Ted Knudsen

@paulswaney3 @EchoesofWarYT Also Freedom National and The Scorpion’s Sting by James Oakes are favorites

@TeddyKnudsen @EchoesofWarYT JFC you’re holding out on me! Ordered

Is this worth buying? I’ve always held off as I assume there’s no way it can competently cover such a long range of time & events that it does

@paulswaney3 If I didn’t live in NYC with our water, I would probably have reverse osmosis/filtration for water. Other than that, nothing moves the needle on this issue (to the extent it’s an issue at all). That and a hat, sunglasses and sunblock and that’s about as good as most people need

Veronica. I like you but as a former rad worker, your take is not hitting the mark American cheese is technically radioactive. So is a banana. So is your smoke detector. So is the sun beating down on you during your commute. Everything with minerals has trace amounts of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes. The calcium in dairy. The potassium in fruit. It’s just physics. You absorb more radiation on a cross-country flight than you will from a lifetime of grilled cheese sandwiches. The stuff worth worrying about isn’t on your plate.

@paulswaney3 A lot of folks don’t mind the competition and don’t lack hustle but they opt out because they think the fix is in. That is a real phenomenon I see with (otherwise hardworking) young people every day

@paulswaney3 Sometimes but also critiques of “capitalism” are not usually about capitalism and market competition per se but the power and influence at the intersection of money and politics / money and social/cultural sway.

@paulswaney3 US production and perhaps just as importantly strategic US intervention in the oil markets with SPR buying and selling since Biden and continuing into Trump has neutered OPEC’s pricing power and made membership far less attractive. You get production limits but no market juice

What the heck did Kushner promise them?

@paulswaney3 As long as it’s by act of Congress. It’s the peoples’ property whether the money to renovate is public or private

Last night settled the debate. Build the ballroom. One choke point. Total vetting. No gaps. Don’t call it the Trump Ballroom. Call it the 250th Ballroom. It belongs to all of us.

@CovenantReform2 @Evans_Wroten It doesn’t exactly encourage compromise and comity.

@TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Yeah, you're right. Imagine a country where any part of it can unilaterally decide they want to leave for any reason, like an election not going their way. Totally unworkable.

Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, discusses a few of the grievances in the south that led to the Civil War. Foote worked with Ken Burns on his documentary 'The Civil War'. Many facts that led to the conflict are never taught in school, but are well documented.

@CovenantReform2 @Evans_Wroten That’s a great point. That’s basically what the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White (1869). The rest of the states had to agree (via a majority vote in Congress or special convention), otherwise the union is perpetual

@TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Also, one could believe that a state could secede only in the same way it is admitted: with approval by the Congress, not unilaterally. What the South was asserting was a unilateral right of a state to secede.

@MatthewChang @pitdesi Because no one has ever lost money on airlines? 😂

@pitdesi Sheel, this is a good deal. (Rhymes) We need more good deals in this country.

lol this is a real throwback! Trump thought Spirit was going to merge with PEOPLExpress, an airline that existed 1981-1987 Iconic for aviation nerds though: was the 1st real US ULCC, invented the bag fee, charged for soda, and you paid your fare in cash ON THE PLANE

@Jacob_A_Webb @paulswaney3 it’s time, the public shaming has commenced and the beating will continue until morale improves

I’m done and better for it. A masterpiece.

@JasonHarmon2 @Evans_Wroten I would prefer we didn’t platform the Lost Cause narrative at all but that clip lacks nuance even for Shelby Foote

@TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten So do you want them to play all 20 hours of interviews?

@paulswaney3 @terrapinwill @Evans_Wroten Don’t let evidence get in the way of a good story.

I’d love to engage with his research point by point. Unfortunately, he doesn’t give us any footnotes to understand where his research came from. He didn’t bring the receipts as the kids say. I’m in the business of seeking truth through evidence, not trying to make any group of people feel better (or worse) about their ancestors from 100 years ago

@TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Well I guess you did more research than Shelby Foote did. What’s the title of your 1.5 million word series in the war. I’ll get it on Amazon.

Again, it’s all about the rules of the game. If you want secession, amend the constitution. Make it part of the rules. Canada has taken a step in that direction (though not yet a formal amendment to constitution). But without a rule change, it’s just petulant people taking their toys and going home

@jamesthouser @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten I’m talking about he principle of secession. You are correct about the south.

@paulswaney3 @noac_mit @jacktronprime @grok Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and the Attorney General

This is a MASSIVE move by Scott Bessent. The Treasury Department has said the IRS will be revising the Form 990 used by NGOs in an effort to uncover fraud and hidden sources of funding. I’ve gone through hundreds of 990 forms. The way they’re set up right now, they do not have to disclose who their donors are. Perfect example is GLSEN. They have two anonymous donors that give them millions and millions of dollars and they don’t have to disclose who they are. Keep in mind that the people running GLSEN are trans activists. I imagine that if this goes through many of these NGOs will dissolve. They’re all almost certainly getting money from the same people and will destroy their illusion of grassroots support.

@paulswaney3 @noac_mit @jacktronprime @grok Four key members. Both trusted advisors and administrators, responsible for foreign policy (Jefferson), financial systems (Hamilton), national security (Knox), and legal counsel (Randolph), hands on managing the fragile early days of the Republic

The Founding Fathers generally envisioned a "citizen legislator" model, where individuals from various professions (farmers, lawyers, merchants) would leave their normal lives to serve in government for a temporary period and then return to their private lives. See Washington, George

@paulswaney3 @GeorgeAshdown0 @emilykschrader None of those dudes will buy drinks for years

US seizes another regime ship, an oil tanker in the Pacific:

In general, perhaps nothing, if that is the deal you enter into in the beginning. For example, the UK could exit the EU legally via Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), which provides a legal mechanism for a member state to voluntarily leave the bloc. The US Constitution has no such remedy for states to leave unilaterally.

@TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten What is wrong with secession? Morally and ethically.