Econ prof, 7th-grade math teacher, conservative; Fundamentalist, mainly; Uni '76, Yale '80, MIT '84. MFSA. Law & econ, game theory. Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
Bloomington, Indiana
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1. Please be polite.
2. Do disagree, but don't swear, blaspheme, or abuse.
3. I write as if my late parents are reading. Please do the same.
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself.
5. A more civil society starts with you.
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In Germania vivono 39 mila giapponesi con solo 2 crimini commessi. In Italia vivono 330 mila cinesi con soli 7 crimini commessi. In Italia vivono 5,6 milioni di Musulmani con 3,7 milioni di crimini gravi commessi. Abbiamo importato criminali. Chest’é.😤
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If this group of misfits hates you, you must be doing something right!
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🚨 VERMONT RESIDENTS: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REPORT A CHILD SEX OFFENDER? APPARENTLY, YOU BECOME THE INVESTIGATION.
On October 14, our team confronted a twice-convicted sex offender in Milton, Vermont, after he engaged in sexually inappropriate conversations with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl and arranged to meet her.
During our voluntary interview, he admitted to those conversations AND to purchasing and possessing large quantities of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
We immediately called 911. We cooperated with police. We offered our evidence.
And somehow, WE ended up in handcuffs, with approximately $11,275 worth of electronics seized.
Here's what happened.
Milton Police Lieutenant Samuel Noel initially handled the situation as expected. The suspect admitted to possessing CSAM, and police seized his phone.
Then Noel contacted Vermont ICAC Commander Matthew Raymond.
That's when everything changed.
According to what officers told us, Raymond ordered our vehicle held until we consented to a search and surrendered our electronics.
When we contacted our attorney, I was handcuffed in the police station lobby after recoiling as an officer lunged for the phone in my hand. My call with my attorney was disconnected.
We were subsequently led to believe our devices would be returned after investigators extracted the evidence.
Instead, authorities seized:
• 5 cell phones
• 2 laptops
• 2 cameras
• Approximately 20 SD cards
• 5 hard drives containing years of investigative work and personal information
Nearly $11,275 in equipment. Gone.
We were later told that the devices could be retained as evidence of past crimes, despite our having already provided evidence from previous investigations to law enforcement.
Even more disturbing? Investigator Sarah Superneau allegedly told us that predator-catching groups are NOT welcome in Vermont and that other groups conducting similar investigations could expect the same treatment.
LET THAT SINK IN.
A convicted sex offender admitted to possessing CSAM.
We reported him.
He lost his phone. We lost practically everything.
We've conducted 195 investigations across the country. We've worked with law enforcement agencies that understand the difference between someone reporting suspected child exploitation and someone committing it.
Just TWO DAYS later, detectives working with ICAC in Massachusetts accepted our evidence, thanked us for our cooperation, and offered to return our SD card.
That's how this should work.
We cannot arrest suspects. We cannot prosecute them. We report what we uncover so law enforcement CAN.
Yet in Vermont, our cooperation was met with detention, the seizure of our equipment, and conduct we believe violated our constitutional rights.
This isn't just about predator catchers.
If authorities can treat citizens reporting suspected crimes this way, what stops it from happening to YOU?
We are demanding accountability, transparency, and the return of our property.
We believe the actions of Vermont ICAC and Milton Police raise serious First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment concerns, and we intend to pursue every appropriate legal avenue.
VERMONT, HERE'S THE ASSIGNMENT:
Respectfully contact the agencies below. Demand an explanation for the treatment of citizens reporting suspected child exploitation. Ask why our equipment remains seized and call for an independent review of these actions.
📧 mailto:Matthew.raymond@vermont.gov
📧 mailto:Sarah.superneau@vermont.gov
📧 mailto:Samuel.noel@vermont.gov
☎️ Vermont Attorney General: 802-828-3171
☎️ Vermont ICAC: 802-828-5522
☎️ Milton Police: 802-893-2424
Protect children. Respect constitutional rights. Hold public officials accountable.
Because reporting a suspected predator should never make YOU the target.
SHARE THIS. VERMONT DESERVES ANSWERS.
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Lockheed's bonus list allegedly had 18 white names removed and 18 nonwhite names added, and it just cost $LMT $29.5M.
$22M of it is because Lockheed told the government it followed civil rights laws on its federal contracts, and the government says that wasn't true while the bonus program was running.
