one of my more galaxy brained takes is that beneath all of his artifice, BS, and rank opportunism, an actual journalist is trapped in Carlson's brain and occasionally shows himself.
this is, indeed, good.
Dilan Esper
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Dilan Esper
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Litigator, attorney, appeals, entertainment
- So the NYT has published an excellent story about the victim in the subway burning. And while the final horrifying end to her life is not predictable, the rest of it, the downfall, sadly, sounds very familiar to me.
- Folks, birthright citizenship isn't just some interpretation of a few weirdly phrased passages in the 14th Amendment. We had birthright citizenship BEFORE the 14th Amendment. It's actually one of the oldest and most fundamental principles of American law. 1/
- Around 1900, Argentina was something like the third richest country in the world. Anyone who visits Buenos Aires can see this-- there are majestic, still standing buildings from Argentina's golden era. Buildings that used to host some of the world's great corporations.Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextIt's possible that in 1900 Argentina was the 3rd wealthiest country *in the Western Hemisphere* (after the U.S. and Canada). However, it was not close to 3rd wealthiest *in the world* at that time. Most estimates place it around 12th - admittedly, still pretty wealthy. prosperitydata360.worldbank.org/en/indicator/Q…
- This story has been haunting me a few days. And I think there's something here about our own discourse that is worth talking about. It has to do with how people say very dumb things about levels of freedom in countries. 1/In Iran, a woman who was accosted by the “morality police” for not wearing hijab removes her clothing & roams the streets in defiance. She has since been arrested by IRGC forces and forcibly disappeared. This is the brave face of true resistance.
00:00 - the thing that made the scandal a scandal wasn't "there were sexual abusers in a large organization", it was "the church protected them from police, covered their tracks, and transferred them to abuse more kids, and to this day protects the criminal bishops who did that".The Catholic priest sex abuse scandal was, in a sense, fake. Not because any of the claims of abuse were fake, but because this is not a uniquely Catholic problem. Rates of child sexual abuse are high in all professions that deal with children.
- One of the incidents that gave rise to this case involved a person who was roughed up by the ICE agents before he was able to show his REAL ID, which, once he gave to the agents, they then confiscated and didn't give back to him.Kavanaugh actually wrote this line: "If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go."
- wahhhh wahhhhh wahhhh they won't let us hijack their protest movement! waaaaaaahhhhPhiladelphia No Kings rally was asked by multiple pro-Palestine organizations to have a Palestinian speaker and just flat out said no so now there’s a Palestine contingent going to talk to people and be essentially an internal counterdemo. Super excited.
- i have a different take on Disney. Disney parks are a victim of their own success. You can just look at the size of the initial Disneyland property and you can tell they had no conception of the number of people who would eventually want to come to Disney parks.I went to Disney with my oldest and my mother just after Covid. The Disney hotel we stayed at when I was a kid had replaced the beautiful fountain and pianist in the lobby with a massive bar area that was already packed at 3pm. We haven’t gone back, mainly because it’s sad. A
- I think this is a low key secret thing that hurts Democrats in politics. We're always calling to take away people's straws, light bulbs, e-cigarettes, shower heads, etc. We're the party of You Can't Have What You Want, and voters remember that and choose the other guys.Democrats should stop looking for little new ways to make life more annoying
- they sell your clothes and use the money for charitable purposes. this is not a scandal. it is 2025 and we aren't a barter economyThe truth about Red Cross Donation Centers Man hides a GPS tracker in shoes he donates to the Red Cross. Turns out the clothing doesn’t go to people in need for free. It’s sold in retail shops “This guy donated his old shoes to a Red Cross container in Germany, but he hid a GPS
00:00Readers added contextThe German Red Cross has been explaining very transparently on its homepage for many years that some of the donated clothing is sold. With the proceeds, the Red Cross finances social projects! This is legal under German law. drk.de/spenden/spende… - I will repeat-- this stuff will do lasting damage to the United States. World class universities are a competitive advantage of the US; it is super beneficial to us that smart people from all over the world want to come to Harvard.
- Claudine Gay was born rich, from a family that made its riches from capitalist exploitation of one of the world's poorest countries. She went to Exeter, the country's most elite prep school, and Harvard. She was just DEMOTED to a job paying $900k a year. That ain't subordination
- this. and the other thing is... YOU WANT MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE TO USE TRANSIT. If transit is full of smelly scary people violating drug laws, it doesn't matter that it really isn't their fault; middle class people won't ride and especially won't allow their kids to ride.I don't want subways to turn into homeless shelters in the name of compassion, I want subways to turn into subways in the name of functionality. If you try to route a problem into a domain not designed for it in the name of compassion, you're left with two problems.
