Adrian Allott

[Covie @covie_93]

So Zelensky desecrated the White House by not wearing a suit but this is ok?????

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@PowderPuffPlay @damienmgrant Where have they not? Karelia, Konigsburg, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia...

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@PowderPuffPlay @damienmgrant The war will end when Russia calls off the invasion of Ukraine and Europe.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@Rough______ @damienmgrant Why? It didn't happen.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@YeahNah141634 @damienmgrant Which Russian kids were those? Evidence please, not propaganda.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@war_racket @damienmgrant Actually, Starobilsk was an FSB facility where they train drone operators. And your 'Kiev command centres' were civilian apartments and garages. If Russia would just go home, nobody would be attacking anybody.

[Damien Grant @damienmgrant]

Looking forward to the condemnation of Russia's massive overnight missile attack on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv.....

No?????

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

Restore open justice. Restore the victim’s freedom of speech. End lawyers’ power to airbrush history and punish those who’d expose it. The lawyer class (which includes judges) now abuse the powers of suppression given and enhanced in the early 1980s.
Remember - judges are jumped up lawyers. Lawyer status feeds on conspicuous displays, much of it to each other. Showing their superior compassion by rearranging the natural reputational consequences of the little peoples’ conduct. Lawyers are like most of us, given power they’ll abuse it.
The lawyer class feel that suppression is a relatively costless benefit for their clients, and the courts’ primary customers - the criminals for whom they graciously deliver performative therapeutic “justice��.
Costless to lawyers’ because the cost is never measured. And anyway it falls on victims and the ordinary people who will not be permitted to know the truths the superior insiders can know.
Whether suppression is contrary to section 14 (freedom of speech) of the NZ Bill of Rights Act is trivial to them. Whether it undermines the vital social mechanism of whakaama (shame and reputation) is a matter of indifference to lawyers as a class.
Because it is only the free speech rights of the lesser breeds - ordinary people they expect to just misuse the truth if they were allowed to know it.
We need to start systematic recording of judge suppression decisions, for accountability. Despite the risk that denouncing judges personally for ‘brave’ decisions to suppress will increase kudos within the lawyer class.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@MaxGain10 @aniobrien I see you've got SDS.

[Justafiably Sheepdoggies @Justafiably]

@aniobrien Ani have you been there? I have. Twice in the last three years. Orban and his corrupt team had become deeply unpopular amongst ordinary Hungarians. Nearly 80 % of eligible voters cast their vote. This is what they want. It’s democracy.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@damienmgrant There are silly hats in the military as well:

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

To: Admitted Students on Ivy Decision Day
From: UATX

Congratulations. Getting in was hard and you should be proud. Now here’s some unsolicited advice so you don’t waste the next four years.

Go to class. We know this sounds obvious. But as the New York Times reported recently, Harvard students routinely skip class, rarely speak up when they're there, and focus on their devices instead of the discussion. Faculty say few students do enough preparation to contribute meaningfully. The average college student spends about 20 hours a week on class and studying combined. At UATX, we aim for 50. That’s the difference between a part-time commitment and a full-time job. You (or your parents) are about to spend upwards of $90K a year. If you don't show up, you're paying roughly $250 per skipped lecture for the privilege of sleeping in.

Read the books yourself. Your generation is the first to arrive at college post-literate — raised on short-form video, dependent on algorithms, and increasingly incapable of sitting with a difficult text long enough to let it change your mind. Ninety percent of college students use AI academically. This makes you more reliant on the authority of others. Most professors will also stand between you and the text. They’ll tell you what Marx “really meant,” what Aristotle “failed to see,” as though an academic in 2026 has outsmarted minds that shaped civilizations. The good professors do the opposite: they put you in front of the book and they work with you to find what a great mind has to teach us directly. Find those professors, and read everything yourself.

Say what you actually think. Seventy-three percent of conservative students report withholding their political views in class out of fear their grades will suffer. Our advice isn't political; it's intellectual. If you spend four years learning to say what's expected instead of what's true, you’ll graduate roughly where you started — just older, more credentialed, and more practiced at self-censorship. One study finds that nearly half of students show no measurable gains in “critical thinking” after two years in college. Keep this in mind as you make decisions about which professors to take and how to do your assignments. Taking a small hit on your paper to gain integrity and wisdom is usually worth it.

Ask for real grades. Sixty percent of Harvard undergraduate grades are now A’s. Twenty-five years ago, it was 20%. It got so bad that the legendary Harvard professor, Harvey Mansfield, started giving students two grades: the official one for their transcript, and a private one reflecting what they actually earned. He called the official grades “ironic.” So here's a suggestion: Take your A, but also ask your professors for a “Mansfield grade” so that you know where you stand. And don’t avoid difficult courses to keep your transcript clean for law school.

Get work experience before you graduate. Forty-two percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that don't require a degree. Many employers are projecting the next few years to be the worst college grad job market in years. A degree alone — even from an Ivy — is not a job guarantee. Seek out apprenticeships, internships, and real work starting freshman year. The students at UATX are connected with entrepreneurs and business leaders from day one. Many will graduate with four years of work experience alongside their degree. You can build something similar at your school, but you'll have to do it yourself.

Understand how debt shapes your life. If you're paying full freight or even half, do the math with your eyes open. Your decision to take on debt will quietly reshape the trajectory of your adult life through countless small surrenders: the job you take because it’s safe instead of starting the company. The city you choose to live in. The relationship you delay and the kids you don’t have. For women, a $1,000 increase in student loan debt lowers the odds of marriage by 2% per month in the first four years after graduation. None of that shows up in the college brochure. If you're going to take on debt, treat it like the constraint it is from day one: save aggressively and make sure every dollar is buying something that will actually compound in your favor.

Find the people who take school seriously. The best thing about a great school isn't the lectures or the library. It's the handful of professors and students who are genuinely there to learn — who read ahead, argue in good faith, and push you to be sharper. Find them. UATX is a small community of those who seek a serious education. At a larger university, you have to build this community yourself.
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The most dangerous thing about an elite university is that it is very easy to do nothing for four years and still come out looking successful. The transcript will say you excelled. The diploma with the fancy crest will open certain doors. Your parents will be proud. And yet you will have coasted — through inflated grades, unread books, and borrowed opinions.

Getting in is an accomplishment. Making the next four years worth it will be harder, and the right decisions will change everything.

We wish you luck.

[Adrian Allott @adrian_allott]

@damienmgrant Russia

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

In order to increase run scoring in Iceland, we are offering twelve runs for anyone who can hit the new obstacles on our outfield at Hamranesvöllur.

[iWard @ideasareweapons]

@TheRickWilson

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow. Scary. Reminds me of Putins early years of reshaping Russian media.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

After all, if it’s a Muslim tradition not to illustrate the Biblical figures appropriated by Islam as prophets, there is also quite a strong Christian tradition of portraying Biblical scenes in art - as will be more than clear to students when they go on trips to art galleries.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russia just crashed a five‑story apartment building onto people’s heads in the middle of the night‼️

The building is simply gone! It was homes, families.