If you’re now fighting to restore the status quo ante bellum in a war you began, you lost the war

Academic freedom or lack thereof: Decline of institutional autonomy in the United States compared to its decline in other prominent (former) democracies that have autocratized, namely Hungary, India, and Türkiye

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ALSO, instead of consulting Adrian Vermeule and Montesquieu to understand the right way to think about a constitutional membership rule in a republic formed on the ashes of slavery, we should consult Frederick Douglass, who fought for that rule. FFS. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

The illegal alien is a line-jumper and a violator of sovereign borders, a thief of both time and space, and generally speaking a thief may pass no valid title to stolen goods. Of course the child of an illegal alien is innocent of any personal wrongdoing, but the problem is that the parents lack the kind of lawful status that could ground transmission to their descendants of the citizenship, and the share of sovereignty, to which the parents are not themselves entitled. Our law, interpreted in this way, would merely deny to the illegal alien, a violator of the republic's laws, the ability to pass on to their children the fruits of the parents' own wrongdoing, the crucial ability to vest a share of republican sovereignty in their own descendants. A mild remedy indeed.

Well, that’s the most repulsive thing I’ve read in a minute. I suppose I appreciate Adrian’s candor in saying all of this out loud.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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good to see hard data on "baseball and hockey players have by a large margin the worst politics of any major sport", a thing that every serious sports fan knows intuitively

Simultaneously, a defense of what was called rioting/looting as rebellion/uprising is a pretty core part of 60s and 70s era post-King black radical thought. I'd actually argue anarchists aren't the main influence here, nor is individualism per se.

Part of P and C's argument in Poor People's Movements was that rioting and property destruction worked, while institutions like unions and political parties were easily coopted by elites. The experience of the US New Left was of constant betrayal by more "disciplined" but also more coopted left orgs

Cursed sentence. I'm willing to use British ship prefixes, but I'm unwilling to believe in a future with the British Monarchy still intact.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

The US Military remains primarily a tool for compelling foreign countries to render their resources available to US capital.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy

The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Just the shrimp tacos for me thanks.

Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success

Having a Chicago Pope really paying off right now.

But now that we are in the full fury of American media prurience and self-righteousness, I am going to risk my neck on a slightly contrarian view. Reporters have all sorts of compromising relationships with sources. The most compromising of all, and the most common, is a reporter’s fealty to someone who gives them information. That’s the real coin of this realm. Sex barely rates.

ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard

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guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Worst night for Virginia Republicans since 1860.

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

THE HORSES HAVE DISCOVERED BLACK METAL

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

In moments of gravity like this, I'm reminded of Byron on another famed diplomat:

"Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss!"