He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Shiva asar b'Tammuz is the yahrtzeit of Prof. Mark A. R. Kleiman. I used to re-up my story about him on Twitter every year, but I'm not there and the story is probably gone. He was very much larger than life, and his work, which I encountered almost 15 years ago, continues to shape how I think.

tfw you are in very remote, very Francophone Quebec, someone in a supermarket speaks to you in French, and you respond in Hebrew.

This man protested for democracy against the Maduro regime and came to America, where he thought he would be safe.

We sent him to a gulag for it.