Andrew Selbst

“May or may not” makes it formally true at least….

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Shorter @polphilpod.bsky.social on conversation vs fascism:

“Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.”

Ok not really but I was amused.

I guess perhaps, both ideologies’ position on racial domination coincide, just like liberals’ and socialists on equality and the common good often do, but like equality being the driver of socialism but not liberalism, racial domination is the driver of fascism but not conservatism?

that conservatism seeks to conserve, racial hierarchy is a constant. So if conservatism is always changing (I.e. unstable), yet the one core stable commitment turns out to be racial hierarchy, isn’t that back to “they were always fascists but didn’t admit/realize it?”

@polphilpod.bsky.social ?

This is super interesting. The piece defines fascism as concerned only with racial domination and conservatism as below, then recognizes the conservatism constantly changes what it counts as extrahuman law.

But it occurs to me that throughout all these changes to the social hierarchy…

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

I've seen too many rich white men fail up and clown their way through life to question my worth. I know what I can and can't do and where I do and don't belong. Imposter syndrome? I don't know her.

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We need new Nuremberg trials, except more comprehensive. Everyone remotely involved needs to spend the rest of their miserable lives in prison.

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

Yep. This isn’t a “scandal.” It’s a crime and a tort.

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Some perspective.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.

I absolutely would not be employed had I not managed to finish an article since 2012.

But sure, I’ve got plenty of unfinished ones lying around too.

I’m constantly working from a clone of the same law review article I started in 2012.

If only he had directed the critique at me, who doesn’t write in LPE. I frequently and gleefully dismiss L&E as incurious nonsense not worth engaging with!*

*with some notable exceptions I don’t care to cite, of course

Picture of text from critiquing LPE for being dogmatic and not in the “same intellectual tradition” as “serious inquiry” like law and economics.

This is quite a strong critique from a

*checks notes*

law and econ scholar?

A DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. @evystadium.bsky.social reports.

Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Sen. Ossoff Statement on Iran Atlanta, Ga. - U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement. "Eight months ago, Donald Trump lied to the country when he claimed U.S. air strikes had 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear program. "Now Trump says he's taken America to war for regime change in Iran. "Trump has launched this regime change war and put American forces at risk without presenting evidence of an imminent threat, without clear objectives, without having exhausted diplomacy, without a plan for the aftermath, and without the consent of Congress. "I oppose yet another regime change war-of-choice in the Middle East. Congress must convene immediately and pass a War Powers Resolution to assert our Constitutional authority over war and peace. "The President has presented no evidence that Iran or its nuclear program — which he falsely claimed to have 'obliterated' — pose an imminent threat to the United States, or that diplomacy was exhausted. Iran's support for terrorism and uranium enrichment have long destabilized the region. But sending American forces into harm's way should only ever be a last resort. "I pray for the safety of U.S. forces who have been ordered into battle and commend their extraordinary professionalism."

Ossoff’s statement is 1000x stronger than Schumer-Jeffries. This is a moderate Jewish Senator from a Trump state. The split isn’t moderate vs progressive, but leading vs poll-reacting

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

Don’t bet on it.

(Also, thats the title.)

You don’t think the people who bet on Khameni being out of power by a specific date, when he was a target, were insiders too?

Is this just “we dare you to sue us,” to every insider who bet on this?

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

Yep. They started this before the 2020 elections. It’s not accidentally stupid.

The ratfucking of elections through silent destruction of the post office continues apace.