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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 6th 2026 (Medium), in 03:35 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  I thought it was pretty clear from the jump they were doing a John Stewart origin story. Nothing wrong with that if it’s a decent origin story. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kbmf4lv4o6uvuvrfzpw2jbhj/post/3mx6kp56yoc2y

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  Look, JD Vance would be a terrible president, but I am significantly less concerned about him doing insane dictatorial shit out of sheer rage and spite in his last few months in office if it becomes clear his party is likely to lose the White House. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:odyyjj2mgenfareehic4oryj/post/3mx5v62e72k2s

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  Nor can I imagine a Senator refusing to divulge their vote & that not having exactly the same political effect as admitting they voted to convict.

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  I sort of question how this works in practice. Every Senator will be under irresistible pressure to say how they voted. If they tell the truth, it’s no different from a public ballot. If they lie, the result looks illegitimate & there’s enormous pressure to reveal the roll call. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/post/3mx5iggha322b

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  Long worthwhile thread. I’m reminded of a point that (I think?) Foucault makes in Surveiller et Punir that, historically, the aristocracy was ostentatiously visible & the common person visible, but modernity has inverted this. Seems even more clearly true now than when he wrote it. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:web:pluralistic.net/post/3mx5mg4kmwc2e

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  The first two aren’t really problems for originalism. Nothing about originalism says you have to ignore amendments.

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  The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/post/3mwy2b57mn22m

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  I think there’s a stronger case for pretty much the opposite rule. If you’re studying a field where you’re going to rapidly be making a lot of income, why do you need a government loan? Get one on the private market. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rogqxhzq6vy54nbuy4n6rwyd/post/3mx4reva5ok2w

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  RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3ff4uii2g5w3bkew4y2iexcq/post/3mx2nncg56c2s The Dark Crystal Skeksis Emper...

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  My inclination here is to reply: “Yes, you can, and you had damn well better.” Our only real way out here is precisely to let GOP voters have a bullshit retcon of their own party identity. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ifsuximqaivczh4fie2opnuk/post/3mx4axs7ezd2r

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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 5th 2026 (Easy), in 04:44 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 4th 2026 (Hard), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  Pretty sure he’s the one in the middle here. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cy6qwhuegarwmgp5ege5ca5s/post/3mwybwo2b4k2v

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  Pete Hegseth pretends he’s laser-focused on “warfighting” but then focuses on a lot of stuff that’s just…. Not actually that important to modern warfighting. What he’s actually doing is performing gender ideology.

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  This is bizarre in part because if the idea that AI models have “moral standing” were actually taken seriously, all of these companies would immediately be banned. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s5c7bzfahvdk765yr7snvtdy/post/3mwviijydc22x

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  If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

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  I mean, in absolute terms probably Hamlet. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uajioxzr6xzimjzwnunsemfy/post/3mwtsuwyb622r

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  Just took the lovely Maeve out for an afternoon. She gets agitated by other dogs, but is otherwise the biggest sweetheart you will ever meet. If you’re in the DC area you can adopt her here: bvspca.org/dc

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  Was in Spain last spring and it really cannot be exaggerated how pissed Europeans are that their economies have been thoroughly fucked by the erratic whims of a maniac none of them voted for. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne/post/3mwsymhhgmc26

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  I remember when soi-disant “conservatives” used to be fans of Chesterton’s Fence. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qf4n475elcg6dtx5b7s43cwv/post/3mwsydonygk2a

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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 1st 2026 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  We normally try to keep this on the DL, but it’s true: We can fly. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mwqygu2rxa22

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  Like, your brain really does have to be uttely broiled in conspiracy juice to imagine this elaborate ruse to provide cover for an in-person meeting that would have been totally normal to do as a Zoom call.

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  Worth emphasizing that there are several layers of nuts here. If Smith had gone to an NBA game in Atlanta, that wouldn’t indicate he’d met with Willis. (Why would anyone go to the trouble, rather than just having a phone call?) And if he had met with Willis… that wouldn’t be any sort of scandal. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s5b3x4exyludm73jcgvupe7q/post/3mwrhnlz5nc2a

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  As far as I can tell the idea of schools putting kids on hormones is just a complete fantasy. How or why would the school be involved with that? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mwr4yxtjut2e

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  Redcoats? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mwr4mvz23y23

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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 30th 2026 (Medium), in 03:50 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  Not that, Brer Bear, anything but that! RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xjc7mkotpenvhh6ffewkdpyn/post/3mwp2a77lb225

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  But they would have been in the SAME STATE. Illuminati confirmed! RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:enu4vty35ptuculhmkjnt43f/post/3mwp74hlqvs2d