Jason Kuznicki
@jkuznicki.bsky.social
A gay dad cultivating his garden in Puna, Hawaii. Now working on some big projects for the future.🍍🌴🌱📖🌐☸️
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Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3319839950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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That’s not the oath.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
That’s not the oath.
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Coffee tariffs might have appealed to a narrow slice of the population out here in Hawaii, but really we’re a lot like most people in the rest of America. We have jobs that aren’t helped by tariffs, and we buy groceries that recently used to cost a lot less.
Brooke Rollins: "The president always said he would take care of the farmers. They have been with him since he came down the escalator. So yes, we are looking at the aid right now. We have always said it is to solve, to mitigate anything under these new trade negotiations. Every day that changes."
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Coffee tariffs might have appealed to a narrow slice of the population out here in Hawaii, but really we’re a lot like most people in the rest of America. We have jobs that aren’t helped by tariffs, and we buy groceries that recently used to cost a lot less.
Funny the asymmetry here; I would welcome liberal, cosmopolitan accounts from all over the world, and I do. Nationalism itself makes trust and cooperation harder.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Funny the asymmetry here; I would welcome liberal, cosmopolitan accounts from all over the world, and I do. Nationalism itself makes trust and cooperation harder.
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This might seem surprising if you think the purpose of DOGE was to end waste, fraud, and abuse.
That was never the purpose.
The true purpose of DOGE was to gut the civil service, end American soft power, and boost our foreign adversaries.
In that way, DOGE fully achieved its mandate.
That was never the purpose.
The true purpose of DOGE was to gut the civil service, end American soft power, and boost our foreign adversaries.
In that way, DOGE fully achieved its mandate.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This might seem surprising if you think the purpose of DOGE was to end waste, fraud, and abuse.
That was never the purpose.
The true purpose of DOGE was to gut the civil service, end American soft power, and boost our foreign adversaries.
In that way, DOGE fully achieved its mandate.
That was never the purpose.
The true purpose of DOGE was to gut the civil service, end American soft power, and boost our foreign adversaries.
In that way, DOGE fully achieved its mandate.
Thanks AI, that's once again useless.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thanks AI, that's once again useless.
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There was an original effective altruism movement that was like "we should measure the effects of our donations" and then greedy profiteers quickly turned the entire brand into scams bsky.app/profile/jeno...
I continue to believe that, for most tech bros, effective altruism is simply a permission structure to be greedy and evil in the short term, by telling themselves and credulous journalists that they’re going to help theoretical humans in the future somehow.
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There was an original effective altruism movement that was like "we should measure the effects of our donations" and then greedy profiteers quickly turned the entire brand into scams bsky.app/profile/jeno...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It’s been a joy and an honor to work with @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and everyone else at @liberalcurrents.com
This is a vibrant community of thoughtful people with big ideas and firm convictions. Please consider supporting today!
This is a vibrant community of thoughtful people with big ideas and firm convictions. Please consider supporting today!
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People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: "you don't hate turkey, you're just cooking it wrong"
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: "you don't hate turkey, you're just cooking it wrong"
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: "you don't hate turkey, you're just cooking it wrong"
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: "you don't hate turkey, you're just cooking it wrong"
The typical MAGA voter doesn’t belong to a country club. The typical MAGA voter thinks he’s punishing the country club set because they’re trying to replace him.
When immigrants get arrested at a country club, the MAGA worldview is powerfully confirmed. (Should be a gift link)
When immigrants get arrested at a country club, the MAGA worldview is powerfully confirmed. (Should be a gift link)
Border Patrol’s Charlotte sting reaches into country clubs, upscale shops
As undocumented immigrants stayed home and federal agents swept through the city, even the wealthiest neighborhoods got a glimpse of what life without migrants might look like.
wapo.st
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The typical MAGA voter doesn’t belong to a country club. The typical MAGA voter thinks he’s punishing the country club set because they’re trying to replace him.
When immigrants get arrested at a country club, the MAGA worldview is powerfully confirmed. (Should be a gift link)
When immigrants get arrested at a country club, the MAGA worldview is powerfully confirmed. (Should be a gift link)
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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One of the best things about being a Currency Supporter is the Lord gives you a conveyor belt of goofballs to look good against
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
One of the best things about being a Currency Supporter is the Lord gives you a conveyor belt of goofballs to look good against
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someone tell the emperor, the constitution has committed sedition and must be hanged.
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
someone tell the emperor, the constitution has committed sedition and must be hanged.
The only entity that I think might possibly disrupt Google's monopoly on search is Kagi. Not that I'm hugely optimistic, but it ought to.
AI was supposed to challenge Big Tech’s power. A judge said artificial intelligence would upend Google’s dominance in an antitrust case, but two new books argue that monopolies rarely fix themselves. Read more: bloom.bg/49yUE9A
📷️: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
📷️: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The only entity that I think might possibly disrupt Google's monopoly on search is Kagi. Not that I'm hugely optimistic, but it ought to.
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In all of this, let's not forget the agency of the individual troops pulling the trigger. They are committing murder and should be prosecuted.
"Trump and his top White House aides pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers almost as soon as they took office in January, and in the past 10 months have repeatedly steamrolled or sidestepped government lawyers who questioned whether the provocative policy was legal"
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
In all of this, let's not forget the agency of the individual troops pulling the trigger. They are committing murder and should be prosecuted.
The prototype nation-state isn’t a territory that contains only its ancestral people. That type of polity has been very rare in history.
The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.
The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The prototype nation-state isn’t a territory that contains only its ancestral people. That type of polity has been very rare in history.
The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.
The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.
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One last point. In the Trump Murder Memo (the memo supposedly explaining legal rationale for Trump boat bombings), DOJ's *own lawyers* go out of their way to pre-exonerate lower-level people carrying out those killings. Experts tell me this signals fear *on the inside* that these orders are illegal!
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One last point. In the Trump Murder Memo (the memo supposedly explaining legal rationale for Trump boat bombings), DOJ's *own lawyers* go out of their way to pre-exonerate lower-level people carrying out those killings. Experts tell me this signals fear *on the inside* that these orders are illegal!
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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For the next while I'm gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood.
"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For the next while I'm gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood.
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So @bdowney.bsky.social used Gemini 3 to make an anti-Liberal Currents Chick Tract, and I’m sorry to say I’m pro-AI now
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
So @bdowney.bsky.social used Gemini 3 to make an anti-Liberal Currents Chick Tract, and I’m sorry to say I’m pro-AI now
The huge gap between “the experts have been wrong before” and “so I’ll do better without them.”
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The huge gap between “the experts have been wrong before” and “so I’ll do better without them.”
A friend gave us these homegrown tangerines 🌱🌴🍊
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A friend gave us these homegrown tangerines 🌱🌴🍊
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