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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

I appreciate that people are trying to think this way to ground the electricity use of LLMs in something tangible. It’s probably impossible but it’s good to try. You can calculate the cost of a query or the energy of your TV during Netflix, but these are just incredibly complicated systems.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has halted all asylum decisions, the agency's director, Joseph Edlow, said on Friday.

Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs!

Fewer.

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

On the one hand, Trump is arguing that he has the right to murder people, far from the United States, because they're suspected of being involved in the drug trade. On the other hand, we have an actual narco kingpin in prison, and Trump is letting him go free. Drugs have *zero* to do with this.

When you’re extremely concerned about drugs coming from Central and South America.

Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

Atul Gawande of Harvard’s School of Public Health: The Trump regime’s destruction of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children”. [hsph.harvard.edu]

Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" IMLS funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. but everyone is gone and grants cancelled so who now gets employed? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-vict...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Rare moment of EFF sucking? This is just a straight up ad. I wonder if they’ll report it to the IRS because ammo.com is definitely getting something in return for their donation.

Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

NEWS: A federal appeals court pane upholds the $1 million sanction against Trump and Habba for a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Comey, et al. "Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Edit: okay, apparently they didn’t have green cards *yet,* but this is still absolutely appalling

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

I repeat: legal data is large.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

This is . . . off-putting. There's nothing here that projects the gravity of the situation or what's at stake. Quite the contrary. This conveys the message that it's all an exciting reality show with no real consequences for anyone. The imagery is just all wrong.

NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

BREAKING: In Judge Boasberg's contempt inquiry, Plaintiffs include Emil Bove, now a Third Circuit judge, on their list of potential witnesses. Others include Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign—both of whom Boasberg mentioned as likely witnesses—and Yaakov Roth, a senior official in DOJ's Civil Division.

Beyond cool, this is incredible. We’re currently seeking funding to digitize old handwritten case files.

Websites can often track you even with cookies blocked. We just made that a lot harder. See how👇 blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/f...

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

Bankruptcy numbers are up yoy for four years now....

Lindsey Halligan Manages To Lose Two Cases At Once, Which Is Honestly Impressive https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/lindsey-halligan-manages-to-lose-two-cases-at-once-which-is-honestly-impressive/

This was excellent.

This shouldn't be hard to understand !!

BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

People need to realize that Elon is a historically murderous person on the scale of Hitler.

The **chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court** called to expand virtual hearings —citing this incident where ICE threatened to smash the window of a judge’s car — because people who work at the courthouses are no longer safe

Can’t wait for the news to break that Elon did life-extending gene alterations. I give it max ten years.

Reminder: SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."

The International Association for Cryptologic Research has used heliosvoting.org – my online voting system – for a number of years. This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run. Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

As a Mike, I’m used to name coincidences, but today I met with Joel, Joël, and Joelle across three separate meetings.

We want to use LLMs to do data extraction from case books, but they won't handle cases involving sexual exploitation or similar. Seems like we need a way around the guardrails that probably doesn't exist. 🤦

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

A French judge on the International Criminal Court was sanctioned by the US Treasury after issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Now he can’t bank, travel, use a visa, shop online, etc. “a digital time travel back to the 1990s, before the internet age” www.heise.de/en/news/How-...

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

The time before last, when PACER was hacked, it was because of a vulnerability in a product called SolarWinds. I guess they get a free pass for some reason. 🤷

Had this happen when trying to book a haircut the other day. Found it really disturbing and gross, but I guess it's better than leaving a message if it works? Trying to be open minded about it. Maybe if it just said it was an AI at the outset I'd feel better?