Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile
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Exiled Political Economist, Silicon Valley's Public Finance Attorney, Lecturer in Political Economy, Comic Book Character, Corporate and Private Equity Lawyer, Startup Attorney, Advisor, Dad, Husband, Teacher, Former Europeanist.
Opponent of Fascism.
Opponent of Fascism.
I honestly didn't expect open anti-Catholic bigotry within the first year of the second Trump presidency.
We might get some even stranger 1st Amendment free exercise jurisprudence out of this.
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We might get some even stranger 1st Amendment free exercise jurisprudence out of this.
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The U.S. bishops defended migrant families. Tom Homan snapped. Nan Hayworth called Pope Leo a “tool of our enemies.” Tim Burchett accused the church of getting rich off of sex trafficking.
Matt Walsh, Lara Logan, and the rest joined in. This is what MAGA anti-Catholicism looks like.
Matt Walsh, Lara Logan, and the rest joined in. This is what MAGA anti-Catholicism looks like.
“Pope Leo Is a Tool of Our Enemies”: Homan Leads MAGA Attacks as Hayworth, Others Pile On
It’s the latest MAGA attack on Pope Leo’s pro-immigrant stance. Disgraced border chief Tom Homan — caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava takeout bag — led the charge against Leo and the bishops.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I honestly didn't expect open anti-Catholic bigotry within the first year of the second Trump presidency.
We might get some even stranger 1st Amendment free exercise jurisprudence out of this.
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We might get some even stranger 1st Amendment free exercise jurisprudence out of this.
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I love coming to Bluesky and finding edgy, niche takes like this that really challenge and subvert conventional wisdom.
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Hot take: breaking the laws of armed conflict to murder civilians is bad actually
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I love coming to Bluesky and finding edgy, niche takes like this that really challenge and subvert conventional wisdom.
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WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
Wait, surely no serious, decision-making Dems were considering asking designated Federal Superfind site Larry Summers to have any role in coming up with economic policy for a hypothetical post-fascist Presidential administration.
Who wanted him to do this, TAP? Name names.
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Who wanted him to do this, TAP? Name names.
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NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wait, surely no serious, decision-making Dems were considering asking designated Federal Superfind site Larry Summers to have any role in coming up with economic policy for a hypothetical post-fascist Presidential administration.
Who wanted him to do this, TAP? Name names.
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Who wanted him to do this, TAP? Name names.
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Agency - the New York Times understands that middle-aged Republicans who coerce teens into sex don't have it.
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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 3:53 PM
Agency - the New York Times understands that middle-aged Republicans who coerce teens into sex don't have it.
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Little in my life has prepared me to witness the institutional Catholic Church displaying real and unambiguous moral leadership.
I don't know what to do with the feeling of being inspired and moved by Catholic bishops.
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I don't know what to do with the feeling of being inspired and moved by Catholic bishops.
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Little in my life has prepared me to witness the institutional Catholic Church displaying real and unambiguous moral leadership.
I don't know what to do with the feeling of being inspired and moved by Catholic bishops.
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I don't know what to do with the feeling of being inspired and moved by Catholic bishops.
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Christ, what a pathetic dirtbag.
He's worse than I thought . . . and what I thought was, well, uncharitable.
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He's worse than I thought . . . and what I thought was, well, uncharitable.
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Jeffrey Epstein, dating counselor to a former university president
Also … “dint”?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Also … “dint”?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Christ, what a pathetic dirtbag.
He's worse than I thought . . . and what I thought was, well, uncharitable.
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He's worse than I thought . . . and what I thought was, well, uncharitable.
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I still think that this will be an iconic image of 2025, highlighting in retrospect how ridiculous and unsustainable American fascism was.
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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I still think that this will be an iconic image of 2025, highlighting in retrospect how ridiculous and unsustainable American fascism was.
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There are many difficult things that I have to face as I grow older, but I have to admit that "I am clearly and unambiguously less cool than the Pope" was not one that I'd anticipated.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
There are many difficult things that I have to face as I grow older, but I have to admit that "I am clearly and unambiguously less cool than the Pope" was not one that I'd anticipated.
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"Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like 'What is gravity?' If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, [he would] interrupt, 'What does that got to do with pussy?!'”
Hi, former Harvard faulty casual evaluation: this man was not a genius.
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Hi, former Harvard faulty casual evaluation: this man was not a genius.
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Jeffrey Epstein, my very, very sick pal
A very weird interview with Stuart Pivar about Epstein, his science parties, his "pathology," and the industrial scale of it all.
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like 'What is gravity?' If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, [he would] interrupt, 'What does that got to do with pussy?!'”
Hi, former Harvard faulty casual evaluation: this man was not a genius.
