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Last week, the Chinese company Moonshot.AI announced a model called Kimi K3 that is largely on a par with the best American models, and unlike those models, it is an “open weight” model that consumers will be able to download to run locally (if they have the large-scale hardware to support it) for free. Gary Marcus
When the justices need protection, Congress is a coequal branch with an indispensable constitutional role. When lawmakers ask Supreme Court justices about undisclosed gifts, conflicts of interest or enforceable ethics rules, Congress is often treated like an intruder. Adam Kinzinger
The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families, - sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate. Appendix Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass unabridged © 1995 (1845)
The dealers in the bodies and souls of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other. The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other - devils dressed in angels' robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. Appendix Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass unabridged © 1995 (1845)
Graham’s death is an occasion for the country to speak more honestly about what he was and, by doing so, to make it marginally harder for the next one to become what he became. Senator Graham has departed us. He was a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot’s most consequential enabler. He said so himself, once, when it still cost him something to say it. In the end, his own sentence became his epitaph: a description of the man he served and of the choice by which Graham will be remembered. The eulogists may decline to name that tragedy. It stands without them.
Recovering this tradition is the opposite of a call to violence. The tradition is what makes peaceful correction credible, because it names the alternative that peaceful correction is designed to render unnecessary. A liberalism that has forgotten its revolutionary roots is a liberalism whose peaceful methods have lost their meaning, because the peaceful methods only work when the sovereign understands that the citizenry’s patience with peaceful methods has a bottom. The Founders built the country on this understanding.
I would support political violence when the conditions Jefferson named are met, I would oppose it in every other circumstance, and I would spend my life trying to keep the country in the every-other-circumstance rather than let it drift into the one where the terrible answer applies. Mike Brock
"The society of what we call the modern age is characterized, above all in the West, by a certain level of monopolization. Free use of military weapons is denied the individual and reserved to a central authority of whatever kind, and likewise the taxation of the property or income of individuals is concentrated in the hands of a central social authority. The financial means thus flowing into this central authority maintain its monopoly of military force, while this in turn maintains the monopoly of taxation. Neither has in any sense precedence over the other; they are two sides of the same monopoly. If one disappears the other automatically follows; the monopoly rule may sometimes be shaken more strongly on one side than on the other."⁎³ -Norbert Elias Page 181 , The Sovereign Individual: Mastering The Transition To The Information Age (1997) by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg Page
Twenty stories from the western edge of Nebraska. A boy in the way back of a Ford Ranch Wagon, watching the sandhills move through the rear window and seeing things in the hills that aren't there. A man keeping the lawn lines straight because his father is watching. A drawer with $340 in it and a year left. A clinic in Curtis that closed on a Tuesday. A woman doing arithmetic in her head in a checkout line, deciding what she can put back. Three generations in the same yard in the same June light, the grass falling away in rows. Some of these pieces are true. Some are invented. A few are harder to classify than that. All of them are about the people this country doesn't stop for. The ones who don't perform well on camera. The ones whose names don't trend. The ones sitting at kitchen tables before sunrise, counting what's left, waiting for the world to make sense, or for it to at least leave them alone for a while. Nine Miles is Tom Joad's first book. He writes from Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
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"...Indeed, the idea that the course of history is determined by democratic tallies of wishes is every bit as silly as the medieval notion that it is determined by an elaborated code of manners called chivalry. The fact that saying so borders on heresy suggests how divorced conventional thinking is from a realistic grasp of the dynamics of power in late industrial society. It is an issue we examine closely in this book. In our view, voting was an effect rather than a cause of the megapolitical conditions that brought forth the modern nation-state. Mass democracy and the concept of citizenship flourished as the nation-state grew. They will falter as the nation-state falters, causing every bit as much dismay in Washington as the erosion of chivalry caused in the court of the duke of Burgundy five hundred years ago." Page 100 The Sovereign Individual: Mastering The Transition To The Information Age (1997) by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Alt Abracadabra... "Telepresence will give living individuals the same capacity to span distance at supernatural speed and monitor events from afar that the Greeks supposed was enjoyed by Hermes and Apollo. The Sovereign Individuals of the Information Age, like the gods of ancient and primitive myths, will in due course enjoy a kind of "diplomatic immunity" from most of the political woes that have beset mortal human beings in most times and places. The new Sovereign Individual will operate like the gods of myth in the same physical environment as the ordinary, subject citizen, but in a separate realm politically. Commanding vastly greater resources and beyond the reach of many forms of compulsion, the Sovereign Individual will redesign gov-ernments and reconfigure economies in the new millennium. The full impli-cations of this change are all but unimaginable." Page 20, The Transition of the Year 2000, The Sovereign Individual
The DOJ policy would turn back the clock on decades of law and Supreme Court precedent. Since Olmstead v. L.C.,1 in 1999, states have been required to support disabled people in the most integrated setting possible that is appropriate to their needs. Institutionalization is supposed to be the last resort.
