Daniel Rubio
@dkfrubio.bsky.social
Philosophy Professor interested in metaphysics, epistemology, decision theory, agency, ethics, logic, and religion. Longer-form writing at: https://substack.com/@dkfrubio
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Times New Roman sucks. Garamond 4 Life.
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Times New Roman sucks. Garamond 4 Life.
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oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
If only we still required our university students to learn all of the liberal arts (like 80 year old history).
That’s not what happened in 1940 lol, the French army did not sit behind the maginot line
December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If only we still required our university students to learn all of the liberal arts (like 80 year old history).
That is not remotely the point Jesus was making by breaking Sabbath law. It is instead a flat denial of the rule of law in favour of the rule of men.
These supporters of murder are moral freaks and it is important to say so
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
That is not remotely the point Jesus was making by breaking Sabbath law. It is instead a flat denial of the rule of law in favour of the rule of men.
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yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal
Clearly we need more healthcare CEOs on twitter
X has a problem with foreign accounts profiting specifically on right wing extremism because it’s really hard to rage bait someone with “everyone should have access to affordable healthcare”
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Clearly we need more healthcare CEOs on twitter
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The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
John Roberts has secured his place in history alongside Al Capone and Bernard Madoff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution This Time Around
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office.
At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune.
At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.
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one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of
THIS IS WHY WE ALL HATE EVOPSYCH. Can we please fucking discredit this pseudo-naturalist bullshit at last?
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of
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yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.
"why does the Times keep publishing Ross Douthat?" can be answered by the fact that more people on here have linked to Ross Douthat content today than have linked to a Maureen Dowd column in this decade
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.
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Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay)
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay)
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
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How is it possible that every successive sentence gets crazier
Again, what the fuck, how are these words someone can spill out of their mouth
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How is it possible that every successive sentence gets crazier
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November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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We live in an episode of Veep
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We live in an episode of Veep
Small domino: Donald Trump runs for president in 2015. Large domino: Tylenol no longer sold in the USA.
Amazing! The Attorney General of Texas is suing Johnson & Johnson because RFK Jr. baselessly & falsely claimed paracetamol causes autism. Naturally, that AG is a far-right Trump-supporting corrupt village idiot (his qualifications for the job): www.texastribune.org/2025/10/28/t...
Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.
www.texastribune.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Small domino: Donald Trump runs for president in 2015. Large domino: Tylenol no longer sold in the USA.
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I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.
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Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer
1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else
2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else
2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer
1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else
2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else
2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
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i hate "fuck off i got mine" and all the other kinds of puerile selfish nativism
Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
October 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
i hate "fuck off i got mine" and all the other kinds of puerile selfish nativism
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We literally have laws!!! Who will stop this!!!
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We literally have laws!!! Who will stop this!!!
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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
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They don't think they're public servants.
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
They don't think they're public servants.
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
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my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk
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ICE is lying. Go figure
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
ICE is lying. Go figure
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i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back
The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
October 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back
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heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
September 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle