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'Heritage American,' noun.
1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States.
2) An American actively betraying those principles.
3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'
1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States.
2) An American actively betraying those principles.
3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'
December 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
'Heritage American,' noun.
1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States.
2) An American actively betraying those principles.
3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'
1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States.
2) An American actively betraying those principles.
3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'
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This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
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it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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The DoJ made it easy to download everything that they released, which any experienced journalist does with document dumps by default (even if they don’t make it easy).
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The DoJ made it easy to download everything that they released, which any experienced journalist does with document dumps by default (even if they don’t make it easy).
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
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“European and American liberal democracy is so dangerous to their project, in fact, that the MAGA ideologues seem to be planning to undermine it.”
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“European and American liberal democracy is so dangerous to their project, in fact, that the MAGA ideologues seem to be planning to undermine it.”
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What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.
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54 points underwater with independents, good lord.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
54 points underwater with independents, good lord.
apnorc.org/projects/tru...
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I will believe AI is a thing when Google maps realizes that I don’t wanna take a total freak show route to where I’m going to save a minute and a half on a one hours drive. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I will believe AI is a thing when Google maps realizes that I don’t wanna take a total freak show route to where I’m going to save a minute and a half on a one hours drive. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Gotta watch the last 20 seconds of this, it's brutal
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Gotta watch the last 20 seconds of this, it's brutal
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so it is very apparent that
1) You are not going to be able to know for sure who or where an order came from, much less if it is legal
2) The President and SecDef will disavow any order that retroactively proves to be unpopular or risky
1) You are not going to be able to know for sure who or where an order came from, much less if it is legal
2) The President and SecDef will disavow any order that retroactively proves to be unpopular or risky
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
so it is very apparent that
1) You are not going to be able to know for sure who or where an order came from, much less if it is legal
2) The President and SecDef will disavow any order that retroactively proves to be unpopular or risky
1) You are not going to be able to know for sure who or where an order came from, much less if it is legal
2) The President and SecDef will disavow any order that retroactively proves to be unpopular or risky
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
Classics factions:
(1) Owning Loebs is stupid because they’re online; (2) Loebs are elitist because they imply that Classicists need to know Latin / Greek; (3) Loebs are an embarrassment because they imply that Classicists don’t know Latin / Greek very well; (4) Loebs look pretty on the shelf.
(1) Owning Loebs is stupid because they’re online; (2) Loebs are elitist because they imply that Classicists need to know Latin / Greek; (3) Loebs are an embarrassment because they imply that Classicists don’t know Latin / Greek very well; (4) Loebs look pretty on the shelf.
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Classics factions:
(1) Owning Loebs is stupid because they’re online; (2) Loebs are elitist because they imply that Classicists need to know Latin / Greek; (3) Loebs are an embarrassment because they imply that Classicists don’t know Latin / Greek very well; (4) Loebs look pretty on the shelf.
(1) Owning Loebs is stupid because they’re online; (2) Loebs are elitist because they imply that Classicists need to know Latin / Greek; (3) Loebs are an embarrassment because they imply that Classicists don’t know Latin / Greek very well; (4) Loebs look pretty on the shelf.
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Man I'm pretty drunk but I sure do love America
All its low-down dirtiness and cosmopolitism and revolutionary ideas about souls created equal by God with the inalienable human right to rule themselves
This messy beautiful place. No one can talk me out of my love for this stupid fuckin country
All its low-down dirtiness and cosmopolitism and revolutionary ideas about souls created equal by God with the inalienable human right to rule themselves
This messy beautiful place. No one can talk me out of my love for this stupid fuckin country
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Man I'm pretty drunk but I sure do love America
All its low-down dirtiness and cosmopolitism and revolutionary ideas about souls created equal by God with the inalienable human right to rule themselves
This messy beautiful place. No one can talk me out of my love for this stupid fuckin country
All its low-down dirtiness and cosmopolitism and revolutionary ideas about souls created equal by God with the inalienable human right to rule themselves
This messy beautiful place. No one can talk me out of my love for this stupid fuckin country
Audiobook of Philo of Alexandria’s “On the Creation” (De opificio mundi) youtu.be/7ezM71GEhJY?...
Philo of Alexandria: On the Creation / De opificio mundi
YouTube video by pseudepigraphon
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Audiobook of Philo of Alexandria’s “On the Creation” (De opificio mundi) youtu.be/7ezM71GEhJY?...
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👇 Not only is this true, it is literally the only non-revolutionary path to a political transition. There is no option for a regime change where your only allies are the people who always shared your values!
People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
👇 Not only is this true, it is literally the only non-revolutionary path to a political transition. There is no option for a regime change where your only allies are the people who always shared your values!
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i advise everyone to consider that it is possible to be wrong about things
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
i advise everyone to consider that it is possible to be wrong about things
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
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Did the ancient Greeks develop concepts such as the rule of law, accountability, public goods, equal redistribution based on taxing the rich, because of the logic of republican government, or because they had experienced first hand the horrors and outrage of autocracy ?
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Did the ancient Greeks develop concepts such as the rule of law, accountability, public goods, equal redistribution based on taxing the rich, because of the logic of republican government, or because they had experienced first hand the horrors and outrage of autocracy ?
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Exciting news! Our colleagues are looking to fund creative commissions inspired by papyrus fragments of two lost plays by Euripides, which were discovered by Egyptian archaeological team in 2024... are you an artist who likes to work with academic ideas? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/storie...
Stories from the sands: New fragments of ancient plays - a creative commission
torch.ox.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Exciting news! Our colleagues are looking to fund creative commissions inspired by papyrus fragments of two lost plays by Euripides, which were discovered by Egyptian archaeological team in 2024... are you an artist who likes to work with academic ideas? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/storie...
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This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'
And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.
And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.
protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space
we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning
we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'
And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.
And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/