We are firmly out of the realm of policy here. Or reality, even. So long as there is a trans activist in San Francisco posting on BlueSky, these people will be aggrieved. Even if their preferred political party holds the presidency, controls Congress, and has an openly corrupt majority in the Supreme Court. Domination of the political system is not enough; they want the people who disgust them to disappear. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Bulwark | Photos Shutterstock
The book is on Amazon. Read it. Then look at the cabinet of the United States government. Then look at the policy proposals coming out of the White House on Bitcoin, on AI, on the network-state-adjacent special economic zones being negotiated in Honduras and El Salvador and across the Sahel. Then look at the donor list of the political coalition that put the cabinet in place. Then look at the symmetry between the donor list and the cap table of the major AI firms, and between that cap table and the sovereign wealth funds of the petro-states.
Research from Yale found that users who get more likes and retweets for outrage express more outrage in subsequent posts. Your brain optimizes for what gets engagement. On a platform that's now majority-conservative, that means dunking on the 'Very Online' progressive candidate. If you're paying lip service to those users, are your opinions being biased and you don't eve know it? Even if not, at the very least, posts like these are not meaningfully analytical or knowledge-building. This is why I don't spend much time on social media. E. G. Elliott Morris
And for Bush to blithely insist that everything will work out just fine—that 250 years from now we’ll still have a liberal democracy—is an insult to everyone struggling against emergent fascism in this moment. It’s him saying, Don’t get all worked up with your TDS. This is all normal. Tell that to Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Tell it to Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn. Tell it to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Andry Hernández Romero, and Liam Ramos. Freedom is not free, you coddled, historically illiterate Pollyanna.
To take just one example from Jamelle’s newsletter, the American Civil Liberties Union, along with other human rights groups, wrote that detained immigrants at a camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, “are held for weeks at a time with no access to the outdoors in cramped, squalid soft-sided tents with 72 people per unit, where toilets and showers flood eating areas with raw sewage.”
The view from nowhere is the last refuge of unaccountable power. It is the epistemological costume worn by those who wish to make choices without answering for them, to wield influence without naming its source, to shape reality while claiming only to reflect it.
Why should we care about other people not getting due process? We are all ultimately the government-its authority is derived from "we the people," and it is accountable to us for its conduct. Thus, when it deprives a person of due process, we are, in a very real sense, all responsible. What, then, has become of "[d]o to others as you would have them do to you"?Âč Putting this in more immediate terms, due process requires adequate notice and a meaningful hearing to determine whether a seizure is legally correct and based on accurate facts. If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone. One might say, "I don't care because that only happens to THOSE people." Perhaps. But what if someone here legally, or even a United States citizen, is afforded no due process after being seized by mistake? Or by a choice? Fortunately, our Constitution demands more, including the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of unchecked executive fiat.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER The law is clear: all persons present within our country are entitled to due process. The plain text of our Constitution says this explicitly. Due process can mean various things to different people. To the ignorant, it may be a totally unfamiliar term with no meaning. To those who know little more than what it took to pass high school civics (such as it's been in recent years), it may be a term vaguely associated with government, also with little meaning. To informed nonlawyers it is better understood but still an abstraction. To lawyers and judges, it is a bedrock principle of our Constitution, nation, and freedoms, yet we nonetheless often treat it with clinical detachment. However, for a person deprived of their liberty without due process, it can be the most important thing in their life, and its denial the worst that has ever happened to them. Everyone is entitled to due process, but, unfortunately, not everyone has received it.
