Jason Goldman

@goldman.blue

Text box aficionado, Escape Hatch Pod employee

7yo has his first loose tooth and it’s very exciting. But he already had his grown up teeth popped up behind the loose ones and it looks like staring into a sharks mouth rn

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

I am a casual+ World of Warcraft player. Yesterday the “pre patch” for the next big expansion of the game dropped, introducing a bunch of new stuff. One of the biggest changes is the so-called AddOn Apocalypse.

Listening to the Fellowship of the Rings with the kids for the first time. 5yo: “Why is there so much singing?!” Me: “Baby I’ve been wondering that for 40years”

It’s a funny bit of authorial interjection that every character who survives the adventures in Lord of the Rings settles down to write a history or appendix of some sort.

Preview of a future disaster: 7yo: “do cats always land on their feet” Me: “that’s what they say” 7yo: “why” Me: “they’re just good at landing” 7yo: “am I good at landing?” Me: “dude please”

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Paolo Sandro@paolosandro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship 'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!' thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...

What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well.

It’s wild to me that there’s a senior government official who posts daily about how they don’t like Black & Brown people on social media and it’s not a scandal. It’s just background noise in the overall awfulness of the Trump administration.

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Nearly died slipping on slime and should I perish this way I need my death to be politicized. Slime is a terrible gift for children. Terrorists give it as gifts and slime manufactures are the new ISIS.