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very good.

Wait until some folks find out how many OSS projects are largely/exclusively maintained by PRC nationals huntedlabs.com/the-russian-...

It will get lost in the torrent, but hard to overstate how scandalous this is. The national security advisor was communicating via a jerry-rigged version of an encrypted app that *functionally removed the encryption*, meaning an Israeli company could read all his texts. Throw in the towel, folks.

Don't concede an inch to these people unless they have an actual warrant signed by an actual judge.

Honestly, if someone told me that until MeToo it was “unheard of” that a woman could revoke consent and decide to stop having sex, I would keep my kids away from them and warn friends off, because I was perfectly clear on that at least 40 years ago.

Two Doll Trump

Again a half decent press corps would follow up on statements like these

Molly... Molly. I haven't heard that name since.....

You also won’t hear many Harvard geology professors promoting the view, rather widely held among the uneducated public, that the earth is less than ten-thousand years old. That is a feature, not a bug. Expertise necessarily reduces the “diversity of perspectives” along some dimensions.

Not a great time for the top U.S. intelligence and defense officials to be people the president picked because he liked their TV hits.

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come bother us!!!

On May 4, 1972, 53 years ago, @ursulakleguin.com sent "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" to her agent. She wrote it just after"The Dispossessed," while she was volunteering for the McGovern campaign and protesting the renewed bombing of North Vietnam.

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I'm going to go get the wine now

Three Trump Units

if constitutional order isn't your bag, then you're not in a constitutional order and you can never have its advantages. This is like saying you don't believe in a health law process because most people aren't lawyers and don't care.

intellectual incels

IMPORTANT: No one should try to use this process without first talking with a lawyer. Despite DHS's claims, leaving the country could impose SEVERE consequences for many people here currently without status, with a 10-year bar on reentry being a best-case scenario for most.

Yep.

In response to @freedom.press FOIA request, ODNI declassified & released an intel memo contradicting a key claim Trump made to invoke the Alien Enemies Act Confirms reporting the Trump admin characterized as false & used to justify weakening limits on leak inquiries www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Canada and Commie both start with C

Given that they have a slight majority, OF COURSE IT RUNS THROUGH RED STATES

"Oleksiy Zhulinskiy, the [CTO] of 3DTech, says that the Chinese dominate the fibre market, and that Russian and Ukrainian buyers have bumped into one another in Chinese factories ... Pre-paid orders have sometimes been gazumped by Russian buyers" www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

I'm pleased about this, but not about those powerless who lost their lives here. However, Putin won't change paths without long term and general support for Ukraine and encirclement, along with an offered off ramp.

Holy shit, just three years into its existence, the nonprofit Baltimore Banner has won its first Pulitzer.

Infratariffstructure Week!!

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This is correct.

Nonsense. Read the due process clauses. There are constitutional provisions that distinguish between citizens and non-citizens, defendants and not-defendants. The due process clauses apply to all “person(s).” Miller is not a lawyer, but you don’t need to be one to see that he is lying.

⚠️ State gov workers WATCH OUT DOGE is coming for your data. They are not just stealing from federal systems anymore. Time to resist the pressure they are putting on state governments. www.metacurity.com/trump-eo-giv...

Good

Looking forward to this

Who wants to present at P99 CONF this year? 👀 www.p99conf.io/2025/05/05/c...

To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.

The new Friedman Unit

Luv is Cool

My takeaway from this is that stoned driving is much, much safer and what I shall pursue from now on.