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How inclusive legal positivists look at morality
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How inclusive legal positivists look at morality
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"Donald Trump is about to order the government to pay him 'damages' for the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago mansion and for special prosecutor Jack Smith’s two investigations of him...He’s going to pay himself $230 million."
New from me: Trump and his allies have decided that they are the real victims of the criminal justice system.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
MAGA's $300 million heist
Donald Trump supports immunity for cops and prosecutors. Unless they try to hold him and his allies accountable. Then we all have to pay Donald Trump.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Donald Trump is about to order the government to pay him 'damages' for the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago mansion and for special prosecutor Jack Smith’s two investigations of him...He’s going to pay himself $230 million."
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They really all are the same song.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
They really all are the same song.
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Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
8+ years after "Jews will not replace us" in Charlottesville were very fine people, now suddenly there's a flurry of concern over antisemitism on the right, because it's starting to affect the right's support of Israel. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Opinion | It’s Deeper Than Nick Fuentes
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November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
8+ years after "Jews will not replace us" in Charlottesville were very fine people, now suddenly there's a flurry of concern over antisemitism on the right, because it's starting to affect the right's support of Israel. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.
Unannounced Child "Wellness Checks" by Armed Federal Agents Raise Concerns - Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis %
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November 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.
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Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
I think I'm just realizing because of all the open Islamophobia from both the right and centrist boomers during the Mamdani campaign, that most people under 45 in urban areas know Muslims and see them as real human beings and ... like, normal, where older/rural-er Americans don't know any.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I think I'm just realizing because of all the open Islamophobia from both the right and centrist boomers during the Mamdani campaign, that most people under 45 in urban areas know Muslims and see them as real human beings and ... like, normal, where older/rural-er Americans don't know any.
Weirdly when you spend like 40 years obliterating large segments of the Muslim world and making them unpleasant places to raise a family, a lot of those people in those places end up as neighbors, and weirdly those neighbors have kids that, like, attend the same schools as your kids. Wild, huh?
millennials and zoomers have increasingly grown up with muslims. to us, they're just our neighbors, like anyone else on the street. they're just americans.
meanwhile we have people who should've retired a decade ago talking about our neighbors like they're terrorists. i'm sick of it
meanwhile we have people who should've retired a decade ago talking about our neighbors like they're terrorists. i'm sick of it
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Weirdly when you spend like 40 years obliterating large segments of the Muslim world and making them unpleasant places to raise a family, a lot of those people in those places end up as neighbors, and weirdly those neighbors have kids that, like, attend the same schools as your kids. Wild, huh?
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
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Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
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Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
People who don't believe Graham Platner could hold legitimately progressive views on gender and sexuality because he has written "GAAAAAY [pajorative]" on a message board probably 1) don't understand online shitposting and its place in culture, and 2) probably aren't friends with any gay furries. 1/
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
People who don't believe Graham Platner could hold legitimately progressive views on gender and sexuality because he has written "GAAAAAY [pajorative]" on a message board probably 1) don't understand online shitposting and its place in culture, and 2) probably aren't friends with any gay furries. 1/
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here you go, folks. James Rodden, ICE attorney (a.k.a. GlomarResponder on X) saying the election of Abraham Lincoln was the day America "started going downhill"
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October 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
here you go, folks. James Rodden, ICE attorney (a.k.a. GlomarResponder on X) saying the election of Abraham Lincoln was the day America "started going downhill"
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"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
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Really tamping down the rhetoric, aren't they?
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Really tamping down the rhetoric, aren't they?
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.