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I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
A long time ago, the Supreme Court made a ruling that said Black people could never be U.S. citizens, no matter what.
That ruling helped push the country toward the Civil War. After the war, the nation set out to bury the hatchet for good by adding a NEW citizenship rule directly into the Constitution.
Thomas's whole argument starts right here.
He says you can't figure out what the rule MEANS until you remember what problem it was created to SOLVE.
The problem was simple: a group of people who GENUINELY BELONGED to this country were being told they could never be citizens.
The rule was written to guarantee that those people, and people like them, would always be citizens, no matter their race.
It was a PROMISE TO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BELONGED.
It was not, Thomas argues, designed as an automatic prize for anyone who happens to be born on American soil.
That ruling helped push the country toward the Civil War. After the war, the nation set out to bury the hatchet for good by adding a NEW citizenship rule directly into the Constitution.
Thomas's whole argument starts right here.
He says you can't figure out what the rule MEANS until you remember what problem it was created to SOLVE.
The problem was simple: a group of people who GENUINELY BELONGED to this country were being told they could never be citizens.
The rule was written to guarantee that those people, and people like them, would always be citizens, no matter their race.
It was a PROMISE TO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BELONGED.
It was not, Thomas argues, designed as an automatic prize for anyone who happens to be born on American soil.
His main point is that there's a difference between someone belonging here and someone just passing through.
Freed slaves, Thomas says, belonged here in every way that mattered.
They had no other country to go back to.
They owed loyalty to no foreign king or government.
America was the ONLY home they had ever had, and they had worked, suffered, and fought for it like everyone else.
Now picture a completely different situation: a baby born to two tourists who are in the country for a two-week vacation.
That family still has a home somewhere else, still belongs to another nation, and will go back to it.
Thomas's point is that these two situations are NOTHING ALIKE, even though both babies were technically born on U.S. soil.
The citizenship rule, he argues, was built for the first kind of person, the one who truly belongs, not for the second.
Freed slaves, Thomas says, belonged here in every way that mattered.
They had no other country to go back to.
They owed loyalty to no foreign king or government.
America was the ONLY home they had ever had, and they had worked, suffered, and fought for it like everyone else.
Now picture a completely different situation: a baby born to two tourists who are in the country for a two-week vacation.
That family still has a home somewhere else, still belongs to another nation, and will go back to it.
Thomas's point is that these two situations are NOTHING ALIKE, even though both babies were technically born on U.S. soil.
The citizenship rule, he argues, was built for the first kind of person, the one who truly belongs, not for the second.
Most people think Tahajjud begins when the alarm goes off.
In reality, it begins with the choices you make before you sleep.
Here are 4 reminders that can help you be consistent with Tahajjud:
In reality, it begins with the choices you make before you sleep.
Here are 4 reminders that can help you be consistent with Tahajjud:
1. Don’t make every night heavy.
A heart weighed down by endless scrolling, distractions, and unnecessary late nights will naturally find it harder to rise.
Protect your nights if you want to protect your Tahajjud.
A heart weighed down by endless scrolling, distractions, and unnecessary late nights will naturally find it harder to rise.
Protect your nights if you want to protect your Tahajjud.
2. Remember what you’re waking up for.
You’re not waking up to complete a task.
You’re waking up to stand before the Lord who already knows every fear, every du’a, and every tear you’ve never shared with anyone.
When your “why” becomes stronger, waking up becomes easier.
You’re not waking up to complete a task.
You’re waking up to stand before the Lord who already knows every fear, every du’a, and every tear you’ve never shared with anyone.
When your “why” becomes stronger, waking up becomes easier.
He was the most daring submarine captain America had. He snuck into an enemy harbor with nothing but a child's school atlas for a map, and crippled a warship inside it.
His own crew would have followed him into hell.
But one terrible decision on the surface of the Pacific would shadow his name forever.
This is the story of Mush Morton and the USS Wahoo..🧵1/7
His own crew would have followed him into hell.
But one terrible decision on the surface of the Pacific would shadow his name forever.
This is the story of Mush Morton and the USS Wahoo..🧵1/7
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Dudley Walker Morton was from Kentucky, a Naval Academy graduate with a wide jaw and a booming personality. At the academy he had picked up the nickname Mushmouth, soon shortened to Mush, and it stuck for life.
By late 1942 the American submarine force was struggling. Many captains were being too cautious, firing from long range and breaking off at the first sign of danger, and they were sinking very few enemy ships.
Morton was the opposite of cautious. When he took command of the USS Wahoo at the end of 1942, he gathered his crew and gave them a speech that became legendary. He told them that the Wahoo was now an expendable ship, that he intended to take her right into the enemy and sink everything he could, and that any man who did not want to come on those terms had thirty minutes to leave, with no shame and no questions asked.
