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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

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Sadly my books have not sold to the same degree as is deservedly the case for Professor Bergstrom’s. I have made a small (but still useful) amount from my writing. But even if I’d made tuppence these bastards have no right to just steal my property.

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lol the Guardian needs to look at the normal number of applicants for, like, any academic job

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Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

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Disgusting cynical behaviour and RFK jr is an integral part of it.

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Yeah this is really going to shore up confidence in the dollar and US bonds…

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OK time for Wheel of Time comments (some spoilers) First of all the bit with Nynaeve parting the waters- feels six days late to me…

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Thinking a bit about politics in my subject. No question that history lecturers/professors overall lean left, mostly slightly left of centre. But if you were competent and career minded during my time I think you were significantly more likely to be rewarded in UK for being conservative.

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Bloody hell.

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Have they pinned the Lindbergh baby kidnapping on him yet?

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Two thoughts. The first is my heretical belief that if the administration had kept its demands to expelling some students Harvard would have caved. Second is a suspicion that this was an Austrian 1914 ultimatum- designed to be unacceptable. The real game is to experiment with weaponising the IRS.

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This is literally the AG and VP of the United States right now.

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OMG. Nailed it.

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Never really a good sign when you watch a season finale and don’t realise it was the season finale.

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Apart from because it obviously is…

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The nineteenth century Polish/Turkish connection always fascinates me. Holds in some respects up to 1918.

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Who is to say what is or isn’t legal? - truly a mystery.

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Not according to a seminar I once went to run by Quentin Skinner.

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🤣🤣🤣

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If there are fair Congressional elections in 2026 then the subsequent articles of impeachment will basically be 10 or more of the grievances from the Declaration of Independence.

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For any member of the executive- including the President- to a specifically name an institution calling for the removal of tax exempt status is almost certainly illegal- but we have reached the point where you can pretty much assume illegality for half the stuff they do.

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The Last Supper is honestly one of the great pieces of narrative fiction. Guy throws a party and says “I’ve gathered you here to solve a murder. My murder. It hasn’t happened yet, but one of you is going to kill me.” Honestly, a banger.

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They desperately need an excuse not to do it in June. Once it fails expectations after launch the whole valuation house of cards collapses because a very successful Cybercab is already clearly priced in at $250.

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Bingo. And I wonder how good the criminal vetting of the “golden ticket’ holders is going to be? A pretty high proportion of the people in poor countries who can readily find $5 million in cash to spare are going to be in or around organised crime.

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Which is doubly ironic given that the ‘defence’ for Musk throwing a Nazi salute was his supposed autism.

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If the government won't fund my plan to populate Mars with my legion of illegitimate children, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

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Yep. I know it isn’t really high on the list but it is so personally offensive.

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To not get deported as a gang member you have to name a Bulls player who isn’t Jordan? In the future is being a foreigner in the USA going to be like being a Brit during the Battle of the Bulge where you get quizzed on who is on American sports teams? (For the record my answer is Scottie Pippen)

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