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I'm not on his side, but I'm not on yours either.
Simple peace plan.
Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries.
Step two: There is no step two.
Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries.
Step two: There is no step two.
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Simple peace plan.
Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries.
Step two: There is no step two.
Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries.
Step two: There is no step two.
Stop talking, start litigating. Sue the pants off the bodgers. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...
www.propublica.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Stop talking, start litigating. Sue the pants off the bodgers. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
The next logical trend in the #hiring AI arms race will be companies offering applicants a "premium" option: Pay to put your application in front of the hiring manager, bypassing the AI filters. Soon thereafter, only paid applications will be considered seriously—and eventually, accepted.
July 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The next logical trend in the #hiring AI arms race will be companies offering applicants a "premium" option: Pay to put your application in front of the hiring manager, bypassing the AI filters. Soon thereafter, only paid applications will be considered seriously—and eventually, accepted.
Presented without comment.
June 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Presented without comment.
What a revoltingly glib way to talk about killing a human being—even an enemy. Regardless of what the administration does on Iran (regardless even of what it should do), this is not how it should be speaking.
www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...
Trump threatens Iran's supreme leader, escalating his rhetoric about the conflict
President Trump called Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" but said, "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."
www.npr.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What a revoltingly glib way to talk about killing a human being—even an enemy. Regardless of what the administration does on Iran (regardless even of what it should do), this is not how it should be speaking.
www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...
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Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
May 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
Good. Don't install it, thanks. #AppleIntelligence
May 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Good. Don't install it, thanks. #AppleIntelligence
Craig was right. AI is garbage. The problem is that the other execs were also right: AI is very popular, revolutionary even, and it has yielded a rising flood of garbage. How we turn off the garbage spigot is the next challenge.
9to5mac.com/2025/05/18/s...
9to5mac.com/2025/05/18/s...
Gurman: Siri upgrades 'unlikely to be discussed much' at WWDC next month, more - 9to5Mac
In a new, lengthy report regarding Apple’s AI strategy, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has detailed a number of strategic failures for...
9to5mac.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Craig was right. AI is garbage. The problem is that the other execs were also right: AI is very popular, revolutionary even, and it has yielded a rising flood of garbage. How we turn off the garbage spigot is the next challenge.
9to5mac.com/2025/05/18/s...
9to5mac.com/2025/05/18/s...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
The so-called "SAVE Act," like the government's (illegal) onslaught on migrants legal and otherwise, is the result of elites ignoring the concerns of the hoi polloi for years. Pressure must be released safely and responsibly or it will build until it reaches a point of catastrophic rupture.
April 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The so-called "SAVE Act," like the government's (illegal) onslaught on migrants legal and otherwise, is the result of elites ignoring the concerns of the hoi polloi for years. Pressure must be released safely and responsibly or it will build until it reaches a point of catastrophic rupture.
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The irony is that I'm no more welcome in trad parishes. Large parts of SSPX would regard me as a heretic, because large parts of tradworld conflate a certain aesthetic preference (one I don't share) and certain theologies and ecclesiologies (of which I'm skeptical) with the adamantine faith.
April 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The irony is that I'm no more welcome in trad parishes. Large parts of SSPX would regard me as a heretic, because large parts of tradworld conflate a certain aesthetic preference (one I don't share) and certain theologies and ecclesiologies (of which I'm skeptical) with the adamantine faith.
Pope Francis leaves, for me, a legacy of disillusionment and dysregulation. But he did permission me to take up space in NO parishes unapologetically: If (per TC) trads can't do trad things at trad Masses in trad parishes, NOs are just going to have to put up with us doing trad things at NO Masses.
April 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pope Francis leaves, for me, a legacy of disillusionment and dysregulation. But he did permission me to take up space in NO parishes unapologetically: If (per TC) trads can't do trad things at trad Masses in trad parishes, NOs are just going to have to put up with us doing trad things at NO Masses.
Let his epitaph be "Rudera relinquo, quam marmoream accepi." If that Augustan barb is overstatement, it is so only by omission: The marble he found was covered in sewage and weeds, and instead of draining the sewage and removing the weeds, he dynamited the marble.
April 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Let his epitaph be "Rudera relinquo, quam marmoream accepi." If that Augustan barb is overstatement, it is so only by omission: The marble he found was covered in sewage and weeds, and instead of draining the sewage and removing the weeds, he dynamited the marble.
So that's not going how you expected, huh? www.reuters.com/world/us-rea...
US ready to abandon efforts to broker Russia-Ukraine peace deal, Rubio says
The United States will stop trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
www.reuters.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So that's not going how you expected, huh? www.reuters.com/world/us-rea...
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A federal judge mostly sided with the Justice Department in a case about online advertising that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website. via @kqednews.kqed.org
Google’s Ad Dominance Is Illegal, Federal Judge Rules | KQED
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google is operating an illegal monopoly in online advertising technology.
www.kqed.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A federal judge mostly sided with the Justice Department in a case about online advertising that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website. via @kqednews.kqed.org
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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is your periodic reminder that everything that is happening is the fault of one man: Merrick Garland chose to do nothing for more than a year and a half. Everything that happens is downstream of that choice.
April 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This is your periodic reminder that everything that is happening is the fault of one man: Merrick Garland chose to do nothing for more than a year and a half. Everything that happens is downstream of that choice.
The tragedy of it all is, politics is supposed to regulate public policy which in turn is supposed to resolve public problems, and we have no shortage of public problems in need of resolution—none of which we can resolve while our politics are consumed by a tribalistic, sadistic firestorm.
April 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The tragedy of it all is, politics is supposed to regulate public policy which in turn is supposed to resolve public problems, and we have no shortage of public problems in need of resolution—none of which we can resolve while our politics are consumed by a tribalistic, sadistic firestorm.
I'd hope that even the most ardent opponents of illegal immigration and the most ardent proponents of deportation would agree that it's not a capital crime. So it's common ground that there are proportional limits on consequences. The question on which to press them is—"how's this proportional?"
April 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'd hope that even the most ardent opponents of illegal immigration and the most ardent proponents of deportation would agree that it's not a capital crime. So it's common ground that there are proportional limits on consequences. The question on which to press them is—"how's this proportional?"