it is truly insane how low information the average american is. they're just ripping everything off of the walls while slowly building camps and deporting their enemies but the average person will say you're being a drama queen, politics never change, etc.

Because it is in all of their best interests to defend themselves against trumps attacks on the rule of law? It is incredibly weird.

What’s Trumps beef with maduro? They both seem like they would like each other.

There were also like 15 candidates in 2020 lol

4/🧵 The pattern diverges from what @mayasen.bsky.social and I found during Trump's first term, when judge ideology strongly predicted case outcomes. What changed? The nature of the challenges—today's cases pose more fundamental constitutional violations uniting judges across partisan divides.

5/🧵 Trump's attacks on judges—including Republican appointees—for unfavorable rulings reveals an authoritarian assault that should alarm us all. Demanding judicial loyalty over constitutional fidelity represents a dangerous erosion of separation of powers, the cornerstone of our Madisonian republic.

3/🧵 Modeling the outcomes with a logistic regression confirms that judicial ideology doesn't predict ruling outcomes. This isn't commonly the case—ideology is typically a moderate to strong predictor of case outcomes, making this ideological consensus particularly noteworthy.

2/🧵 Here is the breakdown by ideological groupings. While liberal judges heard more cases (due to geography and venue selection), the consistency of rulings across ideological lines demolishes the narrative that judicial decisions against Trump reflect political bias.

It’s like Republicans Generalplan ost, if we still have free and fair elections in 26

It occurs to me from a real game theory perspective that what "they" anticipate is that a decentralized, post national American oligarchy will naturally cause China and Russia's oligarchy to fragment - it's not about undermining the other guys elections it's about finessing his oligarchs

2/ My big beef is that I cannot seem to find out how to turn off this annoying "help me write" prompt in Gmail. And for us, this isn't a free service for which we're supposed to be the product. We purchase it. We use the enterprise edition. But it still appears to be impossible to disable.

I think everyone just kind of accepted that shit sucked and tried to move on from it.

Helps that Vietnam immediately had a more pressing foe in the form of China.

I'd couch it more, in that media is *inherently* right wing the same way Oil is.

Small business owners and private contractors *everywhere*.