one of these settlements is now an agent of the government which can no longer give independent legal advice.

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Okay, so I'm guessing this was supposed to be shorthand for "intellectual property" but...yikes.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

At this rate they’ll never finish the audit, and so Trump will never be able to release his tax returns.

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The tariff dominance-game he's playing is uniquely and dramatically revealing its pointless destructiveness right away. Most policies (tax, immigration, destroying scientific research, purging the civil service) have enough lag to obscure responsibility/effects. www.eschatonblog.com/2025/04/how-...

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Public service announcement: which firms have stood up to Trump (the vast majority, but not the biggest ones) and which ones have signed up to offer him free legal services. Just in case you want to decide where to work or who to hire docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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The thing with deep analysis and subtle takes about what a moron in charge of everything decides to do is that it’s an absolute moron you’re talking about.

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Not until every law is replaced by deals does president zero-sum imagine himself satisfied. Even then, his need to feel dominant over everything and everyone would have him scuff his boots just so they could be licked clean again. The rest of us get a world ruled by transactions of power, not law.

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Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."

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The best time for a law firm to disclaim any deal with the WH is before it occurs. But the next best time is now. These are not settlements or contracts of any kind as far as I can tell. An executive order (even a legal one, unlike these) is not an asset with which potus is empowered to transact.

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There are 46 more democrat-affiliated senators. Batter up.

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Whatever these “agreements” between law firms and Trump (or the WH or the US?) are, I don’t see how they could possibly be enforceable contracts.

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Oopsie

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Some deeply fascinating papers from @anthropic.com: www.anthropic.com/research/tra... I added intro classes and an academic workshop on them to the enTalkenator podcast feed (generated with Sonnet 3.7 in enTalkenator): entalkenator.com/podcast

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Being left off that Signal thread feels like high school all over again...

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Reminder that immigrants (and even restricting only to illegal immigrants) commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens. General deportation or reduction in immigration increases the crime rate.

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I've started a podcast feed for synthetic workshops and intro classes made from my iOS app, enTalkenator (described here: www.hydratext.com/blog/2025/2/... and available here: apps.apple.com/us/app/ental...).

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

submitted 21 days ago • 628 comments

The Kennedy assassination files were apparently not under audit.

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Under the power he is claiming to have, he could kidnap you and traffic you into a prison in El Salvador on the basis of his mere belief you are not a citizen and are a terrorist. Similar supposed power of lawlessness was asserted in Rasul, where Bush claimed Guan. prisoners had no access to courts.

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Whoever, under color of any law … willfully subjects any person in any State … to the deprivation of any rights … protected by the Const. or laws …on account of such person being an alien [up to 1 year]; and if bodily injury results [up to 10 yrs]; and …if such acts include kidnapping [up to death].

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For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

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This part requires particular emphasis. The whole goddamn point of judicial process is to ensure---both for the individual and the public at large---that the state is actually doing what it says it's doing and to the right people.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

If the gov attempts to kidnap and banish you, asserting you’re a foreign terrorist, should you have a right to argue otherwise? The odds are great that at least one of these people is not even a gang member, much less removable. But even if they all are, this procedure violates our most basic law.

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Banishment and torture is the policy. The more indiscriminate, the better. www.eschatonblog.com/2025/03/seem...

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If it were your conscious object to cripple the United States, what would you do differently?

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If it were your conscious object to cripple the United States, what would you do differently?

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Has anyone done back of the envelope calculations of the number of and potential damages from lawsuits by aggrieved federal employees? And, given his nebulous role, could Musk be personally liable for tortious interference? The scale of compensable harms stacking up seems massive to me.

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The recording of Michael Gordon’s “A Western” performed by Theater of Voices is now out on streaming and bandcamp, and it’s stunningly beautiful. Gordon’s music always seems to arrest whatever I’ve been doing and thinking and to demand full attention. His Beijing Harmony is one of my all time faves.

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I made an app that would’ve seemed like magic to me five years ago: www.hydratext.com/blog/2025/2/...

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