Mono con tijeras
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Just sharing things I find interesting.
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Love, not indifference nor hate. United, not separated nor polarized.
Location: Planet Earth
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Take only photographs. Leave only tracks.
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Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
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I guess that I’m making a Weberian Bad thread.
As Don writes in the piece below, these moves to tie military pay directly to Presidential benevolence are illegal and dangerous.
Weber was clear on distinguishing rule-based authority from personalist authority. And Trump keeps crossing the line.
As Don writes in the piece below, these moves to tie military pay directly to Presidential benevolence are illegal and dangerous.
Weber was clear on distinguishing rule-based authority from personalist authority. And Trump keeps crossing the line.
Trump just announced he will be giving members of the military a $1776 bonus. So re-upping this shutdown piece about the dangers of a the leader of a personalist regime presenting himself as the paymaster of the armed forces.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
The risks of letting Trump become the military paymaster
Trump will demand their loyalty in return
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I guess that I’m making a Weberian Bad thread.
As Don writes in the piece below, these moves to tie military pay directly to Presidential benevolence are illegal and dangerous.
Weber was clear on distinguishing rule-based authority from personalist authority. And Trump keeps crossing the line.
As Don writes in the piece below, these moves to tie military pay directly to Presidential benevolence are illegal and dangerous.
Weber was clear on distinguishing rule-based authority from personalist authority. And Trump keeps crossing the line.
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This, too, is Weberian bad. Fundamentals-of-modern-state bad.
The President does not have the constitutional authority to create a new spending program.
And directing public funds to a group specifically because he believes they “love” him is textbook patrimonialism.
The President does not have the constitutional authority to create a new spending program.
And directing public funds to a group specifically because he believes they “love” him is textbook patrimonialism.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This, too, is Weberian bad. Fundamentals-of-modern-state bad.
The President does not have the constitutional authority to create a new spending program.
And directing public funds to a group specifically because he believes they “love” him is textbook patrimonialism.
The President does not have the constitutional authority to create a new spending program.
And directing public funds to a group specifically because he believes they “love” him is textbook patrimonialism.
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A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...