Luke Doran

So the podcast Knowledge Fight has a recent episode where they cover Nick recounting his origin story and yup, it involves him not being able to deal with a girl that isn’t interested in him (bc he was saying anti-Semitic stuff) and him refusing to grow up and learn that’s just how life works.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Yes.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

A big problem is university presidents trying to transform their institutions into something at odds with their prior identity, at the behest of delusional board members, and running into severe financial difficulties, which they blame on woke professors.

The press needs to stop using “vaccine skeptic” and start using “child abuser.”

The thing about those 600 minors being deported is none of them were in the Epstein files like Trump is.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

This is actually hilarious 😆

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a climate report that aims to cast doubt on the severity of climate change.

Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.

“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
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“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell, 1984

Schizophrenia is not a crime.
Bipolar disorder is not a crime.
Addiction is not a crime.

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

And now, an executive order that calls for the involuntary institutionalization of the homeless and mentally ill without due process or clear release criteria. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

everything in the Pequod was aslant

The current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights division who brokered this Columbia deal, Harmeet Dhillon, was mentored at Dartmouth in the 1980s by Prof. Jeffrey Hart. In 1977 Hart had written a newspaper Op-Ed entitled "Roots [the TV series] was a Racist Attack on White People."

Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review – the liberal who hates leftists In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

what is great about this review is that the author is clearly sympathetic to the premise but can’t get past the basic fact that the author is a vacuous fool www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Attorney General Told Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files It was not clear what those documents were, or in what context the president’s name was raised.

Breaking News: President Trump was told by Pam Bondi this spring that his name appeared in the Epstein files, said people who know of the exchange.

Bad news on the Epstein matter, Mr President. Your name popped up on this list that— *catches looks, gulps, adjusts collar* simply doesn’t exist.

Justice Kavanaugh concurrence: when a case is about whether we get to narrow or overrule a precedent we really don’t like (here, Humphrey’s Executor), let’s just skip over the court of appeals, grant cert before judgment, and just do the damn thing!

Stare decisis = for suckers.

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”