Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
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Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
· Sep 7
yes, Rawls was very much not around for the Founding.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
I've been thinking a lot about how the US has three founding and how, after Trump, we will — for good or ill — experience a Fourth Founding. I've been thinking about what ideas should be included in a Fourth Founding for the US.
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Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
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Hockey isn’t our national culture. Cars are.
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hockey isn’t our national culture. Cars are.
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“We all benefit — regardless of our age, our gender, our ability, our socioeconomic status — when our cities are more balanced, where cars are not the dominant force.”
An absolute honour for Melissa to be featured in the @nytimes.com’s Women in Leadership Special Report this week.
nyti.ms/3XhNIWX
An absolute honour for Melissa to be featured in the @nytimes.com’s Women in Leadership Special Report this week.
nyti.ms/3XhNIWX
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“We all benefit — regardless of our age, our gender, our ability, our socioeconomic status — when our cities are more balanced, where cars are not the dominant force.”
An absolute honour for Melissa to be featured in the @nytimes.com’s Women in Leadership Special Report this week.
nyti.ms/3XhNIWX
An absolute honour for Melissa to be featured in the @nytimes.com’s Women in Leadership Special Report this week.
nyti.ms/3XhNIWX
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It’s unspeakable we are picking up Native Americans as “invaders”
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s unspeakable we are picking up Native Americans as “invaders”
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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The National Guard is not a law enforcement agency. It is untrained in a policing agency's standards, techniques, tactics and mission in any nation of laws. Only in a police state do officials equate military units with policing.
Did anyone ask why Trump is blaming Biden when his folks vetted and approved his asylum this year?
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The National Guard is not a law enforcement agency. It is untrained in a policing agency's standards, techniques, tactics and mission in any nation of laws. Only in a police state do officials equate military units with policing.
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Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
Fascism is the failure mode of neoliebralism.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fascism is the failure mode of neoliebralism.
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there should be more thursday-based holidays, based purely on their ability to utterly fuck up a work week
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
there should be more thursday-based holidays, based purely on their ability to utterly fuck up a work week
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Trump's investment boom exists only in his demented brain. New orders for capital goods are below the level of three years ago, and that's before adjusting for inflation
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Trump's investment boom exists only in his demented brain. New orders for capital goods are below the level of three years ago, and that's before adjusting for inflation
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Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
The New York Times produced a detailed, data-driven report on President Trump showing signs of aging. The president, 79, responded by calling the female reporter who co-wrote the story “ugly.” https://cnn.it/48idUFL
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
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In Vitale’s book, he writes: “The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last 40 years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”
😍
😍
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In Vitale’s book, he writes: “The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last 40 years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”
😍
😍
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Nuzzi is like Trump in this sense: the worst thing about America is not that someone that awful exists, the worst thing is that much of the press promotes and normalizes it for clicks.
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Nuzzi is like Trump in this sense: the worst thing about America is not that someone that awful exists, the worst thing is that much of the press promotes and normalizes it for clicks.
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I don't think $140k makes sense as a "poverty line," but worth noting such a family is likely paying a similar or higher total effective tax rate than most billionaires.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I don't think $140k makes sense as a "poverty line," but worth noting such a family is likely paying a similar or higher total effective tax rate than most billionaires.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
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When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.
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one thing i really resent is the way lizza, nuzzi and related parties have spent years acting like it’s their extreme reverence for american politics that allows them to slip inside the palace and tell their tales, regardless of party, when really they just wanted to be a part of the king’s court.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
one thing i really resent is the way lizza, nuzzi and related parties have spent years acting like it’s their extreme reverence for american politics that allows them to slip inside the palace and tell their tales, regardless of party, when really they just wanted to be a part of the king’s court.
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when the tryptophan hits
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
when the tryptophan hits
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Good write-up from the state bar's newsletter of the @centerforballotfreedom.org @newamerica.org conference at UW Law School I spoke at recently, on the case for fusion voting and why laws banning it should be struck down.
www.wisbar.org/NewsPublicat...
www.wisbar.org/NewsPublicat...
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Good write-up from the state bar's newsletter of the @centerforballotfreedom.org @newamerica.org conference at UW Law School I spoke at recently, on the case for fusion voting and why laws banning it should be struck down.
www.wisbar.org/NewsPublicat...
www.wisbar.org/NewsPublicat...
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
You love to see it.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You love to see it.
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My god, why do people feel compelled to argue about this? What is more basic than access to a store where you can buy some food?
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My god, why do people feel compelled to argue about this? What is more basic than access to a store where you can buy some food?
One of the dumbest things about the American healthcare system is that the slightly higher reimbursement rates paid by private plans are frequently swamped by the higher admin costs of dealing with multiple insurance companies.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
One of the dumbest things about the American healthcare system is that the slightly higher reimbursement rates paid by private plans are frequently swamped by the higher admin costs of dealing with multiple insurance companies.