Donald Taylor
@donaldtaylorii.bsky.social
Operationalizing dialectic: Hegelian in my dreams; organization man in my nightmares.
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gender affirming naval procurement
December 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
gender affirming naval procurement
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DHS needs to get nuked from orbit
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
DHS needs to get nuked from orbit
I hope we keep doing this for the rest of my life. I'm sure this time the bad guys have learned their lesson. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. strikes dozens of sites in Syria in retaliation for troops’ deaths
The expansive operation follows the killing last weekend of two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter at a military base in the city of Palmyra.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I hope we keep doing this for the rest of my life. I'm sure this time the bad guys have learned their lesson. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
There isn't an anti-Trumper in the world who is even a fraction as obsessed with Donald Trump as Donald Trump is psychpathically obsessed with a littany of people who have wronged him. "Trump derangement syndrome" can only refer to the derangement of its namesake. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
There isn't an anti-Trumper in the world who is even a fraction as obsessed with Donald Trump as Donald Trump is psychpathically obsessed with a littany of people who have wronged him. "Trump derangement syndrome" can only refer to the derangement of its namesake. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
That every president needs their own stand-alone library is part of the construction of the imperial presidency. His papers could just go to the National Archive, or to the University of Delaware. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
That every president needs their own stand-alone library is part of the construction of the imperial presidency. His papers could just go to the National Archive, or to the University of Delaware. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
It got to the point where I almost couldn't stand visiting my parents' house because my boomer mom had a television in the living room, the family room, the kitchen, the laundry room, her bedroom and her office. I would walk around the house turning them off, trying to create a few moments of peace.
Most American teenagers use YouTube and TikTok daily, according to a report by the Pew Research Center, and roughly one in five said they were on one of the two platforms “almost constantly.”
Some Teens Are on Social Media ‘Almost Constantly,’ Survey Says
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It got to the point where I almost couldn't stand visiting my parents' house because my boomer mom had a television in the living room, the family room, the kitchen, the laundry room, her bedroom and her office. I would walk around the house turning them off, trying to create a few moments of peace.
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
The law of war is (1) ancient, (2) Catholic, and (3) originates with natural law – so I am totally looking forward to J.D. Vance's disquisition on how we should toss Jus in Bello as some inconsequential woke Wilsonian culture war against the traditional masculine martial pursuits.
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The law of war is (1) ancient, (2) Catholic, and (3) originates with natural law – so I am totally looking forward to J.D. Vance's disquisition on how we should toss Jus in Bello as some inconsequential woke Wilsonian culture war against the traditional masculine martial pursuits.
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I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
Pope Leo XIV threatens to recall Peter Thiel to active Opus Dei duty to face an Inquisition tribunal for undermining the good order and discipline of the Catholic laity. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-van...
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Pope Leo XIV threatens to recall Peter Thiel to active Opus Dei duty to face an Inquisition tribunal for undermining the good order and discipline of the Catholic laity. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-van...
MAGA - Making Attorneys Get Attorneys www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Dept. acknowledges full grand jury never saw final Comey indictment
The acknowledgement came during a hearing in which a federal judge heard the former FBI director’s arguments that he is the target of a vindictive prosecution.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
MAGA - Making Attorneys Get Attorneys www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I mean, why is the entire Internet filled up with incensed takes about Olivia Nuzzi's weakness for silver foxes – meanwhile Michael Wolff is secretly advising one of the worst sex offenders in U.S. history on how to blackmail the President of the United States.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I mean, why is the entire Internet filled up with incensed takes about Olivia Nuzzi's weakness for silver foxes – meanwhile Michael Wolff is secretly advising one of the worst sex offenders in U.S. history on how to blackmail the President of the United States.
I don't know what everyone is so sour about: this l'amour fou between Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza is the best thing that's happened in U.S. politics since Condoleezza Rice accidentally referred to George W. Bush as "my husband". (slate.com/culture/2004...)
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I don't know what everyone is so sour about: this l'amour fou between Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza is the best thing that's happened in U.S. politics since Condoleezza Rice accidentally referred to George W. Bush as "my husband". (slate.com/culture/2004...)
