Chris Frashure

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Techie. Sports junkie. Liberal (of the classical variety). Sometimes podcaster & writer.
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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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No relevant or useful takes will be had today beyond "this is bad" and "don't speculate."

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We should of course be wary of overselling the merits of old ways of doing things, but it really would be better if we shifted away from social media and back to blogging.

@proton.me You guys might want to fix your business page. It doesn't default to selecting either yearly or monthly, and so shows $0 for two plans.

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According to the US Postal Service chief postal inspect, "there is no reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to information contained on the outside of mail matter." That a galling, and false, statement. Join us at clpvirginia.org and help us fight to get our privacy back.

Law enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records showwww.washingtonpost.com The Postal Service approves thousands of requests every year from police officers and federal agents seeking information from Americans’ letters and packages.

Today I learned you can drown a child and it's only hateful in certain circumstances. Thus is the absurdity of "hate crimes."

A Texas woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old girl in a swimming pool, police said, adding that they are recommending the incident be treated as a hate crime.

Texas woman tried to drown 3-year-old in possible hate crime, police saywww.washingtonpost.com Elizabeth Wolf was charged with attempted murder. The child’s mother, whom a rights group identified as Palestinian American, told police that Wolf made “racial statements.”

This, among other reasons, is why I donate to Signal.

Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is a

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i admire people who can solve, like, one problem at a time rather than pingponging between twelve different, loosely related problems, halfassing each

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Breaking news: Donald Trump is found guilty in his N.Y. hush money trial, becoming the first ex-president convicted of a crime. Follow live updates: wapo.st/3X1Mu2Y

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Good god. Atlantic and Vox adopting AI content-generation. So gross, so stupid. The enshittification of media continues apace.

I love knowing so many writers who either don't have jobs right now or are severely underpaid and then seeing this

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The mother of Michael Fanone was swatted yesterday, hours after Fanone called Trump "an authoritarian" with "a violence fetish" in a Biden campaign press conference at the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is on trial. Someone also sent out a fake manifesto claiming Fanone had murdered his mother.

Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'www.nbcnews.com Fanone was abducted by the mob on Jan. 6 and nearly killed when a MAGA-hatted rioter who believed Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election drove a stun gun into his neck.

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On our latest podcast, we discuss the right's war on equality for LGBTQ+ individuals and what we can do to fight back.

LGBTQ+ Rights: Respect, Equality & Dignity in Virginia – Without Exception 🏳️‍🌈open.spotify.com Listen to this episode from Commonwealth Classical Liberal Podcast on Spotify. Episode 24: LGBTQ+ Rights: Respect, Equality & Dignity in Virginia – Without Exception. Brian, Chris and Andy discussed ...

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"A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November." cool apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich'apnews.com A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich."

Seconded.

This is very good --

Why Liberals Struggle to Defend Liberalismwww.newyorker.com We may be months away from the greatest crisis the liberal state has known since the Civil War. How come it’s so hard to say what we’re defending?

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I would pay good money to see this idiot kicker spout this nonsense directly to the famous girlfriend one of his teammates.

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker bashes Pride Month, tells women to stay in the kitchentouchdownwire.usatoday.com Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker recently made a commencement address bashing Pride Month, and telling women to stay in the kitchen.

Brains are cool.

Opinion | The age of discovery is only beginningwww.washingtonpost.com New brain research is a sign of how little we understand of ourselves, our universe and our place in it.

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The Libertarian Party convention turning into a Donald Trump / RFK Jr. rally is honestly such a perfectly fitting end to the whole pretense that the far-right takeover was about wanting more principled libertarian radicalism. From people who thought nominating Bill Weld was some kind of sell-out.

R.F.K. Jr., Invited to Libertarian Convention, Seeks Trump Debatewww.nytimes.com Both presidential candidates are scheduled to address a Libertarian gathering this month in Washington.

Is this what it feels like to be left behind?

