Strong "if I can't shoot protestors, nobody can" energy

What's the over/under on the number of shots Dort would take to hit a squirrel? The safe money is on the over, right?

"Owning 100 units is the threshold for being an institutional investor" is a hell of a reminder that every quantitative measure is a stack of qualitative decisions in a trenchcoat.

Breaking news: people develop relationships based on shared values, beliefs

I'm pretty sure if the Dutch put their New Years fireworks money into defense, they could outclass any threat without touching any other part of the budget.

Reading ASP statements and I'm not exactly filled w/hope regarding state's abilities to defend the ICC from US sanctions. The US has laid out a plan to go to war with the ICC (& IntLaw broadly) and the responses, with a few outliers & the 'behind the scenes' caveat, the responses don't reflect that

Rutte seems to be all-in on "I want this to be true, so it must be true. Evidence be damned."

Fun fact - that isn't how (especially legally binding) deadlines work

It went from "makes tech firms pay" to "California will contribute more than Google and also here's some AI bs."

"The only newsroom I'm interested in running is actually a shitty debate club populated by some of the worst people you've ever met."

We automated Seb Gorka

Do folks think security guarantees are self-executing? That the 1st Armored will appear in Kyiv the minute Russia breaches the agreement, politics be damned? The US has been exceedingly clear in the type of partner it is (to Ukraine & in general) & any guarantee should be discounted accordingly.

Without speaking to the specifics of any single ship, US policy ("limited blockade," whatever the hell that means) is absolutely a serious violation of international law

"Heritage American" sounds like a category used to sell free-range chickens

If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame. If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned. Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.

Here are those records, please don't accuse us of a cover-up. Also, we've removed the names of anyone politically connected. Again, please don't accuse us of a cover-up

People who say "it's never been like this" ignore a long history of when it has "kinda been like this" and an even longer history of it being "a bit similar to this." 😞

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

"Let's do Iraq 2.0 but with starting with post-Katrina approval numbers."

Starting tomorrow, Qualtrics will make shit up for you (for a price)

Advertising makes products cheaper, that's why prescription drugs are so well priced in the US. 🙃

They're "streamlining merit review" so they have greater control over what science is able to happen.

"...justification for conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada" pour one out for NATO (if you somehow haven't already)

A hell of a policy to announce right ahead of final exam season

Ended the week with a Christmas miracle (or, more likely, the benefits of working with amazing coauthors) - a reviewer two memo that isn't just positive, it's downright complimentary

Ted Lieu must follow the Mike Johnson approach to keeping up with the news

The problem with senior congressional Democrats is that they're really, I mean incredibly, stupid.

Trump is a paragon of traditional masculine values and he also got a boo-boo from shaking hands

It is oddly fitting, though, that they're "honored" with a mediocre at best cover, perfectly reflecting the uninspired rubbish produced by their AI

Flashbacks to when I was working at UCD and ended up taking a call from a (quite confused) American who thought they had dialed UC Davis. No idea how the international phone code didn't tip them off.

In any "after this," disbarment needs to be the bare minimum.

The US-Europe 'relationship' is a fascinating test for credibility in international relations. On one side, you have a state doing everything it can to show that it's no longer a credible partner. On the other side, you have Europe doing its damndest to dream US credibility into existence.

One of, if not the, UK's strongest ECHR beliefs - from the NI cases to today's bs - is that article 3 needs to allow violence, mistreatment, and harm

The buck stops with that other guy

They won't do or say anything then, either, but they're still waiting.

FIRE had a decent reputation at my undergrad institution, which was all the red flag I needed. It's free speech in the way a debate bro is "just asking questions."

Roberts is deeply torn between two goals: 1) giving the Trump administration whatever it might want and 2) being an acceptable DC area dinner party guest

He might be "fired." He wouldn't be extrajudicially executed in the middle of the fucking sea.

Not widespread & systematic, widespread OR systematic. They are being organized at the highest levels. Sets of (bogus) justifications have been developed to support them. Resources have been diverted to commit them. The (emerging) pattern is clear. These are crimes against humanity. #IntLaw

A National Security Strategy brought to you by idiots, frauds and racists, put together by folks who can't merge PDFs or use a photocopier.

The Supreme Court is, in so many ways, just another legislative body but with more Latin.

Alright Dems, draw them districts.

"They aren't doing regime change, they just want to change the regime. You understand."

My annual reminder that I listen to a very healthy amount of music, especially when accounting for vinyl, radio, live shows, and band camp downloads uncounted in #SpotifyWrapped

Also, the Crimes against Humanity framework does a way better job of emphasizing the systematic nature of the crimes.

The administration may well hope to use Bradley as a fall guy here, but it's important to remember that he would've knowingly gave an illegal order. He's no innocent party here. That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.

To be blunt, TX Tech is no longer a university.

It's a toss-up between "oh, so you want to run for office?" (no) and "could you solve this multivariable regression by hand?" (wtf, no, weirdo)

My reading of the (international) law here is that, while the strikes might be war crimes, they are absolutely crimes against humanity.

Also, the start of paragraph 32 gives away the answer to "why did Northwestern agree to all this"