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NOW that’s what i call news! vol. 15

i have not seen these. gonna look for them next trip thanks for the tip

this reminded me of the “Stapleton’s Heavenly Hoagies” t-shirt i had as a kid from a local small town market and sub shop

Tariffs 101: How They Work and Who’s Footing the Bill (So Far) Today on the Big Take: The Trump administration says the tariffs raised nearly $30 billion in July. What do we know about who’s paying them so far?

On today’s Big Take podcast, Everybody’s Business host Stacey Vanek Smith takes us through Tariff 101: The nitty-gritty of how tariffs are calculated and collected, plus who’s really paying Trump’s tariffs so far.

i saw that here on the bsky app. was a good yarn

aye

Mufasa, you know we finally here, right?

nice

You may be wondering what the Senate is up to tonight… or what a rescissions bill is… or how Donald Trump is trying to gut public media and important foreign aid. Let me explain it to you.

our friend is in her third trimester. has. 10yo and 8yo. she thought she was starting menopause. oopsie, it’s pregnancy

thanks for sharing there are several shows i haven’t watched and wasn’t sure where to place them

and i didn’t know Visions existed. just looked it up.

thanks! i’ve just started Andor. i’ll follow with this

after going through this and making adjustments did you arrive at any recommended order for films only or one for all content?

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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The thing I don't get about this is: universities already *study* conservative scholarship. They do not, however, have the same proportion of *actual conservatives* as the general population. Hiring people to fill that supposed void IS hiring them for their political views.

Woman asking "Since when is Superman an illegal immigrant?" and an exasperated man pointing to a chalkboard and saying "1938"

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1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Lando Norris
3. Charles Lecelerc

i don’t think this is likely to happen but i’d love to see it

cmon freddy v

#F1

want to see LH44 podium today. both ferrari’s would be even nicer but can ferrari get 2 race strategies right? might be too much to ask

This chunk is fantastic. About the real LA and the immigrants that make it so great.

Bruce, a retelling of Jaws from shark’s perspective (1/4) #comics

6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.

The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.

A thread:

as vance speedruns most blocked account and sad tools write whiny articles about bluesky dying bc they don't know how to post good, the truly blessed among us are simply sharing positive vibes

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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photo of the No Kings protest in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photo of the No Kings protest in Pittsburgh

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh
NO Kings!!
NO Facism!

No Kings Pittsburgh

A large crowd with signs and American flags amid tall buildings

Grant St is now closed, and the crowd has filled the street as live music begins.

A good crowd for No Kings in Pittsburgh