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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

King Charles calling up Infantino right now.

Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well, it's not often that two of my passions, football and theories of technological regulation, intersect. It even ended up connecting with law enforcement, urban planning, and even homeland security Let me know what you think. rodrigonietogomez.substack.com/p/judge-trio...

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Judge Trionda: In Croatia vs. Portugal, the Ball Became the Law

Portugal, Croatia, the FIFA World Cup, and technopolitical enforcement of regulations

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The hydration pause should be called the three minutes of fifa hate.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works." The California voting system could be better. It's hardly a surprise to anyone who understands the rules of the game that it always takes a long time to count votes that are allowed to come in until the last minute.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Strategic bombing has a really bad track record. This is a truism in military strategy. What is now different is that on top of its historical failures we have now the challenge of automation and drone warfare for which the U.S. seemed quite unprepared. open.substack.com/pub/rodrigon...

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Coercion from the Sky: The Technopolitics of Air Power

.... and its limits.

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

V-Dem #democracy index is out and it ain’t pretty. @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The most important and urgent order to give right now to the federal workforce and to motivate the private sector is to immediately bring back work from home policies. The more We can reduce gasoline consumption right now, the less pressure. Lifting Russian sanctions was not the first step possible

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Mexico is on fire. The killing of El Mencho has triggered a coordinated cartel retaliation from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta to at least five other states. Here's why the geopolitical implications go far beyond one dead drug lord... my rapid response post on this. open.substack.com/pub/rodrigon...

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Why Is Mexico on Fire Right Now?

What are the early geopolitical implications of the killing of "El Mencho"

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I am happy we had a great jobs report. also: does anybody remember what happen to the last person who reported bad jobs numbers? The problem of firing statisticians when they give you numbers you dont like is that it is hard to trust them when they give you numbers you do www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

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Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after dismal employment report

President Donald Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously r...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is exactly what we have been saying would happen! When you force thousands of federal law enforcement officers to abandon their normal jobs and go after random migrants instead, it's a field day for the actual serious criminals out there doing things like drug trafficking.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Going down memory lane, I wrote this one in 2001, right out of college. I was a free speech apologist then (my very first book was on that topic). I am still one today. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Humor as the canary in the coal mine of democracy

Why political satire is the most important kind of free speech.. or why the first amendment is first.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The bad news is that we’re cutting Medicaid, the good news is that we’re doing in order to increase the debt by many trillions.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

To be very clear a 3 day cease fire is not a cease fire.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2025

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The presumption of innocence arises from the plain and rational principle, that it is more consonant to reason and justice, to suppose a man innocent, than to suppose him guilty, till proof be adduced to establish the contrary. -James Wilson, founding father, justice in the first scouts and

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Y'all laughed at George Lucas' riveting trade war as the opening scene of the collapse of the republic. Do we want to retrospectively say I am sorry? 😂

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Remember when Chatgpt would use delve for almost every single sentence? Well, now "it is not just" has become the new delve. The current iteration of the LLM loves this "it is just not about XXX but YYYY" structure. These negative space sentences are so damn prevalent (that and an abuse of --).

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” -Dostoevsky We now own the Salvadorian CECOT.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This whole anti Tesla movement had me thinking that, Interestingly enough, from an economic perspective, if you own a Tesla and oppose Musk, selling it doesn’t actually harm Tesla—it just introduces someone new to the brand, making them a potential future customer.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Federalist 78: This simple view of the matter suggests several important consequences.It proves incontestably that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of three departments of power;that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A relatively unnoticed change in the way chatgpt censors messages has brought the development of AI tech to a terrain that will be familiar to any lawyer: the AI is now judging the "spirit" of under primacy rules right out of a law school classroom. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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AI Is No Longer Just Code, It’s a Legal System

Chatgpt Now Judges the ‘Spirit’ of Your Requests

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Former tax/NAFTA lawyer hat here 🙂 : A tariff is a tax imposed by the U.S. government on American businesses and consumers when they introduce foreign goods into the U.S. economy. A domestic tax obligation that must be paid before imported goods can enter commerce, directly increasing their cost. 🧵

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

How a DeepSeek, a dingy Chinese startup just obliterated the American-led AI market in one weekend. rodrigonietogomez.substack.com/p/the-plumme...

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The Plummeting Cost of AI and the Geopolitics of DeepSeek

Destroying a market by making its core product a commodity?

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

President Polk seriously considered annexing a huge chunk of the Mexican territory and was stopped by southern states as that would dramatically change the demography and electoral geography in the country with all those brown Mesoamerica Catholics, non slavers joining the union.

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Rodrigo Nieto @rodrigonieto.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

One doesn't go and rename geographic cultural territories by decrees. They don't have birth names like children or Protected Designation of Origin like cheese. The Gulf of Mexico, the Sea of Cortez (that Mexicans call the Gulf of California)

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