Notices by Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)

you’ll know evil when you see what people will do in the name of god.

i am serious about this. the current supreme court is unworthy of respect. jurists who value the rule of law should simply not respect it.

“Boasting about incompetence is signaling that you can be trusted to be corrupt.” @henryfarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/elon-musk-and-the-power-of-the-bro

i’m beginning to think President Miller might be even worse than President Musk.

the Supreme Court is playing a Jenga game, pulling away one protection at a time of the vague, lived “it’s a free country” experience many of us associate with America. at first nothing seems to happen.

the universal binding of Supreme Court decisions affords justices more power than is necessary to give particularized litigants justice.

“inferior” judges should pay the Court no mind, do their own thing, let each set of litigants appeal to the Supreme Court if that’s their thing.

@Phil it is retarded. it’s what the Supreme Court has done, made black letter violations of law enforceable only hypothetically in ever shifting patchworks with particularized costly litigation. this is your world. you and your movement have made it. i suspect you will regret it.

@realcaseyrollins @Phil here birthright citizenship.

@realcaseyrollins @Phil i just don’t have time to litigate with you what we’ve all understood the Constitution to say for 150 years right now. and neither did the Supreme Court justices, who did not rule on the “merits” of these arguments, just said if there are any merits, only they, at their own discretion, can choose to give them effect.

@Phil @realcaseyrollins they haven’t. they’ve just decided that no one can win relief from abuses of power in the United States except one at a time via laborious and expensive litigation or when they themselves, this single 9-person panel, choose to provide it.

@realcaseyrollins @Phil because this executive acting without constraint is unlikely to abuse power, say, by removing people who’ve done no wrong more serious than be in a confusion about the paperwork to labor camps and prisons in countries to which they’ve never been. this is the new America you are cheering.

@Phil @realcaseyrollins Lots of people being detained and deported now literally did nothing wrong other than paperwork. They just sent a guy to Jamaica who was born on a US base to US parents. He is deemed stateless, no citizenship at all. People who came from Afghanistan legally just had their status revoked, they didn’t cross a border, the border suddenly crossed them. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2025-06-04/texas-man-born-to-u-s-soldier-on-u-s-army-base-abroad-deported/

“It isn't the people who use the term who are expected to be uncomfortable, after all… don't expect a report any time soon confronting the uncomfortable truth that white ex-public schoolboys are disproportionately involved in City fraud and suggesting that Eton and Harrow have questions to answer.“ #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/06/uncomfortable-truths.html

a democracy progresses less by factions winning fights than by forging agreements encompassing mixes of consensus and reciprocal compromise.

i know that’s hard to imagine now that we’ve bifurcated into mirror image caricatures of ourselves.

they may come off as innocuous, but poets have very deep connections to organized rhyme.

dictator.

“To save its insurance industry, Taiwan probably needs to intervene massively to keep its currency weak. To save its export industry from the threat of “reciprocal” tariffs, Taiwan likely need to step back from the foreign exchange market and let its currency appreciate.” #BradSetser https://www.ft.com/content/d71c34a0-4ded-4cba-be1c-82384915a8fd

if we were not idiots, gen AI would be driving us to turn colleges into Socratic spaces. everything would be in-person, synchronous, analog. writing would be blue book. we’d discuss (rather than rate) one another’s work. any “homework” would be productive projects, for which use of any tool is fine.

if we're going to get trigonometric, i feel like cosplay sounds less fun that sinplay.

perhaps it’s constructive if Donald Trump is dickish in a way that captures the attention of Catholic bishops, just before the conclave.