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Of course. But if Vance cared about laws, he wouldn't be in the position he is in now.

Given the back-and-forth with the Dreamers, I do think it is reasonable for the causal observer to think there was some real inside-baseball thing that protected them, when in fact it was (as far I as understand it) just "both sides understand strictly following the law would be bad."

When the media were cornering Dem officials after Kirk's death, asking them about online rhetoric from the left, I really wanted one of them to challenge CNN or whoever to have them on, and go post-for-post through that Dem's social media feed and the Presidents.

Like, can we quantify to a meaningful degree just how much the tail is wagging the dog?

The cable news lumped together is fascinating to me.

My boomer parents are anti-Trump, but I can't help wondering how much of that is just because they landed on MSNBC rather than Fox News as their "background" TV noise around the time my dad retired.

Important to note Epstein was the "To:" in that email!

(Not that is better, etc, etc)

I think a lot about the efficiency outside of silicon valley's terribleness. I think the flip side of your (good) point, is that in today's system, pulling control from founders means giving it to MBA market maximizers, which are the heart of enshittification.

Remember when Lessig tried to argue it was ok to take money from Epstein if you did it covertly?

There is a type of academic whose sophistry verges on parody, and they all seemed to love Epstein.

Bugs bunny?

It's a great idea. We could enumerate a set or rights. They'd be inalienable, and enumerate restrictions of government overreach. Protecting against things like warrentless raids and government reprisals for expressing your opinion.

Honestly, really great idea, I wonder why no ones thought of it.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

My brother came back, but he wasn't the same. Went native. Picked up a hotdish habit, started saying "Uff da" every time he stood up.

Met a Lutheran girl and started always talking about some guy name Garrison, the local storyteller, I'm told.

In a fair world Russ would get airtime ahead of every centrist pundit running toward where they think the ball is going.

I saw Russ give a talk in Eau Claire in early 2002, where he got angry feedback for his vote against the patriot act. He was right then and we should listen to him now.

Dutch call-up paper

Here is an example of a Dutch call-up paper for Jews to report to labor camps.

The Frank family ignored their call-up, meaning they were officially in Amsterdam illegally from this point on.

The Trump administration is doing Holocaust revisionism to avoid the possibility of empathy for migrants.

My dad was a park ranger at Little Bighorn when I was born

But if you just didn't give any attribution on the photo, I don't think anyone would have cared about the pic, except maybe to note it isn't even particularly good AI?

Seems very aggressive to attribute it. It is fascinating.

I think he thinks they're different in the same way one might think "Country" and "Western" are different types of music

It really is begging for a follow up, "you liked him MORE when he went by Mencius Moldbug?"

Is a new Call of Duty coming out in 2029?

The striking thing to me is they (or other R senators) could have done this with RFKjr and vaccines and choose not to.

One has to infer that is because RFKjr is doing what they want.

BOV elects Darden dean as 10th president Amid protests and calls to cease the presidential search, UVA’s Board of Visitors unanimously elected Scott Beardsley as the university’s 10th president.

BOV elects Darden dean as 10th president

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I don't know if it was intentional, but I love the phrase, "normalize writing up those down"

It raises (up?) and important question, what is the correct preposition for writing?

I once got stuck at DFW; flight was 2hr delayed, then 2hr delayed again and so on until 10:00, when there were 4 consecutive 2hr delays until 6am the next morning.

Its like -- clearly you guys have a system here, and that system does not include being frank with the customers.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

Do you think the Sheetz Fellows and the Wawa Scholars have a friendly softball game for charity or something?

Not the point but those age cutoffs are insane.

You're telling me a 35 year old, born in 1990 - 4 years old when Kurt Cobain died - is gen X!? GTFO

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...