Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
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Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
· Sep 7
yes, Rawls was very much not around for the Founding.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
I've been thinking a lot about how the US has three founding and how, after Trump, we will — for good or ill — experience a Fourth Founding. I've been thinking about what ideas should be included in a Fourth Founding for the US.
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You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
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an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
I think a lot of Dems (electeds and voters) are reluctant to call out bad media behavior because they conflate criticism of individual media orgs and reporters with an attack on the free press writ large.
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I think a lot of Dems (electeds and voters) are reluctant to call out bad media behavior because they conflate criticism of individual media orgs and reporters with an attack on the free press writ large.
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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apartments don’t have to be small.
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
apartments don’t have to be small.
I don't know if it's just the heavy prosthetic makeup, but Vecna in Stranger Things sounds like Jim Carrey's Grinch.
December 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I don't know if it's just the heavy prosthetic makeup, but Vecna in Stranger Things sounds like Jim Carrey's Grinch.
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Tax the fucking billionaires into nonexistence and feed the hungry children
December 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Tax the fucking billionaires into nonexistence and feed the hungry children
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The simplest possible explanation for the Trump administration's actions is that Trump sexually abused minors with Jeffrey Epstein and there is further evidence in the files he's trying to cover up.
Breaking: The Trump administration announces that they will not be complying with today’s deadline to release the full Epstein Files.
They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The simplest possible explanation for the Trump administration's actions is that Trump sexually abused minors with Jeffrey Epstein and there is further evidence in the files he's trying to cover up.
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If you read that NYT piece, you’d realize it’s effectively impossible for Trump NOT to have abused minors.
All he & Epstein did was prey on women and host “sex” parties filled with girls age 14-24. Unless he was checking birth certificates he 100% committed lots of sex crimes against minors.
All he & Epstein did was prey on women and host “sex” parties filled with girls age 14-24. Unless he was checking birth certificates he 100% committed lots of sex crimes against minors.
The simplest possible explanation for the Trump administration's actions is that Trump sexually abused minors with Jeffrey Epstein and there is further evidence in the files he's trying to cover up.
Breaking: The Trump administration announces that they will not be complying with today’s deadline to release the full Epstein Files.
They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you read that NYT piece, you’d realize it’s effectively impossible for Trump NOT to have abused minors.
All he & Epstein did was prey on women and host “sex” parties filled with girls age 14-24. Unless he was checking birth certificates he 100% committed lots of sex crimes against minors.
All he & Epstein did was prey on women and host “sex” parties filled with girls age 14-24. Unless he was checking birth certificates he 100% committed lots of sex crimes against minors.
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“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
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the previous CEO of the safety net hospital i work at stepped down after five years & after the fact, we all learned about the golden parachute of a deal she got on the way out
for financial reasons, 10 supervisors (not execs either) got laid off last week, including my own
for financial reasons, 10 supervisors (not execs either) got laid off last week, including my own
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
the previous CEO of the safety net hospital i work at stepped down after five years & after the fact, we all learned about the golden parachute of a deal she got on the way out
for financial reasons, 10 supervisors (not execs either) got laid off last week, including my own
for financial reasons, 10 supervisors (not execs either) got laid off last week, including my own
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welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
it’s Christmas Eve morning and apparently Bluesky is in a fightin’ mood today.
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
Jesus was Jewish, so Christmas should start at sundown on December 24th.
December 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Jesus was Jewish, so Christmas should start at sundown on December 24th.
Guess they just forgot about all the PPP loan defaults.
Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
The Trump administration will resume garnishing the wages of people who are on default on their student loans starting in January. Billionaire Linda McMahon, head of the Education Department, told The...
www.democracynow.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Guess they just forgot about all the PPP loan defaults.
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Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
The Trump administration will resume garnishing the wages of people who are on default on their student loans starting in January. Billionaire Linda McMahon, head of the Education Department, told The...
www.democracynow.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
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“Practically every elite institution selects for people like this now.” @ryanlcooper.com
“On the merits, the very idea of putting someone like Weiss at the head of CBS News is preposterous. Her prior journalistic experience would not have qualified her to run your average college newspaper.” prospect.org/2025/12/23/b...
Bari Weiss Is the Propagandist Donald Trump Deserves - The American Prospect
The would-be dictator would get a much better class of censor if his regime didn’t hoist the biggest morons in the country into leadership positions.
prospect.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Practically every elite institution selects for people like this now.” @ryanlcooper.com
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Hanging Trump around the neck of other Republicans is also just good strategy - choice is either to embrace the unpopular Trump (bad) or attempt to distance yourself from him, which helps individual Republicans but reinforces the "Trump is unpopular" story and drags him down further
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
woof
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hanging Trump around the neck of other Republicans is also just good strategy - choice is either to embrace the unpopular Trump (bad) or attempt to distance yourself from him, which helps individual Republicans but reinforces the "Trump is unpopular" story and drags him down further
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“Faith leaders were turned away from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Christmas Eve morning after attempting to enter and pray with detainees.”
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
Faith leaders denied access to pray with detainees at Broadview ICE facility on Christmas Eve
The interfaith group has repeatedly sought entry to the building but has been turned away each time. During their latest effort, they said they wanted to offer “pastoral care” to Christians detained t...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“Faith leaders were turned away from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Christmas Eve morning after attempting to enter and pray with detainees.”
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
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The arrogance of space of cars is often not apparent until you rightsize your streets.
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The arrogance of space of cars is often not apparent until you rightsize your streets.
If I ever won the lottery, I just don't think I could biddy biddy bum all day long.
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If I ever won the lottery, I just don't think I could biddy biddy bum all day long.
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Outstanding. This was a grim case
NEW: Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths
Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hurting patients.
Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hurting patients.
Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths
Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hu...
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Outstanding. This was a grim case
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Friendly reminder that luck is the biggest part of everything and that 'grindset makes your luck' is bullshit because I personally know some lazy mfs that fell ass backwards into fame & success and I also know super talented musicians that will never get a break no matter how brilliant they are
The Grammy Award–winning artist turned tech entrepreneur advises Gen Zers to forget about work-life balance if they want to emulate his success. trib.al/RGSO9CT
Will.i.am grinds from 5-to-9 after his 9-to-5—because work-life balance is for people 'working on someone else’s dream' and not for visionaries | Fortune
Will.i.am tells Gen Z to ditch work-life balance: ‘Those words don’t compute for the materializers’
trib.al
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Friendly reminder that luck is the biggest part of everything and that 'grindset makes your luck' is bullshit because I personally know some lazy mfs that fell ass backwards into fame & success and I also know super talented musicians that will never get a break no matter how brilliant they are
In a greying world, anti-monopoly / pro-competition enforcement is so important because of firms are not disciplined by competition, worker shortages will just mean higher prices, lower quality, and product shortages to maintain profits and shareholder return.
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
In a greying world, anti-monopoly / pro-competition enforcement is so important because of firms are not disciplined by competition, worker shortages will just mean higher prices, lower quality, and product shortages to maintain profits and shareholder return.
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I observe that total moral degeneracy tends to have a corrosive effect on a political movement, if it has no genuine standards or principles then it will tend to get devoured by progressively more insane grifters
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I observe that total moral degeneracy tends to have a corrosive effect on a political movement, if it has no genuine standards or principles then it will tend to get devoured by progressively more insane grifters