Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile
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Exiled Political Economist, Silicon Valley's Public Finance Attorney, Lecturer in Political Economy, Comic Book Character, Corporate and Private Equity Lawyer, Startup Attorney, Advisor, Dad, Husband, Teacher, Former Europeanist.
Opponent of Fascism.
Opponent of Fascism.
"The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser [...]"
Wait! Hold on. You can stop now. I see your problem right there.
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Wait! Hold on. You can stop now. I see your problem right there.
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BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:49 AM
"The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser [...]"
Wait! Hold on. You can stop now. I see your problem right there.
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Wait! Hold on. You can stop now. I see your problem right there.
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Cool! A developer has created a hack to cause intensely stupid people to lose money in hilarious ways. This should generate some excellent social media content as the world points and laughs at the pioneers of a new genre we can call agentic wallet Schadenfreude.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Cool! A developer has created a hack to cause intensely stupid people to lose money in hilarious ways. This should generate some excellent social media content as the world points and laughs at the pioneers of a new genre we can call agentic wallet Schadenfreude.
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It is objectively kind of impressive that you can end democracy in America using the labor of people who not only think that their toaster is spying on them, but who are willing to give a 2-hour interview to explain this belief.
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Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid
Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:22 AM
It is objectively kind of impressive that you can end democracy in America using the labor of people who not only think that their toaster is spying on them, but who are willing to give a 2-hour interview to explain this belief.
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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August 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“The Railway Labor Act does not apply to space travel”
The new Gilded Age shows a lot of potential to be even more corrupt and intellectually dishonest than the last one.
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The new Gilded Age shows a lot of potential to be even more corrupt and intellectually dishonest than the last one.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act
US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law.
arstechnica.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:15 PM
“The Railway Labor Act does not apply to space travel”
The new Gilded Age shows a lot of potential to be even more corrupt and intellectually dishonest than the last one.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The new Gilded Age shows a lot of potential to be even more corrupt and intellectually dishonest than the last one.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
They put it in the newspaper that she got mad.
And damn, that's a grade school-level insult to level at a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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And damn, that's a grade school-level insult to level at a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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‘You’re a washed-up loser lawyer’: Pam Bondi taunts Democrats over Epstein
US attorney general goes on attack during questioning by House judiciary committee over handling of files
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
They put it in the newspaper that she got mad.
And damn, that's a grade school-level insult to level at a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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And damn, that's a grade school-level insult to level at a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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This was . . . not a "blowout" jobs report.
Sure, some people might argue that it was a bad idea to outsource MiniTru to private contractors, but I think it's pretty clear that private enterprise can be much more dynamic and efficient as a provider of mass propaganda.
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Sure, some people might argue that it was a bad idea to outsource MiniTru to private contractors, but I think it's pretty clear that private enterprise can be much more dynamic and efficient as a provider of mass propaganda.
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A blow-out job report is always good news for the American people, but it sets up a volatile year for Trump's pick to lead the Fed, @jonathanjlevin says
Kevin Warsh’s Fed Job Already Looks Impossible
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed that the unemployment rate slipped to 4.3% in January, from a prior 4.4%, as US payrolls expanded at twice the rate that economists had been expecting. While that’s great news for workers, it will make life a lot more challenging for Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve.
bloom.bg
February 11, 2026 at 10:43 PM
This was . . . not a "blowout" jobs report.
Sure, some people might argue that it was a bad idea to outsource MiniTru to private contractors, but I think it's pretty clear that private enterprise can be much more dynamic and efficient as a provider of mass propaganda.
bsky.app/profile/opin...
Sure, some people might argue that it was a bad idea to outsource MiniTru to private contractors, but I think it's pretty clear that private enterprise can be much more dynamic and efficient as a provider of mass propaganda.
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Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich . . .
Donald Trump really is a horrible, undying revenant of the Reagan Era.
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Donald Trump really is a horrible, undying revenant of the Reagan Era.
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February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich . . .
Donald Trump really is a horrible, undying revenant of the Reagan Era.
