@tparsi.bsky.social follows 12 people on Bluesky and has 3200 followers. On twitter he follows 3800 and has 162,000 followers. @leonidragozin.bsky.social is here. Moss Robeson isn't. azovlobby.substack.com/p/the-kharti...

The demographic threat of Palestinians. The idiot always makes me laugh

A Israeli soldier who was attached to the GHF "relief" operation, and was ordered to shoot at the crowd: "The officers would shout at me: take them down, take them down. I shot 50-60 bullets per day, I stopped counting the kills. I have no idea how many people I killed, lots. Children". Haaretz.

The Israeli government is a rogue and destablising element, both internally and in the region more widely. Sooner or later sanctions will be imposed, because Israel is putting European interests at risk, and it won't stop until it faces real pressure. The question is when.

"underrated" Klippenstein should start a second career as a comic bsky.app/profile/kenk...

Bertram replying to me in 2011 cites Mandeville, whose point was not that greed was noble but that nobility was error. My point was always (early 90s?) that the optimism of science faded into the optimism of the act. Joe Weisenthal describes the shift. Pace Nino Scalia, language is drift

I expected it. On free speech, on Palestine, or politics, he was always a moralizing authoritarian. A fucking idiot. I knew that 20 years ago.

But dressing up as a woman makes you a woman. Bertram's always been good for a laugh. Decades of memories.

The mole had penetrated a new generation of paramilitary leaders, one that included doctors, career cops and government attorneys. It was a world where a man would propose assassinating politicians, only to spark a debate about logistics. (Published January)

Fox News.

I don't think she'd bother adding this on twitter, but here it's all too necessary.

The world is still on twitter.

Once again Baker defends importing workers to drive down wages (because that's how it works). But he wants to import competition for the professional class. Flashback to the 70s "Fuck the AMA"

"We came up with the idea of an individual tax credit... that could be used to support the news outlet of a person’s choosing." Individualized "News For ME" Subsidized Substack, FB or Twitter. "Tell me what I want to hear"

Remembering when people delete things after I reply. Judicial Review vs The Independent State Legislature Theory. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21...

If they intervene, they’re breaking the law. I think they should, but that opinion might not make sense for a university administration

They continue reenacting every comic I've ever drawn

In other news: A Posner, and defender of torture, refers to "humane law"

Mohammed al-Houthi, speaking before thousands today in Sana'a, directly connects the famine and siege in Yemen to the famine and siege on Gaza as the reason for the Houthi movement's military intervention against Israel.

No sense of irony at all

"Do you identify your baby as? Female Male Transgender Female/Trans Woman/Male To Female Transgender Male/Trans Man/Female To Male GenderQueer, neither exclusively male nor female Additional gender category/ Self-described; please specify"

Hanul was one of the most vivid examples of the unholy alliance between organised crime, KGB-rooted secret services (with CIA seasoning) and ultranationalism that to a large extent defines Ukraine’s political reality today.

He loved the power of techbro billionaires until they began to use their power in ways he doesn’t like

The bourgeois who call themselves leftists discover the rule of law.

Solum's now blocked me. As a British scholar of renaissance humanism once told me, "You're fucked in this country. Americans have no sense of irony" The brilliance of Nino Scalia: The atmosphere is not the environment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx-J...

Definition of a crisis: when the truly mediocre discover a principle. Self-interest wins

There is no getting around it. #Trump #Musk #Vought #Rubio will kill millions with this move. #PEPFAR is a program, which formerly had deep #bipartisan support, broad involvement of #faith communities and others. And they've killed it. And they will kill #millions. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Musk is a publisher and regulates public speech. The “public square” has effectively been privatized, and this is defended by elite legal eagles who accept monopolist power as a fait accompli.

The government runs prisons for men and women. Men and women compete in different leagues. Title IX is government policy.

Studying politics begins with studying yourself. Self-awareness is not science.

It's a good letter by AOC, but Jaffer defends censorship by monopolies, or by their "oversight board". You can see where DOGE got its start. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/o...

Being on Twitter these days is like watching, from an elevation, the frothing waves of fascist grifters, barely literate conspiracists and porn bots move steadily inland — but it’s STILL much preferable to this warren of smug liberal conformity and humourlessness. It’s like a blob day-care centre.

What else is new?

And all Zionists will approve

Is Sweet Meteor O'Death on Bluesky?

@jackbalkin.bsky.social "Private infrastructure owners can act both as speakers and as the governors of other people's speech." If oligarchs can control what I see and say in public, that's a problem for free speech. ATT doesn't censor my calls. Liberals like censorship. The ACLU knew that once

“is all which is just pious?” Socrates, Nino Scalia, and substantive due process.

The most absurdly popular anti-Semitic caricature of my lifetime

note: A career playing court jester for billionaires.

Law and as pseudoscience: bsky.app/profile/lsol... "the idea that unenumerated legal entitlements are *hidden* in due process clauses...that a skilled jurist can *discover*" Made me laugh. SCOTUS' smoke/mirrors is BS w the force of law. contradictory. Jaffer et al. continue weakening the 1st Amend.

Academics v Lawyers "Frankfurt’s definition of bullshit as utterances made in pursuit of the speaker’s goals without regard for their truth value" John Mortimer: “Doing these cases I began to find myself in a dangerous situation as an advocate. I came to believe in the truth of what I was saying"

shit

One thing I have noticed about this site is that it is uniformly made up of hysterical liberal warmongers confirming each other in their delusions, and whose chief obsession seems to be denouncing anyone who criticises them from the left.

"As reporters, our job is to observe, not participate" The model is "value free" political science. A subset of the public refusing to participate in the life of the polis, removing itself to better judge. Removal is a political act, anti-political. and based on a lie.

Sanders is a populist. So was Martin Luther King. King said it himself. The German understanding of democracy is like the German understanding of free speech

"A performance at school 309 in Kyiv: A mobilisation officer character walks into the stage and gets knocked down. This has generated a bit of a scandal." Leonid Ragozin x.com/leonidragozi...