Christopher Candy

Barbara's great.

Not that it isn’t obvious, but “we won’t start to negotiate until we have everything we want from a negotiation”… isn’t a negotiation. It’s a demand for surrender.

Some days you argue publicly with someone in order to persuade them they are wrong. Some days you argue publicly with them to persuade an audience that the person you are arguing with is wrong. Please try to recognize which is which before bashing them for wrestling with that pig.

That we even frame it in a way that implies humans deserve the abuse of rights screams of a moral rot to the soul of the nation, and one the Founding Fathers made very clear they opposed. Would that the 'originalists' out there actually read the originals.

And when you look on the use of powers as something no government should use, it then becomes awfully easier to figure out whether the power was abused or not. Because it means there are no exceptions, and it doesn't matter if the victim was 'innocent' or 'deserving' of being abused.

Americans have gotten so used to focusing on the worthiness of victims and whether they deserve to suffer actions, they've lost sight of the real issue - that the potential of abuse by government means that it does not deserve to have those powers available, no matter who they may be used against.

The entire framing is to prevent the government from taking those actions regardless of the target. And this makes sense! Rather than trying to sort out if the target deserved it - blaming the victim - the Constitution simply takes it off the table for use on anyone.

The recipient, if ever defined, is defined with the general term 'person'. Not 'citizen'. Not 'American'. Not 'legal resident of the collected States', or anything else of that sort.

When limits were put on the powers that can be wielded by the government, they were done so with the focus on the wielder of the powers. 'Congress shall make no law' is the terminology. Not 'citizens cannot have X imposed on them', not 'individuals cannot have bills of attainder imposed on them'.

The debate over the rights of citizens vs. non-citizens entirely misses the point when you look at the actual text of the Constitution and its later amendments. The Founding Fathers already answered this question, and did so in a way that should have spared us all of this wrangling and argument.

That shouldn't fly for apartments I'd think, as they qualify completely under law as separate residences and would require separate warrants for each as they aren't combined under a single workplace or other location.

Sounds suspiciously like the executive branch equivalent of a bill of attainder, which would be illegal as viewpoint discrimination.

Many years ago, I taught military history at Norwich University - think New England's VMI. A huge part of the intro to Military history curriculum was emphasizing the differences between soldiers (good) and warriors (bad). Hegseth is badly out of step/touch with good military doctrine/ethos.

I am quick at playing board games; I have nine skills; I forget runes slowly; the book is a preoccupation with me and also craftsmanship. I am able to glide on skis; I shoot and I row so that it makes a difference; I am able to understand both: harp-playing and poems. — Earl Rognvald of Orkney, trans. Judith Jesch.

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week.

Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

That posting is insanely unprofessional and unamerican. Bureaucratic agencies have no business playing politics - unless they're asking to get hammered whenever the winds shift next.

This guy would've been paying for full-page spreads applauding Pontius Pilate for taking the right steps in dealing with those socialist splinter Jewish sects that were making such a stir.

The framing is to prevent a false dichotomy and an attempt to provide a possibility that leaves no culpability for the current leadership's failures. "It's out of our hands!", they cry, even as they could grasp the situation in those same hands.

This Greenland Is Red The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?

in Greenland, the government owns a bunch of businesses--a fishing company that is the largest single employer, a shipping company, a ferry company, several retail and logistics companies, etc, and it all works pretty well?? I traveled there to investigate: prospect.org/world/2025-0...

To save in-person lectures, unis need to provide lessons worth showing up for In-person lectures have been a staple of university learning for centuries. But they are going out of style in an age of TED Talks and Tiktoks.

Hobbyhorse: at university, lectures remain an incredible format. They introduce & explore a huge amount of content in a short period of time. They scaffold further reading, with a personal twist. Workshops, etc, do their own thing, but don't replace effective lectures:

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Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension Late-night host reinstated after brief suspension related to comments on Maga and Charlie Kirk that Disney called ‘insensitive’

Surprised it took you this long, you idiots.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism | NEJM It has been suggested that vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is a cause of autism. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1991 th...

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best.

This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

To be fair, that's more coherent than his usual argumentation.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

They do a lot better than the South does. Sidewalks are a fair rarity in both AL and TN, except in very new neighbourhoods.

Sad that any AP Gov kid who’s studied Brandenburg v. Ohio understands this better than Bondi does.

People should always remember what party Joe was in when he was in Congress.

How does any Democrat still think that victory is found by winning a middle swarm of voters who loathe extremism at both ends of the political spectrum? People are lazy. They aren't bouncing between news sources. By default, they are either picking a side or will be swayed to one by their choice.

They also make up a large proportion of the democratic consultant class.

In so many ways, the Roberts Court has revived the logic of Dred Scott: that racially targeted groups have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.