Paul Hutchinson
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I'm interested in too many things and have been on the net since Compuserve provided access (75110,2422).
I mute or block anyone who is not offering rational reality based conversation
I mute or block anyone who is not offering rational reality based conversation
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7/ Up now is Justice Alito, and I can say with confidence that nobody is more impressed with Justice Alito's intelligence, eloquence, and wit than Justice Alito.
January 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM
7/ Up now is Justice Alito, and I can say with confidence that nobody is more impressed with Justice Alito's intelligence, eloquence, and wit than Justice Alito.
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Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
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He’s like the Punxatawny Phil of Texans freezing to death
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 12:21 PM
He’s like the Punxatawny Phil of Texans freezing to death
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I’ve criticized Ilan for not doing source criticism. Now, he’s endorsing the Trump Administration’s bad historical methods. Not only are they just throwing random people’s opinions at the wall— long after the ratification of the 14th Amendment— but they’re citing white supremicist segregationists!
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I’ve criticized Ilan for not doing source criticism. Now, he’s endorsing the Trump Administration’s bad historical methods. Not only are they just throwing random people’s opinions at the wall— long after the ratification of the 14th Amendment— but they’re citing white supremicist segregationists!
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Shitty newspapers, shitty editors, shitty publishers, shitty values.
Here's how WaPo and the Times
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
January 21, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Shitty newspapers, shitty editors, shitty publishers, shitty values.
Oops you forgot to include it
David Easterwood is a vile bigoted ICE director and anti-LGBTQ+ minister @ a vile church that teaches hate as Christianity
David Easterwood is a vile bigoted ICE director and anti-LGBTQ+ minister @ a vile church that teaches hate as Christianity
He's the Acting Field Office Director! His name is a matter of public record!
VAN SUSTEREN: The church -- that's a particularly troubling issue because you got a pastor, I purposely didn't name it, he's reportedly associated with ICE
NOEM: Thank you for not naming him. People don't realize that when you keep naming someone over and over, you increase the threats against them
NOEM: Thank you for not naming him. People don't realize that when you keep naming someone over and over, you increase the threats against them
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Oops you forgot to include it
David Easterwood is a vile bigoted ICE director and anti-LGBTQ+ minister @ a vile church that teaches hate as Christianity
David Easterwood is a vile bigoted ICE director and anti-LGBTQ+ minister @ a vile church that teaches hate as Christianity
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I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
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Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer. Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure…
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer. Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure…
Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer. Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that, somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity doesn't matter.
www.schneier.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer. Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure…
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer. Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure…
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On the White House’s printed list of Year One accomplishments:
paper straws.
(via @elizlanders.bsky.social)
paper straws.
(via @elizlanders.bsky.social)
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 PM
On the White House’s printed list of Year One accomplishments:
paper straws.
(via @elizlanders.bsky.social)
paper straws.
(via @elizlanders.bsky.social)
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He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
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I think it would be nifty if Larry Ellison's attempt to create trump state media results in a complete and total existential collapse for his empire
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January 20, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I think it would be nifty if Larry Ellison's attempt to create trump state media results in a complete and total existential collapse for his empire
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The single biggest drop estimated by NFAP is among immediate relatives of U.S. citizens. In other words, a huge drop in family-based immigration, which the Trump admin has attacked for years (despite using it for Melania's parents).
New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce **legal** immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump And Miller Slashing Legal Immigration By 33% To 50%
New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.
www.forbes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The single biggest drop estimated by NFAP is among immediate relatives of U.S. citizens. In other words, a huge drop in family-based immigration, which the Trump admin has attacked for years (despite using it for Melania's parents).
Is the worst is yet to come, just like when I was a young adult
Renewed chatter about a double-top in CPI, as we saw in the 1970s — “a time of large policy errors .. and price controls.
“.. Today’s economy bears some resemblance to that era, even if the circumstances and economic shocks—like the pandemic—are different.”
- @joebrusuelas.bsky.social
“.. Today’s economy bears some resemblance to that era, even if the circumstances and economic shocks—like the pandemic—are different.”
- @joebrusuelas.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Is the worst is yet to come, just like when I was a young adult
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If Trump proceeds down this path, our military, as an institution, will never recover from this dishonor.