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Donald Trump really is a horrible, undying revenant of the Reagan Era.
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Pitch this to venture capital - maybe add a tech angle by filling a call center with crocodiles who listen to baby monitors and alert parents only when the infants are actually endangered.
Cheap labor providing a service to wealthy and neglectful parents - VCs will love it
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Cheap labor providing a service to wealthy and neglectful parents - VCs will love it
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AI? Interesting. And yet I can't help but notice that we still don't have crocodile babysitters 💅
Crocodiles are alarmingly attuned to the cries of human infants
Voracious reptiles gauge distress more reliably than human parents
www.science.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Pitch this to venture capital - maybe add a tech angle by filling a call center with crocodiles who listen to baby monitors and alert parents only when the infants are actually endangered.
Cheap labor providing a service to wealthy and neglectful parents - VCs will love it
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Cheap labor providing a service to wealthy and neglectful parents - VCs will love it
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"All the sovereigns who have chosen to govern by their own authority, and to direct society instead of obeying its directions, have destroyed or enfeebled the institution of the jury."
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The US
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-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The US
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No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers
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No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers
None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
"All the sovereigns who have chosen to govern by their own authority, and to direct society instead of obeying its directions, have destroyed or enfeebled the institution of the jury."
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The US
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-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The US
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Once a regime has so dehumanized people as to justify putting them in camps in violation of their legal rights, it will not suddenly begin to respect those rights once they are incarcerated.
Concentration camps hold those with no rights - abuse and horror are their nature.
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Concentration camps hold those with no rights - abuse and horror are their nature.
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We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Once a regime has so dehumanized people as to justify putting them in camps in violation of their legal rights, it will not suddenly begin to respect those rights once they are incarcerated.
Concentration camps hold those with no rights - abuse and horror are their nature.
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Concentration camps hold those with no rights - abuse and horror are their nature.
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To be scrupulously fair, this is a more realistic plan than using orbital AI data centers to create a sapient sun that will suss out all of the mysteries of the universe, so he might be getting closer to a drug dosage that lets him function in public.
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Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
To be scrupulously fair, this is a more realistic plan than using orbital AI data centers to create a sapient sun that will suss out all of the mysteries of the universe, so he might be getting closer to a drug dosage that lets him function in public.
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Awful, insulting, and impeachment-worthy performance by Bondi.
But I agree that Garland should have to explain his decisions not to prosecute wealthy elites given the information held by DoJ during his tenure.
To history and the public, if not to Congress.
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But I agree that Garland should have to explain his decisions not to prosecute wealthy elites given the information held by DoJ during his tenure.
To history and the public, if not to Congress.
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LIEU: These two photos staring you in the face are evidence of a crime and more than enough evidence to predicate an investigation into former Prince Andrew. So why did you shut down this investigation?
BONDI: I don't believe you asked Merrick Garland these questions
LIEU: You are in charge
BONDI: I don't believe you asked Merrick Garland these questions
LIEU: You are in charge
February 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Awful, insulting, and impeachment-worthy performance by Bondi.
But I agree that Garland should have to explain his decisions not to prosecute wealthy elites given the information held by DoJ during his tenure.
To history and the public, if not to Congress.
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But I agree that Garland should have to explain his decisions not to prosecute wealthy elites given the information held by DoJ during his tenure.
To history and the public, if not to Congress.
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So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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What?
I would like to reiterate my question: why it is that Merrick Garland did nothing to investigate or prosecute any of the crimes revealed in documents that were held by the FBI and DoJ during his tenure?
None of this falls under legitimate prosecutorial discretion.
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I would like to reiterate my question: why it is that Merrick Garland did nothing to investigate or prosecute any of the crimes revealed in documents that were held by the FBI and DoJ during his tenure?
None of this falls under legitimate prosecutorial discretion.
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Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 6:21 AM
What?
I would like to reiterate my question: why it is that Merrick Garland did nothing to investigate or prosecute any of the crimes revealed in documents that were held by the FBI and DoJ during his tenure?
