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It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
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That's enough LinkedIn for the rest of my life.
December 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
That's enough LinkedIn for the rest of my life.
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Antarctica at midnight.
December 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Antarctica at midnight.
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Three humpback whales near our ship in Paradise Bay, Antarctica. One of them spouts a rainbow.
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Three humpback whales near our ship in Paradise Bay, Antarctica. One of them spouts a rainbow.
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watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it
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Humpback whale today off Booth Island, on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Humpback whale today off Booth Island, on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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im not trying to be a bitch but why is your activism for a state where Palestinians can live safely and in dignity so dependent on a phrase that's also shouted by the people who try to kill us in the streets
December 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
im not trying to be a bitch but why is your activism for a state where Palestinians can live safely and in dignity so dependent on a phrase that's also shouted by the people who try to kill us in the streets
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Poasting on Twitter so your wine aunt doesn't become a racist. Sounds like a fun use of my time.
Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?
I have a friend for instance - an assistant headteacher in a grammar school in South East England - who has radicalised herself into racism and fascist apologia simply by being there. Would that be the case if liberals she took seriously were still posting on the app by which she’s addicted?
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Poasting on Twitter so your wine aunt doesn't become a racist. Sounds like a fun use of my time.
Perhaps the author is British?
To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Perhaps the author is British?
*Cries in Logan Act*
In a previously unreported letter, the Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman asked Israeli president Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
*Cries in Logan Act*
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Based on the facts recounted by the Senator, the two do sound “shipwrecked” for LOAC purposes.
But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied.
And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict.
Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.
But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied.
And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict.
Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Based on the facts recounted by the Senator, the two do sound “shipwrecked” for LOAC purposes.
But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied.
And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict.
Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.
But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied.
And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict.
Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.
My grandparents were only citizens because they were born here. Their legal-immigrant grandparents either naturalized after my grandparents were born or died stateless aliens. I suspect this is true for many Americans. The time required to naturalize means that children often come first.
Exactly, if you have to have citizen parents to be a citizen, then you have to be able to document your parents are citizens, which means you have to document your grandparents are citizens, which means you have to document your great-grandparents …
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My grandparents were only citizens because they were born here. Their legal-immigrant grandparents either naturalized after my grandparents were born or died stateless aliens. I suspect this is true for many Americans. The time required to naturalize means that children often come first.
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There's also "Don Snoreleone"...
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There's also "Don Snoreleone"...
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The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
I didn’t say it’s going to happen, so I’m not engaging in magical thinking. And it absolutely does have “jurisdiction.” It has universal subject matter and territorial jurisdiction over all crimes described in the Statute. It just does not have global jurisdiction to execute process.
It does not have "jurisdiction." A country can choose to hand someone over, but that's not going to happen not least because *US law for nearly 25 years has prohibited cooperation with the ICC.*
This is all magical thinking and it's silly.
This is all magical thinking and it's silly.
You are not correct about this. It can issue arrest warrants for Americans and any country that has acceded to the Rome statute is required to execute them. And the U.S. can voluntarily surrender them. The likelihood of it happening is remote, but it certainly does have jurisdiction.
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I didn’t say it’s going to happen, so I’m not engaging in magical thinking. And it absolutely does have “jurisdiction.” It has universal subject matter and territorial jurisdiction over all crimes described in the Statute. It just does not have global jurisdiction to execute process.
And the Captain, First Officer and Doctor were executed by firing squad as a result.
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And the Captain, First Officer and Doctor were executed by firing squad as a result.
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I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
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There really aren't any first world examples of a federal presidential Republic. But it's still a notable point that literally no one looked at the electoral college, a body that chooses the national leader but to whom the national leader is NOT responsible, and said 'yeah let's do that"
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
There really aren't any first world examples of a federal presidential Republic. But it's still a notable point that literally no one looked at the electoral college, a body that chooses the national leader but to whom the national leader is NOT responsible, and said 'yeah let's do that"
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Earlier Star Trek was basically unvarnished hopeful enlightenment theory. DS9 deconstructs this.
We need a series that moves past naive enlightenment or deconstruction.
We need Romantic Star Trek.
We need a series that moves past naive enlightenment or deconstruction.
We need Romantic Star Trek.
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Earlier Star Trek was basically unvarnished hopeful enlightenment theory. DS9 deconstructs this.
We need a series that moves past naive enlightenment or deconstruction.
We need Romantic Star Trek.
We need a series that moves past naive enlightenment or deconstruction.
We need Romantic Star Trek.
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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will