Duncan Hosie explores the jurisprudence of the Roberts court. The vacuity and cruelty of Vasquez Perdomo are self-evident. “We should not,” as Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, “have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work
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Last week the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration sweeping new powers to profile low-wage Latino workers. In one unsigned paragraph, its
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November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
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The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
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The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
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The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
Characters like Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby navigate a moral landscape where wealth and status often dictate actions, leading to a decay of ethical standards.
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
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The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby is indeed a tale of excess, capturing the opulence and moral vacuity of the Jazz Age
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As crimson and gold limned the first autumn leaves, Arthur stood in the garden with bated breath, waiting for a storm to burst on the vacuity of his life and fill it with adventure and romance.
But every year, when August ended, his life was exactly as it had been before.
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But every year, when August ended, his life was exactly as it had been before.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Everywhere we look across this grey-toned fascist-lite government, pathological obsessions with the irrelevant and the infantile, from goddamned road cone snitch lines to every kind of emotional vacuity to outright industrial malice
We are being ruled by people who need treatment, not deference
We are being ruled by people who need treatment, not deference
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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it's a shame they never quite hit the Mars/Sirius heights again, tho Savauge had a couple of real stand outs. (Vacuity is amazing, a metal march of quarter notes)
But From Mars To Sirius... what an album to stand on.
But From Mars To Sirius... what an album to stand on.
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Quite. Sadly none of these mediocroties have the intelligence to understand such basic realities. Instead they hide behind their intellectual vacuity as if that in some way is a virtue.
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Sometimes there’s not enough words to describe the depths of vacuity
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"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
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"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
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Are we supposed to remove Jan. 6 from our calendars?
Two prosecutors suspended for mentioning the riot in sentencing memo for armed man stalking Obama
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October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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New: Prosecutors suspended for mentioning Jan. 6 riot in sentencing memo.
"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
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"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
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Are we supposed to remove Jan. 6 from our calendars?
Two prosecutors suspended for mentioning the riot in sentencing memo for armed man stalking Obama
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It's almost as if Reeves set the whole thing up to expose the utter vacuity of the MSM in general and Badenoch in particular. So much egg on so many faces. Not so smug now eh, Henry Zeffman, Vicky Young and BBC Politics. Call yourself journalists 🤣🤣
October 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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It is “an absolute vipers’ nest,” as one government official said last weekend. “This is no way to run a country.”
On the moral cowardice & intellectual vacuity of a government that reached an existential terminus on the day it was elected.
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On the moral cowardice & intellectual vacuity of a government that reached an existential terminus on the day it was elected.
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Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ahead of the budget, Rachel Reeves should be out making her arguments. Instead, there is silence – and a huge opportunity for Labour’s opponents, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Morning. We have yet to experience the magnificence of any eagle where we live (Mid Wales) - daily we see and hear Kites and Buzzards, in their dozens; beautiful creatures! They [raptors] are part of nature and should not be subjected to the hate, prejudice and vacuity of a few humans.
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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It does. We learn so much from other writers, other art forms. Without knowing them (& thus what we’re reacting against) our innovations risk vacuity. But learning’s also part of consciously fostering an idea of excellence. A yardstick. If we drop it misguidedly to ‘help’ anyone we won’t do our best
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Sadly we're still taking him seriously. Thatcher too! Even though their intellectual vacuity was apparent in real time. But feelings over facts, going all the way back!
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Anyone who spends his life trying to formulate a novel answer to the question of what is possible and important fears the extinction of that answer.
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.23
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'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.23
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leading with this quote, really leaning into the moral vacuity. good ol' "if you don't like those beliefs, i have others!"
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Likewise to the argument that "cozy" games speak to moral and personal vacuity.
One of the most emotionally honest games (including in negative ways) that speaks to the moral and personal sensabilities of the author is Undertale and Deltarune, which are games that are both horrifying and cozy.
One of the most emotionally honest games (including in negative ways) that speaks to the moral and personal sensabilities of the author is Undertale and Deltarune, which are games that are both horrifying and cozy.
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Can confirm. I was in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, yesterday, which is adjacent to Garrett County, Maryland (I was about two miles from the border), and they're all very excited about His Imperial Vacuity up there.
When Trump denied disaster aid to Maryland, he apparently thought he was punishing a blue state. But the afflicted areas are Garrett and Allegany counties. Western Maryland is Appalachia. Those counties are deep in Trump country.
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The moral vacuity of our chattering class of podcast bros is utterly laid bare in their inability to find Nazi tattoos abhorrent. Were these people always without principles, or have their brains been cooked by hanging out with Nazis?
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