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Agree in part with @jackjenkins.me but Talarico is not making any dogmatic or speculative theological argument or claim

He is referring to a story
A story in Christian scripture

News coverage should not treat that as theological argument because Talarico is not asking for assent to doctrine

I wouldn't describe "let's flip some tables" as a theological argument by Talarico

Referring to a story is not a dogmatic or speculative theological claim--if it were Talarico would imo be off base, but he's not asking for or demanding assent to anything theological

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Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

5. There are criticisms of LLMs that are much more plausible. They are built on a large scale expropriation of the intellectual commons. Demonstrably true! They involve a radical and extremely worrying derangement of power relations in favor of a tiny number of men with weird beliefs. Also true imo.

2. I believe that this style of thinking and interaction is both stupid and doomed. It doesn't accurately describe what LLMs are capable of these days, and it demands that people ignore the evidence before their eyes. If you are a programmer, you know Claude can code, and sometimes it can code well.

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

This Day in Labor History: March 4, 1933. The newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. This first female cabinet member in American history was an amazing fighter for the working class and let's talk about her!!!!!

Talarico does not need a +6 ”WAR” score
- Texas was Trump+12 in 2024
- Maybe Trump+10 with the Latino reversion we are seeing
- That’s R+8 on lean
- It’s a D+7 to D+8 year
- That puts it at R+0 to 1
- Talarico has potential positive residual
-Paxton had documented negative residual

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

This is such a weird discourse because most of the prominent Dems who have pulled a Fetterman (including Fetterman himself) aren’t particularly religious. Sinema is famously an atheist!

okey doke forewarned is forearmed thanks

U r welcome

Jimmy Carter vs. the Fairness Doctrine We’re still feeling the aftereffects of Jimmy Carter’s broadcasting deregulation.

And (from a non-crazy libertarian think-tank) >
www.cato.org/blog/jimmy-c...

Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 One of the most important laws to affect the Federal Reserve in its 100-year history, the Act was aimed at deregulating depository institutions and improving the Fed's control of monetary policy.

He (and Congress) abolished the interstate commerce commission

Deregulated airlines
And the trucking industry

And>
www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/monet...

Unless you are already 79 years old you are younger than all but one president

The vote count in NC SD-26 showing Page at 13,077 and Berger at 13,075

Wow. With all precincts reporting—but some provisional and absentee ballots left to count—North Carolina Senate President Phil Berger is losing the GOP primary in NC SD-26 by TWO VOTES.

Let alone Clinton

imo Carter gets little blame (or credit) for getting deregulation moving

But he did
Years before Reagan came into office

This will get recounted and challenged for sure, and the lead could change, but as of right now two voters just decided the direction of the #ncga Senate. #ncpol

Honestly speed it up, so we can separate the slop mills from the places that slow down and let humans do real reporting and investigations again.

What we know so far, 9:30pm:

1. Few final results.
2. In NC, 3 Dems who helped GOP trailing.
3. Crenshaw, Al Green in trouble.
4. Dems close to a leg flip in Arkansas.
5. Cornyn & Talarico narrowly ahead.
6. Close Arkansas supreme court, tho redder counties await.
7. Fort Bend County exec ousted.

Strongest signal yet from Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) that he'll give clemency to Tina Peters as President Trump has demanded. Polis notes a fmr Dem State Senator recently got probation on charges that drew prison time for Peters, who unrepentantly defied the judge at sentencing

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.

Roy Cooper has forgotten more theory (good theory) than most brooklynites have ever read

Best luck figuring it out

That’s from a John Witte book on law, religion, and human rights in early modern Calvinism

speaking of which who knew that Harold Berman published Law and Revolution II, on the Reformation era? Not me

Cannot help there because still an elementary student at best there

Did tho discover just yesterday that John Adams wrote a “dissertation on the canon and the feudal law” so maybe he’d have a take

75 minutes

I just left a classified briefing about the Iran War. Here is what I can share.