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Retired prof of Chinese Buddhism. If you like your histories of religion on the spicey side, have a look at my (fairly) recent Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature (UCal Press, 2016). Into art, lit, music, and history.
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A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

"Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world" No wonder they added a stray journalist, I have problems keeping track of just a handful of signal groups. Also: WTF???

So let me get this straight: as he was framing Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic as lowlife scum for accurately reporting on him, Mike Waltz was frantically checking his _19_ other secret, national security-threatening Signal chats to make sure he hadn't accidentally invited any journalists to those?

Bless Cory Booker for staying up all night to speak out against these evil morons. This is the kind of fight that we are all looking for.

Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

Is "unusual" really the best the New York Times can do?

What's with the Megyn Kelly soft-porn vid on the front page of the NYTs? How did we get here?

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

Yep

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Included Wife in Sensitive Meetings: Report https://twp.ai/1Vddde

RFK Jr. Says He’s ‘Having Fun’ on Day He Axes 10k Jobs Source: TheDailyBeast share.newsbreak.com/cbkj4jcy

A federal judge ruled that DOGE has no right to access sensitive personal information at various government agencies, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, banking and income information and more.

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

I had legit completely forgotten this.

Let it begin.

Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.

John Ratcliffe, Director of the CIA, didn’t identify the risk, didn’t take appropriate action.

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

Buttigieg: I know this in my experience, both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system

Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

Pete Hegseth: "Hey, front desk, can I get a wakeup call for 10:30AM? I need to get up super early because we are secretly bombing Yemen tomorrow at 1PM. And could you have someone send up another bottle of Scotch? Thanks."

Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone? Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.

As bad as the Houthi PC Group Chat is, and as bad as the DOGE stories leaking by the minute are...what's happening under the radar is so, so much worse.

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

The NYTs headlines about trump are reliably upbeat -- even as he destroys the rule of law, the economy, the social contract, our international relations, etc., it's all pretty interesting and fine. The editors don't know they might be the first in the cattle cars. Read a little history, dumbasses.

"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... " www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Texting your war plans to a signal group chat (!) to which you accidentally added a reporter is fucking wild. But her emails, amiright

"And he called the group 'Houthi PC small chat'"

Pete Hegseth Sent Secret War Plans to Journalist by Accident: Report https://twp.ai/1WCqxq

Read this and weep. 😭 🤯

This is insane