New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.
The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
He was there an hour before you. Bought one of each, put them in a to-go (sippy) cup.
They create the political and legal enviroment in which all those other things get done, and when you don't have them doing that well, you get...Orban and Erdogan and Trump
That's ok, it just makes for a more exciting demolition.
The number of ways in which I want to scream reading this is not quantifiable. My clients could never do this and survive.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
To be fair if I were Kash Patel I would also drink an enormous amount
This was in Scotland. The Queen told them she'd been coming up since she was a child, her family had land nearby. She told no lies. She enjoyed it.
Remarkable.
Lol they both have looks like, "shit he just made us go public!"
If you want to tell a coherent story about why trust has 📉 in the last decade <across all 🇺🇸 societal institutions>, one which fits the actual timing/scope of the 📉 & isn't just about the attacks of the far right on higher ed, then I submit to you the GFC/Great Recession from which 🇺🇸 never recovered.
Dear Pope Leo,
If you excommunicate JD Vance, I will return to the church.
Lapsed Catholic,
Parker
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
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Last month in The Onion:
If Jesus came back they'd put him to death.
And then blame Jews for it.
How about no?
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
The most American thing ever. Not the rape, misogyny, pedophilia, racism, corruption, or mass deaths. But him suggesting he's Jesus.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Let his money comfort him.
He's a giant piece of crap.
They can't handle the truth.
This suggests that the denial is not just a calm rejection of information, but rather a direct response to the psychological distress of cognitive dissonance."
Someone compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about Calvin’s polls of his Dad, which is proof that good people do exist on the internet
imgur.com/a/poll-resul...
The implicit message behind this is that if an American citizen rapes your daughter, well, nothing we can do about that.
The Pope: “God does not like assholes”
Serious Legal Scholar Man: I interpret this sentence, especially in the context of both current and perennial Church teaching, to mean “God may like one asshole under the right conditions”
Client badly needs this attorney.
A private defender would have charged extra for this service.
If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, so can America
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/viktor-orb...
One more country showing the urgency needed to respond to authoritarianism.
