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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
I’d like to know which members of Donald Trump’s administration and/or family sold large amounts of stock last Wednesday, and bought large amounts of stock yesterday.
April 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’d like to know which members of Donald Trump’s administration and/or family sold large amounts of stock last Wednesday, and bought large amounts of stock yesterday.
Make my IRA great again
April 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Make my IRA great again
Imagine having a government that cares more about childrens health than the profits of Coca Cola and Frito Lay apnews.com/article/mexi...
Mexico bans junk food sales in schools in its latest salvo against child obesity
Mexico says a government-sponsored junk food ban in schools has taken effect as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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April 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Imagine having a government that cares more about childrens health than the profits of Coca Cola and Frito Lay apnews.com/article/mexi...
The Kalam cosmological argument is funny. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but the strongest argument for God’s existence requires us to rewind the tape all the way back? Wouldn’t it be better to be able to point to some more recent evidence?
February 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Kalam cosmological argument is funny. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but the strongest argument for God’s existence requires us to rewind the tape all the way back? Wouldn’t it be better to be able to point to some more recent evidence?
You can't make a society great without investing in human capital and giving people a positive vision for the future. Both are currently missing from the MAGA movement, which seems solely interested in disruption, chaos, and destruction.
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The New American Dream is to Escape American Reality
Why Trump and the Right will never make America great
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February 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
You can't make a society great without investing in human capital and giving people a positive vision for the future. Both are currently missing from the MAGA movement, which seems solely interested in disruption, chaos, and destruction.
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Contemporary American politics isn't about populists versus elites. It's a civil war between two groups of elite white people.
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Opinion | Trump Is No Populist
Trumpism is not a working-class revolt against the elites. All I see is one section of the educated elite going after another section of the educated elite.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Contemporary American politics isn't about populists versus elites. It's a civil war between two groups of elite white people.
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
Halting the production of pennies is the one thing Trump's done that I 100 percent agree with.
February 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Halting the production of pennies is the one thing Trump's done that I 100 percent agree with.
If your conservatism rests on any of the following:
1. respect for the rule of law,
2. a preference for smaller, decentralized government, or
3. devotion to Judeo-Christian values
then you should be a HUGE fan of sanctuary cities.
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1. respect for the rule of law,
2. a preference for smaller, decentralized government, or
3. devotion to Judeo-Christian values
then you should be a HUGE fan of sanctuary cities.
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Why Conservatives Should Support Sanctuary Cities
Anyone following politics in the United States knows that Donald Trump — and most Republicans — loathe “sanctuary cities,” places where…
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February 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If your conservatism rests on any of the following:
1. respect for the rule of law,
2. a preference for smaller, decentralized government, or
3. devotion to Judeo-Christian values
then you should be a HUGE fan of sanctuary cities.
dustinarand.substack.com/publish/post...
1. respect for the rule of law,
2. a preference for smaller, decentralized government, or
3. devotion to Judeo-Christian values
then you should be a HUGE fan of sanctuary cities.
dustinarand.substack.com/publish/post...
Schrodinger's Deep State: the idea that the government is simultaneously
1) an army of underpaid nincompoops who can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman, and
2) a cabal of overcompensated evil geniuses who control our lives and can overthrow foreign governments on a whim.
1) an army of underpaid nincompoops who can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman, and
2) a cabal of overcompensated evil geniuses who control our lives and can overthrow foreign governments on a whim.
February 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Schrodinger's Deep State: the idea that the government is simultaneously
1) an army of underpaid nincompoops who can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman, and
2) a cabal of overcompensated evil geniuses who control our lives and can overthrow foreign governments on a whim.
1) an army of underpaid nincompoops who can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman, and
2) a cabal of overcompensated evil geniuses who control our lives and can overthrow foreign governments on a whim.
"It's good to shake things up" has to be the stupidest reason I've ever heard for voting for someone.
It's like throwing a deck of cards into the air in the hope that they'll land stacked and in perfect order.
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It's like throwing a deck of cards into the air in the hope that they'll land stacked and in perfect order.
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Is This What You Meant By “Shaking Things Up”?
How Trump’s war on competence will lead to more tragedies like the crash of Flight 5342
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February 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"It's good to shake things up" has to be the stupidest reason I've ever heard for voting for someone.
It's like throwing a deck of cards into the air in the hope that they'll land stacked and in perfect order.
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It's like throwing a deck of cards into the air in the hope that they'll land stacked and in perfect order.
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Dear people who think USAID exists to foment coups and regime change, kindly document all instances of regimes thus successfully toppled. We'll wait.
And while we wait, people will die of hunger and malaria and tuberculosis and AIDS and....
