Kyle
@lakeaffecter.bsky.social
Cincinnati’s fifth-most well regarded tree and bird enthusiast. Prospective founder of a national nonprofit that reimburses the public for The Horrors
Pinned
All the long echoes sing the same delight
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All the long echoes sing the same delight
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HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
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the median dragon's hoard is now too small to attract even the most idiotic adventurers. enter: questrium, the bold, new startup empowering even stupider peasants to embark on even more ill-advised quests
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the median dragon's hoard is now too small to attract even the most idiotic adventurers. enter: questrium, the bold, new startup empowering even stupider peasants to embark on even more ill-advised quests
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Here's an important one that slipped by on Monday.
Fed. judge quashes DOJ subpoena seeking the personal health data of trans patients as "prosecutorial coercion" and "for an improper purpose," namely, intimidating trans people and their medical providers.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Fed. judge quashes DOJ subpoena seeking the personal health data of trans patients as "prosecutorial coercion" and "for an improper purpose," namely, intimidating trans people and their medical providers.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here's an important one that slipped by on Monday.
Fed. judge quashes DOJ subpoena seeking the personal health data of trans patients as "prosecutorial coercion" and "for an improper purpose," namely, intimidating trans people and their medical providers.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Fed. judge quashes DOJ subpoena seeking the personal health data of trans patients as "prosecutorial coercion" and "for an improper purpose," namely, intimidating trans people and their medical providers.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory
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i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
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(final thought as i'm swiftly slain by a band of ninja assassins) kind of a crazy amount of ninjas to hire for this
September 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
(final thought as i'm swiftly slain by a band of ninja assassins) kind of a crazy amount of ninjas to hire for this
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Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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We went to see the local witch, about the sheep you see, and she offered the whole crew a drink when we arrived. I said "I'll do fine without your fiendish brew magic woman", but now it seems like they were just beers. The vibe is pretty loose and fun, I keep finding myself eyeing the fridge.
August 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We went to see the local witch, about the sheep you see, and she offered the whole crew a drink when we arrived. I said "I'll do fine without your fiendish brew magic woman", but now it seems like they were just beers. The vibe is pretty loose and fun, I keep finding myself eyeing the fridge.
I love my singularly beautiful gf
August 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I love my singularly beautiful gf
Finding religion simply to know with certainty that Lee Zeldin will suffer justice proportional to his monstrous deeds
July 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Finding religion simply to know with certainty that Lee Zeldin will suffer justice proportional to his monstrous deeds
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imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?
July 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?
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Most people aren't naturally cool so the median candidate is probably better off just having convictions and acting like it instead of trying to manufacture coolness in vain, but I don't know if they see it that way
May 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Most people aren't naturally cool so the median candidate is probably better off just having convictions and acting like it instead of trying to manufacture coolness in vain, but I don't know if they see it that way
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this is excellent slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
slate.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
this is excellent slate.com/news-and-pol...
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this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?