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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
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“Why aren’t Dems trying to defund ICE”
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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I think it's also just bonkers to say "if you're in a certain industry, expect to be shouted down in public forums *to which you were actually invited*"

Like I said: Should professors just expect their classes to be disrupted?
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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What if you’re a professor? What if you’re a community activist? What if you’re just a citizen who wants to speak up and say something?

Should we start listing the professions that it’s OK to shout down?
I may not like it or agree with it happening, but I stand by my comment that if you are a journalist this is a risk of the trade.
January 31, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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the bots fuckin found out about religion. call the Turing police. no not the regular Turing police
January 31, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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And, I'll be damned but the rule of "you can't put someone in jail if the citizen-jury acquits them" is holding up, even as we speak
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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We have this thing called the "jury" in America

A lot of procedure scholars have been kind of unclear, for a long time, about, uhhh, why. Why we have laypeople deciding all our legal cases.

Well, turns out this is why! The whole bulwark against tyranny thing is super real!
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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We should totally work to reform some of those areas of rule-of-law problem, not least because Trump has, more or less successfully, set up a Prerogative State in those areas

But also, the Normative State remains very real, even now. His efforts to punish his political enemies keep losing in court!
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Incidentally, the thing that prevents this is, y'know. The Rule of Law.

As unhip as that may sound.

That's the thing that says, no, actually, the government CAN'T just put you in prison for some pretextual bullshit reason. They have to prove, to an independent tribunal, that you broke the law
this isn’t the case. they are fabricating pretexts. “i am going to try to stop people from fabricating pretexts to arrest me” is an insane thing to try to guard against. if they want to fabricate a pretext to arrest you they can do it. they would use AI & surveillance now, but wiretaps in the past
January 31, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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And before y'all come at me with "oh you think America has the rule of law," believe me I am aware that we have problems on this score!

But, like, they're kind of peripheral problems. Broadly speaking it is the case that the government cannot impose arbitrary punishments. This is actually observed
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Looks like somebody - maybe Nathan, maybe somebody else, can't easily link this file to the others and I refuse to get sued for this thread - worked up a full two-pager on how we could commercialize behavior-manipulating compounds in sexually transmitted infections to create a female viagra.
January 31, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Nathan and Jeffrey appear to have shared a long-term interest in the scientific basis of sexual appetite in women, including options such as rabies; the search for a "female viagra"; and a study trying to find the "horny virus" that makes college girls want to have more sexual partners
January 31, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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I don't think it's good to have tried to get Jeffrey Epstein to pay you to turn STDs into a female viagra mind control drug
January 31, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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(I edited the legible radio chatter out of this but I wish I didn't have to, because it's the hardcore dispatch guy going "Yeah, we've got your back" as we race onto the highway behind the Wagoneer. My neighbors make me strong)
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Do you know how many times this administration has threatened me in the last 365 days? Do you know how many of those threats it has carried out? They are using FEAR AND INTIMIDATION to keep us in line, not actual legal force. We shouldn't fall for it.
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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The administration’s greatest power is people backing down before they are forced to deploy any actual power to make them do so. It’s a force multiplier people use on themselves.
Do you know how many times this administration has threatened me in the last 365 days? Do you know how many of those threats it has carried out? They are using FEAR AND INTIMIDATION to keep us in line, not actual legal force. We shouldn't fall for it.
January 31, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Also, the only way to get a version of the first kind that can win is to try and fail with the second kind.

For example, in the years of political turmoil and civil resistance that ultimately led to the American Revolution.
like i dunno the history of the first kind of movement is basically a long list of very cool and glamorous failures, the history of the second is vaguely disappointing successes

so,
January 31, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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like i dunno the history of the first kind of movement is basically a long list of very cool and glamorous failures, the history of the second is vaguely disappointing successes

so,
January 30, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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i think what people are really circling around in this particular slapfight is two visions of how resistance works

1: we're going to out-tactics the government and create a secure organization that defeats them on the field

2: we're going to create spectacle which mobilizes the masses
there is no way any person can sufficiently protect themselves against a hostile, oppressive, fascist government finding a pretext to take them into custody. the people the government charges are not primarily being charged bc they were not careful about opsec.
January 30, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Chemtrail guy wants Maryland GOP to nominate him for governor a second time. Maybe he can lose by even more.
January 31, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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these people are setting themselves up for the most important thing, which is that when this is all over they’ll get to go back to judging liberals and claiming credit for everything good that happens
incredible things are happening on the microblogging website
January 31, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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A lot of people are understandably spooked about all the reports of ICE using facial recognition and showing up at observers’ homes, but the truth is there are too many of us for them to handle.
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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imo the best thing to read about Epstein that isn’t directly about him is Ashely Mear’s Very Important People, because it casts a ton of light light on the Type of Guy that he was, he just was upmarket (billionaires not millionaires) and egregious (underage rather than young adult) than most of them
January 31, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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it ruins the whole thing to ask too deeply or inquire too much about who these women are and why they’re there, they don’t want to feel like hookers and the guys don’t want that either, so the whole thing is kind of elided and implicit. so no one was exactly checking the IDs of the victims.
January 31, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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the TLDR is that there’s an elaborate implicit economy where there are guys in rich social circles whose role is broadly understood to be supplying hot young (adult) women who are there for the money but are *never* explicitly sex workers. The women get to be around money and vice versa.
January 31, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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lol
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM