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No US oil company should risk investing in Venezuela. Companies that take part in Trump's lawless takeover of Venezuela's resources should keep in mind that any American tax dollars they take to invest in a foreign country will be recovered by the next administration.
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
No US oil company should risk investing in Venezuela. Companies that take part in Trump's lawless takeover of Venezuela's resources should keep in mind that any American tax dollars they take to invest in a foreign country will be recovered by the next administration.
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lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 AM
lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
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The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.
Removing this obviously distributed-a-billion-times photo of Trump w/Melania, Epstein, & Maxwell from the DOJ release of files only points out the FBI team's foolish, slapdash attempt to cover up *any existence* of the adjudicated sexual assaulter FOTUS in them.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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my “does not love hitler” flyer has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my flyer
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
my “does not love hitler” flyer has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my flyer
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
In a private suit this isn't an issue if plaintiffs seek damages. They get damages for overcharges during the limitations period (which can be extended). Likewise, in a typical merger case, the merger hasn't consummated, so FTC can seek injunction under 13b while it does it's admin case
. FTC is seeking equitable relief (eg not damages) to unwind mergers under FTC Act s. 13b. That relief is only a available for ongoing or imminent violations (eg monopolization violating Sherman s. 2). A private party could seek damages under Clayton s.4, but they face a 4 year limitations period
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In a private suit this isn't an issue if plaintiffs seek damages. They get damages for overcharges during the limitations period (which can be extended). Likewise, in a typical merger case, the merger hasn't consummated, so FTC can seek injunction under 13b while it does it's admin case
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the jeffersonian tilt of anti-trust is one reason, imho, some of its loudest advocates occasionally fall into a reactionary producerism, whereby the small business owner is always Good and anyone who seeks to limit their autonomy is Bad www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-proble...
September 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
the jeffersonian tilt of anti-trust is one reason, imho, some of its loudest advocates occasionally fall into a reactionary producerism, whereby the small business owner is always Good and anyone who seeks to limit their autonomy is Bad www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-proble...
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A reason I prefer Bluesky to Twitter is that I hadn't thought about Shaun King for YEARS.
September 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reason I prefer Bluesky to Twitter is that I hadn't thought about Shaun King for YEARS.
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CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
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"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel
September 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel
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The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
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The actual audience for these performances was not the aforementioned undergrads, but right wing donors whose grandkids no longer speak to them. The product he sold wasn’t persuasion but the vicarious fantasy of schooling the whippersnappers.
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The actual audience for these performances was not the aforementioned undergrads, but right wing donors whose grandkids no longer speak to them. The product he sold wasn’t persuasion but the vicarious fantasy of schooling the whippersnappers.
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Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism'
We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman
Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans
We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman
Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism'
We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman
Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans
We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman
Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans
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Faced with a high profile budget battle, elected Democrats will be like "why bother with this fight, our vote doesn't matter, it won't change the outcome" and then wonder why ordinary citizens sit out an election and think "why bother with this, my vote doesn't matter, it won't change the outcome"
Axios: House Dems have procedural tools to try to save PBS and NPR but refuse to use them.
“House Democrats are largely shooing away the idea of trying to make Republicans miss their deadline to codify around $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, Axios has learned...” 1/
“House Democrats are largely shooing away the idea of trying to make Republicans miss their deadline to codify around $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, Axios has learned...” 1/
Scoop: House Democrats shrug off delay tactics to stall Mike Johnson's DOGE vote
"People would be really unhappy after what he did on July 4," said one House Democrat.
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July 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Faced with a high profile budget battle, elected Democrats will be like "why bother with this fight, our vote doesn't matter, it won't change the outcome" and then wonder why ordinary citizens sit out an election and think "why bother with this, my vote doesn't matter, it won't change the outcome"
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It doesn't matter why he's worried about the Epstein files. You don't need to know why. It only matters that he's shown us it is an open wound, and it is our job only to shove a rotten 2x4 into it.
July 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It doesn't matter why he's worried about the Epstein files. You don't need to know why. It only matters that he's shown us it is an open wound, and it is our job only to shove a rotten 2x4 into it.
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When the other guys defect in a repeat game, what do you do? You keep cooperating no matter what! They will be so embarrassed and ashamed that the fever will break and you can play on the softball team together again.
July 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
When the other guys defect in a repeat game, what do you do? You keep cooperating no matter what! They will be so embarrassed and ashamed that the fever will break and you can play on the softball team together again.
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very easy to see what is happening. trump will run for a third term, he’ll try to bring the dispute to federal courts, where his election denying judges will rewrite the 22nd amendment to mean it only refers to “consecutive” terms.
This is becoming the standard line for Trump judicial nominees: All of them will say only that Congress "certified" the election, which translates from Polite Republican Lawyer as "Trump should have been reelected and only lost because of Democrat voter fraud" ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...
Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the Hook
Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?
ballsandstrikes.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
very easy to see what is happening. trump will run for a third term, he’ll try to bring the dispute to federal courts, where his election denying judges will rewrite the 22nd amendment to mean it only refers to “consecutive” terms.
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We could use more Members of Congress who really understand what the right-wing takeover of the judiciary means. Mike's a good guy who gets it.
CA5 upholds the federal ban on guns near schools for the unfathomably stupid reason that a 697-year-old English law is sufficiently analogous to the ban rather than that a democratically-enacted law banning guns near schools just, you know, MAKES SENSE.
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![The Statute of Northampton, first enacted in 1328 in England, provided that, with some exceptions, Englishmen could not
"come before the King's Justices, or other of the King's Ministers doing their office, with force and arms, nor bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed by night nor by day, in Fairs, Markets, nor in the presence of the Justices or other Ministers, nor in no part elsewhere, upon pain to forfeit their Armour to the King, and their Bodies to Prison at the King's pleasure."
Bruen, 597 U.S. at 40 (quoting 2 Edw. 3 c. 3 (1328)). The Government offers King Henry VIII's version of the Statute of Northampton, applicable to Wales and which additionally prohibited arms within two miles of a court, as an analogous historical example of a "buffer zone" law. 26 Hen. 8, c.6, § 3
(1534). But to assess whether the Statute of Northampton, as a location-based restriction, is "relevantly similar" to § 922(q)(2) (A), we must look beyond the law's text because, in practice, the Statute was not strictly enforced as written. According to scholarship cited by the Supreme Court in Bruen, 597 U.S. at 30, "[a]n indictment or presentment for violation of the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreiaicpihrekfev36t3xsyswv6widfbn5rgho72avjtngqiukmyjyf4@jpeg)
![Statute of Northampton had to specify that the arms carrying was [in quorandam de populo terror- to the terror of the people." David B. Kopel & Joseph Greenlee, The 'Sensitive Places' Doctrine: Locational Limits on the Right to Bear Arms, 13 CHARLESTON L. REV. 203, 217 (2018) [hereinafter Kopel & Greenlee]; see also Bruen, 597 U.S. at 5 ("[No wearing of Arms is within the meaning of [the Statute], unless it be accompanied with such Circumstances as are apt to terrify the People." (quoting 1 PLEAS OF THE CROWN 136)). "[Bly the time of American independence[]... the old Statute of Northampton... was only applicable to carrying for the purpose of terrorizing other people, and not to carrying for legitimate self-defense." Kopel & Greenlee at 227. Thus, "the Statute... was no obstacle to public carry for self-defense in the decades leading to the founding." Bruen, 597
U.S. at 45.
Even so, though perhaps not a "dead ringer" or "historical twin" of modern "buffer zone" restrictions on firearm possession, the Statute of Northampton is nonetheless of a type of historical location-based regulation relevantly similar to § 922(q)(2)(A)'s application to Allam: the so-called
"going armed laws," which the Supreme Court has addressed at length. See Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 697; Bruen, 597 U.S. at 40-54. These laws prohibited
"riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, [to] terrify[] the good people of the land," and were "incorporated into American jurisprudence through the common law." Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 697 (citing 4 BLACKSTONE 149). "As during the colonial and founding periods, the common-law offenses of 'affray' or going armed "to the terror of the people' continued to impose some limits on firearm carry in the antebellum period." Bruen, 597 U.S. at 50.
"Why and how" the Statute of Northampton and going-armed laws
"burden[ed] the right" to carry firearms, Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 692, mirror the operation of § 922(q)(2)(A) here, suggesting that "applying [§ 922(q) (2)(A)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreieudsqypug4tjd3ca3ug2hth2xkc4onfhwk3jlnzmnjfqpqpj2i6m@jpeg)
![to [Allam] is consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation," Diaz, 116 F. 4th at 472. First, why: Section 922(q) was enacted in response to "concern about violent crime and gun violence," the possibility of "parents... declin[ing] to send their children to school for the same reason," and the "occurrence of violent crime in school zones." 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(1)(E) & (F). These aims are consistent with a longstanding tradition of restricting those who carry firearms "to the terror of people" and those who pose a "clear threat of physical violence to another." See Rahimi,
602 U.S. at 697-98. Next, how: Section 922(q) (2)(A) delimits schools and buffer zones around them as areas in which firearms may not be carried, subject to significant enumerated exceptions that materially ameliorate the restriction of the right. This roughly maps with how the Statute of Northampton's various location-based restrictions generally operated in practice, as well as the behavior the going-armed laws proscribed. As applied to Allam, then, § 922(q)(2)(A) is relevantly similar to the Statute of Northampton and, more broadly, the going-armed laws of which the Statute is one example.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreicmzo3ijlsahe74w5tribzcydyo7sb2lcv33shnbfguhq5j3qcjuy@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
We could use more Members of Congress who really understand what the right-wing takeover of the judiciary means. Mike's a good guy who gets it.
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As Trump and Musk were ransacking the federal government, Congressional Democrats put a 74 year old cancer patient in charge of providing oversight. He died within 5 months of taking the job.
It's a form of political negligence that borders on criminal.
It's a form of political negligence that borders on criminal.
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As Trump and Musk were ransacking the federal government, Congressional Democrats put a 74 year old cancer patient in charge of providing oversight. He died within 5 months of taking the job.
It's a form of political negligence that borders on criminal.
It's a form of political negligence that borders on criminal.
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I saw Gavin Newsom load a homeless family into a Waymo and shout, “the ocean please” into the steering wheel and then slap the back of it to send it off like a horse.
May 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I saw Gavin Newsom load a homeless family into a Waymo and shout, “the ocean please” into the steering wheel and then slap the back of it to send it off like a horse.
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This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
May 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
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For every one Andrew Tate who becomes a rich and powerful influencer by embracing a caricature of masculinity there are ten thousand guys who simply become Divorced
May 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For every one Andrew Tate who becomes a rich and powerful influencer by embracing a caricature of masculinity there are ten thousand guys who simply become Divorced
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While most Americans oppose making Canada the 51st state, a majority of Joe Rogan listeners favor it, saying they would like to live in the same country as their girlfriends.
April 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
While most Americans oppose making Canada the 51st state, a majority of Joe Rogan listeners favor it, saying they would like to live in the same country as their girlfriends.
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One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
The next time someone tells you some dumb-ass tech thing is "inevitable" even if a company has spent tens of billions of dollars on it
April 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.