My view on programming languages in 2024: C/C++ ➡️ Rust Objective C ➡️ Swift Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP/Java/Scala ➡️ Go JavaScript ➡️ TypeScript Bash ➡️ Bash

There is nothing libertarian about the Libertarian Party

We are to be spared nothing: four years after the takeover of the Libertarian Party by MAGA-adjacent activists, the party has largely jettisoned its onetime friendliness toward immigration and social liberalism and will host Trump himself at its nominating convention this month.

Donald Trump courts an increasingly friendly Libertarian Partywww.semafor.com The former president will speak at this month’s national party convention amid a split in the movement.

Washington continues its attack on our fundamental rights.

Congress extends controversial warrantless surveillance law for two yearswww.washingtonpost.com U.S. spy agencies regard the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as one of their most valuable intelligence-collection tools, but critics say it intrudes on Americans’ privacy.

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An update: Just minutes ago the Senate voted to bring the expanded FISA bill to the floor for consideration. Full Senate vote on this bill to expand the government's warrantless surveillance power is coming in the next day or two. I'll be working down to the wire to stop it.

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Wyden vows total war against the Sec. 702 surveillance expansion:

The people who loudly worship the Constitution as a sacred document are the first to eviscerate it the moment the security agencies so demand.

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Governor Youngkin continues pandering to right-wing anti-immigrant sentiments, this time to the detriment of local police.

Virginia governor vetoes bill for DACA recipients to work as policewww.fauquier.com Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s veto of a bill that would have allowed young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to become police officers was met with disappointment from Northern Virginia police chiefs...

Surprisingly there are actually some Republicans who see their party's fawning over Putin as problematic

GOP Reps. Mike Turner and Mike McCaul say Russian propaganda is being repeated by Republicanswww.nbcnews.com House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner on Sunday said several of his GOP colleagues have repeated Russian propaganda on the House floor.

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Some news: After last week's reports that convicted felon Paul Manafort may rejoin Donald Trump's campaign, I'm asking the DNI to declassify details about Manafort's connections to Russian operatives from a Senate Intel report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump.

Wyden Requests DNI Haines Declassify Information Related to Paul Manafort’s Relationship with Russian Government Operatives | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregonwww.wyden.senate.gov The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

Herndon Police Chief throws a fit over a Fairfax officer signing his name in Chinese. Fairfax County promptly says fuck off; good on them.

Fairfax police academy bars Herndon officers in dispute over Chinese signaturewww.washingtonpost.com The town police chief objected to a Chinese signature on county training academy certificates. Now her officers have been barred from future classes.

The number of really cool things Bookshop.org CEO @andyhunter777.bsky.social says in this Book Talk, etc. podcast is high (ex. bringing ebooks to Bookshop, potentially partnering with @thestorygraph.com). Refreshingly genuine interview from a CEO.

Book Talk With Founder & CEO of Bookshop.org Andy Hunter - Book Talk, etc.www.booktalketc.com In Episode 133 of Book Talk, Etc., Tina and Renee welcome guest Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org . They share what they've been loving lately, their latest reads, and talk with Andyabout w...

The parallels to early 20th century Weimar are mortifying.

Former president Donald Trump ratcheted up his dehumanizing rhetoric against immigrants Saturday by saying that some who are accused of crimes are “not people.” “I don’t know if you call them people,” he said at a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion.”

Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people’www.washingtonpost.com The presumptive Republican nominee’s comment at a rally Saturday represents an escalation of his long-harsh language about migrants.

George Will summarizes the blatant racism imposed on Asian Americans in Fairfax County and derides the Court's unwillingness to rightfully declare that a violation of the Constitution.

Opinion | On race-based school admissions, the Supreme Court flinchedwww.washingtonpost.com The court declined to hear a case involving admissions policies at Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, Va., ignoring its own previous rulings.

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Just had a Virginia police department and DA's office deny an open records request b/c of a "related to a criminal investigation" exemption. The trial was in 2009. The guy was released in 2016. And the files I'm seeking (two videos) were both played in court and aired by a local TV station.