Alan Wessman

3/ First it's absurd on its face that communicating to be RESCUED is a hostile act.

That's the definition of being shipwrecked and helpless.

The whole point of a legal prohibition on killing people who are shipwrecked is that they must be rescued or left to be rescued instead.

OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them:

Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.

There is no good reason to keep this nonpublic. The only reason is to allow the Republicans to control the narrative and mischaracterize Smith’s testimony.

Crimes against humanity in peacetime are not an official presidential acts entitled to immunity. If that’s in the preclusive authority of the president, the Supreme Court should be abolished except for original jurisdiction cases.

What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for? That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan. The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason.

And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

That information Hegseth shared on the Signal chat derived from a classified email that Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, then the commander overseeing U.S. operations in the Middle East, had sent through secure channels to senior defense officials.

While we’re at it, forbid criminal immunity for crimes connected to official acts in office, and require statute of limitations to toll while a person’s term of office prevents investigations or prosecution.

I would put restrictions on its scope, but not revoke it entirely.

No preemptive pardons. No pardons for self, immediate family members, people with financial connections to the executive. Trading pardons for favors or money is named as bribery. Pardons must be vetted by an independent commission.

John Curtis provided the deciding vote for a clearly unqualified and integrity challenged Secretary of Defense.

I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time.

But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?

Why is Donald Trump’s name now on the @usip.org building? Who put there? And when?

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Ideally before, as he watches helplessly

The Trump administration believes that the rich and powerful should be pardoned for their crimes, even after judges and juries determined their guilt.

But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy.

President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

Remember the Republican argument from Amendment D that argued how outside groups will spend to target Utah? Well, Utah Republican Party Chairman Rob Axson now says “Whoever is willing to give to us, we’re open to it.” after Securing American Greatness PIC $4M donation

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Editors. Fact checkers. These people are necessary, and not just for absolutely self-absorbed DC monsters like Nuzzi and Lizza. Romantic relationships are necessarily self absorbed and mostly irrational. It's why you don't date your sources, as it happens.

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

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Everything about the movement is decidedly anti-Christian, save their words of flattery. Anyone who has bothered to open their scriptures should recognize it for what it is.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

A hallmark of Trumpism is the defiant rejection of the Golden Rule and similar moral principles taught by Jesus and others. Fundamentally it is an attitude that all men are not created equal: they, the Trumpists, are superior and deserve special privileges, and others deserve misery and harm.

It’s insane: the university losing a valued doctor and researcher it has invested in, America losing someone who was doing research to help Americans. Bad faith enforcement of an absurdly overbroad executive order, harming America and Americans more than anyone.

Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon describes the crackdown on schools & speech in response to alleged antisemitism.

Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”

It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.

So there’s that, too.

Remember, this gaslighting tactic by abusers is so common there’s a term for it: DARVO

Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim and Offender.

As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration.

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Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes "Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.

If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.

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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there