I am all about the intersection of libido and will to power, so will most certainly be reading Olivia Nuzzi's book.
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I am all about the intersection of libido and will to power, so will most certainly be reading Olivia Nuzzi's book.
Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We're about to get a little glimpse of this apocalypse. (Tim Kreider, "I Know What You Think of Me", New York Times, 15 June 2013) archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We're about to get a little glimpse of this apocalypse. (Tim Kreider, "I Know What You Think of Me", New York Times, 15 June 2013) archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
I'll file this along with the rest of the running list I keep of portions of the U.S. Constitution that are dead.
the 25th amendment is like a vestigial organ
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I'll file this along with the rest of the running list I keep of portions of the U.S. Constitution that are dead.
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In @nytopinion
Nancy Pelosi is "right to retire now, setting an example for a party with a serious gerontocracy problem," our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Nancy Pelosi is "right to retire now, setting an example for a party with a serious gerontocracy problem," our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Opinion | More Democrats Need to Follow Pelosi’s Example and Retire
She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In @nytopinion
Nancy Pelosi is "right to retire now, setting an example for a party with a serious gerontocracy problem," our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Nancy Pelosi is "right to retire now, setting an example for a party with a serious gerontocracy problem," our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
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Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Abolish Border Patrol.
Democrats are not sovereigns over their national image. They don't set it by fiat. The Democrats' national image is the outcome of a competition with a variety of other power centers of varying levels of hostility.
Except the national party image is not meaningfully connected to the actual behavior & priorities of the party. It is constructed by hostile media.
And when you say shit like "Dems don't want to teach algebra," *you are part of that hostile media*, creating a distorted national party image.
And when you say shit like "Dems don't want to teach algebra," *you are part of that hostile media*, creating a distorted national party image.
My argument is super simple, it’s that according to Elliott Morris’s data:
1. Moderates do better on average
2. National party images are increasingly important
Morris is a smart guy and Democrats should follow his advice and moderate their national image.
1. Moderates do better on average
2. National party images are increasingly important
Morris is a smart guy and Democrats should follow his advice and moderate their national image.
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Democrats are not sovereigns over their national image. They don't set it by fiat. The Democrats' national image is the outcome of a competition with a variety of other power centers of varying levels of hostility.
I need to read some left-wing pushback on the combo of Ezra Klein's latest and the "Deciding to Win" report. And I need it before the "Deciding to Win" people are the guest interview on Pod Save America.
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I need to read some left-wing pushback on the combo of Ezra Klein's latest and the "Deciding to Win" report. And I need it before the "Deciding to Win" people are the guest interview on Pod Save America.
Growth only matters for the debt if the government captures part of that growth in taxes. If the one percent hoover up all the growth, then debt panic has become just another ideological cudgel in the war of the wealthy against the rest of society.
SOLOMON: “.. If we continue on the current course and we don’t take the growth level up, there will be a reckoning. .. The path out is a growth path.”
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Growth only matters for the debt if the government captures part of that growth in taxes. If the one percent hoover up all the growth, then debt panic has become just another ideological cudgel in the war of the wealthy against the rest of society.
I'm on hold with Apple developer portal support and the wait time music is "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla", the finale from Wagner's "Das Rheingold". youtu.be/u_rzjp6sBr8
Das Rheingold (Entry of the Gods into Valhalla)
YouTube video by Omar Amengual
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October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm on hold with Apple developer portal support and the wait time music is "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla", the finale from Wagner's "Das Rheingold". youtu.be/u_rzjp6sBr8
One of the ways that people persist in thinking that we still exist in the twentieth century media world is that if a story get legs, then it has to have an empirical basis. Haitians eating the pets of Springfielders should be your paradigm for understanding this. /1
look at what happened with immigration: dems try to be “centrist” with the biden border bill, gop just went further right and started lying about eating pets…may be a lesson to learn there
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One of the ways that people persist in thinking that we still exist in the twentieth century media world is that if a story get legs, then it has to have an empirical basis. Haitians eating the pets of Springfielders should be your paradigm for understanding this. /1