karl rove knausgård
@uhactually.bsky.social
I’m a reasonable man, get off my case. (he/him)
There’s not really any reason to do this. The political conditions that would allow its acceptance would also allow reform through a million other, simpler means.
Admitting DC as many, many states, you mean
and furthermore, it’s very clear that the two most important political tests for the senate in 2029 once we take it will be:
1. expanding the Supreme Court
2. Admitting PR/DC as states
1. expanding the Supreme Court
2. Admitting PR/DC as states
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
There’s not really any reason to do this. The political conditions that would allow its acceptance would also allow reform through a million other, simpler means.
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I want the fancy law professor world to really start pushing the idea that the President cannot pardon himself, or people who commit crimes at his direction.
February 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I want the fancy law professor world to really start pushing the idea that the President cannot pardon himself, or people who commit crimes at his direction.
Woke is so back that people are posting Instagram stories about how you need to post differently again
February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Woke is so back that people are posting Instagram stories about how you need to post differently again
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BARI WEISS: I think it's so telling. Liberals only want to talk about the bad bunny. Whereas rational people like you and me, I think, people who can agree to disagree, we want to talk about the good bunny.
BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]
BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 AM
BARI WEISS: I think it's so telling. Liberals only want to talk about the bad bunny. Whereas rational people like you and me, I think, people who can agree to disagree, we want to talk about the good bunny.
BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]
BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]
I had a teacher who had a policy that if you got all of the true/false questions on a test wrong, you got full credit for them, because the main way to do that is to know all the answers. That’s sort of what this admin is like. Or like how Socrates says the best thief would be the best guard.
this admin has impeccable comedic timing in the sense that everyone immediately does the worst possible thing they could do given their job title, e.g. that head of info security who put a bunch of classified files into web chatGPT, or the director of intelligence doing whatever this ends up being
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February 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I had a teacher who had a policy that if you got all of the true/false questions on a test wrong, you got full credit for them, because the main way to do that is to know all the answers. That’s sort of what this admin is like. Or like how Socrates says the best thief would be the best guard.
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this admin has impeccable comedic timing in the sense that everyone immediately does the worst possible thing they could do given their job title, e.g. that head of info security who put a bunch of classified files into web chatGPT, or the director of intelligence doing whatever this ends up being
🤷🏻♂️
February 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
this admin has impeccable comedic timing in the sense that everyone immediately does the worst possible thing they could do given their job title, e.g. that head of info security who put a bunch of classified files into web chatGPT, or the director of intelligence doing whatever this ends up being
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The impediment to basically all good policy is that people are idiots who believe things that are not true. Wind turbines kill birds, electric cars are just as bad for the environment unless you have clean energy, vaccines are dangerous, you used to need ID to vote and now you don’t.
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
February 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM
The impediment to basically all good policy is that people are idiots who believe things that are not true. Wind turbines kill birds, electric cars are just as bad for the environment unless you have clean energy, vaccines are dangerous, you used to need ID to vote and now you don’t.
The Kennedy Center stuff enrages me to a degree that is wildly out of proportion to how bad it is. There’s obviously no comparison to the human atrocities of ICE. But boy. I spent so much time there and have so many core memories from there.
February 2, 2026 at 7:14 AM
The Kennedy Center stuff enrages me to a degree that is wildly out of proportion to how bad it is. There’s obviously no comparison to the human atrocities of ICE. But boy. I spent so much time there and have so many core memories from there.
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People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
February 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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I think many people see LLMs as a step along a teleological path to the kind of “powerful AI” that’s been foretold in fiction for decades, and the empirical evidence if you scrutinize it carefully suggests something different and very unintuitive.
January 31, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I think many people see LLMs as a step along a teleological path to the kind of “powerful AI” that’s been foretold in fiction for decades, and the empirical evidence if you scrutinize it carefully suggests something different and very unintuitive.
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
Every single time there’s one of these settlements about spurious activations we get these headlines and every single time people use it as proof that something that demonstrably is not happening is happening. It’s tiring.
no it absolutely does not
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Every single time there’s one of these settlements about spurious activations we get these headlines and every single time people use it as proof that something that demonstrably is not happening is happening. It’s tiring.
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no it absolutely does not
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:19 AM
no it absolutely does not
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He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
February 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
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A cabal of pedophiles conspired to destroy the US government from within by seeding fascist ideas into online forums, spreading conspiracy theories about the opposition based on their own actions, and devised an alternative currency to upend the global economy. Now they run the US government and CBS
January 31, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A cabal of pedophiles conspired to destroy the US government from within by seeding fascist ideas into online forums, spreading conspiracy theories about the opposition based on their own actions, and devised an alternative currency to upend the global economy. Now they run the US government and CBS
It’s good to make the point that the Epstein conspiracy should not be used as the “socialism of fools” but this is simply not true. Lots of the ruling class is not in the documents, and the conspiracy in them is not capitalism.
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
It’s good to make the point that the Epstein conspiracy should not be used as the “socialism of fools” but this is simply not true. Lots of the ruling class is not in the documents, and the conspiracy in them is not capitalism.
I have really had it with people just kneejerk reacting “Oh? What’s that gonna do?” to every legal win. There’s no question that the legal wins are not doing what they need to do and there’s no question the Trump regime is not committed to the law, but they do follow it to some level.
This is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I have really had it with people just kneejerk reacting “Oh? What’s that gonna do?” to every legal win. There’s no question that the legal wins are not doing what they need to do and there’s no question the Trump regime is not committed to the law, but they do follow it to some level.
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This is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
This is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.
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and the next administration needs to not unilaterally disarm. if Humphreys Executor is overturned then it's overturned. If having the wrong political opinions gets you fired from this DOJ then all Trumpists are fired from the next one and need not apply. Clear the rot before building a better system
February 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
and the next administration needs to not unilaterally disarm. if Humphreys Executor is overturned then it's overturned. If having the wrong political opinions gets you fired from this DOJ then all Trumpists are fired from the next one and need not apply. Clear the rot before building a better system
Real talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.
February 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Real talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.
Hellworld scenario: Blue tsunami in November, Dems impeach and remove Trump, refuse or forget to add the provision that he can’t run again, he runs again in 2028
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Hellworld scenario: Blue tsunami in November, Dems impeach and remove Trump, refuse or forget to add the provision that he can’t run again, he runs again in 2028
Great thread of morons to block
February 1, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Great thread of morons to block
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These emails explain a decade of world politics and the media apparently had no interest in covering them
January 31, 2026 at 10:34 PM
These emails explain a decade of world politics and the media apparently had no interest in covering them