Daniel Freed

“When knowledge is free …” — as in, libraries? Ergo, were college professors necessary when we had those arcane repositories of knowledge comprised of … books?

What an asinine argument to wage. Was it manufactured by an illiterate?

Oval Office becomes a diorama of power dynamics as Trump goes after rivals

“A diorama of power dynamics”?
The New York Times headline writers need to stop dropping acid during the workweek.

It’s in the DSM V, probably under a grandiosity subsection.

What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

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Harvard has 121 alone affiliated with it. But the prestige and money shouldn’t be emphasized as a metric, so much as the support and quality of outstanding research. The UC system is outstanding and hope it continues. Proud I was admitted there decades ago, and conducted research there.

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This is exactly what I noticed. I don’t know how they’d go about it, but it should be a slow-rolling disaster if they have to do it twice. James’s case may not make it to trial.

Super minor issue of timing.

In the Comey hearing, Pat Fitz said, Hey, can we have basis for Lindsey the Insurance lawyer's appointment stat?

He is submitting that challenge by October 20, before Tish James' arraignment.

Letitia James’s may not even make it to trial, if the motion to dismiss in Comey’s case for ineligible appointment of Halligan prevails.

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Yeah. I caught a few legendary shows there I’ll never forget. I was more into underground / downtown music scene, but Limelight (and a few other magical spaces) was like a Gestalt, a focal point. It won’t be repeated, but still an affront they’d pawn the building.

Some of my best NY night memories in there. Now for sale to the highest bidder.

Definitely NYC.

This will at least slow down the process, and that is now critical.

Yeah I had the same belated response. I love those last two, really fantastic and inventive. We were busy doing our own stuff and there was also a superficial, “their best was the early stuff” mantra floating around. It doesn’t hold here.

It’s just a question of when they blow up the filibuster. It might hold for the CR and then they’ll shred in a few months. Either way, Thune is about as reliable as MJ in the house now. Thune just maintains a veneer of technocratic caution before he caves.

Agree. If they wanted a battle in Century City, with battalions of high-powered studio attorneys at the ready, this would trigger it.

I was just going to say maybe that delivery worker made it all the way to Indiana.

This is all correct, but it could also be a distraction away from dealing with healthcare issues, ACA subsidies etc. that he wants to blow up in budget negotiations. Throw red meat a panacea, on Saturday night, so he can walk away from dealing with the disaster he’s demanding of his GOP captives.

This profound lack of foresight does not bode well for the current majority.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

It’s actually helpful (in a circumscribed manner by professionals) for translation, for example. But for most practices — and certainly in the arts — it is a pestilence to be avoided.

What would AI algorithms make of the French legal concept of Droit Morale, for example? I digress.

Working the post-truth alley like an obedient hack. Replicating double-blind peer review is not the same as contesting facts.

I just proposed Stephen Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on the other thread.

Whatever it takes to make it through the day without abject national humiliation, I’m in.

Stephen Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on this day in 1926.

📸 Roy DeCarava, 1963

They likely constructed the majority opinion like that precisely because they knew how he would communicate with DOJ.

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