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"'Sir,' they said, big burly doctors, they said 'sir we've never seen anyone so strongly, so powerfully identify the pictures of the lion, the rhino, and the.....the, you know....ah, the ah.....humpy......sand horse'"

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An attempt to annotate this excellent thread of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence with recent headlines.

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Let no one say we could not see what was coming.

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Yeah, we're in constitutional crisis territory.

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Maybe all they ever wanted was to create a world where facts *do* care about their feelings.

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I have added a mirror for the Social Security twitter account to govmirrors. bsky.app/profile/soci... Starter pack with all mirrors here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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She died *with* the most infectious disease known to humanity which had been virtually eradicated when he took office, not *of* the most infectious disease known to humanity which had been virtually eradicated when he took office.

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Wait - isn't this a general problem with exemptions for finished products? What is to stop people from exporting trojan horse simulacrums of the finished product just to evade tariffs on specific expensive components inside?

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One of the striking things about the Abrego Garcia case is that would be trivially easy for the government to demand his return and give apologists an easy talking point: "Yes, sure, mistakes happen but see, they care about getting it right & doing it legally after all." But nope.

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Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins should be viewed as administration shills now. It would be a mistake to engage them in any matter in which your interests and positions are not congruent with this administration’s.

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HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

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This is a difficult time in financial markets but the real victims are the countless numbers of faceless small and mid-sized businesses who import from China and are getting vaporized overnight, and the White House would never take their calls.

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before you let a random person online scare you about the future, check their browser and see if the wikipedia link for the word Economy is purple

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Uhhhhhhhh I somehow don't see anything at all about it online yet but a helicopter just crashed into the Hudson River right out my window?????

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You cannot placate a bully by complying. It will never work. They’ll keep pushing until someone says no

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Kidnapping human beings for constitutionally protected speech is now a central feature of their promotional materials.

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Hey there actually is a volatility index for the volatility index: VVIX. Look at it go.

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Machine Learning models - by design - have to gravitate towards truth because it is by far the most efficient compression of reality. An LLM can fake skepticism at inference time, but if you train a model to be internally skeptical of climate change or vaccines, its going to be a shittier model.

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me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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