Daniel Rubio

My "the United States possesses huge amounts of ammunition" shirt is raising lots of questions already answered by my shirt.

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

This has worked so well before, genius move.

"I'm not saying Secretary Noem is a dog murderer. I'm just saying this raises questions. Like: Is Secretary Noem a dog murderer?"

I did not have ‘Kuwait draws first blood v USAF’ on my 2026 bingo card. I did have a 2026 bingo card.

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

Bit of a monkey's paw on "I wish government would give up on nation-building adventures."

It turns out the Cold War with its big nuclear umbrellas was kind of helpful for that

This is going to come up in too many domestic cases...

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

How can this surprise anyone?

Everyone repeat after me: "My vote will be up for grabs to whomever earns it when I actually start paying attention, no earlier than summer of 2027. But I will be voting D in 2028."

I think some of these MFs have gotten into their heads that they might not die. That mortal dread might have been load-bearing.

RIP Joe Halpern. He was a great example of true interdisciplinary research spanning CS, Economics, Philosophy, and many others.

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this

the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid

the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

I feel like the identity is less important than the conditions (up to Epstein-types, anyway). Like someone with totally clean hands who is gonna be a busybody? I'll have to think about it. But if a casino or tech co wants to hand me a grant with no strings? I'll use it better than they would...

Minneapolis Triumphant?

However much we hate Kennedy and the rest of the people cynically destroying public health, it is not enough. All of them should be purged from their position in society and die penniless denied the medicine they use for themselves but fear monger about in public.

Wild that John Hawthorne alone makes a department #1 in this (admittedly niche) stat.

In other news, off to send papers to J.Phil and Phil Review to try and get TMU on the board.

"please subscribe" left is honestly a great term because a lot of beefing does really boil down to content access and who is perceived to be entitled to it

NFL: I consent

Bad Bunny: I consent

GUL DUKAT: isn't there somebody you forgot to ask

For a lot of folks, it’s not that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous that requires intense secrecy, it’s that they practice intense secrecy to convince themselves that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous

I think this is the part where I point out the Latvians for a while preserved the KGB station in downtown Riga as a museum, and its Latvian name in English translated to “The Museum of the Occupatuon 1919-1990”

But for every one of him is a Mazarin joining the protestants to break Hapsburg encirclement of France.

But Joe Pikeman can't even read and is not going to question why his lord orders him into battle, and the lord in question has a lot more than religion on his mind. You can picture particular figures who probably made things worse for religious reasons (e.g. Emperor Ferdinand II and the 30 years war

That mostly manifests in the very lurid symbolic violence that marks these fights. The ground troops tended to either be mercenaries or feudal levies who fought because they were paid to or because their lord ordered it. Religion is a background structure legitimizing the feudal relationships.