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Piatto Delgatto
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Mathematician at large, legal news enthusiast, he/him.

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Pinned
Another day in the ketchup mines
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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"Maximum lethality, not tepid legality"

The U.S. Secretary of Defense boasting mere days after the start of the maritime killing spree.

For some reason, the administration's claims that its boat strikes are lawful are not particularly convincing.

www.war.gov/News/News-St...
www.war.gov
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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NYT:
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike

Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
King of the tree.
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Hot off the keyboard and gifted:

Hegseth has to go.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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BREAKING: Full Eleventh Circuit will rehear the challenge to Florida’s anti-drag law, vacating an earlier 2-1 panel opinion that blocked the law.

Due to the fact that no court has stayed the district court’s order, as of now at least, the law remains blocked during the en banc rehearing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.

In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Leavitt: “The president has made it quite clear that if narco terrorists are trafficking illegal drugs toward the United States he has the authority to kill them”

[narrator voice]: He did not, in fact, have lawful authority to kill them…
Q: Was the initial order from Hegseth to kill everyone and did that come from President Trump?

LEAVITT: I would reject that Hegseth ever said that. However, the president has made it quite clear that if narcoterrorists are trafficking illegal drugs toward the US he has the authority to kill them
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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"Fascists simply do not care about what is true. In a deep and fundamental way, it just doesn’t matter to them. You can see that even in how Musk set up his analogy. What he posted is not even the plot of The Lord of The Rings! It is the hobbits who ultimately save Gondor, not the other way around."
Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
www.theunpopulist.net
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Come for the description of Rahmanullah Lakanwa
feeling abandoned by the CIA.

Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Today’s Third Circuit ruling that Alina Habba was unlawfully appointed casts doubt on AG Bondi's back-up theory for Halligan—the notion that Bondi could appoint her a “special atty” (under 28 USC § 515) who could do everything a US atty could. ...
1/4
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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here's my take on Woke 2. the thing about Woke 1 is that it's born from the end of history era, when it was important to re-discover forms of oppression that had been denied or hidden. but this led to a [clears throat] hermeneutics of suscpicion, and ultimately paranoia and internecine factionalism
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
HabbaOpn120125
www.documentcloud.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It is true that no one has grasped this scope.

But there are ways to deal with it.

First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.

Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Read @juddlegum.bsky.social on the ties to RU and Ukrainian oligarchs Steve Witkoff is hiding.

popular.info/p/top-trump-...
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing."

But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"U.S. Steel-Nippon deal hinged on Trump having a say in future operations. How will he use that power?" www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile
#Invertebrate 🧪
news.emory.edu/features/202...
Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey
A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, Emory physicists have found.
news.emory.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If youre a cat, Christmas tree water is the best water.
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Since the Bible says that the square root of a^2 + b^2 is a + b, this grade on the calculus final violates my religious beliefs. God made it so that the equation √(a^2+b^2) = a + b.

I belive this with every fiber of my being.

Therefore my failure on the calculus exam discriminated against me.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Win for, uh, people writing at a B1 level as college upper-classmen, I guess.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Bond films, ranked:

1. Casino Royale (2006)
2. Living Daylights (1987)
3. Goldeneye (1995)
4. From Russia with Love (1963)
5. Dr No (1962)
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM