More broadly, when you demand a bureaucracy crack down on fraud without any corresponding additional training or resources, their only option is their own discretion and that's going to be wrong all the time

Hakeem Jeffries tweet: President Trump could be striking Venezuelan boats with missiles made by an American small business but he chooses not to Bill Kristol tweet: The Romanov children would have grown up to be Nazi collaborators

The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.

It is simply impossible to believe on this record that this would have been the lineup (or a stay issued at all) if the district court had found a racial gerrymander in a large blue state.

Vapidity aside, it's riddled with substantive errors.

Few things embody the failures of traditional legal journalism more than this vapid fascism apologist repeatedly getting platforms to cosplay as a Serious Legal Commentator. This reads like a Federalist Society 1L's love letter to the Supreme Court. What are we doing here, man

Anyway congrats to Glenn Beck on falsely accusing someone of a bombing plot days before they arrested someone else in two different decades, maybe this time we'll actually get to find out how much the settlement is for

I'm so happy people are waking up to the horror of Trump's boat strikes. I think we're finally coming down from the 9/11 paranoia where people would believe any claim the government made about terrorism and support any amount of violence against anyone labelled a terrorist.

Would the government lie about who's a terrorist? Yes! Would the government lie about what evidence they have that someone is a terrorist? All the time!

Everything escaped containment. Bitcoin, 4chan, etc - all used to be in small, shunned parts of the world - now it's everywhere. All economics is a rug pull. All of the internet is now 4chan. All culture is q-anon. All corporations are Enron.

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Jack Posobiec is still promoting conspiracy theories, and antisemitic and racist ideas, and claims one of his last conversations with Charlie Kirk, before his assassination, was about witches—who he and Megyn Kelly now claim were summoned to engage in spiritual warfare with Kirk

the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week

Hillary Clinton sassing off "young Jewish Americans who don't know their own history" in a way that is disgustingly antisemitic. "They say from the river to the sea...they don't even know which river and which sea!" Fuck off.

the median voter, five minutes after angrily pressing the Throw The Bums Out button: "wait a minute, I hate Donald Trump"

I don't think it's ENTIRELY a coincidence that movement conservatism welcomed Alex Jones in and now TPUSA itself is desperately pleading with an insane person to stop exploiting and lying about a murder they're still processing

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The New York Post and Manhattan Institute teaming up to publish literally the same op-ed every three months for a decade encapsulates these folks perfectly.

These people make a big show of how they can't be shamed or embarrassed or pressured so you won't notice that if you actually make an effort they do exactly that all the time

on the brighter side, rush limbaugh, henry kissinger, and dick cheney are all still dead

congrats to my former colleagues @mmfa.bsky.social for being official thought criminals

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obama didnt deserve that nobel. but i take joy in the fact that trump is filled with envy of him for it.

a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

I have long had an obscure, complex theory about Susan Collins that explains these things. Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube. That's it. That's the whole thing.

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these people aren’t “visionaries” they’re drunken blackjack players with a self-replenishing pile of chips and a bunch of sycophantic dopes saying shit like “splitting 10s is genius sir”

… and he SERVED ✨

Left-wing populism: this is monopolistic behavior Right-wing populism: If this cartoon character does not fuck girls I will set off a fertilizer bomb

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I feel like if the Court tries to nullify birthright citizenship then House Democrats should commit to impeaching all the Republican justices as soon as they get a majority. Even if the Senate won’t convict, make them make a spectacle out of it.

but it also puts you in tension, fundamentally, with reactionaries, because good evidence of benefits and lack of evidence of significant harms should earn trust, even if the process is new or "creepy"

trust should follow evidence and use, not precede it. and i think, basically, a lot of tech optimism is positioned against good scientific practice by presuming high trust and good outcomes before there's any evidence. this is always going to put good scientists in tension with technologists

There’s surely a whole article to be written about the terrible quality of heraldry in Continuing Anglican churches

The Continuing Anglicans are groups, usually ultra conservative, that have splintered from the greater Anglican communion. They like to worship like it’s 1685 and compute like it’s 1985.

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Yeah I mean this is the concern about Netflix taking over WB. They will just cancel everything and never commit to a franchise.

This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act

Civil liberties advocates have decried the case against him as “guilt by literature.”

We need to create a “fell for it again award“ edit for hakeem jeffries

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so charlie kirk gets shot in the neck then a week later they introduce a character named "full necky"

I genuinely can't tell how this will go. This is a potential nuclear bomb of a decision