Not a single man left.
Dudley Walker Morton was from Kentucky, a Naval Academy graduate with a wide jaw and a booming personality. At the academy he had picked up the nickname Mushmouth, soon shortened to Mush, and it stuck for life.
By late 1942 the American submarine force was struggling. Many captains were being too cautious, firing from long range and breaking off at the first sign of danger, and they were sinking very few enemy ships.
Morton was the opposite of cautious. When he took command of the USS Wahoo at the end of 1942, he gathered his crew and gave them a speech that became legendary. He told them that the Wahoo was now an expendable ship, that he intended to take her right into the enemy and sink everything he could, and that any man who did not want to come on those terms had thirty minutes to leave, with no shame and no questions asked.
Not a single man left.
🧵 3/7
On his first patrol as captain, in January 1943, Morton was ordered to scout the Japanese harbor at Wewak, in New Guinea. There was just one problem. The Navy had no chart of the harbor.
So the crew improvised. One of the sailors had bought a cheap school atlas in a shop in Australia, and that crude little map was the only reference Morton had. Using it, he took the Wahoo submerged straight into the enemy anchorage, something no American submarine had done before.
Inside, he found a Japanese destroyer. He fired. As the warship spotted his torpedo tracks and turned to charge straight at him, Morton did something almost unheard of. He held his nerve and fired a torpedo directly down the throat of the oncoming destroyer, hitting it head-on and leaving it wrecked and grounded.
He had snuck into an enemy harbor with a school atlas and torn apart a warship inside it, then escaped. The legend of Mush Morton was born.
On his first patrol as captain, in January 1943, Morton was ordered to scout the Japanese harbor at Wewak, in New Guinea. There was just one problem. The Navy had no chart of the harbor.
So the crew improvised. One of the sailors had bought a cheap school atlas in a shop in Australia, and that crude little map was the only reference Morton had. Using it, he took the Wahoo submerged straight into the enemy anchorage, something no American submarine had done before.
Inside, he found a Japanese destroyer. He fired. As the warship spotted his torpedo tracks and turned to charge straight at him, Morton did something almost unheard of. He held his nerve and fired a torpedo directly down the throat of the oncoming destroyer, hitting it head-on and leaving it wrecked and grounded.
He had snuck into an enemy harbor with a school atlas and torn apart a warship inside it, then escaped. The legend of Mush Morton was born.
NEW: The Trump administration has shut down a controversial Homeland Security tool it had touted as a way to find noncitizens who’d illegally registered to vote, ProPublica has learned. 🧵
The move came after U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked further use of the tool, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, ruling that the system’s expansion violated data privacy laws and risked disenfranchising eligible voters. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
.@propublica was first to report on the details of the data-sharing agreement that gave DHS nearly unfettered access to sensitive Social Security Administration data to enhance the tool's capabilities. propublica.org/article/dhs-so…
Justice Alito says "From 1776 until the eve of the Civil War, the status of the [citizenship] rule in this country was unsettled."
If this is true (it isn't, and note, even Thomas disagrees with this), then why was Dred Scott's citzenship holding wrong?
If this is true (it isn't, and note, even Thomas disagrees with this), then why was Dred Scott's citzenship holding wrong?
The story-- we had a citizenship rule, Dred Scott violated it to screw over slaves, and the 14th amendment restored the old rule-- is pretty important and obviously true as a matter of constitutional law.
The orthodox view is that the citzenship rule was jus soli, and Dred Scott ignored jus soli to deny citizenship to Black people, and then the 14th Amendment brought back jus soli. That's the truth, by the way.
Before going on the Court, Barrett had an influential article to the effect of "How do you do originalism after 100 years of a non- or anti-originalist Court?" Not the actual title. Slaughter (and the tariffs case) illustrates the difficulty of this dilemma nicely. 1/
Slaughter seems, on its face, obviously correct, and more-or-less consistent with the way the Court interpreted the law through 1930. The executive gets to oversee implementation of laws, and gets to oversee personnel in the executive branch. 2/
Except where the Constitution limits the exec. by requiring Senate approval. And people sort of understood the idea that one of the dangers of expanding the federal government's powers was that the executive would implement it; he became more powerful as well. 3/
By all accounts an extraordinary finding. The degree of quantum-like interference in the brain predicts depression and anxiety one year later at r = 0.6. This is 3x better than other models. It also predicts intelligence at a whopping r = 0.79.
In terms of mechanisms: We find that the cost of computation in the brain is negatively correlated with quantum-like processing. So one explanation is that entanglement of brain dynamics makes the mind more computationally efficient and flexible.
