M. D. Silverman

A screenshot of a substack post: Wright: I mean, what I’ve found valuable is, if there’s something I just know nothing about — I mean, like, theories about why Rome fell or something — I find it a much more efficient way to just get a sense for the landscape, because, you know, it’s like having an actual expert that you can interrogate, and— Bender [like Hanna, shaking her head vigorously]: No, no, there’s no expert there, and you’re not getting a sense of the landscape. Wright: I don’t know — it’s closer than any other option I have. I definitely can’t summon— Bender: Oh, go to the library! Talk to a librarian! Wright: Yeah, but it’s so much slower! It’s so much slower! Bender: Oh dear, you have to go out in the world and talk to people, like, you’re missing out on so much there, and on top of that you’re getting a fake view of a fake landscape. This is such a striking and revealing exchange.

He finds it objectionable that Emily told the podcast host to... go to a library to get more verifiable information about the fall of Rome?

God I hate this idea. People are not one more image of a dead baby away from radicalisation. We don't lack will, we lack any real means to act on our will because the left has ceased to be a political project and become a few thousand people trying to Post their way out of Posting.

Overnight, our family’s synagogue, Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, was targeted by gunfire. The building was damaged but no injuries reported. Disturbing it took place on #Purim, which celebrates Queen Esther who saved the Jewish people from massacre at the hands of Haman in ancient Persia (Iran).

Um

The Iranian people deserve self-determination, freedom, dignity, and security for their families. That can only come through a coherent diplomatic strategy, not the haphazard and reckless use of military force.

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

She's making six figures right now, but that's on hundreds of books. She's not making huge amounts of money on any one book. Mostly, she's just marketing shit barely well enough to fool people into thinking she has a real product, and then not getting them to stick around.

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI.

The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

I'm going to win.

Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) Accardi v. Shaughnessy

The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.

It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy.

Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.

It includes:

-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders

And more. 🧵

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Highlighting America's lib-left eras has a major 2nd benefit:

It shows our politics is "normal". We were always here, in tens of millions.

People called us crazy radicals. We won. Now our wins -- 14th Amendment, Social Security, Civil Rights law -- are overwhelmingly cherished.

i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view

stop endorsing their world view

I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.

AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

Once again, we do not believe that turning over "lists of Jews" is ever helpful to the fight against antisemitism.

Dartmouth College, where I teach, is offering faculty grants to *incentivize* adding genAI to courses. Doubly-depressing, because in addition to the pro-AI stance there’s an astonishing failure to recognize that AI is already on courses, that cheating is incredibly common.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.

Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.