Mahan and down should drop out.

depends on where we're talking, but JAGs, service & JS lawyers are supposed to be available for this kind of advice. but also remember that some orders don't give enough time to seek advice, so training in law of war is absolutely essential.

bogus encomiums to the first amendment will be the norm, & they'll be forgotten the day after, but what's really needed isn't a polite critique of trump's assault on freedom of expression but total mockery of the man's pretensions to greatness. otherwise, don't go.

100% love the question. i am imagining less the movies with twists than the greats that would be amazing to see with fresh eyes (the graduate, north by northwest, hard days night, wings of desire...)

for instance, i'd rather miss a flight than stay a moment longer than i have to in the united terminal at dulles

generally agree, but i have to say that it can be airport dependent for me. some airports can be destinations themselves - for architecture, little museums, even food - and some just seem designed by misanthropes.

the question for amodei is how long anthropic can maintain its 'responsible AI' pitch in the face of changing markets & technologies. no major for-profit tech company has held onto the good faith responsible actor thing across all its products & i am not convinced anthropic will diverge from that.

I'm Not Angry YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic

i used to go to ec shows with a friend who always wore red shoes. anyway, nobody's angry

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

settle in for this, you need the time for it www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

that is rich with meaning, ivan.

audience of one and it's not the judge

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when i read his post i think of elvis costello shouting, obviously livid, "i'm not angry anymore!"

"I am under no pressure whatsoever" - sure, man, sure.

Reminder: Trump promised to get a better deal in his first administration to replace the 'worst deal ever' as I discuss in Chapter 5 of my recent book.

Spoiler: he never got that better deal.

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

polymarket screenshot showing the betting on when uk pm keir starmer is out of office

i don't gamble & i'm no expert on UK politics but, watching from afar, i would not be suprised if starmer is out by the end of the week

as right as policy as it might be, it seems to perpetuate the idea that israel pulled the strings when, at the end of the day, trump owns every piece of this. a sane, rational leader would never have done this, whatever bibi wanted.

fwiw when i was a kid dukes of hazzard was filmed just outside my suburban LA hometown; we'd see the general lee on the back of a flatbed truck every friday afternoon, heading to the 101 and presumably back to its valley warehouse (or hollywood bob's driveway on the westside).

100%. this kid has no idea what he's talking about. a more thoughtful - if still nefarious - actor would have used 'inalienable' to link back to how state during trump 1 tried to redefine human rights.

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe

full story here

Mr. Samson disliked that the bureau’s name included a reference to human rights. He wanted to change it to the Bureau of Natural Rights, according to three former State Department employees. To Mr. Samson and other conservatives, the concept of human rights is often a radical expression of a human-made political ideology. By contrast, they say, “natural rights” indicates something god-given. Mr. Samson gave his staff a document, seen by The New York Times, that was titled “Natural Rights Theory.” It asserted that his goal was to “prevent political ideology from distorting what is/is not a natural right.” The bureau’s name was congressionally mandated, so Mr. Samson was stymied. Instead, he created the Office of Natural Rights, a unit within the bureau.

good lord, a religious zealot at state wants to change 'human rights' to 'natural rights' because they're god-given.

meanwhile, these phonies claim europe isn't meeting free speech standards, which come from where? the bible? no, try again, sam.

to be sure, this all is evident in the case law, but the memos show just how willing they have been to circumvent normal process in service of their own political commitments.

when you compare this to how dismissive roberts & his allies are of human pain and suffering and planetary harm in the face of trump's massive lawlessness, you have clear demonstration of how politicized these justices act.

so much that is revealing in these memos, but the thing that, to me, is most striking is just how gd solicitous roberts is of the power industry. we already knew the court is fundamentally business-protective above all, but here @adamliptak.bsky.social & @jodikantor.bsky.social have receipts.

In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

a political court, with memos to prove it.

gift link to this NYT essential story --> www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

trump is giving dems an extraordinary political opportunity. he's raiding the treasury, demanding *his* appointees agree to pay *his* family billions. so much of his corruption requires a step or two of explanation, but this is simple for everyone.

will they take it? i can't believe i have to ask.

Rights Groups Demand Egypt Immediately Release Ahmed Douma and End Judicial Harassment DAWN joined dozens of international and regional human rights organizations in calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately release prominent activist and writer Ahmed Douma and end the ongoing judi...

many in US/Europe are rightly focused on the rise of authoritarianism in our countries.

one place it never went away, where repression is extreme, is egypt, where the govt has detailed (again!) the writer, poet, activist ahmed douma.

It should be obvious by this point that just because Trump tells a reporter ‘Iran said it would do x, y, and z’ doesn’t make it true.

Maybe misinformation is good for markets but it’s not how negotiations on complex issues work

we're just sleepwalking into this

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