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reading the morning newspaper is a realistic benediction of the day--Hegel
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DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
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Laying it on thick.
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Laying it on thick.
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Pete Hegseth denies he gave the order to kill them all. But even some Republicans now appear to be demanding answers, so Frank Bradley, who oversaw the bombings, is in discussions with House Armed Services about coming in.
Rep Adam Smith lays out his Qs to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Rep Adam Smith lays out his Qs to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Pete Hegseth denies he gave the order to kill them all. But even some Republicans now appear to be demanding answers, so Frank Bradley, who oversaw the bombings, is in discussions with House Armed Services about coming in.
Rep Adam Smith lays out his Qs to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Rep Adam Smith lays out his Qs to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
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I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
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One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
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My three-year-old was reading the Washington Post when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why did the funny drinking man murder the Venezuelans on the boat?” And when I told her “Because we need more lethality, less legality,” she started crying.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
My three-year-old was reading the Washington Post when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why did the funny drinking man murder the Venezuelans on the boat?” And when I told her “Because we need more lethality, less legality,” she started crying.
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Many people are saying the president's observations are laden with the finest theories
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Many people are saying the president's observations are laden with the finest theories
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I think if you told a Bears fan that the Bears would be number 1 in the NFC at literally any point in the season they would have thought you'd lost your mind
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I think if you told a Bears fan that the Bears would be number 1 in the NFC at literally any point in the season they would have thought you'd lost your mind
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Looks like their narrative blew up once it came out the shooter was granted asylum under the Trump administration, and now they’re scrambling to shove the genie back in the bottle.
D.C. shooting suspect has been “radicalized” since coming to the U.S., Noem says.
November 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Looks like their narrative blew up once it came out the shooter was granted asylum under the Trump administration, and now they’re scrambling to shove the genie back in the bottle.
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30 NOVEMBER 1775, HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA: The Earl of Dunmore writes to William Howe about the initial reaction to the proclamation he’s recently issued, freeing slaves enslaved by Patriots who escape their enslavers and join his Loyalist army: www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...
“I offer freedom to the blacks of all Rebels that join me”
As the Revolutionary War’s first black-centered combat unit the short-lived Ethiopian Regiment merits attention. Like the segregated 1st Rhode Island...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
30 NOVEMBER 1775, HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA: The Earl of Dunmore writes to William Howe about the initial reaction to the proclamation he’s recently issued, freeing slaves enslaved by Patriots who escape their enslavers and join his Loyalist army: www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...
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Noteworthy that POTUS is not trying to defend the second strike.
And no, the first strike wasn’t legal either.
No armed conflict, no lawful military objectives, no lawful collateral damage.
Just premeditated killing.
There’s a word for that.
And no, the first strike wasn’t legal either.
No armed conflict, no lawful military objectives, no lawful collateral damage.
Just premeditated killing.
There’s a word for that.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Noteworthy that POTUS is not trying to defend the second strike.
And no, the first strike wasn’t legal either.
No armed conflict, no lawful military objectives, no lawful collateral damage.
Just premeditated killing.
There’s a word for that.
And no, the first strike wasn’t legal either.
No armed conflict, no lawful military objectives, no lawful collateral damage.
Just premeditated killing.
There’s a word for that.
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The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Many people are saying the president's observations are laden with the finest theories
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Many people are saying the president's observations are laden with the finest theories
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
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Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
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WELKER: His asylum was approved in April on Trump's watch. Was there a vetting process in place?
NOEM: The vetting process all happened under Biden
WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted?
NOEM: Vetting happens when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Biden
NOEM: The vetting process all happened under Biden
WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted?
NOEM: Vetting happens when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Biden
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
WELKER: His asylum was approved in April on Trump's watch. Was there a vetting process in place?
NOEM: The vetting process all happened under Biden
WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted?
NOEM: Vetting happens when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Biden
NOEM: The vetting process all happened under Biden
WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted?
NOEM: Vetting happens when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Biden
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The first clue you have to follow a judicial order is it's called an "order."
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The first clue you have to follow a judicial order is it's called an "order."
Yes it is
Re that Post headline, saying FDA is imposing "strict" requirements misses the mark in much the same way as describing RFK Jr as a "skeptic" fails
Skeptic and strict imply diligent attention to detail
Do Prasad or RFK Jr or Oz or Makary qualify? Not in 2025 (maybe in previous lives)
Re that Post headline, saying FDA is imposing "strict" requirements misses the mark in much the same way as describing RFK Jr as a "skeptic" fails
Skeptic and strict imply diligent attention to detail
Do Prasad or RFK Jr or Oz or Makary qualify? Not in 2025 (maybe in previous lives)
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved is, essentially, a way to delay and refuse approval with little justification, by @ddiamond.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo...
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yes it is
Re that Post headline, saying FDA is imposing "strict" requirements misses the mark in much the same way as describing RFK Jr as a "skeptic" fails
Skeptic and strict imply diligent attention to detail
Do Prasad or RFK Jr or Oz or Makary qualify? Not in 2025 (maybe in previous lives)
Re that Post headline, saying FDA is imposing "strict" requirements misses the mark in much the same way as describing RFK Jr as a "skeptic" fails
Skeptic and strict imply diligent attention to detail
Do Prasad or RFK Jr or Oz or Makary qualify? Not in 2025 (maybe in previous lives)
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The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
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This is why elite media matters.
Team Trump has been on a serial killing spree with pretty sparse coverage until that WaPo story this week expanding upon how egregious and obviously lawless the murders are.
Team Trump has been on a serial killing spree with pretty sparse coverage until that WaPo story this week expanding upon how egregious and obviously lawless the murders are.
Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is why elite media matters.
Team Trump has been on a serial killing spree with pretty sparse coverage until that WaPo story this week expanding upon how egregious and obviously lawless the murders are.
Team Trump has been on a serial killing spree with pretty sparse coverage until that WaPo story this week expanding upon how egregious and obviously lawless the murders are.
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“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
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yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible
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I see we're rapidly approaching a practice run for something we'll see a lot of next year: An administration official urgently trying to get a pardon from the WH when they've already outlived their political usefulness and the autopen is being wrestled over by multiple factions.
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I see we're rapidly approaching a practice run for something we'll see a lot of next year: An administration official urgently trying to get a pardon from the WH when they've already outlived their political usefulness and the autopen is being wrestled over by multiple factions.
"Conclusive and preclusive" contempt of federal court orders
Which are binding unless and until a higher court considers an appeal and says otherwise
Which are binding unless and until a higher court considers an appeal and says otherwise
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Conclusive and preclusive" contempt of federal court orders
Which are binding unless and until a higher court considers an appeal and says otherwise
Which are binding unless and until a higher court considers an appeal and says otherwise
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When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not