Information integration and coordination is fundamental to all of cognition, emotion, and consciousness. Hence, interference or non-quantum entanglement may be the route to an energy efficient, integrated world model—foundational for a healthy mind.
See figures in comments...
In terms of mechanisms: We find that the cost of computation in the brain is negatively correlated with quantum-like processing. So one explanation is that entanglement of brain dynamics makes the mind more computationally efficient and flexible.
Information integration and coordination is fundamental to all of cognition, emotion, and consciousness. Hence, interference or non-quantum entanglement may be the route to an energy efficient, integrated world model—foundational for a healthy mind.
See figures in comments...
Depression and anxiety:
Intelligence (g-factor):
1/ Ukraine's attacks on Russia's space communications complexes appear intended to systematically degrade the Russian military's ability to access satellite imagery and communications. Analysts say they'll have a serious impact on military capabilities. ⬇️
2/ Ukraine has so far carried out three attacks on Russia's space communication centers (SCCs) in the Moscow and Vladimir regions. The Dubna SCC was hit twice, on 22 and 30 June, and the Vladimir SCC in Gus-Khrustalny was hit on 24 June.
3/ At Vladimir, the main complex's 25-metre parabolic antenna and the antenna on the roof of the Main Hardware and Software Complex were both damaged. The central part of the latter complex also suffered significant damage, along with the Hardware and Technical Building No. 1.
Amy Wax got in trouble for remarking that she'd not seen a Black student in the top quarter of a Penn Law class.
Thanks to hacked Columbia data, we can see that she was...
Probably right!
In the decade before her statement, there were just two top-25% Black students.
Thanks to hacked Columbia data, we can see that she was...
Probably right!
In the decade before her statement, there were just two top-25% Black students.
It is *totally* plausible that she never met these students. And it's also plausible that she rarely saw Black students in the top *half*, because each year, the number of them was just 1-4.
But, despite being 8% of the class, they were ~40% of the bottom 10%-ranked students:
But, despite being 8% of the class, they were ~40% of the bottom 10%-ranked students:
Note: Penn is on-par/slightly less elite than Columbia, so it's likely that the Black students there were somewhat *worse*, as the article notes, making her claims more likely.
This all comes from @zagrebbi's latest article. It's well worth a read!
Link: rightrationalism.art/p/black-law-st…
This all comes from @zagrebbi's latest article. It's well worth a read!
Link: rightrationalism.art/p/black-law-st…
Trump Accounts go live this week and are incredibly powerful
But most people still don't understand how they work
Here are 5 common misconceptions:
1. They aren't just for kids born after 2025. Every kid under 18 is eligible to open one
But most people still don't understand how they work
Here are 5 common misconceptions:
1. They aren't just for kids born after 2025. Every kid under 18 is eligible to open one
The free $1,000 from the government is only if you are born after 2025
2. They are primarily *retirement* accounts for your kids
Your kids typically have to wait until their retirement to withdraw dollars without being subject to a 10% early withdrawal penalty
2. They are primarily *retirement* accounts for your kids
Your kids typically have to wait until their retirement to withdraw dollars without being subject to a 10% early withdrawal penalty
There are carve-outs for first time home purchases, higher education expenses, medical expenses etc.
But these are identical to those of a Traditional IRA
3. Parents or other family members can contribute $5,000 per beneficiary per year
These contributions are after-tax
But these are identical to those of a Traditional IRA
3. Parents or other family members can contribute $5,000 per beneficiary per year
These contributions are after-tax
When I've talked about the legacy of Soviet industrial gigantism (one big factory) making Putin era Russia far more vulnerable to a drone strategic bombing campaign.
This is a very good example. ⬇️
Strategic Drone Airpower🧵
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This is a very good example. ⬇️
Strategic Drone Airpower🧵
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I've talked about this vulnerability in a couple of previous threads. Here is a shorter one:
Putin's decades long "Russian exceptionalism" propaganda campaign, that says WW2 was won on the Eastern Front, has made Russians incapable of seeing this.
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Putin's decades long "Russian exceptionalism" propaganda campaign, that says WW2 was won on the Eastern Front, has made Russians incapable of seeing this.
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If strategic airpower was irrelevant then. So is damage from it now. 🤦♂️
Here is the larger in-depth thread detailing the vulnerabilities of ex-Soviet "One-Big Factory" infrastructure (AKA gigantism) Ukraine is exploiting.
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Here is the larger in-depth thread detailing the vulnerabilities of ex-Soviet "One-Big Factory" infrastructure (AKA gigantism) Ukraine is exploiting.
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So I heard that YOU @Nncim15 & YOU @CultureGuard are at the Langley RCMP detachment right now talking about me 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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