This is the fourth contractor case of this kind, after IBM and Accenture Federal.
The whistleblower is Tim Booher, a former Lockheed VP. He gets $4.4M.
I'd like to know which other defense contractors had HR teams building lists like this in 2020.
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On September 17, the MIT Free Speech Alliance held its fourth annual conference in Cambridge. The subject of this year's conference was "STEM in Crisis: Restoring Free Inquiry." Headlining this day of panel discussions on various areas of STEM, including research, teaching, funding, and publication, the conference drew on the collected talents of scholars and faculty from institutions around the country. We're delighted to have had such a great lineup of speakers and such an engaging audience, helping to make this our most successful conference yet. The following column from our Substack editor Kathleen Sgamma offers her observations and reflections from that event: mitfreespeechalliance.substa…
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The Bible says that civil rulers should praise what is good (1 Peter 2:14).
One administration celebrated vile affections and sexual insanity on Easter.
The current administration is celebrating the Protestant Reformation, the Sacred Scriptures, and salvation by grace through faith.
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一段非常有意思的东亚人基因的论述：
东亚人的基因点数全点在抗饥荒上了。
1、东亚人是最容易得糖尿病的种群。
原因是身上有一个基因，可以迅速把吃进的食物变成血糖。这样在饥荒发生时，随便吃两口东西就能保命。没有这个基因的人，在漫长的历史演化中被淘汰了。
2、东亚人练肌肉特别慢，同时如果不练肌肉掉的特别快。
这也是基因所决定的。肌肉本身也消耗能量，在饥荒发生时能迅速把能量供给到重要器官包括大脑，存活下来的几率会更高。所以就有一个基因可以在没有蛋白质摄入和锻炼的情况下把肌肉分解。
3、东亚种群对未来整体是偏悲观的，这也和一个悲观基因相关。
东亚有悲观基因的占整体的75%以上。而天天乐呵的非洲黑人有这个基因的不超过30%。
4、东亚人还嗜赌成性，这也与一个基因有关。
在面对环境剧烈变化时，黑人和白人相对适应较慢，但东亚人适应最快。而生活平平无奇时，东亚人则愿意寻找赌博类的游戏，增加这种变换带来的快感。
所以在东亚，梭哈是一种智慧。
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You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
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Er zijn op deze wereld twee Palestijnse presidenten met een democratisch mandaat: Nayib Bukele van El Salvador en Nasry Asfura van Honduras.
Citaat van Nayib Bukele: "Het best wat het Palestijnse volk kan overkomen is dat Hamas volledig verdwijnt."
Houding van Nasry Asfura: Als eerste officiële daad ontving hij de Israëlische ambassadeur, en hij trok Honduras terug uit de groep landen die Israël diplomatiek willen isoleren.
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It's really disgusting that this hero has been air-brushed out of history. He should be invited to the White House. Clearly nobody told the President.
Snubbed local cop who neutralized would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks cut out of the narrative by embarrassed feds: family trib.al/FaxTVOs
Commenters: the story now is the cover-up. That is very much a live story. Who went along with Arday's lies and fraud?
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Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.
Hampshire Police had that tape.
They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.
Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.
Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.
Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.
This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.
That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.
Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.
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The list that @grok prepared of politically 'centrist' women writers includes Marilynne Robinson, who in 2024 gave an interview to the @nytimes in which she called then-President Joe Biden "a gift from God." She raved about his "competence" and "brilliance."🧐
There are few openly centrist women in mainstream literary fiction, which leans progressive overall. Political moderates would likely not view these as far-left: Lionel Shriver (critical of progressive excesses while remaining a Democrat), Anne Tyler (avoids partisan politics and has criticized cancel culture), Marilynne Robinson (Christian liberal focused on tradition and democracy), and Elizabeth Strout (empathetic chronicler of ordinary lives who notes divisions without radicalism). Open centrism remains rare in the field.
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here's you regular reminder that carseats have probably saved very few lives in aggregate vs. general improvements in road and care safety
despite massive increases in carseats for 0 & 3 year olds since 1959, their mortality declines have been entirely typical
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Jason Arday’s PhD Supervisor Recycled a Coauthored Chapter Into His Own Thesis and His Book
The man who oversaw Jason Arday’s doctorate now runs student experience at the university that cleared it, I report. His own PhD reused 2,000 words of a three-author chapter, unquoted and mostly uncited.
