Again, some links to keep you occupied. (“Mom, they’re link-blogging again!”) Two long ones about the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran: When Intelligence Fails: A Legal Targeting Analysis of the Minab School Strike (Joseph N. Orenstein for Just Security) AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying (Kevin T. Baker for The Guardian) Also, Bret Devereaux on the Iran war. Detailed analysis of the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. “As the nation prepares to mark the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its founding, it’s easy...
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Published, 2025
What a year it has been, huh? Well, lots of blogs are pumping out their best posts of the year, and, well, we didn’t pump out that many posts, so here’s just a general list of what we published this year. Wrote a post about the TikTok ban. Reminder: It’s still theoretically banned. lol. Celebrated the new Turnstile album. You should listen to it — it’s super good. We are now just so surrounded by ads. So of course we need more ads. I got mad. A post about how judges are going to be on the...
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So, there were a flood of posts this afternoon, many of them rapidly descending down the page without being given the spot of honor at the top that they deserved. There was some great writing that went on and it would be a shame if anyone missed it. It only seems proper and fitting that they be collected here briefly, so you might see what you missed and peruse it at your leisure this weekend. Lady Blaga brought the insight on President Obama’s likely nominee to fill John Paul Stevens’ Associate Justice spot on the Supreme Court,...
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