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Rep. Preston Brooks was arrested & charged in DC court and pleaded guilty for battering Sen. Charles Sumner nearly to death on the senate floor

(Brooks was fined $300, got no jail time, resigned his House seat but was promptly reelected)

and hit some Nick At Nite rerun slots with AI Jeffrey Epstein telling what he knows

flood the radio with lib Limbaugh

This is as specious as saying Ginni Thomas can’t be racist bc of her spouse or that Donald Trump can‘t hate immigrants bc of his spouse

"peptide" is a whole category of short amino acid chains that could be *anything* or could be totally inactive (ie, nothing)

just as an illustration, the peptide on the left is a natural sweetener, and the peptide on the right is deathcap mushroom endotoxin

www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P5...

jeez that’s sleazy AF

I was not familiar with Judge Eaton’s game

At the stroke of a pen he basically ordered pretty much all the IEEPA tariffs refunded (though it still could take a while)
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short answer is the importers-of-record (IORs)

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that, with respect to any and all unliquidated entries that were entered subject to the IEEPA duties, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is hereby directed to liquidate those Case 1:26-cv-01259-RKE Document 21 Filed 03/04/26 Page 3 of 3 Court No. 26-01259 Page 3 entries without regard to the IEEPA duties. Any liquidated entries for which liquidation is not final shall be reliquidated without regard to IEEPA duties. /s/ Richard K. Eaton Judge Dated: March 4, 2026 New York, New York

And yes with this one sentence, Judge Eaton is basically ordering a refund of all the IEEPA tariffs

Haha this is a short order, but basically Judge Eaton says CASA v. Trump (“no universal injunctions”) doesn’t apply here bc that case was decided under the Judiciary Act of 1789 but the Court of Int’l Trade exists under the auspices of the Customs Courts Act of 1980

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“For all this guy’s apparent talent, his behavior is not OK, and progressives should not vote for him” isn’t sociology seminar stuff, it’s basic

(And with Fetterman dunking on Platner I’m more convinced he’s a November dud)

The November election might be a moment for discussing hard tradeoffs but this is the primary (in a state where AFAIK none of these pundits live), so this is the chance to express clearly what we believe and what matters

With everything going on, I’m increasingly disturbed how many ”establishment“ insider types are eager to sell out progressive values

“less uptight Democratic Party“ seems like he’s clocked what’s going on and, at best, is indifferent about it

Same as it ever was…

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thank you to Sharon for brining to my attention that since at least 2012, Marco Rubio has confused Chiang Kai-shek for something he imagined:

www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/m...

I did some work on Mycoplasma pneumoniae. There was a vaccine tested in the 1960s which caused several deaths and autoimmune reactions, and investors have steered clear of M. pneumoniae ever since,

about ~10 years ago the mechanism was worked out (lipopolysaccharides on the outer membrane...)

not that I know of, it should have just said "toxin"

most amino acid chains probably have negligible biological effects and are just, effectively, nutritional supplements

some peptides can have _profound_ effects on your cells, especially immune cells

the peptide linked below👇 is an immune checkpoint inhibitor comprising only 16 amino acids

if you let anyone produce a sell peptides to consumers without a biologics license application and without any pharmaceutical controls (eg, prescriptions), it's just opening up an unregulated Wild-West category of biologics entrusted to snake oil salesmen

like, imagine if the FDA said people can produce and sell methanol for human consumption because, after all, it's just "alcohol"

"peptide" is a whole category of short amino acid chains that could be *anything* or could be totally inactive (ie, nothing)

just as an illustration, the peptide on the left is a natural sweetener, and the peptide on the right is deathcap mushroom endotoxin

www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P5...

"Chang is a mythical conservative warrior" is still an incredible malaprop

(assuming he wasn't joking)

Jeb Bush picked the phrase up from his father, and the meaning and context was apparently lost at some point between 1970 and 2012

And now it's not even sarcastic, Rubio is just using it to mean Total War
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thank you to Sharon for brining to my attention that since at least 2012, Marco Rubio has confused Chiang Kai-shek for something he imagined:

www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/m...

what's going on _now_ is Marco Rubio doesn't understand any of the context behind the phrase and just thinks it's some sort of (weirdly racist) idiom

in 1953, Eisenhower withdrew the US Navy from the strait btwn China and Taiwan, which was intended to allow Chiang to attack but right-wing conspiracists saw as an abandonment, and the Birchers started calling Eisenhower a communist, which the GOP establishment perceived this as mockable

The Sword of Chang TAMPA, Fla. -- It's far from the newsiest piece of Marco Rubio's New York Times interview, but heck, it interested me.

Rubio: "Chang is a mythical conservative warrior"

jesus.

(well, he's sorta kinda of not wrong?)
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And so, in 1971, George H.W. needed a job and Nixon, who had urged him to abandon his safe House seat from Houston to run, felt obliged to find him one. So, it came to be that George H.W. Bush, having just finished another Texas statewide campaign in which ridiculing the United Nations is de rigueur, became the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Not that he remotely had any of the qualifications that might be considered necessary. At that point, he had been a two-term congressman from Houston, and prior to that, the cofounder of an oil drilling business. His international experience was limited to bombing Japanese-held islands during World War II and then traveling to foreign countries on behalf of Zapata Offshore to win drilling concessions. That and, perhaps, using the phrase "Unleash Chiang" in his everyday lexicon-an urging used by the John Birch-type Right in the 1950s and 1960s to spur the United States to help Chiang retake mainland China.

"unleash Chiang" emerged in the 1960s GOP foreign policy establishment as a sarcastic mocking of the John Birch Society's conspiratorial belief that Eisenhower had "leashed" Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan and prevented Chiang from overthrowing Mao Zedong

George HW Bush used it: