Robin Younghusband
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Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.
The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.
The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
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No authorizing statute, no state of war, no claim of self-defense, no effort to interdict or turn away the craft.
So...this was just some murders. The administration filmed themselves doing some murders.
So...this was just some murders. The administration filmed themselves doing some murders.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
No authorizing statute, no state of war, no claim of self-defense, no effort to interdict or turn away the craft.
So...this was just some murders. The administration filmed themselves doing some murders.
So...this was just some murders. The administration filmed themselves doing some murders.
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And what burns me up the worst, with just the most incandescent fury is I am now raising my own child and I wanted, I *expected* to give her that same promise of, if not a just society, a -more- just society, that I had growing up and yet that dream has been betrayed by my countrymen.
August 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
And what burns me up the worst, with just the most incandescent fury is I am now raising my own child and I wanted, I *expected* to give her that same promise of, if not a just society, a -more- just society, that I had growing up and yet that dream has been betrayed by my countrymen.
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an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
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So let me get this straight.
ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation.
The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working."
Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation.
The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working."
Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
August 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
So let me get this straight.
ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation.
The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working."
Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation.
The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working."
Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
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Of all of the things happening, the administration looking like it intends to turn DC into an armed camp is the one most likely to accelerate us from 'civil disturbance' to 'civil war' once these guys lose an election, which seems pretty likely to happen sooner rather than later.
FLAG: Trump says he might declare a national emergency to keep National Guard troops in D.C.
"If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
"If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
August 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Of all of the things happening, the administration looking like it intends to turn DC into an armed camp is the one most likely to accelerate us from 'civil disturbance' to 'civil war' once these guys lose an election, which seems pretty likely to happen sooner rather than later.
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Some idea of the contents of that report
July 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Some idea of the contents of that report
I had a joke about Theseus, but someone changed a bit
I thought I had a joke about Theseus but I lost the thread
I had a joke about Narcissus, but on reflection decided to keep it to myself.
April 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I had a joke about Theseus, but someone changed a bit
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But amazingly, not the most incredible US justice story of the weekend…which goes to
a Presidentially-mandated sacking of a state prosecutor without any recourse after lobbying by the criminal suspect
www.latimes.com/california/s...
a Presidentially-mandated sacking of a state prosecutor without any recourse after lobbying by the criminal suspect
www.latimes.com/california/s...
March 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
But amazingly, not the most incredible US justice story of the weekend…which goes to
a Presidentially-mandated sacking of a state prosecutor without any recourse after lobbying by the criminal suspect
www.latimes.com/california/s...
a Presidentially-mandated sacking of a state prosecutor without any recourse after lobbying by the criminal suspect
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"you are deported if we have got the evidence, and you are also deported if we do not have evidence"
Mind-bending logic: While many of the people we're deporting without due process don't have criminal records, that just proves how dangerous they are as unmonitored terrorists!
March 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"you are deported if we have got the evidence, and you are also deported if we do not have evidence"
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Is this true?
Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Is this true?
The good times/soft people meme, only it's these guys
Purely in terms of lawyerly craft, MAGA attorneys are not good.
March 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The good times/soft people meme, only it's these guys
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We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Genuinely confused why everyone (i.e. some people in Westminster bubble) is aghast at the idea of a freeze to PIP rates but fairly chill at the idea of preventing c600,000 people being entitled to PIP in the first place, which will save far more money (i.e. be a larger cut to household incomes).
March 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
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Here we go.
UPDATE: Chief Judge Boasberg schedules a hearing for 4p today on the government’s notice and the plaintiffs’ response, notes that the gov’t “shall be prepared to provide answers to the questions raised by Plaintiffs on page 6 of their Response.”
Here are those questions:
Here are those questions:
March 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Here we go.
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Also, that there’s no point making the rules stricter and stricter, because if someone is defrauding or swinging the lead, they won’t be worried about the rules anyway, they’ll just lie to fit. So ever tighter rules can only ever harm genuinely sick and disabled people.
March 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Also, that there’s no point making the rules stricter and stricter, because if someone is defrauding or swinging the lead, they won’t be worried about the rules anyway, they’ll just lie to fit. So ever tighter rules can only ever harm genuinely sick and disabled people.
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So, yes - dictator shit. But man, if I were basically anyone in his administration I'd be furious because all of those guys are relying on pardons of this authoritarian power-grab forever rule thing doesn't work out
March 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
So, yes - dictator shit. But man, if I were basically anyone in his administration I'd be furious because all of those guys are relying on pardons of this authoritarian power-grab forever rule thing doesn't work out
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Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.
March 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.
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Trying everything - and forcing them to bust every law and norm - helps you set those conditions. And also, like, there's some small chance that the norms hold and you avoid violence, which you *really* want to do.
You *really* *really* want to avoid violent scenarios if at all possible.
You *really* *really* want to avoid violent scenarios if at all possible.
March 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Trying everything - and forcing them to bust every law and norm - helps you set those conditions. And also, like, there's some small chance that the norms hold and you avoid violence, which you *really* want to do.
You *really* *really* want to avoid violent scenarios if at all possible.
You *really* *really* want to avoid violent scenarios if at all possible.
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Long past time to begin holding administration officials and lawyers in contempt.
This is outrageous. Judge Boasberg’s order went against government agencies which were in the US, and which were in direct contact with the plane. He must hold them in contempt of court.
March 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Long past time to begin holding administration officials and lawyers in contempt.
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"Breach" is the word you're looking for. Or "flagrant violation" if, y'know, you're not into the whole brevity thing.
The NYT is pitiful.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
The NYT is pitiful.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge's Order: Trump Administration Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"Breach" is the word you're looking for. Or "flagrant violation" if, y'know, you're not into the whole brevity thing.
The NYT is pitiful.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
The NYT is pitiful.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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Given what can actually get approved by US military lawyers - torture in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo for example - one can imagine what horrors reducing the role of military lawyers will lead to.
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to start a sweeping overhaul of military lawyers to make the US less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, per ppl familiar @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Given what can actually get approved by US military lawyers - torture in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo for example - one can imagine what horrors reducing the role of military lawyers will lead to.
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Yeah, this mentality did not work out great for the Romans: it led to a lot of law violating, but not much country saving.
Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.
Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Yeah, this mentality did not work out great for the Romans: it led to a lot of law violating, but not much country saving.
Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.
Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.
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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
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Hegseth: I'm making the US Army 1000% more manly and creating a true warrior caste.
Also Hegseth: We will not be standing up to Putin.
Also Hegseth: We will not be standing up to Putin.
February 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Hegseth: I'm making the US Army 1000% more manly and creating a true warrior caste.
Also Hegseth: We will not be standing up to Putin.
Also Hegseth: We will not be standing up to Putin.
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Proper policy making for a piece of legislation with the seismic consequences that assisted suicide legislation has would have had extensive pre legislative consultation to test the various approaches rather than make policy on the hoof during the legislative process.
February 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Proper policy making for a piece of legislation with the seismic consequences that assisted suicide legislation has would have had extensive pre legislative consultation to test the various approaches rather than make policy on the hoof during the legislative process.