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Looking for strong words against Trump? Just scroll through Bluesky or flick on CNN. Sometimes you'll find something eloquent. Most of the time you won't. Which is why a recent ruling from senior U.S. district judge William Young cut sharply through the noise. "While the President naturally seeks warm cheering and gladsome, welcoming acceptance of his views, in the real world he'll settle for sullen silence and obedience. What he will not countenance is dissent or disagreement," Young wrote, emphasizing the danger Trump poses to the First Amendment. Esquire's political columnist Charles P. Pierce examines Young's document in detail, highlighting a question that every American citizen should ask themselves. Find out below. – Chris Hatler, deputy editor Plus: |
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Over 161 pages, William Young wrote what all of us are thinking—and then some.
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U.S. judge William Young, presiding over a federal district court in Boston, just committed arson. He burned down the president of the United States—figuratively, of course. Young's ruling is 161 pages long, which means he had a lot to say and that no words were minced when he said it. Young was nominated in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan, and he went right back to his sponsor for material. I think my position is validated by what Young had to say about the president in his Tuesday ruling, which he prefaced by printing an anonymous threat he'd received and his reply to it. I'd say Judge Young is pretty fed up with the way things are going, and the last 13 pages of his ruling are a sight to behold. |
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| I still think of this reading room. It was on the bottom floor of the campus library at my New England liberal-arts college, a lovingly faithful replica of the school's original reading room. Everything was dark wood and dim lighting, hushed hues of red, green, and blue pooling over velvet furniture and books lining every inch of the walls. It was my Hogwarts. I would spend hours there reading Ford Madox Ford and George Eliot, AirPods slipping in a little Bach or Debussy while I crammed for music-history exams. When I moved into my first apartment, I wanted my room to carry that same quiet intensity. (Impossible in Manhattan and on a recent graduate's budget.) I poked around resale sites for an old bankers lamp, but most came with the promise of rewiring work. Instead I found a Newrays bankers desk lamp and built my room around it. The lamp isn't just a classic revived for nostalgia's sake. It pairs that iconic silhouette with modern features that make it as practical as it is handsome, a piece that brings the romance of the library and the ease of the modern day to your desk in one switch.
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In 2002, Al Pacino starred in Simone, a sci-fi drama from writer/director Andrew Niccol about a has-been film director who uses a computer program to create the perfect actress, "Simone" (played by Rachel Roberts). When Simone—shortened from "Simulation One"—becomes famous, Pacino struggles to obscure her identity from the public. Well, more than 20 years later, the future Simone imagined is here. But this time, no one is keeping her artifice a secret. At the Zurich Film Festival last week, London-based AI studio Particle6 announced the launch of a new company, Xicocia, which Deadline describes as an "AI talent studio designed to create, manage, and monetize" its stable of digital characters. The launch unveiled Particle6's first AI-generated "actress": Tilly Norwood, a 20-something brunette whose defining personality trait seems to be "iced coffee." To be clear: Tilly Norwood is not real |
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