Amid the recent imbroglio over Jason Arday’s alleged plagiarism, academic fraud and serial fabulism, a quiet question has gone unanswered: Who were his academic advisors? And how did they neither catch on to, nor ultimately prevent, the evident flaws in his 2015 PhD thesis and other published scholarship?
During the weeks leading up to Dr. Arday’s resignation from his Cambridge University professorship and ultimate death in August, a source pointed me toward his thesis advisor at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Philip Vickerman. In particular, my source said, I should examine whether there was textual overlap between Dr. Vickerman’s own PhD thesis at Leeds University and other published work.
I found plenty.
Dr. Vickerman’s 2004 thesis contains 37 clusters, comprising 2,010 words, that are identical to a book chapter, published in 2003, that he coauthored with two other people. None of the recycled passages in the thesis are in quotation marks and 30 of them bear no citation.
All 37 passages wound up, at least in part, in a 2007 book Dr. Vickerman published as an individual author. Thirty-six of those passages are largely intact. Just four cite the 2003 book chapter.
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Come as you are (with out disruption), sure.
Too many of us want to *stay* as we are.
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Ya'll, this is nuts.
Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.
They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/buckt…
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In 1941, a Spaniard walked into the British embassy in Madrid and offered to spy on the Nazis.
The British turned him down.
So he went to the Germans instead, pretended to be a loyal fascist, and got hired as a German spy. His plan was to lie to them for the rest of the war.
It worked better than anyone could have imagined.
His name was Juan Pujol García. Before the war he had tried his hand at running a chicken farm and a movie theater. He had no spy training. What he had was a deep hatred of both fascism and communism after the Spanish Civil War, and an incredible imagination.
The Germans gave him a codename, invisible ink, money, and orders to go to Britain and recruit spies.
He didn't go to Britain.
He went to Lisbon, Portugal, and made everything up.
Using a tourist guidebook, maps, magazines, newsreels, and a British railway timetable from the library, he wrote long, detailed reports about life in England. Military movements. Morale. Ports.
He'd never been there. He made mistakes. He didn't understand British money. He once reported that dockworkers in Glasgow would do anything for a liter of wine.
The Germans loved him anyway.
Then British codebreakers reading German messages noticed something strange. The Germans were hunting for a convoy that didn't exist, based on a report from some agent in Britain they'd never heard of.
The British went looking for this mystery spy. They found Pujol. In 1942 they finally took him on and brought him to London.
Now he had real help. MI5 gave him the codename Garbo, after the actress, because they thought he was the greatest actor in the world.
Together with his British handler, Pujol built a fake spy network for the Germans. It eventually had 27 imaginary agents. Each had a name, a personality, a job, and a backstory. A Welsh nationalist. A Venezuelan student. A Greek sailor. Some of them recruited their own imaginary sub-agents.
When they needed to explain why one agent had gone quiet, they killed him off. They even put a fake obituary in a Liverpool newspaper. The Germans reportedly paid a pension to his widow.
Who also didn't exist.
Then came D-Day.
Hours before the landings, the British let Pujol send a message warning the Germans that the invasion was coming in Normandy. It was timed so it would arrive too late to matter, but it made him look brilliant.
Three days later he sent the most important message of his career. Normandy was a trick, he said. The real invasion was still coming, at Calais, led by a huge army under General Patton.
That army was fake too. But the Germans believed him.
German forces that could have been rushed to Normandy were held back near Calais for weeks, waiting for an attack that never came.
The Germans were so grateful they awarded him the Iron Cross.
A few months later, King George VI made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
He's one of the only people known to have been decorated by both sides of the war.
After the war, afraid of revenge from surviving Nazis, he faked his own death from malaria in Africa and disappeared to Venezuela, where he lived quietly running a shop.
For decades the world thought he was dead.
In 1984, a British writer tracked him down. Pujol came back to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day and met veterans who had landed on the beaches.
Some of them thanked him.
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I appreciate seeing a publication willing to take a closer look at the underlying facts rather than simply repeat these allegations.
This story will not withstand scrutiny. To date, no verifiable evidence has been presented to substantiate these false claims.
I hope others, including those commenting on X, will take the time to examine the facts before repeating these accusations. Credibility matters, and serious allegations deserve serious scrutiny.
