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Law, politics, media, philosophy, hot takes, etc. | he/him | All lies and jest

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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The German language truly did some of its best work calling nuclear energy “atomkraft”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 04/10/2026
EU countries shoot themselves in the foot when they veto sanctions ft.trib.al/3FKmceB | opinion
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EU countries shoot themselves in the foot when they veto sanctions
A recent move by France makes talk of ‘strategic autonomy’ look like hot air
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dismayed to see this disgusting musical still going for another year, now at a larger theater.
theguardian.com
‘A couple of times people walked out’: how an Anne Frank musical became the hottest theater ticket of the year
The creators and stars of Slam Frank on their off-Broadway production - which reimagines the Holocaust victim as a pansexual rapper
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“In the first half of 2026 Germany sold more to Poland than to China . . . Consolidating the single market inside the 27, long overdue, is important but not enough. The model has to grow.”
euobserver.com
Montenegro is the question von der Leyen left unanswered
Europe does not win by inventing fancy titles for its friendships, or by naming the rivals it means to keep out. It wins by being the place its neighbours both choose and can integrate into.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026
Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Extraordinary things in the works in Australia.
theguardian.com
Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms
Draft legislation enforces digital duty of care including limiting children’s exposure to misogynistic and eating disorder content
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Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sotomayor’s objection to Biden’s proposed constitutional amendment requiring term limits for justices (that her seat was “earned”) is impeachment worthy too imo. You can’t earn what cannot belong to you. Serving is a privilege.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I did not know that wooden constructions can actually come together much faster than others (~1 story per week!). Maybe part of the solution to the US housing shortage?
theguardian.com
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
The long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Fascinating read. This description of China strikes me as almost a complete inversion of the communitarian spirit that Tocqueville found abundant in the United States.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Mamdani’s Glonzoism may come with a price tag
click.lists.wnyc.org
Mamdani hasn't made NYC's buses free. Riders stopped paying anyway.
MTA Chair Janno Lieber suggested the mayor's 2025 campaign pledge led to a rise in fare evasion on buses.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There is no argument for limiting migration between countries that could not be contrived to be an argument for limiting migration between cities.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Really interesting (and perhaps surprising) dive into the causes of NIMBYism here.
open.substack.com
How ugliness helps NIMBYs
And how beauty could help get more homes built
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Bless me, barber, for I have sinned. It has been two months since my last haircut.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What a lovely company
theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology
First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"'You may deliberately wish to rescue the world by putting it in language,' Gass told the scholar Ildikó Kaposi in 1995, 'but you’re certainly burying yourself in it. The book’s become your tomb, you know. . . . It’s all you are, and all you will be eventually.'"
bookforum.com
Head Like a Hole
Getting lost in William H. Gass's anti-novel – Sarah Nicole Prickett
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in-consistent.bsky.social @in-consistent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Finally! A Bluesky argument that is relevant to my expertise!
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And going along with this, the uniqueness of this situation in a person’s life makes it hard to ignore the guarantee. Most people will never get a sudden windfall of $50k at once. To risk getting nothing from such a singular opportunity scares people in a way it wouldn’t were this commonplace.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fun thought experiment! Let's say you are given a choice between the following two options: 1. You receive $50,000 right now, cash on the barrelhead. 2. I flip a coin. If it's heads, you get $2,000,000. If it's tails, you give me $1,000,000. Which choice do you take? Which choice is rational?
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
pickle down rickonomics
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annabellelecter.bsky.social @annabellelecter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
And Bernie thinks Trump is doing a good job on deportation. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
wsws.org
“Trump did a better job”: Bernie Sanders praises Trump’s anti-immigrant pogrom on The Tim Dillon Show
Sanders might not be a fascist, but his defense of Trump and the capitalist nation state echo arguments made by the Nazis.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Supreme Court had to change the pleading standard in civil lawsuits to prevent their friends in the Bush Administration from getting eviscerated by discrimination claims.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Interesting ideas here, and I’m sure the answer is complicated, but I am very skeptical of any claim like “people in the past were mostly like us but with worse technology.” From what I’ve read elsewhere, past childhood had more differences than similarities to our own.
worksinprogress.news
The myth of medieval childhood
Is it really plausible that children survived the hardship of medieval life without devoted parents?
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“If we extended as much concern for people’s children as we do for their cars, we would, like Chabad, encourage more children than we have today.”
worksinprogress.news
How Hasidic Jews have so many children
Modernity has meant fewer children in virtually every culture around the world. Holdouts like Orthodox Jews might have lessons for the rest of us.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Had not realized this was what Calla Walsh has gotten up to these days
Headline: “Former Elizabeth Warren, Michelle Wu Volunteer Calla Walsh Attends Iranian Leader’s Funeral

Calla Walsh, who once helped Elizabeth Warren and Michelle Wu, praised Iran’s late leader on Iranian state TV.”

