Wannabe Apparatchik
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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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tax the rich, they will whine and bitch and moan and they will pay their damn taxes because where else are they going to go, fucking Florida? it’s not Massachusetts and it’s certainly not New York City
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
tax the rich, they will whine and bitch and moan and they will pay their damn taxes because where else are they going to go, fucking Florida? it’s not Massachusetts and it’s certainly not New York City
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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so it turns out qanon was like McCarthyism in that like 90% of the country was spying for the Russians and they somehow managed to accuse the other 10%
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
so it turns out qanon was like McCarthyism in that like 90% of the country was spying for the Russians and they somehow managed to accuse the other 10%
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This is a good thread and I wanted to add to it to point out that, if anything, it understates the complexity of the task. There are a significant number of creative works for which it is difficult to determine *whether it is under copyright in the United States at all*.
that isn't true. there is no procedure to discover the ownership of a copyrighted work with unknown ownership, nor would one be possible to establish ex post facto.
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This is a good thread and I wanted to add to it to point out that, if anything, it understates the complexity of the task. There are a significant number of creative works for which it is difficult to determine *whether it is under copyright in the United States at all*.
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i think it might be worth banning or heavily restricting LLMs, but doing so by asserting that the commons has always been completely closed and that it is absurd to assert otherwise is contrary both to what the law actually says and to good public policy
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
i think it might be worth banning or heavily restricting LLMs, but doing so by asserting that the commons has always been completely closed and that it is absurd to assert otherwise is contrary both to what the law actually says and to good public policy
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the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien
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We won the Civil War because we drowned the feudalists in blood and lead. The sharp end of a strong liberal state is very sharp indeed.
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We won the Civil War because we drowned the feudalists in blood and lead. The sharp end of a strong liberal state is very sharp indeed.
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“You’re not allowed to question if climate change action is really worth it!” Is such a funny line you hear sometimes, given that it’s more or less the stated position of every single political party in the world except some center to left of center parties in developed democracies and the CCP
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
“You’re not allowed to question if climate change action is really worth it!” Is such a funny line you hear sometimes, given that it’s more or less the stated position of every single political party in the world except some center to left of center parties in developed democracies and the CCP
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turns out the flower of southern chivalry wasn't much next to a new england teacher with a cause
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
turns out the flower of southern chivalry wasn't much next to a new england teacher with a cause
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not a professional soldier, not some chud who grew up dreaming of war. he wanted to teach the next generation. he wanted to study the classics. but the war came
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
not a professional soldier, not some chud who grew up dreaming of war. he wanted to teach the next generation. he wanted to study the classics. but the war came
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i think sometimes about how that guy in the top right with the sword was a teacher
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
i think sometimes about how that guy in the top right with the sword was a teacher
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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i could legitimately do nothing else but catalogue this doc dump for a month. i suddenly understand why being assigned to document review is a punishment for lawyers
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
i could legitimately do nothing else but catalogue this doc dump for a month. i suddenly understand why being assigned to document review is a punishment for lawyers
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if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.
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So it's pretty clear that House Rs panicked about the selected emails House Ds released & just let-er-rip without actually going through the whole trove, huh?
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So it's pretty clear that House Rs panicked about the selected emails House Ds released & just let-er-rip without actually going through the whole trove, huh?
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NYT employees are all posting "how dare you disparage our institution, the paper of record."
The paper of record: Get a lot of this trollop luring innocent men of power with sex to straighten her luxury bones
The paper of record: Get a lot of this trollop luring innocent men of power with sex to straighten her luxury bones
what the ever loving shit is this wording? tbh, more of your writers need to get dragged into a crashout, @nytimes.com because wtf.
she was also homeless as a minor. dental/orthodontic shit isn’t a want so much as it’s a need (bad teeth can fuck up someone’s heart!). this was sex trafficking.
she was also homeless as a minor. dental/orthodontic shit isn’t a want so much as it’s a need (bad teeth can fuck up someone’s heart!). this was sex trafficking.
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
NYT employees are all posting "how dare you disparage our institution, the paper of record."
The paper of record: Get a lot of this trollop luring innocent men of power with sex to straighten her luxury bones
The paper of record: Get a lot of this trollop luring innocent men of power with sex to straighten her luxury bones
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Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
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They’ll write anything to avoid saying “Republican (allegedly) rapes kid” huh.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
They’ll write anything to avoid saying “Republican (allegedly) rapes kid” huh.
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NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
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"narco-terrorist" as a phrase is so phenomenal. combining the two biggest, decades-long foreign policy failures since the end of the cold war. i'm sure it'll work.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"narco-terrorist" as a phrase is so phenomenal. combining the two biggest, decades-long foreign policy failures since the end of the cold war. i'm sure it'll work.
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I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.