The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche Another dark day for DOJ.

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.

Another dark day for DOJ.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Donnie Darko “imaginary friend meme” Donnie: I bought a new book today Psychiatrist: a fun book, or another book about Hegel? Donnie: another book about Hegel

Jean Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1946, trans 1974)

A 98.3 percent decrease actually sounds more impressive

I’ve tried modal algebras, everything

There’s no math where this makes sense

"President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages"

Favorite thing to eat

That’s what it means to be verified

I can take notes with dictation but can’t compose that way. Brain wired to hands and keyboard, me

Ze best

The skillest issue

How much to dance to Disco 2000

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley).

Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died

It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

A genius of misunderstanding

Jfc

It’s actually Children of Men, next question

The only other answer I’ll accept is Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog but that’s hardly fair

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, next question

Not at all, they use different definitions for what counts as a lake, and by Wisconsin's definition, Minnesota still has more lakes

Some of the other stories I gathered here include the time Prince invited me to his house, a glimpse at the Myst-like CD-ROM game he released in the 90s, some digital artifacts that I had the only copy of—including Prince’s own notes on his greatest hits, and the message behind his Super Bowl show.

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.

Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ma...

All portable speakers

Ten years ago I wrote this on Twitter:

Losing Lou Reed was like losing a teacher.
Losing David Bowie was like losing a hero.
Losing Prince is like losing the love of your life.

Michigan has more lakes than you both

It doesn’t though

Oh it was fun! I situated Malcolm X’s political writings in 17th century radical liberalism

“Spirited Rivalry,” in New York Times speak

Minnesota is superior, Wisconsin is the enemy

The bad opinions barber is a known genre

You’re buying well-edited and packaged breezy books by your friends that are readable and relatable, I’m buying thousands of uncollected pages by dead Marxists I’ve been reading for almost 30 years and still don’t understand. We are not the same