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Published: May 12, 2025 00:28

Because I can, I’m going to re-up a blogpost that I wrote in 2023 about the “fascism wars” of 2015–2025. https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/01/is-reactionary-populism-a-form-of-fascism-the-real-answer-is-the-bad-arguments-made-along-the-way

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:52

The fact that they want to do this in an imperial possession kind of gives the game away. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:45

I'm sure networked-states, biorganic communes, or whatever alternative people are peddling are going to fare extremely well in a world otherwise dominated by large federations and crypto-empires. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:34

The whole premise — that Democrats weaponized law enforcement — is a fucking lie. The IRS scandal was a lie. Democrats largely respected post-Watergate norms of non-interference with law-enforcement decisions. [1] [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:24

I remember when my dad stopped bringing home Christmas baskets because the Senate decided it might not be a great idea to let legislative aides accept gifts. In like the mid-1980s. Now let's talk about the protocols for handling gifts from overseas that…

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:19

ICYMI, every single person who still writes that Trump's actions 'could lead to a constitutional crisis' or 'risk a constitutional crisis' is actively aiding and abetting the destruction of U.S. democracy and the rule of law.

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:09

Liberal democracies can't bribe Trump. Leaders of liberal democracies can't show Trump the deference he so craves. Which wouldn't be such a disaster if Trump weren't leading the most powerful erstwhile liberal democracy.

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Published: May 11, 2025 17:02

It's illegal and unconstitutional whether or not it's in exchange for favors. Trump's defense of his corruption has always been that there's no quo; if we fight on that terrain, we allow them to muddy the waters. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: May 11, 2025 16:17

Plutocrats look at right-populism and think anything from "we can live with it" to "it's awesome!" But they're terrified of left-populism. Which, in my half-baked opinion, is one reason why right-populism is generally crushing left-populism.

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Published: May 11, 2025 16:05

If you wanted to know that the pretext was going to be for jailing members of the opposition party... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 11, 2025 15:55

It would be really great if we had a FOX News to relentlessly contrast Trump's $100 million military parade and his $600 million airplane with Trump refusing to help Arkansans hit by tornados and flooding. FEMAs entire budget in 2024 was $300 million.

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Published: May 11, 2025 15:42

"It's not a bribe, it's a thank-you gift" -- Brent Kavanaugh "Good friends buy each other expensive vehicles all the time." -- Clarence Thomas [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 11, 2025 15:36

So I do a lot of coding with the assistance of an LLM, and I'm pretty sure that the code looks like crap. Certainly if the level of bullshit LLMs introduce into papers is any indication. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 11, 2025 15:35

"the founders could not have thought that a president getting a gold trinket from a foreign prince was a problem, but giving a president far more in value in cash through a business would be fine." -- @profciara.bsky.social But what about a luxury jet…

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Published: May 11, 2025 05:42

Okay. Everyone is right about LLMs and research papers. But part of it is the whole 'this paper looks at least heavily influenced by one but it's not 100% clear so how the hell do I grade it?" And then there's the fact that students are themselves…

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Published: May 11, 2025 05:11

Empires: Fact and (Science) Fiction or All Powers Great and Small

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Published: May 7, 2025 19:11

Real "get off the rock" advocates know that the magnetic sphere is likely to break down before the expansion of the sun ends all life on earth. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 18:42

Give me a K. Give me an L. Give me an E. Give me a P. Give me a T. Give me an O. Give me a C. Give me an R. Give me an A. Give me a C. Give me a Y. What does that spell? The Trump administration. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 18:34

2016: Lol, liberals are so cringe for calling MAGA "fascist" the real fascism is voting for another four years of neoliberalism. 2025: Lol, liberals are so cringe for not taking MAGA's fascism seriously. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 18:18

The ubiquity of "punching left" and "punching center" online reflects, IMHO, a tacit form of mutual recognition: you get annoyed at the people that you think *should* agree with you, not the people who obviously don't and likely never will. That being…

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Published: May 7, 2025 17:52

My partner is half-Greek, and the idea that "how much garlic" is transitive to "how bright to make the video game" explains a lot. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 17:28

My partner, who manages a number of machine-learning projects — some fairly experimental — refuses to use the term "AI." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 17:27

The scientific term, I am informed, is "little fluffy clouds." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 17:13

It's cool how the Court continues to apply radically different standards to Trump than it did for Biden. NB: the problem with GOP appointees isn't that they're ideologues, it's that they're partisans. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 17:11

The real problem is that ordinary Arabs in the Middle East are insufficiently anti-American. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 29, 2025 03:20

CBC reports whomever is in the lead -- not projections? With massive numbers of uncounted early votes? Okay...

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Published: April 28, 2025 15:31

"American Panopticon: The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/

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Published: April 28, 2025 14:43

The upside is that in Trump America, the Czars work for the Cossack. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 28, 2025 14:38

Less medieval bullshit than gross fascism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 25, 2025 14:40

Awesome article by Stacie Goddard in @foreignaffairs.com. Key points: • Great-power competition? Lol. • Is Trump aiming at a great-power concert? Sort of. •Trump's constitutionally incapable of making a concert work. • We probably don't want to live in a…

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Published: April 19, 2025 17:35

The important thing to note is that Gorka calls the diagram on the right a Venn-diagram like diagram. @drfarls.bsky.social had to purge images at LGM since some of the bloggers — who shall remain unnamed — were... lax about using material. So I had to…

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Published: April 11, 2025 19:01

These idiots are going to give Trump symbolic wins and then congratulate themselves on how smart they are, aren’t they? https://stocks.apple.com/ACv-FAn1eTZuxLbvD_7FS4w

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Published: April 10, 2025 21:23

When I ponder ways to help Elon Musk, I immediately think of driving down the market price of used Teslas relative to new ones.

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Published: April 10, 2025 21:15

The intern running this account needs to be shifted to coffee duty. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 8, 2025 00:33

Kind of amazed that anyone thinks the Trump administration can be trusted to stick with a new trade agreement. I wonder how many of these governments are serious and how many are trying to show domestic audiences that they’re “doing something”?