@philosophyamg.bsky.social
Dad, teacher, some kind of philosopher, writer, hiker
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
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The Writing Systems of the World Explained, from the Latin Alphabet to the Abugidas of India
The Writing Systems of the World Explained, from the Latin Alphabet to the Abugidas of India
The Korean alphabet, hangul, is 'the most scientific writing system.' One often hears that in South Korea, a society that has taken to heart Asia scholar Edwin O.
www.openculture.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Writing Systems of the World Explained, from the Latin Alphabet to the Abugidas of India
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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"My buddy Steve, who doesn't wash his ass and calls women 'females,' whose last steady job was cleaning the 7-Eleven hot dog machine and he got fired, can't get laid. Here's 4,000 words about why that's the fault of Susan, a constitutional lawyer/supermodel who rescues puppies in her spare time."
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"My buddy Steve, who doesn't wash his ass and calls women 'females,' whose last steady job was cleaning the 7-Eleven hot dog machine and he got fired, can't get laid. Here's 4,000 words about why that's the fault of Susan, a constitutional lawyer/supermodel who rescues puppies in her spare time."
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
After this insane period of our history is over, it seems to me more and more likely that we will need something analogous to de-nazification. Hundreds of experienced and talented lawyers have resigned or been fired from DOJ...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
After this insane period of our history is over, it seems to me more and more likely that we will need something analogous to de-nazification. Hundreds of experienced and talented lawyers have resigned or been fired from DOJ...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Recognition as an Ethic of Living Beings
by @karenkyng.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57...
by @karenkyng.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57...
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Recognition as an Ethic of Living Beings
by @karenkyng.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57...
by @karenkyng.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57...
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
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The last Randian will die of starvation at Galt's Gulch.
October 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The last Randian will die of starvation at Galt's Gulch.
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Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”
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It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas
--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
October 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas
--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
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Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Watching Trump’s highly trained, fully armored and masked ICE goons being totally played by a delivery guy on a bike. They usually require an indoor hallway and an unarmed immigrant leaving a legal hearing to really show their stuff.
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Watching Trump’s highly trained, fully armored and masked ICE goons being totally played by a delivery guy on a bike. They usually require an indoor hallway and an unarmed immigrant leaving a legal hearing to really show their stuff.
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It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.
September 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.
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The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.
September 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.
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/2 Also: if you suggest that shouting at the President in a restaurant is RICO, you are (1) completely without shame or self-respect, and (2) believe, probably accurately, that your chosen audience is made up of total morons.
September 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
/2 Also: if you suggest that shouting at the President in a restaurant is RICO, you are (1) completely without shame or self-respect, and (2) believe, probably accurately, that your chosen audience is made up of total morons.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like