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Hi, former Harvard faulty casual evaluation: this man was not a genius.
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Amazing to me that anyone might not be able to figure out who the bad guys are.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Amazing to me that anyone might not be able to figure out who the bad guys are.
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Hegseth: "No more social justice. No more political correctness. No more toxic ideological garbage that infected the department. No more identity months. No more DEI offices. No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division. No more gender delusions."
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On the one hand, "Pedophile sex trafficker advises Russian dictator on how to manipulate his close friend, the American President" is objectively a damaging headline.
On the other hand, the advice was so banal and obvious that it seems almost exonerating.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
On the other hand, the advice was so banal and obvious that it seems almost exonerating.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
On the one hand, "Pedophile sex trafficker advises Russian dictator on how to manipulate his close friend, the American President" is objectively a damaging headline.
On the other hand, the advice was so banal and obvious that it seems almost exonerating.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
On the other hand, the advice was so banal and obvious that it seems almost exonerating.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Summers was President of Harvard during the period in which Epstein was trying to use his money and elite pedophile connections to launder his reputation through association with prestigious universities.
Any consequences faced by Summers will be insufficient.
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Any consequences faced by Summers will be insufficient.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Summers was President of Harvard during the period in which Epstein was trying to use his money and elite pedophile connections to launder his reputation through association with prestigious universities.
Any consequences faced by Summers will be insufficient.
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Any consequences faced by Summers will be insufficient.
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Hegseth: "No more social justice. No more political correctness. No more toxic ideological garbage that infected the department. No more identity months. No more DEI offices. No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division. No more gender delusions."
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Man, I remember the sense of wonder I felt when Luke Bladerunner blew up the Death Star . . .
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Wow no wonder he knows the exact car Bladerunner, the hero of the popular movie Bladerunner, would drive.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Man, I remember the sense of wonder I felt when Luke Bladerunner blew up the Death Star . . .
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A corporation is a concession of public power to private actors, justifiable only if that corporation serves the public interest.
If a corporation does this, the state has the power and the obligation to criminally prosecute the executives and wind up the corporate entity.
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If a corporation does this, the state has the power and the obligation to criminally prosecute the executives and wind up the corporate entity.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A corporation is a concession of public power to private actors, justifiable only if that corporation serves the public interest.
If a corporation does this, the state has the power and the obligation to criminally prosecute the executives and wind up the corporate entity.
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If a corporation does this, the state has the power and the obligation to criminally prosecute the executives and wind up the corporate entity.
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Note to posterity: do NOT make a senile commercial real estate developer into a military dictator. It's just embarrassing.
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Note to posterity: do NOT make a senile commercial real estate developer into a military dictator. It's just embarrassing.
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TRUMP: The ones who stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
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The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
hellgatenyc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
As someone who occasionally writes legislation, this is simultaneously pathetic and hilarious.
People who are calling Senators about this, maybe take a moment to express a small additional measure of anger over this corrupt little poison pill.
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People who are calling Senators about this, maybe take a moment to express a small additional measure of anger over this corrupt little poison pill.
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
As someone who occasionally writes legislation, this is simultaneously pathetic and hilarious.
People who are calling Senators about this, maybe take a moment to express a small additional measure of anger over this corrupt little poison pill.
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People who are calling Senators about this, maybe take a moment to express a small additional measure of anger over this corrupt little poison pill.
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I'll take "Things that a fairly dull-witted left-wing revolutionary might advocate in order to destroy private insurance markets and heighten the contradictions leading to a national public health service" for $500, Alex.
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Trump: "We want a healthcare system where we pay the money to the people instead of the insurance companies. We're gonna be working on that very hard over the next short period of time. Where the people get the money. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars."
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'll take "Things that a fairly dull-witted left-wing revolutionary might advocate in order to destroy private insurance markets and heighten the contradictions leading to a national public health service" for $500, Alex.
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Sure, that's technically true, but you should really give some credit to Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell for giving us a working understanding to build on.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, that's technically true, but you should really give some credit to Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell for giving us a working understanding to build on.
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Because if nothing else, America knows that you can trust the dietary guidance of a man who eats roadkill and was appointed by a senile, obese man who eats primarily fast food.
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RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture in this country."
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Because if nothing else, America knows that you can trust the dietary guidance of a man who eats roadkill and was appointed by a senile, obese man who eats primarily fast food.
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"A Brooklyn federal judge found that Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse, and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari" is a parody headline discussed by Milo and Opus in a Blook County comic.
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“.. demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s handling of pardons and commutations has allowed some convicts to return to criminality.”
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November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"A Brooklyn federal judge found that Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse, and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari" is a parody headline discussed by Milo and Opus in a Blook County comic.
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