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21:16 There were no toilet facilities—no toilet at all. There was a bucket at one end, but you had to fight to get to it, or you needed permission to use it—and most of the time, you couldn’t. So you lay there in your own mess and everyone else’s. It was very easy to lose the desire to live, let me tell you. Very easy.So don’t be surprised when people gave up. You live like that for just a few days—no water, no food, constant beatings, no change of clothes—and how long do you think anyone would want to go on? That was it: a little bit of lighting, but really, no light at all.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF OREGON; and TOBIAS READ, in his official capacity as the Oregon Secretary of State, Defendants. While the Court’s decision granting Defendants’ and Intervenors’ motions to dismiss are firmly grounded on the application of law, Plaintiff’s conduct and written demands on states for disclosure of their highly sensitive voter information should not be ignored. Defendants’ and Intervenors’ expressed concerns about Plaintiff’s ulterior motives for seeking the sensitive data require attention. The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to Plaintiff that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds. When Plaintiff, in this case, conveys assurances that any private and sensitive data will remain private and used only for a declared and limited purpose, it must be thoroughly scrutinized and squared with its open and public statements to the contrary. https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/73-2026-02-05-Opinion-and-order.pdf
FINANCIAL TIMES US foreign policy US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe State department grants to spread 'American values' are part of Washington's 250th anniversary celebrations
When a cult leader dies, the group rarely dies with them. More often, it stabilizes itself through splintering, mythologizing, or radicalization. The leader is reconstructed as prophetic, betrayed, or transcendent, often becoming more powerful in death than in life. Some followers quietly disengage. Others harden. A few escalate. What the death really does is expose the underlying psychology of the group. Movements organized around identity and threat don’t dissolve when the figurehead disappears. They reorganize, sorting adherents by how much belief, grievance, and certainty they still need to survive.
When a cult leader dies, the group rarely dies with them. More often, it stabilizes itself through splintering, mythologizing, or radicalization. The leader is reconstructed as prophetic, betrayed, or transcendent, often becoming more powerful in death than in life. Frank George, Ph.D.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
Here’s another way of thinking about the transformation under way: Multiplying Ford’s current market cap 94 times over wouldn’t quite get you to Nvidia’s. Yet 20 years ago, Ford was worth nearly triple what Nvidia was. Much like how Saudi Arabia is a petrostate, the U.S. is a burgeoning AI state—and, in particular, an Nvidia-state. The number keeps going up, which has a buoying effect on markets that is, in the short term, good. But every good earnings report further entrenches Nvidia as a precariously placed, load-bearing piece of the global economy.
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“That reminds me of Anne Frank,” Rachel Blumberg, president and CEO of the center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “There’s a kindred bond between our residents being Jewish and seeing the place that the Haitians have gone through.”
If they gun me down in my own street someday may my crime be compassion. May the record show from every angle that I was helping a woman up after they pushed her to the ground, that not even their weapons could stop me from extending my hand to those in need, that I was a walking example of the best my elders taught me -that everyone is equal and worthy of defending. If they tell the nation, from the highest podium, that I was a domestic terrorist, let it be known that my radical act was believing the best in people when they wanted nothing more than to divide us
The co-sponsor of that condemnation, Senate Majority Whip Chris Wilson, R-Logan, also sponsored SB134 to expand the court. In addition to dealing the Legislature a crushing blow in the redistricting challenge, the courts have, in recent years, blocked Utah’s ban on most abortions, temporarily stopped a law banning transgender girls from playing high school sports, and found the state’s school voucher program unconstitutional.
The Times identified the scheme that’s likely in motion in Georgia. In 2021, in response to local “rigged election” insanity, the state’s new voting law empowered the Republican-dominated State Election Board to take over a county’s election office if local officials are behaving incompetently. Fulton, which includes Atlanta, just so happens to be the most populous county in Georgia and tilts heavily Democratic. If Republicans are willing to stoop to out-and-out crookedness to oust Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff this fall, seizing control of ballot-counting in one of his strongholds will greatly boost their chances.
Ironically, it is Yoram’s own musings in his book on Esther about why God did not prevent the Holocaust that haunt me until this day: “that there were too many such as Mordechai who were placed to invest for the crisis, but who did not bother to do so, and that there were too many such as Esther who were placed to act boldly to stem the tide, but who chose to remain silent at that time.”
