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Math, science, fan of nuance, pragmatic realist & autodidact. Columbia Sociology & Sustainable Development by Day, dank memes by night. Recovering blogger.
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There’s already a bill in front of the house trying to codify this into law, introduced by Marsha Blackburn (r-tn).

100% Every single time you do a case study involving a red state, the vast majority of issues (especially those with the most downside) come down to a fundamental lack of state capacity. They cut all that to the bone, back when they assumed the Fed’s would step in to rescue them. Nobody’s coming

Bro you don’t wana know.. THERE BE DRAGONS

Proud to be an alum of Wilmer Hale right now. If you are in a position to direct business to law firms - or to take business to law firms - please consider which firms are standing up and fighting. Against *blatantly illegal* policies!

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www.nefariousrussians.com/p/against-ni... You see now why Peter Turchin came out of the FSU? The collapse of the FSU was like a master class seat to the doom loop of nihilism and social collapse we’re now seeing infecting the US. Remember a lot of these people died young of TB & AIDS.

This is disgraceful beyond words

Jesus fucking Christ

Unpopular but true: Joe Biden lost under 30’s because of his rigid and blinkered refusal to allow any daylight between himself and Netanyahu. It wouldn’t have taken much, just enforcing international humanitarian law & the laws of war would’ve been enough to avoid the disaster that unfolded.

Judge Susan Crawford to the packed room here in Appleton, Wisconsin: "Let me tell you about my opponent. Elon Musk."

Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

If you haven’t already, check out Douglas Rushkoff’s book “Survival of the Richest.” The craziest part was when these rich idiots actually believed that their hired guns would listen to their authority once civilization collapses. They had no clue, they just assumed they’d remain in charge forever

Im so fucking mad I have to defend big law.

NEW: Judge Andrew Oldham—a 5th Circuit Trump appointee auditioning for SCOTUS—just published a WILDLY inappropriate opinion criticizing Biden’s commutation of a man’s death sentence and strongly suggesting that Biden wasn’t lucid enough to know what he was signing. www.scribd.com/document/843...

Protect immigrants Protect trans Protect the environment That’s all we can do. (Besides get TF off Twitter.)

Trump just hit Wilmer Hale. Props to Paul Weiss, with an assist from Skadden. We’re all hanging separately now.

"Removing improper ideology" doesn't sound at all Soviet or Orwellian. It's exactly the sort of thing a country with "a history of liberty" (as this EO says elsewhere) would do to celebrate the freedoms that have made it great.

remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something

Thank you, Canada Tu te souviens

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

RFK Jr is a good example of how the reasons that underpin our stances matter. He'll say stuff like "kids should be on their phones less...because their phones are giving them cancer" and *even if you agree* that kids should be on their phones less he is still, in a very meaningful sense, wrong!

Dingdingding

It occurs to me that perhaps the reason the Signal chat group wasn’t worried about security and hacking by our enemies is that they don’t consider them our enemies and are willingly sharing with them…just a random thought.

The first rule of Trumpism is to never apologize or admit wrongdoing. That’s why he’s not firing anyone or even entertaining the idea anybody around him did something wrong.

ICE does patently illegal shit, because no one is holding them accountable.

@markzaidesq.bsky.social remind me to cite to this for our next case involving Signal

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a bill trying to prohibit federal employees from unionizing (S.1006)… And the executive is attempting to defang NEPA as part of their “unleashing American energy” pipe dream. It’s open for public comment til April 11th.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth calls on Pete Hegseth to resign: "Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could've gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately."

I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

Is this true?

All these bros complaining but all they have to do is enroll in a local college and not be a repugnant misogynist asshole. Or a local library. Or a local gym. Nope, they’d rather sit at home, unbathed. playing video games & stewing about how everyone hates them. Fucking pathetic.

she should sue him for slander. he plainly accuses her of violence and vandalism. she wrote an op ed.

Normal people have absolutely no idea how much “American” social capital is in fact foreign grad students and PhDs. Somewhere along the road we decided that education wasn’t important anymore, that we’d rather subsidize Ponzi suburbs and tax breaks for rich assholes. So we import educated talent.

the brain drain is going to be incalculable. why would anyone want to come here to study if you can be shipped away without due process by thugs for writing an article disagreeing with the policies of another foreign country?

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.