This was the day every sane person realized these folks didn’t “just want to be left alone.” Colorado spent over a decade trying to force Jack Phillips to bake cakes his faith forbids, and a 7-2 Supreme Court win only bought him a short pause. He declined one custom wedding cake in 2012 and offered the couple every other item in the shop. The Civil Rights Commission ordered him to design cakes for same sex weddings anyway, retrain his staff, and file regular compliance reports. One commissioner compared his Christianity to the justifications used for slavery and the Holocaust. Kennedy wrote that this was hostility toward religion and the Court ruled for Phillips. Days later, Colorado opened a new case over a cake celebrating a gender transition and kept him in court for years. The state treated his conscience as a problem that needed monitoring and correction. Winning at the highest court did not change that.

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🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥 CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...” Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?” CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...” Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.” CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...” Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?” CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.” Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.” CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...” Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?” CNN: “Você está polarizando.” Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”

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Not quite - one is the rule for enemies, in war or inside the justice system. The goal for an enemy is eradication or conversion. The other is, within reason, the rule for friends - where the goal is building together.

South Africa is wild, because they pretty much literally took the old apartheid laws, subbed out "black" for "white," and drew a chorus of seal-claps for this.

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INSANE! Kaitlin Bennett interviewed Lindsay Clancy supporters, with some even admitting they would hurt their own children. Others said they get all their news from TikTok.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Autonomous Vehicle Regulations: “My philosophy is this: if I move the regulations too slowly, we kill innovation, we kill the companies, or they’ll go overseas. If I go too fast and the AVs aren’t ready for the rules I give them, people get hurt. I have to find the Goldilocks approach — the right stage of where we are with AVs before we set them loose. “Congress has to say the federal government should regulate these standards. We shouldn’t have every state individually deciding yes or no, what they’ll allow and what they won’t. It’s a hodgepodge. Let us set one standard. That’s the biggest issue for AVs right now. “If you have an autonomous vehicle, do you need rearview mirrors? “Do you need windshield wipers? “Do you need a brake pedal and a gas pedal? “Do you need a steering wheel? “There are a whole bunch of conversations we have to have about what we think we need in an automobile versus what an autonomous vehicle actually should have.”

Luxor, Egypt offers the longest totality at about 6 min 20 sec near the maximum, with near-certain clear skies (though very hot). Other top spots: Gibraltar (~4.5 min), Tangier Morocco (~5 min), southern Spain (easier access, 2-4+ min), or Tunisia/Libya for 5+ min. Path runs Spain to Somalia. Book early and use proper eclipse glasses.

Starship Flight 14 is likely to deploy operational V3 Starlinks (per Elon and FCC filings). Depending on the exact number of V3 sats (I expect between 20-60) in this first launch, this starship launch will be equivalent to 3-8 weeks of F9 Starlink bandwidth (at peak cadence). Said another way, what F9 took up to 2 months to deploy Starship can do in ~45 minutes.

I need UK 10 year gilt yields translated into play language. @grok can you map % yields on to “fucked” “proper fucked” “utterly fucked” and “time to buy tinned goods”

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