Is it time to maneuver behind the scenes, in “the king’s court,” as Mordechai did until Haman demanded the people prostrate to him? Or is it time not to “bow,” emphatically, in the public square, to a Jew hater? I believe it’s time not to bow. There might be negative consequences. The Haman faction may consolidate more power, but God, in the end, as Mordechai assures Esther, will provide relief and deliverance. “Do not imagine in your heart that you, of all the Jews, will escape because you are in the king’s palace. For if you insist on remaining silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from elsewhere, but you and your father’s house will perish” (Esther 4:13-14).
Ironically, it is Yoram’s own musings in his book on Esther about why God did not prevent the Holocaust that haunt me until this day: “that there were too many such as Mordechai who were placed to invest for the crisis, but who did not bother to do so, and that there were too many such as Esther who were placed to act boldly to stem the tide, but who chose to remain silent at that time.”
To me, the problem here is larger than the existence or nonexistence of an explainer video. It is a question of how to handle Jew hatred. To appease it? To tolerate it for a greater good? To be cautious and strategic in how one addresses it for the sake of building alliances? To call it out, and to strengthen alliances with people who don’t require fancy intellectual or diplomatic footwork?
Complaint Summary reported an unidentified female friend who was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ. The friend told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years old when this occurred, and the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by Epstein. reported she has a friend, who was a personal assistant to Epstein in Florida from 1986 until 1991 or 1992. This friend shared names of some of the guests at Epstein's parties, to include Bill Clinton and Donald Trump At age 16, while modeling, caller attended 8 parties at Epstein's New York residence. On one occasion, caller reported she was sexually assaulted by Epstein. On another occasion, two twin brothers, Allen and Oren, lured caller and her friend upstairs but they escaped back downstairs. Caller stated Oren raped her best friend and a third brother, Tal, raped a 14 year old girl named Caller named other individuals involved in "big orgy parties" with her, other young girls, and older Victoria's Secret models, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Online complainant reported she was a victim and witness to a sex trafficking ring at the Trump Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA between 1995-1996. Complainant reported Ghislaine Maxwell as the madam and broker for sex parties, clients of whom included Epstein, Robin Leach, and DonaldTrump.
It is not Trump who will put a bullet in your face for standing up for your immigrant neighbor. It’s the man who tells the best jokes at your church barbecue, the guy who offers to mow your lawn when you throw out your back. Give him a gun and a mask and tell him he’s serving his country, then give him someone to aim at. Someone who doesn’t look like him. Someone with different beliefs. Someone who refuses to conform to his idea of righteousness or authority. See how fast he shoots. The New Evangelicals
No Kings March 28 No thrones. No kings.
Sand’s campaign is emblematic of the approach of Democrats across the nation: Afraid of Trump and the nastiness of his base, they’re leaning toward the center and calling for calm and moderation. Meanwhile, Iowa voters are in the street, screaming expletives. There were grandmothers outside the Trump rally insulting the size of ICE agents’ penises. The “No Kings” rally in October brought protests to rural counties that haven’t seen a protest in decades. Who is going to get out to vote for nebbishness when federal officers are shooting American citizens in the street? People are angry, and they want to fight. And they want someone who will fight for them.
After Alex was wrestled down to the ground, and after a federal agent pulled the trigger and Alex went still, nine more shots were fired into his body. I keep reading reports that there was a struggle before the first gunshot, but all I see is a person trying to keep his head off the ground while seven masked men surround and beat him. Certainly, through his training as an ICU nurse, he knew that it was important to protect his head. Once in the old neighborhood, when he was seven or eight, he’d fallen off his bike, his helmet splitting cleanly in half like a cantaloupe. He showed the halves to all the neighbor kids as a way to warn them to never ride without one.
French: I’ll be completely honest. It’s a little harder for me to have hope when I know that the core political support for Trump’s aggression is coming from my own community. Without the lock step (and seemingly unconditional) support of so many millions of evangelicals, Trump’s administration would crumble overnight. So I keep looking for signs of softening hearts and opening minds in Trump’s base — among the people who helped raise me, who taught me about faith, and who told me in no uncertain terms that politicians must demonstrate high character before they can earn your support. I feel a pervasive sadness about this moment.
FRANK FAMILY LOSES CITIZENSHIP ● The “Eleventh Decree to the Law on the Citizenship of the Reich” stated that all German Jews living outside of Germany were no longer citizens of Germany. ● Although the Frank family had moved to Amsterdam in 1933, the Franks had never become Dutch citizens. After this law, they officially became “stateless” and were not legally citizens of any country. NOVEMBER 25, 1941 UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
National Catholic Register In the occupied city of Mariupol, many Catholic churches are “completely destroyed,” according to Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. This is not unique to Mariupol. According to the Archbishop, the Catholic Church was “liquidated in the occupied territories” with “not a single Catholic priest” left today. Those priests who tried to remain with their flocks have been arrested, deported, and, in some cases, brutally tortured.