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 PM
If Trump proceeds down this path, our military, as an institution, will never recover from this dishonor.
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I bet no American has thought the US should annex Greenland or invade Minnesota before the current drama but it sure has stopped us from talking about the Epstein files.
January 19, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I bet no American has thought the US should annex Greenland or invade Minnesota before the current drama but it sure has stopped us from talking about the Epstein files.
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Trump cheered China for Tiananmen Square (violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors) and cheered Russia for invading Ukraine (unprovoked aggression in pursuit of conquest).
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Trump cheered China for Tiananmen Square (violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors) and cheered Russia for invading Ukraine (unprovoked aggression in pursuit of conquest).
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
People who think this way;
“.. She was so brilliant and charismatic, and if she started a church we all would have joined,”
are where most of the problems in the USA start.
Worshipping humans always ends badly.
“.. She was so brilliant and charismatic, and if she started a church we all would have joined,”
are where most of the problems in the USA start.
Worshipping humans always ends badly.
“.. She was so brilliant and charismatic, and if she started a church we all would have joined,” another person who worked with Weiss said. “And within a couple of months we all wanted to jump out a window.”
@newyorker.com $PSKY @claremalone.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
@newyorker.com $PSKY @claremalone.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
January 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM
People who think this way;
“.. She was so brilliant and charismatic, and if she started a church we all would have joined,”
are where most of the problems in the USA start.
Worshipping humans always ends badly.
“.. She was so brilliant and charismatic, and if she started a church we all would have joined,”
are where most of the problems in the USA start.
Worshipping humans always ends badly.
Happy Rev MLK Jr Day!
I hoped to do my usual rereading of some of his works but I foolishly scheduled a periodantal appointment and nature conspired to take away my free time.
At least NPR had some relevant content to listen to while doing snow removal
I hoped to do my usual rereading of some of his works but I foolishly scheduled a periodantal appointment and nature conspired to take away my free time.
At least NPR had some relevant content to listen to while doing snow removal
January 19, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Happy Rev MLK Jr Day!
I hoped to do my usual rereading of some of his works but I foolishly scheduled a periodantal appointment and nature conspired to take away my free time.
At least NPR had some relevant content to listen to while doing snow removal
I hoped to do my usual rereading of some of his works but I foolishly scheduled a periodantal appointment and nature conspired to take away my free time.
At least NPR had some relevant content to listen to while doing snow removal
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled
www.twincities.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 AM
The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.
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Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
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Why aren't Trump's tariffs saving manufacturing?
"Trump put enormous tariffs on steel... That's a little bit like putting tariffs on flour and asking what do you think is going to happen to bakeries... Trump has put us at enormous disadvantage relative to foreign competitors."
"Trump put enormous tariffs on steel... That's a little bit like putting tariffs on flour and asking what do you think is going to happen to bakeries... Trump has put us at enormous disadvantage relative to foreign competitors."
January 19, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Why aren't Trump's tariffs saving manufacturing?
"Trump put enormous tariffs on steel... That's a little bit like putting tariffs on flour and asking what do you think is going to happen to bakeries... Trump has put us at enormous disadvantage relative to foreign competitors."
"Trump put enormous tariffs on steel... That's a little bit like putting tariffs on flour and asking what do you think is going to happen to bakeries... Trump has put us at enormous disadvantage relative to foreign competitors."
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Seems like the whole metaverse thing collapsed as soon as Facebook changed its name to Meta. Can we persuade Zuckerberg to change it again, this time to AI?
January 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Seems like the whole metaverse thing collapsed as soon as Facebook changed its name to Meta. Can we persuade Zuckerberg to change it again, this time to AI?
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Trump's plan to seize Greenland is unjust, illegal under both US and international law, and stupidly counterproductive. The same is true of his imposition of tariffs on European nations opposed to it. See my discussion here: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Trump's Plan to Seize Greenland is Simultaneously Evil, Illegal, and Counterproductive
NA Donald Trump's plan to seize Greenland has the rare distinction of simultaneously combining grave injustice, massive illegality, and extreme…
reason.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Trump's plan to seize Greenland is unjust, illegal under both US and international law, and stupidly counterproductive. The same is true of his imposition of tariffs on European nations opposed to it. See my discussion here: reason.com/volokh/2026/...