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Justice Scalia on what makes American government exceptional: Our Constitution separates powers to "prevent the centralization of power in one person, or one party." In other countries, where power is centralized in one person, "the game is over" for rights.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_...
Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism
YouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com
www.youtube.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Justice Scalia on what makes American government exceptional: Our Constitution separates powers to "prevent the centralization of power in one person, or one party." In other countries, where power is centralized in one person, "the game is over" for rights.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_...
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I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency
As Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targets the CDC with nonsense, a growing number of Senate Democrats are demanding his resignation.
www.msnbc.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
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Young astrophysicist Dr. Brian May, born #OTD in 1947, seen here with a black cat and his homemade Fabry-Pérot Spectrometer, the Red Special.
Note the disk magnets in the pickups and the custom pulse-counting electronics. 🧪 🔭
Image: Brian May Archive
Note the disk magnets in the pickups and the custom pulse-counting electronics. 🧪 🔭
Image: Brian May Archive
July 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Young astrophysicist Dr. Brian May, born #OTD in 1947, seen here with a black cat and his homemade Fabry-Pérot Spectrometer, the Red Special.
Note the disk magnets in the pickups and the custom pulse-counting electronics. 🧪 🔭
Image: Brian May Archive
Note the disk magnets in the pickups and the custom pulse-counting electronics. 🧪 🔭
Image: Brian May Archive
If our national myth of American greatness be true, it is because of the principles highlighted here, and more specifically, in Judge Wilkinson's decision.
Breaking: The Wilkinson Decision: Summoning “The Best That Is Within Us While There Is Still Time."
Behind The Headlines With Andrew Weissmann, Vol. 4.3.a
open.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If our national myth of American greatness be true, it is because of the principles highlighted here, and more specifically, in Judge Wilkinson's decision.
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Hey, we've gotten almost all of our Record Store Day shipments in!
Our list is at go.purplenarwhal.com/rsd - there might be a few updates tomorrow but we'll give you a heads up when that happens.
Our list is at go.purplenarwhal.com/rsd - there might be a few updates tomorrow but we'll give you a heads up when that happens.
April 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Hey, we've gotten almost all of our Record Store Day shipments in!
Our list is at go.purplenarwhal.com/rsd - there might be a few updates tomorrow but we'll give you a heads up when that happens.
Our list is at go.purplenarwhal.com/rsd - there might be a few updates tomorrow but we'll give you a heads up when that happens.
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.
March 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.