Christian Paulsen
@christianspaulsen.bsky.social
Linguist, with a focus on morpho-phonology and Ancient Greek
Don't give up the ship.
If the Republicans have decided that they want to die on the hill that troops should obey illegal orders and that encouraging them not to is a threat to Trump's defense policy, then I say let them.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Don't give up the ship.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
Public officials reminding members of the armed forces to obey the law shouldn't be remotely controversial, but it is in this administration because ordering violations of the UCMJ, domestic, and international law is a major feature of this administration's policy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Public officials reminding members of the armed forces to obey the law shouldn't be remotely controversial, but it is in this administration because ordering violations of the UCMJ, domestic, and international law is a major feature of this administration's policy.
Call your senators and representative, and tell them that you support Sen. Slotkin and Kelly and the representatives exercising their freedom of speech and reminding our servicemembers of their right and duty to uphold our laws and Constitution and refuse illegal orders. Urge them to censure Trump.
Here's a slightly different follow up: "Speaker Johnson, do you believe members of the armed forces should follow unlawful orders?"
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Call your senators and representative, and tell them that you support Sen. Slotkin and Kelly and the representatives exercising their freedom of speech and reminding our servicemembers of their right and duty to uphold our laws and Constitution and refuse illegal orders. Urge them to censure Trump.
If officers of the law can act lawlessly and refuse to show credentials, how is the average person supposed to tell who is an actual officer versus someone posing as an officer.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If officers of the law can act lawlessly and refuse to show credentials, how is the average person supposed to tell who is an actual officer versus someone posing as an officer.
Do yourself a favor and read this excellent and hilarious summary of the trial of "Sandwich Guy"
Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this excellent and hilarious summary of the trial of "Sandwich Guy"
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
Yup. It turns out massively destabilizing trade in and out of the country is bad for people importing to build factories in order to export stuff.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Domestic manufacturing rose sharply under Biden and is falling under Trump
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yup. It turns out massively destabilizing trade in and out of the country is bad for people importing to build factories in order to export stuff.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
I’d say “trump turning his platform into a gambling platform is bad” but given his track record with casinos, it may just be funny.
"Truth Social users will be able to trade prediction contracts related to major events and milestones, such as political elections, interest and inflation rate changes, commodity prices on gold and crude oil, events across all major sports leagues"
What the bloody hell?
crypto.com/us/company-n...
What the bloody hell?
crypto.com/us/company-n...
Truth Social to Become World’s First Social Media Platform Offering Prediction Markets via Exclusive Partnership with Crypto.com
Trump Media Expansion Now Includes Strategic Push into Prediction Markets
crypto.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I’d say “trump turning his platform into a gambling platform is bad” but given his track record with casinos, it may just be funny.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
"HI kid! If you want to be Hitler 1936, remember Hitler 1945 is coming."
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
"HI kid! If you want to be Hitler 1936, remember Hitler 1945 is coming."
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com wrote a pair of essays last year that are quite relevant to the #NoKings protests.
The first discusses why many movements in the 2010s failed to achieve any lasting change. The second discuss how movements can succeed.
Links to the essays in the thread
The first discusses why many movements in the 2010s failed to achieve any lasting change. The second discuss how movements can succeed.
Links to the essays in the thread
October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com wrote a pair of essays last year that are quite relevant to the #NoKings protests.
The first discusses why many movements in the 2010s failed to achieve any lasting change. The second discuss how movements can succeed.
Links to the essays in the thread
The first discusses why many movements in the 2010s failed to achieve any lasting change. The second discuss how movements can succeed.
Links to the essays in the thread
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
I put a lot of blame for the public discussion of inflation on media outlets, because this was visible during the campaign and pretty much all serious economists agreed that Trump’s proposals would spur inflation, but it was presented as a “political difference” rather than Trump being illiterate.
We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞
@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
October 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I put a lot of blame for the public discussion of inflation on media outlets, because this was visible during the campaign and pretty much all serious economists agreed that Trump’s proposals would spur inflation, but it was presented as a “political difference” rather than Trump being illiterate.
It's so nice to not have the "AI" BS on every search.
If you can't get off Chrome, at least do yourself this favor. It's easy and fast to do.
If you can't get off Chrome, at least do yourself this favor. It's easy and fast to do.
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
opus.ing
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It's so nice to not have the "AI" BS on every search.
If you can't get off Chrome, at least do yourself this favor. It's easy and fast to do.
If you can't get off Chrome, at least do yourself this favor. It's easy and fast to do.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
Yeah; one of the problems with the concepts of "bubbles" in public discussion is that it doesn't explain how they happen. A party over promises (whether that's mortgage brokers or AI C-suites) on a short time frame that allows them to profit before it becomes clear that they can't deliver. Then pop.
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yeah; one of the problems with the concepts of "bubbles" in public discussion is that it doesn't explain how they happen. A party over promises (whether that's mortgage brokers or AI C-suites) on a short time frame that allows them to profit before it becomes clear that they can't deliver. Then pop.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
October 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
I feel like Smaug and this post is the black arrow.
My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.
October 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I feel like Smaug and this post is the black arrow.
An excellent article from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social about a powerful ruling by U.S. District Judge William Young.
This quote from Judge Young's ruling struck me in particular, that even if there is no legal consequence for illegal actions, we should not shy from calling them what they are.
This quote from Judge Young's ruling struck me in particular, that even if there is no legal consequence for illegal actions, we should not shy from calling them what they are.
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
An excellent article from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social about a powerful ruling by U.S. District Judge William Young.
This quote from Judge Young's ruling struck me in particular, that even if there is no legal consequence for illegal actions, we should not shy from calling them what they are.
This quote from Judge Young's ruling struck me in particular, that even if there is no legal consequence for illegal actions, we should not shy from calling them what they are.
If you've ever had to argue with someone about Austism stats; the always insightful @hankgreen.bsky.social has some facts you can use.
And may we all live in less frustrating times.
And may we all live in less frustrating times.
This Autism Stat Makes No Sense
YouTube video by Hank Green
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If you've ever had to argue with someone about Austism stats; the always insightful @hankgreen.bsky.social has some facts you can use.
And may we all live in less frustrating times.
And may we all live in less frustrating times.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed.
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
www.mediamatters.org
September 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed.
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
No really, I am s h o c k e d
September 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
No really, I am s h o c k e d
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
I’m choosing to remember Charlie Kirk’s contribution to American civic life in his own words.
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’m choosing to remember Charlie Kirk’s contribution to American civic life in his own words.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
The reason this ad works is not just that it appeals to a lot of Americans, but that Mallory looks and sounds like someone who genuinely cares about this.
We need more relatable and authentic candidates. Mallory is that.
We need more relatable and authentic candidates. Mallory is that.
You deserve a break on Sundays that doesn’t break the bank.
September 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The reason this ad works is not just that it appeals to a lot of Americans, but that Mallory looks and sounds like someone who genuinely cares about this.
We need more relatable and authentic candidates. Mallory is that.
We need more relatable and authentic candidates. Mallory is that.
Politics "to the hilt" isn't good for our country, but at the same time, if there is any hope of restoring institutional stability, it might require "extreme" actions such as these.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
September 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Politics "to the hilt" isn't good for our country, but at the same time, if there is any hope of restoring institutional stability, it might require "extreme" actions such as these.
Reposted by Christian Paulsen
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.