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Jeffrey Vagle
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Law professor | Privacy, Cybersecurity, AI*, Technology and Society, National Security | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · Nov 10
"I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I WILL HOLD."

-- 1LT Clifton Cates, Message to Battalion Headquarters, 19 Jul 1918, Battle of Soissons
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This is some dumb football.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I think Joyce Carol Oates managed to find a way into Elon's brain like so many Dennis Quaids in Dreamscape.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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So these are the guys running the place?
freydalpishti.bsky.social 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 8h
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Trying to cancel YoutubeTV while simultaneously trying to find a way to watch MNF.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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My only quibble: Too few syllables in "Detroit"
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Elon loves him some freshman calc.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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djinnandtonic.bsky.social
I've had an uptick in orders for this print recently, for reasons which are not particularly mysterious to me
COPPERHEADS OUT! WE'RE VOTING FOR A NEW RECONSTRUCTION CAUCUS UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT! PRIMARY THEM ALL 2026
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Not the most beautifully played football game ever.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Lord, do I hate the chatgpt commercials.

"ChatGPT, please take over my most basic thought processes."
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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You just can't exorcise the Puritan from this country.
jconley.bsky.social JG Conley @jconley.bsky.social · 8h
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
once again the secretary of defense is worth reading

secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-triump...
The Triumph of the Operator
GWOT, Signalgate, and the Cult of the Operator making National Security Policy
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Because there’s nothing the average person wants to do more than enter into negotiations over health insurance with a giant company who holds all the leverage.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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jules.su
this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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esqueer.net
You think we're stupid? You greenlit this deal. If you couldn't stop Dems from breaking away, then you don't deserve to be the leader.
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints"

www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I’m developing an allergic reaction to AI* slop.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Attaboy, Dems
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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"The Appeasement Eight gave Republicans bipartisan cover, and established another point of leverage Trump has over Congressional Dems...in a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Therefore, preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move."

Yep:
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Gearing up for the holidays with some innovative recipe ideas
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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ms paint of a twitter post by Joyce Carol Oates that reads: "So curious that the richest man in the world doesn't have a favorite shape. Does he even know any shapes?" separate twitter post by an account named "shapesthetics": "The triangle is a shape with three sides and three corners, one of the most basic yet beautiful shapes in Euclidean geometry." reply to this post by Elon Musk: "Great shape:
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

bsky.app/profile/anna...
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h
News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Good lord. Do folks like this really not understand how insurance works, or are they hoping their constituents don’t?
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM