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While advocates have spent YEARS screaming about the mostly-irrelevant 1994 Crime Bill, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (the law at issue here) quietly grinds away, shielding our brutal prison system from whole swathes of accountability, almost completely ignored.

“No stupid rules of engagement” is one for the history books—and not in a good way.

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet.

This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

Sorry your loved one was killed by a squirter.

Lots of worrisome signals about what next, but the idea that the U.S. can just destabilize Iran and then wash its hands and walk away unscathed is particularly so.

"the newspaper should be publishing things that the editors don't believe are true so that you can read them and come to believe them." why is that a public service. why do you think that is laudable.

i have become the de facto owner of my local coffee shop by spitting in every cup of coffee

killed by him!!!

It's not like Iran is conveniently located adjacent to two pretty good examples of everything not being fine after killing bad people.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

"I'm on a roll" he said, careening from one disaster to another, leaving everyone in his wake suffering but miraculously escaping consequences.

Like a cross between Joseph Stalin and Mr. Magoo.l

There’s a kind of guy who’s been screeching about how Democrats lose because “normal people think they’re out of touch far left wokescolds” who were salivating over Platner even though he was saying a lot of the same stuff as, like, AOC. And will INSIST identity politics doesn’t apply to them.

I can’t with this app. I should have deleted and stayed off when I left twitter.

Just giggling at the idea of NIMBYs having to go door to door like sex offenders to notify neighbors.

Lots to say about antirenter prejudice, how it serves to bundle & obscure deeper biases re race & class & age, and about the electoral assumptions required for a councilor of a majority renter city to take this stance, but the thing I keep coming back to is just: what an absolute dick thing to say

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

CENTCOM: INDOPACOM must lay down their weapons

I really doubt this is the primary reason. If there's any operational reason, it helps Hegseth & co. deal with their inability to actually manage the DoD. But clear culture war factors here, totally possible there's no operational reason they want it.

One of the most insane things about this line of argument is that Harris has put out of the strongest anti-war statements of any prominent Democratic politician.

I find I am honestly unsure what the long term implications are of the United States demonstrating twice in three months that its new preferred way of war is to engage in bolt-from-the-blue decapitation strikes with no obvious follow-up plan.

My instinct is that it will not turn out well.

The immense overmatch of US airpower can shatter a state whose regime is run by corrupt or fanatical incompetents that have already shredded whatever is left of popular support, infrastructure capacity and economic life.

It is not in any way enough to shape what comes next.

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Good thread.

if mar-a-lago ate shaheds and the entire cabinet died alongside a bunch of civilians i would PROBABLY have complex feelings about the entire situation but i would not be well-inclined towards iran

This is exactly right. Carney endorsing the US strikes after his Davos speech six weeks ago is the best example I can come up with.

My problem, I find, is that I have been shitposting on the internet for basically my entire life, and that gives you a certain immunity to siliness, and also a vast repository of gags and jokes that were funny for like two weeks in 2004 and make people stare at you like you're insane.

A few more thoughts. USFP/natsec usually works from bottom up, even for prez-directed policies. Bureaucrats, mid-levels, political appointees work the problem, then top people bless it. Diplomacy (JCPOA) works like this. Military planning can move faster w/ prior plans, but similar. 1/

Most coherent way to view the Trump second term is as a mass project of settling scores, not just his but conservative’s writ large. Obama, Biden, VRA, Venezuela, Cuba, the 14thA, the Ayatollah, feminists, liberals, avenging Nixon, fucking PBS. Spiritual enemies since before most of us were born

This stuff just radiates fear to me. All these tough guys are so fucking scared all the time.

this is good stuff: the war is not just illegal, rash and procedurally unsound. It is immoral and unpopular with most Americans. Really a stark contrast with Schumer's mealy mouthed bullshit