Kevin
@kevdawgrob.bsky.social
Physics Prof, Pictionary and trivia enthusiast. Small town kid, gay man, Intermediate pickleball player. Typos add dyslexic flavor.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend that a client fabricate grand jury records (at least in part) in order to rush out an indictment before the statute of limitations hits in order to please Dear Leader?
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend that a client fabricate grand jury records (at least in part) in order to rush out an indictment before the statute of limitations hits in order to please Dear Leader?
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
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as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
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“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
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Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
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everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
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a take which I thought was too basic to write up but I clearly should have written up lol was that one underrated success of the 2024 Trump campaign was to manage to make it *look* like the Kamala campaign was back-to-back culture wars, they did a very good job on that front!
Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run on kitchen table issues?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
a take which I thought was too basic to write up but I clearly should have written up lol was that one underrated success of the 2024 Trump campaign was to manage to make it *look* like the Kamala campaign was back-to-back culture wars, they did a very good job on that front!
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Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
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the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding
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President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’ grocery expenses despite his administration’s claims to the contrary.
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trib.al/VE5JAiZ
Trump Quietly Backtracks on Disastrous Grocery Tariffs
The president reversed course on some tariffs on items like beef—something his team promised not to do.
trib.al
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’ grocery expenses despite his administration’s claims to the contrary.
trib.al/VE5JAiZ
trib.al/VE5JAiZ
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i actually do think Fake Fetterman is the right attack line. he's been *so* different in office compared to what people thought on the campaign trail. his shtick is wearing so thin. "yeah i wear SHORTS and act like an ASSHOLE" bitch aren't you some rich man's son
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
i actually do think Fake Fetterman is the right attack line. he's been *so* different in office compared to what people thought on the campaign trail. his shtick is wearing so thin. "yeah i wear SHORTS and act like an ASSHOLE" bitch aren't you some rich man's son
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I like my posts to encourage people to ask the big questions about the world, such as "Is it time to burn it all?" or "Why do I have these cursed eyes?" or "why would you subject me to this horror against man and God?"
I just discovered that there was a reason you posted this specific hypothetical and I am furious at everything.
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I like my posts to encourage people to ask the big questions about the world, such as "Is it time to burn it all?" or "Why do I have these cursed eyes?" or "why would you subject me to this horror against man and God?"
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many YIMBYs i know are actually quite explicit about working against their own financial interest
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
many YIMBYs i know are actually quite explicit about working against their own financial interest
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You don’t say. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
You don’t say. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...
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this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
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It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Yes. Trump and Greene are both odious but it is objectively good for them to fight, particularly over an issue that is extremely bad for Trump and which has zero downside for Democrats.
It is how the Framers envisioned checks and balances would work, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
It is how the Framers envisioned checks and balances would work, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Yes. Trump and Greene are both odious but it is objectively good for them to fight, particularly over an issue that is extremely bad for Trump and which has zero downside for Democrats.
It is how the Framers envisioned checks and balances would work, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
It is how the Framers envisioned checks and balances would work, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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all I’m gonna say is that I am a life-long slightly edgy poster and I’ve never caught a suspension or a ban anywhere - because it is in fact quite easy to avoid crossing the “this joke could possibly be construed as a violent threat” line on social media
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
all I’m gonna say is that I am a life-long slightly edgy poster and I’ve never caught a suspension or a ban anywhere - because it is in fact quite easy to avoid crossing the “this joke could possibly be construed as a violent threat” line on social media
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The housing shortage is THE central issue facing major US cities and I'm not sure how you're supposed to be the "next Mamdani" if you don't share his commitment to expanding supply. www.latimes.com/california/n...
She's challenging Bass from the left. Could she become L.A.'s Mamdani?
Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, is waging a long-shot campaign for L.A. mayor, focusing on free buses, public housing and police abuse.
www.latimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The housing shortage is THE central issue facing major US cities and I'm not sure how you're supposed to be the "next Mamdani" if you don't share his commitment to expanding supply. www.latimes.com/california/n...
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I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
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listen, who among us hasn't supported their friends through peccadillos like the sexual exploitation of children? everyone has their bad habits, smoking, eating too much, the systematic abuse of vulnerable children in a way that wounds them for life.
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
listen, who among us hasn't supported their friends through peccadillos like the sexual exploitation of children? everyone has their bad habits, smoking, eating too much, the systematic abuse of vulnerable children in a way that wounds them for life.
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Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for.
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for.
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
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“During the hour-and-a-half programme, she declared that there are no ‘peaceful residents’ in Gaza, Israel has the right to ‘cleanse Gaza and turn it into a parking lot,’ and that Palestinians need to be ‘dissolved in hydrochloric acid’.”
Why Russia’s liberal opposition is so anti-Palestinian
Many Russian dissidents claim to embrace liberal values while fully subscribing to a racist view of the world.
www.aljazeera.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“During the hour-and-a-half programme, she declared that there are no ‘peaceful residents’ in Gaza, Israel has the right to ‘cleanse Gaza and turn it into a parking lot,’ and that Palestinians need to be ‘dissolved in hydrochloric acid’.”
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Tibetan history is fascinating in general but 20th century Tibetan history, especially the period between Qing collapse and the PRC invasion, is a particularly messy mixture of modernity, tradition, cynicism, and genuine belief.
this is a really fascinating document, for two reasons:
(a) Francis Younghusband is just a huge dick. a really incomparable asshole, and it comes through in everything he writes.
(b) at no point in the negotiations does Tibet have any idea what is going on.
www.gutenberg.org/files/48996/...
(a) Francis Younghusband is just a huge dick. a really incomparable asshole, and it comes through in everything he writes.
(b) at no point in the negotiations does Tibet have any idea what is going on.
www.gutenberg.org/files/48996/...
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tibetan history is fascinating in general but 20th century Tibetan history, especially the period between Qing collapse and the PRC invasion, is a particularly messy mixture of modernity, tradition, cynicism, and genuine belief.
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absolute essence of the crybully behavior: get caught for acting like an absolute fucking madman when you thought your victim was helpless, then immediately revert to crying and pleading about how you're a victim... because people are mad about a completely different crime you also committed
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
absolute essence of the crybully behavior: get caught for acting like an absolute fucking madman when you thought your victim was helpless, then immediately revert to crying and pleading about how you're a victim... because people are mad about a completely different crime you also committed