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Some scholars have set up the idea of the President disobeying a Supreme Court order as the one and only Rubicon. As a result, they understandably want to believe and will split hairs on his behalf to demonstrate that there is still time for him to get in line before crossing it.

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We have a crisis of naivety.

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When the pendulum swings back (which it will), and we are left staring at the international misery that the "post-liberal" thugs inflicted on the world, people like this will come to us and proclaim that they never believed it anyway and it is our duty to tell them all to can it

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I love watching all these post-liberal dilettantes who embraced the alt right out of nihilistic boredom slowly coming to realize that actually living in Gilead would be way less fun than advocating it.

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ai god cults no-but-seriously-14-words-nazis pedocon theory pedocon theory pedocon theory pedocon theory just so many self-censoring facts these days

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BREAKING. From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

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Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

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Several of the country’s largest LGBTQ Pride celebrations have lost major sponsors — including Anheuser-Busch, Comcast, Diageo and Nissan — to the tune of $200,000 to $350,000 per event. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

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"A trade war is stupid. Economic stability gets nuked when leaders launch tariffs like they are firing missiles ... Trade peace is smart. We maximize economic stability when we forge global agreements that bind countries regardless of political shifts"

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It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste

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It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

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Many people will be surprised to learn that the tuition paid by foreigners to US colleges and universities is payment for a US export, which acts to narrow our trade deficit.

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Alarming. 'Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure.' www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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😮 HIDING ICE FLIGHTS: ICE charter flights by GlobalX have been removed from many flight trackers, and given the call sign TYSON --previously associated w/ Secret Service and a B52 bomber squadron. Tracked by tail number, here is TYSON41 which departed Texas en route to a destination South America:

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Another one shipped to Louisiana, implicitly to face a conservative judge instead of where the incident occurred in Logan Airport in Massachusetts

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WHAT THE FUUUUUCK

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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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Rural transport doesn't need innovation: it needs buses, properly integrated and proudly delivered, like in Switzerland. My blog describes my experience staying in a village of 475 people with a half-hourly bus service all day, every day. We could do that! www.freewheeling.info/blog/rural-t...

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They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

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what I keep coming back to about this quote is how many people in the era of the internet — from the brokest to the richest — thought they could afford to stop being an adult. the actual lever-holders of the economy thought they could go back to having high school problems.

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Democrats should be introducing sanctions legislation against Bukele as a signal of what to expect.

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1. Now that China is cutting economic ties, new research on why China opted for technological self-reliance. The good stuff discussed below is down to my co-authors rather than me - but it _is_ good stuff. We have lots of NLP data that helps us map out China's debates about technological dependence.

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The key takeaway from this story is that Marco Rubio is a stone-cold liar. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

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This is like when certain Brits were astonished to learn how many goods passed into the UK via the channel

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“.. millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws” lasted about a week. 🤡

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Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

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Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...

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The president's budget request seeks to strangle astronomy in the US. The president's hit job specifically seeks to murder the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – a revolutionary facility that is fully assembled, on budget, and nearly ready to launch. 🧪🔭 arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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russian identity, like gender, is so natural and valuable that it must be forced upon you at gunpoint

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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

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TARIFF CHART UPDATE (Apr 11 edition): - Chinese average tariffs on imports from US are now 147.6% (Jan 20, 2025: 21.2%) (China announced 125% matching tariffs overnight)

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solid headline www.jsonline.com/story/news/i...

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there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

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NEW/Exclusive: The AFL-CIO and 3 top former OSHA officials fear the possibility of Elon Musk accessing unredacted whistleblower files that OSHA maintains. There's currently dozens of open OSHA cases across Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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In any authoritarian regime, there are people who make a livelihood by rationalizing the actions of the leadership, making them palatable to a general audience by offering analogies with reasonable theoretical statements. Their profesisonal title is usually something like "chief propagandist"

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This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

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By @davidcorn.bsky.social - Gabbard‘s pick to run a counterterrorism center: Joe Kent, a „twice-failed MAGA congressional candidate, who, as the AP reported, “stands out for the breadth of his ties to a deep-seated extremist fringe.”

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