Tag: trump
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More Lawfare
“Lawfare is the hallmark of a failing state because it erodes not just political independence, but the capacity for independent judgment.” Probably not good. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/chairman-powells-statement.html#comments
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I’ve been chainsmoking again
This is another one in which the timeline and algorithm are uniformly serving up takes on this Trump post over and over. The result is me looking at Twitter all morning long just refreshing and seeing how it develops. It’s awful, and I know it’s awful. My refresh is some attempt to make this progress…
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When do you know if it’s over?
Trump threatens withholding federal funding if Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC mayoral election. Truly insane, though very normal, behavior at this point. I just don’t see how this sort of Central Planning and authoritarianism doesn’t stop now that it’s started. When I say over, I do think that this experiment, or this chapter of the…