Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social
Marxious legal opinion journalism & commentary. Host of vaporware media endeavor Paint The Roses Red. Poverty Lawyer. Punk jazz guitarist. Definitely not another of the pseudonymous sock puppets used by an insecure Tech Billionaire.
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A thread on the Hegseth sexual assault allegations.
Today Mediaite published redacted copies of reports from the Monterey Police investigation into on a sexual assault reported by an anonymous survivor. The report, linked below, contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I will quote some …
Today Mediaite published redacted copies of reports from the Monterey Police investigation into on a sexual assault reported by an anonymous survivor. The report, linked below, contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I will quote some …
There is no scientific theory to explain conscious choice (aka free will) because there is no material definition of conscious choice sufficient to test an empirical hypothesis about conscious choice. The failure to create one suggests that it may not be empirically objective at all.
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There is no scientific theory to explain conscious choice (aka free will) because there is no material definition of conscious choice sufficient to test an empirical hypothesis about conscious choice. The failure to create one suggests that it may not be empirically objective at all.
Trump requires a much more competent opposition party than this. Not only do Democrats suck, they aren’t even any good at it.
The DNC is burying its 2024 autopsy.
"DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
"DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
DNC will not release its report on what went wrong for Democrats in 2024
DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction.
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Trump requires a much more competent opposition party than this. Not only do Democrats suck, they aren’t even any good at it.
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you will not believe who just appeared in the Epstein files
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
you will not believe who just appeared in the Epstein files
I appear to have hit the “fascinated by WWII” period of middle age,
December 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I appear to have hit the “fascinated by WWII” period of middle age,
One time i got stopped on the sidewalk by city police in those lame dark blue camouflage uniforms. I said something like “dude, we can definitely see your big SUV with the flashing lights over there, you have zero chance of blending in in your camo jammies.”
Not, y’know, to his face or anything…
Not, y’know, to his face or anything…
The fact that these clowns are wearing camouflage pretty much says everything you need to know about the seriousness with which they take their job.
This is cosplaying at best, brown shirting at worst.
This is cosplaying at best, brown shirting at worst.
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
One time i got stopped on the sidewalk by city police in those lame dark blue camouflage uniforms. I said something like “dude, we can definitely see your big SUV with the flashing lights over there, you have zero chance of blending in in your camo jammies.”
Not, y’know, to his face or anything…
Not, y’know, to his face or anything…
Trump said something about stopping wildfires didn’t he?
NEW: Nine fires are burning across rural Yuma County, Colorado. Winds to 50-60mph. Farmers being asked to bring tractors and disks to cut fire lines. No formal evacuations. Appears very fluid. Emergency managers telling people to evacuate for nearest town if fire approaches.
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Trump said something about stopping wildfires didn’t he?
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Multiple jobholders now make up the largest share of the employed (5.7%) than any month since Feb 2000.
HT Dan Manaekenov
HT Dan Manaekenov
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Multiple jobholders now make up the largest share of the employed (5.7%) than any month since Feb 2000.
HT Dan Manaekenov
HT Dan Manaekenov
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Ukraine has successfully destroyed a $400 million Russian submarine in the port city of Novorossiysk with an underwater sea baby drone. Ukraine has successfully struck another Russian oil refinery and Russia's oil and gas platforms in the Caspian Sea again.
Russia Lost Another $400 Million Submarine (HAHAHA)
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Ukraine has successfully destroyed a $400 million Russian submarine in the port city of Novorossiysk with an underwater sea baby drone. Ukraine has successfully struck another Russian oil refinery and Russia's oil and gas platforms in the Caspian Sea again.
Radlib “journalists” like Wilkins and the other opinion writers he cites are all weirdly deferential to Russian imperialism. The blatant hypocrisy (most apparent with disinformation agents like Assange & Snowden who have publicly receive d financial support from Russia) suggests hidden motives.
"This is as close to a smoking gun as I've ever seen on Ukraine," said one observer.
Pranksters Trick Former US Official Into Admitting Ukraine War Was Preventable
"This is as close to a smoking gun as I've ever seen on Ukraine," said one observer.
www.commondreams.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Radlib “journalists” like Wilkins and the other opinion writers he cites are all weirdly deferential to Russian imperialism. The blatant hypocrisy (most apparent with disinformation agents like Assange & Snowden who have publicly receive d financial support from Russia) suggests hidden motives.
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Wake up, honey.
New casus belli dropped.
New casus belli dropped.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Wake up, honey.
New casus belli dropped.
New casus belli dropped.
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A $400,000 mortgage is $2,600 per month today.
A $400,000 mortgage was $1,600 per month in 2022.
$1,000 more a month for the same home. Crazy.
A $400,000 mortgage was $1,600 per month in 2022.
$1,000 more a month for the same home. Crazy.
December 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A $400,000 mortgage is $2,600 per month today.
A $400,000 mortgage was $1,600 per month in 2022.
$1,000 more a month for the same home. Crazy.
A $400,000 mortgage was $1,600 per month in 2022.
$1,000 more a month for the same home. Crazy.
Dershowitz has been a piece if shit for a very long time.
My first encounter with this particular lawyer was when he gave a guest lecture at my law school defending torture during the Bush administration.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear
Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question.
www.wsj.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Dershowitz has been a piece if shit for a very long time.
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Exclusive at @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy - The Navy quietly disciplined 18 Navy SEALs after military investigators found a private group chat that contained racist memes targeting a Black SEAL. We obtained over 500 pages of documents from FOIA. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-se...
