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If you want a better understanding of Israel, Episode 422 of Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast with Haviv Rettig Gur provides a nuanced perspective that changed my thinking.
If you know me, DM me and I’ll share the full length episode.
If you know me, DM me and I’ll share the full length episode.
June 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you want a better understanding of Israel, Episode 422 of Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast with Haviv Rettig Gur provides a nuanced perspective that changed my thinking.
If you know me, DM me and I’ll share the full length episode.
If you know me, DM me and I’ll share the full length episode.
I just watched Eulogy (Black Mirror season 7, episode 5). The most moving episode of all for me.
June 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I just watched Eulogy (Black Mirror season 7, episode 5). The most moving episode of all for me.
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...
DOGE Is Hacking America
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
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February 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...
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Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.
February 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.
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New: I think Schumer and Jeffries probably DO mean to condition Dem votes for budget legislation on a return to the rule of law. But strategic ambiguity and paeans to bipartisanship highlight just how unfit a party guided by lawyers, pollsters, and strategists is to handle an existential crisis.
Out With The Consultants
Democrats have long outsourced political judgment to professional-services providers (pollsters, strategists, lawyers)—but what do they know about defeating a coup?
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February 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New: I think Schumer and Jeffries probably DO mean to condition Dem votes for budget legislation on a return to the rule of law. But strategic ambiguity and paeans to bipartisanship highlight just how unfit a party guided by lawyers, pollsters, and strategists is to handle an existential crisis.
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Red states! This is the way. (It shouldn’t be the way, but Trump made the new rules.)
"I have directed BC liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states. Liquor store employees will be removing the most popular of these brands from government store shelves." -BC Premier David Eby
February 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Red states! This is the way. (It shouldn’t be the way, but Trump made the new rules.)
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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There is impotent anger and there’s quiet effectiveness, but they aren’t binary. If Schumer and Jeffries went to the mics to explain the crisis and said “no democratic votes for budget items until the lawlessness ends” it would be cathartic and cause an earthquake.
The catharsis v effectiveness divide is widespread, but it's just massive on electoral strategy. "Price of eggs" is an in-joke on Bluesky 3 months after an election that hinged on inflation/kitchen table economic issues. Look at the dunks on this Klob piece vs what she said-
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February 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
There is impotent anger and there’s quiet effectiveness, but they aren’t binary. If Schumer and Jeffries went to the mics to explain the crisis and said “no democratic votes for budget items until the lawlessness ends” it would be cathartic and cause an earthquake.
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In my mind, it is perfectly possible to a) understand why people fall for the appeal of authoritarian demagogues, and still b) think it's bad to do so.
In short, I understand the assholes fine. I still think they're assholes.
In short, I understand the assholes fine. I still think they're assholes.
January 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In my mind, it is perfectly possible to a) understand why people fall for the appeal of authoritarian demagogues, and still b) think it's bad to do so.
In short, I understand the assholes fine. I still think they're assholes.
In short, I understand the assholes fine. I still think they're assholes.
