Émile Darkheim
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Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
· Sep 7
yes, Rawls was very much not around for the Founding.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
I've been thinking a lot about how the US has three founding and how, after Trump, we will — for good or ill — experience a Fourth Founding. I've been thinking about what ideas should be included in a Fourth Founding for the US.
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The "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to actually file their annual shareholder reports. Same thing with AI: hype for the consumer, extreme skepticism from the analysts.
Papers that report on this stuff rather than on "CEO said a thing" are going to be more reliable.
Papers that report on this stuff rather than on "CEO said a thing" are going to be more reliable.
web.archive.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to actually file their annual shareholder reports. Same thing with AI: hype for the consumer, extreme skepticism from the analysts.
Papers that report on this stuff rather than on "CEO said a thing" are going to be more reliable.
Papers that report on this stuff rather than on "CEO said a thing" are going to be more reliable.
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
Trump is a walking, talking manifestation of everything that is wrong with Baby Boomers.
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump is a walking, talking manifestation of everything that is wrong with Baby Boomers.
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Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
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From the man who spends every waking hour complaining...
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
From the man who spends every waking hour complaining...
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Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
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Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
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More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
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i’m ready to look past differences and align with anyone who actually believes we are in an existential fight. unfortunately that doesn’t include significant number of elected democrats!!
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
i’m ready to look past differences and align with anyone who actually believes we are in an existential fight. unfortunately that doesn’t include significant number of elected democrats!!
IMHO, "Care over punishment" is a great value to build a left-wing party around. Simple, easy to remember, and popular.
Also worth repeating: Mamdani's greatest power isn't something just anyone can learn or emulate. He's got an entire PHILOSOPHY and MORAL CORE based on care over punishment that informs everything he says and does. Without that, the charisma means nothing.
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
This is absolutely Mamdani's not-so-secret secret power: he knows who he is and what he believes and he wants to help ALL of us. So you can't trip him up with a trick question; you can't get a fake note out of him. BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE AND HE'S DONE THE READING AND HE'S HERE FOR US.
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
IMHO, "Care over punishment" is a great value to build a left-wing party around. Simple, easy to remember, and popular.
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a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.
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you can either regulate, add subsidies, and/or expand public insurance programs, or:
The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
you can either regulate, add subsidies, and/or expand public insurance programs, or:
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As frequently discussed, half of the reason for this mentality is because these people are just genuinely stupid, but the other half is Democrats simply don’t want to believe the people they work with on a daily basis are actual sociopaths who want to see them dead
Steve Inskeep: You think the Republicans voting with you here will not only agree to these measures, but actually try to do something if the administration ignores them?
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
As frequently discussed, half of the reason for this mentality is because these people are just genuinely stupid, but the other half is Democrats simply don’t want to believe the people they work with on a daily basis are actual sociopaths who want to see them dead
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anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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I don't know what alternate reality you inhabit , but the party *was* united, united around stopping a catastrophic increase in ACA premiums leading to 5+ million uninsured, and a death spiral in the ACA market, and collapse of the service and delivery system.
Here's a thought. Perhaps it's time to stop with the back & forth haggling within the party and to focus on the issue at hand - making sure the safety nets that have been destroyed in the Big Bad Bill are fixed. Dems got them to return to DC. to do that. Then we can talk in-depth about leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I don't know what alternate reality you inhabit , but the party *was* united, united around stopping a catastrophic increase in ACA premiums leading to 5+ million uninsured, and a death spiral in the ACA market, and collapse of the service and delivery system.
This is the thing that really gets me About Schumer's defenders. It was Schumer who went rogue and screwed over the rest of the party. House Dems, state Dems, even the DNC was against caving. Schumer and Senate Dems are the problem, not every other Dem in the country.
“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is the thing that really gets me About Schumer's defenders. It was Schumer who went rogue and screwed over the rest of the party. House Dems, state Dems, even the DNC was against caving. Schumer and Senate Dems are the problem, not every other Dem in the country.
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“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
My Edmund Fitzgerald fact is that while the ship sounds like it was named after a famous person from American history, it was actually named after the president and chairman of Northwestern Mutual, the company that built it.
For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
Its November 10th, aka Combination Death of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
My Edmund Fitzgerald fact is that while the ship sounds like it was named after a famous person from American history, it was actually named after the president and chairman of Northwestern Mutual, the company that built it.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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I think the most true thing about Mamdani is he is just a good guy who chose to be public servant and wears caring on his sleeve.
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I think the most true thing about Mamdani is he is just a good guy who chose to be public servant and wears caring on his sleeve.
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
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For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
Its November 10th, aka Combination Death of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day
November 10, 2024 at 5:42 PM
For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
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“if we talk a lot about ICE and then win, we will be expected to do something about ICE. can’t have that!” this is setting up 2 years of dicking around with bipartisan healthcare legislation that goes nowhere. that’s the plan afaict
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“if we talk a lot about ICE and then win, we will be expected to do something about ICE. can’t have that!” this is setting up 2 years of dicking around with bipartisan healthcare legislation that goes nowhere. that’s the plan afaict
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Hemp regulation is a genuine issue but overnight obliteration is ludicrously bad policy. Whole lot of hemp and hemp-associated businesses will go under, this criminalizes basically every delta-8/9 product with enough in it to have a psychoactive effect.
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Hemp regulation is a genuine issue but overnight obliteration is ludicrously bad policy. Whole lot of hemp and hemp-associated businesses will go under, this criminalizes basically every delta-8/9 product with enough in it to have a psychoactive effect.
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.