Over a dozen Navy SEALs disciplined for racist memes earlier this year
Military investigators found more than a dozen Navy SEALs had been in a group chat containing racist memes targeting a Black SEAL.
www.cbsnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Exclusive at @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy - The Navy quietly disciplined 18 Navy SEALs after military investigators found a private group chat that contained racist memes targeting a Black SEAL. We obtained over 500 pages of documents from FOIA. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-se...
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Americans don’t want another Iraq.
We don’t want our kids dying so defense contractors can get richer. We don’t want to waste trillions overseas while families are struggling here at home.
Democrats should be clear: no more regime change, no more endless war.
We don’t want our kids dying so defense contractors can get richer. We don’t want to waste trillions overseas while families are struggling here at home.
Democrats should be clear: no more regime change, no more endless war.
Chuck Schumer won't say if he opposes regime change in Venezuela.
JAKE TAPPER: Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela?
CHUCK SCHUMER: President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways, you don't even know what the heck ...
JAKE TAPPER: Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela?
CHUCK SCHUMER: President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways, you don't even know what the heck ...
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Americans don’t want another Iraq.
We don’t want our kids dying so defense contractors can get richer. We don’t want to waste trillions overseas while families are struggling here at home.
Democrats should be clear: no more regime change, no more endless war.
We don’t want our kids dying so defense contractors can get richer. We don’t want to waste trillions overseas while families are struggling here at home.
Democrats should be clear: no more regime change, no more endless war.
I didn’t trust her then either. Its baffling to me that anyone ever backed her for anything, she’s so blatantly, cravenly opportunistic.
December 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I didn’t trust her then either. Its baffling to me that anyone ever backed her for anything, she’s so blatantly, cravenly opportunistic.
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PAINFUL to watch. There’s a clear Trump judicial nominee loyalty test.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
PAINFUL to watch. There’s a clear Trump judicial nominee loyalty test.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
This thread with the comments and questions is worth taking some time to read. Trump’s administration is moving into the area of symbolic but materially low consequences area of domestic policy as it gears up for war with Cuba and Venezuela.
The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This thread with the comments and questions is worth taking some time to read. Trump’s administration is moving into the area of symbolic but materially low consequences area of domestic policy as it gears up for war with Cuba and Venezuela.
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I’ll also note that there are 25 million naturalized citizens, so even if the Trump admin succeeded at its wildest dreams, we’re talking 2,400 denaturalizations a year, or 0.01% of the total naturalized immigrant population.
So it’s more to spread fear and send a message than make a tangible dent.
So it’s more to spread fear and send a message than make a tangible dent.
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I’ll also note that there are 25 million naturalized citizens, so even if the Trump admin succeeded at its wildest dreams, we’re talking 2,400 denaturalizations a year, or 0.01% of the total naturalized immigrant population.
So it’s more to spread fear and send a message than make a tangible dent.
So it’s more to spread fear and send a message than make a tangible dent.
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He actually already heard a denaturalization case in 2017, Maslenjak v. US. It was a unanimous-in-outcome case that held you can’t be denatzed for an immaterial false statement. Gorsuch concurred, joined by Thomas, to say he thought the court was weighing in too soon on a doctrinal issue.
can't wait for the tortured legal reasoning in the 5-4 Gorsuch in 2028 making it much easier for the feds to bring and win these cases
December 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
He actually already heard a denaturalization case in 2017, Maslenjak v. US. It was a unanimous-in-outcome case that held you can’t be denatzed for an immaterial false statement. Gorsuch concurred, joined by Thomas, to say he thought the court was weighing in too soon on a doctrinal issue.
This is definitely about Cuba.
POTUS announces a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in an apparent attempt to extort Venezuela.
Real gunboat diplomacy.
Real gunboat diplomacy.
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is definitely about Cuba.
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Models are great. Simulations are awesome. Synthetic data is useful.
But all of them can also be awful and used to generate bad science. We need to know exactly why we're using any of them, what assumptions we're making when using them, and what those assumptions mean for our inferences.
But all of them can also be awful and used to generate bad science. We need to know exactly why we're using any of them, what assumptions we're making when using them, and what those assumptions mean for our inferences.
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Models are great. Simulations are awesome. Synthetic data is useful.
But all of them can also be awful and used to generate bad science. We need to know exactly why we're using any of them, what assumptions we're making when using them, and what those assumptions mean for our inferences.
But all of them can also be awful and used to generate bad science. We need to know exactly why we're using any of them, what assumptions we're making when using them, and what those assumptions mean for our inferences.
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I cannot readily imagine a relative advantage of sampling survey/experiment data from an LLM to sampling known models/distributions if we cannot meaningfully define a population LLMs sample or formalize the sampling scheme. Idk what we can learn abt a model/method without clarity abt what we put in.
December 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I cannot readily imagine a relative advantage of sampling survey/experiment data from an LLM to sampling known models/distributions if we cannot meaningfully define a population LLMs sample or formalize the sampling scheme. Idk what we can learn abt a model/method without clarity abt what we put in.
I could have sworn he was dead.
Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I could have sworn he was dead.
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Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean. https://to.pbs.org/4pZJb8p
Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean
Hegseth said that members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee would have an opportunity this week to review the video, but did not say whether all members of Congress would be allowed to ...
to.pbs.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
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Actually any decent economist could tell you that this is false
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Actually any decent economist could tell you that this is false