reasons for revolution against a tyrant 249 years ago: "he has refused his Assent to Laws" "obstructing Laws for Naturalization" "made Judges dependent on his Will" "kept among us Standing Armies w/o Consent of our legislatures" "cut off Trade" "transporting us beyond Seas for pretended offences"

Time to delete all your FLACs and just run this 24/7. scratch.mit.edu/projects/908...

assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight

America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

The Atlantic offers its slop quota www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nick Punto 2B-3B-SS Debut: 2001 - Retired: 2014 LAD - PHI - OAK - STL - MIN - BOS

@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball

Phoenix

Hands Off Phoenix

Trump take game. But seriously late capitalism is built on placating treats and when the treats start going away...

Me in the national security group chat

fucking retire, @schumer.senate.gov, you fuckin useless, dickless, gutless islamophobic old fuck, you stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid old asshole

nymag.com/intelligence... But wait I thought the Democratic Party didn't need the left. Huh, well, maybe the party needs to incorporate some policy positions from the left in, I dunno, a new thing I just made up called "coalition governance."

Fucking ghouls

Transformative work of the day:

(Baudrillard, 1981)

This is all Project 2025, yes, but also part of Curtis Yarvin's fever dream of R.A.G.E. = Retire All Government Employees. The next, or maybe simultaneous, move is "GovCorp," rule by our tech oligarchs.

If you are registered for RightsCon 2025 come join us next Wednesday for a session on automated decision making and digital dehumanisation. Details in the thread 👇

There is, of course, a world of difference between " pay out the full schedule of every t-sec and we don't need rich peoples' money to do it" and "lol half these securities are fake so we're not gonna pay." Or, for the Hegelians, we're looking at the bad infinity of de-dollarization

I can say that publishing in law journals doesn't mean squat when it comes to getting tenure in a social science department -- for this very reason.

That’s it; Americans have by and large been disciplined to spend thousands a year on deductibles/premiums and think of that as normal

Taxing the rich is also anti inflationary at least a little bit