Adam Kemp :apple_inc:
@adamkemp.oliphaunt.social.ap.brid.gy
Software Engineer at Apple
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In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
OMG, it’s true!
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115967398684102219
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115967398684102219
Nanoraptor (@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social)
The release of the Apple Watch was closer to World War 2 than to World War 1.
bitbang.social
January 27, 2026 at 3:41 PM
OMG, it’s true!
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115967398684102219
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115967398684102219
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Love my niche timeline
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Love my niche timeline
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Yup. Everything in this thread, up to and including the end. You don't eat around the cockroach.
Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
/1
January 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Yup. Everything in this thread, up to and including the end. You don't eat around the cockroach.
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The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"
/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"
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This is hilarious.
The Kyle Farnsworth-Iowa mystery might have been just been solved 🕵️♂️
January 8, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This is hilarious.
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Yet another reason why every major media outlet that reported "grok apologized and promised to put in place new safeguards" was so full of shit (beyond the fact that Grok can't apologize and was just responding to a user prompt, Elon has made it clear: he wants X to be the deepfake abuse creator)
Grok producing vile sexualized deepfakes of women and children isn’t an accident
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Yet another reason why every major media outlet that reported "grok apologized and promised to put in place new safeguards" was so full of shit (beyond the fact that Grok can't apologize and was just responding to a user prompt, Elon has made it clear: he wants X to be the deepfake abuse creator)
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
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Also, I wonder if people get how strange it is that Bovino keeps showing up on all these raids.
He's one of the top-most CBP officials there is. It'd be like if NYPD Commish Tisch kept putting on body armor to do small drug raids in NYC all the time.
Lays bare that this is all about spectacle.
He's one of the top-most CBP officials there is. It'd be like if NYPD Commish Tisch kept putting on body armor to do small drug raids in NYC all the time.
Lays bare that this is all about spectacle.
January 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Also, I wonder if people get how strange it is that Bovino keeps showing up on all these raids.
He's one of the top-most CBP officials there is. It'd be like if NYPD Commish Tisch kept putting on body armor to do small drug raids in NYC all the time.
Lays bare that this is all about spectacle.
He's one of the top-most CBP officials there is. It'd be like if NYPD Commish Tisch kept putting on body armor to do small drug raids in NYC all the time.
Lays bare that this is all about spectacle.
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It’s a very complicated world, and there’s a lot of grey rather than black or white, so it’s comforting to know with certainty that if Tricia McLaughlin says something you can know, with confidence, it’s false.
DHS's first official statement is out, and they call the woman who was shot a domestic terrorist who they claim was trying to kill an ICE agent.
As a reminder, Tricia McLaughlin's post-shooting statements have been proven to be false MULTIPLE times in the past. They are simply not trustworthy.
As a reminder, Tricia McLaughlin's post-shooting statements have been proven to be false MULTIPLE times in the past. They are simply not trustworthy.
January 7, 2026 at 6:05 PM
It’s a very complicated world, and there’s a lot of grey rather than black or white, so it’s comforting to know with certainty that if Tricia McLaughlin says something you can know, with confidence, it’s false.
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I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper
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Where are all those "but my academic freedom!" folks now? Where's the 5 article coverage on The Free Press site?
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Where are all those "but my academic freedom!" folks now? Where's the 5 article coverage on The Free Press site?
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Thanks to @brianleiter.bsky.social, we can read an excerpt from Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson's initial letter to his department head, Kristi Sweet, as well as his syllabus. leiterreports.com/2026/01/06/t...
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Thanks to @brianleiter.bsky.social, we can read an excerpt from Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson's initial letter to his department head, Kristi Sweet, as well as his syllabus. leiterreports.com/2026/01/06/t...
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To be clear, this vaccine policy is Trump's policy. He wants to own it and he should — and whatever comes of it.
January 6, 2026 at 12:23 AM
To be clear, this vaccine policy is Trump's policy. He wants to own it and he should — and whatever comes of it.
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Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right
Veteran New York Times national security reporter David Sanger says what Trump is describing in Venezuela is an "American occupation."
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right
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pg seems to have this kind of revelation every few months for... years? And then... does nothing and goes back to doing the same things he was doing before and hyping up the same people he was before.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
Paul Graham has been having a several months long “Are we the baddies?” moment on X.
Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
January 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
pg seems to have this kind of revelation every few months for... years? And then... does nothing and goes back to doing the same things he was doing before and hyping up the same people he was before.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
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I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
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Alabama had 717 murders in 2023, with a population around 3.5 million less than NYC.
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Alabama had 717 murders in 2023, with a population around 3.5 million less than NYC.
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If you have any doubts about just how institutionally transphobic the NY Times is, read this.
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/post/3mbezbmcgws27
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/post/3mbezbmcgws27
Trans News Network (@transnews.network)
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry. https://transnews.network/p/a-directive-from-above-former-nyt-editor-lays-out-how-the-paper-pushes-anti-trans-bigotry
bsky.app
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
If you have any doubts about just how institutionally transphobic the NY Times is, read this.
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/post/3mbezbmcgws27
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/post/3mbezbmcgws27
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So, WaPo, where were you a year ago when the irrational hatred you portray so well in this article was starting to build? Why do you discuss the scientific nuances only now?
Two-thirds of Americans think trans athletes cannot compete fairly because you and your corporate media buddies didn't […]
Two-thirds of Americans think trans athletes cannot compete fairly because you and your corporate media buddies didn't […]
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December 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
So, WaPo, where were you a year ago when the irrational hatred you portray so well in this article was starting to build? Why do you discuss the scientific nuances only now?
Two-thirds of Americans think trans athletes cannot compete fairly because you and your corporate media buddies didn't […]
Two-thirds of Americans think trans athletes cannot compete fairly because you and your corporate media buddies didn't […]