And while we wait, people will die of hunger and malaria and tuberculosis and AIDS and....
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dear people who think USAID exists to foment coups and regime change, kindly document all instances of regimes thus successfully toppled. We'll wait.
And while we wait, people will die of hunger and malaria and tuberculosis and AIDS and....
And while we wait, people will die of hunger and malaria and tuberculosis and AIDS and....
When Trump won, and started talking about gutting the federal bureaucracy, I literally had visions of an understaffed and overwhelmed FAA helpless to prevent mid-air collisions.
I didn’t want to voice these concerns for fear I’d be accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, but here we are.
I didn’t want to voice these concerns for fear I’d be accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, but here we are.
January 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
When Trump won, and started talking about gutting the federal bureaucracy, I literally had visions of an understaffed and overwhelmed FAA helpless to prevent mid-air collisions.
I didn’t want to voice these concerns for fear I’d be accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, but here we are.
I didn’t want to voice these concerns for fear I’d be accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, but here we are.
The president can't decide not to direct funds where Congress has allocated them. If he could, that would effectively constitute a veto over Congressional spending bills, which would render Congress's power to override a presidential veto otiose.
January 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The president can't decide not to direct funds where Congress has allocated them. If he could, that would effectively constitute a veto over Congressional spending bills, which would render Congress's power to override a presidential veto otiose.
People say there's a tension between liberty and equality, that you can't make people more equal without making them less free. But in fact the freest societies on earth are also generally the most equal.
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Free Societies are Equal Societies
We don’t have to choose between liberty and equality
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January 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
People say there's a tension between liberty and equality, that you can't make people more equal without making them less free. But in fact the freest societies on earth are also generally the most equal.
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Bishop Budde asked people to behave like Christians, and Trump and his supporters were furious. They want to indulge their idolatry without being called out for it.
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Christian Faith in the Age of Trump
Lessons from the Gospel Story of Barabbas
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January 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Bishop Budde asked people to behave like Christians, and Trump and his supporters were furious. They want to indulge their idolatry without being called out for it.
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A mentor who advised me on my blog once asked me to summarize what value I was bringing to my readers. My response was that I often approached a topic the reader thinks they have a handle on, and showed them a completely different way of thinking about it.
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Who’s Afraid of Falling Birth Rates?
Why conservatives are wrong to be obsessed with fertility, but liberals have reason to worry
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January 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A mentor who advised me on my blog once asked me to summarize what value I was bringing to my readers. My response was that I often approached a topic the reader thinks they have a handle on, and showed them a completely different way of thinking about it.
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Tipping has gotten out of control here in the States, with harmful consequences for workers and consumers alike.
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Corporate America Thinks We Can't Do Math
How tipping has become a scam
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January 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Tipping has gotten out of control here in the States, with harmful consequences for workers and consumers alike.
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We're going to be gaslit constantly for the next four years. Just always remember there is such a thing as truth.
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The Rise and Fall of Truth
Thoughts on ritual, correspondence and totalitarianism
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January 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We're going to be gaslit constantly for the next four years. Just always remember there is such a thing as truth.
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My review of The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson. It's a fascinating trilogy of novels, but in case you don't have time to read 2,700 pages of speculative/science/historical fiction, I tried to summarize the most interesting ideas here.
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Did a 17th Century Philosopher Think the Universe was a Simulation?
On the similarities between Idealism and Simulation Theory
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January 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My review of The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson. It's a fascinating trilogy of novels, but in case you don't have time to read 2,700 pages of speculative/science/historical fiction, I tried to summarize the most interesting ideas here.
dustinarand.substack.com/p/did-a-17th...
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Tragic to consider how different the world would be now if Gore had won. No abandoning the Kyoto Protocol, no disastrous war in Iraq. And to think it was all because our House of Reps was too small. For want of a nail... the kingdom was lost.
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The Real Reason Al Gore Lost the 2000 Election
Blame Congress, not the Supreme Court
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January 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Tragic to consider how different the world would be now if Gore had won. No abandoning the Kyoto Protocol, no disastrous war in Iraq. And to think it was all because our House of Reps was too small. For want of a nail... the kingdom was lost.
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Donald Trump can't end birthright citizenship. I have a detailed explainer in my Substack newsletter, but the tl;dr version is that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was meant to exclude children of diplomats from citizenship, not immigrants.
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No, Trump Can’t End Birthright Citizenship
Why a favorite conservative talking point is just a naked dog whistle
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January 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Donald Trump can't end birthright citizenship. I have a detailed explainer in my Substack newsletter, but the tl;dr version is that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was meant to exclude children of diplomats from citizenship, not immigrants.
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