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. The other agencies within it should be redistributed across other departments. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
Those who actively lie are directly complicit in the deaths that just happen and in any deaths to come. But those in media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, to begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lie is the wedge, and the wedge is made up of people — of us.
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people youn will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
Only 23 Votes Could End This — Act Now to Protect American Lives To Rep. Mike Bost: Every day that passes, American citizens remain at risk because an unaccountable, unprofessional squad continues to act with impunity. This can end—immediately. It would take only 16 Republicans joining Democrats to defund ICE, or 23 Republicans (3 in the House, 20 in the Senate) to impeach and remove Donald Trump. That’s all it would take. Twenty-three Americans in Congress could choose the public interest over party and end the killing of American citizens. Please—stand up and act before more lives are lost. A republic, if you care to keep it.
Marcus on AI Venture capital is already helping industrialize astroturfing: Doublespeed, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, advertises a way to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts” and to mimic “natural user interaction” on physical devices so the activity appears human. Concrete signs of industrialization are already emerging: the Vanderbilt Institute of National Security released a cache of documents describing “GoLaxy” as an AI-driven influence machine built around data harvesting, profiling, and AI personas for large-scale operations.
Marcus on AI The unique danger of a swarm is that it acts less like a megaphone and more like a coordinated social organism. Earlier botnets were simple-minded, mostly just copying and pasting messages at scale—and in well-studied cases (including Russia’s 2016 IRA effort on Twitter), their direct persuasive effects were hard to detect. Today’s swarms, now emerging, can coordinate fleets of synthetic personas—sometimes with persistent identities—and move in ways that are hard to distinguish from real communities. This is not hypothetical: in July 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice said it disrupted a Russia-linked, AI-enhanced bot farm tied to 968 X accounts impersonating Americans.
In short, if Trump takes another stab at Greenland, he’ll do so knowing that numerous nations will be compelled to join him in arguing that, y’know, the U.S. really should own it. Strength in numbers: That’s all the more reason for him to try. I expect he’ll wait until after the midterms, at which point he’ll have no remaining reason to care what voters or investors think of his policies apart from how those policies will shape his legacy. And what a legacy for a nationalist with delusions of imperial grandeur if he were to seize Greenland! That’s worth a market crash and an approval rating of 25 percent, don’t you think?
The next time he comes for Greenland, in other words, markets may be so inured to his brinkmanship that a huge selloff won’t begin until the 101st Airborne is parachuting into Nuuk. If you doubt that, consider how strong the S&P 500 has been over the last six months despite the fact that the president has dialed up tariffs to the historic degree I mentioned earlier. Investors, like voters, are to some degree boiling frogs.
The Bulwark Target of Viral Botched ICE Raid Was Already in Prison When ICE agents dragged out ChongLy Thao half-naked in the snow, they were looking for a man named Lue Moua. They should have known exactly where to find him. Andrew Egger Jan 22, 2026 (Composite by Hannah Yoest / Photos: Getty Images / Shutterstock)
The uniformed aesthetic and serious stance parody military or law enforcement promotional imagery. Details on the card include: Name: Greg Bovino Rank: "GruppenfĂŒhrer" — a term historically used for Nazi SS generals, here used ironically. Height: "4 Foot Nein" — a pun combining “four foot nine” with the German word nein (meaning “no”), mocking authoritarian or fascist affectations. The caption “Men of ICE” appears to mock Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), suggesting an authoritarian or militarized image of the agency. The humor lies in exaggeration and wordplay, blending bureaucratic pomposity with ironic Nazi references to criticize or ridicule perceived overreach or self-importance within ICE. The watermark, “The Intellectual Dork Web,” signifies it’s a parody or meme from a creator known for mixing political or cultural satire with internet humor.
Greenland’s PM says Trump's demands have been unacceptable – video Here is a video summary of some of the key comments from Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, as reported earlier (17:20, 17:22) 'We have clear red lines': Greenland’s PM says Trump's demands have been unacceptable – video Share