None of this falls under legitimate prosecutorial discretion.
bsky.app/profile/esgh...
I would like to reiterate my question: why it is that Merrick Garland did nothing to investigate or prosecute any of the crimes revealed in documents that were held by the FBI and DoJ during his tenure?
None of this falls under legitimate prosecutorial discretion.
bsky.app/profile/esgh...
To be fair, while Macron's point about the US being an unreliable partner is 100% correct and Europe does need to build up its independent economic and military power, the French have been saying this since the 1960's, so there's a kind of stopped clock character to it.
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🇫🇷 Macron: We must make Europe an independent power — a Single Market, but also an economic power.
End of Russia as a permanent provider of local energy. End of China as a main export market. The U.S. imposing tariffs on our economy and a coercion mechanism.
End of Russia as a permanent provider of local energy. End of China as a main export market. The U.S. imposing tariffs on our economy and a coercion mechanism.
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
To be fair, while Macron's point about the US being an unreliable partner is 100% correct and Europe does need to build up its independent economic and military power, the French have been saying this since the 1960's, so there's a kind of stopped clock character to it.
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I woke up and wanted to see how markets were reacting to the jobs report, but found that Winston Smith was already at work online.
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I woke up and wanted to see how markets were reacting to the jobs report, but found that Winston Smith was already at work online.
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This was a failed coup by the Trump administration against Democratic members of Congress. Everyday Americans on the grand jury stopped it. The 6 targets were right all along—don’t follow illegal orders. Speak truth to power. Because it will prevail.
February 11, 2026 at 3:24 AM
This was a failed coup by the Trump administration against Democratic members of Congress. Everyday Americans on the grand jury stopped it. The 6 targets were right all along—don’t follow illegal orders. Speak truth to power. Because it will prevail.
I'm going to keep saying "Tocqueville's Aristocracy" in response to the revolt of the legal profession until either fascism is defeated or the legal profession is crushed.
Corrupt, patrimonial personalism is antithetical to the education and interests of American lawyers.
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Corrupt, patrimonial personalism is antithetical to the education and interests of American lawyers.
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Holy shit. The prosecutor who just resigned from the D Minn in revolt against orders to investigate Renee Good after her murder is local counsel for Don Lemon now in Minnesota. Wow.
Look at who is PHVing Abbe Lowell and team into MN to represent Don Lemon.
February 11, 2026 at 6:04 AM
I'm going to keep saying "Tocqueville's Aristocracy" in response to the revolt of the legal profession until either fascism is defeated or the legal profession is crushed.
Corrupt, patrimonial personalism is antithetical to the education and interests of American lawyers.
bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
Corrupt, patrimonial personalism is antithetical to the education and interests of American lawyers.
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Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Not that I would question your knowledge or your honesty, sir, but may I please see the rule that you are citing here?
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Garbarino: "It is a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might be personally offensive to the president or vice president."
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Not that I would question your knowledge or your honesty, sir, but may I please see the rule that you are citing here?
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Tocqueville continues his guerrilla war against despotism from the jungle terrain of the federal judiciary.
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JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.”
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February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Tocqueville continues his guerrilla war against despotism from the jungle terrain of the federal judiciary.
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Growing up during the Cold War and reading obvious, Orwellian lies from Moscow, I assumed that the habit of public deception was a hallmark of communism - lies justified by their service to an ideology.
Turns out that it was just kind of a Russian thing. Who knew?
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Turns out that it was just kind of a Russian thing. Who knew?
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🤡🐴 Lavrov: Russia will complete the process of returning the original Russian lands to their "homeland" in accordance with the aspirations of all Russian people in Ukraine.
February 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Growing up during the Cold War and reading obvious, Orwellian lies from Moscow, I assumed that the habit of public deception was a hallmark of communism - lies justified by their service to an ideology.
Turns out that it was just kind of a Russian thing. Who knew?
bsky.app/profile/maks...
Turns out that it was just kind of a Russian thing. Who knew?
bsky.app/profile/maks...