dreyfussaffair.bsky.social
Attorney by day … mostly attorney-adjacent hobbies by night.
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Well, of course that’s just because TikTok both taught them how to run a transnational criminal enterprise and launder the proceeds *and* turned their brains into soup.
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But partially we care because the Founders fucked up by making the Constitution too hard to amend, thus forcing a degree of deference to their views. We look back not because they were correct or omniscient, but because that’s the only ground their fucking mid-tier drafting and negotiating left us.
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Partially Americans care because American Christian religious practice frequently vests the American constitution with quasi-Biblical status, both explicitly and implicitly (see, e.g., “Trump Bible” sales), thus equating the Founders to the Prophets of the Old Testament.
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Unbelievably important, impactful program, but shout out to Nunn-Lugar for immeasurable dog-that-didn’t-bark impact too!
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Oh this is so cool. Great use of data, and so important in this moment in which headlines are dominated by complaints about the cost of the fare. Having data demonstrating the ongoing benefits will hopefully push back against that narrative. (Though of course I have no hope for the Post’s coverage)
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Realizing (many of) these guys would check the box “some college” really helped me reframe my thinking and expectations for the Silicon Valley oligarchic cohort.
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But, little things! He added a *parking lot* and an extension to 67th street into Central Park behind the Tavern on the Green, both of which are still there in the year of our lord 2024. Get the Central Park Conservancy on the phone.
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(Yes, I understand that half of Caro’s point in the book is that Moses had power at a particularly important point in the City’s history such that many desirable changes are prohibitively expensive or difficult to do)
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And the L to Hoboken!
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I live right here and the “combat parking” by NYPD at the station is endemic. It renders the block around the police station annoyingly narrow at best and impassible at worst. Wasn't there a DOJ suit that was supposed to change this behavior?
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I guess I just don't think the math is weird, per se: the obvious underlying assumption is that one rises from VP to the presidency, and the math is intended to address the subsequent service. To reverse the order in this manner might be textually permissible but is obviously contrary to the intent.
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To pretend the political & judicial systems (to the extent they are truly separate) wouldn’t contort themselves in the face of a power grab like this strikes me, after the last quarter-century, as naive.
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Right, but this type of convoluted over-reading of the constitution is exactly what SCOTUS engaged in to ignore the plain meaning of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifying insurrectionists from federal office.
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And that puts aside the fact that the idea of studying “business” in such an abstract way is akin to a cargo cult—its the miming, the hollow mimicry, of the outcomes & processes of businesses without teaching any of the skills to actually create the products and ideas that grow & sustain them.
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The business schools at universities have been destroying the very ideals of the universities that house them for decades by promoting, relentlessly, the idea that the purpose of higher education is its monetizable return, not that education itself has any value for either the individual or society.
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This is *the* correct answer. One of the best works of nonfiction ever written.
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I’m afraid that’s incorrect—Klaus Fuchs, who had dual citizenship in the UK and Germany, was the primary source for the Soviets about the atomic bomb. Philby, while yes a spy for the Soviets, and British, was in the intelligence services and was not involved in the development of the bomb.
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The constitution is too hard to amend, so it wont happen, but! In the fantasy world in which we could amend, you could create alternate forms of clemency or pardoning through a different (maybe new!) constitutional actor. Leaving it to a president alone, though, is a dangerous vestige of monarchy.