A screenshot shows Walsh in a hijab speaking in Iranian state TV
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Europe is not in decline, despite what people who are bothered by our low inequality say. We don't need extremist politics. We need EU integration, more immigration, more investment in science, more housing and infrastructure, and repression of the extreme right.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Which mission is that, exactly?
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This guy personally attempted to overturn the 2020 election results and subvert American democracy, but sure let’s remember him for his “public service.”
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I love this: “Rather than turning over [primary debates] to hostile media elites, Democrats should stage manage their debates much more carefully. Moderators should be . . . charismatic figures who want the proceedings to go well for Democrats rather than for CNN or NBC.”
liberalcurrents.com
Let's Rethink the Primary Process for 2028
Primary season is closer than you think— can Democrats avoid their most damaging mistakes of 2020?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
he is not being covered as if he is a terminally unpopular lame duck because the media sees him attempting a coup and attempting to rig elections and think it would be more fun to help him do that than it would be to help stop him
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/07/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Natalie Horberg.
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Kristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
*raises a hand* Weird that he’s angry that something happened to him that he didn’t choose, right?
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I enjoyed this album on first listen, but found it rather disappointing once I dug into it. 1/4
youtube.com
Face To Face - YouTube
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Pod Save America? NO NO NO, POD DAMN AMERICA!
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So, people on the left writing about their preferred candidate in a way facially indistinguishable from Victor Davis Hanson breathlessly calling Trump a Homerian hero was ultimately just as toxic? You don’t say.
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A masculine personality politics is incompatible with genuine leftist commitments. www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...
liberalcurrents.com
AOC for President
Whether or not she runs, Ocasio-Cortez is invoking a feminist politics that Democrats should adopt if they are serious about defeating fascism.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 02/07/2026
Q: If the US opens more lawful immigration channels for labor in lower-skill sectors like construction, care work, & food production, what happens to Americans who already hold jobs in the same industries? A: More Americans gain jobs.
piie.com
Firms allowed to hire immigrant manual laborers expand to hire more Americans
The US government has recently enacted the largest shift in immigration policy since 1924. As officials restrict unauthorized immigration, they face a stark choice: create offsetting lawful channels f...
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
facebook messenger: your cousin is requesting "$20 for Cigarretts" bluesky: The Befuddled Boardgamer is now following you. linkedin: Glennon Frick has complete the Mini Scruzzle, now it's your move!
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“The other 30,000 would come from riders living in the Rockaways who currently must endure very long trips to Manhattan along the A.” Yes please! I commuted on the Manhattan-bound A for a few months this year and it’s as crowded as NYC trains get. This would really help.
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Effective Transit Alliance @etany.org · 26/06/2026
The @queenslink.org project would turn an abandoned rail line into a busy subway line. Unfortunately, the project is at risk due to a competing project which would block its path. The best plan for New York’s future is QueensLink. Read on our website: www.etany.org/statements/t...
QueensLink is a proposal to open a new subway line connecting Rego Park, Forest Park, Howard Beach, and the Rockaways. Much like the Interborough Express, the project would reactivate an intact, mostly abandoned rail line to provide service to underserved neighborhoods. In the case of QueensLink, this is the former LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, which was abandoned in 1955 except for its southern part, which was reactivated to bring the A train to the Rockaways in 1956. Put simply, QueensLink would turn currently abandoned tracks into a busy subway line serving tens of thousands of riders a day.
Unfortunately, the proposal is at risk due to a competing proposal called QueensWay. QueenWay seeks to convert the same right-of-way into a linear park with no transit service. QueensLink, in contrast, would include both transit and green space along the majority of the route, wherever there is room, including the same location as QueenLink. Regrettably, on June 30th the New York City Council is set to vote on an Adopted Budget which includes $50 million of city funding to construct the first phase of the QueensWay park, the Metro Hub, directly blocking QueensLink’s path.

(read the rest at etany.org)According to estimates from The Transit Costs Project’s A Better Billion proposal, QueensLink would cost $2.8 billion in 2025 prices, and see ridership of 105,000 people every weekday. The high ridership is a combination of all of the following travel markets:
New service from currently unserved areas of Rego Park, Forest Park, and Woodhaven
Trips parallel to Woodhaven Boulevard, which corridor has 30,000 weekday bus riders
New trips between Manhattan and JFK, currently served by the slower A train
Leisure trips between Manhattan or Central Queens and the beaches in the Rockaways
Trips from the Rockaways, Howard Beach, and Ozone Park to Manhattan or Long Island City, currently served by the A via Lower Manhattan
Additional trips from the Queens Boulevard Line to Brooklyn, since the diversion of M trains from Forest Hills allows bringing back the G to the Queens Boulevard local tracks

(read the rest at etany.org)In short, by building on an existing right-of-way, QueensLink can serve a huge number of riders for a comparatively affordable cost. If QueensWay is built, however, it will sever this part of the corridor, either meaning the park would have to be demolished in the future (a difficult proposition) or a long and expensive subway would need to be built under Woodhaven Boulevard.
The Rockaway Beach Branch is a unique opportunity for New York: a publicly owned right-of-way in a dense urban corridor with high property value. Corridors like that do not grow on trees, and any city would be foolish not to take advantage. The best plan for New York’s future is QueensLink.

(read the rest at etany.org)
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
advocate.com
The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds
A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Idk if Bluesky needs a jingle, but this would do nicely.
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
meme image of a woman and man in bed. the man is George Berkeley.
her: "what's the matter?"
him: "nothing is"
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
One easy way to tell if you’ve just made an abhorrent joke is if Nazis would love it because it caters to their tastes perfectly.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Something tells me this guy wouldn’t find it nearly as funny if someone else made a string of jokes about atrocities committed against his people.
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Paul Slimin' @legendsofthepaul.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Has anyone ever seen a worthwhile joke defended with “What’s the matter? Can’t take a joke?” Or does that just get reserved for making people mad by saying something obnoxious.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The implication of this "New York Times" headline is that "goy" is simply a slang term used by Generation Z now, no longer attached to antisemitic implications. I think this is not only wrong, but rather dangerous for the newspaper to be printing.
"New York Times" headline: "On Language
How ‘Goy’ Went from Hebrew to Antisemitic Dog Whistle to Zoomer Slang"
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