Eugene
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Mostly politics but also art, science, sports, and humor. Half a hundred years old. West Coast, USA
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I guess she only meant to vote for the white supremacy and brutal mass deportations she wasn’t indignant about
December 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I guess she only meant to vote for the white supremacy and brutal mass deportations she wasn’t indignant about
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Prof. Wurman is now tossing about bits of historical evidence for his mission to undermine the 14th Amendment. Far from useful, this tells us nothing.
To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.
To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Prof. Wurman is now tossing about bits of historical evidence for his mission to undermine the 14th Amendment. Far from useful, this tells us nothing.
To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.
To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.
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This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
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Ben's hero is going to give a generation of kids measles but he's still sucking his thumb over masks during a pandemic
December 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Ben's hero is going to give a generation of kids measles but he's still sucking his thumb over masks during a pandemic
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Oh man, the closing shot here is perfect
Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises
December 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oh man, the closing shot here is perfect
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
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"While President Donald Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures."
That is one hell of a load-bearing "albeit."
That is one hell of a load-bearing "albeit."
Top-end iPhones on sale in Gaza as food and medicine trickle into territory
Phones are compact and profitable, so traders can import them more easily than bulky or restricted items like formula, medical supplies or construction materials.
www.nbcnews.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"While President Donald Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures."
That is one hell of a load-bearing "albeit."
That is one hell of a load-bearing "albeit."
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“a crazed mob wanted to literally kill her and she’s mad we didn’t denounce the guy who set it all in motion. psh. women.”
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Matt Gaetz: "Before Jan. 6 she was incredibly chummy with Republicans, she would regularly come over to our side, sit down, hang out... after Jan. 6 she treated us all like we had horns or something."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreiagl3tmxesoqw6lydhcwey52rczco3joc2m4x3kz4yv7ojrekk6ci@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“a crazed mob wanted to literally kill her and she’s mad we didn’t denounce the guy who set it all in motion. psh. women.”
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As I detailed in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the religious nationalism of the Cold War era was deliberately broadly drawn.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
I don't think there's any understanding of the First Amendment under which this ("our Savior") is constitutional. Yet they don't care, and they've eliminated all the attorneys who would've objected.
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As I detailed in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the religious nationalism of the Cold War era was deliberately broadly drawn.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
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Well, while Trump has been posting about scumbags and liberal sleazebags and starting a war in Nigeria — Obama went to a hospital — visiting patients, handing out gifts and thanking the staff for all they do every day. 🎅🏿 ❤️ 🐐
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Well, while Trump has been posting about scumbags and liberal sleazebags and starting a war in Nigeria — Obama went to a hospital — visiting patients, handing out gifts and thanking the staff for all they do every day. 🎅🏿 ❤️ 🐐
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Jimmy Kimmel gave an 'Alternative Christmas Message' to the Brits, saying "tyranny is booming" in the U.S.
He also addressed his suspension: "We won, the president lost, and now I'm back on the air every night, giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking."
He also addressed his suspension: "We won, the president lost, and now I'm back on the air every night, giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking."
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Jimmy Kimmel gave an 'Alternative Christmas Message' to the Brits, saying "tyranny is booming" in the U.S.
He also addressed his suspension: "We won, the president lost, and now I'm back on the air every night, giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking."
He also addressed his suspension: "We won, the president lost, and now I'm back on the air every night, giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking."
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The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
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Why deal with the inconvenience and hassle of a vacation - the money, the packing, the delays - when you can just have an chip implanted in your brain with false memories for a fraction of the cost?
this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
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December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why deal with the inconvenience and hassle of a vacation - the money, the packing, the delays - when you can just have an chip implanted in your brain with false memories for a fraction of the cost?
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What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
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Happy holidays to all the Jewish organizations that thought American Jews could remain a specially protected minority group, à la Court Jews, so long as "campus antisemitism" served as a useful pretext for this administration to gut higher education.
The Trump administration celebrated Christmas on Thursday by posting a series of religious messages from official government accounts, using language that drew criticism from those who pointed to America's separation of church and state.
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the establishment of an official state religion.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Happy holidays to all the Jewish organizations that thought American Jews could remain a specially protected minority group, à la Court Jews, so long as "campus antisemitism" served as a useful pretext for this administration to gut higher education.
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The right to a fair trial for both plaintiff and defendant does not exist if courthouses are unsafe spaces.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
ICE agents are staking out local courthouses. As they've roamed the halls, Mass. court arrests tripled
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said ICE activity has impacted hundreds of cases prosecuted by his office — noting instances in which defendants got detained during proceedings, as well ...
www.wbur.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The right to a fair trial for both plaintiff and defendant does not exist if courthouses are unsafe spaces.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.
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Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is
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Does anyone know if the Kennedy Center wall is smooth enough to be climbed with suction cups? Asking for a friend.
a man is cutting a cardboard box with a saw
ALT: a man is cutting a cardboard box with a saw
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Does anyone know if the Kennedy Center wall is smooth enough to be climbed with suction cups? Asking for a friend.
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In addition to how deeply wrong I believe this to be, it makes clear how complex our fight for the future will be.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
In addition to how deeply wrong I believe this to be, it makes clear how complex our fight for the future will be.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
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real cool how he calls his domestic political enemies scum this morning and now he‘s announcing deadly strikes on other people he calls scum on the very same day! really neat!
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
real cool how he calls his domestic political enemies scum this morning and now he‘s announcing deadly strikes on other people he calls scum on the very same day! really neat!
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Back in July
“I fear the end of CBS as I knew it.”
The legendary Connie Chung on the Paramount/CBS-Skydance deal which just received approval from the FCC.
The legendary Connie Chung on the Paramount/CBS-Skydance deal which just received approval from the FCC.
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Back in July